I disagree with Dustin’s point about Helldivers price point. I convinced several friends to buy the games and a large factor came down to its price point.
It really does make a difference. Word of mouth works, and it's a lot easier to convince friends to gamble on a cheaper game. We've all been burned by $70 games that turn out to not be good.
Yeah, Dustin has a really bad take here. Of course with hindsight you could say "Sony wishes they should have charged more" (not exact quote but close enough) but could it be the reason they sold so many to begin with was because it was $40 which led many more people to take a chance on it? I'm sure if it came out at $60-$70 and flopped he would have complained about it being priced too high and only if it had been a more budget title it might have done better.
‘I couldn’t imagine loving anything as much as Marvel and Star Wars just being in everything’ - guy who plays like 6 Final Fantasy games every year lol
I started listening when the podcast was called "ign is afk". Don't really remember the exact year but it was probably 2006 or 2007. It's been a while lol It didnt start with Colin but I remember him joining the podcast later on. Don't really know if he was a regular or not but that was the podcast that hooked me and then came podcast beyond.
Dustin’s kids form of rebellion will be being super into sports, Dustin will find Sports Illustrated hid under the bed and treat it like finding a pack of cigarettes, “where did you get this!?!? Do you know what this does to you??”
Damn, imagine being Jeremy Jones, your dog just died, and then you hear Colin go “we’re not gonna read your write-in; we can only have so much sadness for one show after reading about the other guy’s dead dog” 😂😂 Much love to the dudes who lost their dogs. It’s an awful fkn feeling.
In regards to the marvel discussion Chris did say “how would captain America be fun to play as? He’s just a really strong guy.” That’s like saying “how will gta 6 be fun? You have to play as a normal woman?” I do think that your guy’s anti marvel bias does make you a little irrational sometimes. 😂
2:05:30 Colin stop forcing this game onto people, it's really not that deep. The game came out with terrible marketing, awful release window overshadowed by Baldur's Gate 3 and Starfield and ultimately it wasn't a good enough game to garner success. I mean look at Helldivers 2, Sony didn't push this game with a stellar marketing campaign, no beta prior to launch, lots of bugs (😎) and terrible servers... yet people love the game! Why? Cause it's fun.
Congrats on 300 episodes guys! Started listening to Beyond in 2013 and can’t believe it’s been over 10 years of listening to Colin and friends talk about video games. Last Stand/Sacred is definitely the best iteration of this yet!
@@Olie986Colin is very dismissive towards games he doesn’t play, so I’m not sure what your point is. Immortals looks like the most generic AAA slop imaginable. The market spoke on that
I just started the episode but I was looking for comments like this. As soon as the ps+ games were announced, I told my friends, now we have to listen to Colin push this subpar fps game again lol.
He will be probably go watch the Raimi Spiderman re-releases in cinema too. This is after saying "I don't give a shit about superheroes... not even slightly" last episode 😂
@@Youngblaise2i bought a friend I met from ghost of tsushima's legends mode, a few games over the years. He has been a cool guy who went through a few hard things back to back to back. So when I could, I'd use some spare change and buy us games to play together. I've done this for many friends and family Well turns out now I'm the one who has been going through hard times and can't really afford games, and he was nice enough to buy it for me instantly. Sure it's less money, but it's nice to have the kindness reciprocated at such a time where I'm very grateful for that. (I however did want is physically, but I still appreciate the digital code 😂)
Congratulations on sacred 300 guys! And to Dustin about having a baby and I completely understand about keeping it secret for a long as your wife would like. You don't loose time gaming, you just find new ways to do it. I constantly use my wife's UA-cam premium to watch you guys, we have it for our daughter
Oh god they double downed on their Marvel Ignorance and now they dragged in the “everything is marvel” nonsense. They’re crying over games that don’t even exist Also, I gladly skip all your ads
2:05:50 Immortals was $70, not $60. Which is a major reason why it flopped Colin. This is the market actively speaking against the increased price of games that you champion.
@@EvernhamNo9 I suppose we'll see based on how many play it from ps+. I was always interested in it personally, but couldn't justify paying $70 for an unknown title.
2:41:00 - helldivers is absolutely a 40$ game. People praise it because it is fun, but overall helldivers is an early access game that needs significant work to seem finished
I preordered Helldivers 2 from GameStop and over the course of an entire week after launch, they never got any in. I quit buying from them and let my membership expire.
Hey Dustin, if you read this, congrats to you and your wife on your first child! My wife and I welcomed our first baby back in December and have to say being a dad is so much fun and unlike anything you've ever experienced in life! I know Colin offered you 3 months off and it may seem like too much time. I got 3 months paid time off too and before my daughter was born I thought I would be able to get a lot of stuff done during that time. Speaking from very recent experience, having a baby is way more of an adjustment than I thought (especially with my wife's recovery and the baby's erratic sleep schedule). I ended up staying up with the baby from about 8 PM- 4 AM for the first 2 months just so my wife could sleep. Feeding and changing diapers every 3-4 hours all day was a lot so just saying that you should take up Colin on his 3 months of paid leave offer 😊 Trust me, you won't be bored at all. I used the time at night to play games and clear out my backlog. Plus, hanging out with my daughter without the stress of work was so much fun. Trust me, time will go by so fast so take advantage of all the time you can be with your son!
The idea that you would be bored after a month of home with your newborn is bonkers. Heck depending on how the child is delivered there is recovery time where you have to care for them. My wife couldn't go upstairs more than once a day for a week after our daughter so i was waiting on her heavily, then spending time and bonding with our newborn, making sure the house is taken care of. Its incredibly time consuming.
Chris, do you understand how many movies are made in a year? And then of that, how many are actually superhero movies. I think you need to look at the numbers, and then you'll see that you're not subsumed by these superhero movies. Yes, they capture the zeitgeist when they come out, but that's a different topic.
@@EvernhamNo9 not quite sure where you're getting your numbers from but the guardians 3 movie made quite a bit of money and was definitely profitable. I don't know where you're getting this barely broke even point from.
@@bikiminhas2315Oh, you’re one of those idiots that only looks at the production budget and box office. You have to add in marketing and the theater’s cut. 250 million production budget. 100-150 million in marketing. $850.6 million Box Office, half of which goes to theaters, and that’s being generous, because 75% of the money it made in China goes to the CCP. And remember, Disney pays itself for movies now to shift losses to Disney+ when it hits streaming, so they weren’t able to sell it to another streaming service.
Chris complains a lot about Marvel movies being popular even though you can tell he barely watches movies. Just complains about something that was extremely popular at some point.
Can vividly remember being a wee little lad and excitedly tuing into beyond 300. Never thought this is where we would all be 11 years later but. Not bad boys.
A small point, the Denuvo anticheat in Dragon’s Dogma 2 doesn’t allow you to mod the game, and on top of that it bogs down the performance even more by stressing the already heavily taxed CPU. There’s a little more to people’s outrage than you guys have been addressing, but your points are still salient.
Just want to say I appreciate the shout out about the gifts and the joke about the blue bag being a bomb. I got a good chuckle from that. I'm glad you appreciate and enjoy them. Dustin might remember me I was wearing the Riku shirt from Kingdom Hearts at Sacred 300 and saw him and Dagan last year at TooManyGames. Thanks for all you do. -Nadesticker aka Rob P.S. Colin if you are looking for more of the Mega Man cards it's UniVersus trading cards. The two Mega Man sets are called Mega Man: Rise of Masters and Mega Man: Battle for Power.
Colin, you talking about F.E.A.R got me. Because, I loved the series and always wanted either a new game or a remake/remaster. Underated series, along with the shooter Black.
2:25:00 probably one of the most clown-tier write-ins on the show. DD2 was my most anticipated game of the year but the degree to which do many legitimate problems with the game, from the lack of innovation over the first game to the lower number of monsters, the paltry enemy and encounter variety, the horrible performance even on my 4090 strix and 13900k and, yes, the boundary-testing microtransactions, have all been handwaved by a crowd of hypebeast "current thing" enthusiasts, who all always want to be part of the latest celebratory cultural consumer moment, and who were all desperate to anoint this game as this year's successor to Elden Ring and BG3, has been as abysmal and pathetic as it has been utterly lacking in self-awareness. I literally watched one of my favorite content creators, Laurence Sonntag, absolutely lose his mind and make an absolute clown out of himself over this game, and it was borderline disheartening after having followed his analysis as a serious person. Other clowns include that fighting cowboy guy and many souls streamers who have all posited this ridiculous assertion that practically all the complaints against the game are just born of a blind hate mob, an assertion that is as childish and ignorant as it is parasocial and arrogant. Absolutely pathetic display of the fact that the real issue with games isn't blind and bad faith negativity, but rather blind, cultish positivity.
Genuine criticism for DD2 has been dismissed as "git gud" or "this game doesn't hold your hand". Honestly, microtransactions and performance are the least of the game's problems. We're in the honeymoon period now and nobody wants to hear it, but trust me, give it a couple of months and it'll be the general consensus.
I’m waiting to play the game until PC performance gets better, but why does Dragon’s Dogma 2 need to innovate when it’s already pretty unique? I hope you hold cinematic Sony slop to the same standard.
To the topic of MTX in Dragon's Dogma: Firstly the reviewers had the information about the MTX, some just didn't read through what they got. The fast travel need two objects, and only one of the two can be brought. Also you can't buy more than one of that object with real money.
There’s also no need to even pay for any of it. There’s no store or advertising pushing you to buy them nor is the balancing encouraging you to buy them for “time saving”. Everything is found through natural progression. The conversation around the mtx is a little annoying because some people are just so adamant about things that are completely wrong. Same with basically every other gaming controversy.
@@Youngblaise2no they don’t. You don’t need to use them at all. In fact most reviewers never complained about the limited fast travel options in their review meaning it doesn’t effect the overall game and experience and the game was not crafted around the mtx at all.
Leave it to rich people to complain that people arent watching commercials lmao😅 I love lsm content but any and every argument they make for encouraging people to waste time watching pointless ads is just ridiculous. STAND DOWN LSM! Nobody on earth wants to watch commercials
Trust. Dustin is not going to be bored. I became a dad in December 2023 and there is no time for boredom. When you do get time, it is usually in a trade off with sleeping. Honestly, if my employer offered me 3 months I would have snapped it up. In the UK generally most men get 2 weeks. I got 4 weeks and it still felt like it was over in a flash. The blessing for Dustin is that his job is his favourite hobby, but it is going to be interesting to see how his gaming changes and how that will affect his point of view on the show, because it definitely will. From my perspective it's a great thing because Dustin's life will be a little bit like my own in some respect, so I can identify with his gamer dad experiences. I'm so excited for the day that my little boy can hop in the gunner seat of a warthog and I share with him my love of Halo. I bet Dustin has that game he can't wait to play with his son. Being a dad is so cool! Good luck Dustin and Holly, I wish you both well with parenting, it's a wild ride but the most rewarding and heartwarming thing I have ever experienced in my life, I hope it is for you too!
Chris' monologue about the guy who never sleeps and wasted his life reminds me of someone who bragged that he needed less sleep because of meditation. He meditates 8 hours a day...
2:53:00 Dustin was absolutely COOKING with that take. As a physical game collector, not only fuck gamestop, but they have become so unreliable it's a joke. They're workers aren't treated well and are paid like shit thus the shit quality gets passed down to the customer. Gamestop didn't even get 2 of my last 3 pre orders on release day and wanted me to wait. I'd rather just preorder my stuff and go pick it up at Best Buy.
To be fair, GameStop orders games based on the preorder numbers. If it doesn’t get a lot of preorders they don’t see interest. They’ll still get some for walk ins but those go pretty fast.
Sometimes it baffles me how they think the world works. Sure it would be great if every store had 20 copies of every new game that came out but if their sales are down they aren't going to keep buying that much stock. They are only going to order what they think they can sell. It ends up being a catch-22 situation. Note: I'm not a GameStop apologist. I don't even think I've been to a GameStop in the past 10 years. But I'm also not going to bash them every chance I get.
Woa, never expected to hear EA’s Syndicate be brought up. The 4 player co-op in that game was some of my favorite gameplay that generation. If you ever planned to 100% the game, you likely ran into me for help at some point, sessions or the video guide. The servers closed last year in June, several days after they were intended.
I've been a Premium subscriber for years mainly because I hate ads. Shortly after becoming a member is when sponsorships started popping up everywhere and that chit really ticked me off. Paying money to not see any ads and they still sneak their way to you 😊
2:05:30 Immortals of Aveum - lots of fun. If any of you are “old school” gamers like myself and have wanted something to play that feels like Heretic or Hexen…IoA can scratch that itch. Not exactly like it, but combat at times gets fast paced and hits ya. So yes, if you got Plus…go play this damn thing. Drop some money if it hits ya good.
That was far more egregious than what Dragon’s Dogma is doing. The only things I bought for Arise were the costumes but some were bundled I think with level up boosts and other stuff so that gave tangible advantage that felt an incentive to skip the grind which is just terrible design in their part.
Lets get Brad as the official sub in for when the boys miss an episode.. When it comes to DD2 why is it only the people who dont play are the ones that are mad? As Dustin said capcom has been doing this. I do remember some people trying to get mad with them in RE2 Remake but it didn't stick. People think this fast travel goes against what the dev said but all you can get is one port crystal. If you don't know what that means then why are you discussing this? Obviously anyone can say what they want or even disagree with me but just understand how much weight your opinion holds when you have done no research. This isn't aimed at anyone in particular but just frustrated with the dumb headlines that turned a friend off from this game before trying it lol.
If Chris is curious about Minecraft, I’ve recently started playing Minecraft again and my self made goal is to do all the achievements. It’s been a good way to enjoy the open ended nature of the game while still having things to work towards to. I really want to get to the end and beat the ender dragon which I never managed to do as a kid.
Say what you want about GameStop, but the last times I’ve been interested in selling/trading in old consoles GameStop is easier to deal with and often gives me a good amount of money for trading in. I recently traded in my Xbox series x for $350 and sure I could probably have sold that for closer to $400-450 selling it on my own, but this way I don’t have to deal with the Facebook marketplace moms asking if I’ll take $100 or something crazy. I traded it in for store credit and used all of the store credit on psn cards which I’m surprised they let me do
2:52:57 Saddly what Dustin says rings true. Gamestop should be a physical game collectors haven but sadly it's not. I have some fond memories walking into GS looking at all the new PS1/PS2 games but actually buying from them has always been of poor service. I was fooled into buying "new" ps2 games a few to many times back in my youth. I had a few friends that worked for GS and to be fair to some of the workers, they were treated like crap from upper management.
I'm with you guys on yt premium. Its a really good subscription and i mostly watch youtube on my phone 90% of the time with 10% being on my tv through my amazon fire stick. Heck I'm on my phone right now
2:50:51 - gamestop is particularly in trouble because they refused to evolve as the market evolved. It was clear that digital was coming. Gamestop should have shifted to a game store that sells board games and gaming merchandise besides videogames. The funco figures were the wrong move
34:37 - I made a comment about: "Poo-pa-ree Gate" last week & I'm a big enough person to comment this week & publicly apologize to Dustin. I'm sorry, I honestly didn't think you knew how to say: "Potpourri". I mean, in ALL of our defenses, you do say: "Jagawire", whatever the hell THAT is?! 😂 And congrats on the new bambino Dustin, you're gonna' be an awesome daddio!! 😊❤
You can cut the 16M copies sold of It Takes Two in half because when you bought it - you got an extra copy for free to send to a friend. I bet that number counts all of those copies too. 8M copies is still astounding - no doubt it’s GOTY win bumped those up!
@@TacticalMikey - Yeah! I’m not sure if that’s the case anymore, but yeah back when it came out and won GOTY, that’s what they did. You got a code to give to a friend so you could play it with someone.
1:31:35 people don't like Neil because he's a zionist, forced out amy hennig, and takes sole credit for naughty dogs success. people don't like the last of us 2 because of Joel's (literal) character assassination and the low tier "revenge bad mmkay" narrative. Nobody dislikes TLOU because they dislike Neil. They just dislike both for valid reasons 🤷🏼♂️ Its not the same situation as with Ken Levin or Johnathan Blow at all.
You have absolutely no evidence the Neil Druckman pushed out Amy Hennig. None. If you are blaming Neil Druckman for Amy H. then you have to blame Bruce Straley as well. There were a few people at the time Amy H. left Naughty Dog that were above Neil Druckman. As far as the TLOU2, get over it. Joel dies. Joel is dead. Just because you didn’t like the way Joel dies doesn’t make TLOU2 a bad game, it makes you a spoiled gamer with daddy issues. Please get over yourself.
@@ltw126 I'm just stating why people don't like Neil. You can choose not to believe it, but there is evidence out there and has been floating around for a couple years. As for TLOU2 you're the one crying over someone else's opinion dude. Grow up & learn to deal with the fact that other people will have takes you don't like. Again, I'm just stating why people didn't like the game & a major reason IS because of how they treated Joel. And yes, not liking the writing makes it a bad game when it's a narrative heavy game lmao wtf. The pacing sucks, main characters act completely differently, & the message suffers from massive cognitive dissonance (killing Abby bad but killing hundreds on the way to her okay????). So no, Colin's assertion that people didn't like TLOU because they didn't like Neil is just flat out wrong & you clearly are the same breed of defender that just can't accept people have valid reasons for not liking the game.
I remember on DA Origins spending many happy hours just organising my party and how they'd react to certain things. eg, who would attack a magic users and ignore all others.
I cannot wait for what Shinji Mikami does next! He's made 3 of my top 10 games and others I love as well. Feel like he should be considered as great as Kojima or Ken Levine. Chris, it is wild you have not played Bioshock 2, I never got the hate. Also, Dustin, congrats! And be glad you have an employer who will give you paternity leave. My CEO said "Why would I give any paternity leave? I don't want to finance your free golf trips....." Being a parent is probably the most important thing in your life if you choose to do it. Work pales in comparison. Enjoy it!
I'd love to platinum It Takes Two, but the only person I have been able to play it with is my 11 year old nephew, and he wants to skip all the story bits, keeps playing our game save with his friends, so I miss out on huge pieces of the game. It's a great game, but you need someone other than a Roblox obsessed kid to play it with.
I would recommend trying the Stellar blade demo. I played most of it, and the game isn't for me personally. It definitely has a Devil May Cry / Bayonetta thing going on. As far as world traversal, interactions etc most of that felt kind of janky. And I didn't care for the way they did the combat overall, I have a feeling Colin won't like the combat.
I actually was surprised by the game. I enjoyed it but I have enough on my plate to hold off until it's on sale. I think you are right about Colin not liking it though. He talks like he enjoys these types of games but I've never seen him get into 3d ninja Gaiden, dmc, or GoW.
@gregoryjoslin3173 I absolutely love God of War 2018 and Ragnarok. But games like this just don't click for me, I just didn't find it fun. There's no rhyme or reason generally as to whether someone will like a game or not. Just have to play it for yourself and find out.
@@TheHOOfan1 I’m saying Andor is different from any other Star Wars film or show. He might like it for the dialogue or cinematography. Andor is the best written Star Wars thing of the past 40 years.
@@mattsanders2207 Doesn't matter. It's in the Star Wars Universe, so Colin doesn't want anything to do with it. That's the way Colin thinks. I'm sure he would like Jedi: Fallen Order too, but he's said, he is done with anything that has anything to do with Star Wars.
People often forget the case with Shadow of War, a single-player game where the mtx were horrendous and made the game grindy towards the end, to the point where they had to remove them and balance the end-game.
Chris at the beginning of the episode: Just ate a cheeseburger
Chris at the end of the episode: I haven't eaten all day.
He’s a growing boy who needs to eat.
It's the zero memory lol it happens
Mushbrain
Let’s cancel Chris for forgetting.
I wish my metabolism still worked like that! lol
Helldivers 2 $40 price point was a huge reason behind its success.
I disagree with Dustin’s point about Helldivers price point. I convinced several friends to buy the games and a large factor came down to its price point.
It really does make a difference. Word of mouth works, and it's a lot easier to convince friends to gamble on a cheaper game. We've all been burned by $70 games that turn out to not be good.
I bought it and convinced others to buy it because it was so cheap
Yeah, Dustin has a really bad take here. Of course with hindsight you could say "Sony wishes they should have charged more" (not exact quote but close enough) but could it be the reason they sold so many to begin with was because it was $40 which led many more people to take a chance on it? I'm sure if it came out at $60-$70 and flopped he would have complained about it being priced too high and only if it had been a more budget title it might have done better.
UA-cam Premium is by far one of my most useful subscriptions. I fucking HATE ads. I’ve been paying for YP for like 2 years I can never go back tbh
‘I couldn’t imagine loving anything as much as Marvel and Star Wars just being in everything’ - guy who plays like 6 Final Fantasy games every year lol
Seeing Chris clearly trying to backtrack on the “selfish kid-making front” was hilarious
He do be saying the most random shit.
I can’t believe I’ve been listening to some random dude from Long Island and his friends for 10+ years.
Same, pretty wild lol been listening to Colin for what feels like forever
Same since 2012 ❤
Beyond !!
I started listening when the podcast was called "ign is afk". Don't really remember the exact year but it was probably 2006 or 2007. It's been a while lol
It didnt start with Colin but I remember him joining the podcast later on. Don't really know if he was a regular or not but that was the podcast that hooked me and then came podcast beyond.
Yup, my 12 year anniversary to finding beyond is sometime next month
Congratulations to Dustin! Just had my son this October, and he's awesome. You're going to be a great dad.
Dustin’s kids form of rebellion will be being super into sports, Dustin will find Sports Illustrated hid under the bed and treat it like finding a pack of cigarettes, “where did you get this!?!? Do you know what this does to you??”
Damn, imagine being Jeremy Jones, your dog just died, and then you hear Colin go “we’re not gonna read your write-in; we can only have so much sadness for one show after reading about the other guy’s dead dog” 😂😂
Much love to the dudes who lost their dogs. It’s an awful fkn feeling.
I cried more for my dog than some relatives.
In regards to the marvel discussion Chris did say “how would captain America be fun to play as? He’s just a really strong guy.” That’s like saying “how will gta 6 be fun? You have to play as a normal woman?” I do think that your guy’s anti marvel bias does make you a little irrational sometimes. 😂
1000% percent.
People are simply not interested in Captain America
@@daksans6764Says who?
@@dtanobo A survey says
@@daksans6764 Ah of course, irrefutable proof
2:05:30 Colin stop forcing this game onto people, it's really not that deep. The game came out with terrible marketing, awful release window overshadowed by Baldur's Gate 3 and Starfield and ultimately it wasn't a good enough game to garner success.
I mean look at Helldivers 2, Sony didn't push this game with a stellar marketing campaign, no beta prior to launch, lots of bugs (😎) and terrible servers... yet people love the game! Why? Cause it's fun.
Also because it's a viral meme game. The social media influencers jumping on the bandwagon to blow up with viral videos was insane
This is 3 minutes late
Unforgivable
Unsub immediately
It’s actually an hour early as for me it used to be 5PM.
Cancelled my Patreon already
The beginning of the end...
Congrats on 300 episodes guys! Started listening to Beyond in 2013 and can’t believe it’s been over 10 years of listening to Colin and friends talk about video games. Last Stand/Sacred is definitely the best iteration of this yet!
Congratulations on 300 guys! Here's to 300 more of showing that chicken a good time.
Colin wanting me to take his opinion seriously on Immortals of Aveum just isn't going to happen
Have you tried it yourself?
@@Olie986Colin is very dismissive towards games he doesn’t play, so I’m not sure what your point is.
Immortals looks like the most generic AAA slop imaginable. The market spoke on that
I just started the episode but I was looking for comments like this. As soon as the ps+ games were announced, I told my friends, now we have to listen to Colin push this subpar fps game again lol.
I’m a Colin fan but the man like Farcry that’s all you need to know about his taste in games 😂
Immortals of Aveum is the perfect PS Plus game imo - I would have never willingly bought it with money but for free I might check it out
Guarantee you Chris “I am tired of Marvel”, is going to watch Deadpool and Wolverine in theaters.
He will be probably go watch the Raimi Spiderman re-releases in cinema too. This is after saying "I don't give a shit about superheroes... not even slightly" last episode 😂
I would have not bought Helldivers 2 if it wasn't $39.99.
Same
I feel like that’s the proper price tag for it, considering it’s not AAA
True!! That's almost buy it for a friend price.
Same
Bought it, Didn’t like it… don’t really regret it since it was cheap
@@jarde1989GET OUT
@@Youngblaise2i bought a friend I met from ghost of tsushima's legends mode, a few games over the years. He has been a cool guy who went through a few hard things back to back to back. So when I could, I'd use some spare change and buy us games to play together. I've done this for many friends and family
Well turns out now I'm the one who has been going through hard times and can't really afford games, and he was nice enough to buy it for me instantly. Sure it's less money, but it's nice to have the kindness reciprocated at such a time where I'm very grateful for that. (I however did want is physically, but I still appreciate the digital code 😂)
Congratulations on sacred 300 guys! And to Dustin about having a baby and I completely understand about keeping it secret for a long as your wife would like. You don't loose time gaming, you just find new ways to do it.
I constantly use my wife's UA-cam premium to watch you guys, we have it for our daughter
I've been here since episode 1 and I intend to stay as long as possible!
Oh god they double downed on their Marvel Ignorance and now they dragged in the “everything is marvel” nonsense. They’re crying over games that don’t even exist
Also, I gladly skip all your ads
As a Sega employee, Chris’ layoff leak would’ve been REALLY useful.
2:05:50 Immortals was $70, not $60. Which is a major reason why it flopped Colin. This is the market actively speaking against the increased price of games that you champion.
Agree in general, but Immortals would have flopped at any price point
@@EvernhamNo9 I suppose we'll see based on how many play it from ps+. I was always interested in it personally, but couldn't justify paying $70 for an unknown title.
2:41:00 - helldivers is absolutely a 40$ game. People praise it because it is fun, but overall helldivers is an early access game that needs significant work to seem finished
I preordered Helldivers 2 from GameStop and over the course of an entire week after launch, they never got any in. I quit buying from them and let my membership expire.
Hey Dustin, if you read this, congrats to you and your wife on your first child! My wife and I welcomed our first baby back in December and have to say being a dad is so much fun and unlike anything you've ever experienced in life!
I know Colin offered you 3 months off and it may seem like too much time. I got 3 months paid time off too and before my daughter was born I thought I would be able to get a lot of stuff done during that time. Speaking from very recent experience, having a baby is way more of an adjustment than I thought (especially with my wife's recovery and the baby's erratic sleep schedule). I ended up staying up with the baby from about 8 PM- 4 AM for the first 2 months just so my wife could sleep. Feeding and changing diapers every 3-4 hours all day was a lot so just saying that you should take up Colin on his 3 months of paid leave offer 😊 Trust me, you won't be bored at all. I used the time at night to play games and clear out my backlog. Plus, hanging out with my daughter without the stress of work was so much fun.
Trust me, time will go by so fast so take advantage of all the time you can be with your son!
The idea that you would be bored after a month of home with your newborn is bonkers. Heck depending on how the child is delivered there is recovery time where you have to care for them. My wife couldn't go upstairs more than once a day for a week after our daughter so i was waiting on her heavily, then spending time and bonding with our newborn, making sure the house is taken care of. Its incredibly time consuming.
Dustin is clueless and will learn the hard way
Thank you for "speaking to JizzleDoops" 🙏🏻
Chris, do you understand how many movies are made in a year? And then of that, how many are actually superhero movies. I think you need to look at the numbers, and then you'll see that you're not subsumed by these superhero movies. Yes, they capture the zeitgeist when they come out, but that's a different topic.
Not anymore, they don’t. No Way Home/Deadpool and Wolverine are the exceptions. Even Guardians 3(which I loved) barely broke even.
@@EvernhamNo9 not quite sure where you're getting your numbers from but the guardians 3 movie made quite a bit of money and was definitely profitable. I don't know where you're getting this barely broke even point from.
@@bikiminhas2315Oh, you’re one of those idiots that only looks at the production budget and box office. You have to add in marketing and the theater’s cut.
250 million production budget.
100-150 million in marketing.
$850.6 million Box Office, half of which goes to theaters, and that’s being generous, because 75% of the money it made in China goes to the CCP.
And remember, Disney pays itself for movies now to shift losses to Disney+ when it hits streaming, so they weren’t able to sell it to another streaming service.
Chris complains a lot about Marvel movies being popular even though you can tell he barely watches movies. Just complains about something that was extremely popular at some point.
Can vividly remember being a wee little lad and excitedly tuing into beyond 300. Never thought this is where we would all be 11 years later but. Not bad boys.
A small point, the Denuvo anticheat in Dragon’s Dogma 2 doesn’t allow you to mod the game, and on top of that it bogs down the performance even more by stressing the already heavily taxed CPU. There’s a little more to people’s outrage than you guys have been addressing, but your points are still salient.
Doctors say to wait 12 weeks before telling people! Early pregnancy stages are the most dangerous
42:50 😂 Love you long time.
Just want to say I appreciate the shout out about the gifts and the joke about the blue bag being a bomb. I got a good chuckle from that.
I'm glad you appreciate and enjoy them. Dustin might remember me I was wearing the Riku shirt from Kingdom Hearts at Sacred 300 and saw him and Dagan last year at TooManyGames. Thanks for all you do.
-Nadesticker aka Rob
P.S. Colin if you are looking for more of the Mega Man cards it's UniVersus trading cards. The two Mega Man sets are called Mega Man: Rise of Masters and Mega Man: Battle for Power.
Happy 300th episode!
Colin, you talking about F.E.A.R got me. Because, I loved the series and always wanted either a new game or a remake/remaster. Underated series, along with the shooter Black.
Congrats on 300 to Colin and the Last Stand team ❤ love the laughs, insight, and hard work you all put in for us each week and over the years!
I needed this guys I appreciate you
Congratulations Dustin and Holly 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Huge news for the LSM Family.
Here's to 300 more!
2:25:00 probably one of the most clown-tier write-ins on the show. DD2 was my most anticipated game of the year but the degree to which do many legitimate problems with the game, from the lack of innovation over the first game to the lower number of monsters, the paltry enemy and encounter variety, the horrible performance even on my 4090 strix and 13900k and, yes, the boundary-testing microtransactions, have all been handwaved by a crowd of hypebeast "current thing" enthusiasts, who all always want to be part of the latest celebratory cultural consumer moment, and who were all desperate to anoint this game as this year's successor to Elden Ring and BG3, has been as abysmal and pathetic as it has been utterly lacking in self-awareness. I literally watched one of my favorite content creators, Laurence Sonntag, absolutely lose his mind and make an absolute clown out of himself over this game, and it was borderline disheartening after having followed his analysis as a serious person. Other clowns include that fighting cowboy guy and many souls streamers who have all posited this ridiculous assertion that practically all the complaints against the game are just born of a blind hate mob, an assertion that is as childish and ignorant as it is parasocial and arrogant. Absolutely pathetic display of the fact that the real issue with games isn't blind and bad faith negativity, but rather blind, cultish positivity.
2:38:05 "why do you care" Colin. Jesus Christ dude. You can't be this blind.
Genuine criticism for DD2 has been dismissed as "git gud" or "this game doesn't hold your hand". Honestly, microtransactions and performance are the least of the game's problems. We're in the honeymoon period now and nobody wants to hear it, but trust me, give it a couple of months and it'll be the general consensus.
I’m waiting to play the game until PC performance gets better, but why does Dragon’s Dogma 2 need to innovate when it’s already pretty unique? I hope you hold cinematic Sony slop to the same standard.
@@nix2939the only issue is performance nothing else is wrong with it
@@marcushankins8171 well I could give you a big list of things wrong with it but we'll just have to agree to disagree
Great show boys, congratulations to Dustin and Holly
To the topic of MTX in Dragon's Dogma:
Firstly the reviewers had the information about the MTX, some just didn't read through what they got.
The fast travel need two objects, and only one of the two can be brought. Also you can't buy more than one of that object with real money.
Then it's the reviewer's fault for not letting us know
There’s also no need to even pay for any of it. There’s no store or advertising pushing you to buy them nor is the balancing encouraging you to buy them for “time saving”. Everything is found through natural progression.
The conversation around the mtx is a little annoying because some people are just so adamant about things that are completely wrong. Same with basically every other gaming controversy.
@@Youngblaise2but the mtx don’t effect the game at all so there’s no reason to let us know
@@marcushankins8171 They do affect the game or they wouldn't sell them.
@@Youngblaise2no they don’t. You don’t need to use them at all. In fact most reviewers never complained about the limited fast travel options in their review meaning it doesn’t effect the overall game and experience and the game was not crafted around the mtx at all.
Amazing Chats great job guys 👍🍷🌶️🍍🍾🍸🍹🍺🥟🫛🥥🍯🧊🧊🍿🍩🥖🥩🥃🥃🥃
Dustin wearing the mini Jim Ryan like Chris Chan's Sonichu medallion is everything
Leave it to rich people to complain that people arent watching commercials lmao😅
I love lsm content but any and every argument they make for encouraging people to waste time watching pointless ads is just ridiculous. STAND DOWN LSM! Nobody on earth wants to watch commercials
Adblockers and apps like Vanced are a must. I'm not giving google money for a worsening product.
Trust. Dustin is not going to be bored. I became a dad in December 2023 and there is no time for boredom. When you do get time, it is usually in a trade off with sleeping.
Honestly, if my employer offered me 3 months I would have snapped it up. In the UK generally most men get 2 weeks. I got 4 weeks and it still felt like it was over in a flash.
The blessing for Dustin is that his job is his favourite hobby, but it is going to be interesting to see how his gaming changes and how that will affect his point of view on the show, because it definitely will. From my perspective it's a great thing because Dustin's life will be a little bit like my own in some respect, so I can identify with his gamer dad experiences.
I'm so excited for the day that my little boy can hop in the gunner seat of a warthog and I share with him my love of Halo. I bet Dustin has that game he can't wait to play with his son. Being a dad is so cool!
Good luck Dustin and Holly, I wish you both well with parenting, it's a wild ride but the most rewarding and heartwarming thing I have ever experienced in my life, I hope it is for you too!
Chris' monologue about the guy who never sleeps and wasted his life reminds me of someone who bragged that he needed less sleep because of meditation. He meditates 8 hours a day...
2:53:00 Dustin was absolutely COOKING with that take. As a physical game collector, not only fuck gamestop, but they have become so unreliable it's a joke. They're workers aren't treated well and are paid like shit thus the shit quality gets passed down to the customer. Gamestop didn't even get 2 of my last 3 pre orders on release day and wanted me to wait. I'd rather just preorder my stuff and go pick it up at Best Buy.
To be fair, GameStop orders games based on the preorder numbers. If it doesn’t get a lot of preorders they don’t see interest. They’ll still get some for walk ins but those go pretty fast.
Sometimes it baffles me how they think the world works. Sure it would be great if every store had 20 copies of every new game that came out but if their sales are down they aren't going to keep buying that much stock. They are only going to order what they think they can sell. It ends up being a catch-22 situation. Note: I'm not a GameStop apologist. I don't even think I've been to a GameStop in the past 10 years. But I'm also not going to bash them every chance I get.
Woa, never expected to hear EA’s Syndicate be brought up. The 4 player co-op in that game was some of my favorite gameplay that generation. If you ever planned to 100% the game, you likely ran into me for help at some point, sessions or the video guide. The servers closed last year in June, several days after they were intended.
I've been a Premium subscriber for years mainly because I hate ads. Shortly after becoming a member is when sponsorships started popping up everywhere and that chit really ticked me off.
Paying money to not see any ads and they still sneak their way to you 😊
2:05:30
Immortals of Aveum - lots of fun. If any of you are “old school” gamers like myself and have wanted something to play that feels like Heretic or Hexen…IoA can scratch that itch. Not exactly like it, but combat at times gets fast paced and hits ya.
So yes, if you got Plus…go play this damn thing. Drop some money if it hits ya good.
So happy for Dustin and his Firstborn
Legendary
It's like a new trophy unlocked.
Btw Tales of Arise has a DLC menu showing up everytime you camp. That was absurd. great game though.
That was far more egregious than what Dragon’s Dogma is doing. The only things I bought for Arise were the costumes but some were bundled I think with level up boosts and other stuff so that gave tangible advantage that felt an incentive to skip the grind which is just terrible design in their part.
Lets get Brad as the official sub in for when the boys miss an episode..
When it comes to DD2 why is it only the people who dont play are the ones that are mad? As Dustin said capcom has been doing this. I do remember some people trying to get mad with them in RE2 Remake but it didn't stick.
People think this fast travel goes against what the dev said but all you can get is one port crystal. If you don't know what that means then why are you discussing this? Obviously anyone can say what they want or even disagree with me but just understand how much weight your opinion holds when you have done no research.
This isn't aimed at anyone in particular but just frustrated with the dumb headlines that turned a friend off from this game before trying it lol.
Your boys can swim!! Congratulations Dustin.
Lmao Dustin you don't know what you are talking about with GameStop 😂
If Chris is curious about Minecraft, I’ve recently started playing Minecraft again and my self made goal is to do all the achievements. It’s been a good way to enjoy the open ended nature of the game while still having things to work towards to. I really want to get to the end and beat the ender dragon which I never managed to do as a kid.
Chris is such a goofy bastard. That shit eating grin right before Colin noticed had me rolling.
Say what you want about GameStop, but the last times I’ve been interested in selling/trading in old consoles GameStop is easier to deal with and often gives me a good amount of money for trading in. I recently traded in my Xbox series x for $350 and sure I could probably have sold that for closer to $400-450 selling it on my own, but this way I don’t have to deal with the Facebook marketplace moms asking if I’ll take $100 or something crazy. I traded it in for store credit and used all of the store credit on psn cards which I’m surprised they let me do
2:52:57 Saddly what Dustin says rings true. Gamestop should be a physical game collectors haven but sadly it's not. I have some fond memories walking into GS looking at all the new PS1/PS2 games but actually buying from them has always been of poor service. I was fooled into buying "new" ps2 games a few to many times back in my youth.
I had a few friends that worked for GS and to be fair to some of the workers, they were treated like crap from upper management.
I'm with you guys on yt premium.
Its a really good subscription and i mostly watch youtube on my phone 90% of the time with 10% being on my tv through my amazon fire stick.
Heck I'm on my phone right now
2:50:51 - gamestop is particularly in trouble because they refused to evolve as the market evolved. It was clear that digital was coming. Gamestop should have shifted to a game store that sells board games and gaming merchandise besides videogames. The funco figures were the wrong move
Sony used to due the individual games on the card but did away with it. i think it is small detail of the big sony monopoly lawsuit in london
34:37 - I made a comment about: "Poo-pa-ree Gate" last week & I'm a big enough person to comment this week & publicly apologize to Dustin. I'm sorry, I honestly didn't think you knew how to say: "Potpourri". I mean, in ALL of our defenses, you do say: "Jagawire", whatever the hell THAT is?! 😂 And congrats on the new bambino Dustin, you're gonna' be an awesome daddio!! 😊❤
You can cut the 16M copies sold of It Takes Two in half because when you bought it - you got an extra copy for free to send to a friend. I bet that number counts all of those copies too. 8M copies is still astounding - no doubt it’s GOTY win bumped those up!
Has that always been a thing? Bout it like 2 years ago, never knew about a free second copy
@@TacticalMikey - Yeah! I’m not sure if that’s the case anymore, but yeah back when it came out and won GOTY, that’s what they did. You got a code to give to a friend so you could play it with someone.
I’m pretty sure they don’t count the friend pass lol, it sold 16mil and was played by over 30 million so the math about tracks
Duuuude congrats to dustin and holly!
I love days gone. Super bummed well never get days gone 2
46:50 little Collin, with a magnet tape to his forehead, came to mind.
Day 1 ported FEAR they did not develop it.
Right, it was Monolith that developed it. Day 1 did develop FEAR 3 though. I am wondering if they will have a correction next week.
Dustin should name his son Therman. Therman firman!
1:31:35 people don't like Neil because he's a zionist, forced out amy hennig, and takes sole credit for naughty dogs success. people don't like the last of us 2 because of Joel's (literal) character assassination and the low tier "revenge bad mmkay" narrative. Nobody dislikes TLOU because they dislike Neil. They just dislike both for valid reasons 🤷🏼♂️
Its not the same situation as with Ken Levin or Johnathan Blow at all.
You have absolutely no evidence the Neil Druckman pushed out Amy Hennig. None. If you are blaming Neil Druckman for Amy H. then you have to blame Bruce Straley as well. There were a few people at the time Amy H. left Naughty Dog that were above Neil Druckman. As far as the TLOU2, get over it. Joel dies. Joel is dead. Just because you didn’t like the way Joel dies doesn’t make TLOU2 a bad game, it makes you a spoiled gamer with daddy issues. Please get over yourself.
@@ltw126 I'm just stating why people don't like Neil. You can choose not to believe it, but there is evidence out there and has been floating around for a couple years.
As for TLOU2 you're the one crying over someone else's opinion dude. Grow up & learn to deal with the fact that other people will have takes you don't like. Again, I'm just stating why people didn't like the game & a major reason IS because of how they treated Joel. And yes, not liking the writing makes it a bad game when it's a narrative heavy game lmao wtf. The pacing sucks, main characters act completely differently, & the message suffers from massive cognitive dissonance (killing Abby bad but killing hundreds on the way to her okay????).
So no, Colin's assertion that people didn't like TLOU because they didn't like Neil is just flat out wrong & you clearly are the same breed of defender that just can't accept people have valid reasons for not liking the game.
@@PlayLaughLogan Let it go.
@@ltw126 take your own advice
@@PlayLaughLogan EAD
I remember on DA Origins spending many happy hours just organising my party and how they'd react to certain things. eg, who would attack a magic users and ignore all others.
I’m so asking for the audio version of the live show 😂
Stellar Blade demo should sell a lot of copies. Story mode locked in for me though
I would say even Persona 5 made a huge splash, and turned gamers who otherwise wouldn't have, onto JRPG's
Apologies if they already say it in the episode, but any word on when the live show will be availabke to watch?
33:27
@@Fear-Da-Beerda king who even comes with timestamps
@@Fear-Da-Beerd thanks😁
When will the audio version be released?
Not sure if anyone else has mentioned it in the comments but Mysidia technically appeared in FF2 first, but yes in FF4 as well!
Ken Levine's bioshock are masterpieces.
Intellectually people want to map his philosophical takes onto low brow modern politics and it doesn't work.
I cannot wait for what Shinji Mikami does next! He's made 3 of my top 10 games and others I love as well. Feel like he should be considered as great as Kojima or Ken Levine. Chris, it is wild you have not played Bioshock 2, I never got the hate. Also, Dustin, congrats! And be glad you have an employer who will give you paternity leave. My CEO said "Why would I give any paternity leave? I don't want to finance your free golf trips....." Being a parent is probably the most important thing in your life if you choose to do it. Work pales in comparison. Enjoy it!
This is last Sparta media!
I'd love to platinum It Takes Two, but the only person I have been able to play it with is my 11 year old nephew, and he wants to skip all the story bits, keeps playing our game save with his friends, so I miss out on huge pieces of the game.
It's a great game, but you need someone other than a Roblox obsessed kid to play it with.
We need a live show in the Midwest. Preferably in the Chicago area.
Why is that guy snitching on Sponserblock lol
~28 min mark, literally Hey Nineteen by Steely Dan (steely dan reference)
Bend’s cost of living is nuts. $800k median home price
Steam +
Epic +
Gamepass+
Xbox = the future dominance of gaming
Thank God Colin called out the weirdos that type in all lower case. They’re usually the people with the worst takes.
time to call out the grammar police
I agree with Chris, Skyrim is easily one of the most important games in the last 30 years of video games.
Why? It sold a ton, but FF7 and Diablo 1 & 2 already made RPGs mass-market games and GTA did the same for open-world "sandbox" games before Skyrim.
I would recommend trying the Stellar blade demo. I played most of it, and the game isn't for me personally. It definitely has a Devil May Cry / Bayonetta thing going on. As far as world traversal, interactions etc most of that felt kind of janky. And I didn't care for the way they did the combat overall, I have a feeling Colin won't like the combat.
I actually was surprised by the game. I enjoyed it but I have enough on my plate to hold off until it's on sale.
I think you are right about Colin not liking it though. He talks like he enjoys these types of games but I've never seen him get into 3d ninja Gaiden, dmc, or GoW.
@gregoryjoslin3173 I absolutely love God of War 2018 and Ragnarok. But games like this just don't click for me, I just didn't find it fun. There's no rhyme or reason generally as to whether someone will like a game or not. Just have to play it for yourself and find out.
@bdre5555 Well, with GoW I meant the originals. That's cool it's not for you dude. There are enough great games for us all to find something.
I didn't really like it either. I'm a huge fan of action adventure games and souls games but it just felt weird and the world was bland imo.
This podcast only gets worse with time, like everything I guess.
Happy 300 boyos!
3:29:13? This barely covers night one of Wrestlemania 40!
Whoa! Dustin and Holly are going to be parents? Congrats! Hope the baby has a beautifully round head just like papa!
Does this mean Dustin has been promoted to "father"? And more importantly is Colin demoted? Can there be 2 fathers in the same space?
Colin goes to grandfather now.
Taking about Disney’s Star Wars, I think you would love Andor, Colin. It is a risky show to do for sure.
He said in the Marvel section that he likely would, but he's also said he doesn't want anything to do with the Star Wars IP anymore.
@@TheHOOfan1 I’m saying Andor is different from any other Star Wars film or show. He might like it for the dialogue or cinematography. Andor is the best written Star Wars thing of the past 40 years.
@@mattsanders2207 Doesn't matter. It's in the Star Wars Universe, so Colin doesn't want anything to do with it. That's the way Colin thinks. I'm sure he would like Jedi: Fallen Order too, but he's said, he is done with anything that has anything to do with Star Wars.
Hey Chris. The fields called. They’re running outta beef.
37:31 is Chris scatting? Scatman Chris?
Whats up with the audio on this episode? Explicitly hearing everyone's inhale on the mic is so distracting. Lol
People often forget the case with Shadow of War, a single-player game where the mtx were horrendous and made the game grindy towards the end, to the point where they had to remove them and balance the end-game.