Gamer Origins with Captain Ruggels of Captain Ruggels Gaming

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JFJ and Mike. And for our latest Gamer Origins,

today I welcome Captain Ruggles. Hello, sir,

how are you? Hi, I'm doing fantastic, Mike. How

about yourself? Pretty good, pretty good. And

for those that do or don't know, Captain Ruggles

is actually Steve Megatron's youngest brother.

I sure am. Yes, you sure are. This is going to

be interesting because we got Steve's story back

in episode 86. Your story is going to be on episode

91, which is this episode. Which is ironic, because

that is my birth year. That was the plan, man.

Let the shenanigans begin. That's right. The

funny thing is before I had asked you to do it,

which I was going to ask you anyway, but I was

like, oh wait, okay. Cause we've got the DNW

coming out next week. Well, by the time people

will hear this in the future, it'll be in the

past that Deadpool and Wolverine came out. Originally

episode 91 was going to be Steve and I doing

the Deadpool double feature leading up to Deadpool

and Wolverine because Deadpool debuted in 1991.

So. Oh no shit. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. I can say

she shit, right? Yeah. Yeah. No worries. Yeah.

I don't, I don't, I don't worry about people's

children. That's their fault. If they let them

listen to explicit podcasts that are tagged explicitly,

that's not my, once I tag it red, anybody else,

that's their own, that that's their issue. I

I've labeled it properly. So You can't control

what your children listen to. That's your fault.

That's how I deal with my YouTube channel. Not

for children. That's right. Nope. Adult type

conversations and stuff only. So we're here to

take him through his video game playing origins

and more. Did you grow up playing video games

and what were some of your earliest video game

memories? I grew up playing video games at probably

a really early age, I think like three or four.

We had this DOS computer with it was a Pentium

286. And. There's this game on there that was.

Like you typed in math coordinates, there's like

these tall buildings, they're like two gorillas

like King Kong. They throw bananas Rampage. Yeah,

that was best rampage. I think it was I could

be wrong people in the audience Always I remember

is too. I don't remember the math part of it

because math is evil and math just no No, no.

No, it was like angles you you type in You type

in a number and like 90 90 degrees and it would

throw a banana Yeah, and and they would blow

up part of the building. The object was to blow

up the other Building that the other gorilla

was sitting on right? Yeah, I think that was

rampage. I'm probably wrong, but that's what

it reminds me of just hearing you talk about

it. And I think after that, we had with the forty

six and him forty six and mainly I started on

PC. Most people sort of console. I've always

been a PC boy. We had a forty six penny and forty

six. My dad got from the school. And I think

at five years old, when I started kindergarten,

I actually that's when I started to learn how

to build computers, because I used to mess with

the extra computers in the in the junk room and

kind of like build one from scratch from the

parts that they had. But I used to play Manderkeen

Doom and then later Duke Nukem. So I mainly start

with like first and third person shooters, I

would guess. Nice. Very cool. Very cool. So as

a kid, what was your number one favorite video

game? And what I have to say, my namesake army

men to army men to buy 3DO was my favorite. I

would play skirmish all the time on that and

do co -op LAN with my brother. And we would always

is random. We didn't realize that you could go

into the. The game files and change the names

of the plastic soldiers that dropped in as long

as and you could do that, as long as it was the

same number of characters as the original named,

you know, soldier. Right. And there used to be.

So I got ruggles from was from this game. It

was as ruggles was one of the. plastic army men

in the game, and I always ended up getting this

particular one. And I decided, oh, well, this

one's going to be my favorite one. So I'm going

to command this one all over the map and destroy

the tans tan army and. Come to find out later

after I decided, well. I'm going to use this

in my fictional novel and all this other stuff

and then use it as an online game name. Seth

Ruggles, the guy's name is actually Scott Ruggles

and he's a artist for 3DO or was. So that was

interesting. That's that would be my favorite.

God, I miss him. What is another video games

you like? Do you have a favorite video game genre

type? Oh. I've. I'd have to say my most favorite

type was. There's a kind of a tie between strategy

and first person shooter. Those are my favorite

genres, those two. Yeah, that first person shooter

stuff that that's always really fun because it

was good stuff. Yeah. I mean it makes you feel

like you're in the game like you are the character

even though you're playing as whatever character

it is like I'm in the middle of by the time people

hear this hopefully it'll be published, but I'm

in the middle of writing up this I Don't remember

if you're on Instagram or not if you are you

are if you're not you're not doesn't matter but

on Instagram they'll do these things where it's

like Six images to blah blah blah and insert

whatever here one of them was six video games

to know me by So I did that, and I was like,

oh, OK, I can pick these six, because these are

the ones that mean the most to me. And one of

them was Metal Gear Solid 2, Sons of Liberty.

And in Sons of Liberty, they added the first

-person shooter mode. It was not in the original

MGS1 from 98. And man, ever since I saw that,

I was like, OK, yeah, first -person shooters

are where it's at, unless it's Need for Speed.

First -person shooters are where it's at. Oh,

yeah. First person shooters have always been

my my soft point until recently, because the

industry has completely destroyed them with monetization

and all other bunch of other crap. Yeah. And

now we're just a bunch of Zomboids. Yep. Flying

around flying around in space. Yep. Flying around

in space. That's right. How did your gaming habits

change as you grew up and throughout your life?

Well, I went outside a lot and touched a lot

of grass when I was younger. I was always an

outdoorsy type of kid. I only did like maybe

two hours a day, if that on electronics in general.

So my gaming was was limited. Up until i was

hit about think twelve. Is that used to play

like an hour of game boy you know pokemon. Everybody

played pokemon i can name one person who hasn't

played pokemon. Right here because i'm classic

super mario tetris i'm older damn it. My generation

exactly. Hey, you're you're the generation before

me. Yeah, as I say, you said get off my lawn

and get off my lawn. Well, when I was 12, my

I was mainly playing strategy games when I was

12. My grandfather invited me over one time.

He lived like three houses down at the at the

time. And he says, hey, I want to see my my cool.

Gaming setup. And I'm like, I mean, oh, look

right here. His little fancy computer and shit.

I'm like, oh, this is awesome. He says, man,

this this game right here, I tell you what, this

is this is awesome. This is something else. You

know, this is just darn good, too. And I'm like,

all right, grandpa, what is it? This is called

Call of Duty. And I'm like, huh? So this is like

2003. Yep. I'm like, all right. All right. Call

of Duty. All right. Well, all right. He said

he had me play it. I'm like, oh, man, this is

great. I had so much fun on that. He bought me

a copy of the game. And and and sent it home

with me. And then he also gave me Battlefield

1942, which that got me into Battlefield. So

I used to go back when CD keys were not so. Easily

available. Yeah. Strict. Yeah. So they didn't

they didn't quite verify anybody's CD keys at

the time. So I installed it on my dad's computer,

my brother's computer. And then all, you know,

all four of us would get on a server and play.

And then when punk buster came out, that kind

of ruined the party. That's right. Like duplicate

CD key detected kick. Yep. Unfortunately. Oh,

man, the good old days of good old days. Geez.

How often do you go back and replay any of the

video games you grew up with? It's funny you

asked that I recently. Two months ago, last month,

I played the original Call of Duty from 2003

and its expansion pack in an entire night. I

just I blew right through it and. Even though

it's predictable and i know where all the enemies

are at you know it's. It's still fun for me i

it's cuz it's classic. And then two months ago

i played through command and conquer generals

which is a two thousand five game for the best

kind of character i've ever played play through

the campaign on that joy that. So i frequently

go back to the older ones more so than the newer

ones i would say. Yeah, absolutely which video

games that have released when you've been an

adult have you liked the most. Who. I was a battlefield

bed company to was was. My advice I think those

right before my son was born that one came out

and I was an adult at the time I had so much

fun with bed company to. That was that's probably

the best game in there and the entire battlefield

franchise. There's a there wasn't really much

after that battlefield four was rough, but in

the end that one was really good. But I kind

of slowed down and stopped buying a lot of the

games after that. But when I found Mass Effect,

I fell in love with an old with that franchise.

I'm like. I didn't play that until like four

years after Mass Effect three came out. I went

back and I started with Mass Effect two and I

played three and went back and played one and

I'm like and I played all three of them all over

again. I'm like, man, this game is so fun. Like,

this is awesome. I can't believe I missed this

at. That's probably the best trilogy ever made.

Very cool, very cool. Are there any video games

you hate or have been greatly disappointed by?

Starfield, Starfield. Yeah, you already. Yeah,

I was. I was heavily into space games and still

kind of am. And in Starfield, I had a lot of

hopes for because I heard all these good things

about Bethesda and how they, you know. Elder

Scrolls and Skyrim and shit. And I'm like, all

right, all right, cool. This could be awesome.

I get to play it, you can't do any of the things

that they promised when they were like pitching

the game. I'm like, this is not a space game.

This is just. Fall out for in space, and it still

is. It's. It's disappointing, very. I wasted

my money. Never again, though. Yes, never again.

Haven't we wasted any money on video games? Or

I could wait like I did with Battlefield five

and get it for ten bucks. Your brother does that

all the time. Steve will just he does. In his

origins, I asked him, I said, do you feel like

you're missing out on anything if you don't buy

any of the new games? If it's something you want

to buy, he goes, no, he goes, I don't have that

because I know, you know. Yeah, come Christmas

time. It's gonna be 60 % off or whatever It is

gonna be some sort of sale and I like you just

said you can get it for 10 bucks versus $60 or

whatever the hell the main MSN now they're selling

them for like 120 and shit Okay, the only time

any video game physical copy specifically physical

copy should be $120 If it's the gamer edition

ones that they were doing like I don't know 15

16 years ago Whatever it was where it's like

you go where it comes with all the prizes inside

That's why you're paying the 100 and something

dollar price tag because yeah, yes you get the

game and that's fine But you get a t -shirt or

you get this or you get that or you get like

70 different things for that price like Mm hmm.

Yeah, you don't get that stuff anymore. It's

like. Because everything digital. Yeah. And you

get like a like a thick manual that came with

it. That was kind of like a brief guide to the

game. All the controls were in the little booklet.

You didn't have to go searching through the options

and write it down to try and remember what button

did what. So you had something to look at while

you memorize the controls. Exactly. You like

that now? Go. What I played was a Jedi survivor

last year. Oh, yeah. And when that came out,

I try out streaming that day one. And I'm just

like, I'm like, uh, there's no keyboard controls

and it's on PC. What the hell? And I'm like pressing

random buttons on the keyboard and it's doing

stuff. And I'm like, okay, so go look in the

options. There's no options for keyboard controls.

But there's keyboard controls, so I don't know

what's doing what. And I'm like, shit. So I busted

out the old Xbox 360 controller and plugged that

in. I'm like, I hate controllers. My hands get

cramped up on them. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. And

that makes no sense. Like, if if you if your

keyboard is inputting to the game, then there

must be keyboard controls. Well, tell me you're

a quick console port without telling me you're

a quick console port. Exactly. Yeah, pretty much.

Yeah. And that's the funny thing. Most of the

most of the games that are like major made like

Need for Speed stuff or even even them. Oh. Mass

Effect, like all these games, they hit the consoles

first. And then, like, six months to a year later,

they'll hit PC. It's probably faster now, obviously,

because now we've had Steam for God knows how

long. But, like, I remember, like I said, 10,

15 years ago, and even longer than that, you

know, where video games would be like, it's for

the consoles. The PC is for accountants. Sorry,

Kai. Yeah, I agree with you It's one of those

things where like for the longest time they would

always do like you're saying PC to console port

It used to be console to PC port and then they

stopped doing that because like I said now we

have steam and wherever else and we can have

all the games on steam we can have There should

not be a game available on a PC If it isn't able

to be played on PC and there is not a in the

options a keyboard control because hello Not

everybody is gonna be able to pull out an Xbox

360 computer controller or a PlayStation 1 controller

or whatever and I'm just using yeah Yeah, and

I always know we all do that So put the damn

keyboard controls in your manuals you morons,

even if your manuals are now digital Yeah, which

Well, it's like Halo started off on PC. Right.

And it was ported to Xbox to launch the Xbox.

It was Xbox and PC launched at the same time.

Halo two was also Xbox and PC. Yep. But you go

to Halo three and four and ODST and reach. Those

didn't come to PC until like 2015 with the Master

Chief Collection. Yeah, or somewhere around there.

And it was like you waited that long to bring

it like I refused to buy the next Xbox to play

like Halo four and Halo five. I'm like, no, I'm

not gonna. I'm just gonna miss out on the story,

I guess. And I still to this day haven't played

Halo five, but I played Halo four and Halo Infinite

the before and after. It's like. Halo five didn't

really need to happen because it was irrelevant.

And that's the thing. It's like, I liked it when

we got to the point of the advertising got to

the point of insert title here, whatever the

title is, EA, Bethesda. It doesn't matter what

whatever video game it is. Yeah. I remember commercials

for these video games at the end of the commercial

be like, sometimes it would be like coming soon,

but it would be like, you can get it on PlayStation,

Xbox, whatever version of it it is. It doesn't

matter what. just Sony, Microsoft, whatever.

And then in like three months, you can get it

on PC or something. Or we get to a point where

it's like, you can now have all of these things

on any of the systems that you have, whether

it's console or PC, because honestly, at the

end of the day, it needs to be accessible to

everybody. There's no reason why you should be.

There's no reason if it's all the same game and

there aren't new things like versus the console

versus the PC kind of thing. Like, no. And the

only, the only thing now is, um, character backs

DLC separate anger. I pay for any of that crap.

I mean, young kids who steal credit cards might

not this guy. I heard money goes for food. That's

right. Oh, don't, don't steal credit cards, kids

and don't. Do stupid stuff. Please don't. Yeah,

that's that's that's dumb tomfoolery that gets

you going to jail. Yep. Over a video game. No,

thank you. Yeah. Who is your end all be all favorite

character from any video game? If you want to

pick, you can pick a hero and a villain. Who?

God. That's a tough one. Well. I don't have to

say. Commander Shepard, because that's my favorite

story on the Citadel. That's the favorite. That's

one of my favorite characters. You know, as for

villain. Well, I don't think I got one. I don't

think I've really played a game that had a. Really

significant villain. That's kind of sad. Yes,

folks, he's too young to remember how evil Bowser

was. You know, Mario is probably one of the few

Nintendo things I've never really got into. I

played Mega Man. OK, but that was Sega, I think.

No, that was Nintendo. Nintendo as well. Yeah.

Capcom. Yep. Capcom. Yeah. Cause Mega Man started

on Nintendo with Capcom and then eventually moved

over to, I think it's on multiple systems now,

but the last one I remember playing was, uh,

and your brother when it went into this and his,

cause he's a big Mega Man X fan, but Mega Man

X usually isn't all the, all the systems now.

So I remember playing the original one on PlayStation

or No, the original was on Super Nintendo. That's

right. Heaven forbid I get a Mega Man X thing

wrong. Steve will start. I usually played a lot

of the same shit as him, except I never played

Starcraft. He did. Yeah. Who are some of your

other favorite video game characters? Are there

any you hate? Every single character in Starfield,

I hate. Just there. So just just blanket statement.

They're all bland. They don't, you know, they

don't like any, any bullshittery you do. Yep.

No. Okay. So you can't have fun. No, no fun.

No fun for you in the starfield. The starfield

is a minefield folks. It is. Don't get it. Don't

waste your money. Don't waste your money. There's

plenty of other things you can waste your money

on starfield should not be one of them Did you

ever own anything based on a video game so toys

comics coloring books etc? Actually I have the

figure for the division to Division agent so

the 12 inch GI Joe Figure. It's got a it's got

the whole fucking get up, got the Barrett sniper

rifle thing and the Chris Vector submachine gun.

Really freaking cool. But yeah, I have that.

Very cool. The only one that I got that does

the last that I know of game that came with extra

stuff like that. Yeah. Very cool, very cool.

What is your favorite video game theme song?

Favorite video game theme song. Oh, it's got

to be the O .G. Battlefield. The instrumental

music. Fucking chef's kiss. What was the O .G.

Battlefield? What was 1942? Yeah. OK. 1942. All

right. Yeah. Battlefield. This is a whole sidetrack,

folks, but Battlefield and me. Really weird history

with that. I didn't play 1942, my buddy played

it and I watched him play it and then when Vietnam

came out I started playing that and then and

I didn't want to correct your brother but in

his episode he kept mentioning 2142 and I'm like

dude I don't think you're talking about the same

game that you think you're talking about because

2142 was the one from years ago with the futuristic

robots and the exosuits. Yes. I think what he

meant was 2042. My dad's got a sealed copy of

that. My stepmom, my stepmom bought it for me.

He never opened it up and played it because he

kept playing Battlefield 2, which was the predecessor

until Battlefield 3 came out. So he like never

played it. I played the demo and I liked it.

You had like the helicarriers and stuff. Yeah,

that was the only battle besides Vietnam Vietnam

and 2142 with the with the giant robots in the

snow and then this and that that was the only

two battlefield games I ever played I Think it

was it was before it is before its time. Yes.

It was good. I liked it I just couldn't buy it

because I didn't have my own money at the time

right the child Yes, yeah, there's not enough

money in the world. There's not enough Cutting,

cutting lawns for, for, for, for getting money

in the, in the late nineties, low 2000s folks

to. Well, that's why I played the original call

of duty from 2003 all the way up until like,

uh, 2009 when I graduated, the multiplayer is

still active today. Believe it or not. You wouldn't

think so. All the official servers are shut down,

but there's still servers. Wow. That's awesome.

That is amazing and old God, I am so old. You

graduated high school 15 years ago. I graduated

high school 25 years ago. Oh my God. I'm so old.

Oh God. It's okay. I'll tell you the same thing.

I told all the old guys at my job. I'm next.

That's right. Oh, don't worry. I'm next. I'm

getting my, my, my, my senior citizen card next

week. Oh God. How big is it? I need some of that

prune juice. That's right. My prunes on my feet.

Give me the prunes. I need to prune them. How

big is your video game collection? I wish I didn't

get rid of all my hard copies, but All them CDs

were scratched up anyway so what a matter if

i kept them or not they were not functional but

i do have some hard copies not a lot but my entire

digital library of games on steam alone is like

a hundred games. Hello yeah i'm on origin are

you play i'm sorry you play socks. I play i've

got i think thirty. Okay. On Rockstar's thing,

I got. Thanks. Three games because I got them

for free and I didn't ever use them. Yeah. Ubisoft.

I've got maybe eight or 10. So I would say probably

150 games. Very cool. Very cool. And they changed

it from EA Origin to EA Play. So EEP. No. Yeah.

So so. EA Play is a is an app through Windows

instead of a program that you download and install

like Steam. Yeah. And it's so much worse. I mean,

you thought origin was bad. Oh, my God. EA Play

is like thought this was a good idea. Needs to

get fired. EA Games, it's not in the game. Not

in EA Games. They challenge themselves. That's

right. They don't challenge everything just themselves.

Yeah, exactly. We're not going to challenge our

players. We're just going to challenge ourselves

and we're going to fail at those challenges every

time. It's like a hint. That's how you got battlefield

2042. It's like every time EA fails, just send

them to the slime pit from double dare. Yes.

Get a little splooge on there. There you go.

There you go. What game or games had the biggest

impact on your life who you know i have to say.

The very first original call of duty for sure

because. My grandfather got me into that game

and that brings back memories with him and all

the fun times we had so that's a definite number

one. Number two would be the mass effect trilogy

cause the story is so good the game is so good

you just. You feel like your shepherd and you

feel like you're like saving the galaxy and against

all odds you're that hard ass in period is another

one. Is that. Just the vast exploration of that

game is amazing and the modding community is

fantastic with it. And then last but not least

i hate to say it but i have grown to love projects

on board and the game just makes a lot of sense

and it is. This replay ability is fantastic it's

great and i actually had the creators of one

of the mod maps that we used last weekend. I

just join my discord today and wanted to say

thank you for my. For me and me and Kai and they

got a lot of laughs because they caught our stream

That is awesome Which stream did they catch?

The which like one they are the guys that made

which lake and we're like They're laughing their

ass off at it. They said So I haven't responded

to him yet because uh, I'll do that after this.

Yeah, but that was it was nice That's awesome,

dude. That is so freaking cool Oh, that which

like video that which like video is probably

going to get embedded into this podcast, folks,

post folks, because everybody needs to watch

that because Captain Ruggles, he chose poorly.

I chose poorly at the end of that stream is about

three hours. Yeah, we chose early. Yeah, we wound

up in a mall and we did not want to be in that

mall because we knew it was going to be full

of zombies and. It wasn't as bad as we thought

it'd be but still normally there's thousands

in there which can be bad if there's just two

of you and. Got it in there when i when i open

up the door to that bathroom i didn't expect

twelve zombies to be in that bathroom pull me

in and just have a other way with me it was not

a pleasant thing. And I had you for the business

for so many other things with balls and bathrooms.

Yeah. I'm like, I don't know why there was 12

zombies in the bathroom, but that was the first

time I've ever seen that in that game. And now

every time I open up a bathroom door, I got my

gun drawn and I'm like backing away. I'm like,

I'm not walking in there. I open the door and

I back up. I'm like, I'm not. Oh, not again.

No, not again. The only thing that was missing

was you were missing a camera on your head. The

trauma. That's right. The trauma. That's right.

To start a new character. Oh, boy. Yeah, it's

funny when he says, last but not least, folks,

it really was. Literally, we had to twist his

arm. He was like, Project Zomboid, I'm not doing

that. I'm going to stay over here with Imperion

and Star, whatever the hell, Starfield. Like,

yeah, right. OK. You can give Starfield up for

Zomboid. And you did, which is great. Because

Starfield's superior. So superior of a game.

And like, I don't know if Kai said it in his

episode or not. I don't remember off the top

of my head. But we talk about this all the time

where it's like Zomboid is easy because, yes,

there is somewhat of a story to it. But half

the fun of that, at least for me as a viewer,

is listening to the crap you guys make up as

you're going along killing the zombies. Well,

the next time we do a playthrough, we're all

going to start in different areas. Different

cities. And when we link up, then we'll join

each other on Discord. Oh, wow. OK, so it will

be progress. Yeah, so be an adventure in progress.

Be like, all right, I'm not alone on this map.

There's other survivors out here. You know, we're

to make all of it. That is so cool. What is the

most money you spent on a video game item ever

video game item could be a print an art book

or something that isn't an actual video game

something that isn't a toy collectible but just

something that goes along with the video game.

I hate to say it but i i went on ebay and i bought

the. I'm collectible the division watch the agent

watch. It was like eighty five bucks. I got it

and it's worth more than that now. But yeah.

Yeah, it's cool. Cool watch. I liked it. Very

cool. Very cool. Do you have a my parents wouldn't

let me play that game story? Oh, my parents let

me play Call of Duty, but they wouldn't let me

play online. And. I I managed to get. Norton

antivirus to allow me to get through the firewall

to allow me to play online. And I played online

when my mom would call me for dinner and pause

your game like, no problem. I'm just single player

anyways. And I'm like, shit. Yeah. I go back

to the main menu and go eat and then I get back

on and join another multiplayer server. And she

had no idea that I was doing that for years.

And then she's like, you've been doing this the

whole time. Yeah. Don't talk to strangers online.

I'm like, I know I'm not stupid. I don't talk

to anybody. I just talk shit to them. That's

right. All right. What is your opinion on the

video game reboots? Which ones do you think have

been the most successful? I've not really been

a fan of a lot of the reboots. I don't know if

it's nostalgia, but I prefer the originals like

like Modern Warfare series. The original was

so much better and they did it better, too. And

it was emotional. It was climatic. It had it

was well rounded, had everything. The new one,

it's it felt rushed. It felt like it was copying

other stuff and it wasn't following what the

original was. And it just it was. It just wasn't

the same, but that's an example, right? Yeah.

But I'm not really a fan of redo's. If they want

to remaster an old one and update the graphics

and stuff, but and not change a fucking thing

about it, just make it look nicer. I'm all for

that. That's it. They took the original Call

of Duty updated at today's standards and made

it look like realistic. I would totally buy that.

Yeah, but don't go changing the original story

and all this other stuff. That's good comedy

in it, man. Yeah, absolutely. And Foley was actually

the voice of Cowboy Bebop. Okay, very cool. Yeah,

I've never watched. Yeah, but yeah, I think,

you know, you know, the the voice actor for that.

Yeah, I think so. Yeah, you guys, you guys have

interviewed him. Oh, oh, Steve Bloom. Yeah, yeah,

yeah. Steve Bloom, he does the voice for Captain

Foley in the original Call of Duty. Very cool

very cool and sergeant waters is the is voiced

by jason statham. A lot of people don't know

that. Yeah, like, I understand the video game

companies want to make money, and I understand

that they want to... Like you said, remastering

is different than rebooting. Remastering, like

you already said, is, you know, taking it and

updating it to today's standards, fine, whatever,

and you don't change anything about the story.

Like, these game companies don't need reboots

of this stuff! Like, Call of Duty, keep going!

Mass Effect, if you're going to keep going with

either male ship or fem ship, keep going with

those characters, create a new story for those

characters to drop into. You don't need video

game reboots and video. Oh, I'd have to say,

uh, mass effect did it right when they remastered

theirs. They changed nothing about it. It was

the exact same game. They updated everything.

It was smoother. It. All them little issues that

they never resolved or resolved. It was it was

great. That's great. He also did another good

one. The original command and conquer red alert.

When they remastered that one, released it on

Steam. Perfect perfection. It was the exact same

game. It just looked really good. Yeah. And I

bought that shit. For that reason alone, it was

the exact same game I remember playing as a child

and. It just looked nice. I'll buy that. Yeah,

I'm by that for a dollar. Yeah, I got like five

bucks. OK, well, yeah, but, you know, exactly.

It was on sale. Yeah. Which video game series

from the past would you most want to see more

of, whether it be reboot, live action movie or

any other form of media? So basically, this is

like the way I explain this to people is Super

Mario Brothers three. If they hadn't jumped to

Super Nintendo with Super Mario World, which

technically, I guess, is called Super Mario Brothers

for two, but whatever. But if there was another

Mario game on the NES. So that's how I kind of

explain this one. You know, I wish they would

have made a sequel to Command and Conquer generals.

That was one of the best strategy games that

they ever made, in my opinion. Yay. That was

the last good one they made all their newer ones

red alert three garbage. Yeah it's funny with

the commander conquer series the only one i ever

played was renegade i think yeah i like renegade

is an interesting concept and i think they could

have gone somewhere with it had they put more

effort. Yeah. What is your opinion of the video

game Sidekick? And I want to preface this for

the listeners. Yes, we know technically some

of these are going to be mainline characters

for the most part, but they're just examples.

Luigi, Tails, Clank, etc. Love them, hate them,

don't carry the way. Sidekick characters matter.

Like in Call of Duty, you had Soap McTavish.

He was an integral part of, you know, the SAS

team. And when they had his death and the original

model or fair three, it meant more. It's like

you're losing part of the game there. So everybody

felt that you could see it being felt by the

main character, Captain Price, because you were

no longer playing price or or soap McTavish.

You were playing some other guy, Yuri, and you're

watching it from the outside looking in. These

are two characters you played in the last two

games. One of them's, you know, dead now. So

that, that, that type of shit, they matter. Yeah,

of course. In your opinion, which decade represents

the golden era of video games and why 60s, 70s,

80s, 90s, 2000s, 2010s, or today in the 2020s?

I would have to say the early 2000s because that's

when everything started to kind of take off with

experimentation and people were taking risks.

I'm new franchises and breathe a new life into

old franchises with new technology and new ways

of playing it so yeah like i use call of duty

is another example. The predecessor to that was

metal of honor. And like nineteen ninety nine

they had like melvada salt i believe it was around

there ninety nine two thousand when two thousand

three rolled around. The original team from that

broke off from EA joined Activision and they

made Call of Duty and they updated it. That was

one of the first games where you can aim down

the site of your weapon. Actually use the iron

sights before it used to just bring the screen

closer. Right? Wow. Yeah. And in this game, they

revolutionized shooters where you can actually

aim down the site and and like follow targets

and pop, you know, pop them off and. Even the

expansion back to that went a little further

in 2004, where you had tanks and Jeeps in multiplayer

piggybacking off of Battlefield 1942, but with

the newer way of doing things. And then you had

deployable machine guns. You could like put them

in the window with the bipod actually have usable

bipods and stuff way back then. And that's where

all that started. Very cool, very cool. As gaming

has evolved, what has been your greatest likes

and dislikes in the video game industry? My greatest

likes is the independent developers have been

more bold and brazen with their releases and

it's been paying off. What I dislike is all the

monetization battle passes and all this other

Bullshit. And now they're going to add ads into

games and might as well even play it. They're

getting so money hungry. It's like just focus

on the damn game. I don't give a shit about your

ads. If you throw your ads at me in the game,

I'm not going to buy your product. Yeah, I will.

You know, yeah. That's why I. For me personally,

I'm a single player gamer. I am like GTA 4ing

since 2006 Need for Speed whichever most wanted

2005 whatever whatever whatever I'm a very single

player game and I can do multiplayer but I hate

the fact that you have for single players sometimes

now you have to rely on being online and active

that's what I miss about classic console gaming

like I don't have to worry about my saves on

my super Nintendo classic in my bedroom right

now on super Mario world going anywhere because

it's local to the system. Yes. But it's a, it's

a trade off to have the interaction and the,

and the camaraderie and the fun that everybody

has with the streaming and all that. So, I mean,

a lot of the single players now are starting

to get tied to the internet. So you can't even

play it on your own computer anymore without

internet, which is stupid, which is stupid. If

you like, it would be different if you were like

streaming the game through state, like steam

is essentially the Netflix of gaming essentially.

But like if you, instead of downloading it off

of steam onto your computer, you just stream

it through that through their. app or their website

or whatever. Uh, you know, that would be, I understand

why internet would be, but like if you're downloading

it and, and starting the whole thing, you shouldn't

need an internet connection to save locally to

your comp that. There was a game that came out

earlier this year that Kai and I were going to

play that that happened to the city. You can

play by yourself, but you had to have an internet

connection. And it's like, what? And now that

game's like falling off the face of the earth.

I even forgot the name of it. I was going to

say, I know what game it is, but I don't remember

the name of it. That's right. I can tell you

everything about it, except the name. The name

is escaping me at this moment. I got, I got to

play an early access copy of it and I'm like,

this is garbage. The fuck is this shit? Uh, it's

just crazy. Some people view video games as something

for quote unquote children and don't view gaming

as a serious form of media that adults should

consume. Who should video games be made for in

your opinion? Honestly, video games should be

made for everybody. Even when I was, uh, like

under 10 years old, they had games for that age

range. Just, you have to make sure you buy the

right game for the right age. That's right. Be

a parent, you know? We had, there was a game,

there's an educational game set that was like

K through 12. And you'd installed on the, on

your windows, 95 computer, you know, windows

98 and loaded up, play it. You'd play the game,

but you would learn at the same time, do math

reading and bunch of other stuff. And it. It

was, it was good for that age group. And then

as you progress, you get into other stuff, right?

Or your age group. That's why we have ratings,

but it just seems like TV 14 now is like the,

the old rated R and rated R is like NC 17. NC

17 is like, you know, soft core. It's like everything's

gone back. It's so weird. I don't understand

it. We have ratings for reasons. Let's use it.

Mm hmm. Like I've actually played games before.

I've let like my 13 year old play just to make

sure it is what it is. And then I'm like, all

right. Yeah, you can play this. Yeah. But you're

a responsible parent. There are some parents

in the previous generation in this generation

that will just sit their kid down in the middle

of a video game. and say, here, here's the controller.

Go away, kid. You bother me. Like, yeah, you

know, and I'm trying to. I spent a ridiculous

amount of time on video games, but it doesn't

go without saying that I do not neglect my parenting

responsibilities. Oh, no, no, no. I was not.

Yeah, no, no, no. I was. No, I wasn't. I wouldn't

say I was just making a point that I make sure

that my I know what my kids are doing. Yeah.

And. You know, that's why they can't wear headphones,

right? So you got to know what you're listening

to. So if I don't like what you're listening

to, because kids are going to be kids, they're

going to do what they're going to do. Yeah. But

you still, if you can't, you can't keep an eye

on them 24 seven, you'll never get any sleep.

You'll never be able to work. Yeah, exactly.

But you have to let them make mistakes at the

same time, but they have to learn from those

mistakes. And when things come up, you gotta

be like, no, you can't watch that. Why not? Well,

because it's not, it's not appropriate for your

age. Yeah, exactly. Right. You can watch it when

you get older, when you're, when you're age appropriate.

And when you understand why, uh, Andrew Dice

Clay is doing this thing to Terry Hatcher in

this 1992 film that probably nobody besides me

even remembers brain smasher, a love story. Got

to love it. Yeah. It's like, it's like when YouTube

kids shorts pops up with, with some, uh, South

park. And I, and the moment I hear Cartman's

voice, I yell out, change that now. What? But

no, change it. No, buts change it. We're not.

No knockoff. I think for hug and hippie crap.

Yeah. Yeah. Like that. That's not for you. Yeah,

that's not, that's not for you. Not at all. I

mean, the platform does with it what it can,

but you still have to, you still have to watch

people sneak shit in. Yep. People are assholes.

Yeah, very true. And the funny thing is, is like,

everybody was like, back in the day, Oh my God,

hot coffee. Your child wouldn't have seen hot

coffee if you as the parent hadn't bought that

mature rated video game. You know what I mean?

The seven, seven year old Johnny is not going

into game stuff. Say, excuse me, Mr. Game and

play. Can I have grand theft auto, which I, where

was the hardcore? Was it in San Andreas, whichever

one? Yeah. It was San Andreas. It was a hot coffee.

Yeah. Yeah. Like, excuse me, Mr. Game is done.

Can I have said, uh, kid, you're not old enough

to tie your shoes, let alone have that game.

Like that's what a responsible employee would

say, but the irresponsible ones, which whatever.

I don't know. It's all about. Well, that's why

that game sold so well. People wanted to exploit

that mod and shit. You know, I think the best

mod I ever saw in a Grand Theft Auto game was

they modded a kit from Knight Rider into it as

one of the cars. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, let's

see what we find that. Oh, it's hilarious. All

right, folks, we are now entering the gamer fantasy

fun land. If you could own any vehicle featured

in a video game, which would it be? Oh, shit.

Oh, I remember. I want the Normandy. In fact,

that's such a bad issue. Yeah, there you go.

If you could live in any video game world that

you wanted, where would you live? Probably. I

don't know. I would say halo, but there's a big

chance of dying with that same with mass effect.

So I don't know. I don't think I'd want to live

in any of them. Who would be your top three gamer

pals to join you and become a barbershop quartet

examples, but not limited to Mario, Sonic, them

ship, solid snake, et cetera. Oh, that would

be, uh, Kai red and, uh, I gotta have stone.

He's my favorite redneck. You know what? You

know, when I'm running away from something, I

need someone as a, as a decoy to get fed to the

wolves. I thought that was Diane's job. Yeah,

that's true. If you like Diane, she's fun to

play with. OK, so I have to preface this just

in case any of the wives, girlfriends or anybody

else is listening. You're not married, whatever.

If you could date any video game character, which

one would it be? Miranda Lawson. Which game is

she from? Oh, that's from a mass effect too.

Okay. Very cool. Very cool. What is the holy

grail of video game artifacts? Examples are the

fire flower, mega busters, Samus's gun, Shep's,

whatever main weapon shepherd has, et cetera.

I'm probably the BFG from doom. That is why.

Yeah. That gun. Holy crap. That good old gun.

All right, folks, we are now exiting the gamer

fantasy fun land. Final question. What is one

piece of advice you'd give to the video game

fandom in general? If your favorite developers

are not living up to their standards, hold them

accountable and don't buy their stuff until they

start to make things the way they used to make

them with heart, with soul, with, with a good

story. Good co -op or multiplayer. Forget about

it. Stick to the good stuff. The old stuff. There

you go. There you go. All right, folks, that's

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