 On YouTube side Do we sound okay, okay? Yeah, it sounds better now sounds better now. Yeah There's the stream still up. No, we Nate crashed it. I think that to allow it to come back Okay, exactly. No problem. But we're coming through twice. That would be why there's an echo the box game The box pilot. No, I can't hear anything from us No, it's still coming through. Can we mute the one or is that gonna matter? Oh Fantastic, so we need that like I said, is the webcam picking it up and coming through the desktop Okay, I mean I'm plugged that mic over there just to see what happens The mic over there just to see what happens. Just unplug it. Okay. Yeah Yes, but maybe getting an input from something and then turning around and out putting it to us This is what I'm saying talking talking. Okay. Oh, yeah, can you hear us? You want to say something quick? Okay, he's not coming to you just come through the headphones, but not through Yeah But not through the talking. Yeah, okay Yeah, I can't Yeah Can you talk real quick and we're trying to adjust the volume so we can hear you on without the headphones here Talk real quick. You guys are trying to adjust the volume so you can hear me real quick Is that okay? Yeah, one more time major or OJ Yeah, one more time This is We had to go back to our old school setup, I know the stream restarted. I'm so sorry about that This is what happens when the first guest on the new set And things don't want to cooperate. We're gonna do a lot of testing later. It was not supposed to be this So I apologize and OJ. I really apologize for you man. It's no problem It's just you said I don't want you to feel like you wasted As long as everything's working you guys you guys all good everything sounds good now Sounds as good as it's gonna get Like I can't I can't do much about His hat doesn't look good. Someone doesn't like the 49ers Good shots are gonna be trashed No rustle little echoey, okay Echoey on my end or I think I think it's my end. Is it better now? Like I don't understand our audio output are these microphones and we're using our old setup We're not even using there's no other mic even connected or plugged in The camera mic is not turned on there isn't even an output Camera mic is plugged into a wireless OJ's audio is better Whatever guys, we're just um, there's like other in a Sound like you just got back. Okay. That's maybe going a little too far there guys Oh Yeah, yeah, I was adjusting. Okay, great. It sounds great. Wait, wait. Did I just you're great? Eric sounds great. It's just my mic weird Sounds great now. Okay, we're getting the all-clear good. We're getting the all-clear. We're hearing that it sounds great now, okay Okay, I don't know what happened all that happened is I turned it on and off again Yep, didn't even didn't even change the setting it it turned on all right Finally, okay, let's we weren't that far into the podcast. So let's Recycle a little bit Hey, everyone, welcome back to the podcast. What the hell happened. I have no idea guys. I'm so sorry I apologize stream reboot all this stuff good thing the podcast goes up separately on its own podcast channel You guys want to check it out where these difficulties won't pop up. I apologize to all of our viewers and listeners I do apologize obviously to player essence as well for being well, thank you for being incredibly patient through this I know you know what it's like to deal with audio and other issues as well at times I don't know that you get this crazy right before we started your microphone arm broke Yeah, I mean I run a pretty basic setup So, you know, I don't really have too many audio issues anymore But I've had audio issues in the past and it's a sometimes you don't know what to do So I get you man. It happens. Yeah, and we have a literally completely new audio interface And it was literally when we tested everything was working and then obviously It decided the bed before anyways. Yeah, all right. So, um, I We kind of left off when we were talking about Triangle strategy. I know OJ was going off on a little bit talking about how it kind of picks up Once you get past a certain point spoiler-free Um, I guess that's probably a good time to get and let's see if this does this work Hey So at least at least something's working. Yeah, right So, yeah, well, I guess it's fun to spend a little bit talking about triangle strategy because obviously you spent a lot of A lot of time put when I knew it. I'm obviously still in chapter one So I'm really not you know, it's basically like I haven't even played In my opinion anyways, but you're still stuck in chapter one. Um, because again free demos out you can literally already play this Without buying the game But so I was really in the autopath traveler Like I absolutely adored that game and obviously when they initially showed this one off I kept thinking hey, this is like relate. Oh, no, no, it's not Um, and that's fine Uh, I think we're supposed to get a like a sequel to that game at some point. I think they said that Am I wrong or not? I think we're supposed to get a sequel. Yeah, I don't do that phone game prequel But hey, don't laugh Okay, the prequel is not as good as the original. Um, so yeah, it's just fun games man Sometimes they're interesting Yeah, sometimes so triangle strategy Is a game that I I was cautiously optimistic gone and I actually was going to skip this month because curbie's coming out And I think what happened is I played the curbie demo and I had a lot of fun with the demo. It was fine. I don't ever expect curbie to actually be that challenging That's not usually why people play curbie games in my opinion dating back to my favorite curbie game return to dreamland Uh, I've never thought curbie was difficult. Maybe that's just because I was playing more difficult games But whatever the case might be. I don't I don't play curbie for difficulty I just played to have some unadultered fun. Although I didn't really have that much fun with star allies So whatever this isn't star allies, so I'm not really going to worry about that But I played it and I realized I'm going to beat this curbie game And like a day and a half it's just gonna happen. I'm just gonna be plowed through it and done it in a day I just know it. I don't know if it'll be 100% But I could already tell I'm going to be able to just plow through this game Like I might be able to live stream it guys and be done with it in one stream I don't know it could end up being 40 40 50 hours But I'm getting the feeling that I'm going to be able to plow through this game just because I don't I just play a lot more difficult games. Uh, so It's whatever I have fun and I'll probably play and be done with it So that's when I decided, you know what? I need something else to sink my teeth into while I'm waiting for the elven ring patch Because elven ring obviously interested me because look at how look at the review scores Like it's insane and I've played every single like 95 plus rated game that's ever released So I just really want to you know, see what all the hubbub is. I get it open world dark souls That's a really I think that's a cop-out way to probably describe that game But again, I haven't played it. So I'll talk about that Another time when I put some hours in um But triangle strategy After, you know reading a few reviews watching a couple videos on it It it looks like a game that I think Oh, I'm Oh, let me ask you. Do you think people are going to overlook this game? Because I feel like octopath traveler just had so much more height going into launch than this game has um I think I mean maybe I mean, I don't know. I mean based if you're a tactics fan Which there's just I guess less tactics fans out there Then maybe turn based RPGs. You might overlook it, but I think now with the um The advance wars delay, which we'll talk about later. I think more people might check this one out But from what I've seen it looks like it's doing pretty well Um on amazon it's selling well. It's in the top five before launch and uh And not at this point and uh e-shop. I think it's like number two or number one on e-shop Japanese e-shop It's like number two two or number one. So Uh amazon japan, it's doing really well. So I mean, I think it has its fans people that Like tactics games and have a switch. I'm probably gonna pick it up and the switch just has a huge install base, man It's just like huge install base So even if there's not as many people that are interested in the game Like it's still gonna do well like just because there's just so many people That are on the switch just in general. So that's kind of my thought process at least, you know Yeah, no, I hear you on that. Um so Obviously, I think I'm gonna end up really enjoying this game because I do like the the final pass attack attack games Um, you know, that that was actually some of the interesting things watching that that play station event today Was that some games that gave me some of those vibes? Um Yeah, I don't know like I I think Okay, so I know it's performing really well in the moment Um, and I don't know if that's gonna continue once Kirby comes out and then obviously We'll talk about what what happened to the big game next month, but I I do I don't know if I'm like worried because I think you know I've got a traveler massively exceeded expectations according to squaring X And I'm sure I don't know what their expectations are for this game I don't know if that's set a new bar for them um but I just really want to see this game do well because What well, I I think it's doing well in the moment. I always worry that there's going to be A bigger than usual drop off after the first week and I'm I'm not sure why I'm getting that feeling Maybe it's just because I'm not hearing the same buzz around this game as I did You know with say octopi traveler where it just felt like everybody talked about that game Like over and over again for like multiple weeks um And like I'm already, you know, we're already what um a handful of days into this and I I don't hear anybody talking about it anymore. It's like if the game doesn't even come up anymore um So I don't I don't know if that's just the nature of this kind of game Like I've only played like fun fantasy tactics is like the only experience I have with the style of game before this so um Well, I'm just wondering like I don't know it How would you sell this game to somebody who hasn't tried it because I just I I feel like this game just deserves more attention Essentially why this is a topic today because I I really want this to To get the attention that I I feel like just even starting out that it deserves Can you not hear me? You want my cut off and hear you but like you're like It's like going in and out and like it's kind of all over the place, but I think I I heard the gist of what you were saying. Do I sound better now? Okay, yes, that's better. Okay That's definitely better Yeah, that's definitely better. Okay. Yeah, I mean, I see what you're saying Um, I don't think that this is the type of game that needs to do Crazy numbers or anything like that. I think that you know, if they hit some million, they'll be pretty happy This is a a company called it's square enix and art dink team asano helps out too Uh, so I mean, I think if they can get like, you know a million sales, which I think that They're gonna easily hit that I got one of my Boys who helps out with the well, I mean, he's he's a content creator himself, but paul gale, you know, he's been spot on on sales He's yeah, he's been nailing it He's well, I mean he obviously has inside information or he has some information because he's had he takes pictures with Like all sorts of people in the gaming industry, you know Um, so I mean he's saying he's estimating around 500 000 units based on his sources So that's a pretty good every e3 that's ever existed Yeah, yeah, and he has the pictures to prove it. So So, I mean like uh, and he actually told me before he went public with the sales numbers for uh, Metroid dread He told me that it was at 2.5 2.6 a couple weeks before Nintendo said there so he said it's estimated around 2.5 2.6 And then when nintendo put out the numbers it was 2.7. So he's I was like, okay And you know people were saying, oh, that's bs people were calling to try to call him out and stuff But yeah, but he said those numbers like two weeks before nintendo that they could have counted additional sales to No, no, no, no. I'm saying that people were trying to say like at the time not that Oh, that's a time that he doesn't know. Yes at the at the time. They're like, oh, well, what do you know? I've heard that too. Yeah, I told him once that I was I was skeptical And then he kind of revealed who some of his sources were and I was like, okay You don't have to go that far, but okay. Um, I believe you it's cool. You don't need to Don't need to back it up man. Cool. Don't worry about it Yeah, I mean, but yeah, he's he's saying about 500,000, which would be bigger than octopath's opening You know, uh, I think that these type of games Um, especially with like I said advanced war is being delayed. I think that's actually going to improve our triangle strategies, um Sales and legs. Uh, and the game is super good. I mean, you know, I've been playing it Um, I like it a fair bit more than than octopath traveler So like for me at least I I like it a lot more than octopath traveler I think that they're both really good games though. I mean, but they're very different games though Obviously if you're into tactics more, you know, if you're a tactics guy, then like obviously fire or sorry not fire Triangle strategy is going to be your game But if you're into more of the turn-based, you know, old school final fantasy, then octopath child is going to be your game You know or bravely default or a game like that But for me, you know, I mean, I like all sorts of rpg's. Um, I don't have a preference I just liked rpg's just in general So this one kind of does a bit more in the strategy rpg realm Then octopath does in the turn-based rpg realm, you know, because You know octopath is still at the end of the day It's still just kind of like a watered down just a little bit bravely default And bravely default two takes it's the same system But bravely default two's battle system is way more in-depth than octopath. So I always saw like brave or octopath is like a bravely default light um and This game, you know triangle strategy is like It does so many cool things within the strategy rpg realm Like that just really makes it super fun to play once you get cooking, you know, so I think this game is going to have some good legs. I think it's going to it's going to do well for square antics and Nintendo long-term too, so Okay, cool. Yeah More word of mouth. I think once people start playing it more people start picking it up And playing and kind of see it. I I know you talked about not many people were talking about I mean like it's interesting because I know dreamcast guy did a video on it and people were That was nice. I saw some other people do some reviews on it I know john's gonna pick it up. So i'm pretty sure john will talk about it at some point So as mvg some he might talk about it as well So I think more people are gonna buy and I think jeff grub jeff grub was like, oh, I'm gonna check it out too Because I think just Yeah, yeah, elder ring came out so everyone's kind of you know talking about that Maybe that's really what it is. Maybe it's just like it's going to kind of get that second wave of coverage here like a you know Coming up. Oh, yeah, because people were still wrapped up in elven ring Oh, yeah, absolutely. And I think even like I said in april I think that you know, obviously with the you know the delay I think that this game could easily slot in on that spot I mean octopi traveler did not have a huge opening It wasn't until a little bit people started talking about it a bit later Because they picked up a lot more like it wasn't front heavy octopi traveler was definitely mid to back heavy More so than at the beginning especially when physical copies started disappearing, you know Then people like oh snap. Let me I gotta go buy so and then it got it went on sale a number of times So people were able to pick it up for cheaper too. So Sure. Yeah. Yeah, so well, I mean, I guess we'll see As I said, maybe it probably was just the elven ring effect Because people are still talking about that like crazy. It's still one of the top stream games out there. Oh, yeah Yeah, the ring it's it's it's basically A shoe in for game of the year based on everything that's come out so far But we'll see. I mean it should be but let's see how breath of the wild comes out But yeah, I mean right now. Definitely the the front runner is Industry wide game of the year definitely. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah Yeah, and again, we'll see like a breath of wild two comes out and it's out in time For for game of the year awards and obviously Zelda's almost always a contender every year it comes out and it's a sequel to the one that one game of the year So there's that going for it and who knows there's a lot of other big games coming out this year as well So I guess we'll just wait and see it When I say like it seems like a shoe in is because You look at the review scores and like games don't get that high that often It's very rare. Yeah, so you see it like hey it hit 97. It's breath of the wild level Okay, that well my breath of the wild did that everyone kind of knew that's game of the You know, we'll see we'll see what happens. Um, and that's kind of the interesting thing is because uh, I kind of feel I don't I don't like how some of the Staff members handled it publicly where they were trying to throw a little shade But I kind of feel bad for horizon from in the west how close it came out to when this game came out because I feel like it just really overshadowed it really quickly Yeah, you know, it was funny I actually don't have a problem with what they said and the reason why I don't have a problem with what they said is because They're allowed to have opinions too. Oh, yeah, they're totally allowed to have opinions Yeah, so I actually didn't have a situation where people were surprised because like you work for a company and you rarely hear Those like yeah, we understand those opinions are going to exist or they're going to have some shade They're going to be like, oh, you know, kid with ui elements and like, okay, like It's fine. It's just to the general public. It's gonna come across as okay. You're kind of just Oh, yeah It came across as salty, but I mean We all get salty every now and then it is what it is You know, it is what I mean, he got they got a little salty over and that's okay That's what makes him human and that's cool because every every time developers are always trying to be freaking robots All the time, you know, and it it was interesting to see the developer said yeah, not everybody loves elder ring Not everybody is in bed with elden ring 24 7. There's people that don't like the ui or yeah The game is kind of broken on pc, you know, like that's what they were talking about I haven't been complaining about that game. I've said look, I know it's broken on pc by the way For those who don't know pc gamers when games are like built for consoles and then comes the pc It's almost always this way. I think I'm just growing accustomed to hey, this is a big deal game It's gonna be broken on pc. You'll play it in six months. I know the finally be good Like I can't deal with the crashing the crashing is what bothers me Like I understand that people are still enjoying it despite all that but I I cannot deal with crashing Uh, I watched a video where a guy up with my exact same monitor was playing it today And he was trying to stream it Which I don't know why you're trying to stream a 49 inch monitor. That's a whole another story I don't know that cannot it did not look good for the audience. Let's just say that Um, because as far as i'm aware youtube and twitch do not support that aspect ratio when you're streaming so But uh It was um watching him get frustrated because it was like it fell like every two minutes It just would crash Crash crash and i'm like, um, then he switched to a different monitor and then it was kind of good for I don't know 40 minutes or so before it crashed. So, um Yeah, I can't deal with crap like that. I'm I'm I honestly to be honest This is probably one of the main reasons why I still favor console gaming even over pc even though I've been pc gaming since the 90s is because yeah, we do get to deal with a bunch of technical issues because the pc versions are always treated Unless it's a pc only game Treated as like, yeah, we'll get to you when we get to you Yeah, yeah, I understand that. I mean, I've been playing the game on ps5 You know, and it's it's crashed on me a couple times But not as bad as some of the pc people have been saying. Um, and the frame rate, you know stuff It seems like the frame rate stuff is just so wonky like when you're fighting bosses It seems to run fine enough if it's in an enclosed area But if you're like in the open world ish it does Can maybe affect things and the game has like already built-in input delay You know, like the controls are just input delayed. There's definitely some time in between it So you combine the frame rate issues With the input delay of just the natural input delay of the controls not that they're bad controls But just natural input delay of the controls and it just creates an experience that I was like I I think I'll wait for some patches because There's no reason why the game shouldn't be running as good on ps5. All right, so that's just an optimization thing So maybe I'll just wait for some patches. I'll just play triangle strategy until like just patch it up by the day And then I'll get back to you know get triangle strategy because I was I was like, all right, cool I don't want to wait till Kirby and I don't have anything to really play in the moment I'm sort of done with pokemon legends archaea. So I was like, you know what? I'll get Elden Ring. Oh, wait. Okay. Everyone on pc keeps saying wait, wait, wait, wait, wait I'm watching all the issues. I'm like, okay. I need something else Oh triangle strategy came out. You know, I I've only played one other franchise like this. I mean, you know what? Let me give it a try and so far I enjoy it, but again, we're so early on it's mostly dialogue. So I can't even comment on real gameplay yet But I am glad to hear that you confirm really. Yeah, it really does open up at a certain point and it's just Yeah, another thing that people don't do that I noticed is that in between the chapters you get new Encampment battles in the tavern and pretty much those battles are what you're supposed to be doing in between the talkie chapters So you can get some battling in you can get some experience. You can grind out some materials So you can upgrade your characters and all that so that's something that some people are just skipping completely And you definitely shouldn't so if you have triangle strategy guys Make sure you go into your encampment and remember you can access that at any time You can access it before a main story battle. You can access it You know when you're in your exploration phase of the game you can access the encampment at any time Go into it go to the tavern speak with the lady there And she can get you new battles to do in between and like I said, they get you good rewards They get you for you can farm kudos points the quietest system, which you don't know about yet Nate, I don't think you do But yeah, so you can get new quietest stuff on there So yeah, make sure you guys do that too. Some people are like, oh stop I forgot that you can do that or I haven't been paying attention It also helps you with strategy too because they'll give you certain like attacks that like enemies will do like a Pinsir attack, right or like a flank attack or mages or stuff like that So it'll help you with different scenarios in the main campaign too. So it's pretty cool I actually that's one of the best things about this game because you can grind at any point You know, you can grind or you can get the materials at any point, you know fire emblem For example on the hard difficulty three houses. You can't grind. There's no grinding whatsoever So it makes the game way harder than he even should be because you just can't grind not on normal and down You can you you just have to press the way the game pushes you and that's it. Yeah, and it's freaking hard I'm not great at the I mean, I like tactics games and I'll play them But I'm not like super tactical or anything like that. So dude, it took me 14 hours to beat the final boss and fire Oh Oh The final boss on hard because it was just oh my god, I had to turn it down there I wasn't I wasn't gonna get there. It was it was so infuriating halfway through. Don't blame you Don't blend without being able to grind. What can you do if you're just getting cooked, you know Like what what what can you do? Like it's it was ridiculous But yeah, I actually got it beat But like you've got to really be strategic and how you divvy up your experience and who you level up because you're not Going to get more experience Like yeah, so like this game I'm so glad this game has no permadeath And this game has grinding so I can play it on hard. It's still difficult Like the the the ai in this game is really good. They're going to do the best option even on normal They always do the best option like for the most part So it's still there the difficulty is still there, but um, but it's fun It's fun because I can actually like grinding get my people up, you know So So, yeah, that's good. I like it awesome, man Oh I I can't I can't wait to die further into this game. I actually had a place for some tonight before I go to bed It's funny because like right before bed is like the real time I get the game guys like But you know, I There's my my life's really hectic. Okay, everyone's lives got things going on Uh, but like really it's I'm done with youtube. I don't work. I'm done with college kids are all asleep This is it. This is when I get to And that's why I love switch because I don't have to sit down here on my tv and play I can just take it right to my bed and just chill I can't I can't I can't wait to dive in tonight. It's gonna be fun Although it sounds like it might not be till tomorrow or the next day that I really get into where it advances, but I can't wait um All right, let's let's uh, I get into our uh second topic. Um Because this was just announced today Uh, I don't know if it's surprised some people or didn't surprise some people people are on both sides of the fence It's it's sort of a difficult topic for me to talk about because it's really hard to talk about it without Having some sort of political backing behind it Um, at least in terms of the way that people view this stuff I don't tend to think that what it's about is that political to me But whatever people are gonna say what they say and tend to announce that advanced wars one plus two reboot camp today Is basically delayed Indefinitely at the moment. There's no future release date at this time It's nothing to do with the game not being done. They literally just advertised it three weeks ago It's obviously they mentioned it's because of the current ongoing events in the world They didn't really mention the specific events, but we all know what event It is because there's been people calling for the game to also be delayed as well To be sensitive to the current events going on um and My initial reaction was obviously just At first a little bit of disappointment because it is just You know, these are just games that are I can go play them right now. They're already out in the world That's not as if these are new games um But obviously I'm well aware that I think less what the games are More that there's the name war in the game. Well, there's an actual real thing happening in the world around that is um Something Nintendo obviously doesn't want to be associated with at the moment um I'm just really interesting because I think this puts the whole industry in a really weird place because War games are extremely popular. Um, they're literally one of the most popular genres out there Whether it's call of duty or the battlefields, or you know, you have called any war zone as well um, they're really popular games and It's just interesting to me to see that this game a strategy tactics game That doesn't take place anywhere around where the conflicts are happening And it's super cartoon and it's super cartoony at that. Yeah, it's not even like I can understand if it was like a call of duty where it's somewhat real very realistic, but this is very very cartoony and you know, so that that kind of Makes me scratch my head a little bit, but I I do understand Yeah, I mean Nintendo has always been one that that likes to At least from from my experience, they like to associate in That they like to ride that fence of pleasing everybody as much as they possibly can In any sort of controversy, whether you know, some people think that's why we haven't gotten mother three in the west Is because of some of the themes that are in that game No, there's the accepted today. That's that's really the case. They've re-released an engine. No, that's completely different culture So that's completely the case Yeah, right That's why right like you know, that's our mother three though, right like there's Quite a number of things about that three that would cause Into they should have released it before that's what they should have just got it over back in the day when people went to care Right. Yeah, exactly And like because I know people like oh, they've released it in japan. I'm like, okay, dude And in japan, I can marry an avatar. What's your point? Like japan's a completely different culture. Okay Yeah, japan's a japan's a different beast like here in america like violence violence is like, okay cool But in japan, it's like no no no no no like blood and stuff like that no more heroes get censored things like that You know, so it's like it's a completely different thing You know, whereas like sexual themes are a bit a little bit more okay in terms of stuff in japan But here in america, it's like, no, no, no, no, no, not though, you know, so it's just it's interesting I mean, I guess in japan that are not buying one here I there's a fan that apparently um Advanced wars the original was delayed in europe and japan because of 9 11. So Which is what I didn't know that yeah, I totally I forgot that that was even a thing that they did delay the game But apparently somebody told me that hopefully that's true. But I mean, yeah So in europe and in japan it was delayed but not in us No, because it came out the day before okay, well, oh, it's right. It was the 10th. Yeah, it came out the 10th You're right. It was the 10th. So they couldn't yeah at that point already So, I mean and that was something obviously american thing So, I mean, I guess if there's any type of controversy at any point like all right, but I mean like this is like Oof because like, you know, the game is coming out in like a april april 8th was the date, right? So I think the big things that they didn't want to be like because they have to start the marketing, right? Yeah, yeah So I guess they didn't just want to be showing that hey, look at these cartoon wars that's going on people getting blown up by tanks and Aircraft and all that when there's an actual war. It just seems I guess in today's day, you know tone deaf But I mean like I understand like I legitimately understand both sides, you know I I'm not trying to play like in between but I I legitimately understand both sides of people being upset And people are saying no that that's totally a nintendo thing to do based on they're especially here in nintendo You know in america they they've been very Not wanted to be associated with controversy because I saw one argument today, which I totally get It's like, you know nintendo only cares because the war is being heavily publicized And it's like yeah, probably because there's always war going on somewhere everywhere. There's there's war Um, we just don't hear about it. This is heavily publicized because it's Russia and russia is considered one of the superpowers in the world So, um, they're going at with more powerful weapons than we're accustomed to seeing in a lot of the other wars The fact that there was even the threat of nukes at one point was kind of like, okay. Yeah, this is not like, you know Let's just not mess around a little bit That's going to be a lot more publicized in countries that they're just working on, you know ak 47s That came out during the 90s off the back of a truck somewhere Um, and this is just missing those wars. It's just saying that right Nintendo doesn't care because they're not publicized. They're not in the public eye people aren't thinking about it I mean there's I mean as someone I was in, you know, nigeria Last year and there's like many little wars not like all throughout africa Like all the time, you know, like ground wars and stuff like that But I mean once you get information that scares They don't have cameras there like that. So I mean, you're just not going to get that publicity. But yeah, you're talking about somebody Exactly bomb drops. Yeah. Yeah, this is like, yo, these people got nukes. You know what I'm saying? So it's obviously like a way more like, oh snap You know, just to speak on people that think that that the rest of the world should be doing more The rest of the world's afraid to do more because russia just pushes a button and this gets a hell of a lot worse for everybody. So Yeah, yeah Yeah, so that that's pretty sure, you know, I mean just speaking on as a just a general human being I feel for everyone going through this It could get a hell of a lot worse, which is why the world is just like, oh, we'll just run a bunch of sanctions because if they actually get involved it's There's a person running russia right now that ain't afraid to push a button And that's a scary thought But yeah, you know I I look at it like this, you know People try to treat I think it's political and all that I just go. I just think nintendo just doesn't want bad pr That's all it is. It's just a pr. Yeah And the bottom line is advance wars worthless through reboot camp as much as I was really excited for those games to come out And I can still go play them anyways. They're already out there. Go buy the game stop. They've used copies um is It It really wasn't probably going to be a massive seller anyways So i'm not really sure that nintendo is even that worried about it like, oh no Our april game is is not there. Okay. Well, they're about to have nintendo switch sports come out not too long for now And that's gonna massively outsell whatever this game is going to do. Um, this was kind of a filler game It gives Kirby a little bit more time to breathe. Yeah, I don't think I don't think I don't know how I'm very interested to see how how well curvy sells because obviously curvy has never been a big seller Um, oh curvy is going to do really well. Yeah, I think so. I think it's going to be the best selling curvy all time Which yeah, I mean I feel like we say that for every game that comes out on special Oh, this is the best selling in this franchise of all time. Yeah curvy is going to do extremely well Yeah, it's blowing like right now And it's like in terms of like pre-order stuff from some of the numbers that I've got or some of the Indication that I got pre-order wise. It's destroying star allies now star allies did three million units plus some Yeah, I know I remember I was like, oh, sorry. I wasn't even that good that I went and looked at the sales and I was like, are you Okay, this helped sold a lot of really good curvy games Man, that switch effect is so real even though the game You can play the game with your kids. I think that's one of the big things. Like, I play Yeah, it was fun to play with the kids. Yeah, that I mean I there's nothing wrong with that by the way I think some people get disappointed because they want curvy to be something I don't know that it's ever really been Um, and what's funny is some people are really receptive to that demo too Um, I don't I don't think you've had a chance to check it out. No, I that I'm planning on me with the new Sniders tomorrow, probably. Yeah, it's fun um, not super difficult, but it's It obviously gives out the 3d world vibes At least it did to me. Maybe it's just the camera perspective because it's not really a free roam camera um But you know, I don't know. I'm really excited for that game and it sucks, you know in in one hand that we're not Going to get reboot camp when we want it. I have no idea when they're going to release it because I I think it's all tbd because they're waiting for this conflict to be over Um, I don't think it's gonna hurt the sales because I think the people who are gonna get it are Yeah, I think I think the people interested in this game are we're always gonna get it I still don't think the people on the fence. It's gonna I I don't think it's gonna change their mind either. They're still gonna be on the fence when it comes out Now the only thing I can think of is depending on how the release site lines up like the way Like if you look at the first six months of this year There's a very deliberate release slate of games and that was part of that deliberate release slate And you could argue that carrying a momentum game to game to game potentially could have boosted it a little bit Um Well, and that depends on when it comes out to if it hits in a in a bad spot between two major games too Yeah, this at this point. I don't expect the game to come out this year. I just that's true Oh, whoa, not this year Oh, yeah, I think it's gonna come out this year. I think it's gonna come out this I think it's gonna come out Probably Two or three months. So I would probably say summer ish or maybe a bit later I'm thinking that things will probably hopefully be Better by then Um, because there's no way I mean, I hope it doesn't last that long. That's gonna be bad if it lasts that long So I'm guessing ten is gonna push it Probably like summer ish type of title outside maybe august so maybe a bit more than that But yeah, june july somewhere like that The reason the reason I I said next year isn't because I I mean god forbid that this conflict is going on that long because that's I mean at that point you can talk about an entire country just being dead. So that's just not that's not where what anyone wants to see happen um But uh, I will say that I think, you know, not just the conflict coming to a resolution I think Nintendo's gonna want a gap from this being over to when they release it because even releasing it like Okay, the war ended a month ago Let's draw drop a war game people are still gonna argue that's a little tone-deaf to the people still trying to recover from all those events Um, so I think Nintendo that's why I'm like, I think 2023 is just gonna make more sense because they're gonna want to get But this is obviously all Guesswork, none of us know what I don't even know if Nintendo actually knows when they're gonna drop it at this point Because that yeah, there's a current conflict going on, you know that Out of it's outside of everyone's control. I know the rest of the world's trying to go on like, you know Like everything's okay, but we're all well aware guys. We're all on social media We we see the we see the reports we see the figure even if you don't watch news channels You see the horror horrific stuff going on out there. It's it's not good Um, even me who lives under a rock knows what's going on Well, I think the most recent one I saw today was just horrific was like, you know Russia broke the ceasefire, which of course they did and then bombed like a hospital or something with people in it and it's just like This is war. This is like old school the wars that we all read about in the history books where they don't care about civilian casualties and like This is just it sucks And that's why this game's not coming up because Nintendo doesn't want to even be remotely associated With anything to do with war at the moment um Yeah, it's interesting because um, you know Triangle strategy isn't technically I mean they did publish it in some regions and stuff like that and obviously helped out with distribution But the socials went quiet for triangle strategy, you know, um, they went quiet and they just said oh, not it's out Like they didn't even yeah, it's like they were afraid, you know And maybe that was part of the silence I was talking about where it's kind of like hey, we released it and then like hey, we're not Yeah, we don't want to point out that like hey, we got wars going on in our game. We don't want no I think that maybe they felt that advanced wars is a little bit worse because you know triangle strategy, it's like old school like You know this it's not tanks and Stuff like that. It's bows and arrows and like that war in the name is really a big like Yeah, I can't and then I saw this in chat, too. Do you think this has any effect on the Fire Emblem Warriors game then? If the if it's still going on in june It's a good question. Um I you know, I don't I don't Yeah, I don't think so because it's it's like old school medieval stuff that was really worsty in today Right, not yeah, but I mean it doesn't mean that I don't I can't I just don't perceive people finding that to be too Too offensive anyways. I mean someone's I'll put it this way someone's always gonna be offended about everything That's just the way the world goes but But I I don't think that's gonna be impacted too much um I don't it's just it's just bad timing, you know kind of like a perfect time You worked out for animal crossing when the pandemic started for Nintendo, you know world crisis is happening Hey, this is a great time to drop a game that requires tons of hours and you sit at home and it's a little virtual life cool That actually worked out in Nintendo's favor now. This is a real world event that works against us. I you know That that's just the way the the cookie crumbles when you when the real world crashes with the virtual world um Cool, do you guys have anything else you want to say about that before we move on? Yeah, it's it's an interesting interesting time this Interesting to say at least This last story is a little bit more fun. Anyways, um, this last thing we're going to talk about So Nintendo last month when they dropped majority of mass didn't tell us we were going to get a game this month Which was actually something they had consistently done. I think for two or three months And then Yesterday they dropped the news. Hey, guess what? You're getting f0 X this friday full online play, which of course that's what they've been doing with all the multiplayer in 64 games So not a surprise. Plus. I think this is one of the games. We knew was coming based on the original announcement If I if I remember correctly, I'm pretty sure I saw f0 in the original. Yeah, so it was yeah So it was a game. We knew was coming eventually Um, it's very clear what nintendo strategy is at this point of the games. They've already announced They're gonna drop one per month. That's just what they're gonna do They've consistently done it. They're gonna do it and then when they get to the end of what was already announced I don't know if they're done. I don't know if there'll be more games Um They haven't had new genesis games in a while actually granted when they do add and they add like a crap load of them at once It's like here's 20 here's 20 new games. Oh, okay. That was that came out of nowhere Um, but that's actually been a couple months. I think since they added genesis uh So what I find interesting is we look at nintendo switch online today and You know, they're consistently adding, you know, at least the game a month at this point Which we've seen them do before with nests and SNES where they were consistent for a set amount of time And then they just stopped and then they started up randomly and then stopped again Um, that's just I don't know why nintendo does that. That's just what they do And we see them obviously pushing the expansion pack hard and adding all that dlc into it And I guess my grander question at this point is obviously a lot of people Regardless of what nintendo adds content-wise is always going to be upset that the switch is missing some basic features No way to message people even on the phone app that they just updated to the 2.0 update. That was a very lovely New paint job that really doesn't do Do anything Oh look, I can see what my what what game my friends are playing But I still can't message them about it or join them or anything. I can just tell they're online playing the game Still need my switch so I don't know it's it's weird. By the way, it looks pretty it's like I talked about at the time I thought it was kind of half-baked a little bit like hey This looks like something that could lead to something else, but that's something else is missing And that's kind of the way I think I felt about nso since the day it came out. It's like cool Some of the stuff there is cool, but then some of it is okay. And for me right now Um, for those who don't know my my nintendo switch online membership expired Three days ago, and I haven't renewed now. I probably will eventually renew at least the cheap tier So I can play multiplayer games with you guys, but Without all of our followers, but it's you well once platoon comes out Definitely once between three comes out. Yeah, well, but well, but the thing is will I go full year? Well, I just feel like hey, give me a month. I'm good like This is the first time with all these services like I just re-up the game pass ultimate for a year PlayStation now work. I actually have for like the next two years even though I sold my PlayStation 5 I'm gonna have to get a new one. So I that's a whole Call but whatever I'm paid up So I gotta worry about it except for the fact that they released these games and I'm not there to claim them That kind of sucks right now that I can't So you're paying you're paying for something that you don't even use Yeah, well, I okay, so I had a PlayStation 5 at the time and I got two years of the path like basically I wasn't planning to get rid of the PlayStation 5 There was just a situation that came up Uh late last year where I was like god damn it. I need like 400 bucks in this exact moment And I don't know what the fuck to do So I was like shit the PlayStation is the only thing in my house that I literally don't need It's just a want So it kind of got shifted out and it's so I'm in a better place not any problem I just need to get my hands on another one. I'm literally giving away one this month there or an Xbox or a switch Whatever the winter. Yeah, I heard I heard you talk, but I just I just thought I thought maybe like you had like a ps4 Or you had like something that you can use like no, so so a fun story There was when I got the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox series x and I did a live stream where I successfully liquid metal cooled the series x Um, I got a little happy that I pulled that off Because I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to pull it off because I uh didn't record My process very well to put it back together and it worked and it still works to this day Um, I got a little happy. It took a sledgehammer to my playstations Um in hindsight Probably wasn't a smart move Of by the way, I knew I was getting the PlayStation 5 in hindsight wasn't a smart move I'd like to have the PlayStation 4 still it would have be really good to keep my hand You slept you you destroyed your PlayStation 4. Yes For what reason? Entertainment purpose. I suppose. Oh, okay, you know, I the chat was not happy the chat. I saw I saw you know Maybe you're john also puts he put a sledgehammer to a system before so I mean it happens What is he sledgehammer It was like a I forgot what system it was but I just remember him hitting something with a sledgehammer Yeah, you guys know I wasn't trying to be like that plain rock guy that like every time a new thing comes out He's got to find a fun way to destroy it. That was not the case. I literally just think I don't need this anymore I'm good I could have obviously sold it or gave it to somebody who could have used it But you know that the PlayStation 3 and I had the PlayStation 3 that played PlayStation 2 games Which are isn't that many of those either and so it was uh a situation that people then think I was going to do it And I was live and I had the sledgehammer and I just let it fly and Then I sold my PlayStation 5 and instantly regretted Every decision I made From from that point to that there's a little encouragement involved in that too on that stream There was only a couple shots The only only about two shots at that time after I destroyed it Then people were like, oh man, so then the regret set in and oh, yeah, let me here's here's a 50 down You better do a shot of uh, uh, whatever No, no, no, it was tequila some sort of tequila Tequila always messes me up and I was like, this is just guys. I already destroyed it I don't know what you're trying to do at this point to me. This isn't gonna do anything the stream's over in like five Yeah, um, I mean too bad they weren't built like the gamecube or the sledgehammer would just bounce right off I don't okay. I don't know if a sledgehammer would bump maybe I don't know the game I don't know they dropped that they've done some stress tests on the gamecube like the flat might break I don't know Nintendo systems used to be made like bricks. Yeah That's what's weird about switches. It's not That way. It's very much a modern device. It's easily breakable Any moving parts the joy cons and stuff joy cons and switch light is pretty durable Yeah I mean that's technically the I mean the og switch survived what a thousand foot drop from a drone So I mean I guess I mean the joy cons didn't survive but the actual tablet Yeah, yeah the time the the joint of the moving parts is what caused it to be uh, yeah You know almost like like the cheese wedge like the like the 3ds kind of like not so good But then the cheese wedge 2ds the 2ds Very good Legitimately still have two of those I think I hit around here. Um anyways, uh, yeah, so I So I'm saying I'm in a big debate right now about whether or not I should renew Nintendo switch online Which is obviously a personal choice and if it's worthwhile Um, and I'll come to that decision probably pretty quickly. It's not like it's stupidly expensive anyways Um, but then it's if I consider the expansion pack because like I bought the animal crossing dlc Uh legit bought it. So that has no value to me with the with the nso at the moment Um, there's the mario kart dlc that's about to come out which I haven't bought yet Can get it through nso. So there is that Um, and then people are probably gonna expect I think like next week. Is that when the first first wave drops? I think it's next week. Oh, yeah next friday Yeah next friday So, you know people are gonna expect me to live stream on friday and play it which by the way, I don't have to Buy it to do that to play with you guys. I just need to have The $20 tier because all the courses will be available to play online Supposedly at least that that's what it said so, um, I don't know I'm Like like oh j. Have they done enough for you to be just satisfied with nso? Or are you like still hey, we need some basic features or we need I'm not a I'm not a subscription service person So I don't subscribe to ps plus. I don't subscribe to game pass I don't subscribe to any of these the only reason why I have nso Is because nintendo gives me nso and I don't even ask for it They just give it to me and they just say hey, what do you think and I'm like? Oh, well, you know, it you know, don't even ask me. What do you think they just say? Hey, here it is Um, you know, I guess because I get I'm a you know ambassador So I get their games anyway. So in order for me to play their games online They need this so they just yeah, they just supply it for me. Um outside looking in Um, I mean I'm not I mean if I would get it just to play the games online like the place platoon play mario kart Yeah, yeah, I would like we didn't talk about that like yeah They're strong army because you gotta play you need to from multiplayer Yeah, that that would be the only reason I wouldn't get it because of like the classic games or anything like that I'm like I said, I'm not big a subscription service gamer like game pass and all that that's great But as an adult you don't have time to play all that it's like You just don't like you can put five billion games on game pass But I don't have time to play all that in addition To the new games that come out that aren't available on game pass So for example like elden ring that's not on game pass. So if I was a xbox gamer Well, I mean, I'm just gonna buy elden ring and play that so I mean and I'm gonna be playing that game, right? So for me, I'm just not subscription service guy I don't understand why I would need ps plus and also only for the online like I know I'm going to get Yes, I'm gonna get the online because I want to play return a lot. I might play that with dreamcast guy You know, um the new co-op coming out. Yeah, the co-op. So I'll get like the one month And I'll play that and I'll have my fill and then I'll be done Yeah, and then I'll be done with this. So I don't think to be honest, like I don't think uh for me I don't think they've done enough really uh when it comes to the features Like I feel you on like the features when it comes to like messaging and all that type of stuff Um, yeah, they should definitely add all that. I'll be honest I won't use it because I don't use it on playstation or xbox at all Um, so I wouldn't use it but for other people definitely just because you know I run a community too and discord is so much easier to like message to get online to it's just anybody can hop in And I this is one reason that I wish nintendo would kept it around even if they would have started charging for it Was remember me verse like me verse was sweet. There wasn't perfect But it was unique enough and different enough, you know Love hate with me me verse the problem with me verse is that it took too long to do everything It was laggy It took too long And it was it was too far ahead for the technology it was on it needed Better Yeah, it once discord came out and I started using discord even while nintendo had me verse was going I was like, I don't I'll never use I never logged on me verse ever again I know it's it's quirky and it's unique and it's definitely nintendo And it would be cool if they implemented some type of thing like that But I you know, like I said, I'm just I rather just use discord for everything But hopefully they implement those things to where people feel like it's more worth it Or it's uh, you know more worth whatever, but I'll be honest I wouldn't use any of those features because I don't use any of them on xbox, you know, and I've played You know, I we use discord. I played minecraft. We didn't use the we didn't use the what's it called the uh The built-in voice chat and all that we just we're on discord. We were talking there and that's in there You know, I'm completely honest. I'm surprised nintendo didn't partner with discord and put discord on the switch And just allow you to log into your discord chat with your friends while you're playing your games I'm really surprised on that because it seems like it would be a smart idea to do It could be a resource issue maybe Like switch doesn't really run two apps at once and that could just be a resource thing I don't know. Yeah, that's true. It doesn't it doesn't run like Two apps at a time. I mean you can put your like your game in background like you can suspend it Yeah, you can suspend it, but you're not running it. It's yeah, but you're not running click on something else Exactly. So yeah, that it could be that or maybe they do that for like the next next thing Maybe they do that. But yeah, like that would be that like I said, that'd be sweet I mean, but to be honest, I think like xbox has discord integration and all that and I still don't use it Because it's still it's still not as good as Yeah, it's still not as good as having your pc On xbox the only only thing I use it for Messaging wise. I don't care about the chat stuff that much like yeah, I can put a headset on and Trash talk someone who really cares like that's literally all it is Anyone you see what their headset on is basically on because they want a trash talk No, there are legitimately people by the way that will like, you know Team up and do practice and our teams and trying to get really good and a bunch of friends And they're not chatting on xbox for that. They're they're using discord or some other service Just because it's more convenient But I will say like, you know, like I do I do madden I'm in a few madden leagues as an example and like It is kind of convenient that like I don't if I don't know who the person is On the discord server because we have discord servers for all of it Like I don't know who they are, but I could see their username in the game I can just tap on them and send them a message going to be like, hey You know what you want to play and like that's it's a convenience thing. It's not like oh, I can't I don't have other methods But this is you that you are the username attached to the team I'm playing this is really cool that I can just quick message you and hey, no problems You don't we don't have to deal with figuring out who each other are on discord um But like the but that's really really I think why people clamor for this stuff It's more it's more just the convenience factor not that all of us are going to use it all It's like me versus was a totally different thing and totally unique Just because you could draw the pictures and they somehow had it sudo connected with The user review system, which again, I wish they still had on switch Where you know as much as I don't think the user reviews were a good gauge Because every nintendo game was like a four and a half or five star period and a story There was like no question no matter what game it was, which He argues kind of fair most most of the nintendo we we u games that's kind of published ones were We're pretty good. I think like devil's therb is like the only one. I didn't really like that much I think I like pretty much all the other ones at least enjoyed them enough to complete them Played a lot of we games. Holy crap um Just thinking that sorry the we u days were I know for a lot of people the dark days in nintendo for me I was busy having a good time and just waiting for the next game and then they just stopped making games Um, and then they ended with like the worst paper mario ball time. So, um And then they told me we're not making me not worse than Not worse than that the sticker star might be worse than that I think they're like neck and neck man I don't think either one were very good. I really did. Yeah, I just like I disliked both of them. So yeah, I agree with you there Yeah Um, the the the one they did on on switch was all right. That one wasn't too bad A bit of a redeem. It was more like the best version of whatever the hell they've been trying to do with it so far Yeah, but it's still not still not quite the old school. Yeah. Yeah, not up not up to super mario rpg Not up to a thousand-year, you know, thousand-year door of the n64 game I don't know. It's a totally different direction. So like Like origami king, you know, obviously, I don't think that's good as those ones but Of what they've been doing with it since those days. Okay, like All right, you you made a quality version of what you're attempting to do even though I'm still going to be sour because you literally completely changed the entire ip after two games Um, but hey, you know what they're they're going to do what they're going to do. Nintendo is going to Nintendo I've been I've been dealing with this when No, I used to love mario tennis back in the day and mario golf They were full-on rpgs on gameboys like they were amazing and fun And then they just completely changed what they are and they've really never been the same sense Oh, and hopefully we'll see what happens with mario strikers Fingers crossed that's good. Well, I mean it's being made by the people who made made the last one next level game. So it's Let's hope Let's hope that uh, I know it's been 13 years. I don't even know if they had the same employees anymore, but I don't they do actually that's the fun. They do they they they've kept them all Not all of them, but a lot of the core staff is still in tech. Yes That's what I like to hear. See I haven't looked at their staff list in a while. So that's yeah That's the mario strikers then that's yeah, I should there's been some departures The the president is left. He retired after the buyout. So he's gone, but uh, I wanted the retire, I think Yeah, yeah, he got his money retired But uh, but yeah a lot of the court, I mean and the gameplay looks very similar Oh, yeah Like when you sit back in the trailers in the trailers playing uh, because I was I had I was just replaying the Nintendo Direct the other day while I was cleaning. Um And like I just glance over and I'm like, dude, why is mario strikers on gamecube? Oh, wait, wait. No, that's the new one Like for a brief moment my mind went uh, oh, I'm just watching some gamecube gameplay like Very very similar. Um, so we'll see we'll see how it goes. Uh, hopefully even hopefully makes improvements over it. Um I'm just glad it's happening. I mean, this is one of those I'm just glad it's happening and then now that f zero is out. Um, it just makes me really wish that we had new f zero game Even though I know pretty much every idea they get like f zero is something they just throw on mario card at this point But I don't care So pull the death wheel in then wait, there's no death wheel because you don't die at mario card. So never mind Well, there you go. That's a new that's a new addition from mario card and whatever they call it. They're gonna add the death wheel and now Just just die straight up die. Um but yeah, it's And and and you know with nso going back to like the subscriptions, um You know like I I can get like game pass as an example I always tell people don't don't get game pass if there's not gonna be enough games coming out While you own it to make it worth it because it's You ultimately you have to have game pass and you have to have xbox live So you need basically game pass ultimate. It's 180 bucks a year That's what's gonna cost you unless you obviously took advantage of there was a long time where you could take advantage and get like multiple years for a dollar it was Microsoft caught on to it eventually, but it was a lot there's let's just say all of the millions of subscribers to game pass There's probably a good 10 of them that haven't paid microsoft more than five bucks for the service ever So it's just people people will find a way to to game the system when you can and it's all it's microsoft's own fault They did it to themselves It was a promotion and people found a way to abuse the hell out of it And get tons of years out and why they didn't cap it at one year. I will never know But whatever microsoft just wants those numbers. They want they want to be able to say we have 50 million We have 60 we accept they want the numbers more so than they want to say We're making all the money because they're actually losing money at least for the moment Um But I that's what I say about the services like game pass like games as a service is always, you know Some people are always going to say no, no, no, no, no like like nso Why people don't you know, even no matter what nintendo does by adding games You don't own them and nintendo could take away your access at any point in the future Yes, the hard port which I mean Sort of what we're going to be experiencing eventually with with we you once they finally shut down the servers They're not shutting them down. That's not the news that happened. They're just you can't make purchases anymore Um, but eventually they're not going to let you read download stuff happened with we so At one point at some point, you know, yeah, you could if your system breaks lose access to the games you even bought digitally It's always been the knock against digital games is that um, you're exchanging Potential long-term ownership because he has people People sometimes damage their physical games. I know it's hard to believe oj. Look how well and how neat and organized you keep your stuff Probably don't get your games damaged too much No, but I've I've had uh scares of my like my daughter. She spilled a bunch of That's it. It's the kids. Yeah over My 3ds games and then one time she hit all of them in her room She just like threw them all over the place. So yeah, it can happen Oh, I had them all organized on my on my old set with when I had the shelf up all my switch games there was like 30 of them sitting there and of course, you know daddy had to take a nap and Sun decides to wake up and go through every single one and take all the cartridges out Which you know the switch cartridges are huge or anything And to this day I am still missing like five games that I cannot find and we literally just ripped everything out of this house To put new flooring in and we still can't I worry the kid days Those those games are gone, dude. Those games are gone Just just well, I mean, that's really what it is power. I keep my games well But you know when you when you got kids things are just they're gonna have when I was a kid I did dumb things the games too that I wasn't thinking at the time Your kids are strange enough that they may actually like the taste of You know what? Yeah, that little coating they put on was supposed to be right. Yeah, you know, you know I You'll quit napping Yeah, probably probably spread some peanut butter on that Quit napping then honey. This was this was a couple years ago. Yeah quit napping down. Um This is before Oliver was in school. Uh, anyways, it was Oh It was just it's interesting when I think about those services um, the game pass to me is it has has become worth it because of I'm gaming on everything or about to once I get to get another PlayStation 5 and I gotta save money somewhere and 80 or 180 a year is three games and I kept thinking if Nintendo had this service So much money I'd save, right? Like just look at this year I've already spent 180 and I'm I'm only in March and I already know the game's coming that I'm going to be buying more of So I wish Nintendo had this service, but they're not going to because their sales are too incredible and Microsoft sales weren't so they One reason why they went this direction But there's enough coming out from Microsoft every year that yeah, I'll play at least three or four games to make it worth I'll play and we'll be the show now. I don't gotta buy and we'll be the show which You know what sucks about that as as happy as I am that I will be the show is coming to switch It also means that like I was just gonna play it on xbox, but now that it's on switch And now I'm a Nintendo channel and people know I play sports games They're gonna be like, hey, man. How's this play on switch? Like, um, I'm playing on xbox right now No, I mean we know but how's it play on switch? I I I'm sorry, you know, you don't have to you don't have to cover everything. You know that right? It's like you have to you have to no no It's a major third-party game coming to switch that we weren't getting before like yeah I don't I don't have to buy mba2k for switch every year because everyone already knows Yeah, it's a quality solid experience 30 fps. You know what you're gonna get doesn't change Once I start one coming to switch for the sports game So it's like I got this obligation. It's the first one. I gotta get it even though I'd probably rather play it on xbox because it's 60 fps. I I don't think you do I think here's the thing prime I think that once you start realizing that you don't have to do everything just because Oh, I don't start actually having a bit more fun. Well, that wasn't uh, that wasn't because So I don't I don't think you have to get it on there if you want to play it on xbox And you think hey, you can just say hey, it's on switch too, but I don't know man Like for me like game pass all that type of stuff. That's great. I just I'm just you know, I'm old school I'm just not a fan of Like rental games like half this stuff. You're not gonna you're just not gonna play this stuff And you're gonna end up buying a lot of stuff anyway So for me like it makes sense like game pass makes sense. It's no hate I think if I was a child game pass would be like the greatest thing ever um Because like, you know, you can just get a rotating amount of games and not worry about it But you know as an adult and I care about physical games, you know, I I still buy my games on xbox Like I'll well actually I don't buy games on xbox anymore because the drm issues But like I still buy my PlayStation 5 games like I'll buy a ps5 game And I'll hold even though, you know, they have you can get game pass on there, right? I still rather buy the game like scarlet nexus was on game pass while I had it because I had a promotion, right And I didn't even play it on there. I'm like, I don't want to play digital only Scarlet nexus. I want to own the game. I want to support the developer that way And I just bought the game. I waited for a bit and I bought the game on ps5 And I've been joined it has like the nice little Controller features. So for me, like I said, it's because I can afford it But if I like I said if I couldn't then I would totally be all over game pass, I guess But for me, it's just I like the preservation of the games I can through physical games I like to have the physical game. I don't like drm You know, I want to have value. I like to assess value to my games Um and game pass doesn't do any of that. It just it plays right into what microsoft wants Which is you just renting everything you not having any real ownership you building no value with your games That's what game pass does and I want to suck it and it sucks you into that and then keeps you there And says well, I can't get rid of it because I'm not gonna lose that just all my games You know, so that type of mindset for me is just it's a no go But I understand why you're there and why other people are there, you know But I want to get into that mindset the mindset of I'll lose everything I'm okay with nso because it's just roms at the end of the day. It's just like it's like whatever I bought these games five million times over but with microsoft It's actual big games that come out and I'm like, you know what I can't play them anyway every single day day one I rather I rather just wait and actually own them and be able to sell them later or give them to a friend And not have to worry about all digital or have my access taken away for one reason or another So but like I said, I I totally get game pass though Totally get it like I totally get the the hype behind it and all that. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, for me, it's all about the budget. It's kind of kind of like why netflix really blew up once they went to streaming It's all about budget. It's like a lot of content I'm watching up netflix and justified anyways, but um It's all about budget and and and it does it does suck that that's kind of a grander conversation of like You know, we're starting to see more and more sales reports coming out It's it's to the point that almost consistently not in every case, but in a lot of cases we're starting to see Digitals outpacing physical and it's just getting bigger and bigger and bigger every year um And again, this isn't true in every territory isn't true with every system It's you know, there's a lot of variance there But even on switch, you know, it's growing and growing and growing which I found interesting because switch to me I think has the greatest argument to stay physical um Well, you don't have to download the entire game sometimes you have download chunks of the game depending on which game you buy But you don't have to download the whole thing so you get the safe space Uh, and you don't have to do installs Like that's to me a big bonus to go on physical on switches. It's old school gaming There's no installs stick the cartridge in it might tell you there's an update oftentimes You can just skip it and just play right away um It it's one of the biggest things that that really turned me on to console gaming because pc used to be always You know, you got your disc you stick it in you install and now you know, and I just downloaded install um, and that's really what PlayStation and xbox have gone basically full pc The disc is just a key to unlock your ability to play you still have to install the games of the download things um the convenience of physical Left me with those systems, which is why I think when I own PlayStation 5 and now with xbox I don't own a single physical game for them Because for me it was always about the convenience and the convenience is gone because I didn't really share my games Don't really care about reselling my games. My games are my games And it's kind of weird because game pass ironically um We share games with game pass I don't I don't think I Spent any money on xbox. No, he just used my game pass on his account. So on his xbox at his house um So like it it's really interesting, um That the convenience factor for physical was always to me. Hey, you just stick this damn thing in and you play Wasn't necessarily always convenient on the entertainment system because sometimes you'd fiddle with the cartridge for like 10 minutes before Yeah, you gotta get the alcohol swabs all clean it and oh you better buy the nes cleaner thing You put it in there and push it down a bunch of times just funny since you don't even need to push it down to work That's a whole another Interesting mechanism that was included that you didn't actually have to do um But yeah, it's it's interesting. Um, and obviously I know you're you're obviously a big physical guy you I Know me for a while. Oh, dad. Well aware physical copies everywhere It's it's undeniable. It's in the background of everything you do physical copy physical copy physical copy Just on the two shelves, there's gotta be a couple hundred games right? Well, you see those shelves though. Yeah, okay There's way more no the way he used to have it set up before He had multiple shelves behind him like full almost top to bottom. He's got a lot more than what you see That's gotta be a couple hundred games just sitting there. I mean What sure there's probably way more There's probably about 400 games here total like between Because I have games behind here that you can't necessarily see Yeah, most and then I have a whole nother shelf like this That's right over here with even more games on there and then I have two other shelves that have games Then I got a bunch of games there. So yeah, I'm big on physical But like I I completely get like You know times are changing convenience and why people yeah That's one thing I will say I appreciate about you oj is there's a lot of people that That they go at people who go digital and they just get pissed at them because I think they're I think they're pissed because they're supporting A future they don't want to see happen Yeah, so That's exactly what it is. So when all the bad stuff when it's digital only happens I don't want to hear any of you guys bitching about it. Excuse my friends Like I don't want to hear anybody complaining about it because you guys help this happen So when you stop getting all your great deals and when it's all digital and they'll jack the price up And they'll stop doing all the cool stuff that you guys are getting right now Don't be upset because this is what you guys wanted because anybody that knows economics, right? When you cut off competition It makes things worse for the consumer and that's what these companies want. They want competition cut Sony doesn't want to send digital cards to to the retailers because that means oh that can affect the prices of the games They want to do certain things that steers you only towards PSN. They don't want you buying games other places. Okay, it's great now But wait till later when there's no competition and when they can just do whatever they want Funny how like ratchet and clank, right? Not really getting ratchet and clank used to be 20 dollars after like a month or two Look, dude, the ratchet. It's like 50 60 bucks now, right? It's still up there in price because they've essentially stranglehold the competition You can't have the digital cards out there. Don't buy all digital playstations So they can they can do stuff like that now. So you're you're saving now But in the long run, it's going to be a lot worse. But like I said, I get it I understand the convenience But it's for everybody going forward like I'm so dumb playing like like What what I'm supporting I always go Yeah, but I play nintendo games and they don't lower their price and breath of the wild still msrp Like five years later. I know it. By the way, I just because that's what msrp is you can frequently buy it for cheaper than that But um, it's kind of funny like the like the martin sale going. Okay. We've got the martin sale of all these games Okay, all these games have been out for a while and on any other platform, but only be 20 bucks right now not For the on sale Not ps5 And that's what i'm saying like when you remove the physical aspect of that Sony can now do that and I had somebody tell me about this even Before sony even before the ps5 or before even things got going. I was like, look, you're not going to get Those same game deals that you got before you think that ratchet and clank is going to be 20 dollars in three months Because like people are like, oh, I'll just buy it later. I'll be 20 bucks. I'm like, no, it won't Like oh, I'll just buy a return. Oh later. It'll be it'll be 30 bucks. No, it won't you know what i'm saying No, it's not It's not gonna happen because sony is removing they want to remove that physical aspect So you can have less of those copies out in the wild, you know And are you dying over there, buddy? You mean so Okay, you did bro take all my throat for the last Allergies i'm pretty sure Yeah, everything's been melting. Yeah, so it's coming back around molds and dust and Are you trying to you're trying to say my studio's moldy you bastard? No, no god god dammit. No, it's just burn the house now Burn the house. That's a couple of days my allergies. I think I've been kicking my ears Oh, that's okay, man. Um You gonna Water if you want that's why I grabbed another one of these So I think Yulia is calling because you're trying to tell me that I'm echoey again. Yeah, I'm not sure what the hell happened I don't know what happened either. We literally touched nothing. You didn't touch anything Yeah, I'm gonna plug this we're not using this right now. That's the problem It sounds robotic. That's what the chat says Robotic still happening Honey, I know what you're calling about you're saying that it's echoing. You don't even honey You don't even know how the stream started. So like Don't be berating her. She's trying to help you No, she's trying to I know she's acting like I'm not aware of the echo. I'm aware of the echo It's been a problem the whole time Wife a good girlfriend. Good wife. She's trying to make sure that you know Yeah, I know I know honey. I I've glanced at the chat like four times Like I'm good. Okay. Trust me, honey. We have massive equipment issues. You're gonna ask the chat We've been having equipment issues this entire time. She cares man. That's good. That's a good thing I can't fix it. That's what I'm trying to tell you honey. I can't fix it. We are beyond repair at this point It's over Is it just my mic by the way Turn off turn off your mic. Is it is is my mic doing anything? Oh, Jesus. Holy Christ. You're dead tonight, dude Well, man He's sleeping on the couch tonight, man Yeah, I can't yeah, I don't know. I literally don't know what's what's going on. You didn't do anything It's just no it was working and then it just started to stop working Um, I guess I'll I'll I'll go mess around with it a little bit. Um Eric, why don't you take a couple fan topics here? Uh chat if you have any topics you want to bring up Uh, just I'll mention the chat and Eric will bring it up and talk about player lessons I'll try to mess with the audio one more time, but I don't know what the hell I'm gonna change at this point Yeah, last time this happened the whole the whole uh stream needed it off and on again for sure and so Excited for Kirby Yeah, yeah Oh boy Wait, so you is hacking our podcast Oh, Jay, you excited for Kirby chat wants to know. Yeah. Yeah Kirby looks great. It looks great. It plays great I'm excited for Kirby I'm very excited for Kirby looking forward to playing it man. Yeah. No, I I haven't played the demo yet But I that's my plan for either tonight Or tomorrow at lunch So, um, I I caught the very very tail end of Nate playing the demo. So it looked phenomenal and uh Nate was messing around with a couple other things. So I'm excited to play it It definitely looks like it's gonna be a whole hell of a lot of fun I think Nate and I are probably gonna possibly stream that Day one Kirby. Yeah day one. Um, so It'll it'll be interesting Yeah, absolutely. I'm looking forward to the game myself I think one of the cool things because you know, I'm an old school Kirby fan I played from the I still got my old NES cartridge I remember first playing Kirby back in the day thinking that this was like the greatest thing Um, I remember playing Mario and then after Mario it was Kirby and I was like, yo Kirby's the new thing I think I'm gonna be playing this forever And then I went to superstar on the super nintendo and then there's been gba kirby's and there's been wee kirby's There's been like all sorts of triple deluxe 3ds. So I've played and beat pretty much most of the kirby games out there I think there might be a few that I haven't I think I gave up on epic yarn that game. It's great, but it's just too easy I'm just even for Kirby standards. Just too easy Um, so I think I kind of gave up on that. Maybe I beat it later. I don't even remember. It was a long time ago But yeah, uh, I've always been a big Kirby fan So this one looks and plays really cool that the gimmick of the, you know, mouthful mode Is very well executed and really cool very unique. So, you know, I'm I'm down for Kirby man. I can't wait to play it I think it's gonna be um a ton of fun Yeah, did you did you happen to see the uh, the thing that nintendo was doing in japan? They had they uh came out with like a mouthful mode kirby box for for the switch I did I did see that and it looks freaking hilarious and awesome. I kind of Yeah, it looks cool. It looks cool Looks cool. Yeah. Um, um, you know, like I think the thing about Kirby what makes it Uh, this one interesting is once again, like I said the new gimmick, but the controls are spot on Like everything just feels great to play So, I mean like I think star allies felt a little bit kind of wonky Kirby didn't feel fast enough There was some issues like with how he was jumping like it just didn't control To me the way that a Kirby game should control like I felt like I had less control Over my character compared to like triple deluxe or planet robot on the 3ds Which you had great control and Kirby moved fast enough. So to me that star allies just felt a bit too slow Uh, lethargic, but this one feels faster. This one feels more um intense. It feels just like a lot more fun to play So I mean like um, I I can't wait. I think that's probably the best thing about this new Kirby game Is that it does feel very uh, the controls feel very snappy, you know, like even though it's it's 30 frames, right? But the controls feel way more responsive and snappy than like I hate to bring elden ring in here But just just the comparison a game that runs at a faster frame rate, right? So, um So, yeah, I mean that's that's the thing for me, man. It just it just feels great to play Um, so I'm excited. I'm excited to pick it up. It's coming out in a few weeks now, right? Yeah, no, it it's it's it's definitely definitely interesting. Um Man, uh, any other topics chat we can get into Ooh, that would be interesting. Do you think we get a mar mario trailer movie or movie trailer tomorrow for mario day? Uh, no No That'd be awesome. But yeah, that that's why it's not happening Yeah, too convenient. Yeah, too obvious of a time. Yeah Yeah Nintendo actually do the obvious Yeah, almost never Right, they'll release they'll release the new mario trailer like on like a sunday morning Japanese time everybody's asleep or something like that or whatever during the day It'll be some type of weird awkward time or at randomly at a direct where chris pratt is, you know, voicing everything. So I don't know Yeah, it's gonna be some random tuesday. What are they just? Here's your trailer. Yeah, why? I don't know just because just because yeah, I that's what I think too Yeah, yeah Getting anything figured out over the knee Nope, cool Nope And so okay another one another one question and 64 versus game cue Oh, here we go We all know it's the game cube this the people here they just want they want chaos here. That's the reason why It's been a long-running It's been a debate like a long-running debate on the spawncast and all the places like mvgs We've talked about it like what's better n64 gamecube and it's clear the choice is gamecube. So that's all I'll say And you think you fixed it, okay, hopefully but I don't know to me it was I grew up I didn't have a gamecube. So for me it's it's the 64 just because of I owned it. So I played a Absolute crap ton of it. So that that's why for me it's it's the 64 But I mean I get it. I like the gamecube. I played a lot at Nate's house But I for me it's it was my favorite console until the switch came out. So Pretty crazy Yeah, yeah, I mean I can understand that, you know, it's a it's a nostalgic system, you know for sure It's like a super nostalgic system It's like, you know, this is where 3d gaming really took off, you know the analog stick There was so many innovations like really big on like four player multiplayer I mean, although we had that in the nes in games before that but like Uh, it was like it was built in right you didn't have to buy a separate adapter or anything So I can definitely see why people love the n64. But I will say this this is what I'll say this Nobody would ever want Nintendo to repeat The game output of the n64 ever again No, no for sure I mean it did start, you know, you're you're good at 3d's open kind of more open worlds type of thing It kind of started that trend a little bit and then, you know, like Mario 64 and So, you know, that was kind of one nice thing about it too. So yeah Yeah, innovation wise the n64 is definitely more innovative than the game like industry changing Yeah, n64 like, you know, z targeting with zeld ocarina of time I mean, that's still the the modern basis for like all 3d action games, right is z targeting You know before then like remember did you ever play Tomb Raider on the ps1? Yeah, that game like controls like terrible It's so bad and like and then like, you know, ocarina of time came out I was like, this is exactly how this is supposed to control. This is exactly how this is supposed to play So I completely get the the n64 stuff I just think that, you know, the gamecube was such a such a system that just did It just the games man, like it just had an Ain't about you know, Metroid Prime. How about Metroid Prime? Oh Oh man fire emblem Metroid Prime Pikmin, you know chibi robo It was just it was just on top of all the like on top of all the classics like the Mario Yeah, the strikers. You had all different type of stuff, man. It was just it was just not it just went ham, but yeah No, no for sure for sure. Yeah, that's the third party The third party support to some people in the chat were like, um, uh, let's see here, uh, metal gear solid Uh, botan kaitos, which that's not third kind of but you know, botan kaitos Uh, you know, myokart double dash. I mean, it just it just goes on and on. It was Yeah, I love them both for sure. Yeah They're both really good Yeah I'm not going to hate anybody for for loving the game. Thank you more obviously It's it's it's it's more of it's more of a joke than an actual like, you know And it wasn't up on it. So I just saw in chat and I thought it was a good good question to throw out there for the heck of it So Yeah, it's more of a joke more so than anything got you got you um No, I'm seeing here. Do you think Metroid Prime 4 is still coming? Uh, or is it an urban legend? Oh, no, it's it's coming It's coming. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I don't know. It'd be weird. It'd be nice to see an update of some sort, but you'll get it Yeah I mean, not that I play much for Metroid, but you know, it's it is what it is It's gonna be nice to see an update on it It's still still nothing over there I don't understand like we don't find OJ, don't we? We don't find you right OJ What's up? Do we sound sound okay to you? There's no echo. Uh, you do Yeah, okay. Yeah, we're just sounding weird to the chat fantastic Yeah Uh, well chat, how's my voice? No echo anymore Oh, okay. No echo now cool. I don't know Hey Now that i'm sitting down there's echo again, isn't it? All right, OJ sounded great the whole time. This is this is an art and it's how our mix is working I don't maybe we need to take them off this bag It's not it's not about how you guys it's not about being able to hear us I was in the other room listening to it on my phone and I heard the echo I know you guys are talking when I changed the settings and then the type of echo changed And I I don't really know where the echo is coming from basically what happened guys is I updated the software For our audio interface today because I needed to to use it the way we wanted And ever since then it just hasn't worked and I almost feel like I just need to run this without drivers and it works better Nice, which is not the way it's supposed to be. I I I don't know Like you said it sounds fine now and guess what we did nothing and then it started like we changed nothing. Yeah, so Yeah, cool Well, I'm glad that we're somewhat bad than normal right at the end of the right right at the end of the podcast Uh, you're an audio engineer to understand the frustration with interfaces Yeah, I mean that's and OJ knows too. He's he's he's dealt with a lot of stuff like this is Obviously, and I have been more complicated setup than most and we're using new equipment compared to before but yeah, it's This is how it goes guys. Yeah, you gotta kind of bear grit with it eventually. It'll all be good and it'll just Never just work, but it'll work better than it is now Um, or at least maybe to work as good as it is now. I don't know. Let's let's just hope Um, do you guys have any more questions? I want to take at least one topic since I didn't get to take any great Nothing you guys need to hear me talk, right? I talk enough on my channel Because of any other any talks from me. I will take at least one more um And I again, I appreciate you OJ for sticking through the the all the issues today problem, man um I've been grinding triangle strategy. I got hella timber and fiber right now. So it's all good There it is there it is The state of play Oh, yes, they don't play today. That was great. I was sure that it was great. Yeah, I streamed it too. Yeah I shouldn't say play it. It was great and the audio worked wonderfully. Yeah Okay, good. Good. What'd you think about it, Nate? Um, so I gave it a B When people were asking for like grades and stuff. I thought it was solid. There wasn't like anything I hated Um, it wasn't like, okay, this game sucks or okay, this game sucks Like, you know, I remember like when the the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collection was announced I'm like, oh that's coming to switch right it's gotta come to switch Of course we found out that it's coming to everything. Um, yeah Because it's like, how can you not have like the games that were on all the nintendo platforms not come to an nintendo platform? Uh, but that obviously that was just you know, a nice little announcement But everything they showed like I'm really looking forward to forespoken and I thought that obviously showed really really well again Uh, even though it's been delayed till october But everything they showed like square enix. I kind of made a A comment towards the end. I'm like this kind of felt like the square enix direct with like a few other games injected in Because it was like square enix game after square enix game after square enix game then ending with two square enix games Um, but I don't have a problem with that because square enix I don't know what It just feels like they're back in The swing of things that they're just like everything they make is really damn good At this juncture. I'm not really disappointed with any game They put on I'm sure there's probably some obscure game that I'm not thinking about or in some genre I don't pay attention to but at least rpg y's and stuff like that like they Everything they showed like even that even that one, um I assume it was an indie game. I don't know. Maybe that's a bad assumption Of mine where it was kind of like the side scrolling black and white art style Um, that game I thought I even looked incredible like Yeah, the only reason I didn't give it a higher score than to be is gotta said, you know, I didn't have that jaw drop I didn't have like okay That that that took me by surprise or like that made me get super super hyped. It was all Hey, all these games look really damn good And I'm okay with that And I went into it with no expectations because I've kind of not been paying attention since I sold the playstation 5 2 What's happening at Sony besides like the state of play is like the only thing Because like, you know a live streaming react to him. It's like, oh, yeah, I knew about a bunch of the big games I also knew a lot of them aren't this year right like people. Oh, we didn't see spider-man 2 Well, it's not till next year. Why would we see that now? That just doesn't even Well, they they they told us that it's going to be focused on Japanese games, you know Yeah, so like, you know, I can see what if you maybe you're upset you didn't get more final fantasy 7 stuff Or didn't get more like you didn't see final fantasy 16 or something like I can I can see Maybe but I don't know like that that company brought so many games to it It's like, I don't know how you can be upset that they didn't bring certain ones there um You know to me it's kind of like getting upset Like at an Nintendo direct because there wasn't Breath of the Wild 2 there even though I know the game is coming like Okay, there's other games to talk about. I already know about that game So I don't know I I thought it was solid as like an out literally an outsider right now makes to my sledgehammer ways Yeah, like I actually thought it was really really solid and I could see myself Legitimately playing any of those games and having a good time and that's that's really what I care about Like the the only game I really wasn't into that my chat was getting really hyped about was the jojo fighting game Yes, yes This is the anime I was told I Yes, it's like that's probably why I really wasn't that hyped because I'm like, I don't I don't watch jojo So I don't know anything. Oh, you gotta watch jojo, man I'd probably enjoy it like Specific point in my life where I just stopped enjoying anime. I just stopped watching for some reason. I don't know why No, I can understand that. I mean obviously you got kids, you know, you got a channel you got Dude jojo's so good Yeah, is it is Like can you just describe the the show to me without spoiling everything in case I decided Yeah, sure, sure the I'll be real quick to the show vibe with jojo is Ridiculous like it's called jojo's bizarre adventure. Obviously for a reason. It's freaking weird But it's funny like it's weird and it's funny and it's like Like uh flamboyant like they they strike all these poses after they're like talking or after they beat somebody They have all these weird powers like they have these things called stands where it's essentially like you never seen like persona, right? You know persona, right? Yeah. It's like basically personas, right? So they have these different personas. They have different abilities and like the crazy thing with this is that like It's such a weird anime But like a lot of people end up dying like a lot of like the characters just end up dying in it So like you never know unless you spoiled it for yourself, but you never know who's going to survive You don't know who's gonna die You know, so that's that's essentially that's essentially what jojo is about. I mean, there's more to it I mean, there's a whole connected storyline thinking it's also like castlevania like you have like this Dracula you have like this vampire. That's like eternal You have like this family the joe stars that always fight this guy over generations like 100 years or whatever, you know So it's awesome in that way too. It's like deadass like castlevania, man That's the only thing I gotta check it out because like no, I favorite anime is or well One piece but I stopped watching it a while because there's infinite amount of episodes infinite amount of episodes I I watched like I don't know six six or something and then I just Yeah, the the cool thing about jojo is that it like they have chapters, right? Or they have like seasons and that characters arc ends like they they have had characters move over from one to another but it usually stars a new joe star a new person in the family and uh, they're not they're not ever like super long There was chapter part three Which joe taro's arc, which is that's the main character like the guy that's on the cover like joe taro He's like the main person and like his arc lasted two He's in other ones, but his arc his main arc lasted like two separate seasons of like 30 something episodes or whatever But for the most part they're like 40 episodes or the even like less like the the original season Is like you can watch a bridge or whatever like where they connect everything. It's like nine episodes You know where they just combine everything together Um, so it's cool But the the thing about the game why it's exciting is that the game is actually really good Check this out Nate that game sold over 500,000 copies in japan as a fighting game on the playstation 3 Like it was big, but then it got rocked by a um Yeah, it was it sold over 500,000 copies in one week But the problem was that there was so many micro transactions that Japanese gamers went ballistic on it You know because like it was just intrusive Micro transactions and then that's what destroyed the game long term, but the game is super fun It's unbalanced It's kind of broken but why fans are happy about this is because people still play this game to this day And now you're going to be able to play because it's a good fighting game. Think street fighter think tech and think Quality fighting game. Don't think like my hero's one justice or you know, weird anime fighter think actual high quality And I was like, how is this any different than the other anime fighters? I've seen Yeah, think think dragon ball fighters not the same style, but think that type of quality, right? It's it's that quality. That was a solid game Yeah, it's not a throwaway fighting game. It's not like oh, it's just like, you know, like I said, they just do it Just to get it out because like the fact that you said like there's like arcs per season and like the character usually dies or whatever That's cool. Because like one reason like one of my favorite anime of all times fully cooly And I love that it was just like it's a single arc and then it just ends And I like that plus that that anime just create flc. It's crazy. Absolutely. You don't know what you don't know Which I didn't ruin what characters die. You don't know who's gonna You didn't mention any specific characters besides like Goes like two seasons. Okay, cool. I'll figure it out when I watch God dang it, honey. I'm sorry if you come home and I'm watching a bunch of anime. I hope you're ready She she used to watch it. She used to watch, um God, what was the What was the one sailor moon? She was in the sailor moon Sailor moon, okay I I I'm a big uh full medallic mest and uh, okay in a ruby fan. So Okay, wait for the new new season of ruby to come out Nice nice Yeah, so I I stopped watching quite quite a while ago. I'm not really again. I don't really have a specific thing that happened I mean, maybe college happened Something I don't know. I've got busy at one point. The funny thing is is like I still watch all these other shows So I don't really I don't know I don't know. Maybe maybe there was a stigma with a crowd. I was hanging out with at one point that was Oh, you watch that you watch the enemy when you weirdo and you just got that hentai shit. I'm like, uh, no I mean, that's that's like a subset genre of that's totally different. That's not get into that please, but sure That's right. If you watch anime, it's all hentai. Okay. Cool. Well, I mean maybe when you're Maybe you should get off pornhub when you're looking up anime um Sorry, every time that I heard someone just boiled out animated that I'm like, man Man, did you not even hear of adult swim and you were younger like did that anime adult swim all that? They probably still do to this day Oh man, all right. Well, I think that that's uh, the echo came back So I think this is probably a good time and you guys saw me. I didn't touch anything I didn't do anything. It just happened which is a perfect time to end because I'm already frustrated Sorry about the audio issues to everybody. We'll uh, and we probably still sound fine. The oj Which is probably the craziest thing is this is just on our end and I don't know what's happening. Right, right? It's very frustrating Whatever problem to figure out for the next show next week. I hope uh I'm I swear if I have to spend more money, I'm just gonna Eric if I'm not alive next week because I know you're not going to be here for the podcast next week So if like you come back in two weeks and the show is dead and everything's dead and my house is locked up and nobody lives here anymore I apologize because I might have just jumped off a cliff and then my family all just moved away because I'm so frustrated The amount of money spent on all this stuff. All right. Thank you guys for tuning in. You guys are awesome Okay, julia. Just keep saying unplug the stream deck unplug the stream deck I literally did not touch the stream deck But if it'll make you feel better honey It's unplugged. Did the echo go away if that's what fixed the echo and it was the stream deck right the hat That's completely unrelated to my audio interface. That would be very interesting But thank you oj for coming out. Hopefully we can have you on a future episode where the audio isn't so messed up Um, and hopefully it doesn't take another 1400 days Absolutely, man. It was fun. It was cool being here. There's a lot that's happened over these years, you know Anything you got coming up oj that you want to tease? Yeah Uh, you know what? Nothing right now. Just uh, look out on the channel new videos up in the morning streams pretty much Every single day. So if you want to come hang out and talk about some games and yell at stuff I'm there on player essence. So it's right here on youtube. So yeah, thanks for having me on chat was awesome Appreciate you guys All right You guys can go subscribe to oj and all the stuff is uh links are all down in the description I know the at isn't working right now because we had to restart the stream But there's still a link down there to subscribe Um, so go check out his content, especially if you really like rpgs I think he's like one of the best rpg youtubers out there Like literally when I want news of what rpgs that i'm not covering and I just go there He's talking about everything especially if it's coming to switch. Just forget about it Forget about it. He's like an expert at this point. It's insane I I yeah, he's like, oh, I'm not gonna play everything. Yeah, because he's playing rpgs guys He's playing rpgs He can't play everything when you're playing rpg like one of those can consume your life for quite some time You just got to hold in and focus in on what you're good at sometimes Well, thanks for food and I hope you guys had a good time and uh, we'll catch you guys next week And this is gonna be a nightmare for me to audio at it for the later. Oh my god. Hey guys Peace out everyone As I can't Oh I'm trying to fix audio. I can't even get it in. Yeah, we'll get there. What a what a stream. We'll get there It's just it's just 10 clicks away Oh, man, let's do two clicks away Hey, there's the in-stream button two more clicks and