Top 5 Most Replayable Video Games

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is Steve Megatron. Yo. We welcome for a second

of three appearances a very special guest in

the gaming hipster himself, TV's Mr. Neil. He's

back. He was back. Yes, I see him on the podcast.

Today we will bring you a top lists episode in

our video games we love series here inside studio

2009. These are our top five most replayable

video games before we get into this. I did not

count any mobile games because I always play

mobile games and technically match three games

really aren't real video games. They are, but

they aren't. So I didn't count any of the mobile

games that I play on my Android phone. I only

counted PC and console stuff that I've played.

And we are going from number five to number one,

so we'll let the guest go first. Neil, what is

your number five? I'm gonna go with the game

that had been in my Super Nintendo for literally

months on end without ever swapping the cartridge

out. That would be Super Mario All -Stars. with

Super Mario World in the game as well. Because

I would just, I don't know, I had this Mario

kick like back in the early 90s where it was

like all I would play is just Super Mario. Usually

Super Mario 2 that was like, this was the cartridge

that made me realize I must really love Super

Mario 2 because it's always the one that I play.

But really any of them, you know, Mario 3, Mario

World, they're just such fun platformers to play.

So I would just like jump into them all the time

and just, you know, just like in an evening,

just bang out one of the games and, you know,

and be done with it. It's just always, it's like

this, it's like a snack food type game. It's

just like, you just jump right in, even though

it's the same thing over and over again, you

just love it. Absolutely. Steve, what do you

got at number five? I have Star Wars Podracer.

Yeah, I back when when I used to Go to my dad's

for the weekend because he had the game and somebody

somebody at work bootleg to the disk for him

and like it was great because Anytime they bootleg

discs, you could just play them. I didn't need

a CD here. If I did, they wrote them down and

then you didn't have to register them. But I

had a game pad and I played the crap out of this

game on the computer. And I got so good at it.

Granted, I was hyped up on like a two liter of

caffeine like at 12 o 'clock at night watching

Saturday Night Live and playing Podracer. And

I was just, like, destroying this game. To the

point that, like, when EA All Access Origin had

Podracer on there... Because you can't play the

original game on a modern computer. It will not

run Just because the way it's designed it had

to be updated enough to run on a modern machine

Which is the only reason that you have to get

it through like origin because you can't get

it any other way But I played it again like a

year ago and I was it was still just as fun as

I remembered Very cool. Very cool coming in at

number five for me is Life is complicated I killed

people Grand Theft Auto IV. This game... I never

ever got to finish it I had to watch playthroughs

to see how it ended because I could never get

to the end but once I got to a point where I

was so you know I was had all the money I had

all the weapons I had all this and whatever I

would just go around destroying stuff because

I love when open world gaming allows you to do

that I don't know I thought it was so fun and

so interesting. The Grand Theft Auto franchise

has certainly come a long way. I wish they'd

stop doing stuff for five or online and actually

release a sixth game, but it is what it is. I

just love playing that one. I love using the

SUVs, the Hummers in that game, because it's

like, this is the only way I'm ever going to

drive, so just get out of my way. You see how

I drive in Grand Theft Auto 4? You know why I

don't drive in real life, folks. I'm not kidding.

I'm not kidding. Not kidding. How'd you get the

car into a tree? You just go up the ramp and,

you know, how'd you get the car in a building?

I dropped out of a helicopter and then I used

the cheat code. Anyway, number four for you,

Mr. Neil. Bomberman this was a game in the mid

to late 90s where all my buddies come over at

like 10 o 'clock at night and we would just stay

up until like four o 'clock in the morning just

bombing the shit out of each other because it's

this party game you get a bunch of uh you get

the you get the six player adapter for the Sega

Saturn and that's enough for everybody I you

know unless you just unless you have like unless

you have like a real a lot of friends and you

can get like an extra one but like You could

just sit there and just like, and just have hours

of fun just screwing each other over again and

again and again. You know, you get the power

glove lets you throw the bomb and if you like,

if you get it permanently on your character,

then you can just like really easily throw the

bomb over the wall and it hits the other guy

before he has a chance to like even start. So

you knock someone out real early and they get

mad. I mean, fights would break out, man. kicking

each other and like swearing and just calling

each other names that sort of names that would

end friendships, except we didn't get about it

the next day. Oh my God. That game was great.

I still have it. And I introduced it to my sister's

kids and they love it too. Awesome. I love, I

love Saturn bomber, man. It's the best one, but

really all of them are great. Yeah. I, I missed

the days where you could, you know, actually

Say things to your friends, and they don't run

home and cry. Go on Twitter. Can you believe

what this podcaster said to me in this podcast?

Oh, shut up. He's so mean. Steve, what do you

got at number four? This is kind of a cop -out

because I play them both at the same time, but

I'm going to say it anyway. I used to play Mega

Man X8. Mm -hmm crap load and Dragon Ball Z Budokai

Tenkaichi 3 that's mouthful, but I used to play

the crap out of both of those like simultaneously

on different systems, but or actually I think

they were on the same system They're on the Gamecube

or the no the PlayStation 2 that's what I played

them on I get confused because part of both of

those series were on the Gamecube But no, I played

them on the ps2, but I used to play the crap

out of those because one I got my nice side scroller

because I was I was always a fan of the Mega

Man X games. Just growing up, I'd always enjoyed

those more than Mega Man, only because one, the

sprites look so much better and you could climb

on the frickin wall. That's what I love about

Mega Man X. The very first one. I love that game,

the climbing on the light. This energy canister

is halfway up the wall. How am I supposed to

get there? Well, you just go... And it took some,

like, precision to stay on the wall. Yes, it

did. You know how people always say, oh, that

game's a button masher. No, no, no. Mega Man

X, the original Mega Man X, it's a button masher,

but it's a button masher in a different way.

Like you just said, you have to basically trick

the buttons into thinking, oh, you're going down.

No, we're going up. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.

Yeah. And it was pretty much the same thing with

the Dragon Ball Z game. I'd played the Budokai

and that one, two and three, and then the Budokai

Tenkaichi one, two and three. But the third one

was my favorite because you get to play with

various fusion characters and the Dragon Ball

Z stuff. So, I mean, it was just it was more

so I just got to play a fighter like just generic

fighter. And that was always what I went towards.

But I haven't played either of those in ages.

Yeah. For me, just like Steve said, he kind of

cheated. I'm kind of cheating on my number four

and my number three, but it's okay, because they're

part of the same franchise. Number four for me

is Metal Gear Solid and Metal Gear Solid 2. And

I can pretty much do this all day. What's the

matter? Is that the best VR kids can do? Blah,

blah, blah. I'll be in touch. I had heard of

Metal Gear when I was a kid, but I never paid

any attention to the old metal, the original

Metal Gear stuff. When PlayStation launched in

95 and then by 98 when Kojima came out with Metal

Gear Solid, I was like, what is this and how

can I like, I literally remember standing in

a video store playing the demo of this game and

the demo was just that very first mission of

Shadow Moses. It's, you know, when he first lands

and he has to, you know, get into the base kind

of thing. And I just love that game. And Metal

Gear Solid 2 is just, it takes the first game

and ramps it up, even though you end up playing

as a different character halfway through. But

that's okay. It's not that big of a deal. But

I love the Metal Gear franchise. I wish I could

play some of the other ones. But yeah, MGS 1

and 2 for me at number 4. Neil, what is your

number 3, sir? Well, it's a game... It's actually

a series of games that's been on every console

generation since the PlayStation 2. That would

be Pinball Hall of Fame. Particularly the Williams

collection, but really any of them will do It's

it's exactly what it is. It's pinball. It's a

lot of classic tables. You can go in there and

play a black hole or space shuttle or taxi or

Funhouse you can kick pinbots ass and it's just

I If you're a pinball fan, you understand if

not, then it's like why would you play pinball

is a video game? Trust me. It's it's fucking

awesome. I just It's so cathartic to just sit

there for like four hours trying to get the high

score, trying to get all the tricks, you know,

get the, get the ramp, pick up, you know, pick

up Dracula and Marilyn Monroe and taxi and do

all this crazy stuff and in fun house, you know,

try to hit, try to hit the big face with the

ball, you know, make them choke on it. Really

just a ton of fun. I love the pinball hall of

fame and uh, I try to keep my PlayStation 2 working

and I'm losing that battle. So I know at some

point I'm going to have to like, you know, find

some alternative because unfortunately the new

version to pinball Hall of Fame no longer have

the Williams table. So I can't play. I can't

play my fun house anymore. Oh no, that sucks.

Yeah, but I love pinball Hall of Fame. It's so

good. Yeah, and that's on the ps2, right? Yeah,

so that's on ps2 ps3. I think ps4 as well. Yeah,

see I I've never even as a little kid I was never

a pinball guy and just just pinball machines

in general because hello I have cerebral palsy.

I can only use one hand This also goes into my

whole thing of anything past the PlayStation

2 controller I refuse to play because the controller

is I play it one -handed and it's too damn big

like That first Xbox controller, oh my god, it

was like going from Illinois to Colorado big

at the time for me. All right, Steve, what do

you got at number three, sir? Okay, so my number

three is Batman Arkham City. It was all a lie.

There's nothing wrong with you. Nice of you to

say, but you of all people should know there's

plenty wrong with me. Which is the first game

I bought for the Xbox 360 and was the only game

I had for the first six months because they were

so blasted expensive. Granted, I got the Xbox

360 and Arkham City on Black Friday deal, so

they weren't very expensive. But between getting

both of them. Couldn't afford another game at

that time. So that's what I played for six months

straight and I got bloody good at it on multiple

levels so I just loved the fact that it was kind

of an open -world Batman game and The the detail

the story the the voice acting you just had all

of it in there plus a lot of nice gear a lot

of new features that weren't in the original

Arkham Asylum game, which I just I think Arkham

City was like my favorite out of the entire four

games that they came out with. Was it four? I

thought it was only three. No, they had Arkham.

They had Arkham Asylum, Arkham City and Arkham

Knight. And then they had Arkham Origins, which

took place before all three of them. But it was

a completely different studio and voice acting

team. Yeah. Like they didn't reuse anybody. Like

it was just brand new. Yeah, that's no, you know

Anyway, yeah if you guys want to hear the Arkham

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sue them. So, yeah, yeah, I know. All right.

My number three, as Neil mentioned earlier. I'm

specifically talking about the SMB3 and specifically

for All -Stars. So I love the original Super

Mario Bros. 3, but once All -Stars came out,

I'm like, oh my God, my legally blind ass can

actually see this game and actually enjoy. Holy

crap, what did they do to Super Mario Bros. 3?

They improved it so much. And going between the

two, oh my god, after playing All -Stars Mario

3, forget regular Mario 3 as far as the graphical

look and things like that. That and Super Mario

World, oh man, these games I could play for hours.

The only two things I did not like about Mario

3 were Pipeland and that stupid hand in Darkland.

I hated that thing. But man, I love what I love

about Mario 3 is just the the items and the collecting

and you can use powers whenever you want to use

powers and oh Well for the most part, but it

was so so cool and Super Mario World. I remember

Christmas of 1992 I Finally made a right choice

and I've told this story before I think I told

it last time what last episode actually maybe

you're the first video game episode we did here.

It's year 2009. Back in the 80s, I chose poorly

between Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega

Master System. Luckily, in 1992, I got smarter

as a 12 -year -old, and I'm like, ma, I want

Super Nintendo. Because again, back then in 92,

you actually had the Nintendo centers in the

mall where you could go up and you could play

demo versions. level that was ever on my demo

versions in the malls at the Nintendo centers

was Donut Plains 1. I got so good at Donut Plains

1 from going to the mall so many times before

the game came out. And I remember Christmas Eve

through Christmas Day into boxing day, because

hey, why not mention Canada? I played that game

for a solid three days. Every chance my twelve

year old self could play it. Oh man. I remember

playing it at like midnight December twenty -six

one AM and of course the one levels I got to

at that time of the night was oh it's Vanilla

Dome. I think it's Vanilla Dome three and four.

It's past the ghost house. It's the lava levels.

You know what I'm talking about Neil. And I'm

like, oh my god, I am getting so frustrated but

I have to be so quiet because my mother is asleep

and if she finds out I'm playing video games

and all the night, I'm gonna get in trouble.

Alright, Neil, what is your number two, sir?

It's gonna be a Game Boy one and it's Donkey

Kong 94. This was a game that came out and it

kind of tried to trick you. It starts out as

like a port of the original Donkey Kong, but

then you beat the fourth stage and all of a sudden

it turns into this awesome puzzle platformer

where you have to like run and jump through these

stages and find a key and the key takes you to

the exit and it's trying to figure out the route

through the stage that that is the puzzle because

sometimes you know there'd be like a bed of spikes

and you can't walk on the spikes so you have

to like figure out how to how to get one of the

enemies to fall down onto the spikes so you can

stand on top of them and they'll walk you across

and there's all sorts of like little like little

hazards and you know things that you can use

to jump over to launch yourself over pits and

and you know clear fire like beds of flame that

are in your way and You know, it's it's it is

the most fun Game Boy game I think there is and

it's kind of the gameplay is kind of like a cross

between Mario 2 and Mario 64 in a way that I

cannot even explain on this podcast because you

can throw objects like in Mario 2 but he also

does kind of the kind of the triple jump that

he doesn't in Mario 64 it's a really weird interpretation

of Mario, but it's so goddamn fun and I love

it. Donkey Kong 94 is like one of those hidden

classics on the Game Boy that like a lot of people

didn't discover until like much, much later.

So what you're saying is Rare actually did something

good with Donkey Kong. It was not Rare. It was

a Miyamoto game because Rare would never have

made a game this good. Steve, what is your number

two, sir? My number two is Command and Conquer

Red Alert 2, and I choose that one specifically

because that's the one I still play to this day.

When did it come out? It came out in the year

2000. Then I'll tell you something. I've been

playing the Command and Conquer games since the

late 90s, and I've always liked the Red Alert

versions of the game more than the other ones

because they got into some weird Sci -fi type

stuff and it read alert to kind of kept a little

more grounded other than the fact that it had

some Newer tech, but they did some time travel

stuff and I just I don't know I always preferred

the premise in the storyline of them But I I

still enjoy that because you get to army build

you get to you know build a base it kind of calls

back to those old days when everybody played

Warcraft and in Starcraft and um, you know, the,

the real time strategy stuff. And I, I just,

I dug being able to sit there and figure it out.

And, um, my dad, before, uh, we had a router

in our house or a network, uh, router, he figured

out that you could, um, play two player on games.

If you strung a network cable from one machine

to the other. and created this weird internal

network by just doing that. And so we were able

to play Command and Conquer and other games,

just multiplayer by doing that. I think the only

Command and Conquer game I've ever played was

Renegade. Beginning of the end for them. Yeah,

kind of was. Hey! Excuse me, Princess! Alright,

number two for me, another classic. The Legend

of Zelda I linked to the past on Super Nintendo.

Oh man, I love this game. I don't know what it

is about this one, but it just felt more real

at the time. Even though it's still the tiny

sprites and everything else, to me this always

felt like a much needed improvement over the

original as far as graphics go. I'm sure that's

blasphemous to all the NES fans out there, but

I just, I don't know what it is. I just love

the story, the whole trickery with Anghim and

all that and just some of the challenging parts

of that game. and having to figure out which

way to get the items and oh you can't do this

until you get this item you can't do this until

you get the once I had the hook shot everybody

watched the hell out because I destroy all those

people with that damn hook shot I love that game

it is now time for our number one choices for

our most replayable video games Neil what do

you got one game that basically represents an

entire franchise because really this entire franchise

is just infinitely replayable and I have to say

the name the way the announcer in the name says

says the name Street Fighter Alpha 3 and the

reason why I pick Street Fighter Alpha 3 is because

it is like the dream match of all classic Street

Fighter games you have all the alpha characters

in there and you have all the Street Fighter

2 characters in there and there's like every

Every single character has multiple different

play styles. You could play it You play a character

as like as like the alpha type rules where you

have like you have these super combos and You

know, you have alpha counters and all the alpha

rules But then you could also play like it's

super Street Fighter 2 where you have like one

big of you have like one big super combo and

You don't you don't necessarily have you don't

have I think it's the You don't have the air

blocking in the X version, or the X -ism play

style. And then there's one that's called V -ism,

which is, I guess it's very combo heavy. And

you get a shadow of yourself that can follow

you and mimics all your punches. It's kind of

like the shadow follower in Ninja Gaiden 2. And

you can get some crazy combos with that. I did

the Chun -Li leg kick. I got like a 44 -hit combo

on someone one time. It was really wild. And

later versions of the game, the home console

ports, you get extra play styles. So you can

actually get a play style that is like the original

Street Fighter 2 and all sorts of goofy... sorts

of goofy things and plus extra characters you

can play as Guile and and DJ and T Hawk and all

the characters so it was like the ultimate 2d

version of Street Fighter and it was I think

it was pretty much the last one that ever came

out before they finally just you know went to

3d but it is it is my favorite Street Fighter

and it's one it's absolutely my favorite replayable

game of all time awesome yeah I I miss Raoul

Julius so much. All right, Steve, what do you

got for your top pick? My top pick? My topic?

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And yes, the game is, it's been out for quite

some time. Most of the games we've mentioned

tonight have been out for quite some time. Oh,

yeah. Well, some of yours are older than mine,

but that's because we are older than you. Well,

I did play a lot of old games. I just they I

don't have a chance to replay them much. I mean,

unless you're talking emulators, you know, in

that case, then I have like infinite. Yeah, I

have a ton that I've played because that's how

I used to play console games back in, you know,

2000 because I didn't have one. So I I did emulators

on everything but Going back to Star Trek online

it came out in 2010 as as like a subscription

based game kind of like World of Warcraft and

the like at the time and they The premise of

the game like I remember playing they had like

a like a trial version That you could play the

first level what's sad about it is I could never

figure out the stupid game enough to get past

the first level. So I just was like, I'm not

going to subscribe to this. And then I think

it was like two years later, maybe three years

later, they went free to play and made it so

that things were like transactionary. And I started

trying to play it again and I still couldn't

get past whatever it was. So I quit playing it

again. And then I think I started back up in

2016. Yep, that's about right. 2016. And I've

been playing it ever since. But I back in that

that time, you know, they had expansions and

they had renovated the game. And I could never,

like I said, get past that level with that character

I created. And for some reason, that version

of the game still was active, even though they

no longer supported any of it. So that character

was forever locked in that realm. And I deleted

the character, created a new one, started the

game over, because it's not like I was that far

in. And everything was different. Oh, no. The

level was like you fighting the Borg. And then,

you know, the new one was you're fighting the

Klingon Empire. And so it was just a totally

different storyline that they were going for.

totally renovated everything. The only benefit

is is now they have a ton of the actors like

the ones that are still among us and those that

are passed on that have played roles in Star

Trek Online. And so you get to hear those they

have. It's a pretty expansive universe and they're

constantly improving it. I for the life of me

don't know how it's still going, but I'm thankful

that it is because I've dumped money into it.

But but yeah, I mean I play it whenever there's

a new expansion they come up with a couple every

year and then There used to be a way that I could

game the system because they have four different

ways that you can Populate your your game with

money. There's four different like currencies

in the game, which is confusing as I'll get up

Like they have Zen which you pay cash for or

you can trade in dilithium which requires you

to grind to make it and then they have there's

like a digital currency then they have like latinum

and and so there's like all four and It yeah,

it gets I I figured out that if you traded in

the dilithium Got the Zen which is the money

because you can't trade it in for real money.

I would buy the keys for the lock boxes With

that because I used I figured out a way to get

dilithium really easy And then I would flip them

on they have like an internal game market And

I figured out how to flip those and make a pretty

good chunk of change with the digital currency

that's in like in the character part of the game

and I was able to flip them and then buy them

real cheap and then flip them and buy them real

cheap and flip them and buy them real cheap and

I did it enough times over a course of a month

that I was buying up all my competition that

was even remotely close to me Driving the price

way up and selling it for super high and now

like they've like nerfed that system So it's

all high like there's nothing There's no way

to get around it now So I was like well I made

the money while I was making and I was able to

buy like one of the expensive lock boxes I didn't

want to pay for that ended up on the market.

So but it didn't cost me anything but time I'm

remembering this now between 2016 and 2018, like

half the time before we would start recording.

Yeah, I'm just mining this Star Trek stuff so

I can trade it in for this or I can do this.

Well, I bought the Kelvin universe. Yeah, I remember

that. I was like, I need an enterprise that's

like T6, which is like their top level starship.

And I was like, I can't get one of this, you

know. Then I ended up getting Captain Pike's

Enterprise and that one's actually better, but

Absolutely. Anyways, yeah, I still play the game.

So very cool. Very cool my top spot is Need for

speed most wanted the 2005 version the UC thought

you were the one Hey, where's your fancy ride?

I'm glad you're here, sugarplum. You brought

me luck last time. How's your car running? Faster

than anything here. Hey, where's your punk money

now? What happened is he's all so and no goat.

You're mine now. That ride's hot. Oh, man. Did

you pick the wrong street to run on? I want every

single unit after the guy. Everyone? What about

the blacklist? So this is the version where they

had all these major Talent voice people come

in they had Josie Marin come in they had all

these other people come in to do voices the reason

why I love this game so much is because It was

basically the blacklist before the TV show So

in this game for those that may not know for

those that know I'm sorry But for those that

don't know and never heard of this one You had

15 members on the blacklist and you as the player

had to get to the number one spot. And I just

loved playing this. And the other reason why

I loved it was because all of the environments

are New England, Massachusetts environments.

I'm like, this is so cool. So awesome. I love

playing that game and it is a game I can go back

to at any point in time. And even though I kind

of Grumble at it at first because you have to

because obviously in all the need for speed games

you have to start out with the weakest car ever

But no, I love that game and all of all the games

that are on all of our lists I mean we all love

replaying them. Hence why we made this this this

podcast this episode and I'm sure there are plenty

of other like I almost put Spyro 2 Ripto's rage

on here because that's another one I can play

through all the time I'm sure there are so many

others that we could talk about. Anybody got

any honorable mentions they want to bring up?

Tetris? Of course. How could we do this without

mentioning Tetris? Because Tetris is just the

game that is... I think it's the game that united

the gaming universe. Once Tetris came out, even

your mom would play video games. I told this

story if you... Several months ago about how

like I couldn't even get my gameboy at times

because my mom was playing Tetris is Stupidly

ridiculous and then I guess Mario Kart 64. It's

another party. Oh, yeah, which you punch your

friends. Yep. That was always fun Yeah, I I enjoy

that game as well. I Totally blanked but Super

Smash Brothers. Oh, yeah that that franchise

I I had Super Smash Brothers, Super Smash Brothers,

Melee and Super Smash Brothers Brawl. And Brawl

was probably my favorite because you could get

Zero Suit Samus and then you could also get Sonic

the Hedgehog. And I would destroy people in that.

To the point, I went to a convention once and

they had I stumbled upon the gaming area, which

was like in the basement of the hotel. Of course,

because it was loud. And they had all the gamers

down there and they were playing Super Smash

Brothers. It wasn't Brawl. It was or it was the

one after they came up for the Wii U. I want

to say. And they had just Super Smash Brothers.

No, Super Smash Brothers is on the 64. They had.

No, no, no, I know. But I'm saying, like, wasn't

the new version just Super Smash Brothers for

now? Oh, it wasn't. They had some name for it.

But anyways, they were they were doing tournaments

in the basement and I was just like, oh, Super

Smash Brothers. So I stood back and I watched

for about 15, 20 minutes, waited for people to

cycle through. And then I watched the one guy

and I was like, OK, he thinks he's a hard, you

know, he's he's the best one. And so I was like,

I'm curious if I'm still good or if I'm rusty.

And so I got in there and it was like a four

player match in. Yeah, I I wore him down and

Use the other two people to my advantage Which

was very helpful He did take me down, but I came

very close and then the next game I did I knocked

him right out And and then he was like, okay,

and then he got up left But I was like, yeah,

I'm gonna I'll play one more and then I was like

I'm done. I gotta go do some other stuff They

were panels I was waiting for and I killed enough

time. But yeah, I was I was so excited to play

that. Yeah, I remember the original one on 64.

Oh, man, that was first released January 21st

of 99. Latest release Super Smash Brothers Ultimate

December 7th, 2018. Oh, man, I remember that

because. What I always used to love to do is

I always used to love to kick Kirby off the thing.

I hated Kirby in that game. I don't know. Yeah,

because he was the vacuum cleaner and he would

go... Yep. Yep, yep, yep. Two other ones I want

to mention, and then if Neil, if you have any

other ones you want to mention, we can get the

heck out of here after that is... Bloody Roar

2 and Soul's Edge. Bloody Roar 2 is the animalist.

It's the the animal character, you know people

that turn into animal characters and fight each

other and then Souls Edge was part of it's part

of the soul caliber franchise, but Specifically

Souls Edge because it was in like literally it

was one of the only reasons why I enjoyed going

to the movies at times of actually being at the

movie theater not in Watching a film was because

they had a Souls Edge thing there and I used

to love playing that. A friend of the show as

we all know, Mike the Birdman from This Week

in Geek, I know he has had several cabinets in

his house. The one cabinet I would, if I ever

had a place where I could ever have any room

for it, the only cabinet I want is that Star

Wars trilogy cabinet. You guys know what I'm

talking about? I think so. It's the one where

you sit in the chair and the speakers are built

into the chair and there's this giant thing and

it's a separate thing and you go through each

of the movies. I think it's just called Star

Wars trilogy. Anyway, love that. Anything else

you want to mention Neil? I'm gonna go one more

for the Sega Saturn because I'm a huge Sega Saturn

advocate and that would be Fighters Megamix.

This is a game that combined Virtua Fighter with

Fighting Vipers, which was like a sister game

at the time They haven't made a Fighting Vipers

in years, but it's all the Fighting Vipers characters

versus Virtua Fighter Fighting Vipers characters

have armor that they wear and you can knock it

off and They had to kind of rebalance the game

so that like the Virtua Fighter characters would

have would be at an advantage or disadvantage

depending on like how much of the armor they

knocked off of the Fighting Vipers characters

and had a bunch of like bonus characters in there,

too. You could play as the chick from Virtua

Cop 2 and the car from Daytona, USA. There's

a couple of Sonic characters in there for some

stupid reason. And it's just it's not a very

deep game. It's just stupid fun. And I remember

liking it a lot. Very cool. I I also like one

of the other series that I played a crap load

of was the Battlefield series. Mm hmm. I also

just got invited to play the game soon, but I'm

not. The new one, 2142. Yeah, I am. Or the 2042.

Yeah, I had the number wrong. But either way,

I really like the franchise, despite the fact

that you're just blowing stuff up. I'm not particularly

good. So I kind of rest on the fact that I like

to blow things up, which is buildings. And I

use a vehicle rocket launcher specifically for

sniping. That's what I loved about Battlefield

2142 is you can get in this giant robot mech

suit and just go destroy everything. You can

step in a car and boom. Love that. experience

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