Interview with Steve “Megatron” on Gamer Origins

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into our studio. This is Studio 2009 here on

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the Geekcast Radio Network. And of course, I

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am TF1 Mike. And for our latest gamer origins

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today, I welcome the GCR co -creator and all

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around altered geek. It's Steve Megatron. Hello,

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sir. How are you? Hello. Today we're going to

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take Steve through his video game playing origins

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and more. So did you grow up playing video games

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and what were some of your earliest video game

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memories? So I grew up on it in terms of I had

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a PC. Hashtag PC Master Race. So I didn't have

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a game console for I don't know till I was 17.

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That's about right, yeah. I had a Game Boy Pocket

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and a Game Boy Advance somewhere around like

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$14, $15. And then I got like a GameCube when

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I turned 17. And then I got pretty much a lot

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of the game consoles. And then I, from then,

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sold a lot of those consoles. Well, that pretty

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much ruins question two, folks. So moving on

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to question three. What is your number one favorite

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video game as a kid? I don't know if I have a

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favorite video game from a kid. I played, like

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I said, I played on DOS. I played on Windows.

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I did have a Sega Genesis at my dad's. I had

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a Game Boy Advance. Some of my favorite games,

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I would say, as a kid, because I can't really

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boil it down. I'll pick one per console, I guess,

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or one per device. PC, I liked when I was younger.

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I enjoyed the Beast Wars game online because

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I would do the MSN Gaming Zone tournaments. and

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sorely thrash people, but I also like Unreal

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Tournament and Command & Conquer, Red Alert,

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stuff like that. And then on Game Boy Pocket,

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I played Pokemon Red. On Game Boy Advanced, I

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played Mega Man Extreme. On my Sega Genesis,

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I played Altered Beast, hence the name Altered

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Geek. Exactly, yep. And then... Super Nintendo,

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I always liked the Mario games, but I liked the

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Aladdin game on Sega Genesis. PlayStation 2,

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I liked the Dragon Ball Z, Budokai Tenkaichi

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3. And then I had an Xbox 360, and my favorite

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games on that were Unreal Tournament 3 and Arkham

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City. And that was kind of the... I mean, I had

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the GameCube and I had a Nintendo Wii as well,

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but pretty much hands down on both of those consoles,

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my favorite games were the Dragon Ball games,

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the Mega Man X games, and my number one would

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be Super Smash Bros., which I still love that

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game. Yeah, absolutely. So how did your gaming

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habits change as you grew up and throughout your

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life? I got to a point where I got pretty addicted

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to video games. To the point that I wasn't sleeping

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at normal intervals. I wasn't... I had an unhealthy

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obsession with them. And during all of that,

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I... Yeah, I mean, I pretty much didn't sleep.

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And so... I've since, like, because I... When

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I went through that phase, I eventually realized...

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Well, first, my PlayStation 2, my memory card

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died. And I didn't have a backup. And so when

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it died, I sold my PS2 and everything that went

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with it because I was like, I'm not replaying

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any of that. I had like everything maxed out.

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I was done. I was like, I'm not doing this again.

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Then I got the 360 and I did the same thing.

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And I did it on the Nintendo Wii as well. And

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I had an SD card in there for the Wii and then

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for the PlayStation or not the PlayStation. Xbox

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360, I had the hard drive in it. And I hit this

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point where I was gaming more than I was hanging

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out with my wife or with anybody else. It was

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kind of consuming everything. And outside of

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podcasting, I was playing games all the time.

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Even outside of podcasting, folks, there were

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plenty of nights where Star Trek Online, yay!

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Yeah, it's still on there. The screen is up.

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I'm tweaking something, but I'm not actually

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playing actively. There's no new mission, so

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I'm not playing. I'm just tweaking something

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that I noticed was left off kilter. But yeah,

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so I... It was coming to the point I was probably

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going to end up divorced because I was playing

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so much. And I went cold turkey. I wiped my entire

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hard drive. All my save files, everything. All

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of my save games. Are you sure there's no going

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back from this? And I'm like, yeah, I'm positive.

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And I dumped it and then I sold everything associated

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with it. So I have not had a game console since.

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I've got my PC, which I can play some of the

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same games. I have Steam, so I've got the Arkham

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City, Arkham Knight. I absolutely hate Arkham

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Knight. I've played a demo of some Dragon Ball

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Z games, and they're a little harder for me to

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get into again, just because it's not the old

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stuff. I've got Command & Conquer Red Alert 2.

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I've got... Mass Effect 3. I got Mega Man X4.

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I got Multiverses, which is Warner Brothers'

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version of Smash Brothers. I have, of course,

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Star Trek Online. I have a bunch of old Blizzard

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games I never play anymore. I have all of the

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Transformers, Fall of Cybertron, War for Cybertron,

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Devastation, Unreal Tournament 3, and then, of

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course, Like I said, Star Trek Online, and I

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have Super Smash Bros. Brawl. But otherwise,

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I mean, that's kind of... I mean, I have a bunch

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of Battlefield games too on EA, but EA glitches

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out too much for me to even warrant turning it

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on anymore. I used to play the crap out of Podracer.

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But yeah, I mean, so there's a lot of games that...

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I still enjoy, but I pretty much play them on

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the PC because that's all I have. And honestly,

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that's all I care to actually play on. So how

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often do you go back and replay any of the video

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games you grew up with? So a lot of the games

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I used to play as a kid were DOS or Windows -based,

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and they're old, ancient games, and they don't

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really play on modern stuff. I mean, there's

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an Abandon Games website and stuff like that,

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so I can play them online or I can play them

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in that instance, but periodically, if I'm feeling

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nostalgic, I'll try it again for a level, and

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I'm like, eh, I don't care. I do, like I said,

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I still play... Like the Unreal Tournament stuff,

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I still go back and play a Mega Man game of some

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kind, Smash Bros., Red Alert 2 is pretty much

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one of my oldest staples that I still go back

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to. And then Star Trek Online's old at this point,

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but I started playing in 2016, so I don't really

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consider it that old. I like Podracer, but the

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only way to get it is to buy it on EA's crappy

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app, and I refuse to give them money. Uh, cause

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I have the disc for the original game. It just

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won't play on modern setups. Right. Um, but I,

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I really did enjoy that game just cause it was

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fun. It was star Wars themed racing and I, I

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could, you know, if I felt inclined, I could

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blow something up, but I, I genuinely enjoyed

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that just for a brainless, like just going around

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the track, adrenaline junk. Yup. But yeah, I

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mean, those are kind of the games that I just

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kind of go back and play. I think it is time

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we had a talk. Which video games that have released

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when you were an adult have you liked the most?

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Like over the last 10 years. Well, the last 10

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years, I can't even count Star Trek Online anymore

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because it came out longer than 10 years ago,

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but I've been playing it. Okay, but yeah, I'm

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just saying. I mean, I still play that. I don't

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really play new games. I don't find a lot of

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them to be very good or fun. Multiverse is kind

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of the new one that I'm playing, like the only

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new one, because it doesn't cost me anything.

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Some of the other games are ones that I've either

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bought in the past, but again, they're old games,

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so I don't... I can't consider them new games.

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Yeah, I think that's pretty much the only new

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game that's come out in the last 10 years that

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I'm playing. Everything else, well, I guess Battlefield

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1 and Battlefield 5. Battlefield 1 was the last

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one I actually play -played. Battlefield 5 kind

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of sucked. And then I didn't get 2142 because

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I just thought that I was kind of burned by Battlefield

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5 and I heard a bunch of the crap that went down

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with it. And I was like, I'm good, I'll just

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skip. I did get to play the alpha and the beta

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of both Battlefield 1 and Battlefield 5, and

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I think I was offered beta in 2142. I just didn't

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have the time, so I just was kind of like, screw

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it, I don't care. But, yeah, I mean, for the

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most part, the games that I'm kind of playing

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are the multiverses for the new stuff. Are there

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any video games you hate or have been greatly

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disappointed by? Arkham Knight? I feel like they

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try to get too gimmicky with it. Arkham Asylum

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was very enclosed. It was very polished. I enjoyed

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it for what it was. It was also extra creepy

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because you were stuck in the asylum. I preferred

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Arkham City because I could peer off the top

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of buildings. Yeah. And I could go inside buildings

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and I could hide. And there was just a lot that

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I could do. Arkham Knight felt too big because,

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again, like Arkham City, you were kind of enclosed

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in a fenced off area that was being destroyed

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and bombed and everything else. Whereas Arkham

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Knight, you're in the entirety of Gotham. and

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you're driving the Batmobile, and then there's

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a bunch of timed missions, and then there's...

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It's overly complicated and difficult, so I just

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don't enjoy it whatsoever. I prefer the Arkham

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Origins, which was Warner Brothers Montreal,

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more than I enjoy Arkham Knight, even though

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it's different voice actors for Batman and Joker.

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Yeah. That game is probably the biggest disappointment

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I've had in a game in the last 10 -12 years.

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By far. Outside of the Battlefield stuff. And

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I would say kind of Star Trek Online to some

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degree. I enjoy it, but they've also gotten to

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the point where it's so microtransaction -y to

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get anything new. I mean, you get the new missions,

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but they're very Star Trek Discovery -based or

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Mirror Universe or Borg. And I'm like, okay,

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these have been done to death. Please give me

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something different. Or pick up on an old storyline

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that's not been plucked recently. to complete

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it. In that regard, there is that Star Trek Resurgence,

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which I played. I think it came out last year.

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Yeah, sounds about right. So I guess that would

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be one of the games that I highly enjoyed, outside

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of the fact it had control issues. And I haven't

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played it since they patched it. But it wasn't

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too bad, and they did pick up the storylines

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from way back when. you know, of, of TNG and

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kind of played into that. So it was kind of nice

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to see that kind of come full circle, but, um,

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yeah. So, I mean, I guess that's, that's another

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one that I enjoyed, but, uh, a lot of this stuff

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has been kind of lackluster when they kind of

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make sequels to stuff. Very cool. Very cool.

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I don't know. Some of these video games, especially

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like the Batman games now. Like, for the longest

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time, you and I know this, but for the longest

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time, and most of the audience knows this too,

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most of the time, as long as Mark was there for

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Joker, Kevin would show up as Batman. Now that

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Kevin's gone, I just don't. Like, I watched a

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bunch of people play Suicide Squad, Kill the

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Justice League, and the guy they have as Batman

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was okay. I thought that was supposed to be Conroy,

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but it wasn't. Or something. Maybe I'm mixing

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it up with Gotham Knight. No, that was him. Was

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it? Okay. Yeah, that's why everybody was so up

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in arms. Yeah, that's true. I don't know. I think

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it was maybe Gotham Knights. I forget. There

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was a Batman game recently where it was not him.

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I think it was Gotham Knights. Probably. That

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makes more sense. Yeah. And it was just like,

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okay, that's okay. Sure. Fine. Okay. Voice. No

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problem. I guess. Speaking of characters, who

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is your end all be all favorite character from

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any video game? Hmm. You can pick a hero and

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a villain. Well, most of the games I play don't

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have a set hero or villain. So that makes it

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kind of difficult. Okay. Right from the start.

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That being said, with all of that, I would probably,

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I mean, the only games that I've played that

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would have that situation for hero and villain

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would be like the Dragon Ball Z games or Super

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Smash Brothers. Or the Arkham games, because

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everything else, it's kind of create your own

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character. So who's your favorite hero and villain

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from Smash Brothers? We'll go with that. My favorite

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hero is Sonic. Mm -hmm. Villain... Kind of...

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Difficult, because I don't really... I mean,

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they're all kind of good and bad, so it's kind

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of hard for me to pick one. And I pretty much

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solely play as Sonic when I play. So I don't

00:16:11.590 --> 00:16:16.509
really have a villain, per se. I hate fighting

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against, like, Fox, so I'll go Wolf, because

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Wolf is kind of the same in that. But if I had

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to, like, obviously the Arkham games, it's Batman

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and Joker. If it's Dragon Ball Z, I love playing

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as Goku, and then my favorite villain to fight

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is Cell. So, yeah, I mean, I guess that would

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kind of be the case there. There you go. Very

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cool, very cool. What are some other video game

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characters you like? Are there any you hate?

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Obviously, it's been said that are strictly video

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game characters. I like Sonic. He's kind of a...

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big staple for me uh i really enjoyed playing

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that character on pretty much anything i was

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kind of a big sonic fan when i was a kid so i

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had like sonic cd i had you know the sonic 3

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and sonic 3 knuckles uh yeah so it was that that

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was that was a lot of fun for me to uh play the

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character and and kind of get to immerse myself

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in that world. Very cool, very cool. Who are

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some of your favorite video game voices and or

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voice actors? I know Nolan North plays a lot

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of bit parts that you may not necessarily know

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or like DC Douglas or people like that. Roger

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Craig Smith, Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill. I can't

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remember the guy that plays Male Shepard in Mass

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Effect. He does pretty good. I only remember

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Jennifer Hale, and she's FemShep, so I don't

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remember the male version. Sorry, folks! All

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right. Did you ever own anything based on a video

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game, toys, comics, coloring books, et cetera?

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Nope. I was not one of those people. I was strictly

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like, give me the comics and of like regular

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characters, stuff like that. Like I did not.

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I didn't. I didn't go with any of that type of

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stuff. Yeah. Yeah. What is your favorite video

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game theme song? Video game theme song. Again,

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like the Sonic stuff, the Super Smash Brothers

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has got some pretty spectacular soundtracks,

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like very remastered and orchestral and just

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it's a lot of fun. So I would have to say Smash

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Brothers because there's pretty much for a hot

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minute there. I use some of it. um, for geek

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cast radio and, uh, GCR and wars. So how small

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is your video game collection? Uh, I don't know.

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I've probably got 30, 40 games remaining. Uh,

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that's not, uh, that's not counting what I have

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in emulation. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, Which are ancient.

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I don't have most of that stuff anymore. I don't

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really dig too much into. I've probably got about

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that much. Which game or games had the biggest

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impact on your life? I don't know about impact,

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but I would say just entertainment value. with

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probably Smash Brothers and Dragon Ball Z. I

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like the fighter games. Star Trek Online is the

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one oddity where I kind of broke the mold as

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far as what I will play. Right. I don't normally

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play MMORPG type stuff. I don't generally care

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for it. But, yeah. It's one of the few that I

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actually will break down and play as Star Trek

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Online. But the other ones, it's pretty much,

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I play a lot of just battle games. Smash Brothers,

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Multiverses, Dragon Ball Z. Those are my fun

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ones, unless I'm trying to... get I don't know

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into something else right like strategy if I'm

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wanting strategy and I'm just feeling like that

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then I'll for sure do red alert but otherwise

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like I don't cool cool cool You probably haven't

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done this, but what is the most money you spent

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on a video game item ever? Print, art book, etc.

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Zero dollars. The most and most I've done is

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buy a game and the most I've spent on one is

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like 60 bucks. I've never paid more than 60 dollars

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for a video game. I pretty much wait until Black

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Friday because I loathe. paying full price. My

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parents wouldn't let me play that game story.

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Hmm. I gotta think about that one. Well, I say

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it from the sense of I was kind of moved out

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by the time I started playing games. I mean,

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I've always pretty much played the same type

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of stuff, so it's not... Yeah. I don't know.

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It's not a huge stretch for me. What is your

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opinion on video game reboots? Which ones do

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you think have been the most successful? Well,

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I know they've done like Final Fantasy up the

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wazoo, but I'm not a fan of continually redoing

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games for the sake of redoing games. So, yeah,

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I don't know. I'm not one that will play all

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of these remastered games and things like that.

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Which video game series from the past would you

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most want to see more of, whether it be a reboot,

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live -action movie, or any other form of media?

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In the case for this, my thought is if the Mario

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games from the NES and Super NES Basically, not

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counting Yoshi's Island, because that was a horrible

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sequel. If Mario World had a modern version,

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a next chapter today, which series would you

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want to see the most of? And this is just for

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a reboot? Yeah, it's for over... If Mario had...

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I know Mario has continued on the path that he's

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on now, but if you wanted to see more of, let's

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say, Super Mario World or Super Mario... If there

00:24:02.759 --> 00:24:07.960
was a Super Mario Bros. 4 on NES after Super

00:24:07.960 --> 00:24:10.380
Mario Bros. 3, so that's essentially what this

00:24:10.380 --> 00:24:13.240
is, which one would you want to switch series,

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which video game series would you want to see

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more of today? I would like to see a return to

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some of the Red Alert, Command & Conquer stuff.

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I agree. But not this modern crap that's on cell

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phones. Like, I want true -to -form, like, old,

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before it got ruined. We need Command & Conquer

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Renegade 2 or something, yeah. Well, not Renegade

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2, just, like, I liked Red Alert. Like, that

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was my, that was my go -to. And they ruined it.

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I know people will argue with me on this, but

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it's only an example, folks. Yes, I know the

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first example is not exactly a full -on sidekick,

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but what is your opinion of the video game sidekick?

00:24:56.769 --> 00:24:59.809
Luigi, Tails, Clank, etc. Love them, hate them,

00:24:59.910 --> 00:25:02.349
don't care either way. Don't care either way.

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In your opinion, which decade represents the

00:25:06.990 --> 00:25:10.769
golden era of video games and why? 60s, 70s,

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80s, 90s, 2000s, 2010s, or 2020s? 90s. 2000s

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like kind of that era like late 90s early 2000s

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so like 95 to 2005 yeah i agree as gaming has

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evolved what has been your greatest likes and

00:25:27.660 --> 00:25:31.960
dislikes in the video game industries hmm dislikes

00:25:31.960 --> 00:25:35.339
is trying to shoehorn a bunch of crap into the

00:25:35.339 --> 00:25:40.680
games yeah without i'm not getting political

00:25:40.680 --> 00:25:44.740
i'm not getting opinionated here but i don't

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find any of these over politically correct storylines

00:25:52.910 --> 00:25:55.009
to be entertaining enough to purchase the games

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not only are the characters and the CGI or the

00:25:59.829 --> 00:26:05.730
3D animation stuff in them horrible like just

00:26:05.730 --> 00:26:08.369
subpar compared to stuff we got 10 -15 years

00:26:08.369 --> 00:26:13.319
ago yeah But the storylines are so horrendous,

00:26:13.339 --> 00:26:16.339
it's not even worth me buying it on most modern

00:26:16.339 --> 00:26:19.240
games. The only reason I have, like I said, Arkham

00:26:19.240 --> 00:26:22.619
Knight is because I paid $7 for it on Black Friday.

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It wasn't because I was like, oh, I'm going to

00:26:24.819 --> 00:26:26.660
play this game and enjoy it, blah, blah, blah.

00:26:26.880 --> 00:26:31.140
It's like, no, I literally was to the point where

00:26:31.140 --> 00:26:36.880
it didn't really matter if I got it or not. Absolutely.

00:26:37.460 --> 00:26:39.980
Some people view video games as something for

00:26:39.980 --> 00:26:42.220
children, quote unquote, and don't view gaming

00:26:42.220 --> 00:26:44.799
as a serious form of media that adults should

00:26:44.799 --> 00:26:47.180
consume. Who should video games be made for,

00:26:47.259 --> 00:26:52.539
in your opinion? Whoever enjoys them. Absolutely.

00:26:52.559 --> 00:26:54.900
Speak with your wallets. Speak with your wallets.

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And if you don't like something, don't pay for

00:26:57.940 --> 00:27:07.160
it. Yeah. Yar. Yar. Again. Again, this is what

00:27:07.160 --> 00:27:10.740
we've been saying for, well, for the last almost

00:27:10.740 --> 00:27:13.299
five years on this podcast, for the last 15 years

00:27:13.299 --> 00:27:15.660
of the network. This is why trailers are a thing.

00:27:15.819 --> 00:27:19.099
This is why advertisements are a thing. If you

00:27:19.099 --> 00:27:22.500
don't like what you see, don't buy the damn thing.

00:27:23.440 --> 00:27:27.559
Pretty much. Yep. We are now entering the gamer

00:27:27.559 --> 00:27:31.359
fantasy fun land. If you could own any vehicle

00:27:31.359 --> 00:27:33.660
featured in a video game, which would it be?

00:27:34.329 --> 00:27:40.450
Kind of a cop -out. I don't care for really...

00:27:40.450 --> 00:27:43.690
I hate vehicles in video games. I'm not going

00:27:43.690 --> 00:27:47.910
to lie. I absolutely hate them. Because usually

00:27:47.910 --> 00:27:49.829
it comes with some caveat that they just are

00:27:49.829 --> 00:27:55.569
horrible. Now, if... Being that it says any vehicle

00:27:55.569 --> 00:28:02.899
in video game, I would say the... Constitution

00:28:02.899 --> 00:28:08.039
class refit from Star Trek Online. Like I said,

00:28:08.039 --> 00:28:10.700
it's a cop -out, but it's my favorite ship. I

00:28:10.700 --> 00:28:14.980
have literally three of them in my cabinet. I

00:28:14.980 --> 00:28:17.519
have a model of it on my desk. Well, no, I haven't

00:28:17.519 --> 00:28:19.640
3D printed any of these. These are all just ones

00:28:19.640 --> 00:28:22.140
I bought because I like them. The Constitution

00:28:22.140 --> 00:28:25.480
3 is the one I've printed twice in two different

00:28:25.480 --> 00:28:29.460
sizes. But actually, I have four of the inner...

00:28:29.460 --> 00:28:33.359
No. I take that back. I have five of the Enterprise

00:28:33.359 --> 00:28:38.740
A Constitution refit -style ships in different

00:28:38.740 --> 00:28:41.539
sizes. I have the old Micro Machines. I have

00:28:41.539 --> 00:28:46.579
the Hot Wheels one that came out in 2005, 2006.

00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:50.539
I have the one that's from Eagle Moss, and then

00:28:50.539 --> 00:28:52.579
I had a 3D -printed one from Star Trek Online,

00:28:52.720 --> 00:28:56.339
and then the model kit. But yeah, that would

00:28:56.339 --> 00:28:58.519
be the ship I would take. If I had to choose

00:28:58.519 --> 00:29:02.940
a vehicle that had to be on land, it would be

00:29:02.940 --> 00:29:09.259
the Batman the Animated Series Batmobile. Absolutely.

00:29:13.400 --> 00:29:18.500
Because again, I have those. If you could live

00:29:18.500 --> 00:29:21.140
in any video game world that you wanted, where

00:29:21.140 --> 00:29:25.839
would you live? Star Trek Online. Like I said,

00:29:25.960 --> 00:29:31.650
cop out. It's not surprising, is it, folks? Who

00:29:31.650 --> 00:29:34.170
would be your top three gamer pals to join you

00:29:34.170 --> 00:29:36.769
and become a quartet? Examples, Mario, Sonic,

00:29:36.930 --> 00:29:41.670
Solid Snake, etc. To just join me on adventures?

00:29:42.490 --> 00:29:52.089
Yeah, pretty much. I... don't know. I was going

00:29:52.089 --> 00:29:56.829
to say, I choose you, Pikachu. No, I know you

00:29:56.829 --> 00:30:00.259
weren't, but just the way you... held out that

00:30:00.259 --> 00:30:03.180
note, I was like, hmm. I was trying to actively

00:30:03.180 --> 00:30:07.160
think, and it's just not something that comes

00:30:07.160 --> 00:30:12.799
to my mind. Alright. Okay. I usually have to

00:30:12.799 --> 00:30:16.119
preface this just in case. I'm gonna do so here

00:30:16.119 --> 00:30:19.960
as well. You're not married. If you could date

00:30:19.960 --> 00:30:22.039
any video game character, which one would it

00:30:22.039 --> 00:30:26.920
be? I'm trying to even think of one. Is that

00:30:26.920 --> 00:30:30.690
bad that I can't even, like, I can't even think

00:30:30.690 --> 00:30:34.549
like it's doesn't. Okay. All right. I don't,

00:30:34.549 --> 00:30:37.069
I don't, I don't folks. I can hear the gears

00:30:37.069 --> 00:30:39.849
rumbling in his brain. I don't play enough like

00:30:39.849 --> 00:30:44.369
games. I know. I know. I mean, yeah. I mean,

00:30:44.369 --> 00:30:47.450
there's back in the day when there was like Laura

00:30:47.450 --> 00:30:53.190
Croft or something, but. Or like. I don't know.

00:30:53.630 --> 00:30:55.849
That's probably the best example I can think

00:30:55.849 --> 00:30:57.710
of right now. There you go. What is the holy

00:30:57.710 --> 00:31:00.869
grail of video game artifacts? Examples are the

00:31:00.869 --> 00:31:04.349
Fireflower, Mega Buster, Samus' gun, Sonic's

00:31:04.349 --> 00:31:10.910
shoes, etc. Hmm. Holy grail of video game artifacts.

00:31:12.170 --> 00:31:17.089
Why has this got to be so hard? It really isn't.

00:31:17.289 --> 00:31:23.750
Well, it is because I would guess, like, I would

00:31:23.750 --> 00:31:27.009
probably go the Mega Buster just because then

00:31:27.009 --> 00:31:33.470
I could steal the ability to do things. And here

00:31:33.470 --> 00:31:35.170
I was thinking you were going to say Sonic's

00:31:35.170 --> 00:31:37.269
Shoes so you can go fast to get some Chili Dogs.

00:31:37.849 --> 00:31:39.470
Well, I wouldn't get Chili Dogs. Well, I don't

00:31:39.470 --> 00:31:40.950
know. Maybe I'd do the shoes because then I could

00:31:40.950 --> 00:31:42.670
run anywhere I want and be there pretty quick.

00:31:43.250 --> 00:31:45.829
That sounds like a better idea because then I

00:31:45.829 --> 00:31:50.670
hate... I hate waiting. That's literally, I would

00:31:50.670 --> 00:31:52.970
avoid having a car completely. I would just run

00:31:52.970 --> 00:31:55.750
around like over buildings and everything else.

00:31:55.769 --> 00:31:57.490
Like, so yeah, that would probably be what I

00:31:57.490 --> 00:32:00.730
would go with. I was thinking like, like, uh,

00:32:00.990 --> 00:32:04.549
Dragon Ball Z, like Goku, where he's got like

00:32:04.549 --> 00:32:06.769
the, but, but it's not a video game character.

00:32:06.869 --> 00:32:09.029
It's, it's cartoon first, then video games. So

00:32:09.029 --> 00:32:11.690
it kind of would be a cop outside. But Sonic

00:32:11.690 --> 00:32:14.759
is. based strictly in video game originally,

00:32:15.119 --> 00:32:18.799
so his shoes would probably be what I would go

00:32:18.799 --> 00:32:21.759
with. There you go, there you go. We are now

00:32:21.759 --> 00:32:28.380
exiting the gamer fantasy fun land. Final question.

00:32:28.740 --> 00:32:31.440
What is one piece of advice that you'd give the

00:32:31.440 --> 00:32:34.480
video game fandom in general? Pay for games and

00:32:34.480 --> 00:32:39.140
support ones that you enjoy. Don't just buy games

00:32:39.140 --> 00:32:41.940
because they're another rendition in the franchise

00:32:41.940 --> 00:32:48.200
that you're used to. Play it if it's got a great

00:32:48.200 --> 00:32:50.500
story or if it's got entertainment value, even

00:32:50.500 --> 00:32:52.460
if it's something you've played a million times.

00:32:52.799 --> 00:32:55.059
I can't tell you the amount of times I've played

00:32:55.059 --> 00:33:02.700
Smash Bros. or really any of the games I mentioned.

00:33:04.230 --> 00:33:08.430
because I've played them all so much that I kind

00:33:08.430 --> 00:33:15.690
of know I kind of know what to look for when

00:33:15.690 --> 00:33:20.970
I'm playing and what I'm going to enjoy and I've

00:33:20.970 --> 00:33:22.470
played a lot of games over the years and some

00:33:22.470 --> 00:33:26.970
I just don't flat out don't remember but yeah

00:33:26.970 --> 00:33:30.859
honestly just support the ones that are telling

00:33:30.859 --> 00:33:33.960
a good story that you find worth paying for.

00:33:34.500 --> 00:33:37.440
Like, they don't have to cost $60, or you don't

00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:39.420
have to get them immediately when they come out.

00:33:39.619 --> 00:33:42.920
I usually wait a year when they come out, so

00:33:42.920 --> 00:33:48.000
I can wait for, one, a complete game, two, all

00:33:48.000 --> 00:33:50.019
the bugs to be worked out, and three, to see

00:33:50.019 --> 00:33:53.019
how well it's received and read up on the story,

00:33:53.160 --> 00:33:55.279
even if it's a spoiler of what's going to happen.

00:33:55.579 --> 00:34:00.579
I'd like to know what I'm getting in for. before

00:34:00.579 --> 00:34:05.359
I spend a certain amount. If then I'm like, oh,

00:34:05.380 --> 00:34:07.859
it's $25 on Steam or something, it's like, okay,

00:34:07.920 --> 00:34:11.780
that's a drop in the bucket. $60 is a bit hard

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for me to bite on, but $30, I'm like, okay, I

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can toss that pretty easily. Black Friday, best

00:34:19.659 --> 00:34:24.360
time to buy. I got the whole Command & Conquer

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video game collection for $15 at Black Friday.

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I got uh i got the arkham city game of the year

00:34:31.539 --> 00:34:34.679
edition for seven bucks and i think i got arkham

00:34:34.679 --> 00:34:37.199
knight for seven bucks and so i mean honestly

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it's just better deal all the way around yep

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yep and you don't feel like you're missing out

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on anything of the need of oh my god this is

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the newest game i must have it now no i mean

00:34:49.940 --> 00:34:52.900
honestly i don't i don't care like it doesn't

00:34:52.900 --> 00:34:56.710
bother me to miss out on games they're they're

00:34:56.710 --> 00:34:59.610
honestly like there's so many games out there

00:34:59.610 --> 00:35:02.769
you could never play them all anyway and so for

00:35:02.769 --> 00:35:09.670
me i i feel like in order to i i just i would

00:35:09.670 --> 00:35:11.750
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00:35:11.750 --> 00:35:15.550
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the real thing. I'm sure your insurance company

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