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Welcome

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to another episode of Acts of the Blood

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God, an independent RPG podcast.

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I'm your host, Kat Bailey. Joining me as always,

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my lovely co-host, Nadia Oxford. Hello,

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Kat. I actually forgot to mention this,

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but I got Mario Wonder, right, and they gave me a keychain,

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and I think there's a printing error. I

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don't know if you can see, but it's really blue. Why

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is it so blue? It's

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supposed to be, okay, for the people who can't see, it's

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supposed to be a keychain of Mario coming out of a pipe

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as Elephant Mario from Mario Wonder, and it's just

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completely blue. It's almost opaque.

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You can't see it. It's pretty funny, actually.

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We're trying to figure out, was this on purpose, or did Canada

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just get all the faulty stuff? I'm

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afraid this Mario blew himself prematurely.

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Well, he has that big

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trunk.

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That voice you hear making raunchy

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jokes, why, it's Eric Van Allen. Come

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on, that's low-hanging fruit. Everyone who's

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seen Arrested Development was thinking that one. Yep,

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it's time for another episode in

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which we'll be talking about RPGs, and this

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week we're doing a mailbag episode. It's

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letter time. It's letter time. It's

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letter time. It's letter time. We

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put out a call for letters in our Discord,

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which, hey, you can join if you're part of the Patreon,

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and we got a lot of actually really

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excellent

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letters, and I'm very excited

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to sit down and talk about

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them for a while with

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all of you, taking a little break after

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a very hectic release schedule, or

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amidst a very hectic release schedule. All

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my god. Can

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you believe it? It's been

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a wild ride, Nadia. I

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still feel like 2020

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happened and then nothing

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happened after that

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and here we are. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Nothing

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happened. We're getting pretty

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close also to another Pantheon

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vote. We're currently playing Castlevania

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Symphony of the Night on the occasion of

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Halloween. It's a spooktacular

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Pantheon

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early on October 31st so you

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So please look forward

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to that. That is available to our

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patrons. All right. Let's

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get to it. It's letter time folks

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and we're gonna start with this letter

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from Old Man Jables. Jables

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wonders,

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as the end of the year approaches,

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what was the biggest RPG surprise for you? Anything

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is fine,

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even playing Chrono Trigger, Eric.

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And they add, oh

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also, is a cheesecake a

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cake or a pie?

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And

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I just have to say that cheesecake is

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definitely a pie. It has the crust

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of a pie. The graham cracker kind

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of crust is the best part

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of it and therefore I

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say pie. I am team pie. I'm

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team pie as well. The filling just feels

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pie-like. Yeah, I would

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have been team cake but

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the more I think about it, it definitely

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is a pie. Like what's the difference between a pumpkin

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pie and a cheesecake? It's like the same thing. Yeah.

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Damn, I love pumpkin pie. That's a pie. I

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do love a good cheesecake. If

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I think about it, I'm like, oh no,

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of course I like cheesecake better than I like,

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or of course I like cake better than pie,

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but when I think about it for half a second, I'm like, but I like

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the crust of pie,

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generally speaking, whereas the cake is a little too

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fluffy, a little too soft.

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I would take a,

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here's the thing, I would take a great cake over

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a great pie any day. However,

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I would take an average pie over

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an average cake every day.

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Good point. Yeah. Because

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a bad cake tastes like sawdust. I feel like maybe,

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I don't know if it's my kind of Slavic

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cuisine roots here, but I never grew up with pie,

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only cake.

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Pie only really got into it once my husband married

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me and he's like, hey, try pecan pie. I'm like, oh man, it's rules.

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We have a pecan

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pie sitting in our kitchen right now and

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I've been eyeing it. I am a pecanologist

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would kill me. Y'all

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get some pecan pie? Y'all eat, y'all

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come eat. My mom would always

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make a good angel food cake for my birthday

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with the strawberries and

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the white frosting, very good.

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I am not a chocolate

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person. I will say that right up front. If you

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give me vanilla strawberry chocolate, chocolate's

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my last choice every single time. I'm with you,

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Nadia. Vanilla number one, strawberry

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number two. Chocolate, I

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love vanilla.

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I can have, it's not like you, a chocolate. It's

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like, okay, I have a slice of chocolate cake. Oh God,

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I can't finish this. It's just way too rich. Give

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me the angel food with strawberry

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and a little bit cream. That sounds so nice.

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Well, let's get to the other question.

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Biggest RPG surprise. I

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think my biggest RPG surprise is definitely

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Baldur's Gate 3 being the

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best RPG of the year. And

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before you say, well, I mean, we had good signs from the

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beta. I wasn't expecting

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it to be not just a great RPG,

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but actual legit

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game of the year contender might be.

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my game of the year. I

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did not expect it to be that good.

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Yeah,

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that's totally fair. Like Baldur's Gate three. Like

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no matter like even

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me someone who was like on that train.

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Like it

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is game of the year in a year where

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a Zelda game

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is has come out and a Mario

6:20

game has come out and it is

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up against

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what would easily be the most stacked

6:26

competition and yet it still seems

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like the presumptive nominee

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if not winner across the board. It's

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been fascinating to see people even people

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who don't play RPGs normally, who

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are saying, Oh, Baldur's Gate

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three. Yeah, no, it's Baldur's Gate three

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is one of the best games of the year. And I think that's

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the true sign of like, I don't think anyone expected

6:47

the reach this is going to have. Yeah,

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I was not expecting the mainstream crossover.

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I expected it to be the,

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you know, the cult nerd game, while

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everybody played starfield and instead

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it became a just

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a breakout and mainstream

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crossover hit it. And I

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think it's all due to the fact that it came out

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a month earlier. I

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think if it had come out around starfield time,

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I might have been buried a tiny bit.

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Not not as much I think it

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still would have had a really good chance because it just

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was that good. But

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I think it having a clear window to

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have all the discourse made a huge difference.

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I definitely am going with Baldur's

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Gate three, but to kind of expand on that octopath

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Traveler two was frickin amazing. And

7:33

I did not see that coming. I was like, Okay, I like the first one

7:36

second one I like I was blown away. Also

7:38

with Zelda, having

7:39

the whole under the depth.

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That was incredible. That

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was probably my favorite. I think it's still my favorite game of the year

7:47

about Baldur's Gate three because I just loved mapping

7:49

those depths and exploring them like my

7:51

first impression was falling into them. And

7:54

like having these skeleton horses charge

7:56

at me and these moblins with red eyes like screaming

7:58

like, like, you don't guess I kind of experience

8:00

in Nintendo games that often. It was a genuinely

8:03

Junji

8:03

Ito sort of feeling. Absolutely

8:06

loved it.

8:07

Yeah, my personal pick is

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Octopath Traveler 2 because I just

8:12

did not expect to like

8:14

that game that much. You know, I thought the first

8:16

Octopath Traveler was fine. It was

8:19

neat. It was nostalgic in the ways that

8:21

I expected it to be and it had some cool new

8:24

ideas, but largely the writing, the

8:26

pacing, everything just kind of put me off

8:28

that game. Yeah. And all of that

8:31

felt fixed by Octopath Traveler 2

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and I do think it was ineffective.

8:36

Them thinking more about how to use

8:39

those path actions in interesting ways.

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I felt like I was using the path actions a lot more and

8:43

in more interesting ways. And also just

8:45

the stories being a lot more compelling

8:48

upfront and a lot more, I want

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to say interesting because,

8:53

but they were, they were more interesting. I felt like a lot of the

8:55

base Octopath 1 stories

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were very like

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dry standard wrote

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starts that then turned into interesting

9:04

stories. And a lot of the Octopath 2 stories

9:06

were interesting from the jump. And

9:08

that game still had some issues. I think there's some

9:11

pacing in the middle of there that gets kind of, eh,

9:13

you know, they could have tightened it

9:15

up a little bit. But largely that

9:17

game is,

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if Baldur's Gate 3 had not come out

9:21

this year, I think Octopath would still

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probably be my favorite RPG of the year.

9:25

It is absolutely

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stellar. Exactly what people

9:29

who have wanted an old style RPG

9:32

with some new ideas. And that

9:34

also, if we can play the game awards

9:36

rule, where December to December counts.

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Yeah. Chain Decks.

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Chain Decks. Yeah, Chain Decks. Huge,

9:43

huge one. A game

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I still think about revealing. I'm not giving Ja'Kelie

9:47

the satisfaction of having that count. But

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I do like Chain Decks a

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lot. It's one I'm still thinking

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about right now. And even as I, you

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know, we're getting near the... part of the year where

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I have to start thinking about what my game of the

10:02

year list looks like and what my award nominations

10:05

would look like and things like that. Chain

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Decos is in my mind.

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So

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I was not expecting Starfield

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to maybe have a shot at not making my top 10.

10:18

Like I'm playing it, I've now

10:20

come around to enjoying it at this point,

10:24

but not without a lot

10:26

of effort. I still have a ton

10:28

of misgivings about it. I figured

10:30

that even if it wasn't all that, that I

10:33

would like it and that it would be like a top

10:35

five kind of game.

10:36

And it turned out to be a fairly

10:38

frustrating experience, right? Even

10:41

though in the end, I think I'm going to end up being

10:43

like, okay, it's fine, I guess.

10:46

Yeah. I'm sad I haven't been here for this cat

10:49

tries to force herself to love Starfield.

10:51

It's like that Eric. I've been missing

10:53

it because I was talking to

10:55

someone the other day as we

10:58

were working on some day job

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stuff and I was reflecting on just how

11:03

forgettable

11:05

the companions of Starfield are. I

11:07

was trying to remember what any of their defining

11:09

character traits are and I was just like, I don't

11:12

know. Their defining character traits is Russian,

11:15

kind of British,

11:17

kind of, I don't know. One

11:20

of them has a kid and a cowboy hat. Well,

11:22

but all of them, I think the thing that brought

11:25

it to mind was I was editing

11:27

something that was talking about how your companions

11:29

would get mad if you chose the bad

11:31

option here and it was like universal

11:33

across the board. All of them would be like, you shouldn't

11:35

have done that. I just approve of that. It

11:38

just made me think of how in Baldur's Gate 3,

11:40

I do something messed up and it would be like,

11:43

Carla, this is a bruise, and Astarian

11:45

greatly approves. Astarian, yes. Astarian's

11:48

thrilled. Whenever

11:50

it says Astarian's happy, I'm like, oh, shit, I just

11:52

chose the bad option. I did something messed up here.

11:55

Well, not only that, Baldur's Gate 3, there

11:57

are options you can choose where companions

11:59

will straight up.

11:59

I had a

12:01

early on I actually pissed

12:04

off gay, gay, gay,

12:06

gay, so much that he, that he left. And

12:08

I'm like, Oh, well, he confided about the bomb in his

12:11

chest.

12:15

And I

12:16

did the mind reading thing because the figure out

12:18

what the nothing bomb. Sorry. He confided about needing

12:20

to eat artifacts. Yeah.

12:24

What the hell is going on with you? So I was trying to read his mind and

12:26

figure out what the heck was going

12:28

on. And he discovered that

12:30

I was reading his mind and he was like, why are you reading my mind?

12:33

And then we got

12:34

into an argument and then he left. Wow. And

12:37

I was like,

12:38

wow, okay, I'm going to reload now

12:40

and

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not do that. If

12:43

that's why the gift check never came back

12:45

to me, she just left, I think, and

12:47

I just never saw her again.

12:47

I don't have Lazell. Oh, my God.

12:50

Lazell left your party? Lazell is Bazel. All right. I've

12:53

never seen Lazell. I swear, I don't remember what

12:55

I did.

12:55

I must have seen her when she

12:57

crashed or I forgot to rescue her or something. Either

13:00

way, she is not my party and she's not

13:02

anywhere

13:02

that I can find. There are an alarming

13:05

number of people who miss characters.

13:08

I know someone else I know didn't

13:10

have Gail for the long time because they just didn't.

13:13

Yeah, they just didn't go and pick up. Didn't

13:15

go that direction. But this is what I'm talking about is that

13:18

we talk about forced love for Starfield

13:20

and immediately turns into how good is Baldur's Gate 3. Okay,

13:23

can I say some nice things about Starfield though? Yes,

13:28

say nice things about Starfield. I do love

13:30

the shipbuilding. I can spend a

13:32

lot of

13:33

time just in that shipbuilder menu. I'm

13:38

really happy with my ship now, having

13:41

put together all of the habs and everything. I

13:43

have

13:45

found some really good quests, quest lines.

13:49

I think the Vanguard and the Crimson

13:51

Fleet quest is, it's clear

13:53

that they put a lot of time and effort into that one.

13:56

Still has a few flaws, but

13:58

generally speaking, it's a big deal.

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So,

16:00

they're puzzles and I was talking

16:03

about how on the streams,

16:05

you can watch the VODs on our YouTube channel,

16:07

youtube.com slash blog.opod, if

16:10

you want to watch them or watch them

16:12

on Twitch, I'm plugging them because we're

16:14

probably nearing the end actually. I'm actually pretty

16:17

close to the end of Chrono Trigger at this point.

16:20

But, like

16:23

Chrono Trigger is not a super complex

16:25

battle system. It's a really straightforward battle

16:28

system where you have not

16:30

a ton of different things that you're having to

16:33

juggle in your minds. I've

16:35

been fascinated by the fact that you

16:38

really don't have a lot of tools

16:40

that you're working with. It's how those tools interact

16:43

and work with each other and the decisions

16:45

that you're making because of them make them

16:47

really interesting. And I think the bosses reflect

16:50

that very well where I get into

16:52

fights where it's like, okay, I've got these

16:54

different things I need to attack. I

16:57

just fought a Lavos Spire

17:00

or Lavos? Lavospawn. Lavospawn,

17:02

yeah. And that one was really interesting

17:04

because I was so used to just dumping AoE

17:07

techs on enemies. And

17:09

this like mini boss would shoot

17:11

this really powerful AoE attack

17:13

at me if I hit one part of it. So,

17:16

I could just dump AoE techs and now I was having to think about, okay,

17:18

what are my good single target techs?

17:21

What are my good things that can handle just

17:23

one part of this boss? Or in

17:26

other cases when I was fighting the Twin Golems,

17:28

I needed to put them on

17:31

it because they would copy the magic that I used on them

17:33

and then use magic back in kind. So I needed

17:35

to keep them on a specific

17:37

kind of magic that I could handle as

17:40

opposed to physical

17:42

or shadow would absolutely wipe me. Yeah, physical,

17:44

I know what you're talking about. Physical will absolutely destroy

17:46

you. Yeah, and it was really cool

17:49

to

17:50

play those fights and see how even

17:52

with a relatively simple

17:55

setup and system, not very

17:57

in-depth system,

17:59

Chrono Trigger. creates really interesting

18:01

combat situations that ask you to think

18:03

about the things you're doing, act with intentionality,

18:07

and solve them. And

18:09

I think that is the hallmark

18:12

is it's not just a gimmick. It is

18:14

a thing that makes you see the combat system

18:16

in a new light, and understand it,

18:18

and feel like you have

18:20

beaten something both like logically

18:23

and with your gameplay and all that. It's

18:25

a really cool feeling that I've really, really enjoyed.

18:28

And that would be the hallmark of that. And I would also say

18:30

the Baldur's Gate 3 has a lot of moments like that where

18:33

you can, sure, you can

18:35

fight enemies and just kind of like meat

18:37

block them down if you want to, and just kind

18:39

of hit them with stuff until they go down.

18:41

But a lot of bosses, a lot of encounters

18:44

in that game feel so designed

18:47

that they have ways of getting around

18:49

them, even if you're using role playing

18:51

to set yourself up in a more favorable position

18:54

for the fight or something like that. I

18:57

like boss fights that reflect

18:59

the game systems and put them in their

19:01

best light and reward you for engaging with

19:03

the game systems.

19:05

I agree. And I like a

19:07

good boss fight. I like a game

19:10

that forces me to consider different

19:12

party compositions as I approach the boss

19:14

fight. I think

19:17

Bravely Default 2 actually did an amazing

19:19

job with this, where

19:22

it encouraged me to be like, okay, I'm

19:24

getting wiped really fast. I need

19:26

to

19:27

completely rethink my job class

19:29

comp right now.

19:31

And so it encourages you

19:33

to explore a lot of the tactical possibilities.

19:36

On the flip side, I think a boss fight

19:39

that I don't like are the ones that A, drag

19:41

on too long, and B, are just

19:44

damage sponges where I'm doing the same

19:46

loop over and over and over again. I

19:50

do like a lot of thought

19:52

and intentionality going into

19:54

a boss encounter. I do like

19:56

boss fights. I know I'm also

19:58

in a good boss fight when And I hit

20:01

the second phase and all of a sudden they like throw

20:03

off their cloak or something or like

20:06

go into bigger and stronger

20:08

and get a bigger sword and then the music changes

20:12

or they call in their MOOCs.

20:14

Yeah,

20:15

I like boss fights

20:17

that make my heart race and boss fights where

20:19

the boss has been built up as

20:21

a really dangerous thing and then all of a sudden you're like

20:23

shoved against them like have fun. I'll

20:25

probably always cite Luca Blight from Suikoden 2

20:28

because that's not just, that's a

20:30

real knockdown drag out fight

20:33

but

20:33

not in like as you were saying Kat the bullet spongy

20:35

way like he has his MOOCs, he has his magic

20:38

and then you have to go one on one with him and

20:40

you have like that one, if you know

20:42

what to do, you know what to do and like you're kind of going story

20:45

based like what kind of what choice you should make

20:47

here but if you make the wrong choice, it's

20:49

like it all comes down to that moment and having

20:52

struggled to beat him and to come down to this point

20:54

where it's like oh my god it's hand versus hand, what

20:56

do I do? That was like an experience I'll never

20:58

forget. So I

21:01

like those kinds of, I like boss fights also that are

21:03

theater which is probably

21:05

why I like FF14 so much because so many of the boss

21:07

fights are just, they're perfectly scripted

21:10

in that regard like story wise so I've always

21:12

kind of appreciated that but yeah I like boss

21:14

fights that are exciting both like you know

21:16

in terms of mechanics and in story wise.

21:19

I like the narratively significant boss

21:21

fights for sure. Yeah for sure. We've

21:23

been waiting for a while to go head

21:26

to head with them and then all of a sudden

21:28

it's like oh oh here we go it's time

21:30

you know. It's not a fake out this time

21:32

we're actually doing this. Yes we're actually we're

21:35

actually throwing down, I will say that

21:38

classic Final Fantasy,

21:39

16-bit Final Fantasy was really

21:41

good at

21:42

introducing

21:44

boss fights that were real

21:46

bangers right. I'm thinking I was

21:48

thinking about OPMO weapon

21:50

in Final Fantasy. That's

21:53

such an epic.

21:55

Awesome soundtrack like boss

21:57

fight coming at an amazing time.

21:59

in the game. I'm not spoiling

22:02

anything, Eric. Just saying.

22:06

And the

22:08

sprite is amazing too. And

22:11

very, very imposing. So

22:14

that stands out. And then in Final Fantasy IV, when

22:16

the four fiends show up.

22:18

And again,

22:20

unique soundtrack, very tough

22:22

opponents.

22:24

All of them have interesting

22:27

mechanics going for them. I think

22:29

that a quality boss fight

22:31

is the underpinning of a great

22:34

RPG. You know that you're playing a quality

22:36

RPG when the mechanics

22:39

and the flow are so good

22:41

that you are having really

22:43

memorable boss fights. Because that's when the whole

22:46

game comes together. It's like

22:49

the full expression of the mechanics,

22:51

in my opinion.

22:53

And to add on one more thing, there

22:57

are many, many series that handle boss

22:59

fights well, but one that always comes to mind

23:01

for me is the Like a Dragon

23:04

series. Because there is nothing

23:07

more hype than the

23:09

dudes ripping their shirts off to

23:11

reveal their back tattoos. And

23:13

then they like clash. And then it just like

23:16

shoots their name across the screen,

23:18

like really epic text. And

23:20

you're just like, let's go. Let's

23:22

go. It does get

23:24

you hyped for sure. It's

23:27

like the one gives them their

23:29

power. The back tattoos. That's

23:31

that's when you know it's getting serious. And like Like

23:33

a Dragon seven also has some absolutely

23:36

ridiculous boss fights. The

23:39

crane with the wrecking ball comes to mind.

23:42

And yeah, those are just great for

23:45

the

23:45

sheer

23:46

ridiculousness of what is happening

23:49

in front of you. And yeah, I,

23:51

I love games that

23:53

don't take themselves too seriously. And you

23:55

have those moments of, yes,

23:57

you are really fighting this

23:59

thing. I mean the the ghost train

24:01

or whatever is also a famous example

24:04

of like you're fighting a train now

24:10

Sammy J9 wonders what

24:12

is the favorite individual game? Game

24:15

song of the year so far mine is either song of

24:17

hope from octopath traveler to or

24:19

within the dream from a space for the Unbound

24:21

although if I listen to that one, I'm like this start

24:23

sobbing uncontrollably My

24:26

favorite game song of the year comes

24:28

during act 3 of Baldur's Gate 3 I'm

24:30

not gonna say anything else other than the fact

24:33

that it contains the lyrics hell hell And

24:37

I'll look for it. Yeah, it is gets

24:40

your heart racing it's an awesome

24:43

awesome

24:44

boss fight and

24:47

It keys into the how

24:49

do you know you're playing a really good ass boss

24:51

fight It's when you have the unique soundtrack

24:53

with the vocalized music

24:56

And so, you know when the game developers are going

24:58

hard

24:59

Yeah, that's that might be my favorite

25:01

game song of the year But I know that octopath traveler

25:03

too had some really it has some

25:05

real bangers in there

25:07

It has like the best motif I

25:10

think because that like Is

25:15

like such a good like running

25:17

theme for that series that they repeat over

25:19

and over and over again established

25:22

already until I've been two games, yeah But

25:25

I think individual music

25:27

I keep coming back to Baldur's Gate 3, but

25:29

not that one I know why I know

25:31

that one's good. That one is good But it's

25:33

the the repeat use of i'm a

25:35

sucker for motif And so the repeat

25:37

use of the the down down

25:40

down by the river and

25:42

all that like it It's I

25:44

love the way that game uses those

25:46

little like musical hits and

25:48

intonations really really well Um,

25:51

I would say again chrono trigger because every

25:54

time i'm walking on that overworld

25:56

map and I hear that

25:57

And

25:59

i'm

25:59

like, oh, that's the time music. Yeah. You

26:03

know that the down by the river thing

26:06

is tied to a very

26:09

different Baldur's Gate 3, like

26:12

cut, they completely changed a

26:14

certain aspect of Baldur's Gate 3 story through

26:17

cut content, completely re-imagined

26:19

how the dream visitor was going

26:21

to work. Oh, yeah. And honestly,

26:24

reading how they were originally

26:25

doing it, I kind of prefer it

26:27

to what they ultimately came up with. The

26:30

dream visitor stuff was different

26:32

even in the early access. And that's why I think it's

26:35

interesting to play the full release if you've

26:37

played the early access because that stuff is completely

26:39

different. And

26:42

I character designs were totally different,

26:44

like seeing original Karla versus

26:47

what they eventually came up with. Yeah. Yeah.

26:50

Um, so it's

26:51

interesting. It's interesting to see that,

26:53

but I, I

26:55

really love Baldur's Gate 3. I actually think Final Fantasy 16

26:57

had some banger music tracks. Yeah.

27:00

That's Soakin for you. Yeah. Yeah. Soakin, Soakin

27:02

did some work on that. The, the Tae

27:04

Fon fight was great. The, um,

27:07

the, the one that plays during big

27:09

old Rocky Mountain. It's

27:12

fantastic. Um,

27:15

just some really good musical hits that I think people

27:17

didn't like notice right away because they were playing

27:19

what is honestly, I'm going to say is just

27:22

an action game. It's, it's an action game. But,

27:25

uh,

27:25

it's, it's got some great

27:27

musical hits in there that I really, really liked. Um,

27:30

and then, yeah, Octopath. I

27:32

love every time like Partishio's

27:35

theme kicked in the stacks.

27:37

It was so good.

27:40

That could easily take my, my

27:42

song of the year, but this year has been

27:45

so crazy for FF

27:46

14's raids,

27:48

like they have theater music, like,

27:50

this is actually stuff that you can make a musical

27:52

out of. And for me, I think it's a

27:54

dedicated to moonlight, which is the

27:56

song that plays when you battle Minfina, who is the

27:59

goddess of.

27:59

My patron goddess, thank you very much, I

28:02

have a moon cat. And

28:04

what I love about

28:05

dedicated moonlight, besides the fact the violence

28:07

just shred, is the fact

28:10

that if the song

28:11

explains part of the keeper

28:13

of the moon culture, which

28:15

is, you know, you have the cat boys, of course, you have

28:18

the seekers of the sun, there's other popular ones, and

28:20

keeper of the moon, which are my losers, who I love. And

28:23

this is a song that talks about like, their

28:26

culture finding love how, you know,

28:28

they're kind of a polyamorous society. So it's kind

28:30

of like going out and basically losing your virginity

28:33

to song about that. But it's so good.

28:35

And just everything's

28:37

so can is done with the raid music, like

28:39

the remixes of the Final Fantasy Four music,

28:42

holy shit, like, oh my God,

28:44

the, I don't care if you're like

28:46

F 14 or not, look up the remixes of the Four

28:48

Fiends music, they got the original guy who did those

28:50

like period videos way back when, of course, they got the original. And the video is way back

28:52

when the Four Fiends, who also

28:54

died can't be every man I can remember his name, but he

28:57

helped with the music and oh, so good.

28:59

Same with the another moon music like,

29:01

just so can insane. So is the sound team, the

29:04

whole sound team is great.

29:06

Spooky man, B.R. wants to know,

29:09

what are the plans for the next media special?

29:11

After Cat Summer of Gundam and Eric's Autumn

29:13

of Avatar,

29:14

it's time for Nadia to take the lead. Thank you.

29:16

Thank you so much. I've been saying this and

29:19

I don't know if we're gonna do this or what the

29:21

plans are. I really want to do a Gravity

29:23

Falls watch. I think

29:24

Gravity Falls is one of the best cartoons ever

29:26

done. I respect it.

29:28

And very short, it's a few seasons

29:30

like it's got the J.K. Simmons.

29:33

Oh, see, that's how you sell me on it.

29:35

You say J.K. Simmons, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah.

29:38

I like the idea of doing the Ghibli

29:40

watch. Ghibli watch is good

29:42

too. Yeah. But if I'm gonna do a series,

29:45

I want to do Gravity Falls. It's like pick

29:47

the essential Ghibli films or

29:50

we could all pick one Ghibli film that

29:52

everybody has to watch.

29:54

Yes, but still on the Gravity Falls.

29:56

I'll see you on Gravity Falls, Nadia.

29:59

Thank you. Not not he has earned

30:01

this already not even we got our turns.

30:03

Yeah Exactly

30:05

true gravity falls everybody very

30:08

much my kind of show it has my energy

30:10

Mabel is me

30:12

So would it be fall of the falls?

30:15

All the falls fall the falls there

30:17

we go. I'm funny falls fall gravity

30:19

fall fall gravity falls Gravity

30:23

fall the guys that on the end say

30:25

no, it's cool. Just gravity fall. Yeah,

30:27

they're like that gravity fall But gravity fall

30:30

I like that We're

30:32

really getting stuck on this But

30:36

I like very go gravity for bringing it up

30:40

While wants to know Shiba Inu

30:42

is going to speedrun gyro might at AG

30:45

AGD Q 2024 in

30:47

a perfect world what animal video

30:50

game speedrun combination would you want to see? My

30:54

I'm thinking I'm

30:56

thinking a possum Think

30:59

a possum would be a very enjoyable Combination

31:02

and then I think a possum could play an RPG.

31:06

I think I think I'm

31:08

like banging out menu commands

31:10

I think a crow crows are extremely smart

31:13

Like I have crows that hang around my place and

31:15

you watch them play and I don't play like animals

31:17

They play like humans is really creepy, but I think

31:19

they'd be I think they'd be great at video

31:22

games I think they can learn

31:23

them video learn them quite easily. I

31:25

want to see otters

31:27

I run

31:30

Mario hoops three on three What

31:33

a weird choice?

31:34

Very specific. I know but there's

31:37

something about otters. They're just playful They

31:40

like to you know I've always liked to imagine

31:42

otter would like play basketball if

31:44

they had water basketball

31:46

That someone trained to see otter to kind of

31:48

put

31:48

throw a ball through a hoop is very cute and see

31:50

and see that's just adorable So I'd love to see

31:52

that one one thing I don't want to see involved at all

31:55

dolphins dolphins on settle me So

31:57

I love dolphins No,

32:01

they're messed up. They're weird. They're

32:03

the little freakos of the sea and they need

32:07

to just... We have our lands,

32:09

they have their ocean and we need to create

32:11

the divide, all right? I think they're a conknown dolphin

32:14

hater. Mm-hmm.

32:15

I like orphans. Not dolphin hater.

32:17

I'm not against their... We're now established at Erika's

32:19

racist against dolphins. No, dolphins

32:22

can continue to exist. I just don't want them

32:24

near me. Look, I just believe in segregation

32:26

of dolphins and humans, okay? We

32:29

have the land. They're pretty whole. They

32:31

have the ocean. They can be in the

32:32

ocean. We can have the land. There's

32:34

just something about dolphins

32:37

that I don't like, says Derek. Dolphins are

32:39

assholes. They are assholes. Dolphins are assholes. They

32:41

like murder for fun. Oh,

32:43

yes. Here we go. Not all

32:46

dolphins. Hello? I

32:49

can't believe you're the fantastic of your... What are the orchas? I'm trying

32:51

to talk about orchas. Orchas are really smart

32:53

and they're assholes but they know it. Orchas are us

32:55

in water form. And what's

32:58

really interesting about orchas is that's part of that terrible,

33:00

terrible sea world incident where basically

33:03

the whale was driven insane by loneliness.

33:06

They don't hurt humans. They don't kill humans. They fuck

33:09

up our yachts and they fuck up our fishing stuff and we

33:11

deserve that. But if you

33:13

look at videos of orchas, they just kind of come near

33:15

us and hang out and look at us. And I was reading

33:17

about an indigenous tribe that had a

33:20

deal with orchas

33:22

where they'd fish with them

33:23

and they'd fish baleen whales and the

33:26

orchas would get the tongue and the lips and

33:29

if

33:29

they broke that covenant, which of course the settlers

33:32

did, they would go away and they

33:34

did. So they're

33:35

cool. Orchas are really awesome. I really

33:37

wish we could like, you know, it'd be cool if we could talk to animals. I

33:39

really want to talk to animals. They're working

33:42

on it. I know. It

33:44

might not be long before we're able to talk to

33:46

dogs. Oh, you can't. And they're going to

33:48

already can, honestly. Oh, you can't. It's

33:52

only five per second dinner. Robo

33:55

Riley wants to know how have video games

33:57

changed how you see or appreciate other parts

33:59

of your life?

34:00

Whether it be other storytelling mediums,

34:02

the news, crossroads, nature, or anything else.

34:05

The most recent one for me is Final Fantasy

34:07

XIV in the night sky.

34:09

It's gorgeous in Final

34:10

Fantasy XIV. It makes me sad that I live

34:13

in a place with some really bad light pollution.

34:15

I'm

34:15

not really into camping, but now I want

34:17

to visit a place where I can see the stars.

34:23

You know, I always appreciated

34:25

a good campfire, but I feel like RPGs

34:27

just really emphasized for me that campfires

34:30

are the best. You have a good little

34:32

fire pit with your friends around it, and

34:34

you rest and recuperate from the day. I

34:36

appreciate a good campfire now. I know it's a

34:39

very specific and weird thing, but I

34:41

love a good campfire. This

34:44

is a really good question. It is a

34:46

good question, but I have to think a little bit about it.

34:49

I mean, so I think

34:52

playing a lot of, this might not even be like RPG

34:54

specific, so sorry,

34:58

but I think a lot of games like Return

35:00

of the Obra Dinn and Outer Wilds are

35:02

really good in that they help me understand

35:05

how I process information. They're

35:09

games that kind of force you to think

35:11

logically and understand the

35:14

info that you're seeing and take them in. I've

35:16

noticed that the way I play

35:18

games is different now.

35:21

I'd say post Return of the Obra Dinn because

35:23

it makes you take stock

35:26

of your immediate surrounding. I've

35:28

noticed a lot of people can tend to kind

35:30

of autopilot through things, video

35:33

games or even life, where you

35:35

just kind of go through the motions and you don't

35:38

take notice of what's around

35:40

you, what's near you. I

35:43

think games like Return of the Obra Dinn

35:45

really made me start to like, oh,

35:47

there's a lot of detail

35:50

in the things we do. For games that can help with

35:52

like, oh, I'm better at puzzle

35:54

solving now in games because I'm better at noticing

35:57

the ways in which designers are trying to key me

35:59

into.

35:59

a specific thing that I need

36:02

to solve or like a clue or a hint, but even

36:04

just in life,

36:06

I take stock of things more

36:08

often. I try to like have

36:11

moments where I will just kind of like

36:13

take in where I'm at and be

36:15

like, you know, just be in the moment for a

36:17

little bit. Like take almost

36:20

a snapshot of where I am, especially if I'm like on

36:22

a trip, I'm traveling, I'm somewhere really

36:24

cool. I want to like have

36:27

some time where I'm not just constantly thinking about like, okay,

36:29

what's next? Oh, I should take a picture. Oh, let's let's

36:31

go over here. Let's do this. It just take

36:33

a moment to like be where

36:35

you are and take it all in and like

36:38

internalize it. And I think games like

36:40

over then really like helped me get

36:43

to that place mentally.

36:45

I think games

36:47

have been an incredible

36:49

example of soft power for Japan, because

36:52

it is given multiple generations

36:55

of people around the world a lasting

36:57

appreciation and desire

36:59

to visit

37:01

and spend time in Japan. I

37:03

ended up learning Japanese

37:05

because of games in anime. And

37:08

I lived there for a time

37:11

partly because at least a little bit because

37:13

of games. And one way or another,

37:15

I think that

37:17

my,

37:20

you know, my appreciation for Japan

37:22

and Japanese culture is inextricably tied

37:24

to games. Because so

37:27

much of Japanese holidays,

37:29

Japanese customs, Japanese everything

37:31

is tied directly into

37:34

video games, even playing a game like Super

37:36

Mario Wonder as a

37:38

Nintendo effing game. Oh,

37:40

totally. That's great. And a

37:43

lot of that is very, very Japanese.

37:46

So I think that is had

37:49

a

37:49

significant impact on

37:52

my life actually, and how I see the world.

37:55

Personally, I think video

37:57

games help me become a

37:58

writer, not even just a better writer. writer, just a writer.

38:01

And that is because I started playing

38:03

video games even as early as Super Mario

38:05

Brothers, like for their story, like, even though

38:08

Rescue the Princess is not much of a story,

38:10

it's still a goal. And you start

38:12

to wonder,

38:12

you start to supplement stuff in your head,

38:14

like, how did this happen? How'd you get kidnapped? Who were her

38:16

parents? You know, all that weird stuff. And

38:19

the thing with video games is that

38:21

it tells stories with different

38:23

mediums kind of bombarding you at the same time, you

38:25

hear music, you see graphics, and

38:27

usually you read or you hear dialogue. And

38:29

having that kind of versatility

38:33

with storytelling and having that all kind of funneled into

38:35

you at once can be a really good way

38:37

to learn how to tell a story through different, you know,

38:40

different mediums yourself, like,

38:42

maybe I'll try switching the narrative

38:44

here, maybe I'll try a different perspective there.

38:47

And to be honest with you, video games can also

38:49

teach you what not to do, because the

38:52

writing

38:52

of video games isn't great. So you say

38:54

yourself, okay, well, I'm gonna kind of

38:56

not do that. And I'm not trying to be snobbish

38:59

about it. I'm just saying, like, sometimes writers

39:01

are not really in the budget.

39:02

But I would advise I think that like,

39:05

you know, they say things like,

39:06

oh, comp folks will rot your mind, your games will rot your

39:08

mind,

39:08

they really don't, they can't, they're,

39:11

no matter what happens, you're getting information pumped

39:14

into your head, you're getting a story, someone else's ideas

39:16

pumped into your head. And that will always

39:18

develop into something of your own.

39:20

So yeah, video games, they

39:23

were my favorite way of viewing

39:25

stories outside of I think even

39:27

more than reading books when I was a kid, or definitely more than

39:29

watching movies. So you turned me

39:31

into a kind of

39:32

a writer and a storyteller.

39:33

Video games also have

39:36

changed how I look at sports.

39:38

I guess they would. Yes. Yeah. Because I played

39:40

a lot on chibi. Well, I played

39:42

a lot of Madden.

39:44

And I'm back to playing now Madden now

39:46

actually, I'm in my league.

39:48

And it taught me about

39:51

the strategy of

39:52

football. Like I didn't know what a cover

39:54

three was versus a cover two versus

39:56

man coverage versus you know, all that

39:59

defensive jargon.

39:59

I learned because of Madden

40:01

and similarly I am a West Ham supporter

40:04

in soccer because of FIFA. I Right

40:07

picked West Ham because they had a goofy

40:09

ass name and they were in the championship at

40:11

the time and I wanted

40:12

to challenge and so I was playing

40:15

them in FIFA and that's how I got to know their names and

40:17

their culture and everything and that's

40:20

what made me an

40:21

actual fan and I would venture to say there

40:23

are not Insignificant number of Americans

40:25

who became fans of individual teams because

40:28

they enjoyed playing as them In

40:30

FIFA, so I think that

40:33

sports games at their best have been a

40:35

very good educational tool about

40:38

learning how to Play

40:41

learn how to enjoy the sport

40:43

in a way that maybe I wouldn't have otherwise

40:46

so Minosky

40:48

wants to know with ease eight receiving

40:50

a novel adaptation recently which

40:53

RPG would you want to receive a novel

40:55

adaptation?

40:58

I

40:59

I'll be honest a lot of the novel adaptations. I read are not

41:01

very good. It's like the world of power.

41:03

You didn't like the I Talked

41:06

about the ones that adapt things directly like the

41:09

novelization of ninja Gaiden Well,

41:11

that was amazing except for the fact that

41:13

it's far. No die, which was the whole point of the story

41:16

I actually need to read the novelization of

41:18

death stranding because that will please

41:20

do and I really read it Yeah,

41:22

it sounds so bad that I want to read it. I Read

41:25

like the Gears of War

41:26

novelizations

41:29

Here's the thing though like you're

41:31

talking about there's western

41:33

novelizations and the Japanese novelizations

41:35

Japanese novelizations

41:37

are a lot more dry than the western

41:40

ones for better for worse

41:41

Well, so the one thing I will say is

41:43

that there's also different

41:45

Kinds because if you do like a light

41:47

novel adaptation where the formats

41:50

a bit more in the light novel form I've

41:52

ever read a light novels, but I've read a few and

41:55

those are a little bit more

41:57

They're good in a way. That's like

41:59

very

41:59

I

42:00

would compare it to like watching Riverdale

42:02

here where like you are kind of buying into a

42:05

genre that will have tropes

42:07

and that will have like kind of fun

42:10

enjoyable things and the light novels I've read I

42:12

wouldn't say are like anything incredible by

42:14

like a writing standard but they are very enjoyable

42:17

to read. It's like the genre paperbacks

42:19

that we have here in the

42:22

US where you buy like a cowboy paperback

42:25

or like a romance paperback. They're

42:27

just like they're all the same size and

42:29

you kind of like are buying into like oh I'm getting

42:31

an isekai light novel. It's like getting a romance

42:33

paperback. Right. Okay.

42:36

Yeah. And I think if you go that route there

42:38

are some games that I would

42:40

I could see making excellent

42:43

versions of like specifically

42:45

like fiction genre light novel

42:47

and I want to say like maybe

42:49

a lunar could do that really really

42:52

fun. That would be fun. It

42:54

would just be cheesy. It would just be fun. It would

42:56

just be enjoyable and that's

42:58

what I don't think you're going to get like I

43:01

think games are so entrenched in there.

43:03

A good game is so entrenched in the medium in

43:05

which it's told that like

43:08

if you tried to novelize certain parts of

43:10

it it just wouldn't work very well. Even

43:13

more difficult because like you can kind of do

43:15

a video game to movie adaptation and be fine but

43:18

like video game to book

43:21

is does not work as well but

43:24

yeah if you pick the right subject material and

43:26

you approach it with the right mindset I think you can have some fun

43:28

with it. So the only one

43:30

live that's a good pick. That would be a good one.

43:32

Some starting in the chat live lives a good pick. I

43:35

want like an anthology. That would

43:37

be fun. Yes. It would be

43:40

excellent.

43:40

There's a Final Fantasy 4 novelization

43:42

that I don't think anyone has translated. I would love to have

43:44

that. I think there's an after years one too for some reason.

43:46

I'd love to have that as well. It's illustrated.

43:48

There's a bunch of like near side works

43:50

too that I want to get around to at some point. That would be nice

43:52

and sad. Yeah. So if certain

43:54

games get turned into manga.

43:56

Yeah. The Pokemon manga

43:59

is actually very good.

43:59

Very good. Which one? There's

44:02

several. The OG's, like the original Pokémon

44:04

Red and Blue.

44:05

Yeah. Very different from the anime. Yeah.

44:08

Much more faithful to the actual games. And

44:10

I think Pokémon

44:12

Origins or something like that actually

44:14

ended up following more in the lines of

44:16

the manga. Also like

44:18

Origins. It needed more than four episodes.

44:20

Also the various

44:21

Zelda manga, like the

44:23

link to the past one in particular that came out

44:25

in Nintendo. Yes. Yeah.

44:28

Excellent. If you're a retro-naut, go listen

44:30

to it.

44:31

Yeah. Also, I was looking

44:33

into this because while I was traveling,

44:35

I walked into a manga store because I can't help

44:37

myself. And

44:40

apparently the Elden Ring manga is pretty decent.

44:42

I've been hearing some okay things about

44:44

it. So I've been meaning to check that out at some

44:46

point. I've seen

44:48

an Elden Ring joke manga, which was hilarious.

44:51

That got translated.

44:53

But it was just like not at all serious, but it was official

44:56

and just started with the shit.

44:58

It's called The Protagonist. He

45:00

has like a title.

45:01

The Tarnished? The Tarnished. It

45:04

started with Tarnished being

45:06

buck naked and Torrent finding him. It's like, are you

45:08

sure this is a guy? All right. So it was pretty

45:10

funny. It's

45:11

oh, okay. So there's an anime

45:13

that's airing this season

45:16

that is like several manga

45:18

deep at this point, I think. But

45:20

it's I think it's called Shangri-La Frontier. But

45:23

the setup is basically like what

45:25

if Let Me Solo Her played

45:27

a different MMO and like played

45:30

an MMO. And it's not like exactly

45:32

ripping off Let Me Solo Her, but it is

45:34

like a dude that is so good at video

45:36

games that he's trying to beat the

45:39

next great MMO by wearing like underwear

45:42

and a bird hat. And

45:45

it's very

45:46

interesting. I've been seeing some people talk about

45:48

it. But yeah, no,

45:50

it's there's good stuff out there. I do think the

45:52

manga adaptation, so you're right, tend

45:54

to be a little bit more in line with what you would want. Yeah.

45:57

It's a very visual medium, I think.

45:59

And so that fits maybe better

46:02

into manga. And then, I

46:04

mean, of course, in those particular,

46:07

and I'm talking about movie adaptations,

46:09

I'm talking about novelizations manga,

46:11

they lose the interactivity part.

46:13

Yeah. Which is especially a big part of RPGs.

46:15

I was going to say, well, what about a Disco Elysium novelization?

46:18

Well, I mean, you lose a huge part of the

46:20

appeal

46:22

of the way that the

46:24

different decisions connect and

46:26

end up defining your path in that game. It's

46:28

just, it would end up feeling kind of two-dimensional

46:31

in its own way. But

46:34

finally, Ruka wants to know, we're

46:36

coming up on the third anniversary of Axe the Blood

46:38

God going independent. Can you believe that? Wow.

46:41

You're four of Axe the Blood God. Is

46:44

there anything that you wish you had done differently

46:46

now that you know how it's going? And do you

46:48

have any big shakeups planned for

46:51

the future? Um, I think

46:53

that... Yeah, we're playing the whole staff with dogs.

46:56

Or...

46:57

Yeah. I mean, there's not too much that I would do

46:59

differently. I mean, I think that

47:01

it took a while to get the Pantheon

47:04

kind of into a format that

47:06

I ended up liking. It

47:09

took a bit to find the

47:11

current format of the show. Um,

47:15

I am really glad we got Erika

47:17

on the show. Yeah. Relatively

47:20

quickly because it helped

47:22

take a

47:23

big load off Nadia and I and I

47:25

think it's solidified

47:27

the show in a lot of ways. So

47:30

as far as what to look ahead

47:32

to, I think next year is the year that

47:34

we really do launch the live show,

47:37

the Saturday Morning Live show on

47:40

Twitch because

47:41

we've had so much success

47:44

with the Stars of Destiny

47:46

here in the Discord that

47:49

we really want to bring it to everybody.

47:51

And... So you still get the after show.

47:53

So don't worry. Yeah. We're trying to figure out

47:55

a way in which we do this without because

47:58

we are also very conscious of the fact that like... Like when

48:00

we do stuff like that, it shifts away

48:02

like benefits that y'all have had to everyone.

48:04

And so we're trying to be conscious of

48:07

like how that shifts. I think the

48:09

start, they'll still get the pre-show and

48:11

the post-show. Yeah. I think they'll still

48:13

get like individual gifts.

48:15

They'll still get, we'll still do watches.

48:18

Like if we do the Summer of Ghibli, probably

48:20

we would do a watch-along. You meant physical

48:23

watches. And I was like, Kat,

48:25

I thought we were just doing pins. Watches

48:27

actually do. Yeah, active look on

48:29

Rolex. Y'all

48:32

fall apart in the mail.

48:34

No, like we would do watch-alongs

48:37

of, for example, if we did a Studio

48:39

Ghibli, Summer of Ghibli, we might watch

48:42

a movie together with

48:44

the stars of Ghibli.

48:46

We did that once with like, what

48:48

was it? With Char's Counterattack. Yeah. And

48:51

we do. That didn't go super well. But

48:53

I think the- We do owe us spirits within watch-along as well. We do owe us spirits

48:55

within. Oh shit, right. Yeah. We

48:58

definitely want to do that before the end of the year. Oh

49:01

yeah, yeah. Yeah, exactly. Live Pantheons. That's

49:03

an interesting concept. And

49:07

actually, it would be kind of fun to do a live

49:09

Pantheon

49:09

for the stars, but only the stars.

49:12

Yeah. Yeah. I

49:14

think that would be

49:15

a good replacement, like a good bit of replacement

49:18

content. I think the point is that

49:19

it's such a great

49:21

way for us to be able to expand

49:23

our audience. As so many podcasts

49:26

have a video component now. They really do. Yeah.

49:29

It would allow us to export them over to YouTube. Eric

49:32

has been learning a

49:33

lot of the video production stuff through

49:36

our various charity streams.

49:39

And we need to learn that. And

49:42

then it would make it a lot easier to have

49:44

a stronger social media component, especially since

49:47

Twitter is fucking dying.

49:49

Twitter is effed. Yeah, it's screwed.

49:51

Yeah, it's screwed. You can't be on effed. It's screwed.

49:53

I have to curse because of how

49:56

much Elon has screwed up a platform

49:58

that I used a lot. previously.

50:01

So having a video component for

50:04

Instagram, TikTok and whatnot. Especially

50:06

TikTok. We all need TikTok clips.

50:08

I think the thing that we always

50:10

come back to with that, to like air

50:13

out some of the inside talks that we have probably

50:15

at least like once a month, is that

50:19

obviously this is

50:20

varying extents of our lives, right?

50:23

Like we have like different

50:25

day jobs or work that we're doing on the

50:27

side. Like blood God is not everything

50:29

we do in the way that some other podcast networks,

50:32

some other podcast content. Yeah. Hence

50:34

the abs, extended absences

50:36

for Eric and I at points. Yeah. Yeah.

50:39

And look, sometimes life stuff happens too.

50:41

And so we have to like be conscious of like how

50:43

much we can put on our,

50:45

on our, you know, respective plates and how

50:47

much we can handle. And so that's why we are kind

50:50

of like we test

50:50

the waters a little bit. A lot of my

50:52

Twitch streaming stuff has not just been

50:54

because I want to play Chrono Trigger with you all, but because

50:57

we wanted to see what it looks like if that

51:00

channel is live twice a week. Like what

51:02

kind of viewers show up, what

51:04

kind of retention does it have? What

51:06

are the peaks and lows we look at? Like

51:09

I've been watching the YouTube view counts and the

51:11

engagement there to see what that looks like. It's

51:14

just kind of us dipping toes in different

51:16

things to see if there's a ripple

51:18

that comes back or not. And

51:21

I think

51:22

definitely video is something that we're

51:24

always looking to expand more into, like Kat was saying.

51:27

But

51:28

also end of day, like we just the

51:31

core of this is always going to be the show,

51:33

right? It's going to be the weekly episodes

51:35

and the Pantheon that kind of make up the

51:38

core aspect and also just the good

51:40

vibes of this crew. I'm

51:43

very thankful to have been brought on and

51:45

to be a part of this. And it's such

51:47

a cool experience. And

51:49

on top of all that, like the Discord in a

51:52

time where the Twitter is falling apart,

51:55

like having the Blood God Discord to just

51:57

hang out in and chat

51:58

in with like minded people.

51:59

is really excellent and that's something

52:02

fantastic. I think discord I'm super

52:04

proud of how it yeah, you're all

52:06

cool. Yeah, it's it

52:09

rules and so that is like even as we

52:11

look to build out we we try to make sure

52:13

that like the core the foundation

52:16

remains and and we're we're true

52:18

to that. So don't

52:20

fret too much if you hear us doing a bunch of

52:23

weird and wacky stuff because that is like

52:25

the core of what we want to do remains the same. We

52:27

still want to be the number one

52:30

independent RPG podcast out there.

52:32

Yeah, and I'm happy to say I'm

52:34

happy to report that acts of the blood God

52:36

has grown year

52:38

by year grown significantly

52:40

since we went first one independent.

52:44

And I think that we

52:46

can keep growing and keep pulling

52:48

in

52:49

people to the show and getting them

52:52

to join our community. We were blessed

52:54

was just an incredible year

52:56

for RPGs.

52:58

Yeah, you're an all timer. I don't

53:00

know how you taught this year, but even next

53:02

year, you know, we get rebirth. We're

53:04

gonna get Elden ring DLC and God knows

53:06

what else baby infinite wealth.

53:08

I'm so excited. We're gonna get switch to

53:10

next year probably. I

53:13

also real quick.

53:15

You know,

53:16

all of us here on the pod

53:19

do a lot of work. But Victor

53:21

has also been a huge part of this year. And

53:24

yeah, he's been great.

53:26

Yeah, has been doing a lot of work behind

53:28

the scenes that that y'all might not have seen

53:31

and then also has been doing a lot of incredible

53:33

work with the expanded dropouts coverage

53:36

that really cool. And if you haven't

53:39

done it yet, go subscribe to Charlie

53:41

and dropout feed, you know, please. It

53:44

is on the free episodes. There are free episodes

53:46

as well as premium episodes and

53:49

it's good Final Fantasy 14 content. We're

53:52

not that far away

53:52

from another expansion from Dawn Trail.

53:55

Yeah, yeah, just got a new trailer today

53:57

for Dawn Trail.

53:58

Exactly. And shout outs. to Mike

54:00

for being another killer in that respect.

54:03

And like all the guests that we've had on

54:05

that have been so generous with their time and

54:07

helping out the folks that guested on the

54:09

different charity streams. You asked, is there

54:12

anything you wish you had done differently? I wish

54:14

I'd remembered to set the VOD recording for

54:16

the damn D&D stream. Yeah.

54:19

That's the one thing. It's the one

54:21

thing if I could go back and change, it would be check

54:24

the VOD setting before you do the D&D

54:26

stream. We've all had big stirrups

54:28

like that. Even that, we've

54:31

had talks about what if we did some

54:33

more D&D or Tabletop

54:35

or even Baldur's Gate 3 campaign.

54:38

That'd be fun. There's a lot of stuff that

54:41

we were talking about that's gonna be really exciting. And it's

54:43

been really fun to see the ways in which we

54:45

grow and expand. Yeah.

54:48

It's great. I love this.

54:49

Another thing that you can look forward to in 2024 is

54:55

we're going to do a RPG music, RPG

54:59

soundtrack pantheon

55:01

type

55:02

list. Yeah. There we go. We're

55:05

just okaying this live on air. I

55:07

put in just,

55:08

don't forget this RPG

55:10

music Thunderdome and we're just clearing it.

55:13

Okay, cool. Yeah, we're doing it. It's gonna

55:15

be great.

55:17

It'll be much in the same as like

55:19

our pantheon remake and the

55:21

remake of the top 25 RPGs. We

55:24

haven't done a proper list of the greatest

55:27

RPG soundtracks. So it's time

55:29

to build that list and do a big special around

55:32

it. And I'm really looking forward to it. So

55:35

yeah, those are some of the things that you can look forward

55:37

to in 2024. I think

55:39

we have a great show and we have a

55:42

great community and we have a

55:44

lot

55:45

to look forward to. The show just keeps on

55:47

growing. And I think that

55:49

it's gonna be

55:50

better than ever

55:51

next year. Better than 10 Super Bowls.

55:55

10 Super Bowls? I

55:57

don't wanna oversell it. So. Alright,

56:00

that's it for the mailbag. It's time now

56:03

for a series

56:03

of random encounters. Analog

56:17

is tackling the M64 next with

56:19

the analog 3D paradox

56:22

parts-a-ways with hair-brain schemes following

56:24

disappointing fails or lamplighters' leaks.

56:26

The PS5 release date may have

56:28

been leaked, it could be coming out in November

56:31

10th. The next Final Fantasy

56:33

XIV class is the Viper. We'll

56:36

also be able to ride Torgel. Yeah?

56:39

Yeah. Torgel! Torgel

56:41

got my own amazing. Torgel's a man to write.

56:44

Torgel is the best thing to come out of Final Fantasy XVI

56:47

full stop. I don't disagree

56:49

with that. Yeah, no, no, okay. Yeah,

56:51

that's not even hate on Final Fantasy XVI. I

56:53

just like Torgel. Torgel's a good dog. No,

56:56

Torgel's great. We love Torgel. Very good dog.

56:58

Great, great, great idea to have Torgel

57:00

in there. Diablo IV season

57:02

of Blood is now out. There was some

57:04

technical difficulties that led to a very brief

57:07

delay, but it's here now and apparently it's good.

57:10

I've seen actually a fair amount of praise

57:12

for it online. I've

57:14

been playing Diablo IV on and off

57:16

with supporter DJ Bagelpup,

57:19

so

57:19

we could... Diablo

57:23

IV is not so

57:23

bad, not so bad, aside from the very cynical

57:26

monetization. Not so bad. No good, no

57:28

good. It's so good. It's a little good.

57:30

It's like the same arc as Diablo III. It's

57:32

still good. It's still good. The same

57:35

arc as Diablo III is what it's going to be. Basically.

57:37

I wait for it to come on Squish, don't be like, oh, this is really cool, I enjoy

57:39

it. Play the Spire Dev

57:42

releases Dancing Dualists, a free

57:44

to play deck builder after ditching

57:47

unity. Finally,

57:48

Phil Spencer says Activision Blizzard

57:51

games aren't on game

57:52

paths because of all the uncertainty around

57:54

the buyouts, so please look ahead to 2024.

57:57

All right, we're rolling into the

57:59

tavern now.

57:59

It's time to relax chill

58:02

out and talk about what we

58:04

are playing Eric welcome

58:06

back

58:07

Yeah

58:08

I have a game that I can finally

58:11

talk about now. It's called long gone days

58:14

I've been kind of poking at it on my switch

58:17

Here and there I've been traveling a lot. So it's been

58:19

my travel companion game And

58:22

it is an indie RPG

58:24

that you probably already own Because

58:27

it's been in a bunch of bundles

58:29

and stuff over the years the early access came

58:31

out sometime around Like I think the first time

58:34

I played this game was in 2015 or

58:36

something like that And

58:38

it has

58:38

been in gradual early access and put

58:41

into bundles and things like that throughout the years now it's

58:43

finally out out on consoles

58:45

and NTC and

58:49

The thrust of it is that is

58:51

an anti-war RPG you

58:54

play as a

58:56

Sniper who is part of a paramilitary

58:59

like like raises a child soldier

59:01

and then becomes disillusioned on their first dispatch

59:05

and decides to go AWOL and Expose

59:08

the the truth behind this big military conspiracy,

59:11

but the game is very much about

59:14

number one like realism and and

59:17

not in like oh, it's super crunchy

59:19

rainbow six tactical kind of way, but

59:21

in that it's about

59:23

Real life there are no fantasy

59:26

elements your characters are all

59:28

soldiers in various ways Or

59:31

they fight however, they they're able to

59:33

fight It is a

59:35

turn-based RPG where all the combat encounters

59:38

are set. There are no random encounters They're just

59:40

specific encounters And I think that's kind of an

59:42

interesting concept because it forces you to

59:44

really think about What you expend

59:46

and what you have for each fight, and I think that's a cool

59:49

idea. Yeah

59:51

So I'm gonna say two things about this game number one. I don't think

59:53

the combat system is that great I'm

59:56

gonna get that out of the way now Eat

59:58

the vegetables first I think

1:00:00

it's novel in that it is

1:00:03

a

1:00:03

primarily military driven combat

1:00:06

system about targeting different

1:00:09

parts of the body, kind of like a vat system.

1:00:11

So you can try to hit the head, but you have

1:00:14

less chance to do it. But

1:00:16

if you hit them, it'll do a lot of damage. Or

1:00:18

if you hit their arm, you have a chance to paralyze

1:00:20

them and make them miss a turn, things like that.

1:00:24

You have different abilities, like the medic

1:00:26

has a bunch of healing that they can do, and you can also

1:00:28

take care of status effects, or

1:00:31

the assault character can just kind of

1:00:34

shoot more. And that's kind of like the problem

1:00:36

with this game, I think, in its combat system

1:00:38

is that it has interesting ideas

1:00:41

for what the non-combatant

1:00:43

characters can do. There's actually one character who is

1:00:45

a conscientious objector who

1:00:47

is like a pacifist. And so he

1:00:50

cannot attack, but he can boost other

1:00:52

characters' morale and heal them, advantage

1:00:54

them and stuff like that. He actually becomes a really interesting

1:00:56

character in combat because of that. But

1:00:59

then other characters are just kind of like, well, this

1:01:01

character has a shotgun, so they can't hit like

1:01:04

pinpoint

1:01:04

targets, but they

1:01:06

have a lot of attacks that do like other things.

1:01:08

But I don't think it does anything interesting with that,

1:01:10

or at least not enough interesting for me to care. The

1:01:13

reason why I care, the reason why I think this game is

1:01:15

worth playing, is that it is a wartime

1:01:17

story about the effects of war

1:01:20

on a civilian population. And

1:01:22

holy hell is that not extremely relevant

1:01:25

right now. Yeah, really. And

1:01:27

it is a very of the time

1:01:30

game to play. And

1:01:32

I think the writing is exceptional. I think

1:01:34

the writing is very, very good. It tackles a

1:01:36

lot of really complex topics.

1:01:40

There's a character who had

1:01:43

gone to live abroad and ended up getting

1:01:45

conned almost into a trafficking

1:01:49

scheme. And there is a character

1:01:52

who is like, again, the conscientious objector,

1:01:54

the pacifist, seeing how they react

1:01:56

to war is very interesting. Seeing

1:01:58

how like... communities

1:02:00

are affected by an incoming invasion.

1:02:03

Like there is an entire section where you're living

1:02:05

in the town and you know that an invasion is like

1:02:07

coming in the next few days and you're seeing how

1:02:10

all the population reacts to that. And

1:02:12

you were doing these side quests to do things like help

1:02:15

try to round up all the stray dogs and cats in

1:02:17

town so you can get them all together

1:02:19

and get them out before the invasion comes through

1:02:22

and things like that.

1:02:24

It's

1:02:24

a very, very, I mean, it's like heavy. It's

1:02:27

a heavy game to play, but I think it is

1:02:29

a very relevant game to play. And I think if you want

1:02:31

something that is as it builds itself

1:02:33

an anti war RPG in

1:02:35

this time, it is fascinating

1:02:38

for that. It is a really cool play for that. I

1:02:41

wish the combat system was a little bit more interesting. I wish

1:02:43

like the gameplay parts of it were a little bit more interesting.

1:02:46

But the writing and

1:02:48

the storytelling and the character designs

1:02:51

are absolutely incredible. The art in this game is gorgeous.

1:02:53

I think it looks fantastic. It's

1:02:57

worth it enough if you want something different.

1:02:59

Can art, good art and a good

1:03:01

story save an RPG even

1:03:04

if the combat system is a little boring? Oh, I almost

1:03:06

I almost just let some real spicy

1:03:08

slip.

1:03:10

I don't believe it with my I don't believe it with my

1:03:12

whole heart. But I do think

1:03:15

people care more about the style

1:03:18

and vibes of persona than they

1:03:20

do about the combat of persona because

1:03:22

the combat of persona is not

1:03:24

nearly as intriguing as like the push turn

1:03:26

stuff of Shin Megami Tensei or anything like

1:03:28

that. Persona five has some good moments. So

1:03:30

five. It's fine. It's got

1:03:32

decent. It's got combat that serves the

1:03:35

purpose it needs to serve. But I wouldn't say that like

1:03:37

any of the the combat challenges of

1:03:39

persona were as interesting as

1:03:41

SMT or anything like that. I'm looking forward

1:03:43

to persona three reload because I think the

1:03:46

boss fights and whatnot are

1:03:48

much more intense. Those those

1:03:50

were the most. Yes. Yeah.

1:03:52

Yeah. I agree with that. And it

1:03:54

does a good job of integrating the mechanic.

1:03:57

I agree that the vibes and the music and

1:03:59

the story.

1:03:59

and the characters are generally superior

1:04:02

to the actors. Yeah, you play

1:04:05

Persona for the Vives. Yeah. Oh,

1:04:07

basically, yeah. The other thing is that with the

1:04:09

Persona games, so much

1:04:10

of the enjoyment of the combat is in

1:04:12

the demon fusion and getting

1:04:15

a good stable of demons in the

1:04:17

party. So I think that there's... It's

1:04:19

not just the moment to moment combat, it's the preparation

1:04:22

that goes into combat as well. That's

1:04:24

it for me, yeah. Yeah. I feel like S&T

1:04:27

still does

1:04:28

demon fusion better, like maybe

1:04:30

more interesting reasons to want to fuse. It's

1:04:33

not as fun though. I find it a lot more fun in

1:04:35

Persona. Oh, no. I like the...

1:04:38

What was the one we just did? Shin Megami

1:04:40

Tensei Strange Journey. I thought

1:04:42

the demon fusing of that was way more interesting because

1:04:44

it felt more impactful in

1:04:47

the ways I was doing it. In Persona, I didn't have to

1:04:49

pay attention to what I was fusing until

1:04:52

I think the cruise ship was the first time that I

1:04:54

was like, oh, I need a team that can address

1:04:56

this

1:04:57

specifically. And beyond

1:05:00

that, I was like, I don't... I'm just making

1:05:02

demons and putting them together and this

1:05:05

works somehow. I think because you have

1:05:07

to... You have other characters you can rely on for

1:05:09

some of your elemental hits and things like that,

1:05:11

you can get by in that

1:05:13

game in a way that you have to

1:05:15

focus on the demons in Shin Megami Tensei. You're

1:05:18

not wrong, Garak. You're not wrong. Yeah,

1:05:20

no.

1:05:21

I'm not dunking on Persona

1:05:23

either. I love the vibes, to be clear. I

1:05:26

do think SMT is better. The

1:05:29

better gameplay. Yeah, Long

1:05:31

God Days is really, really good. I've been poking

1:05:33

at some other stuff that I don't

1:05:36

really want to talk about yet because I just haven't played

1:05:38

enough of it. I did play some of that Spider-Man last

1:05:40

night. That's

1:05:43

Spider-Man 2. They made another

1:05:45

Spider-Man and I

1:05:48

personally like that a lot. It's a good Spider-Man.

1:05:50

They did that. I'm kind of curious about

1:05:53

the story. I

1:05:55

think my biggest disappointment

1:05:58

so far is it feels like Miles is taking a very... B

1:06:01

plot role to the A plot of Peter

1:06:04

and his stuff and I think that's kind of a

1:06:06

bummer. A supporting role? Yeah,

1:06:09

but like Miles, like

1:06:11

Peter has a lot of stuff going on that he's dealing

1:06:13

with and then Miles is just like, I need

1:06:15

to finish an essay and that's like one

1:06:17

of his main driving plots and I- Just

1:06:20

get the thesis on there and write your intro

1:06:23

and write your body, write your end, you're good.

1:06:25

And I think the thing is that I've

1:06:27

complained before about Sony first party games

1:06:29

that I don't like stuff like Tsushima or

1:06:32

Horizon or God of War because they all feel

1:06:34

very samey to me. I

1:06:36

think Spider-Man breaks that just by virtue

1:06:39

of how good it's traversal and

1:06:41

like being in its world feels.

1:06:43

It's just even

1:06:44

fun to watch, like people are putting out videos

1:06:46

and I'm like, oh man, this looks just fun. Like

1:06:49

I agree with you, I'm not much of a Sony game person because I think

1:06:51

there's a little bit too polished and too perfect,

1:06:53

but- Too

1:06:53

polished. Yeah, you know what I mean.

1:06:56

You know what the problem with this game is? It's too good.

1:06:59

No, no, I- That's not really what I mean. Overprepared

1:07:01

for it really. No, I agree with- no, yeah, it's where like everything

1:07:03

feels tailor made

1:07:05

so that everyone will have a good

1:07:07

time with it. But there is no- Without

1:07:10

thinking too hard? There is no sicko. Yeah.

1:07:12

There is no sicko energy. But Spider-Man, I

1:07:15

can like sense a little bit of sicko in there. There's

1:07:17

like a little bit of sicko in there and

1:07:19

it gets me through. It's a little bit.

1:07:21

For a treat. I'm not a spider gal.

1:07:22

Spider gal?

1:07:23

Spider gal. I did enjoy across

1:07:26

the Into the Spiderverse films.

1:07:29

Those are good. As a superhero,

1:07:32

I find Spider-Man not objectionable. I've

1:07:35

never got around to playing the original. I played

1:07:37

some Miles Morales, it was fine.

1:07:39

I was not going to play Spider-Man 2, but then I

1:07:41

got a code in my inbox and I was like, I'll

1:07:43

install this.

1:07:44

And I watched the recap

1:07:46

and I'm like, okay,

1:07:47

I can vibe with this, I think. And so

1:07:50

it's the kind of games that I definitely want to play

1:07:52

on my TV rather than-

1:07:54

Usually I play on my computer monitor.

1:07:57

Yeah. So I

1:07:59

got it on my-

1:07:59

my TV and

1:08:02

I'm going to and I'm gonna roll with it and

1:08:04

see if I end up liking it because

1:08:07

I agree with you Nadia, the clips

1:08:09

that I've been seeing

1:08:10

on social media makes it seem really

1:08:12

appealing. I especially love the

1:08:16

really the transitions

1:08:18

between characters.

1:08:19

They did the GTA 5 thing. Yeah.

1:08:22

But in high speed. I think that's kind of cool

1:08:25

and fast travel and also

1:08:28

this is weirdly the year of New York for me.

1:08:30

I just got

1:08:32

done reading this wonderful

1:08:35

lesbian time travel rom com

1:08:38

called One Last Stop

1:08:40

and which is set in

1:08:41

New York. I spent two weeks in New

1:08:43

York back in August. I've

1:08:45

been to New York multiple times this year. So it

1:08:48

does make sense that

1:08:50

I finished off the year playing Spider-Man 2,

1:08:52

which is just a really

1:08:54

amazing re-creation of

1:08:57

New York.

1:08:59

Two other things that I want to highlight about Spidey

1:09:01

that make it good. Number one, I love the cast of

1:09:03

Spidey. I think everyone talks about

1:09:06

how Batman has the best rogues gallery but I would

1:09:08

put Spider-Man up against Batman. I

1:09:10

would say those two. They're like tied for me. I

1:09:12

like both of them but Spider-Man's got it. Is there anyone

1:09:14

who can match up to the Joker in terms

1:09:16

of rogues gallery? The Green Goblin.

1:09:18

Really? I agree.

1:09:19

The Green Goblin is like the Joker when he

1:09:21

flies around. He's a lot more fun. Venom.

1:09:24

Spider-Man villains are fun. Even like

1:09:27

Craven in Spider-Man 2 is a really

1:09:29

good pick. Venom is so 90's edgelord

1:09:32

as a character. But

1:09:37

Cat, you got to get on board with sexy Venom. You

1:09:39

got to get on board with hot Venom. Look,

1:09:42

these days Venom's not

1:09:45

a freak. He's a little freak. A

1:09:47

little freako. Yeah,

1:09:51

no, Venom owns in this game.

1:09:53

But you have Green Goblin, you have

1:09:56

Vulture. I think Vulture's really fun. I love

1:09:58

them. Vulture's great.

1:09:59

Michael Dean Vulture is great

1:10:02

and

1:10:03

Spider-Man Homecoming is low-key

1:10:05

one of the best MCU films that's

1:10:07

just a standalone

1:10:08

that I can watch anytime. It's

1:10:10

so good. It is good. It's lovely.

1:10:13

The other Spider-Man movies,

1:10:14

I did not care for the most recent Spider-Man

1:10:17

MCU film because

1:10:18

it was just a whole lot of remember

1:10:20

this,

1:10:21

remember this, remember this. It

1:10:23

was just one big tribute to the damn 2000s movies.

1:10:25

Yeah, but I do like Tobin McGuire

1:10:27

so I was kind of happy to see him. I like Tobin

1:10:30

McGuire. Spider-Man 2 is

1:10:32

a

1:10:32

very great movie. I

1:10:35

agree.

1:10:36

Spider-Man 1 and 3, not so great.

1:10:39

One I thought like 2

1:10:41

was great. 2 was a great movie.

1:10:44

The other thing that's really good about Spider-Man 2,

1:10:46

the video game that Mango

1:10:49

Old pointed out in the chat,

1:10:51

it's got like small town, not small

1:10:53

town, like small scale community vibes.

1:10:59

It's got that friendly neighborhood Spider-Man vibe

1:11:01

down. A lot of it helps that Spider-Man

1:11:04

is not constantly working with the cops in

1:11:06

this game. It's a lot

1:11:08

more like, honestly, Spider-Man helps out

1:11:10

the firefighters and the local communities

1:11:13

and stuff like that, but especially between

1:11:16

Miles who feels much more

1:11:18

grounded in his community because of the way they

1:11:20

built his story up in Miles Morales and

1:11:22

the stuff you're doing in Spider-Man 2 feels very community

1:11:24

driven. He helps out just

1:11:27

local people that need help

1:11:29

and also a lot of the focus has now shifted to

1:11:31

them using this app that they have where people

1:11:33

can like put in requests for Spider-Man

1:11:35

to help them out. It is

1:11:38

so small town. I

1:11:40

did it again, small scale community

1:11:43

vibes, like friendly neighborhood Spider-Man

1:11:45

stuff that I think that's what made

1:11:47

me like this character a lot way back

1:11:49

when. When I didn't like most other superhero

1:11:52

characters, I liked Spider-Man because he was just

1:11:54

wanting to help out in his neighborhood.

1:11:57

He is very likable in that way, very ground.

1:11:59

level.

1:12:01

Yeah,

1:12:02

can't hate for sure. So

1:12:04

I've heard that the open world isn't,

1:12:07

it's very stock.

1:12:09

A lot of that kind

1:12:11

of thing in some ways. The swinging is fun. I

1:12:13

don't care about them there. The traversal is fun.

1:12:16

The gliding wings are so fun. They're

1:12:18

really smart. It was a really smart addition. And the

1:12:20

way they're integrated is really, really smart.

1:12:23

Yeah. And it's beautiful. It's a beautiful looking

1:12:25

game. So yeah,

1:12:27

I will be playing this one now that I have a code. Another

1:12:30

game that I'm playing now that I have a code is Super

1:12:32

Mario Wonder. And

1:12:35

I'll say some nice things and then I'll say

1:12:37

some things that annoy me.

1:12:39

Ooh.

1:12:41

Nice things. It's beautiful, especially

1:12:43

compared to new Super Mario Brothers.

1:12:46

I love the Wonder Seed conceit

1:12:48

where everything changes. Mario

1:12:50

gets cracked out.

1:12:51

Yeah, Mario gets all cracked out. He

1:12:53

touched fuzzy. Now he's gonna get dizzy. Elephant

1:12:56

Mario is okay.

1:12:59

He's fine. I like the vibes

1:13:02

more than the actual mechanics. It feels a little too

1:13:04

heavy to

1:13:05

me.

1:13:06

I like Fireball

1:13:07

better. I grabbed that immediately.

1:13:09

I do like that there are multiple

1:13:11

characters. The level design is decent.

1:13:14

I wish that Mario

1:13:19

didn't draw so much inspiration

1:13:21

from OG Mario 1. I

1:13:23

wish it drew more inspiration from Mario 3 and Mario

1:13:25

World because it sounds like

1:13:27

another evolution of the original

1:13:30

Mario. I mean, obviously it has

1:13:32

components

1:13:33

of Mario 3, but on a moment

1:13:35

to moment basis, especially World 1, I'm

1:13:37

sure it gets a lot more intricate

1:13:40

as you go.

1:13:41

It's very straightforward beginning to end

1:13:44

kind of stuff. I'm sorry, I'm

1:13:46

not very far. I think

1:13:49

what I like about Mario 3

1:13:51

is

1:13:52

A, you go into the sky a lot.

1:13:55

There's a lot

1:13:55

above your head and below your feet.

1:13:58

And the levels do not feel

1:14:01

like

1:14:01

a point A to point B situation.

1:14:04

They feel like a, I don't

1:14:06

know, how would you describe it? A

1:14:08

box

1:14:10

where you can,

1:14:11

you can explore all of the different corners

1:14:14

and then eventually get to the goal if

1:14:16

you want. And I feel

1:14:19

like Mario's lost that a little bit

1:14:21

to the Mario's lost that a little bit like new

1:14:23

Super Mario Brothers

1:14:25

borrowed heavily from the original Mario

1:14:27

one.

1:14:28

And now that has been

1:14:30

the course for 2d Mario for a while. And

1:14:33

I think that Mario three and Mario

1:14:35

world were much more interesting evolutions

1:14:37

of it. I miss the mini castles and

1:14:40

how intricate those were. I miss the ghost houses.

1:14:43

And I sure hope that Mario wonder has stuff

1:14:45

that is equivalent

1:14:46

to that as I continue. But how

1:14:48

far are you? Because I'm only

1:14:49

I'm really not that far. I'm only like a world

1:14:52

one. So yeah, I'm gonna figure with a grain

1:14:54

of salt. It's just initial impressions.

1:14:56

Right? Right. Yeah,

1:14:59

I'm, yeah, I'm playing it too. I have gotten very far

1:15:01

and playing with my husband. So I've been told apparently

1:15:03

that the online component is incredible. And

1:15:06

I haven't turned it on yet.

1:15:07

The bad I want to see what the badges are all about.

1:15:10

Yeah, I got one badge. I can't remember. All right.

1:15:12

It was the gliding badge. I got that already, which is

1:15:14

pretty cool.

1:15:15

But yeah, I want to see I

1:15:17

kind of miss the online component for

1:15:19

Mario games. Like I miss me verse

1:15:22

so much. Like you remember people were going

1:15:24

crazy with new Super Mario Brothers? I

1:15:26

think it was 3d one Super

1:15:28

Mario Bros. World 3d world and

1:15:30

they were writing messages on them on the map screen

1:15:32

like my mom divorced my dad and all

1:15:34

this.

1:15:36

Instead of like how do you find the mushroom

1:15:37

in in one one it's like oh my mom

1:15:39

hates me. It's something

1:15:41

about shitposting and then Nintendo

1:15:44

forum that just feels really good. You

1:15:46

know, it's a weird shitposting

1:15:48

like posting,

1:15:49

not even like draw her giving birth

1:15:52

like that that's what that came from. Like

1:15:54

took about two seconds for that

1:15:56

to go off the rails. Cats like wholesome shitposting

1:15:58

in the Nadia and like

1:15:59

frame perfect response.

1:16:02

But you don't get that kind of shit posting.

1:16:04

You don't get the good water guy in

1:16:06

normal communities. You don't get that guy who

1:16:08

bought these games specifically to post 10 out

1:16:11

of 10 water. And I, I

1:16:13

feel this guy because I would have done the same

1:16:15

thing just like, Oh, here's cool. I love water.

1:16:17

I love swimming. Like this water looks cool. But

1:16:19

I wouldn't buy all the games and like comments and every

1:16:22

single one like, who does that?

1:16:24

What Nintendo people are weird. And

1:16:26

I include myself,

1:16:28

the dude that was like super into Mewtwo

1:16:30

and was really mad that every smash game

1:16:33

did not have Mewtwo in it after melee.

1:16:35

It was like would rage about it

1:16:37

all the time. I feel like that was an old game

1:16:39

facts like, yeah, like the dude

1:16:43

who really wants Mewtwo back in smash.

1:16:46

He just really wants Mewtwo. I

1:16:49

want.

1:16:50

Yeah, no. So I'll give Mario

1:16:52

wonder more time and I will

1:16:55

I'm sure it'll be turned out to be absolutely incredible.

1:16:57

But I'm playing

1:16:59

Oh, go ahead.

1:17:00

The last thing I was gonna say is that

1:17:02

I'm back back on my madam

1:17:04

bullshit.

1:17:05

No, why? At least it's not FIFA.

1:17:07

At least it's not FIFA. No, I'm in a I'm

1:17:10

in an online leg, which by the way, we

1:17:12

have openings on our waitlist if you want to join

1:17:15

just DM me for details. But it's

1:17:17

a 32 team leg and I'm playing I was

1:17:20

railroaded into playing the Arizona Cardinals.

1:17:23

A team that never

1:17:26

think about it's also one of the worst teams in the

1:17:28

game. I have one one

1:17:30

thinks about that team ever. I forgot they existed.

1:17:35

There

1:17:35

this is the most I've thought about the

1:17:37

Cardinals

1:17:38

literally in years.

1:17:41

Tiny little red birds,

1:17:43

but I've kind of come to like them. Their uniforms

1:17:46

are fun. I

1:17:46

love one of my favorite birds. It's

1:17:49

fun to be a bird team.

1:17:51

So I can be like, Oh, well, imagining

1:17:53

that I'm the Cardinal. I've got

1:17:55

Kyler Murray, who's very fun to play with.

1:17:58

And I've lost

1:17:59

I've won my last two games at the very

1:18:02

last second.

1:18:03

One was I was about

1:18:06

to kick a field goal and I did a fake field

1:18:08

goal to get the winning touchdown

1:18:09

and won the game. There we go. Yeah.

1:18:12

Hell yeah.

1:18:13

So I was like, I'm going for this. I'm going to

1:18:15

win this game. And I did it through it to

1:18:17

alignment in the end zone and they did the toe

1:18:19

tab. It was hilarious. So you had the guy

1:18:21

in line and doing a toe tap. And

1:18:25

then the second game, again,

1:18:28

I gave up a last minute touchdown because

1:18:30

my defense is horrible because it's a horrible

1:18:32

team, but I

1:18:35

threw a pass down the seam

1:18:38

for

1:18:39

like an 80 yard touchdown pass

1:18:41

down the seam with 30 seconds remaining

1:18:44

to get

1:18:46

to go ahead and beat the Browns. And

1:18:49

that felt good too. So cardiac

1:18:51

cards. Cardiac cards, I managed

1:18:53

to go from one and four to like five and four

1:18:55

now.

1:18:56

So competing with the Seahawks to win my

1:18:58

division. So having a good time

1:19:00

actually, this Madden is not good. I would

1:19:02

not recommend it, but I,

1:19:05

uh, that's always my problem is

1:19:08

like, I hear this and I miss cause I used

1:19:10

to play in this, this league as well. I

1:19:12

was, I was running the Browns for a little

1:19:14

bit and I,

1:19:17

I do

1:19:18

get on the waitlist. You can come on.

1:19:19

No, I'd so I miss so much of it, but

1:19:21

I do not miss playing Madden. Like

1:19:24

I wish that game was better.

1:19:26

Cause I just, this is

1:19:28

the most fun I've been having playing Madden in

1:19:30

years. It's the game

1:19:32

itself is stupid still, but

1:19:34

at least it's fun. Stupid as opposed to boring.

1:19:38

I don't know. It's like, like, I

1:19:40

know that playing a game with

1:19:42

friends can make a lot of bad games better,

1:19:45

but there, and

1:19:47

I did enjoy live streaming my,

1:19:49

my Madden games, but I just,

1:19:53

no, no, you can't drag me back in.

1:19:56

Don't do this to me. I'm just going to go play

1:19:58

pyre instead. The true.

1:19:59

best for RPG. It's true. We have a lot of other games

1:20:02

but this is,

1:20:03

I'm back to practicing. I feel

1:20:06

invested again and

1:20:08

hey, if you ever want to watch my

1:20:10

streams, I'm on Cat Plays

1:20:12

Madden. It's

1:20:13

just a separate Twitch channel. It's

1:20:15

mandatory that you have a Twitch channel that

1:20:18

you can stream with and I didn't want to stream from

1:20:20

my regular Twitch channel. So Cat

1:20:22

Plays Madden. Alright Nadia, sorry to interrupt

1:20:24

you. Go ahead. Oh,

1:20:25

it's okay. I was just going to say I'm still playing Bald's Gate 3.

1:20:28

I kind of got into the middle of

1:20:30

the, what do you call it, the Gauntlet of Sharr.

1:20:32

I started to go up against

1:20:34

myself and I got creamed and I said nope.

1:20:36

So I went back and I decided to do some other stuff.

1:20:40

Yeah, just kind of goofing around, having a great time. Nothing

1:20:43

really major to report. Just kind of really

1:20:45

finding spots I want to visit, going

1:20:48

there and then seeing what's up. I did

1:20:50

rescue Daniel

1:20:51

so I'm proud of myself for that. That's

1:20:54

a good side quest line. I like that side quest line a lot.

1:20:56

As

1:20:56

I said on Twitter, from now on, all

1:20:58

hide and seek

1:20:59

minigames are cancelled. No more. They're

1:21:02

gone. They're done. I was confused by what you

1:21:04

meant by that and I guess I just did

1:21:07

something else in that situation

1:21:09

because I just,

1:21:11

I wound up doing a combat encounter

1:21:13

and then convinced the little

1:21:15

gremlin child to work with me. So

1:21:18

I guess you can do that instead.

1:21:20

Yeah,

1:21:21

basically he says, let's play hide and seek. I

1:21:23

said, okay fine. If you have good perception which

1:21:25

I do, you found him in two seconds behind a

1:21:28

wagon and it's like, okay, now we're going to play with

1:21:30

mummy and daddy and he brings up those stupid shadows

1:21:32

and the shadows have like, if they

1:21:34

see you, they'll lure you into a

1:21:37

fight. But to be honest, I always reset because

1:21:39

I thought that I wanted to save Daniel but I thought

1:21:41

if you fight, you'll

1:21:43

piss him off because he kills his mom and dad. But

1:21:45

I guess

1:21:46

he'll join you if he kills his mom and dad. Well,

1:21:49

you can still complete that quest even if you do the fight.

1:21:52

Oh, okay. Okay. But

1:21:54

have you done, I want to make sure before you

1:21:56

start doing too much gauntlet stuff, have

1:21:58

you done the... Well,

1:22:00

you've been to the inn right? Yeah, you have to go

1:22:02

to the end. Yeah, I say yeah Um, have

1:22:04

you done the mountain pass? Uh

1:22:07

I've done most of it.

1:22:10

I didn't finish off the gift nest. I haven't

1:22:12

done anything with the Inquisitor yet

1:22:14

You should go finish that stuff before

1:22:16

I think I will do anything in the Gollum's are yeah

1:22:19

No,

1:22:19

I've actually gone backwards and I said, you know what? I haven't

1:22:21

done like anything of the under dark So I'm gonna

1:22:23

do with the

1:22:23

under dark. Oh In a dark dude.

1:22:26

Yeah any so like

1:22:28

act one is broadly considered everything

1:22:30

before you enter the shadow lands and

1:22:33

Then act two is just

1:22:35

the shadow lands because it's like a pretty as you

1:22:37

think it's a pretty big area But

1:22:39

you should make sure you clear off all act one

1:22:42

and act two stuff because like I will tell you right

1:22:44

now is once You get to a certain point in the

1:22:46

gauntlet. You will like lock

1:22:48

off everything that came before so, okay

1:22:51

So I'm gonna yeah, I'm gonna go I have a lot to do

1:22:53

that's not that and I actually got a feeling

1:22:55

like hey Maybe I shouldn't be here yet games

1:22:57

pretty good at that

1:22:58

If you what is funny though is I

1:23:01

can't against two minotaurs and there's a narrow like

1:23:03

hill and I said Oh, I know what to do and I'd grease the

1:23:05

shit out of have four. So all these cows

1:23:07

are just falling over So

1:23:10

you idiots and I'm shooting

1:23:11

them from a distance Counter

1:23:13

the cows running uphill grease

1:23:16

Exactly, but one of these got passed and I was like,

1:23:19

oh shit

1:23:19

because it was mad The ability

1:23:21

to have conversations with animals is one of my secret

1:23:23

favorite things involved

1:23:24

I talked to every animal I

1:23:26

made myself and I made a druid subclass. I

1:23:29

Enjoy talking to the cows

1:23:32

in the underdark. Make sure you do that. I

1:23:34

talk to a really fucked up cow

1:23:38

First it was strange cow

1:23:40

The strange cow that shows me

1:23:42

the weird

1:23:43

Eric Cartman fucked up vision like

1:23:45

it was and then I left it alone

1:23:47

I love strange cow strange guys

1:23:49

got bad vibes strange cabs move God

1:23:54

I love that game you're making me want to play that game again.

1:23:57

I'm probably after this next game

1:23:59

that I'm on for coverage once I'm done with that. I think

1:24:01

I'm gonna go back to my dark

1:24:03

urge run and I might see that all

1:24:06

the way through because... Y'all might do that. Yeah.

1:24:08

Are we going to ever do a co-op

1:24:11

campaign? I'm down for it. I'm down. Can

1:24:14

I use like character I have or...

1:24:16

Are we gonna wait for like definitive edition and then play

1:24:18

together?

1:24:19

Depends on

1:24:21

like... It depends. It depends.

1:24:23

But I think if we hit a point... I think we should wait

1:24:26

for definitive edition so that we can

1:24:28

really blow it

1:24:29

out and have a good time. Not you

1:24:31

would have to roll a new character unfortunately. I don't

1:24:33

think... You have to roll new characters but

1:24:36

I mean... We could all have fun coming up with

1:24:38

like a great mix. We could decide

1:24:40

who would be the fourth in our party. We

1:24:43

would argue over it every time. There's really good twitch

1:24:45

hooks as well

1:24:47

where people can decide...

1:24:49

People can decide dialogue checks

1:24:51

and everything. We're really gonna have a great

1:24:53

time if we do this together.

1:24:55

I think so. I'm down for it. I'm

1:24:58

down anytime. No reloading. Yeah. No

1:25:00

safe scumming. No safe scumming. I think

1:25:02

the rule would be

1:25:04

no... We have to live with the

1:25:06

roles

1:25:07

but that I do think that

1:25:09

there are certain moments like last light in

1:25:12

that we should be able to reload. I screwed that up

1:25:14

the first time. I'm like I'm reloading. We

1:25:16

will establish

1:25:18

safe scum parameters. Yes.

1:25:21

Yes.

1:25:21

Like if we lose an encounter and everybody dies,

1:25:24

I'm gonna be like we should

1:25:26

reload. Yeah. I'm not I'm

1:25:28

not really in the party. But

1:25:30

otherwise for a lot of stuff,

1:25:33

I think that we should just roll with it

1:25:35

in terms of the roles

1:25:37

and such.

1:25:39

Who gets forced into the talking

1:25:41

to. I'm

1:25:43

not sure if we can wait for the definitive edition whenever it comes

1:25:45

out. If it does, presumably they'll

1:25:47

be doing a lot of bug fixes on the co-op

1:25:50

which is still kind of broken. Especially

1:25:52

until like act three and that kind of thing. Yeah.

1:25:55

Yeah. I haven't played that far in the co-op

1:25:57

campaign I currently have. I think we're still in like

1:25:59

early... really act one there,

1:26:01

but it's been fine, but there

1:26:03

have been a few moments of weirdness.

1:26:06

So yeah. Yeah. Reb's been

1:26:08

playing with her husband Imran and she

1:26:10

says it's gotten quite gnarly as

1:26:13

she's done. She mentioned that deep into the game.

1:26:15

Yeah. Yeah.

1:26:17

All right. That's it for what we've been playing. Nadia,

1:26:19

take us home. Before

1:26:30

you came on,

1:26:31

Kat, we were talking a little bit about like our schools and

1:26:33

what

1:26:33

they were kind of surrounded by. Eric

1:26:36

said he was surrounded by football fields

1:26:37

because of Texas.

1:26:39

I said I grew up in a city school

1:26:41

that was surrounded by a

1:26:43

lot of ravines that were technically off

1:26:46

bounds, out of bounds, but we ignored

1:26:48

that.

1:26:50

I was telling Eric about this game that –

1:26:52

well, I personally didn't play it, but

1:26:55

a few kids did. Allegedly. One

1:26:58

of the ravines kind of backed out

1:27:00

into a rehab

1:27:03

hospital, like where you're sent to if you had bad

1:27:05

accident, you go to the hospital, then you get sent

1:27:07

to a rehab hospital to recover.

1:27:08

And this place was staffed by nuns

1:27:11

that were really angry all the time. And

1:27:13

we'd kind of sneak onto the property,

1:27:15

which bordered the property of our school,

1:27:18

and they'd chase. Like they knew how to give

1:27:20

chase.

1:27:20

And so we called it Nun Chase. And

1:27:25

I never got caught. I never really did that. I

1:27:27

never really did that that often, but I did

1:27:29

know some kids that got caught. But I did

1:27:31

in grade school, which was just kind of across

1:27:33

the street from the other school

1:27:34

I went to, that I also backed onto a ravine.

1:27:37

And we all called a –

1:27:38

we went back there, which is strictly

1:27:40

against the rules. And this is how smart we were.

1:27:43

We went onto a hill and started

1:27:45

howling like wolves.

1:27:47

And I just remember in my mind's eye

1:27:50

the vision of the teacher storming

1:27:52

toward.

1:27:54

We all got rounded up and

1:27:57

taken to the gymnasium. And there

1:27:59

was a lot of us.

1:27:59

It was a real herd of us who had gone that day. I don't know

1:28:02

what got into us. And

1:28:04

we all got this huge ass lecture because

1:28:06

man, I guess if we had died, they would have

1:28:08

been in a lot of trouble because the ravines

1:28:10

have, you know, they have rivers.

1:28:13

They have crazy people. They have animals. They have

1:28:15

a lot of animals, actually. We

1:28:16

were warned not to tease the geese. Anything

1:28:19

else that comes out, whatever, foxes, coyotes,

1:28:22

ignore them, but don't tease the

1:28:24

geese. So I was wondering,

1:28:26

Kat, like what is your school kind of border?

1:28:29

Like anything cool or interesting?

1:28:30

I'm literally posting pictures

1:28:33

from my school in the Discord right

1:28:35

now

1:28:36

because I was just there. It's

1:28:38

closed now, actually. Really?

1:28:41

Oh. Yes. No children.

1:28:44

Yeah, I just posted into the Discord.

1:28:46

This is what my elementary school looked

1:28:49

like back in the day.

1:28:50

Oh, nice big field. Yeah, big

1:28:52

field. It was a suburb.

1:28:55

There was nothing around it. That was my

1:28:57

elementary school, Sioux Trail Elementary.

1:29:00

And it's closed because

1:29:02

there's not enough kids in Burnsville where

1:29:04

I grew up.

1:29:05

And

1:29:07

if you look inside, you can still

1:29:09

see stuff from the pandemic.

1:29:12

Oh, my gosh. Yeah, like 2020.

1:29:15

Cool. Like they haven't finished clearing

1:29:17

out. And if you look at the front,

1:29:19

you can see that it's still kind of like overgrown.

1:29:23

I saw that was really creepy. I love that. Yeah,

1:29:25

it's really creepy but kind of cool, actually.

1:29:27

I love nature reclaiming stuff. Is

1:29:30

the property like – is anything going to happen to the

1:29:32

property or is it just going to be graffiti to death? I think they're

1:29:34

going to bulldoze it

1:29:35

probably like my

1:29:37

middle school, which is nearby Metcalfe.

1:29:39

It's

1:29:42

going to get bulldozed and turned

1:29:44

into a whole new development area.

1:29:47

So it's going to be

1:29:48

kind of an end of an era. I always found that school

1:29:50

very grim, honestly. Really?

1:29:54

Yeah, Metcalfe. Why? I

1:29:56

think I just have bad memories of Metcalfe

1:29:58

in general.

1:29:59

like the most you

1:30:02

know attractive school or anything but

1:30:04

Sioux Trail the other one was

1:30:06

the hill in the back and I'm standing

1:30:08

at the top and when I was small

1:30:11

I had tiny little legs and so

1:30:13

that hill felt very big

1:30:15

to me and we would

1:30:17

go

1:30:17

sledding down that hill during the winter.

1:30:20

Of course we would. It was a lot of fun. It's

1:30:23

a good ass sledding hill and there

1:30:25

would be because they would plow

1:30:28

the

1:30:28

hill. The black

1:30:31

top you would have these huge snow

1:30:34

dress and then you could play in those

1:30:36

too and that was a lot of fun. I could

1:30:38

build caves and those things. Yeah we would build

1:30:40

the caves and all that. Yeah

1:30:42

I grabbed

1:30:43

a picture of myself on that

1:30:45

hill

1:30:45

which I played on many times when

1:30:47

I was very small and I could

1:30:49

see my mom pulling into the parking lot to

1:30:51

pick me up and everything.

1:30:53

Yeah I didn't mean to kind of go back and

1:30:55

look at my old schools and stuff like that but that's

1:30:57

a big sign

1:30:58

of growing up when you

1:30:59

have these tobogganing hills that you thought were huge

1:31:02

and you look at them as an adult and you're like

1:31:04

oh that's actually very small.

1:31:07

We had a favorite

1:31:09

tobogganing hill because Toronto was extremely hilly

1:31:11

where I grew up

1:31:14

and it is now at the point,

1:31:16

I kind of visited it, it's at the point where

1:31:18

I guess we use it so much that the roots of

1:31:20

the trees there are all exposed

1:31:23

and so if you run into one you're going headlong into,

1:31:25

down the rest of the hill. So I,

1:31:28

even tobogganing down that hill now you would have to have

1:31:30

some deep snows and unfortunately we just don't get really

1:31:33

deep snows anymore except when you know maybe

1:31:35

you get a wild snowstorm every so often

1:31:37

but usually when I was a kid you can count

1:31:39

on snow being on the ground all the time but you can't

1:31:42

really do that as much now.

1:31:43

Yeah. It's funny, sucks

1:31:45

now. It's quite variable actually.

1:31:47

It's very variable. Yeah. Things

1:31:49

climate change. Thank you. We could

1:31:51

have August and October or you

1:31:54

know we can have you

1:31:56

know December and April. Why

1:31:58

not? Yeah, it's a dice roll.

1:31:59

is. Key things interesting. And

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