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Showering with love, showering with power
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You're too keen to be alright
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Yo, what's up dudes? Damn, Sony about to send your nuts into space?
Damn, our dude, did we, has it been that long since the famous nut orbit?
Oh man, are our, are our, are our our nuts about to orbit this planet?
Is that happening?
Hold on a second.
I am googling PlayStation nut orbit.
And, and, wait, wait, hold on.
Wow. All right. All right. You, uh, all right. You shitty ass AI. You know what? This is the
only time I am ever going to give you credit. According to Google AI overview, PlayStation
nut orbit quote unquote refers to a phrase used in May, 2023 Twitch stream and social
media post by content creator Maximilian Dude, which was likely a humorous or
sensational title for a streaming session discussing game news, such as
PlayStation content or fighting games. It is not a specific game title.
All right. All right. I'm going to, uh, I'm gonna say I'm gonna say before I
search the images of Googling nut orbit.
Let me see if it pops up.
Dude, it's not.
Damn it.
It doesn't show up.
That's crazy that it knows, right?
Oh, you have it on Discord.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, that's the one.
Hold on a second.
Chat, this image was made in, open in,
I'll be a link.
This image was made in mid-2023.
2023, and we are still waiting.
We are still waiting, man.
Speaking of Discord, I don't want to talk about it.
All right?
I don't want to talk about Discord.
Anyway, two-year-old thumbnail, three-year-old.
It's a three-year-old thumbnail.
We've been waiting three years for this nut orbit to happen.
I don't know man. I just feel like, I feel like this is, there are signs. I feel like
there are signs all over the place, right? Like full glasses of water everywhere, right?
Full glasses of water everywhere. Who's that other person? Uh, no. Uh, that's, that's
It's Kaz Harai, right?
Anybody knows who Kaz Harai is?
You all don't know who Kaz Harai is?
This is his official account, definitely his official account.
This is definitely everything that's been said on here is definitely him for sure.
100% actually PlayStation 3, man.
The truth is out there.
Yeah.
500 Ridge racer.
We doing some bets today?
You know it.
You definitely know it, dude.
Are we off at Jim Ryan's crazy ride?
Yeah, dude, we need to remake this image.
Reset the clock.
We're gonna have to reset the clock.
Damn, it's time.
Is it time to reset the clock?
Are we exiting the Jim Ryan era?
Jesus, man.
Man.
Yeah, we could be there. We could be there. Seven seconds to the end type shit. So there's
a lot of stuff we got to talk about. I didn't even see the Monster Hunter News announcement.
I have to go over that. There are three critical things we got to go over. Number one, is this
the post Jim Ryan era of PlayStation, this hour long state of play that is going to be
happening on Thursday. It is now officially announced. What that means for a lot of the
stuff that we've been talking about and also what it means for GIFs of Betts and what it
means for the rest of our lives. Pretty much this is the beginning of the rest of our lives
chat, right? You have to understand that. Like what could get announced here is the beginning
of the rest of our lives. With that being said, kind of a big event. 2XKO is going through
it right now. I don't think it's done, but it's definitely worth talking about. And
also the juxtaposition to other free-to-play games like Multiverses and how that sort of
happened over time. Yeah, 2xKO is not dead. No, no, no. Unfortunately, there's not a cleared road for obvious. I would say there's not a clear, obvious path of like how it can specifically grow and get bigger, which is which is really rough. It's not gone. It isn't. They saw the development staff, but not
particularly good news regarding 2xk happened today and pretty much a ton of a ton of people lost their jobs
Which is insane that a company as big as that with that much money can be laying off that many people
That's actually crazy
The company that big with that much money that makes that much money can be laying off that many people not even from the fighting game division
That's actually crazy crazy. I tell you
So anyway, we'll talk about that
that. Tocon exists also. Like how about we start with a good name? No, no, no, this isn't
a post-mortem chat, it's still alive. That's F'd up. To start putting on the hindsight
2020 glasses when the game is still around, no, I think that's messed up. This is not
a post-mortem situation, the game is not done, it's not being taken down or anything. No,
and that no i'm i'm not going to get into that of like
what the game did what it didn't do wrong we've been talking about the things
that we've had issues with it
four years and the things that it does really well at the same time
uh...
but no i think that's somewhat disrespectful for like going in on this
thing
talking about you know
like it is that it's not it it hopefully finds its way around
but at the same point it's like
I don't want to lead into the idea of a narrative that people
want it to be dead.
If anything, I don't want it to be gone.
I want it to get fixed.
I want things to eventually catch.
You know what I want to talk about?
I want to talk about the things that did get me playing to XKO,
which was not pre-release.
We can talk about that.
We can talk about the things that got me interested the most
to play and continue playing, which happened.
And that, before the game came out,
and it's official launch on PC.
Dude, I was, I'm like, this game is not that much fun.
I actually do not enjoy it that much.
But I think it's, we're talking about the things that hit
and why they hit and what needs to hit more
for the future of the game to keep going.
So anyway, think of Legends players.
Are you playing to XKO?
We're not talking about post-mortem situation,
but I have been saying for a very long time,
I think a lot of the FGC crosses over
to League of Legends.
I think there's a lot of League people,
I'm sorry, fighting game people
that are also League players.
I'm not one of them.
But there's a large amount of that audience that exists, man.
It feels like, oh yeah,
many fighting FGC and League
definitely feel like they cross over quite a bit.
However, does League cross,
does fighting games cross over into League necessarily?
And does League players ever seem like the mass millions of League players?
Do League players feel like they're ever going to give a shit about anything other than League?
It's like asking Smash Brother players to get interested in Street Fighter.
It's happened. There's a few. Riddles exists.
You know, there is a few.
But the vast majority of that audience, as big and massive as they are, just don't deviate.
they just stick around what they do. So anyway, to me, we've been saying this for the longest time
where it's like, this could be really big, but I don't personally see a lot of like league players
and that massive audience that exists, even though it's a huge, huge IP crossing over into fighting
fighting games necessarily, you know? So they did with TFT or Valorant, did they? Okay.
All right. All right. That's interesting. Also, normie is fuck games. I'll just throw
it out there. Like, card games and shooters, still like relatively like normie games, for
the most part, like, asking, demanding someone getting into a fighting game is like pretty,
is pretty like big man, like the commitment and understanding of it. If you, if you've
played, you know, a majority of shooters and stuff like that, or you have experienced
ever with, um, let's just say, uh, Jesus Christ, Counter-Strike. I mean, obviously one was built
around the other, like, obviously, Legends of Rune Terror has been on live sports since
that came out. Don't ask me, people are introducing this information to me. I don't, I don't know.
Like all the only thing I know really about about TCG stuff is like fucking teppen. And
why did I get into teppen? Because it had Capcom characters. That was it. That was the
only thing. I tried to say tag fighters were nation. It was called insane. My dude, that
game being a tag game is not it. Like, I don't think we're already getting into this.
That game being a tag game is not the thing.
It could have been the most hand-holdy 1v1 of all time.
It wouldn't have made any difference because,
I feel like a lot of people don't realize this.
2XK is a game made for fighting game fans.
It's made for fighting game fans, like specifically.
And if you're outside of that audience,
what else is there to do in it?
Can you take a couple of characters in that game
and go down mid and play it out sort of similar
with similar moves and stuff that you would do in League?
Almost like single player?
Like, is there a way for you to engage the game
with single player content at all?
Or it's like, oh, there's a dungeon mode
where you kind of play it out and you fight
and you can make it legish but not too intimidating?
There's not it's it's it's specifically fighting people. It always has specifically been a fighting game for fighting people. That's it.
Like and I'll be completely honest, like after I play it, I completely am disconnected from the league aspects of the game. I'm super disconnected from it.
Like, I get really, I look at the League of Legends roster and I'm like, oh, this is very
league-y, right?
This is, yeah, this is the League of Legends that I know, but something about 2XKO feels
so disconnected from the League of Legends that I felt like I thought I knew.
And maybe that's a bit closer to arcane and I'm not as familiar with that.
But still, you know, I don't know if it's the art style or what, presentation, like,
introductions something I don't know it just it just feels like there's no
stupid there's no there's no stupid thing where it's like hey Warwick how's it
going brahm enjoy rushing forest or some shit you know what I mean like I don't
know eggs I don't know anything so I enjoy being a dog dumb bitch like there's
There's nothing in the game that really like roots it as being, it feels like it could
be anything.
Like you can put any other characters into 2XKO and it could be any other fighting game.
Like that's what I personally feel.
It's so like, I'd always use the term esports, but it's so like competitively focused that
it's almost like the characters themselves and their personalities is not at the forefront
of the game.
their the gameplay and tag stuff like all that kind of stuff.
They had bear and idiots.
I don't know.
Then why is Grandblue so successful?
Successful. My dude, what is Grandblue, except I don't I don't know
Dick for shit about Grandblue.
But every single thing I have seen about Grandblue,
Fendacy versus and then versus Rising is an absolute insane love letter
to you weird ass, gotcha bastards.
It looks like it loves those characters in that world in that universe so fucking
much like they just go in on everything and it's like bro wow like the character embellishment
in this game I don't know any of it but it's nuts like this is crazy dude the the best part we got
from 2xco in terms of feeling like it's holistic in a world that exists was the intro trailer
and even the even the intro trailer still felt like oh this is pretty much just a 2xco match
It's very cinematic, you know?
It's like, chat, you know, like every single fighting game
you play as a story, and I don't think this is important,
but there's an important thing for like world building.
You know, like every fighting game you play,
like who gives a shit, right?
Who gives a shit about the story of fighting games,
but there's also like a larger present
that you're building to give to people
that they can unwrap and surprise themselves with.
Even Smash Brothers Melee is like the most like gameplay-focused
hardcore thing ever with obviously a lot of single-player content, but there's also like a weird
narrative built around everything of the interface, everything of the UI, the way the characters move
and perform, but the weird-ass like toy collecting part of the game and all that kind of thing that
sort of builds into this weird little Sakurai narrative that the game has. These things are like
are the bones that build fandom is all I'm gonna say. They are the building blocks of what build
people to like fall in love with this shit. I'm not saying every single game needs to do this in
some way. I'm just saying that like, there has to be something that like these characters are
existing in this universe and they're fighting for a reason, right? And in 2xKO, similar to the
title of the game, it's a video game, bro. It's a video game. Like, these characters are all just
in a video game existing with each other. There's nothing that they can improve upon that now.
But it's that I felt like any any character could be swapped in for echo that has like a similar thing
They do outside of his like unique gameplay stuff you can swap in a character and sort of like oh, yeah
They can they can sort of be that it's lacking immersion. I think so. I think that could be it
So anyway, I don't know what deadlock is is that like a Deadpool game
You know a game did that very well as well when it came out was overwatch
Overwatch was just a game with like a ton of characters and shit that look really cool
But as soon as you play it and it's like oh, there's all this like crazy lore and narrative and it's like they exist
It's like these characters exist somewhere. You know what I mean?
So that was like that was one of the reasons why that game took off. It definitely had that
Even even other BS games like
Dude even Ultimate Marvel 3
Like, does go in to try to build this narrative.
Marvel vs. Capcom 2 feels like it's just an asset dump game.
And then you eventually start like paying attention to the interface, the UI, how stages are, and there's actually a story.
And it's like, oh, wow, there's actually a narrative in Marvel vs. Capcom 2.
These are the things that you don't notice, but your brain does, right?
Like, you pick up on this and a shit.
That's a good question. Why did multiverse die? I think if your question is what about multiverses,
I think multiverses tried to have that a little bit. I think it tried to.
I think there was an attempt, but that will be an interesting comparison of like,
in this similar timeframe, what's going on with multiverses, what's going on with 2xKO.
Anyway, I'm not even ready to talk about all this. I'm still gathering my thoughts on this situation.
Because I actually hope for the best. I don't want the game to go away. I want more characters, dude.
Like, I just want more characters in 2xKO.
But I do think from like a marketing standpoint, the game definitely feels like it is a video
game with fighting game characters and you play it, which is a difficult thing just to
ask any general person that is not a fighting game player to immediately be super interested.
It's tough.
Building a lasting audience of people that want to invest, chat, people don't want to
invest into fighting games, some do like fighting game players will will want to invest into
fighting games if they're good at it and they want to get better and they want to show off
their cool shit. Yeah. Okay. Don't get me wrong. But if you have like a an emotional connection
to your character in some way and you love that character, you'll spend whatever it takes,
dude, you'll make any excuse. And and you have to give games have to give people reasons
is to make that connection.
Honestly, I think it's one of the reasons
that Street Fighter 6 is doing as good as it is too.
Because people are finding reasons
to make connections to characters
throughout its big wacky ass story mode, quote unquote.
And all of its insane like little tidbit.
My dude, it just happened.
Nobody actually gives a shit about Alex that much.
Like before he's just been, okay,
like a random Street Fighter character
that's kind of cool looking, but has always been bad.
All right, I'm with you.
Not everybody is in the Kenny Omega fandom
where it's like, oh, Alex is actually
the greatest character ever.
He's really cool.
To me, it took until like the Street Fighter 6 trailer,
it's like, oh my god, dude, the devs love Alex,
like Alex fans love Alex.
Holy shit, this is incredible.
Is this how people have been seeing Alex?
That trailer in itself gives you this feeling and connection
that there's stuff to get attached to here
with this character, man.
Oh wow suddenly someone gave a shit so much on this that damn like look how cool that is
That that is an emotional connection that I'll captivate a lot of people to jump in and play the game from music
Yeah, I'm not I'm not saying it's just the character gameplay visuals music everything presentation the way they talk like all this shit
It just has to be like
Does it all hit and when it all hits? It's nuts like it's crazy. You get people to fall in love with stuff
This is why Smash Brothers has been so beloved for so long characters are so important man
They're they're deeply important to get people to fall in love with shit
You haven't played a lot of tag fighters and 2x ko maybe realize I don't like think I like tag fighters
I'll be honest with you, dude
No tag fighting game place like 2x ko does if we're talking in combination of what the buttons do and
How you manipulate tag functionality?
No other fighting game asks you to control characters in a tag game the way that that
game does unless we're talking about Power Rangers Battle for the grid.
Probably the closest one was Power Rangers Battle for the grid.
Um, no, like two X scale kind of has like a little pieces of a lot of different games.
Mvci chat, you are you going to sit here and tell me that Mvci active tag is the same thing
as handshake tagging?
It's not, dude.
It's not.
Holy shit.
I cannot believe people are still saying active tag is the same thing as like handshake tags.
Handshake tags sort of started with BB tag as well as power rangers where you bring a
character out and then you tag into them instead of MVCI which kind of began the active tag
where the whole character flies the fucking whenever.
Here's the, I'm going to pop off right now.
Here's the craziest thing.
Everyone's down on Active Tag right now,
but the realization that I think a lot of people
are missing out on is that no Active Tag game has had
the freedom or ease of use or access to Active Tag
the same way MVCI did.
Every single other one has been incremental Active Tags.
Everything since then has been the same thing, but way less.
So the first game you get, it gives you the world
to work with, and it's insanely inspirational.
It's like, damn, this is wild.
Is it perfect?
Don't get me wrong.
There's a lot of other things that are wrong with the game.
But still, this game gave you everything with this tag.
And it was like, I don't even need three characters.
This game is crazy, dude.
Everything since then that is an active tag game
that people consider it is not.
It does not give you that same freedom.
Everything has been a downscale.
Limitations on this, limitations on it.
Even Dragon Ball added it eventually,
but it was a limitation on it.
I think, honestly, the game that was the closest to it
is Dragon Ball Fighters by the time we got to like season three,
because Dragon Ball Fighters has a character flying at like any point during
almost any action and then not even invincible.
No, dude, invincible doesn't have active tag like that.
You have to hit or block.
Invincible has a close active tag, but Power Rangers does not have
active tag like that, dude.
Power Rangers has handshake tag.
They're not the same.
Like, come on.
So it's like, you guys have not actually experienced what a normal active tag
because everyone's played a relatively like consolidated version of the very first active
tag game there was, which was MVCI. And again, was there a lot of problems with it? Yeah!
Yeah, no, there was. But at least like Dragon Ball Fighter's gave characters active tag over time.
TBC, no, TBC was just a Marvel light. Marvel light. It was mostly Marvel versus Capcom with Baroque.
Yeah, people are kind of switching confusing active tag with active switch.
Yeah, which pretty much is BB tag Power Rangers.
Yep.
Yep, yep, yep.
Tech and tag.
No, no, well, tech and tag lets you tag anywhere, anytime.
You just come in.
It's not the same as active tagging because you can't do it off anything.
It's a very limited tag game.
To be real, most tag games work nowadays like Street Fighter Cross Tekken.
Most of them are pretty similar to SFXT, where it's like, as you're doing the move on hitter
block, then you can bring in a character.
Dude, MVCI, you can just do it whenever.
Anywhere.
Then it costs nothing.
Any time.
Which is why we nerfed it.
Define active tag for you.
Am I going to have...
I think I'm going to have to do this.
I think I can do this fast, too.
I think I can actually do this fast, it's really quick.
I think I can actually do this really quick, just to show, like, people are confused because
I think what's happening now is that the majority of you guys have actually played a lot of
tag games now and you're like, oh yeah, tag games aren't for me.
And like, I get it.
I get it how maybe you can come to that conclusion.
I understand.
Dan. So let me show you back in 2017 when this thing came out, right? Like when, when
this active tag thing became, oh my God, it's not in, it's in full screen. It's going to
be a nightmare. When this active tag thing became a thing. Yeah, I'll show you how crazy
it is. Talk on his handshake tag. A 100% is dude.
work. God damn. Almost thinks it should be a video. I mean, I think it's worth talking
about.
to make change it to a
Marvel vs Capcom Infinite
and Beyond
Ah, so what's up, I'm good.
He takes this.
the
one
way to win one act of tag backer we don't want to know I'm not saying we'd want to backer we don't want to I'm trying to differentiate that
people think they're talking about one thing and you mean something completely different right
Like if you mean something you mean something completely different
You like the freestyle features of 2x. Hey, oh is that active tag?
Freestyle is the way the game is right freestyle is like we all kind of agree on that freestyle is the way the game should like be played and operated
and I completely agree
but
Is that kind of like handshake tagging similar to
Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite? Not at all. No. Doesn't work the same way.
In the same way that like it's much closer to a game like
Much closer to a game like Power Rangers and like BB tag
Here it goes
Let me look at a stick.
I've made this observation in some ways over the past little while.
Here's my big yap conversation about this whole like, you know, tag fighters are a thing
and my quick summary is that none of these active tag games that people say are active
I've actually like done the thing that the OG Active Tag game did, which is pretty much
MVCI. It was like the first like open world like bullshit, you know, game that lets you
do anything at whatever anywhere. Oh, it makes the whole, it makes the whole game not mean
as much like, yeah, okay, I get you. I get you. My argument is that almost all of the
tag games that came after this did not give you the freedom and the ease of use of what
Active Tag is in this game. Like this one just has the easiest Active Tag and the most
possibilities to active tag from. Like straight up.
And I'm just going to quickly fire it up and show you what it means.
And people that have now played a whole bunch of 2xK or you've played a
whole bunch of the variety of tag games over the last few years.
Yeah, you probably have a better understanding now of what like tag
games are like, and you're kind of like, well, maybe I don't like this as much
without having the perspective of Marvel versus Capcom, like the OG tag
Like the original, the tried and true, the goat, right?
So, um, how the hell did this game...
What the hell does this game do that is so much different than the tag games that came after,
but also makes it really similar to the previous Marvel vs. Capcoms,
even though there's only two characters.
Even though there's only two characters.
My dude.
Y'all remember when tagging was actually an attack?
Y'all remember when you would like tag in, and they hit?
They actually smack the opponent.
You know, in like the previous NBC games, tagging characters fly across the screen with like a nearly invincible kick,
and that kick comes flying in and can boot you up and sometimes can launch into combos.
It's high risk, high reward to get your character in.
Or you have to spend meter to get your character in, right?
Almost every tag game has almost removed this shit.
Like, over the past like seven years, I'd have to really think deep.
It is tagging just like a thing you can do now.
It's tagging a thing where you can just bring a character in and they attack on the way in and it's like,
hey, I'm here and just swap out, like, relatively easily.
Not really! Like, the majority of tag games now, you need to, like, set up for stuff like that.
You have to, like, give a moment for things to, like, come out and do a thing and continue, you know?
Um, so, what's the difference in this game? Why is this game so degenerate and crazy and stupid and also fun?
Dude, on anything, I can- I can tag. Like, anywhere. I can tag. Like, and this is- this
is a- the- the- the day one mix right here, dude. I can linger buttons after buttons
and attack. And you're like, oh dude, that's messed up. How the hell would you ever block
against it? It's tough. It's not easy. It's- it's actually mad hard. This game is the
OG Classic Sandwich. I'm gonna do this and tag. Oh, now there's stuff all over the place,
Like, I don't even have to use my brain
to set up some of the mixes in this game.
And it's nuts.
But the thing is, the game does a lot of defensive stuff
that covered it.
Where like, Push Block, which became extremely good
in this game, Push Block became mad powerful.
It also is degenerate AF because you can bring out characters
and then do stuff like this into a tag
and then mix them up, which was like,
which was pretty much the worst aspect of the game.
Super tag is kind of like the worst aspect of the game, which is what we kind of try to fix on this
Do we see the difference here seems cheap exactly it is cheap
It's it's easy accessibility for you to open people up and the people that are actually good at this game can defend against it
Dude when people are good at this shit. It's it's insane to see them blocking this shit. It nuts
so
There's only one other game that does an active tag like this like even if I'm up here
The tag is down there. You notice that the tag is always on the bottom? It costs
nothing. Bring him back in. And I can even if I got the combo I can bring this
guy in too. There's a... the characters stay out a little bit, a little bit longer,
right? So there is limitations to it. The longer the combo gets, the harder it
is to continue to active tag in. Alright? I think we have an understanding of how
this game works. It is essentially still the most free-flowing ease-of-use fighting game
with tag mechanics that you've ever played. The problem is, it looked like dog shit and had a
roster that nobody liked. So everyone's fair for disliking.
So let's bring up the next example. What the hell is Active Tag? And next game I would honestly
bring up is this one. I bring up DBFZ, bro. DBFZ has the closest thing to an MPCI active
tag out there, like straight up. And why is that? Because the tag is an attack, right?
When you bring in a character in Dragon Ball Chat, what are they doing? They're mid Superdash.
So Superdash, you get a combo, right? You get the hit, you get the combo straight up.
and it's just about converting from wherever the hell it is.
So, yeah, that's different.
This is different than the majority of games,
which are kind of like,
I like using the term handshake tagging
because most fighting game nowadays are that way.
They bring out a character in an assist
and they exist on the screen
and then you can transfer control to that character.
You know what I mean?
We're seeing this in Tocon,
we're seeing this in obviously BB tag in 2xKO
as well as Power Rangers.
Power Rangers was the first one that really opened my eyes to it,
where it's like, wow, I can do so much with this.
You can really sandwich the opponent.
So check this out.
This was not in Dragon Ball at the start.
They needed to add sauce to this game,
so they put an MVCI mechanics, long story short.
The game was so MVC2 oriented,
and the characters were so homogenized
that a lot of combos were just looking the same
and acting the same, so they had to do something about it.
In Season 2-3, they added a bunch of mechanics to the game that pretty much change offense
and I'd say combo variety.
Like we need to make things look different.
Things have to not be the exact same tried and true situation over here.
And where's the hell's Goku Black, number one play character online?
Did you guys like that?
Goku Black's the number one play character online.
That might be my fault.
So, just for some perspective, as I try to conclude this conversation just a little bit
of like, what constitutes an active tag, and we'll use another example, why is everybody
dead?
Okay, so in this game, check this out.
See if I can bring a character in on any hit.
I got hit.
But I can bring in a character on any hit, any single attack.
And this is a new thing that was added later in the game that just allows you to do the
I think it's called Z change, right?
You can only, before it was like a thing that you can only really do on smash attacks and
shit like that, I think, or on block, it was the alpha counter.
Health bar settings, I need you to stop.
Are you even going to play attack, you are.
settings let me get you to block so and even on block you know you can bring in
another character there's a limitation to it you can't do it as long can it go
to black guy
that earlier there's reset so and yeah on anything I can bring their asses in
even on specials dude like even year this was the thing that they added is it
as powerful it isn't but like it has a delay to it not as fast as MVCI but it's
pretty close it's like it's like a little bit of diet MVCI sprinkle throughout
the entire game now but it does set up for really cool situations you know where
You can like do huge ass block strings from full screen
I think it's down. Yeah. Yeah, so yeah, cool. I think before it was like this hold up hold up hold up
You had to wait for like this moment right yet away for like one of these and before it eventually they're like nah, so how about this?
Ooh!
Now this is a lot more dynamic, right?
Now the game is giving me active reasons to switch to and utilize all my other characters
on the team.
This is the point when Dragon Ball Fighter's got way better.
Way better!
The game was so much more interesting when you could do that.
They were deeply more fascinating, and I was bored to tears after like the first couple
months of this game just because of it. So the tag is no longer locked to a specific area.
The expansion from MVCI is that I can do it anywhere. It's a super dash, bro, so they just
come flying to do a bunch of weird, interesting shit. This is pretty much what we want Tokon to do,
but it isn't right now. So we can see the difference. MVCI tag is always on the ground,
and you have to manually fix, right? You have to manually jump and pick up the combo,
And Dragon Ball.
Oh, my God, I have to press at the super dash.
You have to manually get in there
and then finish the combo yourself.
All right.
Cool.
Get out of here.
How does that differ from
what modern tag fighting games are doing?
But what is modern active tag in fighting games?
I almost think Power Rangers is the best example for this.
I can probably download it really fast.
Hold up.
I'm going to literally this two gigabyte game.
I'm going to install it really fast.
Hold up.
I just want you to see how close to 2XKO this is,
just comparatively, where this idea is very fascinating.
But it's a lot, you know, it's a it's a genuinely cool idea.
But it's a lot to wrap your head around and it's at the basis of what 2xko is as a game
Um, it's a genuinely interesting mechanic this handshake tag, but it is it's tough to
It'll be tough for people that aren't adverse to fighting games just to naturally understand it and get into it
Hold on a second. I'll fire this up
Yeah, 2xko's solution to this was to make the controls easier
so that people will not have to,
people will be able to focus more on the fun tagging stuff,
right, on fun handshake tagging all over the place.
Handshake tag is when the assist
turns into the point character.
Exactly, that's, if we wanna boil it down
to the most basic summary, a handshake tag
is turning a character into your point character
if they were an assist at one point.
And in other games, dude, you can't even do that in,
Bro, you can't even do that in Invincible Versus.
In Invincible Versus, you can't call an assist
and switch to them.
Doesn't work that way.
Invincible Versus assists are just
model versus gap promise assist.
They just functionally operate that way.
Let's do Red Ranger.
If MK1 did that, well,
okay, uh, uh, uh, yeah.
unique yeah okay so yeah okay let me do this
god damn it where's tag where's tag so we have to bring out ah you just press
the button twice that's right so look what you can do in this game there's a
The whole point of you able to make sandwiches out of people and at any point of the assist
being out there, I can press that assist button again and it switches to their control, right?
It was genuinely cool.
Is it this one?
Jesus Christ, I'm trying to get the controls jacked.
Uh, where's my assist one assist dude?
Oh, they're in the wrong buttons, so...
I can change this so I don't lose my goddamn line.
And at any point if that character remains out there, at any point if that character
remains, you can switch to them and like pick up the combo.
There is so much wiggle room there that it's actually mad cool.
Like this game, this game was stupid fun.
And then it was a constant back and forth of like flipping between this between that
between this. This is really close to what I call like nowadays, I think the appropriate
term should be handshake tagging. This is this is genuinely cool. So BB tag basically
yes BB tag at a very similar. These two games happen in a very similar timeframe. They did
very similar aspects to them, you know. So that this is what we know of what the majority
of modern fighting games do this? Somebody's gonna have to educate me. What the hell Nen
Impact does? Is Nen Impact a handshake tag or is it actually an active tag? Is it like
a Dragon Ball Super Dash active tag? MBCI active tag? Or it's a handshake. All right.
You have to call and assist and then they come out. I did not play to see if it was
is doing anything ridiculously pioneering, you know?
Yeah, don't you dare speak ill.
I'm not speaking ill of it, I'm asking.
Stop, you have to stop being such a defender.
You trust your chat to know, oh yeah.
No, unlike most chats, mine doesn't lie.
It's pretty fun, Loki, because it is.
Handshake tagging is, I'm gonna say it right now,
I like handshake tagging.
I think it is genuinely cool.
However,
It's tough for people to grasp it in general, it's tough for like, some folks can see like
I press button, character comes out does big attack, cool.
But if you continue to that button, you're going to flip the control at opportune moments.
That's the thing that like, even mid level players will struggle to like, it'll take
you time, it'll take you time, it's tricky, it's, that's all, that's probably the best
It's very tricky.
However, in games like Marvel vs. Capcom and previous normal tag fighters, like even Dragonball,
things just sort of work the way they do and they're not super complicated.
They're not like crazy complicated.
So my only argument is that, like, yeah, a lot of the modern handshake tagging and fighting
games is a little tricky, I think, and it takes you a little bit of time to, like, understand
what's going on.
The difference is that the traditional Active Tag that kind of started this stuff, which is back in NBCI and Dragon Ball,
was super intuitive, super easy to use, and it was extremely easy to see why it's good.
Like, oh yeah, this is why it's good.
But then all these other situations, like you really have to use your brain to come up with the obvious thing of why it's good,
instead of the game giving you obvious reasons, you know?
Like that's the biggest difference. That's pretty much what Tokon is doing right now.
Tokon gives you the tools to do stuff that's really cool, but the game doesn't particularly incentivize those tools in a way that tells the player I should be doing this.
It doesn't, which is, which takes a little, which will take some time, like, and it's either going to hit with you or it doesn't, you know.
So, yeah, that's my, that's my gripe on, that's my gripe on active tags, right?
I just don't think we have any games that have done Active Tags the way that they have been done in the past.
And almost everything that we have played since then, it is kind of like less.
It's kind of less than even freaking Marvel vs. Gapcom Infinite, than even Dragon Ball Fighters.
Like everything feels like they're just limitations on the existing things of these games.
However, I mean, to give 2xKO a lot of credit, switching back to a character,
And then switching to another character and then back again like the crazy ping pong handshake tag that 2x KO does is genuinely fucking cool
Like that. I think that stuff is mad cool. It's easily the coolest part of the game
I even acknowledged that I can get wins with double down, but
Dude, we know the meat of this game is handshake tag like it's it's the best. It's the coolest
I'm sorry freestyle handshake tag
It's the coolest thing that you can possibly do in the game.
It is a great sound effect.
It's actually awesome.
It's just not super easy.
It's not the easiest thing to wrap your head around,
and they try to alleviate that with 2v2.
I don't think that's the reason necessarily
that 2xKO is not doing good or is doing good,
or tag games have done good or not done good.
My dude, fighting games don't sell by gameplay mechanics.
Like, let's just be real.
The things that keep fighting games going and continuing
are sales. Sales of products and games, sales of DLC, sales of cosmetics, sales of units sold,
right? If we are to rely specifically on the hardcore fighting game audience for a fighting
game to survive, its gameplay mechanics will have no impact on the casual crowd,
and the hardcore audience alone will not be enough. It just has never, there's very few
situations that allow that to exist in some way. Games need to give people reasons to fall in love with it.
So it's almost like people are trying to blame this on tag games. I just do not agree, man.
If there was a game that was a sick as fuck game and was a tag game and you had to play it
and it was a tag game, dude, you will make up reasons in your head why you'll play this shit,
even if you don't like tag games. You will make reasons in your head in the same way that like
even if the character that you love is in a game and there's a bunch of DLC in bullshit
that come out for that character, you're like, damn, I love this character. Damn, I hate DLC,
but look at all this amazing DLC for this character. Look at these costumes. You will come up with
excuses in your head to buy that shit because you like it. It's almost like the game gave you a
reason to invest, much less is that investment in your time, is that investment in your money.
Either one, you will come up with the logical conclusions in your head. Yeah, I'll spend money
on this shit. I've watched it happen to my friends that are historically extremely anti-DLC,
extremely. So being an active tag game or being a traditional tag game or a 1v1 is not the thing
that is going to benefit the success of a fighting game. It's getting people into it and falling in
love with it. Are there things there that got you into it to fall in love with it? Or is it just a
game that's supposed to be played as a game, you're just going to enjoy beating people up.
Dude, the beauty of fighting games is that you can just be playing as your favorite ass character
and you don't give a shit. Like, I'm just playing as the character I like, bro. I don't give a shit
about going to Evo. I don't even know what the fuck that is. I'm just going to play it because I
love it and I'm going to spend money on things. Those are the people that literally keep the game
alive. Those are the reasons why games can continue to grow and can continue to get new DLC to appease
both sides of the audience, right? So that's my argument here, dude. My argument is that it isn't,
mechanics have never been at the forefront or at the detriment of fighting game sales necessarily.
It's great when a game has everything and the casual audience is big happy with all their stuff
and they also have a fun game which the high level audience loves this shit and they're just
going to play it because they also have the shit they love in a fun game. My dude, I watched
One of the driest goddamn games I have ever seen in my life go on to sell 15 million copies because it looked incredible.
It had an absolutely amazing roster of characters and it had some of the best content this side of a fighting game that has ever existed.
Bitch sold like 15 million copies and it's Mortal Kombat 11.
I can, I will glaze that game up so much. I will glaze so many aspects of Mortal Kombat 11.
It will not be the gameplay dude. I cannot believe how that game plays. I do not understand it. It's like anti-fun
It's it's crazy to me and most people that were like traditional fighting game players or historic like mk players sort of like
Yeah, this shit kind of sucks dude
But it was popular because it had everything else that would make a normal video game popular and not a fighting game
It's almost like you can't you can't think of fighting games as being
just fighting games, they have to be normal games. Is it a normal game that will get people
to invest and enjoy? So I think we're learning a tough lesson right now, like that right
now with 2XKO and historically multi-verses where it's like, so can fighting games exist
in just being competitive games for competitive players? Can that exist? Is there enough of
a market for that to be around? Can you rely on like an average of like 5,000 to 10,000
Like semi-active players in general, not at one time, but semi-active to keep a game
alive with the things that are the only thing they're engaging with, which is like ranked
and casual matches.
That's it.
Nothing else, you know?
Yes, but not if you're looking to make millions.
Well, there's the problem there.
What if the game costs millions to make?
What if the game costs a whole bunch of money to produce?
Then you have to make that money back and then eventually more.
That's the, I think the solution is, instead of trying to blame one thing or another, is
that if we're talking about this entire situation of why hasn't something hit, I'm getting flustered
because I've been talking about this shit for so many years, Chad.
I think the biggest thing to take into consideration of why hasn't something hit
is from like the broader perspective.
You almost have to take a step back from the FGC as a whole
and start to look at the small things in a game.
Is this giving people a reason to play it?
Like once the characters are there,
do they have a reason to come back to it?
Is it just a fun game to play in general?
Or is it better to reach like a middle ground
and do something that Grandblue has done or killer instinct?
where it's like you're actually making a full price game,
or relatively like a normal price game,
but then you tack on the ability for people to jump in
at a zero price margin, or a very low price margin, you know?
And that's what Granblue and KI did
to pretty reasonable success.
Even DOA 5 did that to extreme success.
So it's like, yeah, it was a full game
that you can invest into and commit to,
but that's very different than a free-to-play,
kind of like evergreen sort of game
that is gonna get continual updates
and all of this shit for a very long period of time.
Those are very different things.
Those are like just full releases
that have a free version, you know?
I think the, I think there's a middle ground
to this stuff that can eventually be found
where this stuff can work.
Now, I think the games that truly get it are the ones that know that like, you see a game
that's like easy to play.
Like it has to, it has to hit old, I've argued this several times and people did not understand
it like fighting games or video games too.
Okay.
They, they need to have the things that normal games would have and they're not like, Oh,
but it's a fighting game.
That's just how it works.
That's an excuse.
Like, I don't agree with you, dude.
I do not.
Like I come from an arcade era of fighting games.
things need to impress people and need to feel good immediately. If they do not
immediately feel good to play or have mechanics that feel intrinsic and give
you reasons to use them, there is big problems. It's obvious like big
issues, okay so why would I even do this? Where is the thing for me to do
something about that? Does it respond in the way that it should? Is there a bunch
of issues with it? This is kind of one of the things that was really rough
about Mortal Kombat 1 when it came out. Things just were tough to understand
why they're not working when they should. It's the thing that's kind of been
rough about the token betas.
Why aren't things working when they kind of should?
What's going on here?
Fighting games are video games, bro.
So we can't just, I'm not, some people are.
They're just like, that's just the way the game it is.
Get good scrub.
You know what? I understand the mentality.
I was that way about some games in the past.
I, after being around a lot of people,
I think it, there needs to be an acceptance
that like the beginning of it should be
as easy as shit to play and as fun and interesting to play.
And then it has to evolve.
It has to grow and evolve and turn into something
that is more than just this surface level mind game, all that kind of shit.
So I don't.
Yeah, I'm just not on board with the idea that like,
that's just the way the game is accepted.
And I'm like, I don't I don't agree, dude.
The controls in the controls in Smash Brothers Brawl were were were but were balls.
Like this. It was unbelievable.
Why are we tripping all the time?
What can? How do I stop that?
How do I stop myself from tripping all the time?
What the fuck is going on?
Like, it was, it was legit balls.
It was terrible.
Like, I can't even, and it was just put there to consolidate one side of the audience from playing too hard.
It's like, oh, oh, boy.
Oh, boy.
And they, yeah, Sakurai obviously totally went back on that shit later.
Anyway.
Anyway, trying to calm down. I'm not thinking. I'm tired. I'm tired. It's more it's almost
like I have to have to bring up these topics and conversations like once or twice every
year and it deflates the shit out of me. It just deflates me, you know, and just get deflated
every once in a while. Yeah, there's token news as well. We got to talk about that token
as its opportunity to become like, you know, a game that people are going to be really
into very soon.
When I got to make my own fighting game, dude, the closest I got was was this shit.
The closest I got was was this shit down here. Like, and for how much time that took
for out of my life like
i
i'm not built for the shit dude because when i commit to something i just i can't
i can't not think about it
like i literally obsessed about this fucking game day in day out i think i was
on discord
more than i saw my family in a year
communicating constantly with the devs and shit
like way more than eight hours a day my dude what way more
like an unhealthy amount and then getting into the game
and then testing stuff and then changing shit
and then changing shit again and getting back
and testing stuff and communicating and having meetings
and like every single day type of shit.
And then working on it myself, like to me,
it was deeply satisfying, but I got like outside
of the games that I have worked on,
I got a taste of like, okay, so when you're the director
and you have to take care of everything,
what's this like?
It's life consuming.
It's just completely life consuming.
And I can't help it.
Like I have to fully, I had to fully commit.
It was like either go 150% or we're just done.
Like it has to be this thing or it's just done.
So that's what we did.
I just eight months of my life went into it.
And I was very happy with the end result.
I just wanted to fix the game
that I knew we could fix the thing that I loved about it.
That was it.
So that's the closest thing to get me to like releasing a game.
This was the most involvement I've ever had directly.
Blah!
You've done game devs though.
It's time for something new, make a K.I. movie.
I have thought about it, all right?
If Microsoft gave me the budget,
I'd do it for cheap, bro.
I would do it for mad cheap.
A K.I. movie, I've legit thought about it.
I have made scripts and storyboards for the K.I. live-action commercial.
The problem is that it's an XBLA game, so that's shitting got no budget.
It was a little XBLA game, it's shitting got no budget.
Markiplier, did it, it's your turn.
Let's also ignore the 10 years and 100 episodes, near 100 episodes of live-action shit I did.
Let's also just ignore that.
Markiplier did it. It's your turn. Yeah. Yeah. Let's ignore the fact that I did that for a decade plus. I'm cool with it.
Anyway, Dostolzatsu, thank you. Beat, retrospecticles. The Tangmeister, thank you. Sofang, Leon, Dr. Fade. Thickelyskage, that's a great name.
Superman Makarev, Def not Edu, thank you.
I think one thing that's getting me about this chat, which is why I'm naturally irked,
I should be excited today about the state of play news, but I'm not as much because of
this 2xKO shit.
It's like people are trying to paint a specific narrative around something doing bad as a
thing that they personally dislike.
Now, this is the reason, like, it's like woke shit all over again.
Like, it's it's it's legit abhorrent.
It's like, bro, what the hell are we even talking about here, dude?
Like, what are we what like, what are we getting into?
So I it's it's naturally like bumming me out that this is the the kind
of like community engagement that's happening with the game where it's like
I hate it when here's here's one thing I'll say about it.
Here's the one thing I'll say about it.
You can tell if somebody is explaining something that they dislike about something, like, this game did bad because of this, right?
Like, they're speaking for the whole, right?
This was bad about this game. Therefore, the game did bad.
God, I'm a genius. They should have been listening to me.
When people talk like that, they're speaking for, like, a majority.
They're saying like, oh, my words represent myself and many others,
making it seem like what they're saying is more important than an actual is, actually is.
However, if they started the conversation, I don't like tag games.
That's why the game was bad. Just say you don't like it, dude.
Like, that's all you got to do. Just say you don't like it.
Like, I don't like tag games. That's why the game did bad.
You see, that sounds a lot different than the game died because it was a tag game
and nobody likes tag games.
Like when you feel and anytime somebody talks like that, I'm immediately like
you're full of shit.
Like whatever you're saying, you're you're just you're you're putting your
your voice in those of others and trying to make it seem like it's much bigger
than it actually is.
It immediately comes across as disingenuous and I'm just like, well,
I'm not going to listen to anything you have to say because you're
You're just pivoting your argument in a direction that is not yours.
This is why I use the argument, my dude, people are allowed to like Mortal Kombat 11.
You're not going to convince me that the gameplay is good, but there is all this other shit about
the game that is great.
I like using MK11 because it's a generally, really popular game that I just don't like.
I just say, I dislike the gameplay.
I'm not going to tell you, I'm not going to say objectively the gameplay is bad.
it is just bad. Anybody that likes it, it's, you're awful. I don't like, I don't like telling people
how they're gonna think. I'm just gonna tell you what I think. And that's what I think, dude.
That's just how I'm a naturally biased person. I like my things, but I'm not gonna put my bias
into the voices of others and be like, hey, bros, you'll feel the same way about me that you, like,
no, like straight up. So to me, when you see a lot of that kind of argument happening around a
a multitude of topics, including like fighting games now, like in the latest two XKO news
is kind of like representative of that. People are putting their voices all around a larger
narrative perspective that they like Caitlyn's in the game or some shit. That's why it's
bad. They, as soon as they added Caitlyn into the game, it died. Nobody likes Caitlyn.
It's like, motherfucker, this is not, this is not the thing. But this is not it, you know?
So anyway, it's just so fucking...
It's all because of one character, yeah.
So, yeah, that's where I'm at.
I don't think 2XKO didn't necessarily hit in every single way.
And I don't even think it's fair to talk about it like it's not, because it's not dead.
It's not gone.
People are still working on it.
Has everything, there's been a multitude of reasons
why things either hit or they don't hit, you know?
For like a lot of contextual shit, too.
I mean, let's be real, the marketing and stuff
like that pre-release for 2XCO was also not
the greatest instiller of confidence.
It wasn't.
It didn't make any sense.
Why the hell did it feel like the game had been out for a year and a half before it was even out publicly?
And I haven't even played it that much.
But why does it feel like the game has been out for a year and a half?
It's people are people are like, hey, like, you know, the game only got like a month after its console launch.
And I'm like, no, it's still going.
And number two, I don't even know if that's genuine because, bro,
it it even before the PC release of the game, it felt like the game had been around for a long time.
And they were almost updating us in a way that felt like the game was like we'd been playing it
It's like wait. No, we haven't been playing it like people have not been
Playing the game to get like patch note videos
And that was before the game was even out dude. It was very it was very weird von Drizzi. Thank you
2xK was also an awful name. I personally did not like the name very much and we said as
much very early on. It didn't, I get no connection to League of Legends by hearing the name. That's
the problem. It's almost like that should be a selling point of the game. It was almost
like the game being League associated, just in, this is pre-release, right? That the game
being associated with League was not even a priority. It's almost like it having League
characters and celebrating League characters was not necessarily a thing that was, even
though it literally has those characters all over the place, was a part of like its initial
pitch to people. Anyway, Vondriesi, thank you. Bullet, thanks for the triple sevens.
I've said the wrong folk of the 2xco situation as a day 1 OG League fan and seeing riot change
they cancel and shut down everything that doesn't sell skins cards per daily capture
meet their expectations.
It's the sad truth with every LOL spin off.
Yeah, well, the riot that started the project is a much different than the riot that is
exist today.
Straight up.
I think they have a different executives.
There might have been two or three different executives on the way there.
So the current tenureship of what runs that goddamn cup, dude, the same thing happened
to Multiverses, bro.
Same shit happened.
That's crazy.
Multiverses was in development for a hell of a long time before like the Warner Discovery
buyout merger thing and they changed CEOs and yeah, it's crazy.
should happen. What happened to Riot MMO as well? There's a Riot MMO? Dude, it's not
even out. It doesn't count. It doesn't act like it's out. Let's change this conversation.
Right, let's change this conversation a little bit to some excitement stuff because this
This is, I'm getting a little bummed out, okay?
I start ranting and shit.
I just want to, let's get into the stuff
that is actually very exciting about today
that has been discussed and talked about
before I get into the big two X scale conversation
about what is happening, why it's happening
and make that into like a video
that'll be available later.
So the number one biggest news of the day,
possibly the biggest news of your entire life.
Not mine though.
Not mine.
You know, I have like a family, but your life, damn.
This nut orbiting PlayStation state of play,
it was the biggest news for me today.
The biggest update from the state of play is that,
or from Sony is that the state of play exists,
and it's a big deal.
I legit went to my wife today,
and I was like, sweetie, there was a state of play announced.
And she's like, oh, I'm like the Sony thing.
And she's like, oh, and she's like,
you think Final Fantasy is gonna be there?
And I'm like, yeah.
She's like, oh.
And I'm like, I'm not emotionally ready for this.
She's like, oh.
Oh.
Okay.
That was it.
Okay.
Here it is.
She's like, oh, okay, I'm busy right now.
It's happening.
It's officially happening.
Hands in the air, it's happening.
The nut orbiting PlayStation, dang it.
Hold on a second, I got a copy link.
This is happening, chat.
We get to, I need to remake this image, right?
We need to remake this image nowadays.
We should.
We should turn it into something modern,
because we've been waiting since this fateful day in 2023
for the nut-orbiting Kaz Harai PlayStation State of Play
that'll send our asses into space.
This is a 60-minute demonstration of news
and gameplay updates and announcements.
And somehow there's gonna be 25 minutes
dedicated to Deathloop.
I don't know how they're going to do it, but they will find a way 25 minutes to Deathloop.
Deathloop the PS5 version is back.
What are we saying here, huh?
Is this just a link to the YouTube video?
February State of Play will spotlight eye-catching third party in indie games headed to PS5 along
with the latest from teams at PlayStation Studios. Wow! Hey, check it out! This is, dude, are
we just officially announcing that we are done with the PlayStation Showcase? Our PlayStation
Showcase is cooked. It's been a long time, man. Um, it might be. I think we're just done
doing that. I think they're just state of plays now. Anyway, yeah, that's crazy. So there's
also first party here as well as third party. That's crazy. Um, okay, so number one, most
important thing is that this is the exact same day today that Final Fantasy
Rebirth also just went on sale. Just gonna throw it out there. FF7 Rebirth
just went on sale today on a permanent price drop. The game has permanently
dropped in price and it's also pre-order sale for even cheaper on Switch in some
regions as well as Xbox. Weird timing. All right. Very convenient and weird timing.
I think the chances are high is all I'm going to say. For the the mad hopium
copium let's bring up let's bring up the bets. For the mad hopium copium that is this situation
I think our chances are looking pretty good dude. Do I have the previous one? Hold on a second.
We almost have to bring up the Nintendo one. Now we make a new one. We restart the clock.
Restart the clock. PlayStation. State of play. Bets. 2026. Best. Best. Make it fresh.
All right. I'm going to leave this image down here. This is an important image. It's always
So it says to be with us to remind us of where we came from.
OK, guys, so I'm not going to
waggle a carrot on a string in front of your faces that much more
like we did with the Nintendo one.
The crit hit missed on the Nintendo Direct, dude.
It missed.
God, I can't even type. God.
Can't even tie it, I have seven remake part three.
What did I say this was going to be again thousand give subs 1000 it went up from 777
dude it went up if this shit is it could it could not be here okay but now this is like
the last time for me to make GIF subs on the reveal of the end of the Final Fantasy 7 remake
trilogy. This is the only time, dude. This is it. So we need to siphon this out. If it returns,
let's do 50 GIF subs. If it's Final Fantasy 7 returns 50 GIF subs, that's just been the one
that we've been talking about for a long time. Okay. If if multi-plat on launch 100 gift subs,
there we go. All right, if we have a multi-platform launch, we can add on 100 gift subs to that.
that boy howdy um if if
it launches if they use the terminology early 2027
another 50 gift subs this is gonna be a lot of gift subs of all this shit happens
If, if that's an announcement of it happening.
If.
I don't even want to talk about the contents of said trailer.
I don't know if I don't want to get into that.
These are just like theoretical things that come after,
you know?
What if it's like winter, 2027, 2028?
You guys don't meet gift subs.
All right, late 2026, sure.
I mean, sure.
Show gameplay?
No, I'm not going to bet on that.
I don't want to be thinking about that.
I want the trailer to hit my face, and I want to be there.
I want to be present for that moment if that shit happens.
If also is on three disks, 25 gift subs.
If on if is on if on three discs
Yeah, I like it I
Like it
When's the state of play dropping again? It is on Thursday. All right, so there's our collection of
What do you mean three discs?
Three discs three mega blu-ray discs or whatever the hell are called
Ultra Blue Rays, bitch is going to be 200 gigs plus, it's going to be 300 gigs, come on.
Eerie, you were talking about the remake and the view count was at 77, 77, was it just there a second ago in the corner?
Damn, I didn't do that on purpose. Holy shit. Was it really on quad sevens in the corner?
damn Chad if you get a quad 7 and ff7 you just die like you know that if you if
you land quad 7s in Final Fantasy 7 OG guess what happens to the enemy they
just fucking die it's it's dead anyway okay all right
kingdom parts for trailer give me five gift subs each you guys will be thrilled
you guys will be happy all right you will be more than happy if you get your
kingdom arts for trailer that you will give me five gift subs I will sit here
and clap in absolute in absolute acceptance that this community will no
longer be tortured. I'm with you guys, okay? They cross over. Don't get me wrong. It's a
Square Enix game, so I get how they like cross over. So I understand. I've been hearing a lot
about this for a while and I will be more than happy to let you guys give me five gift subs.
I'll be more than happy. You can give me five gift subs. Just enter your credit card information now.
Just go rob. Go tell your mom. Maybe don't rob a bank. You shouldn't rob a bank,
personally speaking. Go grave robbing. Go take a time machine to some fresh graves that haven't
been grave robbed to get some money. That's all you have to do. If you don't have any money,
just go back in time and rob some fresh ass graves where they're guaranteed to have some jewelry on
them. Then you could afford the five gifts of payment after Kingdom Hearts 4 is announced.
This is a sentence that was said on this channel.
Why are you supporting grave robbing? I am not here telling you that you need to go grave robbing.
I'm telling you that if you need to afford five gift subs then you should find a way to go back
in the past to find some fresh graves of people that had jewelry back in the day. Like all I'm
just trying to come up to logical justifiable conclusions. I'm not supporting it. I'm just
giving you the ability to afford five gift subs.
That's it. I'm not taking a stance.
Bloodborne.
I don't want to read that.
I don't want to read that.
Bloodborne remake.
Damn, bro.
These are these are so high how much nut orbiting are we talking about now dude?
Yeah, I'm into it. I'm into it. Hell yeah. It needs to be a remake though like legit. I'm
gonna bet high. I'm betting high. It needs to be a remake. It can if it's going to be a blood-borne
if PC remaster, then that's just like 500.
Right? 500.
You're going too far. Hey! You know? Hey!
That's my second favorite game of all time. Hey!
Hey Marvel vs Capcom 3 rollback always got to keep it's always got to be right here chat
so it's got to be in our hearts or some shit okay it can never leave if Ultimate Marvel
3 gets that rollback update in some way damn dude damn bro okami tweeted earlier today
Was it about the inclusion of Amaterasu in Marvel 3?
Anyway, RE9 demo.
Yeah, RE9 demo.
Let's just do like 25 guest subs.
That'd be great.
If they shadow drop an RE9 demo, damn, dude.
That'd be badass.
DMC6?
Why do you guys think DMC six is happening?
Why is everybody saying DMC six now of all times?
What?
DMC six rumors are swirling at Capcom?
At Capcom?
Or just is some, who said it?
It's a fake rumor.
I don't know if I believe that.
It's from some random Twitter post chat.
Chat.
Let's just get, okay, let's be logical here, okay?
If DMC6 was to be revealed, it wouldn't be coming out until 2030.
Do we agree?
If it was revealed, it wouldn't come out until 2030.
Do we have an acceptance of this?
No.
I see a lot of people saying no.
So you know why I'm saying that?
It would have to begin development like right now.
Like it just got greenlit.
Why would I be saying that?
Because if DMZ6 had been in development over the past,
let's just say a couple years, it's been in development.
Games take a long goddamn time to make.
If it had been in development for the last couple years,
what just happened at Capcom?
And I probably have to educate a lot of you,
because you probably don't know,
but the director of Devil May Cry left Capcom.
Like, he doesn't work there anymore.
He would have left halfway,
he would have left in the middle of development,
which would be very weird.
And he went to go start his own company,
pretty much because he said he did not want to be stuck at Capcom,
making the next obvious thing that he would want them to make,
which was DMC-6.
which tells me that DMC-6 did not begin development,
so it hasn't started as of like six months ago?
Meaning no development, right?
It has not begun.
So I don't know where these rumors of DMC-6 are,
if like they were working on it underneath them
or some shit, that makes no sense.
Yeah, Kamiya, no, Kamiya isn't coming back.
Kamiya is back, but Kamiya isn't working
devil may cry guys, he's working on Okami. And until that shit is done, he's not going
to be able to work on anything else. Like you understand that, right? It's like his
first game back with Capcom. They're not going to bring a guy that hasn't been working
at Capcom for 25 years and then immediately have him come back to Capcom and be like,
hey, you want to work at two, you want to work on two games at the same time? Chat,
this shit makes no sense. This shit makes no sense, dude. You don't understand a guy
guy on Twitter though. I don't even know if I want to humor this. Like, I don't even know
if I want to humor this. Who's Hideaki? It's another guy that like pretty much made last
few Devil May cries and he left Capcom. But a guy on Twitter though. Oh, that can definitely
happen
Yeah
First real trailer for vf6 could happen here a real vf6 trailer dude a real trailer not bullshit
none, no
Wolverine Wolverine's gonna be lower give some amounts. Maybe I'll get there. I
I want to play Wolverine, but it's not like at the top of my list, you know?
Oh, yeah, and this one's obvious now, because this is almost confirmed to happen, because
there was a Steam update that we need to talk about as well.
I didn't think this was going to be happening.
I honestly thought we were going to have to wait even longer for Tokon, but seemingly
token is happening. New character slash anything. That's what you get subs. We already know,
we know this is going to happen. It's just like the weirdest thing is that it's been
delayed so much. And just as a exclamation of how I feel about that, yeah, I am excited
for that. Yeah, I do want to see more stuff. Everyone's sort of been down on token over
the last few months, simply because there hasn't been a lot of new stuff to be excited
about. And people need to be reminded like why they're into this. People just have to
nowadays. So yeah, I feel like we're very critical on certain aspects of the game because
we've been seeing the existing stuff and playing the existing stuff in a multitude of ways
since like June of last year, since like June, July-ish of last year, dude.
So because of that, we're all looking at this stuff
being a small portion of the game and being very critical of it, right?
So I mean, I have faith that it can get better.
I really want gameplay to be changed, to be honest, dude.
I will sacrifice my favorite characters to show up in Tocan
if they make a game that I really enjoy playing.
So I want it to be good, dude.
I really want I really want to love that game.
And I think I think we're going to see some very cool stuff
in this if there is a trailer for it. Um, let's think GTA six, I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Avatar fighting game? I don't think that would show up here.
I personally don't think so. It would be here.
Hmm.
Marvel Rivals new character trailer? I'm not putting gift subs on that.
They have to impress me first, which is how I check out Gambit, you know?
Yeah, I'm down for it.
Let's do 25 on that one.
Bring it back, man. What the hell? Come on.
Where is it? Why is it?
Hmm. Oh. Yeah, let's do AI port. If that's somehow, if Microsoft somehow grew a brain
at some point, if they only had a brain, I'll think it's happening.
New sorrows. I do that's like coming out soon. I don't want to put gifsubs down on sorrows
because it's a thing that's happening and we know about it and it's around, you know.
I just want the game to come out and impress me.
I just want to play it.
Strive 2.0.
New burnout.
I hate to break it to you.
Who owns the burnout IP?
I hate to break it to you.
You don't want to know.
You don't want me to remove the soul from your body
if you're looking forward to a new burnout game.
That's like asking for a new SSX game.
Chat, the best chance you have for a new SSX game
is in Final Fantasy VII Remake part three.
Okami 2 trailer, I'm anticipating it,
but I'm not, I didn't like Okami one that much.
Just flat out.
I tried to play it multiple times, could not get into it.
I think it's a great game, it's a beautiful game,
but I would need the new Okami game to impress me first
before I start putting gifts up on it.
And I'm really celebrating it, I don't have to play it.
You said what?
Yeah, yeah.
It was kind of like a very boring Zelda game
with a lot of really cool ideas in it.
It drags, like anybody that played the old Okami
will tell you, like it's not the smoothest video game of all time. It's cool, but it's
like it can be a little dry in certain parts. I'm not making this up. There's a reason why
it's a Capcom game and I have not fully committed to it being godlike. I should. I give Capcom
games the great benefit of the doubt. So I want to like the new Okami is all I'm saying.
I want to like it. I'm looking forward to it getting sort of modernized.
Um, brand new fighting game. That's a tough thing to.
It's a tough thing to put in here.
Hmm.
Is it time for the NRS project?
I mean, no, when's PSO remake? Yeah, Josh will put it in here.
Josh, were you affected, by the way, or are you still good?
Uh, yeah, we gotta do it.
Your body, I'm sorry, dude.
I'm really sorry.
Um...
The 300.
I'll do that. 300 gift subs.
Next invincible character?
character. You know what, Chad? I'm a little reluctant to talk about future invincible
stuff for me personally and to put gifts and bets on it for reasons. So just I'm looking
forward. I'm just looking forward to things being shown, you know. PSO's fantasy star
online. Yeah. FF Tactics DLC, good call.
50 good subs.
Here, how about this? No, I was going to put Metal Gear Solid Remake and then
show people an image of Twin Snakes.
Marble 3 rollback, it's up there!
It's up there.
Okay, I'm just gonna throw that in there, I'm just gonna put that in there.
That's my meme.
There's no meme bets in here chat.
That's my ultra meme bet.
I need to have a meme bet, dude.
I never put NBC bets in here ever since Tocan, but now.
But now, you know what, I'll put
to give the guys at PlayStation credit that are
re-releasing some of those PS2 era fighting games, bro.
This would be badass.
Second four slash five PS2 ports.
Could we have them?
Can we have the T4, T5 ports?
That'd be great.
That'd be great.
Be really cool.
Got to want anything.
Yeah, I think I would bet on a Gao one remake.
I mean, that's where my brain has been going on this stuff.
Just I feel like God of War one remake would be damn cool
because we're just sort of in that
in between period of the Kratos adventure.
I think I want that the most of like outside of like the
the the true like pandering to me personally
Let's just make Stargate and Kratos a thing where it's like oh, yeah
So Kratos is gonna go to like Egypt and stuff like that and it's gonna be him in Egyptian gods like holy fuck
That could be really cool
like insanely cool, dude, I
Don't think that's happening anytime soon, but that would be that would fucking slap
I would just be naturally way more interested that in in in totality if there was like
Crazy ass Stargate 90s era shit with Kratos. Holy shit, dude Kratos versus Anubis. Whoa, I
Think it just helps that
Egyptian like mythology is
Really cool
Like that shit fucking cool, dude
There's some really sick-ass visual imagery behind all of that stuff, dude.
Anyway, I'd be into it.
They can do so much with it.
I should.
Jesus, man.
It was almost like everyone for way too long was waiting for Assassin's Creed to go to
Japan and they just took forever and it was like, dude, and then by the time they finally
did it, it didn't have an opportunity to hit as hard as it could, even though it did fine.
It was like, dude, they could have done this 10 years ago.
We're like waiting for this shit
Yeah, we got the requiem demo on here very 9 demo
Horizon zero done things. No, I'm good. I'm not the I'm not the biggest fan of horizon
Games just never grabbed me
Lies of peace sequel
No
Silent Hill 1 remake um
I don't know if I want to put bets on it
I don't know if I want to put bets on Silent Hill 1 remake
Yote online
What's more of a thing for Kenny Stephen Simmons? Maybe only Simmons. He's the only one that he's only when I played Yote
Soul caliber I
Mean they just gave us a good port of soul caliber 3 which was pretty sick
I mean I don't know what to bet on so caliber I don't know what to bet so
caliber one and two part it's already happened man they exist
Wolverine gameplay yeah I think I would like to see more of Wolverine but
And that's not gonna be very high gift subs.
Like 15.
This game's been around the zeitgeist for so long.
I'm curious, we're gonna play it obviously.
I wanna play it.
The Blade game, I don't know if that game's coming out, dude.
The Blade game?
Jesus.
That game has to convince me first that it's going to be cool.
Avatar the fighting game.
I don't know if it's going to be here.
They don't even have a beta on PlayStation, dude.
Token updates, it's already in here.
There it is, it's hard to read.
You saw on Twitter that the state of play is for DMC6, yeah, I just argued why I'm not
putting it up there because it doesn't make any sense to me.
And I am more than willing to be wrong.
My dude, if there's a devil may cry,
I don't think I directly need Itsuno to be the one making it.
A lot of people made DMC five.
A lot of people with the previous DMC as well is not just him.
But still, yeah, I'm very excited for that.
I'm very excited if that is a thing.
But I think I want DMC one remake even more.
Still, it doesn't make any sense.
There's no logical conclusion that makes sense
for there to be a development team
that's already been working on it
or why did the lead developer of Devil May Cry leave
in the last three months?
The six months ish.
This makes no sense.
Yeah, and Kamiya, you guys saying Kamiya,
dude, they brought Kamiya to Capcom to work on Okami.
He's making another game.
If you're gonna wait for him to be finished with Okami,
chat, I'm not kidding you.
If you're waiting for Kamiya to be finished with Okami,
they're announcing a Devil May Cry game
before he's even done with the game he's working on,
that shit ain't coming out till 2033.
Two, you got to wait till three years
after the end of the decade.
I'm not kidding you, this is how this shit lines up.
It makes no sense.
It's not happening anytime soon, dude.
Maybe they outsource it to someone else.
In what situation is that worthy of gift subs then?
If they just outsourced it.
I don't think anybody wants that either.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Geekyoshi, thanks for the 10 earlier.
Anonymous, thanks for the 10 bucks, man.
tech chef gearhead roofish and regain play gift sub bet what they found a limit of the second part
new pssr you know what i will be very happy to hear about that um a psr update for
a psr update for the ps5 pro sure i mean but i don't want to put gift subs down on it nothing
about the pit after owning a PlayStation 5 Pro for over a year, there's nothing I want to put
GIF subs down in regards to its existence. It would just be nice.
What if they open the show with FF7?
Aye, that would be nuts.
That would, dude, then what the hell do they end it with? Holy shit.
If they open the show with Final Fantasy 7, what the hell did they end it with?
Bro.
Possible NRS reveal. I don't see it happening anytime soon. I mean, I'd be very happy if we
can see what the heck they're working on again. I want to, I, again, I don't want to be permanently
Berating or upset with NRS games. I'm not at that point. I liked a lot of MK1 at the end of its life cycle compared to the beginning. A lot of it.
I just want them to make a game I love as much as Mortal Kombat X.
Not saying I want Mortal Kombat X again. I just want them to make a game that I enjoyed as much as those.
I'm going to look at the Halo remake, no gift subs on that, I'm curious but no gift subs
on it.
Yeah, they're probably going to end with Intergalactic, which will be exciting, but at the same
point I don't know what to expect for it.
It's like, we don't even know really what the game is going to be, and it's like seemingly
this is going to be cool because it's a very video game-y-ass video game game from Naughty Dog.
I'm like, I'm into it. This could be great. It involves like fighting monsters and shit,
but I need to see the game before I'm like, all right, hell yeah.
New hardware, I have bad news for you. We ain't getting new PlayStation hardware for a very long
time. It was going to be happening soon. It could have happened a reveal for new PlayStation hardware
could have happened as early as the end of this year, early next year, but thanks to the
current economic political situation of certain aspects of certain places, ain't happening.
It's not happening. This country is too invested into AI.
Uh, new controller color meme bet now.
No. New fromsoft project.
Fucking, let's go!
So, like, yeah, yeah, yeah, Escaflonay chat, there has been just as a heads up, there has
been a discussion that goes back as far as like 2019 with Miyazaki of FromSoft about
a game that he wants to make, which is a biomecha game.
And for those that don't really know what that is, it sort of sounds like a mecha souls
like.
We thought that was going to be Armored Core, and it wasn't, Armored Core was Armored Core.
So Evangelion, even a bit more like Evangelion does not line up with the visual aesthetics
and tastes that Miyazaki has.
Hold up, I'm probably going to get fly for this.
Let me show you guys something that is, when he talks about this shit, exactly what he's
talking about.
This is literally exactly what he's talking about.
Hold on a second.
I need to find a good I need to suit up.
Can't adult swim promo.
Bro, I need the visual.
I need the visual to show you guys.
The Giver's pretty close.
But here's the thing, chat.
The Giver is much closer to, not soul frame, what the hell is it called?
What the hell is the other Bio Mecha Ninja game?
Warframe.
Yeah, Giver is closer to Warframe.
Escaflonay is closer to Bio Mecha Dark Souls.
I just have to show you so that you can see it. Hold on a second. Looking for Escafloné
movie. Goddamn, dude.
You know what? This is it. This is just the whole YouTube.
I have to find the moment now?
Shit.
Shit.
I need to find it.
Y'all gotta know.
Y'all gotta know how potentially sick as shit this could be.
The Giver's a cool anime.
It is.
Hold up.
Chat, who the hell knows where approximately in the movie does this shit happen?
It's in the end of the film because the film is like a super abridged version of it. Yeah.
I think I'm fine. It's been so, it's been like 20 years since I've seen this shit.
Hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up.
I want to be the one that shows you guys this to the first time.
if you've never seen it. There it is. Okay. It's just a quick little scene. And I hope this is as
cool as I remember it being. It's been a long time. All right. Just for reference, this is what
I'm talking about. This is pretty much what he was describing when he was talking to me. Like,
Dude, you're talking about Escaflowne, bro.
I'm afraid it's peak I'm afraid it's peak
Anyway, I think you get the idea.
So Miyazaki coded, it's crazy.
Oh, it's well anymore, but yes.
Miyazaki has talked about this shit, not using the term Escafoni, but like everything that he discussed of this
Biomeka souls like I'm like, bro, are you just talking about Escaflonay?
That's, and I start thinking of the way Miyazaki looks at stuff and it's like, holy shit.
If he committed to that, like 100% all about like a Biomeka empire or some shit?
Like, this could be literally one of the best FromSoft games.
Like, this could be one of the coolest fucking things they ever do if they did this shit.
So anyway, yeah, it's up there. It's definitely up there if that if that does become a reality in some way
Yeah, he's on Dusk Bloods, but Miyazaki always directs like three games in a row, dude
He always works on like two to three games at the same time
He's the he's like the CEO and then he's also like the lead dev
So he's kind of like that guy. He wears a lot of hats at that company
Anyway, damn, bro. Damn. Escaflone, though. Jesus, dude. When you talk about that, you
have to go back to an interview. It was before, right before Elden Ring was even announced.
It was just one of the things he was discussing about, like, future games that was after Darocene.
When he worked on Darocene, the PlayStation VR game, it was around that timeframe. And
And it was like, bro, like me, I remember it being a big deal because we didn't know
what he was going to be doing next.
But long story short, he was going to work.
He talked about working with George RR Martin and it was like, oh yeah, he was working on
Elden Ring.
That's it.
But like, and then we thought the Mecha game was the early versions of Armored Core.
That wasn't it.
He didn't have that much involvement with Armored Core.
So it's like, oh, okay.
It was in his company.
Obviously he's involved, but like, hmm, hmm, goddamn dude.
to watch Escaflonay again as a reminder for Escaflonay. The Escaflonay TV series, which
is like one season, is pretty much for teenage girls, for the most part. They try to boyify
the shit out of it with the Fox dub. They try to make it as close for teenage boys when
it's on Fox kids. But if you watch the original one, it's pretty much a, what's it called?
What's the thing called when a character gets sent to another world?
God damn it. What's the term? It's an isekai.
It's an isekai for girls.
So you're really it's this one girl surrounded by a bunch of cute boys and shit
that are these medieval boys that are all nicer.
It's pretty much like reverse Tenshi Muyo, but it's still good.
It's neat because it has mechas and stuff like that.
The movie, which is a consolidated version of like the show,
is pretty much like a hyper-violent,
like very ultra-mature version of the show,
specifically for like late teenage boys,
for like 16-year-old teenage boys.
And that was their different take on the movie,
where it's like, okay, so we can make the movie
for like older boys.
And yeah, which one do you think I like more?
I like the movie.
I think the movie's really cool.
But the show is a little like, oh, yeah,
this is like, got some great cool shit in it,
but it's only okay, of course.
But the movie's cool, dude.
It's the same story, but it's just the direction of it
is not really as much like, you know.
Mecha, Shojo, I don't know what that means, but probably.
Anyway, God damn, Miyazaki was making a Bio Mecha,
it's like a floating game.
I'm getting so excited thinking if that's the case.
Moving on, what do we got?
What do you got? New PlayStation All-Stars? That's happening. It's already out. It was great.
Fummeh, Ueda's new game? Oh, yeah. That was shown.
I think I just want to see more on it instead of...
Instead of just seeing... I want to see more game. I want to see actual gameplay.
Blue Point still being alive.
I think that's here. I think that's where we're at.
I think that's actually where we're at
UMBC for it's right here, dude
Somehow Marvel versus Capcom for repeat return for 10,000 gift subs, which means it's definitely happening
FF9 remake I don't know for seeing that I don't know if I'm gonna put gifts ups down on that
What else we got anything and I'm looking for anything that like sparks my curiosity the DMC six stuff
I'm not on board with I'm glad to I'm happy to be wrong. I'm happy to be wrong, but I'm just not on board with it
FF7 fortnight, I don't know if we're there yet. I don't know if we're there yet
More pragmatic content? No! I just want to play it when it comes out now. Nah! You know, I'll put this in there.
Yeah. I'll put 50 gistums on that. I want to see what Stripe 2.0 is like. I do. I think it'd be great if everyone jumps back into Stripe
and has to learn it all over again. It'd be fun. It'd be really fun.
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They'll find a way to re-release Last of Us 1 again, they'll find a way.
Bro, what if they re-release Last of Us 1, and then at some point, Older Joel shows up
and starts talking to Younger Joel and Ellie, and he's like, hey, shit's gonna go down,
and then he like disappears.
if like he's like a ghost and older Joel is like hunting the story sold sold
damn that could be amazing.
I thought they should do it.
Is it it's ever off to this?
Oh, shit.
The last of Joel.
Spider-Man three teaser.
Woof, nah. I don't know, Spider-Man 2 was fine.
It's just, I think I'm all Spider-Man out, my dude.
I played like four Spider-Man games.
I think I did. Did I?
Did I play like four Spider-Man games?
I think I'm all Spider-Man out.
The Venom game. Yeah, I'd be looking.
We played three.
I think going through the Spider-Man
One re-release a little bit on PS4 technically is counting as the fourth one in my head, so...
Yeah, a Venom standalone game would be neat, but it's also like...
What the hell was the third one?
Uh, Spider-Man, Miles Morales, and then Spider-Man 2.
And there's also Spider-Man PS5 release, you know?
You know oh shit, I'm willing Konami
me.
Everything happened.
Like it all came true.
Like that's the crazy part.
that it was it all it all happened bro you have to re-release Revengeance you
have to remake it like you it all of the shit came true that's crazy but that is
the current world we live in and shit that's crazy
Revengeance the games practically a documentary at this point anyway truly
ahead of its time
Um, but if you know what, if that is also Metal Gear Revengeance 2, I'm good.
Yeah, that counts.
That counts.
Killzone reboot.
I'm not putting gifts on Killzone.
I'm not.
I think we got a lot here, chat.
Tocon game is region lock.
What do you mean by that?
trailer for City of the Wolves? Oh, we know that's happening. Is Gis supposed to be next? Is Gis after
Ji-Hoon? That's the one character in that season I'm the most excited for.
He is! Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Monster Hunter Wilds DLC?
That could be announced here. Yeah, let's put it in here.
I'll turn her wilds ice break.
They already said summer for wilds DLC info?
Oh, shit.
Ah, shit.
They're saying it'll be last shit, okay.
Announced it on Twitter? What's it called? Is it called Icebreak?
Tell me it's Sunbreak and Iceborne put together.
Shit. A vid was posted a few hours ago. We'll have to check that out.
Excuse me. It's got no subtitle yet.
Silent Hill One Footage. I don't know if I'm super down to put gistaps on it.
Oh wait. I like Silent Hill Two a lot. I'll be down for a Silent Hill One remake.
But am I like frothing for it? No.
Wolverine trailer that specifically shows Gambit or Cyclops. Yeah, I already put Wolverine
gameplay up there. I'm fine with that. I'm fine with that. All right, are we um,
are we cementing it? I think we are. I don't know if there's anything else I really want to
to put in here. I don't know.
Okami? No, no, give some some Okami.
Where's my Tifa and Tekken? Do they just announce all the Tekken characters?
Tifa ain't in it. You're not going to find out the next character until the end of the year,
or the last mystery character until the end of the year.
It could be Tifa, but it also definitely isn't Tifa.
Because you ain't getting two final fantasy characters in Tekken.
That also makes no sense.
Yeah, Tifa and Strive.
Hey, I mean, that would be crazy.
I keep saying cloud in Granblue Fantasy vs Rising.
I keep saying that.
I want that shit to happen, dude.
I mean, Cloud would be amazing in Grand Blue.
Final Fantasy 17, it's time.
No, I don't think that's happening anytime soon.
Alex, Alex, your Fighter Six gameplay video,
I have good news for you.
You should visit my channel for Alex gameplay reveal.
I have good news.
Do you want any Moosha trailer?
Oh, there could be.
There could be.
FF7 in Fortnite, I don't think that would happen yet, let them reveal the game first
and then if there's, we can start, if this happens chat, then we can start talking about
like the Summer Games Fest additional Final Fantasy 7 reveal stuff, like crossovers and
things like that.
Like if this happens, then that could be happening in the middle of the year.
You could be getting there, you know.
All right.
All right.
I'm feeling pretty good with this list.
There's a lot.
This is definitely my list, oh boy.
This is definitely my list.
If Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 3 is announced, I'm putting in a thousand gift subs because
we'll never get the opportunity for it ever again.
If it's called Final Fantasy VII Returns, that's a 50 additional.
If it's Multi Platform at launch, that's 100 gift subs.
If it launches in early 2027, that's 50 additional gift subs.
And if it's on three discs for the memes, 25 additional gift subs.
Return return same shit.
What if it's not there at all?
Then there's just no gift subs.
Duh!
If Kingdom Hearts 4 trailer shows up, you will be happy to give me five gift subs each.
Everybody that's watching on that day in that moment with their wallet will be more than
happy to give me a measly, very discounted five gift subs.
I mean, the fact that you're watching this, you've agreed to it.
So if you get your Kingdom Hearts 4, you get to come to Max's channel and celebrate with
everybody.
You get to celebrate.
There's many emotes for everybody, brother.
It is a non-verbal binding contract.
It is a visual binding contract.
That's a thing now.
That's exact.
If you saw this on your phone or you witnessed it,
you just have to give me five gift subs
if Kingdom Hearts IV shows up.
I will be happy for you.
Bloodborne Remake, just a measly 2,000 gift subs
if Blue Point shows up in Remake's Bloodborne.
Just a couple thousand gift subs for the Bloodborne Remake.
But if they release it as a PC remaster, sure,
500 gift subs.
Unfortunately, Sony was too late with this shit.
Sony were too late.
Fans have already done it.
Like, we're at the point now where this doesn't get as high of a gift sub amount and it could
get higher.
Bro, fans did it.
Like the new best way to play this game is straight up through emulation.
Straight up.
And it is significantly increased in quality.
Like, it is kinda crazy.
Mad Lads did it.
You waited too long.
Marvel 3 comes back and gets rollback. That's 300 gift subs. You know what? I'm putting this up to 500
because I think it's that less likely. I just think it's probably not happening.
G-Liants, thanks for the five gift subs. A VF6, give me a real damn trailer, 100 gift subs for a
real VF6 trailer. Tocon, this is very likely now. New characters or anything, everyone's going to be
way nicer to this game if we actually see some new content. That's just the way everybody works.
So 50 gift subs, that'll be cool to see a new token stuff.
I'll be really happy.
I'll be really happy if gameplay stuff
is going through big changes.
If they start showing new big gameplay things, ooh man.
I'll be very happy about that.
Crazy taxi, where the hell did it go and where is it?
Where did it come from?
Where did it go?
Where did it come from, Cotton Eye Joe?
25 gift subs.
I just wanna know, where's Crazy Taxi?
A killer instinct port, that's 100 gift subs.
PSO baby fantasy star online. Where the hell is it? 300 gift subs. We know it's there. Come on Sega quit being bitches
Final fantasy tactics DLC. It was mentioned it could happen 50 gift subs somehow
palpit Marvel versus Capcom for return and
in the exact same way that
The dude in Star Wars had no explanation for the the plot convenience that was that moment
I have no explanation for this existing, which is why it's 10,000 gift subs just a measly 10,000 gift subs
That is so many gift subs, bro
If somehow Marvel versus Capcom 4 return with another Marvel game happening
bro
So that's not happening, but it's nice to put this up here once every you know
seven or eight
Kind of shows. Yeah once every seven or eight kind of shows a
A Tekken 4 and 5 port on PS2. Yeah, that'll be great. 25 gift subs
God of War 1 remake would be pretty sick 100 gift subs
Wolverine gameplay actual gameplay 15 give subs
From soft mecha souls mescaflon a damn. Well, I really did that I put mescaflon a
So from soft mecha souls
But the best cop for to get back mess of flow day
Let's fucking go 500 gift subs legit give us like Miyazaki
Escaflone Dark Souls Jesus it would be incredible. Holy hell. I'm super down for mescaflone
Strive 2.0 trailer 50 gift subs. I just want to see it
I'm curious and the last of us one remake remastered reimagined
10 gifsubs. They find some way to re-release Last of Us 1 again. And then Konami, you stupid
bastards. Metal Gear Revengeance Remake. 200 gifsubs. Cooking the mother of all omelets
here, Jack. Show me. The internet. Twitter. Luckily, this bitch literally does it. Jack
goes show me. Twitter pops up and he's like, oh, I'm reading all of the posts. The memes, Jack,
DNA of the soul. Battle Gear Revengeance has aged beautifully, dude. That game is crazy.
It's so good. I'm feeling generous on this list. I'm ready for some shit to happen.
Shit has not happened in a while, brother.
It has not.
Like, I wanna have my nuts sent into orbit.
Like, I wanna be circling this planet.
We're gonna take out every SpaceX satellite
along the way, dude.
I want this to happen.
Please, we've been waiting since 2023
for Sony to put our nuts into orbit
and they have not delivered.
Let's go.
Now's the time.
Fire up the boosters, bitch.
Five, four, three, two, one.
Come on.
Come on, where's Bloodborne?
It's probably not happening.
It's probably not happening.
But it's great to think about it, right?
Chad, you know what this is like?
This is like getting a lottery ticket.
That's all this is.
This is like getting a lottery ticket
and you're like, ooh, all this stuff I could buy.
Man, what can I buy with this?
Damn, I'm gonna buy this, I'm gonna get that.
All lottery tickets do is just give you happy little thoughts
for approximately like the few hours you get
before it sells you, you didn't get shit.
Ah, oh, that's all this is.
This is our lottery ticket of the state of play.
Geez.
Should we do an updated thumb?
We have to, yeah.
We have, I don't know.
Okay, so we have to do a new nut orbiting.
Um, it's gotta be me and Kaz Harai and, um, oh God, who's the father of the PlayStation?
My brain.
Uh, Shuhei, uh, it's gotta be me, Kaz and Shuhei as the nuts that are in orbit.
And then, um, burning up out like a meteor going through the sky, burning up is, uh,
is that Jim Ryan?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Ken, Ken Kuduragi as well.
That's a good one.
Ken Kuduragi.
Um, yeah.
up on entry is Jim Ryan. He's like, Oh, yeah, because that's we're almost out of there,
dude. Almost out of there. We're getting there.
Just do it. Poor Jim. No, poor us. Dude, sacrifice the entirety of this generation. Literally.
Literally, am I thinking of the right person?
I forgot his name.
Yeah, this asshole.
From 2019 to March 24, yeah, this asshole.
I'm making sure I'm saying the right person
is the right asshole.
Yes, the guy that literally in his five-year tenure
at PlayStation tried to sink this fucking company.
It was his goal.
He was doing his hardest. Literally set us back an entire console generation. Dude, holy shit.
God damn.
Sick art of on FF7 Twitter. What?
What do you mean?
Yeah, Jim Ryan made Blue Point and the majority of the PlayStation developers all start making
Games is service online games around the late 2010s, early 2020s, right around the beginning
of the PlayStation 5.
All of their devs were working on like live service games.
He said it publicly in their investors reports and shit.
So they just, we're not going to be recovering from that era for like another year.
And he got laid off in 2024 because he was literally sinking Sony behind the scenes.
my dude. Like, it was bad. So, as soon as, and as soon as like, some of those games we
haven't even heard of yet, but most of them were also cancelled too. It's rough, dude.
It is rough. So anyway, we decided to get as far away from that as possible to allow
shit to actually start healing. Anyway, hi, YouTube viewers. Is that 145,000 people? Damn.
14,000 people, hi, hello.
FF7 Twitter just posted some shit.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
We, are we living live in this moment, chat?
By the way, for everybody that's curious
about this PlayStation state of play,
if you guys don't know,
this is going down on Thursday,
I will be streaming on YouTube and Twitch
at 2 p.m. Pacific, so that's 5 p.m. ET.
And yes, this is arguably,
this could be the biggest state of play
of your entire life.
This could be the biggest announcement since Tocan
since before that Marvel versus Capcom collection.
Like this could be big, dude.
I don't know.
There's no confirmation, but there's
a lot of hype behind this one.
This is a nut orbiting PlayStation state of play.
There's been a lot of shit that's
been brewing in the background about this potentially
being a big one.
And why do we think it is?
60 minutes.
This is one of the longest state of plays I have ever seen.
It's an hour plus.
These are never this long, dude.
The longest I think I've seen is 45 minutes.
It is the longest?
Yeah, OK.
It is the longest.
I was going to say, dude, I've never seen one go this long.
I think in the summer, you might get one that is like 50.
But holy shit, man.
Final Fantasy VII.
Chat, this is not new art.
Okay, you're not as connected as me.
They remade this box art chat when they re-release, when they put Rebirth on PC.
Yeah, this is not new art.
Streamline progression, let me keep all gauges fully charged. Yeah.
Yeah, we'll be coming to PS5 and PC versions. More details to come soon. Yeah.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Um, that makes sense.
This art's amazing.
I like this art more than the, uh, the box art for the game.
Legit.
I think it's amazing.
It's super sick.
More details coming soon.
Why not now?
Right?
You've already talked about it.
So when's that update happening?
Why not now?
a lot of a lot of shit leading towards like we're getting filtered towards this siphon
right now which is leading me to many questions why not now why would we not talk about that
right now hmm okay all right all right it's good though it is very good so anyway we
We got our gift sub bets in.
We'll see if these happen.
We'll see if these go down.
If this is going to be the, oh, as a heads up chat,
the biggest gift sub bet that I have ever distributed
was, I think it was Summer Games Fest 2023.
Summer Games Fest 2023, and that was when FF7 showed up.
was like about 250 gift subs. It was a thousand for Sora and Smash. Nah. Doesn't fit my narrative,
okay? So there, historically, there's just not a ton of gift subs that line up with this stuff.
There's just not like a whole bunch of this shit that eventually becomes like real.
Sora was not in canon, okay? I was just saying shit. I wasn't leaning into it with my chest,
Okay. That was an idiot and was just saying shit. Man. God damn it. Would you actually give 10K
gifts to us for Marvel 4? Yeah. No, I would. I probably wouldn't be able to pay it out all at
once. You'd have me on lean. But yeah, no, I would. I'd have to like, yeah, no, yeah, at this point,
yeah, no, this shit is not happening. This shit is cooked, dude. This is a meme bet.
that. For those that don't know, the higher the GIFSUB amount, the less likely it is to
happen. It's very unlikely. 12 months on lean? I think you have like 250 GIFSUB's a week
for the next 65 years. So anyway, yeah, there's probably going to be like, I'll be honest.
This is at least 20 minutes of the marathon apology tour. Yeah, this is probably 20 minutes
of the Marathon Apology Tour.
Marathon looks great though.
Oh, no, sure.
I'm sure it does.
As somebody that doesn't know dick about it
and has no plans on playing it,
they probably want to get people on board.
And they're gonna show you how cool it is
with like 20 minutes.
So even though people have already played it
and seen a lot of it.
PS6 announcement, that's already been delayed because of AI.
PS6 ain't happening until like 2030 now.
Anyway, I'm sure Marathon looks good.
I'm not saying I don't know anything about the game or its quality.
Only thing I know is what the majority of people know about Marathon,
Which is the drama, which is the fact they stole its whole art style
So that's all I know. So all I'm saying is that
they have to be
they have to
Be getting on people's good side to show that they changed shit, you know that we didn't just
completely plagiarize
All this stuff, you know
It's still its art style. Damn. Okay. Don't chat if you're a marathon fan. Don't look that up
They didn't steal the art style, just the assets.
I'm looking like I'm not looking for any more input from the chat today.
They didn't steal the art style, just the assets.
Okay.
Okay.
I'm like, most people care.
Yeah, that's why it's doing so good, right?
That's why it was delayed.
Okay.
Moving on.
Moving on.
Chat.
I don't give a shit about.
And I'm going to trash it.
OK.
If you're going to start talking about it,
it's like you're going to be like, Max, what do you feel
about Diablo, the vessel of hatred?
Oh, boy.
Here we go.
Oh, boy.
I'm going to start talking.
Let me tell you how much I love the vessel of hatred.
And I love the name.
Oh, boy.
Let me tell you how I feel.
Oh, boy.
What's next?
This shit.
Hold on.
Holy shit.
I'm starting a WildsDLC video.
Yes, but first.
That's what first.
Oh my God, is this shit really not showing up?
Wow.
So this wasn't, was this leaked, bro?
Ah, there it is.
So I don't, this wasn't leaked.
So, okay, it happened.
We actually have some new kind of token news.
Like it was either put up by accident.
It was the Steam page on accident.
So did it, somebody just published it too early.
So are we saying that this is now gone back on what it was?
Someone messed up and now all the news is out, okay.
So this isn't a leak, somebody screwed up.
Okay, no, this is their fault.
This is different than a leak.
They removed it, okay.
So the information is out there.
And now, we know, it's like Leon's cover art, yeah.
It's a Sony thing.
Here's the thing, Chad.
We know how Sony is.
This is just those, Sony did that before, dude, Sony always does this.
They do it for every big reveal.
It's insane.
Sony just, it's their trait.
It's kind of what they're good at, dude.
It's like a defining character trait.
All right.
So we'll go over to event hubs.
So this is not technically classified as a leak, in my opinion.
classifies as information that was just released a little early. More than eight months since
Tocon Fighting Souls was revealed, yeah, but we haven't gotten anything and we certainly haven't.
It's been a long time. We've had no actual brand new information except the X-Men stage
a long time ago, right? A long time. A leak is different than an Oopsy-Daisy. Somebody intentionally
put this out that was involved and got the wrong date or something like that, making news that was
meant to be for a few days later, now today's news.
A leak is somebody specifically going out of their way
and trying to circumvent this stuff for the sake of maliciousness.
I have early information.
I am going to put that out.
I'm not working for anybody.
I just have this, and I'm going to put that out.
So anyway, Jesus, content.
So this is the quote that was on there.
We apparently have the amount of characters that are going to be available at launch.
Choose from an expanding roster of 20 iconic Marvel characters at launch,
each rendered in a bold new anime inspired art style,
members of their own unique teams of equally impressive heroes and villains,
and this was apparently what the Steam page was updated to.
So there you go.
the game is going to have 20 characters.
I don't know if there is anything else.
Was there any other information that was put out here?
There will be...
There's no confirmation.
The PC users will need to have a PlayStation account
in order to play Tolkien online.
You know it.
That's what happened to Helldivers.
That's what happened to Helldivers.
There will also be a single-player episode mode
to delve deeper into the cast members.
Um, that doesn't sound like a big overarching story mode.
Yeah, of course it's going to have, of course it's going to have like single player content.
We know that.
That sounds like Dragon Ball Fighters.
Yeah.
That, that very much sounds close to what the single player content of Dragon Ball Fighters
was like.
So, kind of arcade mode with like cut scenes of characters posing and talking, you know,
like sort of.
That's kind of what they've done before.
That seems that way.
I don't know.
We'll see.
I don't know if it's going to, I don't think it's going to have an actual, I don't think
it's going to have a legit like MVCI story mode, like a bad story mode or some shit like
that.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't think Arc System Works has ever done any story modes, like legit straight up story
modes for their games outside of like the Guilty Gear cutscenes which were
specifically stories and more like anime. So I'm curious, yeah did BlazBlue have
like legit story mode? Like an MVCI NRS level story mode? It did, wow. Oh, I'll
shut up then. Oh, it's a visual novel. Okay, it's the same shit as Dragon Ball. I'm
I'm sorry. It's the same shit as Guilty Gear Strive and Guilty Gear XR.
Yeah. No, I don't count.
Those aren't modes, dude. Like if that is the case, you don't play them.
You just look at them. Oh, it has combat. Okay. Then that's different.
Okay. I would be down for that if it had some combat and then story.
Yeah, I'm cool with that. I think that'd be fine. Anyway.
Another detail included on the Steam page now is confirmation that the PC users will
need to have a PlayStation account to play token online.
That makes sense.
I think that's it.
So this is actual new news.
The only reason we're getting this news right now is because, I mean, this is all likely
about to be updated in the next couple of days.
Somebody just released this a little too early.
So let's talk about it.
Number one, the cross-play aspect of it.
You need a PlayStation account to do anything.
And yeah, that's kind of rough.
It's in full English, too.
It's on the Steam page.
That has always been here.
It's just that full audio and subtitles.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's saying English.
So maybe we're going to actually hear characters speaking in English.
I'm curious.
I'm curious.
I have a not-established bet that like all the games all in Japanese. There's no English dubbing
It's just subtitles dude. That fits with it
PSN account region lock. Yeah, I mean
I'm not surprised this is this this is the way Sony operates with Sony PlayStation multiplayer PC games
You just need to have account locks between this stuff
so
You almost have to accept that with the territory, you know, Sony forces it. There's no way around it, dude
And the thing that really sucked about Helldivers was that some regions it just didn't work.
Like in an early portion of Helldivers there were issues with that. I don't think that'll be the
case now. I think now they probably ironed out many of those issues because that caused a big
all hubbub before when people could not like actually use it in certain regions. Yeah, it was
bad. It was bad. I think they're going to try to definitely avoid that. It's a fighting game,
dude. This isn't going to be as big as Hell Divers, bro. Like, you still got it. You got to try to
get people on your side. The thing is with fighting games, you have to try. Like, you got to try.
The single-player mode thing, yeah, I think it'll likely be Dragon Ball-like. Dragon Ball
fighters like so 20 characters is I'm curious hold on a second I'm I have to
go back I'm really curious on 20 characters max dude Marvel token hold on
I need to go back to see what I say because I say a lot of dumb shit
where's the one where I'm like laughing at everybody's faces? Hold on a second.
Um, need to try to find it.
There was a video where I was like, people were saying how many characters?
And I was like what there's not
Want to find it I want to see what I say
You expected 24. Hey, that's it found it good old YouTube search actually working
So this is me laughing in people's faces when the game was first announced that folks thought it was gonna have 35 characters at launch I
Literally would I let went into the camera as close as possible and laughed and laughed in their faces so that you can feel
The breadth and the spit hitting your face is you're dead serious like a 35 characters and you're serious on my
So I still feel that way I definitely still feel that way
let me see what I said the image my apologies this makes me audibly laugh
out loud yes I feel the same way damn that's crazy that's crazy that I still
feel the exact same way that's why this is a July of 2025 a long time ago now
dude. Real head back. Somebody is like 35 character roster. 35 completely unique characters that do
not pick up the movesets of previous games like Marvel versus Capcom that have like 30 year history
of how those characters work and operate. No, Captain America ain't going to be doing the same
that cap does nor is Iron Man nor is doomed nor is Storm or any of these characters, right? You
Damn, he's spitting, bro.
And that pretty much boils down to the conversation
that I'm reminding myself about.
They're starting at a completely new baseline, straight up.
There's a reason why early on, there's
no way there's going to be that many characters.
The best you're going to get is somewhere
between 16 to 20 at launch.
And people say, 4v4, that's way too little.
I'm like, but here's the problem is that Arc System Works
characters take forever to come out.
They take a ridiculously long time to produce this stuff.
So even if they have like a brand new roster,
it's not like they have all of the design work
done ahead of time.
No, my dude like Marvel versus Capcom games
were able to pick up a lot of character design stuff
because the previous games,
yeah, they had to remake assets from 2D
but most of the core character design was figured out.
Like how do characters even play?
That does not exist with Tokon.
Cap doesn't play like Cap at all.
Spider-Man plays nothing like Spider-Man.
These characters play nothing like the way
we think they should.
They're completely new.
So now they have to create completely new character
archetypes across the board.
It's not a legacy title.
Ain't no way you're getting over 20 characters.
And I think in fact, like by the time we get to this,
let me submit my final thoughts.
Do I say like, we were gonna have 20?
Took four characters in your 4v4 fighting game.
Hold on, hold on, hold on, let me see what I say.
You'll be 50 gift subs each hold up
Hold up. Oh, but yeah, I'm he's spitting
Ever I think it could be I think it's gonna be fantastic one. I still don't think that's happening
I think there's a lot of fantastic for hype right now, but we're forgetting this game is not coming out anywhere near fantastic for hype
We shall see I genuinely did not believe so chat is betting on it hard
If you guys think fantastic four is gonna be in the game and they're not in the game
You'll be 50 gifts of each that's that I'm still behind that
I I didn't forget if y'all think the entirety of the fat people said it with their whole chest, okay?
People were pissed off at me like pissed off Twitter users max you stupid ugly bastard
The entirety of the fantastic for Reed Richards and his bitch ass wife are all gonna make it to the game
They're all gonna be in it. It's a 4v4 fighting game. You dumb shit. They said with their whole face
It's a small price to pay for how committed you are
But all I'm saying is that for a small price of 50 gift subs you get four fantastic four characters in your 4v4 fighting game
Plus dr. Doom five fantastic four characters, maybe six with silver surfer shit, dude
Let's just get rid of all the X-Men and all the Avengers. Let's just put only fantastic four characters in the game
Let's do it. Fuck all it fuck everybody else
I agree I
I agree.
My argument is we got the one good, fantastic four character.
Where's the part where I say how many characters?
I didn't, I'm actually very excited.
I'm more thinking of like, what do you show?
What are the next characters that are?
Hold on a second.
Do I ever have a point where I talk about
there is one is going to be at the developer panel.
Seeing that this is at Evo
and there has been a passage of time,
there's either gonna be a trailer for something.
Like you have to show us visuals
or gameplay or anything like that?
Anyway, I'm excited.
I'm actually very excited.
I'm more thinking of like, what do you show?
What are the next characters that all show?
Is it earlier in the video?
Where's my actual prediction
of how big the roster is gonna be?
I'm just gonna speed up this bitch ass.
What the hell does he say?
This to making a Grand Luke character
or a Guilty Gear character.
Maybe there's a little bit of a middle ground here
in a team game where you can have,
not everybody have that level of detail
and just have more.
I hope that's the case because yes,
I think visually the game has a great art style, but it does not look graphically in line with other art system works games for the past four years
I still feel that way. I'm sorry. I think it looks amazing. I love the art style
But like I think strife characters and grandblue characters look and animate better. I
I just do that might change with a new
That that could possibly change with a new trailer. It could go through a big visual overhaul
A bit above, you know?
And to be real, yeah, Dragon Ball launch
with like 23 to 26 characters, something like that.
This is closer to like a DNF dual level, 100%.
It's right around DNF dual quality.
I think it is very possible that they did that on purpose
so that we can get more characters.
And I don't think, I think 20 characters is too low.
I think 24 to 25 is just about right.
I think 30 is ideal, but any-
Wow, I was a dumb bitch.
Think about that, dude.
You're gonna have to wait for multiple DLC seasons.
Wow, even I was a dumb bitch.
You're gonna have to wait for a lot of time to pass.
I think if you're looking at this image
and pulling that conclusion,
Trust me, this has been done so many times in the past
with CSSes of games and development,
and as somebody that has worked on games and development,
this means nothing.
As somebody that's played games and development
that have like a small minute portion of its roster
available from the very beginning,
how much did the character select actually signify
what could be available at launch?
Never made sense.
It never did, because they just put stuff in here, dude.
Like they can literally cram all these characters
up here in the final one and put some more information
down here or something like that,
and it can just completely change.
None of this is going to stay the same.
The theorization that the size of all this stuff
and yada yada yada, yeah, that could be the case,
but it also could be like here to there,
three characters, three characters, three characters, three characters.
So if we just did one, two, three, six, nine, 12, 15, 18, 20, also likely,
even if it was a 21 character roster at the start, which would be weird.
And a four before fighting game, having rows of three is weird, but it's also
like limitations based on who's playable.
If it was rows of four, and they just centered it 24, 28, pretty great.
If they landed something between 24 to 28 of completely original characters
that don't pick up on anything from any previous games, that's the insane leg
up that Marvel versus Capcom games have over previous ones, man, is that most
of the characters in the way they operate are known.
You know the way Storm is going to play, you know the way Cap's going to play.
The clap was good.
The clap played better.
Don't pick up on anything from any free something between 24 to 28.
The clap was the best part.
All right.
So if I'm going on my my previous statements, I was caught in 4K.
I gave a I gave one of those to a 24 to 28 character roster.
So I think as time has gone on and there's been so little revealed about the game as that time has passed.
You know what I and based on the experience of us playing the game and ain't really a tag game.
Let's be unless that's changing like I I'm going to be honest.
We've just been exposed to more of how the game works.
Straight up. We know how more of it works.
It's a quote-unquote 4v4 game, quote-unquote, but based on the way we've seen how people
play it and the way it operates, I don't think 20 is that bad.
I really don't.
It's a team game.
I honestly think it's technically a Fluffy 1v1, at least in the versions of the game
that we played.
to a Fluffy 1v1, which is fine, you know? I think if we're talking about a game where you don't
have to utilize all four of your characters really that much, then yeah, I think 20 is pretty good.
I think that is pretty good. That's kind of fine for even like a 2v2 or something like that. That's
kind of fine. Even if it was a 3v3, that's like, yeah, that's okay. So the issue is when we were
making those bets back then and talking about this stuff, we didn't know what the game was actually
going to be like. We had impressions, but like not enough time. Now we've had time and we know.
So you can very much hyper focus one character with their assists. Hyper focus. You are not,
the game does not ask you to learn two characters, much less three characters, much less also four
characters. It pretty much is asking you, you need to learn one and all of their friends.
And you can do this, you can, you have the options to. Based on that impression and the better
understanding we have of the game. Yeah, I think 20 is fine. I think if it was going
to be an actual team game, it needed to have a Marvel vs. Capcom sized roster. Chat, here's
the crazy part, dude. And both of the rosters for these games were heavily criticized when
they came out heavily. Look at this. Look at this shit. The roster for this game was 100%
criticized when it came out. It's people have some some hindsight that was like, oh, this
shit is great. Like, actually, no, this shit was peak. I think it was good, but it was not
peak dude. This roster was criticized for being too small in the year 2011. It's too small.
People were upset with it. And this was like, if we included it, this doesn't even have the DLC.
The DLC, they added two more characters. They added Shuma and Jill as DLC additions. They were
cheap though. They're like two bucks. So you can add two more. But how much was this? One, two,
two, three, four, five, six, seven, seven, 14, 21, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, damn.
Damn. It's big. Shuma and Jill on here already? Minus two randoms. Ah, okay. Minus two randoms, 36.
Yeah, it was 38 characters at launch with Jill and Shuma.
38 character roster for a 3v3 fighter was criticized
like 15 years ago.
Here's the other crazy part.
Another game that got extreme criticism at launch.
There it is. Dammit, it's shitty. There it is. This roster was the most criticized for
its size and or content inclusion. We're just keeping it in the same vein. Extremely criticized.
was the launch roster of MVCI. And yeah, one, two, three, four, five, six, six, 12, 18, 24, 30
characters. They still launch with 30 bitch ass characters, dude. It would get six more, it would
end at like 36. No random, yeah, no random this time. So even then, even then pretty criticized,
Let's get another game that was like, relatively criticized, before it's size of its roster.
This correct? I think it is. Yeah. Hold on. I think this is right, right, chat?
Dragon Ball Fighter is a 3v3 fighting game when it came out.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
two, three, 24. Does it have the blues? Yeah, this let's launch at 24. Yeah, 21 plus three
unlocks because Android 21 was an unlock and the blues were unlocks. And boy, how do you really
felt it here. You really felt it here. Granted, this criticism only applies to Tokon. If Tokon
was a true team game and almost like I want it to be a true team game, I legit do. But in that same
fashion, it almost acts as a benefit to the game. Where if it is not a game that fully is going to be
utilizing four characters that you actually need to use every single match.
You don't.
Um, and it's much closer to like a 1v1, like a spicy, fluffy 1v1 game.
Then yeah, I think a 20 character roster is fine.
I think that's actually completely fine.
But if we're to look at it critically from the perspective of it being a true
4v4 game where they want us to be switching between characters all the time,
which is what I want.
I want it to be an actual real legit tag fighter.
like incentivized tagfighter dude, then yeah, a 20 character roster starts to be like, whoa,
you're going to be almost, it's almost a guarantee that nearly every single team you're going to
run into is going to have one of the same characters in some way. It will be very hard to get a mixture
of like people playing four completely unique characters versus four other completely unique
characters because some assist cross, some assist cross overage or some shit is definitely going
to exist in there in some way. Some characters are going to be easier to use than others.
Yeah, not even at high level, even at mid level. That will happen because characters will be good,
you know? So anyway, to be honest, versus games roster should have more characters in them.
The only reason you think that is because it's been set up by Marvel versus Capcom. It has been
set up by MVC, dude. Like, the pedigree of these need to be, uh, these need to be like
higher character rosters, just in general, pretty much begins from Marvel vs. Capcom
2. So it's just like expectations. So I feel like that is also the issue of Tokon being
a Marvel specifically fighter held up to the pedigree of the previous Marvel games. It's
It's not Marvel versus Capcom, dude.
That's the problem.
The problem is that everyone holds it up to this shit
because this is all you have known for 20, almost 30 years.
Almost 30 years is this is how you've identified this shit.
So now it's going back to being kind of going all the way
back to close to the Marvel superheroes,
X-Men, children of the Atom era.
Yeah.
I mean, yeah.
Welcome back to the stage of history.
It's because Marvel 2 had years of games people didn't play to take it assets from.
Yeah, oh yeah.
Don't get me wrong.
And people played those.
It's just MVC 2 was a special game.
But isn't that how casuals are going to see the game too?
No, straight up.
It will not be good for casuals.
I'm talking for like me, you know?
I'm saying for me personally.
I kind of give the game the benefit of the doubt, where
if Tokon's roster is only 20 characters,
but it's just mostly a 1v1 game, yeah, fair.
I don't think.
I think that's fine.
If it was a true 4v4 game, I would be disappointed.
I want 24 to 30.
I think that's the sweet spot, just like I said in the video.
However, from the perspective of casuals,
what are casuals into?
What is the number one appeal towards the actual casual
audience towards games?
It's characters.
It's my character in it.
Can I make cool teams of characters?
It's always characters, dude.
It's the number one thing.
Variety in characters.
Super important.
And booba.
Super important.
So anyway, that'll be a big deal.
That'll be a big deal.
I hope the best.
I hope the best.
It's just that there's a lot of weird conflicting marketing
of the game either leaning into being a 1v1 or a spicy 1v1,
which is mostly what it is currently.
or an actual big team game that wants you to swap in between.
And to be real, I think I would personally be happier with a really
functional, very incentivized, cool tag team game that will
eventually grow and get new characters.
I want that the most more than anything.
I just want Marvel token to hit from me personally, gameplay wise,
because unfortunately very little of the game hits from me on a personal
gameplay level.
I can see why people like it and can jump into it and can have a lot of
fun with it, but in every single version that I have played it seemed like it could change.
It never changed enough to like actually have a substantial effect that damn the game's way
better now than unfortunately didn't happen between the betas. So I'm very curious with the trailer
that could be happening at the state of play in a few days. Very curious because all things
considered like it's the first we're seeing any new actual new characters in the game since June of
last year.
NBC 1 was 15 not counting all the Hiddens and it was 2v2 so it isn't the end of the world
per se.
Yeah, but at the time, a 15 character roster was big.
That's the only difference.
At the time, the only reason, like, here's the funny thing behind that.
That's actually a good criticism.
MBC one roster size.
Here's Marvel vs. Capcom one, this legendary ass roster, which I think is still one of the
best small rosters in video game history.
That's a great image.
Still one of the absolute best small rosters, personally speaking.
I killed the wrong thing.
Fucker.
Sorry.
It's talking about your mother chat.
One of my favorite small rosters of all time.
It's only 15 characters, right?
It's not big.
It has a bunch of extraship, but they're just
like recolors and small gameplay changes.
Do you know why?
Here's the funny reason.
Of all the games that came out around this hardware
in this time in this arcade era.
This was one of the biggest rosters.
However, the reason is, my dude, they couldn't fit anymore.
Like, they literally could not fit anymore.
There was no space.
They crammed it to the brim.
This is why games like Vampire Savior, The Darksockers 3,
would go on to get sequels.
And all the sequels did was add characters
and take away others because of the hardware limitations.
There was only so much space that the arcade boards could support,
which is why in Marvel versus Capcom 2,
it was actually a spinning disk game.
They used a CD as a medium, a GD ROM, technically.
They could fit more data.
They could just have more data access to more characters.
So this was in this time frame where it's like, oh, yeah,
this was actually one of the biggest rosters,
like, comparatively speaking, in this era.
You could not get character rosters that much bigger.
You just couldn't.
So we had to wait until quite literally like 1999 the year 2000 for that to actually change
Like how much did X-Men versus Street Fighter have? I think it was 15 as well, right?
No, it was way less it was freaking 13 check this out dude
X-Men versus Street Fighter was poultry dude it was 12 plus hidden Akuma Mike dude Wow
Wow.
Wow.
KOF 98 had a way more.
Yeah, no, no, no, don't get me wrong.
I'm talking about Capcom specifically.
Wait a minute.
Oh, Jesus Christ, I'm fucking brain dead, chat.
16, 17, I'm brain dead.
How am I gonna go scale up 98?
KOF 98 roster.
God damn dude, Neo Geo.
SNK was just hitting
Don't take a streamer's ability to do math or see things right in front of them
We try very hard. We're trying our best to make you think we're smart one two three
Damn what the fuck?
And two more
12, 24, 36, 38 fucking characters in 1998?
My dude, they were squeezing blood out of this rock.
My dude, that's insane.
On significantly worse hardware.
significantly worse hardware as well. Like this is, this board did not change going all
the way to like what, SVC chaos? Like, my God, dude, that is so many. That is so many.
And very different characters. I think the only argument is that KOF, I'm sorry, SNK
characters in these large rosters, pretty much each have like half the frames of animation.
When I played them, I was like, it's great playing, but they definitely don't have as
many frames to work from. Like Venom is in fucking, Venom in NBC one is disgusting. Like
just his, his idle frames, like what the fuck dude. You have so much. This is crazy. That's
pretty much where Capcom crammed all of their sprite work. Yeah.
They these guys hold a lot more keyframes. I think that's how that's
the only way they're getting away with it. Children of the atom
frames. Yeah, dude, they were pretty much maxing out the CPS
two board with Children of the atom. And that game only had
like what eight to 10 characters.
It had 10, 11 with Magneto.
And from what I understand, they actually maxed out the memory of the system.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, yeah, 11.
Wait, no, 12 because of Juggernaut and Magneto.
And damn, 13 because he can add Akuma.
Shit.
Akuma wasn't as hefty.
He was much cheaper.
But still, it's like, anyway, long story short, the roster of even some of these old ass games
is still like relatively decent.
And these are like old 1v1s and stuff.
This is the one that's actually truly impressive.
And then you start getting back to here, where in a 2v2 game, it starts with 13.
I'm sorry, 17.
The way this grid is laid out is just in making my brain not work.
And then you have like 15 plus a bunch of extras here.
So anyway, I think it's all relative, you know, I think it's all relative.
I think it's fine for me.
But at the same point, the quality of the roster is a big deal, dude.
It didn't, it didn't matter if this game launched with like 30 characters.
It did not matter because people were sad, right?
The sadness associated with this game's launch
made the roster feel like it was 14 characters.
Like, that will have a profound impact
on the way people interpret something.
So anyway, profound sadness.
No doom, no X-Men, no Fantastic Four.
It was rough.
Um, look at Tekken Tag 1 or TekDoo character, Select and Stamina from there, oh they're
going to be a lot, no, no that was much later, it's like PS2 era dude.
Honestly, quality, greater signed quantity like Marvel 2, no, no, no, no, Marvel was
quantity over quality, 100%, MVC2 specifically, the whole point of it was that MVC2 was a
2 was much lower quality versions of characters to get more. They were going for quantity.
It wasn't even a sprite dump. To say that MVC 2 was a sprite dump is actually disingenuous
because the majority of the characters in there do not even have half the amount of animations
they had here. They look so much better in these old games, dude. Venom and everybody in MVC
one, it's crazy how much better every character moves and looks. And in MVC2, they're like literally
cut in half so they can get 54 something characters in the game. So yeah, like that's, it's actually
different. MVC2 is an asset flip, but it actually is an asset flip for even, even worse. They didn't
just flip the assets, bro. They didn't. They used half of them. Asset flip is being generous.
Why is YouTube viewership so high? It's just the nature of it. Hi, everybody on YouTube.
Hello. There's a lot to talk about. We just made our PlayStation Gifts of Bets for those
of you that are just tuning in. 20K viewers, why? Because YouTube's front page is now like
a row of three videos. So anybody that's watched my stuff before, if you live stream, there's
There's a good chance that your video gets put into that row of three videos, which is
how I'm assuming a lot of you guys found out about this.
And because of it, my stream now occupies one of the three videos on the front page.
So hello.
Hi.
Yeah.
Right now, all YouTube live streams are getting an algorithm bump because of it.
Your guess as to what a 20 character roster for Tokon would look like?
I mean, if I went back to the old video
and actually looked it up,
I'm not gonna do the personal one.
I'm gonna do the one that, here's the reference,
here's the one that I thought would make it in.
This isn't what I want, chat.
This isn't what I want, this is what I think they would do.
And what I thought they would do would be a one, two,
three, four, five, 10, 15, 20, 25.
Okay, so we were guessing a 30 character roster.
We gotta cut this.
We gotta cut two rows out of this.
This is what I thought they would do.
Is that Jeff?
Yeah, no, this is legit what I thought they would do.
Make a new one, but we're gonna find out in a couple of days.
We're literally gonna find out in like two days.
Wow, the hell this is gonna boil down.
So yeah, I don't think it changes that much.
I think like you can just cut out this bottom row
and it could still apply.
I think Venom's still going to be in it by default, you know?
I think he makes it.
I think Hulk makes it in default.
I think Wolverine makes it in by default.
I think Thor makes it in by default.
I think, um, Captain Marvel can make it in by default.
You better not cut Jump Jubilee.
I don't, I want her in.
I want her in.
Um, but this is also very safe.
This is, this is extremely safe.
Marvel is really what it is.
It's super safe, dude.
So, Thanos makes it in. Yeah, Thanos is popular.
Like, straight up popular.
I think this is, it's lame. That's exactly what it is. It's pretty lame.
Magneto's not even in here, dude.
So, I don't want it to be this way. I don't.
But I think it's...
I think it'll be a kind of safe roster. It might be kind of lame.
Just based on the picks that they've had already.
Dude.
Unless something crazy happens, we will see.
We'll find out if it actually does get crazy.
Magic could make it.
Magic with the K, she could make it.
She could make it.
Feels like a very modern Marvel roster, yeah.
Yeah, Dr. Strange, yeah, I think there's a, I didn't put them in here, but I think there's
a chance.
It's either going to be like Dr. Strange or Thor.
I think that could be interchangeable.
I think you could swap Dr. Strange and Thor.
Wasn't there idea to put characters that don't get shown as often in other games or am I being dumb?
Was that a thing that was said for Tocon or was that said for a different game?
They did say that, yeah, so they said that they wanted the characters that were not in
the Marvel, some characters that were not in the Marvel vs. Capcom games, yeah.
Which is where like Daredevil and Silver Surfer, Deadpool was only in one, Blade makes a lot
of sense, Punisher makes a lot of sense, an anime style Punisher, you also got to think
about that, which characters would look cool, anime-ified, right? Which ones look cool with
like a Japanese animation twist? Hulk, maybe not so much. Blade, hell yeah, dude. Rogue,
hell yeah, I can see that. Ultron, I can see that too, to be honest. Nightcrawler, probably
not happening. Jubilee will look great. Colossus and Nightcrawler, I have bad news. Just based
on I have bad news. Nightcrawler, Colossus and Gambit. I have bad news. And Mr. X, right?
And Siloq. Jesus, dude. There was a lot of characters in that background. Now that we
know it's 20 characters. I am ruling out every single character in that background that did not
have an original, like an actual original design, like a super original one. Some of them had like
really basic designs. Mr. X, no, not Professor X. I mean, Mr. X from Resident Evil 2. Bro.
Straight up, I think every single character in the background of that stage, Storm was the only
character that had like a design that actually looked unique because she's a character already
in the game.
Every other character's design looked mad basic.
Like even gambits looked weirdly basic.
So it's like that isn't a redesigned anime gambit.
That's just gambit.
For some reason, Storm was redesigned.
It was like, oh, shit.
That's crazy.
Hold on a second.
They could be placeholder.
Yeah.
Yeah, Beast and Archangel were back there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, trying to find the image, channel one.
Yeah.
The only problem with it is that, like, Iceman and Gambit, like, they look so normal.
Psylocke with pants is probably the most striking aspect.
That's probably the most striking aspect.
Siloq with pants, chairs is pretty unique because I've never seen Siloq with like pants
before but Iceman was like pretty normal, normal, normal, they all look like, here's
the thing, they all look like they came out of like the 90s show in some way, they look
much closer, well Storm looks mad unique, she looks way different, Colossus was the
same way too. So anyway, I don't know. I don't have as much else to say about it.
Yeah, I'm not even much of like, I like Sylocke. I think she looks cool,
but it's weird that she's just wearing complete pants. Okay.
Magneto's missing though. Only Professor X is in the background. Yeah, it's true.
Do you count out Sentinel since they're in the background? Kind of.
Yeah, the Sentinels look mad generic too. They look much closer to like the simpler show designs
instead of the crazy mecha Sentinel. But I think like, I mean, I want that to not be the case. I
want there to be like a Sentinel that looks like a Gundam. Sure. Yeah, make it crazy, dude.
They don't look like main character designs. Yeah.
Wolverine's a given in my opinion. Yes.
I think that's the biggest sign that something is severely wrong is if Wolverine doesn't
show up in the main roster in some way.
That's a bad sign.
He has to be.
If they're, that means that they're like not in touch, right?
That means like they're not.
They're exactly, they have to know.
That's where I'm at.
Dude, no, they have to know.
They have to know.
He has to be.
They have to know the history behind Wolverine not being in Marvel versus like Marvel fighting
games to know that he has to be there.
So that would be very weird if Wolverine was not there.
It'd be very weird.
That's a bad sign.
Thus I think he will be there.
The context, the one character that everybody freaked out about back in 2017 because of
the Marvel vs. Capcom mix was that X-Men weren't in Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite, and therefore
Wolverine for the first time ever in these Marvel fighting games was not one of the main
characters. Wolverine's always one of the main characters, and he's also one of the
most popular characters ever, period. So, the absence of X-Men and Wolverine was like
the biggest sign that, like, oh, everybody's sad. Everybody's big sad. This is not the game
we wanted Wolverine's not here dude. It's like a Smash Brothers without you know maybe not Mario.
Actually yeah that's pretty close. It's like a Smash Brothers without Mario. We just dropped them.
Like oh Jesus dude. It's like Scorpion missing from Mortal Kombat 3. Now that is a very good
comparison. Scorpion missing in Mortal Kombat 3. Which was a huge miss at the time.
So, yeah. So, yeah. Anyway, talk on news. That was good. That was healthy. We got a lot of our
systems chat? Did we get it out of our systems? Because now I'm about to be sad. I got to
talk about all the stuff that I really wanted to talk about that I'm getting excited about.
The token stuff does get me excited. I want to know more. But now we get to talk about
things that are going to make me sad. And again, am I like Earth's greatest champion
of 2xKO? No. I've actually hoped for the best the entire time while giving criticism
on certain things and also highlighting the things that I like about it a lot. But what's
happening now with 2xKO? Geez, even the title dude. There's not instill a ton of confidence.
there's dude even the way that like wow the message didn't even come from 2x
KO it came from riot games wow I didn't even realize that this isn't a message
from 2x KO it's a message from the overlords it's from riot oh Jesus they
don't even have a say here damn all right so I'm gonna go over this like word
for Word and just talk about it a bit earlier.
But let me just talk about it.
Hi, everyone.
Hello, everyone.
I think this isn't written by an AI.
I want to take a moment to share an important update on 2xKO.
This is a difficult update to share.
But we want to be clear about what's changing and why.
Oh, no, this is from Tom.
Oh, shit.
OK, I was about to say, bro, who's this from?
Is this from the general corporate overlords?
Is it from people that actually work on 2xKO?
No, it's from the lead guys.
Okay, good.
What's changing and why?
After a lot of discussion and reflection,
we are reducing the size of the 2XKO team.
I want you to know that the decision was not made lightly.
We expanded from PC to console.
We saw consistent trends and our players
were engaging with 2XKO.
The game had resonated with a passionate core audience,
but the overall momentum hasn't reached the level needed
to support the team of this size long-term.
With a smaller focus team,
we're gonna dig in and make key improvements to the game,
including some of the things we've already heard.
of what I heard you asking for. We'll share some of our plans soon. So I don't know if
the actual amount is discussed. We'll continue. But as I understand it, they pretty much cut
the team in half, right? Didn't they have about 160? Yeah, I think the word on the street
is they had about 160 employees, and now they're down to 80.
So if 80 people got cut, also, just going to throw it out there.
That's a lot of people being laid off, and it's mega sad.
But also, 160 people working on a fighting game
is a shit ton.
That's a big ass team, dude.
Like that is, that's comparable to some like big teams.
Like actual, not the size of NRS or anything like that,
but for relatively big teams, that's a big ass team, dude.
Granted, I really don't know how this translates
in comparison to a normal like discounted game release
or a normal fighting game release with content
because this isn't that.
It's like a live, it's a live ops games as a service game.
So that was a big team.
It certainly was.
Our plans, a smaller focus team is still huge.
Like 80 people, I was worried that like,
dude, they're just gonna go down to like nothing.
Oh no, this game is cooked.
Dude, actually 80 people is still pretty good
to keep things going.
It's still pretty decent.
Our plans for 2026 competitive are unchanged.
We remain committed to partnering with tournament organizers
and local communities.
Our focus will continue to be on supporting events
and organizers that already powered the FGC.
Ultimately, the decision reflects the shift
in how we operate.
This isn't a judgment on individual rioters
or a signal that the journey is over.
Good that you're saying that.
We're reshaping the team to give 2xKO
a more sustainable path forward.
Yeah.
So that's the good news.
The sad news is that a ton of people are losing their jobs,
that were deeply passionate about this
and have been involved for like 10 years.
Like that's the word thing.
The key word is sustainability.
Like this shit has to make money, like straight up.
You cannot just produce games
and then they come out as free titles
and they don't make money.
Like we saw this with other games like Rumbleverse
where it just did not have sustainability, sadly.
It did not have the ability to like build a core enough audience
to get people in there to buy things
where it could continue forward.
It's technically been less than a month that it's out.
So I think there's one thing that is
very different from this than most things
like shooters or otherwise.
Different genres have the opportunity
to build their audience much more, right?
Like a lot more.
just the better like high guard has a much wider opportunity
to build an audience and give people a chance
to get into it and see if they like it to even try it.
Because of just the nature of it being a shooter,
like a naturally kind of accessible shooter, you know?
It's like the easiest thing to get people into play.
The most broad stroke of accessibility, right?
But 2xKO, at least to me,
From the perspective that I was ever in,
just from an outsider playing some early versions of the game
and seeing it before its release
and eventually playing it and liking it when it came out,
it always felt like a game for fighting game players,
like always.
Like even the nature of it being a,
the nature of being a league of legends fighting game
that hyper focuses on the league of legends aspect of it.
And we talked about this a bit earlier.
It doesn't really do much with the league outside of having characters and stages and and skins.
It really doesn't do much with the league of legends property, you know, like none of the mechanics and world building and things like that that go into the characters.
They take things that characters do in league, but like, is there something that you can do that expands the league,
that expands what you think could happen beyond League or beyond Arcane or anything like that?
Not much. It was almost like the game was never considered to be that. It was specifically
considered to be a game where you take your favorite League characters and then you beat
each other's asses, right? And then you go fight each other. Instead of thinking of it as a holistic
just game, this is a game, right? No, no, no. It's mostly like these are League characters.
that's why you like it. And that's not the reason why like in general people vibe with some fighting
games, usually some fighting games will provide something to you that you think is cool and then
make you fall in love with it. And I think I got that in this game because I'm a fighting game
player like Warwick did it for me. That was the that was the moment I turned on this game where
it's like, damn, I'm having fun. I actually got a character that I really think is pretty cool.
So the problem is, is that not everyone's going to be able to vibe with that with a small roster.
but it's not. And even when it came to other games like Dragon Ball that many other people
vibed with, but I just didn't for a very long time. I enjoyed it, but I just could not get into
it as much as everybody else. That wasn't until the later seasons where I found my characters, man.
And this is a game that specifically is asking its user base to how do you engage with it?
How do you play this game? You jump into lobbies and you fight each other.
Do you do you like level up your character and like get them new gear and stats and take them
through a single player arcade ladder or something that allows you to have different runs and get
different buffs or something you know that it lets you engage with it like a normal video game
and not specifically just an online game no it was never that which means that in my opinion if
it's a game that's asking you to specifically play it like it is you're just going online and fighting
people, my dude, it's a fighting game for fighting game players. That's it. It's just
a fighting game for fighting game players. That is how it works, you know? So even people
would criticize Tekken 8. I'm like, dude, Tekken 8 has a shit ton of content. It has
so much stuff that you can do if you don't want to fight people. If you're nervous about
going into ranked or fighting others, like there's a metric ton of stuff you can do in
Street Fighter 6, obviously, but also Tekken 8. And even if we compare it to other games
that are also like technically free to play, Grand Loo also offers a shit ton of stuff
that you can do outside of just going on and playing fighting games like.
The opportunity to get someone to fall in love with a fighting game specifically is
that unless you already love these characters deeply, like you have to, you have to give
people the chance to fall in love with it.
And we've seen it time and time happen again with a variety of other games, people fall
love with the game in some way that isn't playing online and then eventually they go online and then
eventually they fall in love with it. So let's move forward. I just think that it was a, to me, it
always felt like very specifically a fighting game made for fighting game players and it just has
league characters in it. About the people behind the game, I want to be clear that something deeply
matters. The people who helped 2XKO over the years with their creativity, care and belief,
taking creative risks, like this is hard, and the work they did is real and meaningful.
We're committed to supporting the impact that the riders had through this transition,
including helping them explore opportunities within Riot where possible,
and providing a minimum of six months' notice-based surface evidence that does not...
That's nice of them to even mention that. That's nice to mention that.
Another update will raise questions and concerns that's understandable.
We'll continue communicating on how things are progressing.
In the journey so far, we've been humbled and dazzled by the energy and passion
you brought to the community, the energy matters, and it will help us fuel
something to chapter than prove the game. Thank you for playing 2xko for caring and asking questions
and for being a part of the community. And to be honest I honestly think 2xko kind of like
I think it kind of did its job. Like and granted we're at the point where it's like not looking
great they're gonna continue forward but it's not dead in the water. The people that are saying
2xko is dead right now it's not it's not yet like do not say that. Like I they are genuinely trying
to keep it going at a point where it's sustainable and they can keep going and get a chance for
people to get on board with it. This is not the best news, but still, this isn't the point for
us to do like a postmortem and start criticizing like why didn't it work out. It's like, we're not
there yet, dude. Like give them the chance for it to actually catch on in some way. It's been out
for a month. I don't want to, I don't want to just start immediately like, let's talk about the name
and why all this other stuff was bad. We've criticized that stuff in the past plenty.
Let's focus right now because they are also refocusing.
I think this game was relatively successful in exactly what it was trying to achieve,
dude.
Guess who loves this shit?
Like guess which people love this shit?
Not league players.
I have always personally felt that like fighting game fans always cross over with league of
legends.
Like this happens more often.
Like I know so many people in the FGC for the past 15 years that are like also league
players and I'm like what the hell is this league thing it's not like fighting games at all like it is though
It's like they compare it to like footsies and all this kind of stuff
They just they immediately tell me how similar it is to fighting games and they get into it
I'm like, okay. I just don't see it, you know
So like people have been generally into league and fighting games for a very long time like going all the way back to the
Marvel vs. Capcom 3 era
however
As someone as an outsider that has seen how big of an influence League of Legends is as
a game, my dude, I don't know if League, in my opinion, has ever felt like it could cross
over into the fighting game community.
Like I think fighting game players that play League can feel that way, but from an outsider's
perspective, like the people that play League like really like lean into like very few things.
So I'm not saying it can't happen because clearly it can. Like clearly there can be
some crossover between the other Riot games and these rioters jumping into Riot stuff,
for sure. But like the size of the size of what League of Legends appealed to over time,
is just absolutely huge. The comparative difference of like how many of those people transferred over
and will then will turn into also these other things is still comparatively small. Like it's
it's it still seems like it's huge but my dude League of Legends is such a big thing.
It's like the same thing for I use the same comparison to Smash Brothers where it's like Bro
like smash fans usually like smash does that crossover sometimes oh yeah oh yeah it does
like riddles and several other players like become really big normal fighting game players
they become like street fighter players and stuff like that or Tekken players or whatever we
have we have witnessed that happen but is that like the representation of everything does that
represent all of it does like a few players that jump the gap and realize that oh normal fighting
Games have a lot of similarities to Smash in many ways.
I can transfer my knowledge and information
that I've learned into this and get better at this too.
Yeah, sure.
But also, most Smash fans just like Smash.
That's just what they're into, dude.
And even most Smash fans won't even like the things
that are Smash-like.
Like, to be completely honest, it could be even difficult
to get Smash fans to commit to being something
that is even as close as it possibly can be to Smash,
practically a clone of Melee, my dude,
why aren't you playing it?
No, no, no, they like Smash.
I just like Melee.
This is what I do.
People are just that way.
People just like get connected to one thing
and it's hard to get them away from it.
Same thing with Street Fighter fans.
Don't get me wrong, this applies
to everything across the board.
So, all I'm saying is that it's like,
if the expectation was that like a quarter
of the league audience is gonna come over
and play the league fighting game, a 10th of it.
I think the reality of the situation is that
it was a very small percentage.
And even if there was like crossover in the riot launcher
that's showing all of this, like if there's one thing
that I kind of felt for a very long time, like, I don't know.
As I've observed communities in the way they act,
they act very, they very much are in a bubble.
They very much are in a bubble, dude.
And they sit there in their bubble
they do their thing. That's just the way that most FGCs chat are that way, where it's like,
there's a Capcom FGC and there's a Tekken FGC and there's Smashers and there's people, there's
40 year old dads that like virtual fighter, you know, and there's like, all of the Mexican
dudes that love all of the KOF games and shit, like everything that seems very, this is just
established stereotypes and shit that have been around for a ridiculously smash player
They're stink, like all of this shit because they all stay within like they're part of
an FGC but they all are relatively bubbled.
They all are mostly bubbled.
Will people escape the bubble and go to other stuff?
100% they will.
But is it like there's massive shifts of the community from one way to the other?
I think it's the same thing from league to WFU.
There'll be a small percentage, man.
So anyway, yeah, I mean, and then I think that the next question is well, man.
What about Dragon Ball? How did Dragon Ball end up being so successful, like, dude, what is Dragon Ball like?
The context of the situation is important, okay?
Yes, fighting game fans have been telling Riot and League of Legends, hey,
bro, a League of Legends fighting game.
Oh hell yeah fighting game fans have been saying that have league players been saying that I don't know man
League players out there rushing mid or some shit. Damn the bros
What about a league of legends fighting game? This would be crazy like I don't know like fighting game fans
Look at the league roster and go bro. This shit could be sick. Yeah, I think that's kind of been the case for a very long time
So what is Dragon Ball my dude?
Dragon Ball Fighters was fulfilling a 20-year gap of people desperately wanting a Dragon
Ball to be like a Capcom game.
Can we not just get a Dragon Ball game that's like a 2D Dragon Ball game, my dude?
That is how infinitely impossible DBFC was as a game.
It was fulfilling a 20-year missing element that was just not there.
The closest you got was Super Dragon Ball Z on PlayStation 2.
And even that was like so crazy and weird and not exactly it.
So combining that fandom with that extreme gap of like, damn, this has been missing for
this long period of time.
Dragon Ball Fighters just hit in every single way it possibly could.
Every single way it possibly could.
So anyway, I don't know, I don't know.
And Dragon Ball fans eat that shit up, man.
They will eat shit up.
They love stuff, dude.
So anyway, I actually think 2XKO found its audience,
because I'll be real.
Dude, fighting game fans love this game.
Like, not all of them do.
I've noticed that versus game fans,
People that historically like tag fighters
like Marvel versus Capcom,
have not really found their place in it as much,
that are really big into MVC games.
It feels like a lot of them conflict with this shit
quite a bit.
But I feel like for a lot of the modern FGC,
like the Strive era and before post-Dragon Ball fighters,
I feel like it's hit for a lot of them in many ways.
Not every single one, but I think it's definitely found a very hardcore audience of people that genuinely like this shit and they really get into it because 2xKO really tickles like mechanical fighting game shit, dirty mechanical fighting game shit.
It does, man. When you like freestyle tag twice on some bitch with some low overhead stuff, it's like crack. It's like block this, you asshole.
Like it genuinely gives you some fuck. Yeah, there's some good shit. So I understand like I have felt that in many ways
It's a lot of the things that are weird and in between that
That haven't connected with me because what am I? I'm one of the versus game guys, dude
I'm one of the guys that like, you know come from the old school era of versus games and things like work the way they do
And they expand upon it this game dials back on a lot of shit, but expands it in weird other ways, which is fascinating. I
I am extremely frustrated by this game at times and I also really like it.
What's funny is that I did not vibe with its 2v2 mode as much as I thought.
I wanted to like it a lot but I found myself at a point where I was at ends
where I just could not be satisfied if I got a victory by somebody carrying me
and I didn't feel necessarily good to carry another team.
The rare moments in between where you actually sync up as the mech pilots in Pacific Rim was great
Um, and is great, but still, you know
Yeah, I mean
I'm gonna say the thing that is obvious that most people are saying it eats characters. It just needs characters, dude
Just needs more characters to be in the game
The game taught me to hate yasuo the same way that people have been hating yasuo for 15 years
I mean, I get it. I connected with you all
But it needs some that just needs a roster and that's the hard thing to produce and it's gotten quite a bit more characters
You know, we'll look at more now. I think it will. I don't think this is it
I don't I do not think this is the end of the game by any means. I think it will continue
But they have to find a way to operate in that space in a way that makes sense because 160
Person development team is pretty big. That's pretty big
So, I hope it continues, I hope it gets more characters, I hope they just keep getting
to do what they do and I hope it finds more success, you know?
Because if there's also one issue that like 2XKO has kind of had is the marketing's been
weird man.
It's kind of been like, it's kind of a game that feels like it's been out for two years,
but it's only technically been out for a month.
So an 80 person development roster is more than enough to keep things going.
More than enough.
three weeks. This is only been three weeks, so I actually hope the best for it.
I'm saddened by this because I know a lot of people lost their jobs. The person
I'm actually the most, the person I actually sympathize the most with on
this situation, even though this is not the end, it's just, it's a little, it's a
little doom and gloomy of a message is Steve. The person I am literally
sympathizing the most with right now is uh my friend that likes this shit the most it's
it's steve because steve loves this game dude he loves it
let me say anything on it
Oh, no. Oh, no. It's the games I like curse actually real. Let's have a conversation.
I'm gonna have to tune into that later. Is the games I like curse actually real? He looks
so sad on stream. No, dude, no, bro. He's not streaming right now. Was he streaming?
Was he streaming? He is.
It's just that these companies bet the farm on these free to play games, assuming that it's
that's going to be a huge payout.
And then it turns out that the marketing, maybe,
or that the flow, or that the design,
or whatever the case may be,
would end up being the situation
that causes these companies,
or causes these games to fly under the radar.
There is a thing called,
there is a thing called
over saturation. There just is. And when three to play games are literally everywhere, then
yeah, there's going to be an issue with some of them falling through the cracks. Even good
ones. Even good ones. But the way that I felt like this game was presented when I first
got to play it when I first started seeing the, uh, the,
oh, what the f-
Who is this guy?
What is going on?
Jeff, what is happening right now?
It's so fucking ugly.
What is, you know, where's doing this?
Who is this?
Sympathy gift?
I'm getting sympathy gift subs right now.
What is happening?
What is that? Really?
E-E-X, uh, uh, E-Port, you know,
E-E-E-Poxy Blue?
E-Poxy Blue, thank you.
Thank you. What is going on here, guys?
It's not over, sti-
First thing we gotta do, first,
there's no sympathy gift subs, guys.
There's no sympathy gift subs, guys.
We gotta start.
It's gonna be okay.
Somebody ban that guy.
Somebody beg, somebody get that guy.
Somebody ban that guy, where are my minds?
You're not doing your jobs.
Do your jobs.
It's gonna be okay, bro.
The game is, it's not over.
It's not over.
So I don't know what we're talking about here, guys.
It's not over.
There's no coping, okay?
There's no coping.
It's just a change.
I just said it's gonna be okay.
Stop doomin', bro.
There's a company structure change.
there's no reason to panic.
So just relax, relax.
I don't get paid enough for this.
Do your job first.
How about you do your job, Cobra?
Stop dooming, I'm not dooming your game.
Why would you say it's gonna be okay if you only say it's gonna be okay if there's
something wrong.
I just said it's gonna be okay.
There's an implication that there's something wrong.
No!
Is there something wrong?
No, there's nothing wrong.
There's nothing wrong!
It's going to be okay!
They clearly said that this isn't a bad thing.
That you're just refocusing.
No, it is a bad thing.
What's wrong with that?
It's not good news.
Do you?
Do you?
No.
No, no, no.
It's definitely not good news.
Everybody relax!
It's definitely not...
Like, if this didn't happen, it would be better.
They're rolling out new and more focused plans for the game's future.
Laying off 90, 80 people is not good.
That's a good thing, guys.
We should be celebrating like the bonuses.
Oh, it's time for me to leave now.
Uh-oh.
Anyway, we're celebrating that 80 people got laid off.
Steve chill chill. Where's the monster under announcement? Where is it? Is it an actual video?
Velcro, thank you, dude played DHT gaming. Thanks for the fight
Do you think there's gonna be some kind of congratulatory thing in place for token has them stylized so that if Marvel and Capcom want to make
NBC in the next five years, they can use the Western outfits and the different characters, etc
Now don't think I think in that far ahead. I don't think I think I don't think I don't think I don't think there's any logical way
That Marvel versus Capcom happens in a logical way
You know what I mean?
In like a way that actually makes sense.
Oh, is this an anniversary tweet?
Okay.
Shit.
Tweeting.
Oh, that one.
Thank you.
Yink.
Let's go.
this says.
Monster Hunter Wilds, producer of Tsuji Moto.
Today, as Monster Hunter Wilds,
I would like to tell you about the update.
I'm going to tell you about it.
OK.
The final first season update, chat.
I've prepared a promotional video, so please watch it.
Ooh, there's a trailer.
At the last of the roadmap.
Arkfield, AT Arkfield.
I'll be playing it.
I'm interested to see how they make Arkfield harder. It's pretty easy.
Wow.
Of course.
An anime-ass cat.
God damn!
that cool as shit oh this is like the fan created one the guy that put jet
engines on the sword it was also a great sword look dude I find it funny that it
was also a great sword in Monster in a World was it not that literally would
like three jet engines on it that would that would proc when you were building
up. It was mad cool. Great sort again.
Damn. Wow, this is amazing.
I learned great sort again.
Well, that's good.
Anniversary. Oh, weekly of each festival.
Damn.
Okay.
Yeah, I played great sort of bit when it first came out. It's very fun.
What the hell is...
What in the hell?
Spider filter monsters, yeah.
Delivery in February 18.
February 18.
By the way, just from some perspective, Monster Hunter Wilds today compared to Monster Hunter
Wild's first week release last year?
Way better.
Like, much, much, much, much better.
Like, just to throw it out there, there is a reason to actually hunt monsters now.
Like, there was almost, there was very little reason to continue playing the game
beyond its story mode without just wasting all the creatures in the game like the game
has actually pretty fun now so to give the game credit and it performs much better which
recently happened.
normal stuff
yeah, since the Akuma update, it's actually been pretty good.
I agree.
Sushi?
Was that in the spring one?
I got it. I got a minor criticism. Chat. I can put down that much fish. I'm just gonna
throw it out right now. On a day, on a normal, on like a day where I can put down that much
fish. I'm not that big. I'm a pretty big tall guy, but I'm not that big of a guy. I'm not
that big of an appetite, but I can 100% put down that much dish.
The monster hunter illusion of food,
its fantastical sort of promotion of the food
in monster hunter world or in monster hunter like fiction,
is that here's an impossible amount of meal
that you're about to eat.
And you just watch the hunter go, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.
I need this, I need the calories bitch.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, wow.
This is insane.
Look at all this fucking food, dude.
My issue with the meals in Wilds
is that the fantasy is gone.
They're mostly normal.
Like most of the food is just like,
here's a delicious steak with some egg
and some cinnamon and some butter.
That was delicious.
I'm like, yeah, that would be good.
I feel like a normal person.
The problem is, I'm a meat lord,
and I gotta go hunt a big fucking lizard,
and I need to be packing that shit.
I need 30,000 calories right now.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, like,
that's the monster hunter fantasy, bro.
Now it's, now it turned into Final Fantasy 15 food.
Like, come on, like I like it, but I want,
I want the fantastical to come back, man.
Dengos were bullshit.
I was pissed off.
I didn't like that dango bullshit.
I'm like, this is just, these are just snacks.
What is this?
I want the crazy platters, dude.
I want grandma cat to make me the most insane stew.
Like, bring them back.
It's a minor criticism, okay?
It's not like indicative of a bad game or anything.
It's just I severe,
Where, Max, do you know what economy we're in?
I actually miss the hyper monster hunter food fantasy
that is present in a lot of the older games.
And now it's not nearly as much.
This is just Korean barbecue, dude.
Like, this is just normal shit.
I'll show you the information about the quest.
As a event quest, we will show you the battle of the planet.
Wow, bro, get my face away for a bit.
Wow, do you see that shit chat goddamn bro chat? Do you see this shit right here?
Holy shit, bro. Look at that. Look at even that over there. God damn. Look at this shit
God damn dude. That shit is crazy looking. Holy hell that armor is amazing
Jesus dude King Arthur in the Knights of Justice. Holy the Megatron helmet. Yeah
Wow, look at that shit dude. It looks like one of the Knights of the round. Holy hell. I love it
I love it. I love it. I love it. I actually love it. Oh my god
I am definitely getting that whole ass set. That's crazy
Wow, that's crazy
Time-worn charms that you have a high chance of yielding rare talismans, okay?
10 stars.
So we're saying all the big bads are gonna get 10 star quests?
Oh my god, what is this shit?
Holy, holy good lord.
Moly moly it is it's all the big bads holy shit four months in an arena oh
that's fucked up four apexes at the same time in an arena that's impossible
that you do each person has to take a monster you're gonna need like an hour
50 minutes? Dude, it's literally like every single person has to take one monster.
Maybe two at a time? I'm curious, man. That's crazy.
Oh my god.
Alright.
I'm definitely getting the monster out of our vibes from that.
Alright.
Alright.
That's cool.
That's cool.
We'll be, we'll be trying.
Well, we're gonna be trying.
What is that fight?
Greatsword's always gonna win.
It's like Longsword getting buffs, Chat.
You know great swords gonna win the art contest and long swords gonna get buffs
That thing looks funny.
Well, that's funny.
I forget the support hunters are a thing.
Do you guys use them?
They definitely made the Omega fight definitely doable.
They are very efficient.
know what in that so they took this is like the sensor for the arachnophobia
sensor right and they recolored it that's funny there's no way you're gonna
make pump popo whatever that this thing is actually dangerous
Oh, a new theme?
Dude, it didn't have the Star Wars theme anymore.
Interesting.
Cool music.
March 19th for Arch Tempered Arcade.
By the way, I cannot believe how fast Capcom turned around a patch for the weird DLC thing.
That blows my mind and how big of an impact it had for that many people.
It was like two weeks, dude. It was legit two weeks to hot fix it
It's insane
Actually insane. It must have been such a weird oversight
Everybody's saying the game is running better now
Took a mirror to figure out dude. They optimize the game in like every other way like that's what the patches are
We're getting other optimization patches that were not that thing
So the game's only gonna get better outside of the one weird thing that was affecting a lot of stuff
So, yeah, like, pretty much the best-case scenario happened where it's like,
oh, the one thing's an easy fix and they also bad-optimized the game over time.
in person?
Oh, this is only in Japan, right?
Oh, this is only in Japan, right?
Oh, speedrun events.
That's all for today's update.
Once again, thank you for playing Monster Hunter Wives.
Thank you for giving me a lot of feedback and support.
Please enjoy today's update as well.
I mean, an overall W on everything they showed.
I would like to tell you about the future development.
Alright.
Of course you are.
Of course you are.
We are developing a large-scale content like Asuboi and Sunbreak.
We are preparing to tell you about the official information during the summer.
I hope you'll be waiting for it.
It's gonna be called Monster Hunter Fuck Ice.
Just to make it topical.
Just to make it topical.
Arkfield's in that game too?
Wow.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, wow, hey.
Hey!
Hey!
Hey!
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, wow, hey, oh, shit, he did it.
Dude, it's been how long, bro, chat doesn't understand this, the cultural significance
of this chat.
Do you not understand, dude, it's been a while.
It's been too sad to do a happy hunting goodbye.
It's been a while.
So at the end of like the dude, he's been doing this forever, like 10 to 15 years of
this monster hunter updates, getting on front of the camera, talking to people about the
game with the devs and like going all the way back to like the Wii era and shit like
that, you know?
So at the end of all of them, he always says happy hunting and everybody does this and
it's their it's their goodbye enthusiasm, right?
To put it bluntly, Ever since Wilde's is kind of the roughest monster hunter thing that
has kind of happened in quite some time, they stopped doing it, like straight up like when
the game was going through pretty its biggest rough patch and like late 2025 and mid 2025
and stuff, we would get these videos and they just, they just wouldn't say it anymore.
So it was like, like there ain't no more happy hunting dude.
like we're trying. Like it was more like we are trying like we know it is not happy hunting.
It's more like we're sorry and we're trying. So and right now Monster Hunter Wilds in its
current moment is in a pretty good spot. It's like I said way better than it was at launch.
So to see the dude again giving the happy hunting like symbol and saying like we got
some good stuff coming and also we're getting there is sort of like, yeah, this is the kind
of optimism that is representative of what the community is feeling at the moment, I think.
Like people are pretty, people are feeling pretty good about it. Like the steam reviews are starting
to come back around. They have been bad for a very long time. I mean, and I truly think that
you're not going to be able to get everybody to come back to wilds. That's not going to happen.
But I do think that there's a good opportunity for you to really get people to jump back into
Monster Hunter Wilds expansion, whatever, whatever sun ice break, whatever the hell it's going to be.
There's there's a chance that you can get people to come back to that if it's marketed well.
Like this is a the new time to come back.
Like this is this is the game you were looking forward to, especially with good optimizations and shit, which it already is going through.
So yeah, like it's
It's kind of like the next big launch.
This is a big launch that it could be for Monster Hunter
Wilds to get people back on board
because the sales after Wilds came out were not good, dude.
It got everybody on board from the previous games
and unfortunately keeping people on board
has not been particularly good.
So yeah, I mean, I feel it.
Dude, I felt that happy hunting.
They did it. If there's one thing I greatly appreciate Capcom, this shit has now happened
twice. This shit has happened in Resident Evil 6 as well as Monster Hunter Wilds, where
how does this translate to Resident Evil 6, you might ask. RE6 sold great. Just to throw
out there. RE6 historically has sold very good in the Resident Evil Pantheon, right?
Oh, also 3, 5 or 5. However, Capcom seemed extremely distraught that the game was not
critically received well and a lot of Resident Evil fans did not like it. Like the level of the
game quality was not up to the standards of Resident Evil's and people just did not like
vibe with it even though it mostly sold pretty well. That affected Capcom so much that their
next Resident Evil game was a massive departure, reinvention of the franchise. They didn't
need to do that. There was no guarantee that that would make them more money. They could
have just kept the same, they could have just kept the exact same path ahead, but they didn't.
They're like, all right, we need to get back to the drawing board on this shit. Like, they
were deeply upset by how critical people were of that game. Street Fighter V also ends up
upselling pretty well as time goes on.
But the only reason it sells well
is because they take a massive 180 on the game
in its direction as the game goes on through the years.
And now Street Fighter 6 is literally,
as I described it, the Street Fighter 5 apology tour.
Everything about Street Fighter 6
is solving the issues that was Street Fighter 5.
And now we get the real Street Fighter game out of this shit.
So it's like, oh man, yeah.
Did they need to do that?
Not necessarily, but they did.
and they spent a lot of effort and a lot of money doing it.
And now Monster Hunter Wilds is in kind of a similar situation.
My dude, this bitch ass game sold like 10 million copies
in a month.
10 million copies of Monster Hunter Wilds
was sold in a month.
Capcom could have just taken that shit and been like sick.
Whatever, you know, damn, we got our sales, dude.
Fastest selling Capcom game of all time.
However, probably even though it was insanely fast selling,
did not continue to sell fast after that
because the word of mouth wasn't good
because the game was fundamentally flawed in many ways.
Took it personally.
These guys took this shit personally, dude.
So because of that, they're like,
all right, we need to go back and reevaluate this shit.
spent the entire year figuring out
how to make the game perform better.
And also, as a video game, it just wasn't as good.
Like, I'll be real.
Like, from a personal level, this game just
didn't do it for me for a Monster Hunter game.
And I think even outside of the performance issues,
that was a big part of it, man.
So what did they do over this past year?
Yeah, they pretty much directly attacked that,
directly went after all of these things that are like,
so what would make this really hit for Monster Hunter fans?
Completely redid the end game added a whole bunch of new crazy shit to really get you to play give you reasons to actually grind for stuff
Damn now. It's a Monster Hunter game. Holy shit. I'm having fun. I'm legit having a good time when I'm going back and playing this dude
so
This is where I appreciate Capcom as a company
They are not one of the typical foundational companies that are out here
trying to just sit on what makes money
and just do the thing that makes money.
Just keep doing the next thing that makes money
and do the next thing that they don't do that.
It seems like such an easy option for them.
Why the hell is there not a Devil May Cry six,
you dumb bastards?
Mostly because the guy that was passionate
about Devil May Cry was passionate
about making another game.
And he is, and he did, and then he left the company, dude.
So all things considered,
I have to, I give Capcom the most shit, bro.
Like the most shit of all companies.
I am the most harsh on Capcom
because I want them to do well.
And I deeply appreciate when like,
they do the thing that I want the most.
I don't want the game to not exist.
I don't want these things to just go by the wayside
and fall into the darkness.
We can't ever take these risks again.
We're out of here, dude, sorry.
No, no, no, they're like, we will fix it.
Like, that has been their approach, dude.
Like, we'll fix it.
We did you wrong on this one.
We'll make sure it works out later on.
So it's like, all right, I respect that shit, dude.
I deeply respect that shit because in the long term,
it's better for the financial health of the company
as well, not to earn immediate dividends,
but to build a relationship where something later can
grow to build up that relationship again to earn more money.
Yeah, that's what we want.
Like we don't want you to just go after the immediate bag.
Let's solve the problem at its core
and then build the audience over time and shit, you know?
Like an NBCI, I mean, to be real,
NBCI never got that opportunity,
but the current tenure at Capcom did do the thing
that we all wanted, which was to give us
all the old goddamn games.
Like give us the games that have been stuck
in a way forever and then they did it with that
and they did it with the other fighting games
and all the stuff that wouldn't make a ton of sales.
And they're like sales isn't even the goal.
We just want people to be able to play this stuff.
And I'm like, that's what I've been saying.
Holy shit.
They're finally, they're just doing it?
That's crazy, man.
So I deeply appreciate that shit.
I deeply, it means a lot to me, not just as a Capcom fan,
but for somebody that likes seeing things get better
and improve instead of just giving up.
Oh, because if there's one thing we see way too often
in this industry is that executives see that shit
and they're like, just give up.
Nah, I'm quitting.
I'm gonna sell off all my stocks.
I'm outta here, bitch.
That's just the way this industry works, and it sucks.
It deeply sucks.
Of course, man.
Anyway, nice chat.
That was a lot of yapping.
Are you all okay?
How do you feel about the base game of Wildscom
by another Monster Hunter games?
I mean, in its current state, I think it's pretty good.
I think it's ending in a pretty good spot.
It might be ending in a better spot.
No, actually, no.
The problem with Wilds is that it's fundamentally fucked up
because its level's stuck.
There's a fundamental issue with Wilds.
And it's just not fun to engage with anything in the game
outside of fighting monsters.
That's it.
That's it.
And that's still a problem.
That's still an issue that the game has.
The levels are uninteresting, and you
don't need to engage with them so I hope that I hope the expansion fixes that I
really do help the extension does something so many caves so many goddamn
caves dude nothing beats the grinding lands people don't like the grinding
lands I mean I think some people don't like the grinding lands but I really did
I real I thought the grinding lands was a cool ass endgame dude what a cool ass
Endgame. Holy shit. Such a sick idea. Just merging everything into one area. Holy crap.
The grinding line's a 70% of a cave. Yeah, but it was like rapidly very different looking caves.
You know? Very different caves as time went on. Grinding line. Yeah, people say people are either
extremely hot or extremely cold on the grinding lines. I see people saying it was hot ass.
It grew on me over time.
A lot of people in Twitch chat thought it was really good.
I'm on board where I was like, this is a really cool idea.
But I feel like anything, if you spend too long there,
the grinding lens did want you to spend way too long there.
I'll be real.
Some of this shit that it wanted you to unlock stuff and how you unlock monsters,
they wanted you to spend a little bit too much time there.
And even that was consolidated a bit in the,
the Iceborn Ice Mod.
Yeah, they made it easier.
They also patched it in the game too.
They made it better over time.
MH Wilds expansion, gift subs win.
That'll be at the Summer Game Awards.
I'm sorry, Summer Game Awards.
Summer Games Fest.
Summer Game Awards, same shit.
Yeah.
It'll be a lot of shit at Summer Games Fest, dude.
What has the chance of showing up at Summer Games Fest?
The next season of Street Fighter 6 will probably be there, not E3.
Final Fantasy shit, if it's not here, will definitely be there.
Virtual Fighter has a very good chance of being there.
Dude, playable FF7 could be there.
Playable Virtual Fighter could be there, to be honest.
We talked about state of play here.
I'll give you the, um, here's the outlook.
Here's what we're looking at.
Dustbloods could be there.
No, I don't think Nintendo shows up.
Nintendo does not show up to summer games fest.
So they won't be there.
Dustbloods will not be there.
You might get a trailer for dustbloods, but it won't be there.
Is this the most gift subs ever?
Yes.
I mean with with this alone. Yeah, because this just trumps everything
Yeah deeps nuts, thanks for the hundred thirty seven months man, how's it going?
You need to turn things around they certainly did they certainly did I'm feeling good about this week, dude
I'm feeling good
There's some interesting shit
I might go bankrupt with this one, but I hope dude, I hope so I will make that up in the content
I get to make for the next like 30 years of my life or some shit
Hey, you know I get a new Marvel vs. Capcom game. I mean the chance of it being fun pretty high
Pretty high
But I'll I'll that I get that made up with the fact that I will get to you know
Create things for this game forever like in the same way that I have for the previous NBC games and also
Also Marvel vs. Capcom 3, yeah dude, all I want is forever fighting games, that's all
I want.
I'm just at the point where I just want a game that I can always come back and play
whatever and people just love this shit.
I just want that.
I just like that.
It just makes me very happy that this is just a forever fighting game to people dude.
Street Fighter 6 is definitely a forever fighting game right now.
It just has hit too much for so many people, especially overseas.
it still hasn't even gotten any changes.
If NBC 4 happens, would you consider doing an assist me again for it?
Dude, I'll, I'll, I'm gonna be completely honest if.
Where to go?
If this happens, I'll do another assist me.
I have a great idea for this shit.
I have a great idea.
My dude, even if Marvel 3 rollback happens, fuck, yeah, this is our
opportunity to teach people about this game.
This is it.
like this is the opportunity.
Like, wow, you don't have to go through the parsec thing anymore.
My dude, of course, I have a really good idea for this of like a one off Marvel
versus gap crime episode.
Fuck yeah.
Hell yeah, I do.
Is there really a non-zero percent chance of a K I port?
Ah, it's very low.
It's really low.
It's like 10%.
It requires Microsoft to grow a brain, and it's just unlikely.
Would you have done an assist me for a token? I like that more.
I won't say that that's not off the table, but I have a wonderful idea for a token.
I don't like to talk too much about things that are like,
like, oh, me just blabbing and getting people excited
for something that isn't going to happen.
But if you want to know specifically,
I would really like to do a token assist me.
But the game has to vibe with me, dude.
Like, I have to really care.
I have a great idea for an episode, a one-off,
that I would love to do.
I think the story as well, I think, is extremely funny
of the parallels between modern doom
and assist me doom and shit.
Bro, there's a story that I really want to tell with that.
However, I have to like the game.
Like, I need to be like invested in the game in some way.
Like, I really need to.
So, yeah, there's an obvious, there's the obvious,
there's the obvious route that I would take with it.
But there's a level to that in the storytelling
that I would love I really think needs to be told,
personally speaking.
So yeah, these things are going to take a ton of time
and a ton of money and a ton of effort
and a shit ton of production.
And now because we have even more equity and availability
to do this, I have more.
The thing is, I have more access to do really cool things
with an Assist Me episode, so I'm going to go all out.
I don't need it to make its money back.
I just needed to fulfill the emotional demand in my head
of to make this shit cool.
The financial part of it isn't that much of an issue.
But I have to care.
It has to like, I need to produce the thing that's
in my head in a way that makes sense.
And I want to do that.
Like I really want to.
But it depends on me giving a shit.
So anyway, I hope so.
I hope the trailers that come out for Tocon soon,
whenever the Hellgust come out,
it's coming out after EVO this year.
I hope that this is great.
I hope it's great and I'm inspired.
I just wanna be inspired, that's it.
Claudio, thank you dude.
Give me some new footage of Anymusha.
Maybe, yeah.
I would like to see more footage of Anymusha.
I'm not super excited for it based on what I've played
so far, I think it's good, but I need to play more.
What don't I like about the token? The gameplay. Pretty much specifically the gameplay.
And if you're curious about what about the gameplay, you can check out any of the token
beta impression videos from anybody that is from the fighting game community. And they
all almost say the same shit.
New Shenmue?
Maybe we do one more recollection chat.
Because this is our moment.
Before I jump in, I want to play some,
you mind if I play some Neo3 chat?
I'm addicted to that fucking game.
This fucking game is great.
Holy shit, dude.
This piece of shit game is great.
Like, my god, I've been thinking about it for days.
I've been watching people play it for days.
I need to push main story.
But my god, dude.
What is re- are your legacies soon?
In fact, you know what? I'll tell you right now.
Because so many people are watching on YouTube and otherwise.
Um...
I have a plan tomorrow
to fire up Resident Evil 6 with Tiff. And we're going to be, we're going to be
splitting co-op on that. So we'll see if it takes us multiple streams. Probably,
it'd probably just be one stream, but we're doing RE6 tomorrow and Tiff has
not played through the Leon campaign in RE6, so it's going to be new to her. And
she is the ultra Leon fan. So it should be interesting. Well, we're going to do a
complete co-op playthrough and with room and opportunity to do some other stuff a
bit later, you know, as we get closer to the release of RE9. So yeah, should be good. Should be
quite a bit of fun. Can we get a FF14 counter? Yeah. I'm going to do that without telling her.
That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to put FF14 mention counter on the right. And every time
we don't tell her, but every time she mentions FF14, I'll put in like a gift. So
And I don't mention it, she's going to ask about it, I'm like, what are you talking about,
Tiff?
You're not, I don't see that, I'm just going to gaslight her, I'm going to be like, what
are you talking about?
I don't see a, at all, what, what, I'm going to have to put the guess on, jeez, another
one, another one, second season past team page has the character release dates, what?
There's an update. Oh, that's right.
It has the timeframes, spring, summer, fall.
We already knew that. That was in the trailer.
Yeah, this isn't the actual Tekken 8 patch notes.
This is the update with all the character passes and stuff like that.
Season pass page. Oh.
Oh.
Wow.
Wow.
Drippy.
Wow.
Okay. Those are neat. Iridescent outfits. April to June. I mean, also not exactly release
States. Oh, damn. October to December, July to September. And
then this character is getting a stage. Yeah, this is no mystery
state. This is a new character. Gaster otherwise is getting a
stage. January to March. That is a very interesting time frame.
That's all I'm gonna say. I don't think it is what you think
it is. I don't think it is what you think it is. But all I'm
gonna say is it's a very interesting time frame. That's
it. That's it. It's all I'm gonna say. It's I'm not even gonna
cope because I don't want to talk about it. I don't want to I'm
sick of putting the Tifa into Tekken thing into the world
people actually think it's gonna happen now but I'm like as soon as Clive happened that was over
right as soon as Clive happened like that's it dude sorry like but this is a weird time frame
that's that's it I'm just making observations weird as shit has happened don't get me wrong but like
The percentage is so goddamn low.
It's so low.
Sakurai made Sephiroth happen though.
Sakurai made Sakurai put not two Final Fantasy characters
into Smash Brothers.
Sakurai put two Final Fantasy seven characters
into Smash Brothers.
Mm-hmm and Ben Dynamico made it
Just throwing it out there and Ben Dynamico was the one that made it
So
And so I won't chat source not a final fantasy character. I mean I get it
He is about as close as you possibly can get but he's not right
He's not a final he's not a he's not a final fantasy guy. He's not from a final fantasy franchise
That's different. He's by a technical by a technical association
Wait, why is the NFF guy because he's literally from fucking Kingdom Hearts
What are we and Kingdom Hearts the last Kingdom Hearts had like no final fantasy shit in it, dude
Or very little they almost eviscerated that shit out of it
so I mean
the
the
the
the
the
Um, I'll stop thought started immediately ended yeah Mario is pretty much a Final Fantasy
character as well because he's in a game with Final Fantasy characters I agree I agree
so Samus Samus is pretty much a Kingdom Hearts character because Samus is also in a game
with Kingdom Hearts characters it's like the same shit and chance of Samus showing up
in the next one is likely that could happen. John Metroid. That's Samus guy is so cool.
I can't wait till he shows up with the next Kingdom Hearts snake solid snake could absolutely
show up in a new Kingdom Hearts game. They're like the same shit.
Anyway, three, two, one, one, two, three.
That's interesting.
Good call on this.
What the fuck?
If there was more Final Fantasy characters in Kingdom Hearts 4, would it renew my interest?
I mean, kinda.
I'll be real dude like
Cloud and Sephiroth like did it for me in Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 and they did way more with them in Kingdom Hearts 2
It helped it certainly was like oh
Oh shit cuz like Final Fantasy fans FF7 fans didn't have shit
So that was it like if you wanted those characters to continue in some way like this was pre-advent children man
Or like right after adventure the read around it
You know, like, yeah, we didn't have much.
So, FF7 existed in Kingdom Hearts. Good enough for me.
So, that my fascination with it at the time was immediate.
It was immediate. Like, cool. Sick.
I still love the cloud design in Kingdom Hearts, dude.
I still love it. I think it's cool as shit.
But I like the other stuff I did. I like what they did with Leon.
you know, Squall. I didn't understand why it was called Leon. I still don't. But I liked it. I
like that Squall had actually grown as a character. I thought that was neat. Like, cool. I think I ended
up liking Leon Squall more than Cloud in Kingdom Hearts, dude. Straight up. I thought it was great.
And then they fight back to back and shit. I'm like, this shit's peaked, dude. This shit's fucking awesome.
Kingdom Hearts is what got you into FF. I think that's sort of the goal, you know. In
a similar way that like Marvel vs. Capcom games, like the crossover games, the whole
goal is to get you into either side, is to get like Disney folks that are trying this
shit that are in the Disney shit into Final Fantasy and the same thing otherwise, like
Final Fantasy people more into Disney stuff. You want to go to Disneyland or some whatever
reason, you know. It was the exact same thing with crossovers like Smash Brothers and Marvel
versus Capcom. The idea is that you're going to get people to investigate one
side or the other more than they would have before. The only reason I knew the
majority of Marvel characters I knew was because of MVC games, man. And to be real,
even MVC games introduced me to more Capcom characters than I knew. Like, I
didn't know who Captain Commando was. I didn't know who Strider was. I barely knew
anything about that guy before MVC one and I love that that game made me fall
in love with that character is my favorite fighting game character of all
time so yeah like that works like people people found out through final about
Final Fantasy 7 through Kingdom Hearts I want to watch that scene now holy shit
the
It's small. It was much less than I remember. I think in my head that was something much
cooler and much bigger. In my head, that was significantly bigger and cooler than I remember.
Jesus man, that's for a long time ago. It's still sick. Don't get me wrong. Like, when
The our perspective has changed when you this is bad when you have so
when you have so little to work from any small breadcrumb will feel like a lot.
So but now that we have like two massive Final Fantasy remakes on the cusp
of a third and also movies and fiction and a bunch of stuff like now we get
to be picky and choosy about like what's what has been the best of all of it.
We don't have many fucking options.
And there's just Kingdom Hearts games beyond FF7, you know.
Yeah, Kingdom Hearts, Sephiroth.
Was Kingdom Hearts 2, Sephiroth Superman?
Or was that still Lance Bass?
I think it was George Newburn, right?
I think it was the Superman actor.
Yeah, it was Superman.
That's also a weird ass thing, Jeff, is that.
Um, fucking modern Sephiroth is the modern show Superman that recently ended and the
mid 2000s Sephiroth from like Kingdom Hearts 2 and Advent Children and stuff was also Superman.
It was the animated series Superman voice actor. Yeah, Tyler Houghlin is the modern Sephiroth who
was Superman and George Newburn, who was the voice actor for Superman, was Seferoth back
then. Pretty weird. Pretty weird coincidence. And Lance Bass is not. That's it. The only
connection that Lance Bass has to, you know, Superman and Seferoth is that I mistook Backstreet
boys for in sync during the smash reveal.
That's it. The closest thing.
Yeah, George Newborn, only Superman on Justice League.
So he was not Superman in TAS, the animated series.
So Sephiroth is Superman, kind of.
He is an alien, mostly.
You really want to switch to Patch for Smash,
dude don't we all don't we all
I'm waiting Lex
hold on a second what was the thing I wanted to look at before I got distracted
by your bitch ass chat
I just want to watch this one one more time and his hair is still big and you know it's
crazy is that we're on the cusp of this happening I'm gonna play Neo don't be wrong but let me
just sit here and embellish a little bit let me just enjoy this moment before it goes away
This will be gone from this point forward chat. Hold on a second. This is before we had an intro
There's not much to be looking forward to in this state of play. The previous one was very small
I don't know if they're even predicting it at being 15 minutes. It's supposed to be also very
brief
But monster hunter is gonna have something soon after which should be pretty cool
Look at this dumb bitch up here. Look at this absolute stupid bitch
Look at his no idea. Look at his dumb ass. There's no idea. This is gonna be a small one.
It was small. It was like 20 minutes. It was it was nothing. It was so little.
I have zero expectations. It begins! Look at this stupid bitch right here.
I'm in his Marvel shirt. Chad, if I was wearing this Marvel shirt then and Marvel
versus Capcom was announced you would have said, damn, he knew. He knew about
Marvel vs. Capcom he's wearing a Marvel shirt shit that was the same shirt I wore when Marvel was announced
I wonder if what day was this hold up
2019, hold up.
Hold up.
2019, shut up.
I wonder if I have the chat.
I legit do.
Do I have the chat for this?
Do I?
Do I have the chat?
The the ancient chat, I think I do.
Past broadcast, can I go to special events?
and see if it shows up. What the hell?
Yeah.
Seven years ago,
Price's score
six years ago,
Terry and smash TGS
Twitch URL then videos damn dude you are a god
Twitch URL slash videos slash 422 664 997 bloop
Videos slash shut up
you
you
you
you
you
Oh my god, dude, I had no idea.
Oh my fucking god.
Everyone losing their fucking minds.
Oh my fucking god.
Janet it was four years.
It's been it was four years.
People went through the entirety of their high school career.
They went from freshman all the way to senior and those bitches graduated, dude.
Like, that was, it was so long.
Oh my god.
Chatton losing their fucking minds.
Oh, oh my god.
for you losing their god damn minds
I'm looking at holy shit, dude
And you bear to see the planet suffer
Oh my god
okay there's a there's a fucking future holy shit dude
all time for the ps4 generation we can't wait to see not for them dude the
expansion to this bitch wasn't even on ps4 that's insane Sony that's crazy
yeah yeah you baited people for so long dude even the expansion to this shit
didn't make it to ps4 that's so mean dude that's so mean it just took way too
goddamn long for you guys to do anything it's still on this generation
it's been four years bro it's been four I've
I've the last time I did a play through of FF7, I swear to myself, I'm not gonna do another
play through of this game until they show something else until they officially fucking
happened.
Oh my God.
It was a good day.
It was a good day.
Nobody was expecting it to, you know, like that was the craziest part is that nobody
was expecting this shit to happen on this day.
inclination that it was ever coming back. We thought it was just going to get
silently canceled. Like that was the, those were the vibes. Like just forget about
the game because it's probably never going to come out. We were officially in
the Kingdom Hearts fan phase. Just, okay let's just start, stop, forget about the
game. Don't think about it. Turn your brain off to it. It's probably never
coming out. It was, it was fun to think about for a little while. Like, it's
got to stop, man. Let's take the things that were bugged people about FF15, which
they fixed a lot of in FF 15 Royale and maybe some of the kind of Kingdom Hearts was
stop talking about Kingdom Hearts bro interesting Kingdom Hearts stop it wow
you don't give people any fuel uh they've been they've been trolling us for four years
don't give people any fuel it's not talking about it instantly uh oh my god beanie hold up
Oh my god.
Dead.
I'm dead.
Oh, hi honey.
Scared the shit out of me.
He's growling, scared me.
Beanie.
And now it's FF7, we get to color you orange.
No you don't like that.
No, likey.
No likey.
Benny got shaved in the chat room.
Matt McMuscle's predator game.
Here's some money.
We get to play the predator game.
There's a predator multiplayer game, Benny.
Dude, he hated the emotes of himself.
He hated it.
Did I have a screen over here
that has like a big screen of the chat and stuff like that?
That was just always on?
He saw the emotes of his smiling face right here.
he hated that shit he's like he did not like the look of other dogs on screens it freaked him out
i'm actually gonna get the benny faces away from them so he doesn't freak out from it
now he won't freak out yeah chatroom started betting that's not benny you can put you can put
benny right there if you want oh he has uh he has very shade to this boopy tail chat i mean i can
I can be honest JJ was never the same. She wasn't.
That hit her more than anybody but like JJ was never the same after we lost Benny.
She still hasn't recovered from it.
Beanie.
Beanie Tarris, thank you dude.
Yeah, I'm still recovering from it in many ways.
Benny doesn't like Matt. He has a cat.
He doesn't like him. He's got a cat.
All right, I need to turn on Neo. I don't want to cry on stream. That's shit.
All right, let's go. Let's turn on the video game.
I might go make some hot coffee. Shit, dude.
Okay. All right. All right.
I'm happy and also sad that like I have so many of those stream memories, you know, all that stuff.
I guess this might be an appropriate time too, but one of the tough things that we've
been going through chat as well is that about a month ago we had to put down Luna.
She just got way too old and she needed help doing everything and she was just in a lot
of pain all the time.
So she was a rescue that we've had for 11 years.
So we didn't even know how old she was.
She might have been, she was a husky mix, you know?
So it was a while ago now, but also it was affecting my wife a lot too.
She needs dogs, dude.
So anyway, that was something that I've just been going through on the background that
I just didn't want to bring up to anybody before I would be comfortable talking about it
Because I can't I couldn't talk about losing Benny until like nine months later
Just could not talk about it
With an audience so anyway never saw Luna you saw her every once in a while
She was
this was Luna this was her
this is when we got her surgery for her leg this was the first um this was one of like
the first days we adopted her yeah this is sweetest probably the sweetest dog you could
not get her mad
couldn't get her mad about anything dude
actually the moon
kill me
she's like where'd you go
i think frost is early
turn me up in us.
Oh no.
Oh no.
Oh no.
What's happening with the dog?
I don't know.
Are you so frustrated because I didn't bring her anything?
No, no. Were you expecting treats?
Sorry.
She's like,
she's like,
she's like,
she's like,
she's like,
I'm sorry.
It's really weird.
No, it's not.
The problem with Luna is that she wasn't a dog.
She was just a cat.
That was the conclusion that me and JJ came to.
This isn't a dog.
She didn't like to play.
She liked to be pet or eat.
Those were the two things, nothing else, nothing.
She pretty much just sat around and was a potato her whole life.
The entire life we had of her, she was just so relaxed.
And Ripley would get on top of her
and jump on top of her and stuff like that
and she just didn't care.
She was such a cat.
And no part of her was dog-like.
It was very funny.
It's unacceptable.
Dog's like.
Luna.
I'm sorry.
Good girl.
You're a good girl.
Yeah, she was a very sweet dog.
And yeah, it was one of those moments when it's like when you see them pass
It was almost like she was done she was so
She was done man, and I yeah, it was like one of those things where it's like
Yeah, I finally felt like oh, yeah, she's finally relieved. She doesn't need to deal about deal with this anymore
Yeah. Yeah, that's brutal. But so, and now Ripley really wants more dogs. Now my daughter
really wants a puppy. She really does. So figuring that out, you know. Figuring that
out. I'm trying to figure that out. Are you getting one? Well, we're gonna figure it out.
We need to find the right situation. The right dog.
Yeah, I mean, if there's one thing I'm extremely fortunate for,
Luna had a debilitating issue with her leg when it was like 2016, 2017.
And she like lost the tendon in her leg and her bone was fusing together, so she was just
howling when she would walk around.
I mean, straight up, if it wasn't for at the time,
the support we had of the stream and stuff like that,
because you would literally hear her walking
in the background to get food and stuff.
This was like nearly 10 years ago, right?
We got a ton of ridiculous donations
and support from people for Luna.
She wasn't even on stream that much.
So we got her the surgery, it was literally 12 grand.
It was insanely expensive.
and she could walk straight up.
She could walk and she can move around and run.
It took a lot of healing.
It took like two months of JJ having to carry her
from like a towel.
Just lift her up to go to the bathroom to do anything.
But her leg fully healed and she was good.
good. There's in no situation or fashion could anybody afford that. Like insane. In no way
could any random person with a dog. Like that's just it dude. Like I realize that. I realize
that for everybody else and for myself when I was earlier with pets and stuff like that.
and me and JJ had pets.
That's just it. You'd have to go to the vet and put them down. So...
12,000 or 1,200? That leg surgery was $12,000.
Yeah, not 1,200. That's how much vet bills are, dude.
If you need to get a big surgery, like people just can't afford that. The dog just can't walk.
And that was back in like 2016. God knows how much it is now.
It was insanely expensive.
So
Anybody that has pets that has been through enough pets knows that that's I'm not making that shit up, dude
Like even us fixing Benny's teeth for dental stuff because Pomeranians teeth rot really fast
Dental for dogs is insane
Like they're so expensive and if you can't afford it, it's like
That's just it
They can't walk and they're just in pain all the time and then now comes the question like well
Do you put them down or not?
because now like
Jesus dude
so anyway
It's the harsh reality of just having pets
Like if you just can't afford things so I mean I
Yeah, yeah, I put myself in anybody else's situation where it's like we would never have been able to afford this ever
Does insurance help?
Uh...
Pet insurance is much more common nowadays.
I don't know if we even thought about pet insurance.
Thank you, Taka.
I don't even know if we even considered or thought about pet insurance.
Back then.
Like nine years ago?
I don't know.
I don't know.
It probably would be greatly beneficial now.
Co told us that co had to pay like 12k to fix his dogs back when he got hurt
Yeah
This is your mom's lover dog. Yeah, Ron, he comes up here every once in a while
Yeah, I cry I might know sorry man
I didn't do that I don't need a three bosses compared to Kazan bosses
they're different because they're multifaceted you can change how you want to fight the boss
there's a lot more resources you get in this game than Len Kazan like way more resources
damn this game is running smooth as shit and it looks great holy hell I've actually really
Warmed up to the graphics of this game. I think it looks very good
Kind of dog would you guys get again when you do?
Not a Pomeranian we can't
We can't we're probably not gonna get a husky either
I
Want my wife to have her dream dog. I just do I want JJ to have an Irish wolfhound, but they're also very hard to find
It's not easy to find dogs
And they're um the size of horses
You get a cat yeah, nah too many allergies and stuff like that. Oh
Hey you oh my god, I can't even aim that low
dude if we had an Irish Wolfhound show up on stream that would be crazy ain't
nobody got an animal that big hanging out no streamers got animals that big
hanging out in their house dude I can't aim lower this is bullshit oh my god I'm
I'm gonna- God, damn it!
God!
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!
Eyy!
Get a mastiff? Not with kids!
Not gonna get a mastiff with kids.
The other thing about Irish Wolfhounds is that they are...
big.
What? My God, dude. They are the sweetest fucking dogs.
They were bred to hunt wolves. But around humans they're insanely sweet. The the
only the only negative thing can happen is that they're very large. They're
huge. Yeah them and Great Danes they're pretty sweet dogs. So anyway yeah I want
I want something completely different you know if we get other if we get more
dogs like I know nothing can ever replace many and nothing can ever replace
Luna, so I would not want the exact same or similar breed of dog again.
Oh, here.
Would you guys send another rescue? 100% yes. We want specific kind of dogs which makes that tough, but
But rescue is our special owl.
Oh, that shit.
Not gonna get a Jonesy for Ripley now.
Ripley doesn't even know about any.
I forget that Ripley's named after aliens.
I forget that.
I've almost completely forgotten it.
And almost nobody we run into
knows what that's from.
Like, it's funny.
I know it's like, for you guys, it's probably obvious, but...
Like, any of the people she's met or knows her or teachers or anything like that,
like, know anything about it.
And it's like, oh, that's a sweet game. That's a sweet name. It's like like it's like Riley. I'm like, yeah a little bit
Ow
Who watched Alien with her? No, she's five. She doesn't like Pirates of the Caribbean
She needs a nightlight.
Oh, that opened up a side quest?
How weird.
Okay.
Uh...
Dad made you watch Alien Universe 7?
Yeah, 7, not 5.
Bruh.
Oh, God.
Oh, I'm about to die.
dude where is this place this game starts I mean I think this game is my
early goatee right oh we're here okay we're here
cool
I haven't played the past neos you don't need to fuck them. I mean they're good, but fuck them
Jump right into this one. It's easily the best game. I could not get into neo2, bro
straight up
Fuck them
Just play this one you will be happy. You'll have a good time
And it's not even that they're bad games, it's that, like, Nioh 2 has, like, amazing
combat and it's wonderfully challenging and all this stuff, but, like, there's some rough
around the edges aspects of it.
Nioh 1 as well.
Like, Nioh 1's a bit more absorbable because it's like, oh, okay, so this is just the way
this game is.
Alright, it's fine, I'm having a good time anyway.
And then asking you to play another game where you have to deal with those issues again and
I'm like, ugh.
You know, the combat's really good. I'm like, yeah, but, uh, like,
this game fixes the problems that Neo has straight up.
It addresses the issues directly and it's just a better game.
It's just a way it changes the entire game flow of Neo.
What wouldn't run? What went wrong with Wollong? It was just Neo again.
Wollong was just Neo with Sekiro parrying.
It was the same shit.
It wasn't like, like, the gameplay experience is vastly different.
Wollong was just the same kind of thing again.
So it was like, oh, I thought this was gonna be a lot different.
Not really.
I need something for that.
So the funny thing is, is that they add the Wollong shit into this game with the parry.
They literally put it in here.
This is closer to, like, the Elden Ring of the Neo series, yeah.
This is there, oh well we've made plenty of games now, let's just cram everything we've
made into one game.
Where am I?
Okay, crab.
Anyway, I've been glazing this shit a lot, I've just been watching people playing it,
everyone's falling in love with it.
It's like, yep, shit's good.
I'm gonna die if I fall in this water though.
Exploring is great.
Dones are cool.
This game is tedious. Do you think it's tedious?
I haven't found anything super tedious about it yet.
But yes.
Just kind of been having a good time.
Nothing as tedious as the previous Nios.
Do I like it more than Sekiro?
Yes.
I think I could say that even at the beginning of the game.
I actually like it more than Sekiro.
But they're very different.
Like Sekiro is not...
Sekiro is barely a souls-like, you know?
Um, I need...
Oh my god.
That's the one!
Bam!
Damn, that thing does a big ass chop.
Securize your favorite combat of all times, you're super biased.
Yeah, I understand.
I can- I can completely understand why Securus Combat will hit really hard for some people.
Like, I actually get it.
Um...
And I wish I could join you.
I just don't feel the same way.
But I think most people are the same way. It's like, I can under- I think most people can see why Securus Combat hits so much.
Without, like...
What?
One-pitch.
Idiot.
This sounds like a tauntaun.
I felt kind of bad doing that.
Well, this is level 17, dear. Dude, this is... What am I, like, 30 something?
Hold up.
Uh, I'm 43! Oh my god.
I thought they sounded bad on the outside, or smelled bad.
We have here.
Oh.
It's fine and shit.
Ken, you.
Hold up.
What was that comment?
Oh.
By the way guys, can we all bully Twitch to remove the Roblox option before I kill myself?
I put my foot down, man.
My daughter is like, yeah, I don't really want to play Roblox.
I'm like, nope.
Sorry.
Nope.
Not for kids.
Nope.
Nope.
This one piece is gonna get bad at me about it. It'll be that eventually.
Nope.
Uh, there's a spirit vein over here that I can actually utilize.
I don't think it gives a shit about the water attack, bro.
Right down here.
is the worst. What? Okay. Where's the spirit vein we're talking about here?
Oh, that's very powerful.
That perfect frame on just Spinwheel is good.
It's awesome, isn't it?
I missed it.
There you go.
Hell yeah.
I think it's pretty sick.
I think it's pretty sick.
This crab is protecting the spirit thing.
That is a huge-ass crab.
So did I do parrying there yee.
Do you know what I grabbed you have with this game I think it's too long?
So here's the interesting thing about it.
Yeah, there's a shit ton of stuff to do.
Like a metric shit ton.
But do you have to do it?
This is the kind of what's happening now with games where it's like content bloat.
You don't really need to do everything.
And if for a lot of people in the way their brain works,
it's the same situation as FF7 Rebirth.
They feel like they have to do everything when they see it.
But you have FOMO. Exactly. I think it's just like a mentality issue.
Like legit. I think some people just cannot get around the fact that like, oh, just, well, if you're getting bored, just move to main quest. Just go cram main quest, you know?
So, yeah.
I don't think that's a skill issue necessarily. More like, that's just the way people's brains work.
And these games are designed to just give you a shit ton of stuff to do all over the place.
Oh!
It's an achievement thing too.
That is a good point.
Where people are so conditioned
to have to get like the achievements.
I see what you mean.
Okay.
Yeah.
Where achievement brain
has been affected and been a thing for so long
that you have to do it.
I have to get my money's worth. I have to get the achievement.
Simon K, thank you.
I can see that.
What's the code domino over here?
Ow!
Wow. Holy shit.
Oh, he's not over here. He's over there.
I'm in combat, so no I can't go anywhere.
You piece of shit lizard.
Clearly is a crab.
You think without the achievements, people wouldn't be so inclined to do everything?
100%!
That is the thing that Microsoft did, dude.
Like achievements in games, like legit, is a conditioning thing that has happened over
the past like 15 years to games, where people now feel they have to do everything.
to be honest it's kind of smart it's kind of genius but still like I never
felt like I needed to 100% like very few games that I feel like I needed a
hundred percent I never felt that way before it's like oh I just had a good
time why am I so big over here but I feel like I personally needed to max out
everything and do all this and do all that no dude that is like hell no when I
was not streaming hell no I did it for like Final Fantasy 7 and a couple of
other games like baby boy like to do everything in the game hell
ego baiting I'm boy it's because it's a displayed ego bait right it's a thing
that you literally share with others.
Dude, I still have it 100% at Final Fantasy VII, remake.
I still didn't do all the dresses and shit.
Some ego at status.
That is the same thing.
KYH.
I'm looking at you.
This is directly tied to Ego.
Anything's over here.
Jesus statue.
Who's swinging?
Oh. Wait. Oh, it was you. Ah, shit.
What the hell?
Well, nice cave.
How about I just find?
Oh, cool.
Little bit of level design here.
I like it.
by a little bit I mean barely any and it's doing it for me. Secret tunnel.
Actually enjoying exploring shit using auto pickup you know it. How did you drown?
Actually impossible.
Huh.
We're literally back to where we were.
Oh!
Cute.
Did I miss something?
Oh, the Gizmo statue's in here. Duh.
Uh, somebody said 1200 last time.
AHH!
Kick head!
I'm looking.
Chill.
of
the
of the
of the
good
nice tunnel
it's always gonna be first page of gestures
where was it? it was a thumbs up
dude, I'm not in the first page, I'm an idiot
Damn it. I wasn't on the first page.
We got a random crucible spike.
Right up here.
A weird big guy.
I didn't forget everything.
Ooh.
Okay.
Actually like tantalizing upgrades for shit.
Feels good.
Oh, that's where we are. Ah, I see, okay.
I understand, though.
Yeah, very rewarding exploration.
Feels good, man.
Solve all that shit.
Crucible race.
Chillin' over here.
What are we talkin' about?
Dude, I- what did I just say?
My bitch ass said, hey, we need to do MSQ.
Hey, I said, we need to do some MSQ.
Look at us.
Well, that doesn't hurt with that guy.
Oh, are you in there? No.
It's a bitch hidden over here.
What?
What?
Fascinating.
Twice.
This is stupid.
oh there's a crucible right behind whatever the hell this shit is god damn it
I definitely can't open up this no not yet
Go on!
Oh, that sucks.
Okay.
It sucks.
204 exploration on Hamamatsu Hill.
3 of 4 on Mika Tagahara.
Gate is locked there.
Can I not get there?
Can I just run up here to there?
I'm going to try.
Most of it's technically locked behind main story.
Alright, we gotta push main story soon.
I saw that guy
I didn't hear before this is a book to the right
I'll try the weapons I really want to but I have to like restat all of them
You know?
Oh, shit.
It's hard locking me.
Yeah, I can't get anywhere over here.
Somebody said, in the comments, get everything to 10.
Get everything baseline to 10, you get the most buffs and bonuses once you get everything
to 10.
And then start hyper-focusing other shit.
So I think I'm going to do that.
That's like a Neo thing.
I'm like, okay.
It's a 10 philosophy, yeah, exactly.
And it allows you to equip the things that have like stat barriers that prevents you
from using them.
I'm running into that right now where I don't get the buffs and bonuses from shit because
I need to have like 9 strength and 7 skill or whatever.
At that point it makes sense.
I don't know, give me something to look forward to.
Okay, screw this shit.
Uh...
What the hell is going on?
Fire.
Yeah, I'm gonna go...
here.
You're like when you can't reset as easily because it gives every choice more weight,
a little bit, which is why I'm...
This one looks great.
This is why I'm like manually doing it and personally doing it that way.
You know what it's like?
I will reset my stats if I am...
If I'm not having fun, right?
If it is affecting my enjoyability of the playthrough, yeah, I'll reset some stats.
But I'm not, so I can just... I have a goal. My goal is not to get everything to 10. I like the goal.
I'm weird chat. You know how, like, they're gonna be updating FF7 Rebirth with all that quality of life level-up stuff and, you know,
um, accessibility options, which I think is fine.
I'm a weird bitch and I could easily download a save file of all of that shit
if I wanted to.
My problem is I don't, and I never got a chance to like grind the game
and level up the materia and do all that shit.
Um, and I kind of want to, like I want to like level up everything
and get all that shit maxed out to a point where it's like fun
And I can just make crazy builds with stuff because I never did I never like did the bee farm I
Never did the gongaga farm in rebirth because they have easy farming spots. It's not hard
It's just that I never did it and I feel like it's a part of the game like grinding in an RPG as a part of the game
and even in OG FF7 remake
We grinded the Shinra the Shinra parking lot the the garage
for all the bad guys.
The place was good for that.
Does hard mode give you that? Not really.
It's mostly like you're supposed to grind before you get to hard mode.
And get all that AP, and then take it into hard mode.
That's kind of what it's for.
So I kind of like enjoy that.
I think that's like, there's a novel part of me that...
And you know what, you know what did that to me?
This legendary ass spot.
This place, dude.
And then you get the rare guys.
Just that room, you know?
Everyone grinded so much here.
Everyone grinded this shit so much.
five seven
weapons
and then you get the guys like the seers what are they called the guys that jump up and down
just the vibes of that room
i like it
i like it
Movers, thank you, not seers, movers.
I swear to god this game isn't even running at 60, it looks like it's running at 120.
Swear to god.
That's crazy.
It's such a smooth 60 FPS that it looks like it's running at 120.
I'll take care of that.
If it's your hard cap, doesn't do 120 in my game, I could set it to 120, but um...
I just didn't.
I just wanted to be like...
60 so that the stream sees a wonderful 60 instead of like, mistimed 120.
And if the game is dropping between like 120, 110, 120, you guys will get weird frame timing, it won't be 60.
So I know that what you're looking at is like as smooth as it looks like for me.
Dude, the frame pacing is so important.
It's so good
They make you realize so many games 60 is bullshit. It's not actually 60 man the frame-pacing makes it look like it's like 45
Yeah.
Oh,
Oh,
Oh,
Oh,
Oh,
Oh,
Oh,
Oh,
Fight my way through.
Yeah, dude. Lies of P 60 FPS.
Jesus, man.
Might as well be 120.
So smooth.
That's wonderful.
It's a cool move.
Pretty cool move.
Lies at peace though, the best souls like,
yeah, if we're talking pound for pound, it is.
Does it have the absolute best combat of souls likes?
No, I don't think so.
But everything else is from soft level quality.
Like so much other aspects of it are like,
near from soft level quality.
The level design maybe not entirely there,
but it's really close.
I think it's better than some from soft games, yeah.
Uh-oh.
Holy shit, he bit me in midair!
Ow!
of
the
of
the
That's what we use it.
Ooh.
Ooh.
Dude, it also helps Eliza P add an amazing story.
Another thing that we also sort of like take for granted, like LizaP had an actual really
good story that was followable, that still had a whole bunch of subtext and like hidden
lore all over the place and shit.
All the way to its DLC, it was great.
characters and stuff, like, dude.
There's one thing that is, um, like, in Miyazaki games and Souls games, like, you get the essence
of a story, but not, like, the big picture.
You get an idea that there's a lot to this, and when you start digging, you're gonna find
a lot to it.
But it isn't straightforward by design.
Um, their most straightforward story was Sekiro, and even that story is like, it's
okay.
It's part of the charm so having like a story still gonna be a little bit of everything felt good
Jesus Christ
I am an idiot
I
That's all dog
That's all dog
I'm just stamin' up rope meat.
Not this time.
Pull me once.
Kiss my ass.
There's one enemy in here.
Great.
You care about Platinum's not at all.
I'll do it in the case of games I just really like, just because I like Bloodborne for example.
I'll just want to see the absolute completion of it.
But I've never Platinumed a game outside of Bloodborne.
The only one.
Shit, bro.
Stupid rat.
Ew.
Well, that's doing significantly more damage.
Well, I plowed him FF7 Reaver, and I didn't, um, no, I didn't.
Never felt obligated to.
I didn't even feel obligated to, like, finish all of the side quests.
I didn't.
I didn't even do all of the, uh, sadly VR shit.
They still have it.
Yeah, Rebirth's Platinum is significantly easier than it was now.
Then it was, um, when it came out.
Because there's strategy now, you know?
Like now you can actually do that, rulers of the outer world or whatever the heck quest it is.
Now you can actually do that without dying
What's the combo to turn with the swords together
Oh my god, that's right. I put this here instead cool
He was in front of the box
Centered way scotch. I'm not looking at these anything that are actually good for me
I'm not really.
Oh, I need to do the thing that everyone was recommending that I do.
I need to do the thing that I do.
Where is it?
Chat controls.
Where is it at?
Controls, type B, StyleShifts. Which one is it? What's the good one? Is it B?
The control type uses L, B, Y, and X to activate some martial arts.
Okay.
So that goes over there now.
Wow.
Wow, dude.
I don't have to do the dumb shit.
Oh, my God.
This is 10 times better.
Holy moly.
Oh, this is so much better, dude.
Oops.
So we can hang of it.
This is so much better.
Does this combat better than Kazan?
No.
No, I don't think it is.
It's very good.
Weeding Kazan combat is going to be quite hard.
Yeah, alright, cool.
The problem is, it's not even a problem.
They're just very different.
Kazan leans on being a few things, but it leans in on them very well, like, it really
leans in on them.
And I only get to talk about the experience of the greatsword combat, but still, Jesus
bro, it's got the best greatsword in a game I've ever played.
Just the best.
Monster Hunter in my opinion
Because Monster Hunter can wildly vary
But also because I'm upset outside of combat, I mean
It's all right everything else is like a seven or an eight out of ten and the combat is
Goaded this fuck
Oh my, I'm wrapping my brain around this shit dude.
If you do another one of the other weapons it's fun as fuck, I wouldn't be surprised.
I'm the 1080 video you made this short.
This place is dork.
Too dork.
So the inputs on control B is that instead of pressing like up and back with the analog
stick with a button, I would have to do forward or back.
Now I just press LB, and just press a button.
This is LB, this is Y, LB and X, if I had it on here,
and I would get it.
LB, LBX, LBY, there's my parry.
So now I can do this shit in the air, like no problem,
I just do this in the air, no problem,
I go to this, no problem, I can chain this, no problem,
look, I can just chain this shit.
I don't even have to aim anymore, bro.
I don't even have to aim, that's insane.
You can just mash it.
You can do this now.
Into the spin.
Sick.
Don't know if I can't switch your favorite greats or whatever was Siegfried's.
So I have to play Kazan to see how it feels.
Kazan is just Siegfried in Nightmare the story.
That's also why I really like it.
It's just a Siegfried in Nightmare story.
Probably going backwards.
I don't know. I hear the jingle.
What?
Kitty.
I
Team Ninja retreated a combo video from someone in this game. That was definitely master. That was their community guy
Wait a week
Dude I got mad sidetracked
Bad sidetracked
Holy shit, I don't know if it's going the right way.
Yeah, Master's a big old-school DOA community guy in Ninja Gaiden. He works on Team Ninja.
He's been there community for a long time.
He's the guy that came over and talked to me about Ninja Gaiden
Uh-oh
Hey, that's a neos neo three supports go to this fuck. It's very good. I
Don't even need to convince you just play the demo
You don't even need my opinion like you can
And you can get your own formulative opinion because the demo is also really good.
And the demo progress carries over.
This way.
Oh my god.
Okay.
Hmm.
Hmm.
Hmm.
Hmm.
Hmm.
Hmm.
He's all my shit, and now he's coming after me.
Okay, we're serious.
I
Can't react to that shit bro
of
them and said it's mad for it
These skills...
Unminja, follow form.
Performing this leaves an after-image.
Your key will partially restore it if an enemy comes into contact with the after-image.
Specific.
Thanks.
Not the one parry thing, right?
Right here, like, stop.
Oh, that is still the same thing, okay.
Got seven bullets out of nowhere.
Oh.
Oh, because I rested like an asshole.
Shadow or death.
5th
five
1
5th
I
5
five
5th
5th
five
five
five
a
five
of
the
death
of
the
thing that the open world so far not really open world just big zones
big very exploreable areas and I really like it man
..in for the instruction, it's an in-sense all the way down, not against it.
Okay, out. Vibration, trigger, strength, button, pull.
I don't understand.
Zero.
Any idea where the hell it is?
Which one is the actual aim sensitivity?
What the hell are weird names?
Your camera?
I already turned the camera sensitivity down.
I'm talking about the like, ADS aiming.
This big bitch. Oops. Sorry.
God.
Oh, wow, that's impressive.
Oh, I got him.
It's in camera settings.
Okay.
horizontal aim of speed ranged weapons okay yeah that's better that's better I agree
Oh, wow, you can actually cut these?
No.
This place must be bit-rayed hell.
I'm not over here.
Sorry, brother.
What?
Ah.
I hope we get moving grass in FF7 Part 3.
It's a little, at least the PC version, man.
You know?
If it's going to be multi-planned, at least the PC version can give us that.
Damn, overwhelming.
Look at that.
Oh, I didn't see the new Black Width trailer.
Is it good?
I got to buy your stuff.
Vanu-lit of camaraderie.
Co-op stuff?
Okay.
Okay, I'm gonna buy those
This game is great dude, it's just such a bow you fucking
It sucks
You're not a neo fan or souls-like fan would you enjoy would you not enjoy neo 3 oh
If you enjoy hack and slash like ninja Gaiden and DMC you would love this game straight up. Yes
The only thing that might throw you off is like the loot goblin aspect of it
Sorry, man.
The loot aspect of it might throw you off a little bit, but they also really evened out
the loot aspect of the game.
It's not nearly as cumbersome as it was before.
So any stealth missions, you can play it stealthily if you want.
Literally let you switch between Samurai and Ninja on the fly at any point
Pretty good call
And the game also looks pretty good like we were sort of digging on this game's visuals
Early on but I think now I'm totally on board with it
Don't kill me, sir.
There's something good to do after that.
The dash through?
Good.
Good.
What are we doing over here?
What is a...
Oh, it's Hanzo.
Yeah, sure, man.
I mean, we'll rebe do agae real quick.
Double edged arts.
Hey, yo, what?
Is damage dealt by strong attacks and martial arts by 20% while arts proficiency is active?
You lost me.
You lost me.
The arts proficiency?
Oh, the Glow Sword.
Yeah, that's very specific though.
Okay, nah, I'm good, let's go brother.
Yeah the white sword thing.
He's just gonna go and guns a blazing
of
Ow, man.
What, you just ignore that?
Co-op missions are fun.
How's the English in the game chat? Is it any good? English for you.
It's funny.
It's good enough.
Damn, this goose is sick.
Oh my god.
First off my friend here.
Holy nipples!
I'll take care of it.
Hey, I'm coming!
Excuse me.
Repukin.
I got too tired of saying Raphook and Jatt.
I feel like this guy's around here.
Aha!
This game will optimize. Um...
It's running good for me.
I have a lot of 40-90 though.
not an adaptive not in turn any of the adaptive FTS stuff on it is ran it straight at 60
So there's a reason why everyone's talking very highly about it, it's good.
Word of mouth is the most beneficial thing for a game nowadays.
Straight up.
Why not 120 streaming purposes?
Who the hell?
What a fight.
Come back alone.
Oh, I have to...
Oh, you're a master.
Oh, shit.
He's a master.
Oh, I have to come back when I don't have the quest going.
interesting.
funny.
damn. cool.
cool vibes.
That's the scrampus! Yes sir!
There's a lot of shit happening right now.
Ah!
So, there's a lot of shit happening.
Kitty!
It was a dangerous place, but...
Hm?
You'll be able to tell me many things about this place.
If you have any regrets, you can't forget it.
Let me train it.
Ooh!
Um, exploration level for rewards for all areas.
Nice!
I want a ninja point some shit.
Oh, six Sam points my god, man.
Six Ninja points as well, my god, did I, did I really like buy everything?
I think I've almost bought out this whole ass thing.
Yeah, it's like a couple more.
Alright, now it's back to moves, and I think I bought everything on Dual Nimbus Swords.
There's that, and now we're broke.
Sam, uh, yo mama Odachi.
Yeah, I'm just buying shit
Have enough I'm just like maxing out this shit
Okay, well, I guess I'll go back and do my master fight.
Chad, you have no idea how starred you will be for locks later in the game?
Yeah, it feels like you get front-loaded on a lot of these skill points, right?
They're all over the place.
all over the place
Brother.
Brother.
Wow.
Dude, just keep going up.
Jesus.
Nice.
Yaaah!
Yaaah!
Yaaah!
Ahhhh!
Heheheheh.
No mercy!
Bro, actually, knowledge checks you using ninjasile at the beginning of the fight.
Heheheheh.
Yeah.
kind of need
sure level 51
cool masters are cool man it's a cool thing to put throughout the game
all right we definitely got some new gear with this
holy shit holy shit we look badass oh my oh my good oh my good hmm oh no we're
looking hella cool now holy shit oh dude both of our classes look mad cool now
Now this is it's jover.
There are small dual side missions in two as well.
That's good.
These are very fun.
These are very fun.
Miss this guy.
Let's go back and get him.
Well, when did I learn that?
Two pieces of shit.
Remember this move?
I think I just learned it, yeah.
Wow, so sick.
Alright, we can teleport right out of here.
This game's pretty neat.
Yo, five equilibrium, thank you.
Danny Lu, Mr. BroomSweep, Bryce, Hitty, Terry.
T times Rory doll dark soldier koh thanks to the triple sevens silent k gaming bowie david under pressure
Friseaux talk of akashi. Thanks for the 20 man. Thank you again
Bigly suggestive Kailin HXC Asian action actor you'll face desran hex ricks huge anus
Kimmy Claudio D.B's nuts Leon hunter x braver. Thanks, dudes. Thank you. This will support tonight. Yeah, well the crazy viewership and support
For a YouTube side, um, you don't normally get that many YouTube viewers chat.
We'd like max out around 5,000 to 6,000 for stream.
But we had some, for some reason, like 20k people on YouTube watching tonight, so it
was kind of nutty.
So thank you for being here.
I really need to get this guy from here.
Well, that's quality texture while complaining about the visuals now.
Come back.
Come on.
You get YouTube algorithm blessed even on streams.
Bro, I just saw this guy.
Don't tell me he's not here.
I don't want to go down and fight all these guys, I'm going to get distracted brother
Where'd he go
The fuzzy thing to pet.
Get real sick of your shit, buddy.
Why does it look like this move just doesn't work?
Times.
of
the victim the tiger of the high
of
what
you know what
of the
YouTube autoplay very often will give you the stream when stream start is up really
really
I'm gonna kill all these guys though
Okay. Tiger-Kai is that ghost? Did you walk past? An NPC attacked me? Don't remember that
shit! Ghost? What? There's a ghost guy that attacked me? Hey, you know what? Who- oh, you!
There's a ghost guy she attacked me
Why not prestige points as well good point
More of a barrier
Cancels your action and allows you to use summoning seals.
Seems specific.
Animation cancelling combos, are we saying with anything?
If it's with anything, I could see the value in that.
That dank-ass tree.
Through the bushes.
Saw nothing.
Wow, that's insane.
of
the army check our uh...
what's called
Who's dead?
Nice.
Nice.
Nice.
Nice.
Nice.
Nice.
Nice.
Can very easily forget about that shit.
Wow.
Cool.
Cool.
Tap play.
Wow.
Take that back.
Oh my god.
Don't spit me into the water.
Don't spit me into the water.
Good.
Not again!
This move close to Ledges really sucks.
Still getting used to the commands.
Wow, that's so hippy.
Jesus, man.
That's the thing's so mad.
You can throw a bomb in its mouth and it'll explode on the inside.
I love it.
I love it.
I don't like you, though.
I'm sorry, I don't like it.
Yeah, it only works when they do... when they do the big suck.
I get it.
If that bug, I'll put a Kodama right around here.
I would.
You piece of shit, you're up there.
Why are you up there?
shit my dad my life
good Jesus dude enemies definitely took big upgrade here
Oh, wow, that was fast.
of
a lot of
This is insane.
Well, these worms are insane. They kick my ass.
We're after the glitch right there.
Is this a new enemy?
They were not in the previous Neo.
What are you doing?
This move is broken.
This move is weirdly broken.
got him.
Hell yeah, you're right.
That's pretty sick.
You can throw a bomb down their throat and they just insta-die.
That's pretty sick.
There's a secret over here.
Set level 38
This had kunai damage, which I'm not even using right now
There's definitely a little team ninja in there, you know?
These kind of things.
Wow, how did I love that move?
Oh yeah, we're getting gear of appropriate level here.
It's an equipped drop rate.
That's a very straightforward looking odachi too.
Like my beefy one.
It's funny, it's like you can really stick this entire game by just playing one of the
styles but find it way more refreshing and interesting by switching styles all the time.
I'm so close, I almost fell back nasty.
We're going.
Huh.
Take that, you son of a bitch.
That was rough.
Try it.
You tried.
You tried.
Probably not anything good.
Oh, we got a big-ass camp over here.
Big-ass camp!
Whoa, what in the shit?
Ah, I see.
I
Got him
What a blood edged demon. No, I have not taken the time to go fight any at the moment.
I should go back and do that.
We tried one in the beta and it was like, okay, this is really hard.
We'll wait a little bit.
I should.
I have to go find them.
I have to go find them.
Ah-ha!
And this brings us back to here.
All right, let me see what's going on in here.
What the hell?
It's not fun. They're not making this fun man.
Keep the source of the yokai, dark brown.
of
Ah, I'm going away.
of
Are you just shooting at me my dude?
Jesus.
Will you just stop shooting at me?
Man.
Works, it works.
What are you talking about here?
Greatly affects your life
Is that box that we're here
Yeah, yeah
Learning Jutsu paralytic ground fire that could be good
Seems nice man
Yeah, I mean they cooked
They're simply cooked.
Black Team Ninja cook.
Colorist, thank you.
That's right here.
That ally really hurt.
God damn cannon.
I'm gonna make him pay for it.
Put that shit down!
of
all known and there is a bunch of
Oh, my God, man.
They've been really knocked out there standing up, oh my god.
Like cranks it.
of the
the
the
the
the
the
the
the
Game Perfect Parry Ninja, right? No, no, no. I have an ability parry. So, um, it's LBY.
It's a catch. And I also depress forward with, um, with block. I also have this, which is another
parry. But this is the main one.
Getting pretty.
You can take a lot of castle real pretty
Yeah, it's exclusive on some ninja weapons. Yeah exactly
Don't forget the other movie you're sleeping on um that makes you guard and stab at the same time
Yeah, I think I uh have to replace this with that right
Damn. Look at these straight up from soft ass moments. This has happened quite a bit.
They- I mean, they just did this. You know? These didn't happen in the old neos as much.
Like the cinema moments? These are very from softy now. You can get to an area and here's
There's this big outlook of the area looks great, right?
Now get in there and get shit done.
It's a from soft thing.
He just got tossed into a mission.
Sure, man.
of
That's the other one, but it's harder to do.
I have a lot of life on him.
I'm a bad ninja.
What in the gun ass?
I don't think I'm going to be able to get through this one, but I think I'm going to
be able to get through this one.
Nice.
Hell, plus forward, plus triangle.
Dude, I want to target the guy.
I don't think I have it equipped, I think I have the other move on right now, it ain't working.
This guy had a bad day
You're so pumped for Thursday's date of play you are
Your pumps let me tell you I'm pumped. Well, this was the front door
of
the
You must be the wind.
The bullet grazes his nose.
Wow, there's a bunch of weird secrets in here.
Hopefully we do.
We might even get a shadow drop of the Resident Evil demo on that day.
That shit could happen.
Descend.
Why?
I've got a rando code down there.
That's the side of the one I just got?
Brother, what?
The death hole.
Lovely.
What would you like?
No, I have to access it from the other side.
Okay, I don't think I'm missing anything.
Oh yeah, Tides of Annihilation, that game did look really good, too.
Hopefully, we'll see more on it.
I hope it's good.
Oh my god.
Alright, you piece of shit.
that
the
law
of
the
law
of
the
law
of
the
law
of
the
I
Damn was I pissed
You shit-eating assholes
Retarded
What the hell?
Fuck up that Voo-Voo Zella guy.
Look at the wall.
You know what I noticed, chat?
In observation, in observation of my long running existence on the internet and trying
to understand like why the fuck does anybody watch what I do I don't get it
I feel like I am I'm not one of the only ones but of like the people with a
moderate amount of viewership I am one of the only ones I think that just stops
and smells the roses a little bit you know like some do some smaller streamers
do, but like just stop and appreciate and breathe it in like this fucking wall.
Like very few people feel like they do that where it's just like just absorb how cool this looks
or how fun that was or how sick that shit is. Look at this wall, you know, like something about it
where it's just to stop and smell the roses for a second man and just appreciate like what we got
right here. It's great. And I think that's just maybe that's a goddamn age thing. People are just
Blastin' through shit, man. People are fuckin' flyin'.
Yeah, Kyle does that, Hubert does that of easy allies, they just stop and...
You know, he does that very well.
Do I think also maybe inspired me to do it a bit more with my streams?
Um, Excessive Profanity.
He does that a lot.
Just stop and smell the fuckin' roses for a second.
I guess shit is great.
Don't try to, this is not to try to escape this shit as quickly as possible.
No one's trying to speedrun things.
Oh, sucks to beat you.
Ow.
Yeah, I should have maybe had taken all the grave markers as a sign to stop and smell the effin roses
It's froze up
I'll take this guy, please
Oh no, I knew that
of
the
of
I grew up on 8-bit graphics, so it's easier to appreciate the beauty in good-looking games.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think so.
I think so.
I'm also plenty critical of that shit, too, at the same time.
Like more than most, even.
We have a ton of stuff.
I don't know if we can equip any of it.
No!
The answer is no.
The answer is no.
I'm going to rate this compared to Neo1 and 2.
This is a much better game than Neo1 and 2.
Straight up.
better game. It's just a better video game. It might be easier than Neo 1 and 2, sure,
but it's also just a better video game period. Except the performance. Performance for me
hasn't been a problem. I mean, I'm getting straight up 4K 60, and it's almost un-faulted.
If you're a member of the PS5, then you're a member of the PS5!
That sucks.
Why is there a coral on the walls?
What's happening here?
I'm broke.
Oh my god!
I have a feeling about you that you're pissing me off.
You're pissing.
I think this game is as hard as you want to make it.
It reminds me a lot of Elden Ring difficulty.
You know, where that game's as hard as you want it to be, man.
Elden Ring can be an insanely hard Souls game, or very goddamn easy.
I think they took that from, like, a design philosophy of the game.
There's so much of the combat system to back you up.
There's so many ways for you to make any fight in Elden Ring stupid easy.
Ooh, that's good.
You can literally cheese the shit out of the game. I think that's just it.
should know the face plate
did you stay down there I'm looking up here
big challenge
Shit.
That's why I remember how to use this.
Oh, this guy just died as well.
Cool.
Okay.
anything crazy? No, we're good.
I had a funny ass feeling.
Let me get a shithead.
I got hit by something.
I don't know what.
It's funny how the combat of this game is so daunting when you first get into it because
like three stances, all these moves, all these directions, like, ah, Jesus.
And then you just play it a little bit and now I'm good.
It immediately catches on
That's
So you are confused a ninja
Alright, what I don't like is the guy from the shooting, I don't appreciate it.
Gold.
Archer, Sakama, actually it's gold, good.
I've also been actually enjoying these levels, you know.
Some weapons are simplified, some are the same.
Again, this game does the thing that I love the most in sequels. Like in sequels you want an obvious expansion to what's happening
It's
But things are just easier to do, right?
Things are just easier to grasp and do
It's simplified but expanded
Which is what you do for a sequel
Grow... yeah, my hands don't have to work as much but my brain has to work a bit more. Cool
If you die, I'll kill you.
I won't let you get in the way of the two-legged king.
I'm dead?
Oh my god.
I didn't even look at my life.
He must have been knocking off health like crazy.
Holy shit.
Dude, I was not paying attention.
I was just engaging his bitch ass.
I'm dead?
It legit caught me off guard.
I miss a... this is a really big run.
Did I miss a shrine or something?
Oh, I still did.
Oh, wow.
I did.
I actually did.
Had a funny feeling, dude.
This guy's waiting for me, how nice.
of
Yeah.
Shit!
Shit!
Shit!
Shit!
Shit
What are you brother I'm working here
You deserve that the hell are you what did he come from
I'm gonna do it, too.
It's like, huh?
Yeah, dude.
Fulminable.
That's some shit on him.
Dude, did I really miss that bunch of bullshit in there?
That's insane.
Why?
I
What the hell
Quelling?
Requiem.
Okay, man, where's this, uh, Kodama at?
Well, how in the fuck?
I
Want to show my graphics DLSS settings. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah here
4090 7800 X 3d
Borderless v-sync
4k 60 was my advanced settings. I'm running sharpness at point seven and put the rendering resolution down a little bit
Dynamic res off, frame gen off, DLSS, let's step off.
Upscaling method DLSS.
Here's the special sauce.
All this stuff to off, but on post-processing
and post-effects, I turn off the noise filter,
turn off the vignette, turn off chromoab,
turn off this,
and I also turn off bloom.
Bloom, I think looks bad in this game man straight up. I think it looks bad
texture quality model quality models display
Yeah
Yeah, I
Think the game looks really good
I think the game has naturally bloom on by default and everything is super like I
Don't get it
I don't understand the logic it makes 14 gigs of VRAM used. Yeah, I mean granted
But still it's a good looking image
Yeah, they have DLSS presets yes
Oh, is this why I was saying this is I'm not in this area yet. Yeah, it's just a shit ton of stuff
Just like that.
Okay, we're leveling up.
I'm coming for you, shit.
Funding Requiem, increase the drop rate of Soulcores.
Okay.
Last Rodama. Dude, I can't upgrade this shit anymore.
I guess I'm gonna think so.
Okay, got about like 11 more levels to go until everything's sort of quelled.
Thank you.
Bonbon, thank you.
That's what I guess.
Hey, brother.
sorry i didn't mean to make him angry
you
Wow, that's a rumble outside of my Jesus
Well, oh my god
So that's how people die.
So that's how people die.
Holy nipples!
Sorry, I got a couple of cheap hits in here.
I don't feel like I'm already missing shit.
Why do I feel I'm already missing stuff?
Hmm.
Here's the Kodama.
Oh, I want to sneak up on you and kill you.
Some real piece of shit, enemy chair.
Two to half and mother.
Jesus Christ, I keep getting shot.
if
if
if
if
if
if
if
if
if
There you are.
There's also a box back there.
There's a fake wall right here.
Yeah, yeah.
Would like this game if you're a big farm soft fan, but you're running a NEO 1 and 2.
Download the demo.
My recommendation is download the demo.
Free.
That'd be pleasantly surprised.
You're shit.
Hey dude.
Oh god.
Oh
Guys suck I'm gonna go over there to kill you
Oh, there's a Kodama in there, dude.
How the hell do you get to it?
Oh my god, I see it now.
I've witnessed it.
What?
What?
All right
and
right
and I please like make progress
climb up the same without getting killed
as this isn't the same room I thought it was
It is the same room.
Really?
Bitch, you got nothing better to do?
Ow.
Whatever.
Bitch, I had nothing better to do.
stuff.
That would be very quickly got to, like, level 35, 40, you know?
What a new ship there.
Increase your Spirit Force by 3 when you purify the Yokai Realm with a Perfectly Climbed Key
Pulse.
Inflict's increased damage received on an enemy after you land hit with an Injukesuit.
Okay, that's not bad
damn
I want to have it
I want to deal with this horse's ass
Get in the ship, oh my god.
He shipped a wake up!
Crazy wake up brother.
Wake up command grab.
I think he's Zangief in Street Fighter 4.
I feel like I'm missing out on shit.
Interesting interaction.
Interesting interaction.
I've got to do something good to do it.
There's nothing good, this will be good.
It was good!
Alright, and did it be worth it?
Oh, those are multiple entrances of this place, so this is probably closed off, right?
All right.
But tonight is... uh-oh, why are we going, like, underwater?
The
Fishman!
Get over here, Mama the Maharu.
Now, that really hurts.
of
I'm not sure if I can get him to do that.
Goddamn.
That's stamina.
I stamina
When you ever normal attack a bro
Okay, this is all new to me!
This is all new to me!
Alright.
Okay.
Splashy, splashy.
The biggest question is, where the hell are we?
Ah, very close.
Okay, lovely.
of
the
of
the
of
I can't survive like an attack without healing.
of
You son of a bitch!
Oh my god damn that was so close.
Holy hell.
Oh, big fish man.
That was so close.
You guys are late!
You guys are late! Come on!
Ayakashi ni wa ha ga tatazu
Saku tsukitaka to akirame kake
Onushira ni sukuareta
Kore wa toza no rei da
Kotari no shittai
Ikitsuku no wa mada hayai
Takeda no hontai ga umoita to shirase ga todokitera
Warae mo kore ni somai
Onushi mo shitaku ga dekishite
Yeah, all the way over there.
Alright, well that was fun.
Got exploration maxed on this area.
Looks like we grabbed nearly everything except this one box.
Something down here.
Let's, um, let's continue this story thing.
I might have a few side missions at the shrine, I can check.
Lock's Eye, thanks for the 5 dudes on YouTube, appreciate it man.
Lucky Ruizzo, thanks for the 75 months.
Tripod, thanks for the 136.
I know nothing, and COP Star, thanks for the tier 1.
Versatility, fancy versatility status enhancement when you hit an enemy with martial arts.
attack will increase by one every time you land a strike up to a max of nine. The higher
the damage gets the more each damage or melee attacks will deal. Each martial art must be
unique to count towards this effect and advancing. So wait a minute, does this mean it wants
you to use a whole bunch of different moves and it gives you a bunch more damage? Thought
I'm translating this as? Stacking buffs are using different moves.
Sounds neat.
Cancel your actions and honestly do some good sex.
Sounds neat.
I'm only gonna try it.
Prince Majin, thanks for the prime dude.
I
These chests like read plenish
Swear they come back
I think it's someplace that has some nice light
Games fun dude games legit fun
And it's not like the fights are piss easy. I'm just like using everything, you know
Like every fight I feel like the game is asking me
the relationship I'm having with some of the battles is that, yeah, I have tools for this. Should use it, you know?
Like I should be using this shit. Not like I don't want to use it because they're either cheap.
It's like no, everything feels like I need to be using it. You're supposed to be like throwing everything at this bitch.
So now we're going south, or we're heading back over here to this area, which is probably unlocked now.
Yeah, that was definitely locked before.
It's fast travel, it's easier.
Game is fun as shit, dude.
Game is, I can't believe how fast time goes by when you play this game too.
It's actually legit crazy.
Yeah, all those little trick battle scrolls.
Oh, I got three side quests activated now.
3.
3 is quest.
Yeah, I'm sure shit's gonna get hard, you know, I'm not really like, I'm not really
feeling for it to be like insanely difficult at the moment, I'm not feeling for it.
I'm just having a good time.
It's just fun.
Let me see what this thing is saying.
Better not say Nioh 3 is easier because the movement is very agile.
The Nioh 1 and 2, dude, that's because of Ninja.
Like, 100%.
Level 43?
Yeah, we can do that.
Ninja is wild
Another thing that makes this better is that your your new game like new game of neo 1 and 2 suck
Straight up the game doesn't get really great until like new game plus
in both games like you have to
You have to like get to a point where your character owns enough key to actually use moves and abilities
So now they just give you a class that just gets access to actually attacking, you know, you're not limited on attacking
You're just a dodge guy not a block guy
so because of it
You get to choose do I want to do a shit ton of damage and play old neo or do I want to get a little hips and
Neander around and be able to dodge and stuff and air dodge, you know all that kind of shit
So because of it
It's like the fun stuff gets back you get access to the fun stuff much quicker like way quicker in your
For first playthrough, I don't even know what New Game Plus is like.
Maybe New Game Plus sucks.
That could be the case.
But New Game Plus and the other games is really good because the game like legit opens up
and is like, whoa, I can do all this and all this new end game and all that kind of shit.
Now it's just like first playthrough, hella good.
So I think I like that more.
You know, I think I actually enjoy that more that the base playthrough is really enjoyable
maybe it ramps up in difficulty and gets really challenging if you want to give it again.
I think I like that.
Find this little in the first area. Dude, this is end game.
No, no, no, we're definitely at end game.
No, no, no.
See, we've already unlocked all the areas.
We've already done all this stuff.
We're at end game right now.
This is it. I'm about to like unlock this and this is the last of it.
And then we're at the end of the game.
I don't get some things to unlock like all this stuff down here.
Like this thing, I'll get that and then sit.
And that's the end of the game.
Surely. Surely. We're in the endgame now.
Anyway, thank y'all. Thank y'all for hanging out, being around. I appreciate it. I'll be back. I'll let you guys know.
And tomorrow, later today, sorry, Tuesday, we'll be playing some Resident Evil 6 with Tiff.
So if you're looking forward to the RE6 run, yeah, stay around. We'll see how it goes.
I'll tell Tiff to turn on QTE, auto QTEs, because they're terrible, they're friggin' awful.
Should be fun.
Uh, Mr. Hurram, thank you Prince Majin, thanks for the prime, and thank you everybody else
for all the support tonight.
Means a lot.
We'll be back, Thursday's the big day, so I'll definitely see you then, but until then
I'll see you tomorrow.
Have a good one, shine on.
See you next time.
Bye-bye.
Get to your searchin' for a star
Deep in the night, I fell in my heart
On that passion, love me
To show only my soul
To show only we fall
To shine for my heart
And go to the edge of soldiers
Here we come
One of the leaders from the first
Gotta get to the edge of soldiers