Oh man losing Metal Gear gutted me! Mike was right, before MGS we didn’t have the camera sweeps that mimicked Hollywood cinematography, we didn’t have consistently good voice acting, and we didn’t have that kind of movie-esque story telling. Def more than just a gamer’s game. Not to mention Kojima is a killer game designer too, not just a dude who makes good cutscenes. When he wanted to make a game on the MSX around avoiding combat they thought he was nuts. Not to mention the boss fights that are so clever, with Mantis, Wolf, The End, Fatman, The Sorrow, and on and on. THEN the guy follows up MGS1 with a post modern deconstruction of what it means to be a sequel years before 22 Jump Street lol Kojima can def be self indulgent to a fault, but he had then juice especially in those first three Solid games. But to be fair it’s not “most impactful” so maybe its absence since Kojima left is enough to knock it off. Loved the discussion and really love the show!
The Sims should have been considered here, it’s still a huge part of gaming culture generally and also opened up gaming in a casual way to an almost entirely new audience (women) in the early 2000s when very few video games appealed to them at the time. The Sims as a franchise has more copies sold than Final fantasy, legend of Zelda, resident evil, Sonic. Get why it’s a blind spot because there aren’t a lot of fans in this community but it’s massive! Love the show as always though!
As a fan of Thomas Middleditch, and someone who watches his streams (he does read dead roleplay, among other things) he’s a liberal and any connection to a LH antiwoke game would be that he already works on solar opposites, he likely wouldn’t sign up for something with that context, Anyway just wanted to defend my boy as he uses his platform to defend many “woke” ideals and plays games with trans people as well as has trans and gay moderators. The man has taken enough shade
Agreed, as a regular in his Twitch streams I can confidently say he is not a fan of Elon Musk, lmao. No idea where this person got their info from about him making some "anti-woke game" but they should check their facts
3:21 START!
A reverse Goku is only something you should attempt in your 20s, any older and you'll put your back out
Oh man losing Metal Gear gutted me! Mike was right, before MGS we didn’t have the camera sweeps that mimicked Hollywood cinematography, we didn’t have consistently good voice acting, and we didn’t have that kind of movie-esque story telling. Def more than just a gamer’s game. Not to mention Kojima is a killer game designer too, not just a dude who makes good cutscenes. When he wanted to make a game on the MSX around avoiding combat they thought he was nuts. Not to mention the boss fights that are so clever, with Mantis, Wolf, The End, Fatman, The Sorrow, and on and on. THEN the guy follows up MGS1 with a post modern deconstruction of what it means to be a sequel years before 22 Jump Street lol Kojima can def be self indulgent to a fault, but he had then juice especially in those first three Solid games.
But to be fair it’s not “most impactful” so maybe its absence since Kojima left is enough to knock it off. Loved the discussion and really love the show!
The Sims should have been considered here, it’s still a huge part of gaming culture generally and also opened up gaming in a casual way to an almost entirely new audience (women) in the early 2000s when very few video games appealed to them at the time. The Sims as a franchise has more copies sold than Final fantasy, legend of Zelda, resident evil, Sonic. Get why it’s a blind spot because there aren’t a lot of fans in this community but it’s massive!
Love the show as always though!
Touch to decide what to swap it out for but maybe Street Fighter
Show start @ 3:22
Hilarious when Grubb said “we just do Mount Rushmore’s around here” given its history 😆
Best pre show music out there!
It’s true.
We gotta start doing "No Nintendo Rules" for these things sometimes. Makes it more interesting!
1:57 pre-show bants begin
I read the word "yet" on the title as "yeet" man, Jey Uso got me fucked up since Rumble.
"I don't like medieval as a biome" hahahaha
As a fan of Thomas Middleditch, and someone who watches his streams (he does read dead roleplay, among other things) he’s a liberal and any connection to a LH antiwoke game would be that he already works on solar opposites, he likely wouldn’t sign up for something with that context, Anyway just wanted to defend my boy as he uses his platform to defend many “woke” ideals and plays games with trans people as well as has trans and gay moderators. The man has taken enough shade
Agreed, as a regular in his Twitch streams I can confidently say he is not a fan of Elon Musk, lmao. No idea where this person got their info from about him making some "anti-woke game" but they should check their facts
I feel like the original rumors for this new Castlevania was that it’s like God of War 2018 inspired specifically
It's really annoying when Shawn pops in being an aggressive know it all. Dude needs to chill out sometimes.