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Xbox One and PlayStation 4 Launch Lineups

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Michael Powers. This is Episode 28 of Off the
Cuff. We are here to discuss the launch games
for the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4. With
me this week are Art Danner. Hi. And Sean Z Brown.
Hello. And if we sound tired, it's because we
just got done recording Episode 27. It takes
so much out of us, you know, sitting and talking.
It does. Having to come up with new jokes about
how undesirable Sean is to the human race, you
know He drains down oxygen. That is true No,
this is this is hard work for data because he
usually has to do this once a week now He has
to do it twice in one night It's probably him.
It's probably like he's taking vitamins. He feels
so empowered like oh, I usually just once a week
I'm actually feeling a little drained right now.
Not gonna lie. I'm a little A little exhausting.
I do it's drain Danner. It's hard For me to let
John, you know drain me so much So afterwards
nothing is hard. So for anyone still listening
we did record this this episode right after episode
27 because I Have to work next one, you know
the Wednesday that this you know, whatever day
that this comes out I have to work so we can't
record the episode that night because we will
be at Grand Con Gradcon the following weekend
in Grand Rapids, so come see us So yeah, that
is why we're not don't worry your feedback if
you go to Grand Con you don't have to see Sean
It'll be the right So you won't be there and
and the wonderful gentleman from altered geek
as well Yep, I'm looking forward to meeting those
guys. I heard that Mike powers on there quite
the guy. Oh Anyways, Jesus pull this dick out
of your ass. So we're not ignoring the listener
feedback if we've gotten any We're just this
has just been pre -recorded. So we aren't yeah,
we're actually talking to you from the past to
time travel Yep So any feedback that we get from
you guys on episode 27 or 28 will be read on
episode 29 Assuming we get there. I'm assuming
more people wishing I could die I'm we better
at least be to 500 or I'm gonna be very disappointed
You want to be at episode 500 right after episode
28? No, I want to be to 500 people. Remember?
Halfway to be killing myself. Oh, yeah. To all
you people listening, if you listened to the
last one, you would have totally got that. If
you don't follow through on this, I can't even
describe how immensely disappointed I am. If
we get to a thousand people want me to die, trust
me, I'll have all the motivation I need. All
right, so. Let's talk about what we've been playing,
shall we? Which is apparently Diablo 3 Diablo
3 So although not together you guys you guys
talk about your Diablo 3. I'm gonna take a nap
Okay, this is what interests me about the whole
game, right? This I I've been wanting to play
this game and wanting to play this game and then
all of a sudden it comes out I've already like
written it off because no one's gonna buy it
or whatever and then you Sean Z plays it I get
a text from Sean asked me if I'm gonna buy it
I get a text from Danner asked me about it and
I'm like fuck you guys I've been trying to get
people to play this because I knew what it was.
Way back when I was going to get it. Hey, all
I did when I texted you was go, Hey, is this
coming out on PlayStation 4? Cause I think I
want to pick it up. And you go yes, and I go
okay. That was the end of the conversation So
don't be putting shit on me because of the fact
that you're like I'm just asking what it was
coming out of ps4. That's all ass man, but I'm
like nobody was interested in it So I wrote it
off on the ps3 I'm like I will just get it out
of a PlayStation 4 and I was like I and I was
kind of like man. This is I Anyways Chauncey
Yes, you're playing it. Yes. Do you like it?
Yes. Isn't everything you wished it would be.
And more. It's really fun. I want to say it was
you, so the comparison, how it's basically...
Marvel Ultimate Alliance. Ultimate Alliance mixed
with a little... Like Skyrim or something. Baldur's
Gate. Yeah. Setting -wise and everything else,
Baldur's Gate, Dark Alliance. Although it doesn't
have the water that Baldur's Gate, Dark Alliance
does. I heard everything breaks in the world
like it does in Baldur's Gate. Yes. just about
so um yeah i well funny you know kind of kind
of funny story because you know it came out last
tuesday um i know what was that tuesday last
tuesday tuesday yeah tuesday okay wait it came
out last tuesday yeah tuesday i then then we
totally missed that on last episode of releases.
We did. Tuesday. Well, whatever. Anyways. Not
Tuesday. Thank you, Danner. Tuesday? Are you
good? Tuesday! So. Oh my god. Oh, it's like amazing
that they let you people out of your cage. John,
my friend John called me on Saturday when he
was on his way home from the airport because
he was heading to Best Buy to buy some stuff.
He's like, what do I need to buy? Was I going
to buy Diablo 3? I was like, no, I'm just going
to wait and get it on the PlayStation 4 because
that's what I had told Danner. And he's like,
all right, so what should I get? And I was like,
I don't I don't know. He's like, should I get
a Vita? I was like. Sure. And then I was like,
holy crap, yes, get Evita and then get Dragon's
Crown. So he went ahead and did that. But long
story short, they released a demo for Diablo
3 today. Trouble. Yes, big trouble. Trouble for
Mike and his open wallet. Yeah, well I sat down
to play it. I downloaded the demo and I sat down
and I was like, hey, Ali, why don't you, you
know, you should play this with me because it's
got like co -op. And then I was kind of like,
well, it's a demo, so maybe it doesn't have co
-op in the demo because they like to do that.
And, you know, we sat down, we played it. I think
we played it for like maybe 30 minutes, maybe
30, 40 minutes. And then Ali like got up and
she went and got her purse and her shoes on and
everything. I was like, what do you do? She's
like, I'm going to the store. I'm like, what
do you do? She's like, I'm going to go buy this.
And I was like. Okay, well I'll go haves with
you that way we could buy it again on the PlayStation
4 and she was like Okay, so we you know The problem
is the thing I ran into with it was I knew that
I would like the game with a controller I knew
that because I played it on my Mac, you know
a year ago And I hated the mouse and keyboard
support. It just it just didn't feel right to
me. I like the direct control of the character
So I I knew the demo was going to be trouble.
And of course, Ali actually enjoyed the game
as well. It didn't help much at all with the
going to get a game. But I feel like it'll be
a good way to hold myself over until November
15th. I'm I was really trying for the I'm not
buying anything else until, you know, the next
gen consoles are released. And well, now I feel
like I might be able to achieve that more with
a game like Diablo three. So what classes are
you playing as um I'm right now. I'm playing
as a demon Okay, which is it's basically the
The distance character he's all about inflicting
damage not necessary about taking a beating Right
he's like the mechanical version of the wizard
or warlock Kind of yeah, he's all about bows
and crossbows and stuff like that Yeah, at least
that was my that was a character I used on the
on the Mac or on the PC version of Diablo And
that's the character that Ali is now playing
as I do already have one complaint though. Oh
about him Dual wielding crossbows is not nearly
as awesome as it should be because it does he
only aim at one target No, well, he doesn't he
it's not he shoots both at the same time. So
you don't really double your output He shoots
one than the other Like your rate of speed does
not increase Hmm all that changes like say they
have different abilities like say one catches
shit on fire one steals life Well, it'd be like
fire steal life. That's the only benefit to it.
Okay, but in order to do that you give up the
power of a two -handed weapon Or if you're using
a single -handed one you give up the defense
of having a shield too, right? So I I tried Soon
as I saw you could do that. I want to do that
and as soon as I did it I was like nope going
back to the bow Like a crossbow. I think is what
I'm using right now actually I mean not I mean
not to beat down on the game because I do think
on the console is very good The one thing I didn't
like they carried over from the PC version was
no matter what like with a melee character like
I'm I'm playing as a monk and I had a feeling
you would I equipped her with like a long sword
A two -handed longsword. You are - you're playing
as a chick. Yeah. I want to look at something
nice while I'm playing the game. What gives?
So, I - Stare at a man's ass like a man would.
So, I - you - you know, when I'm not fighting
anybody, she's carrying around this giant longsword,
and I'm like, okay, this is cool. And then I
go up to attack somebody and she just attacks
them with their fist. Like, she has the damage
bonuses of the sword, but she's not swinging
the sword. really the sword ends up on her back,
and she just ends up punching or kicking and
It doesn't even like it's not just the long sword
either because I equip it with like a short sword
where she's got one the sword in one Hand and
nope she just ends up punching people But I like
I said I get the damage and they is that because
they because Monks share the will they must share
the same weapons as the other melee classes then
Well, I think I mean it would it tells like me.
I can't I could yeah, but I'm saying is that
Does that mean they can put in any kind of? What
do you mean? Of the melee weapons, like swords,
axes? I can use those. But you use lances, too,
or? Yes. But the animations aren't there for
her to actually hit things with them. Like it's
just it just ends up being like her hands and
face is supposed to be like that. That's the
way it was on the PC. So I don't think it's just
it's just it's it's kind of It's kind of off
putting, um, when you, when, when, when, you
know, that's, I don't know. That's just, it's
just weird. But I do like that when you start
the game, you're essentially just fighting for
clothing. Yeah, pretty much. You start out with
nothing. Yeah. So, um, I'm enjoying it. I will
be playing more of it, um, with, you know, with
my wife. Cause she's, she's, she's enjoying it.
I, I did start as the, um, the wizard cause in
the demo, you're only able to use the wizard
and the barbarian. Oh, yeah, yeah, but the demos
actually a pretty good chunk the demo is the
entire first act Okay, now you're where does
the first X the skeleton King? Okay, cuz I'm
like or the the one that's all ghostly right?
Yeah, I'm just about to be him. I've been taking
like what level are you? We're almost ten Yeah,
I'm like right there. I keep going like I am
uncovering every bit of every map. Yeah when
I do it Do I I find myself accidentally rolling
a lot We alley, and I roll everywhere because
it sounds like horses running what is well I
use like the shadow hunter has like this ability
where you can like Click quickly dash like almost
teleport. Yeah, it uses up stuff, but if I'm
just going from A to B. It's way faster, right
I Find myself rolling on accident just and it's
not the fault of the controls. It's because all
movement is the left stick. The right stick is
only for dodging. And I'm just not used to it
yet. I just have not played enough of it. I'm
used to right stick controlling the camera, so
I keep finding myself trying to turn the camera.
Even though I'm just stupid. Yep, I agree with
that. Oh my God, you're still here? Barely. Kind
of sleeping. Alright, we're gonna wrap this up
here in just one second. I like the co -op, like
I like the split screen, it's not even split
screen, it's just like Dark Alliance or Ultimate
Alliance. You just share the screen? You share
the screen, but they do something nice where
if you get too far, like let's say Ali puts the
controller down to go get a drink or something,
I can keep running and her character will run
with me. It just pulls her along well No, it
doesn't even pull her along like she won't it
won't it's not like she'll be on the edge of
the screen She'll just end up running kind of
behind me And if she gets like stuck behind like
a fence or something and she gets too far I can't
it doesn't like anchor me to her it they'll teleport
her to me Now is that only what if two people
are actually trying to run the opposite directions
I? I think the game actually seems kind of intelligent.
Does it default to whoever's the party leader?
I want to say yes, but at the same time no, because
I know her and I, like when you're in the little
town of like Tristan, we've run opposite directions
before and hit the edges of the screen and nothing,
the game didn't do anything to like force her
to me. I think it's only when, it only does the
teleporting thing when one of the people, when
one of the characters gets stuck behind something.
Like if you've been, if you've been pulled, If
the camera's been pulled too far and you can't
move your character between like whatever you're
stuck behind and like the edge of the screen
Like if you can't navigate around it to get yourself
unstuck it will automatically teleport you So
it's kind of it seems kind of smart um I thought
there was like some kind of like four player
split screen too where it could split into four
sections or something, but I I haven't played
with four can you even play four people on the
same xbox? Have you tried that? Maybe that only
works with around the same You could do four
people on the ps3. I know that well no or whatever
on the same system I mean, yes, but I haven't
tried that I have I've played with one other
person for like 10 seconds, but he like he didn't
talk So I was like gone by oh, I we haven't gone
online and play with anybody yet I will say that
I do think this may be the version of For better
or worse this may be the version of Diablo 3
that people wanted Because in the network settings
on the ps3 there are the LAN settings and Diablo
3 is not playable over a LAN on the PC. Are there
LAN settings on the 360? Have you looked at that
stuff? Not really. Alright. Dan, are you sure
you haven't played anything? Um... The Simpsons
tapped out. PixelJunk Monsters? No? I can't...
I don't remember. I'm sure... I'm sure I've played
something... No, since last week's episode I
don't actually think I've played anything. I
feel so sorry for your wife. I don't know. I've
been... School started, so things are a little...
Graded to first grade and Noel started preschool
and it's... Making you feel old? Yeah, it's the
homework of the night. Good. homework every night
for graded and now he's got spelling test every
week and I get we've been reading every night
and it's It's just as much work for me as it
is for him. Yeah, because you're both of the
same reading level Now I know how Danner felt
when we were talking about Diablo 3. Yeah. Um
All right. We're gonna take a quick break and
we come back on the other side We are going to
dive headlong into the launch lineup Both the
PS3 and the Xbox One. Man, I thought we were
talking about Sean's penis. I thought we were
going to say Dive Head Lung and a Danner's asshole.
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talking about the Xbox one first? Yep. Okay.
Well chrono, you know going in Numerological
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title? Numerical by title. Xbox one because this
is clearly the first Xbox. I just I literally
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for us Just wrap this up and go home. I'll record
this you are by myself. You're all I'll do this
by myself As you do most of anything by yourself
because I can't get you to pay for games Anyways,
I'm trying to wait for the next generation system
chill out Anyways Xbox one Crimson Dragons This
is gonna be really this is gonna be a really
quick frickin list cuz I don't care about the
Xbox one What I haven't even heard what is this
Crimson Dragons? I've not even heard of this
duh. It's about dragons that are red They're
crimson. It's totally different. That's what
I'm sure it's exactly like Crimson Skies, but
not Yeah, why do I think it's like Panzer Dragoon?
Because I think it is hey, so that's why I thought
that's why I thought the the reveal video showed
or 83 video Yes, that one. All right, moving
on. Dead Rising 3. I want to say I'm interested
and excited about this game, but then I realized
the fact that I haven't made it more than two
hours into the first one. I like the concept.
I just don't think it's gotten to a point where
it's been executed properly yet. I think it's
a great concept. And I'm hoping with three that
they'll actually finally kind of correct that
formula and make it interesting Yeah, they're
taking a lot of stuff from my understanding They're
taking a lot of stuff from two and improving
it to make it more accessible. Oh Have either
of you really played the second one? Oh, no I've
not this is something I hate about some video
games in the game in one and two in order to
save the game You have to get to a bathroom.
Oh, no. I know I hate Having to play Say something
comes up and I need to stop playing right now.
If I can't go to the bathroom No, not I see what
you did there though Right there But like, you
know something come up in real world that trumps
video game world like having to go to the bathroom
Sometimes I just let that shit fall where it
may a case of rocket -powered but pee It's devil
gate. Thank you That's what I'm saying when I'm
in the bathroom So you ever have those moments
when you say something you're just like what
the fuck is wrong with me Jesus there's not enough
cream is over with is it over God is that you
Anyways, I hate having to oh I have to get to
the next area where I can say or I have to find
this because if I stop playing now I'll lose
the last hour of be playing I hate those the
games I hate it when games have safe points Damn
them. Damn them all with those safe points. You
know what, you know, if it's not What? You know
what you're gonna like about this next generation
of hardware, Shauncey? What? You can shut it
off and it'll pick right back up where you were
playing. Which is cool. But anyways, back to
Dead Rising 3, in the third one, you can have,
there's a hard mode or whatever, I forget what
they call it, like a classic mode, where it defaults
to all the stuff from the first and second one,
like you can only save in bathrooms, and stuff
like that. Which is not how you'll be playing.
God no. And then the second one they introduce
weapon combining like you can take um paddles
from like a canoe and hook them with chainsaws
and get basically like a a double lightsaber
but with chainsaws It would be double chainsaws
not double whatever Why do you compare it to
one thing that it's totally not I don't understand
Why are you breathing? I don't understand either.
Here's what we do. Let's talk about the fighter
within Yes What? Moving on Let me finish my thought
is in that game you had to bring stuff back to
an area to combine them now You're just gonna
be able to do it on the fly if I find two things
in the world that can combine I just can combine
them. I don't have to bring them All them back
without using them to a different area to combine
them sounds like they made the game lazier No,
I think they're just they're making it they're
taking what people thought was People complained
about the second one. Of course they did. I know
I'm saying they're taking those issues and addressing
them, it looks like. Which, I like any game that
does that. So The Fighter Within. Fighter Within.
It sounds like a game in which you get beaten
up in a schoolyard brawl and then there's a training
montage and then you come back and beat the bully
at the end of the game. Sure. Four's a five.
Couldn't care less Killer instinct It'd be cool
if it was 1993 it'd be cool if it was made by
rare it'd be cool if it wasn't a pay -to -play
If free sorry if we cooler if it wasn't a free
game where you had to buy all of your characters
to play it Yeah, I think this is like bad like
I I'm like war thunder is getting me on this
free -to -play model and in a big way, right?
But I think the way they're they're doing killer
instinct is the wrong way Yep playing paying
for extra characters. I mean that's gonna be
dumb when everyone's using the same two characters
like And if you see Jago, it just means someone
had more money than you Not cool man Also a launch
title for the Xbox 180 Is a game that we're all
looking forward to but not on this system Lego
Marvel superheroes. Oh god. I cannot wait for
that game I'm that is to be honest. That's the
game. I'm almost most excited for It's gonna
it though this is this game is one of those things
is gonna scratch so many itches It's gonna scratch
my mouth my ultimate alliance itch. I like I
think the Lego games are very fun and they are
age -defying Any anyone can play those games
and have fun if I like the fact that Stan Lee's
gonna be a playable character Yes, that that
is gonna be cool if this ends up being ultimate
alliance in Lego awesome Anything less than that?
Bummer in my opinion. It's ultimate alliance
and Lego. We have a fourth. Yep Cause Gray didn't
will play with us. Yeah. He'll carry us through
the game. Yes, he will. He probably destroy all
of us. He's played more Lego games than any of
us. I know. Loco cycle. I've heard a little bit
about this. It's a downloadable game. It's like
kit meets. It's like Knight Rider meets Road
Rash. I know there's like a there's a motorcycle
that has an AI, an artificial AI that talks to
the main character. And it looks crazy does it
have does it have mr.. Feeney's voice from no
Then I'll share. I'm out. Oh, let's get Sean
Hunter to do it. Oh That'd be sweet He's got
to be doing nothing right come on writer strong.
We know you're not doing anything since Kevin
fever do it Daner's other favorite game of the
fall Madden NFL 25 Yay, I love Madden and it's
still complete and I got fucking sports games.
He's super excited about the EA Ignite engine
and the per player AI going on in this game.
You know what I love more than anything is the
fact that the new Xbox is going to be like have
sports updates, and you can watch football on
it, and BWAH! Could care less. Well, they tried
to do that with the stupid ESPN shit. That worked,
though. No, it worked in the fact that it...
No, no, no. It worked in the fact that it made
ESPN on there and people could watch games, but
it failed in the fact that I don't fucking care
about sports. From what I've heard from a couple
of podcasts recently, that TV stuff is not ready
to go. So that'll be another thing that people
won't be happy It's not that the technology that
they have with like the existing cable boxes
in people's homes is not smart enough to Mean
the technology is too dumb to do what they want
to do. Yeah, like for instance, let's say you've
got your you know, you Like all that NFL stuff
that they're hyping And this is all we'll say
about this. All the all the sports and the integrated
TV stuff that they're hyping that you can see
like on your dashboard and stuff. That's all
apps that you just set up and they run on the
side. The Xbox has no idea. What channel you're
actually like watching, so it can't change the
apps or the information given to you based like
if you change like the channel, you know what
I'm saying? Like. It's not the cable box can't
tell like the Xbox can tell the cable box to
change the channel But the cable box can't tell
the Xbox what's actually playing so stuff doesn't
The whole system is just not right. Anyways,
it's dumb. Yeah Now this was a point of contention
a couple weeks ago because there's also a version
of this coming to the ps4 Minecraft Xbox one
edition Not now with more blockiness not to be
confused with the Minecraft PlayStation 4 edition
which apparently according to Microsoft Totally
different the Minecraft Xbox one edition is exclusive
to the Xbox one no shit You know it's gonna be
different one's gonna say Xbox one edition and
one's gonna say PlayStation 4 edition Yep, and
that makes it an exclusive people One's gonna
have Halo helmets in it, and the other one's
gonna have Drake heads in it. I'll take Drake
any day. Or Killzone, I should say. Hellgeister.
Now we've got Daner's other two favorite games.
Oh god. NBA 2K14 and returning for the first
time in what, four years? NBA Live 14? Oh, I'm
so excited I literally couldn't give a shit.
Alright, here's one for ya. Peggle 2. I like
Peggle. I like Peggle 2, but who the hell would
want to play it on? I don't know. Yeah, whatever.
Power Star Golf. Your mom's a Power Star Golf.
Rise. It kind of looks interesting if you like
those types of games. Yeah, I mean, I've heard,
you know, a lot of people call it like QuickTime,
you know, the QuickTime Event Central after E3
and stuff like that, but apparently that's not
what it is. It's just what the developer chose
to show off, which I guess was the wrong thing
to do. I mean, it's a Crytek game, so it's going
to look pretty. I'm just not interested in it.
I have to assume that it's just a God of War
reskin. Very pretty God of War reskin well much
like you know Saints Row 4 was just reskin in
Saints Row 3 Something I'm kind of following
a little bit Skylanders swap force I Got an affinity.
I'm good. Yeah, I don't know if I'll end up getting
this or not We can switch the legs and the heads
and whatever zoo tycoon because Just like Peggle,
who needs to play this on their TV. Yeah, that's
kind of the... Yeah. And last two, Zumba Fitness
World Party. Oh, you know it. Finally! I've been
waiting for that. I needed a reason for the connect,
right? There it is. And lastly is Watch Dogs.
Yay! I want that game. So now we get to have
fun here, okay? If, in a world of if, if you
had pre -ordered an Xbox One and you were getting
one on launch day, what games would you be picking
up with it? An Xbox One? Yep. Dead Rising 3.
That would be it. Not Ghost, not Assassin's Creed
4, not Watch Dogs. I guess I lied. I would...
Dead Rising 3 would be the one exclusive that
I would... Pick up I would pick up ac4 and ghosts
and watch dogs. Okay. I think the best way to
the answer this is pick up is exclusive because
At that point you're then it doesn't matter what
system you have you're basing out on the game
So I would I would say that of those of the games
you just mentioned the only one that makes me
want to be like I totally play that it would
be Dead Rising 3. Yeah, I mean honorable mentions
here obviously Need for Speed Rivals will also
be on November 22nd for the Xbox One as will
Call of Duty and Battlefield 4 and Assassin's
Creed 4. Those will also be available on November
22nd. Now, on to the high point and possibly
kind of the low point as well. Yes, the Wii U
2. Yep. I really hope that's what they name the
next console for them if they you know don't
die by them Give me one second here guys Very
professional. Yep, very professional. He's taking
a poop. Ladies and gentlemen. He's opening the
devil's gate. I Really open Diablo. I run up
to a thing called the devil's gate now I don't
think it's gonna be called the Wii U 2. I think
it's gonna be called the Wii U us The whiz we
us the we the we you us Anyways PlayStation 4
launch It's okay. I didn't get it either. We've
got Blacklight retribution, which is a free -to
-play first -person shooter. I like free -to
-play. I Can't tell if that's sarcasm or not.
I'll download it. I will too I don't know too
much about it. I mean, I know one of the rebel
FM guys is now working on the game. What was
this again? Anthony Gallegos. No, no, no. What
was my retribution? Because you're tight. Gallegos.
Yes, because he he he moved. So he's he went
to work. Oh, yeah, that's right. He's in Seattle
or whatever now. So and you actually have to
sit slow and with a kind of a weird whatever
that was. Yeah. Check myself for a stroke now
Jesus so anyways. I'll be checking this out mainly
because like we said it's free to play it really
what it's gonna come down to is how the game
feels not spending money on it and What their
microtransaction model is yeah, it needs to be
a game. That doesn't Yeah, it's not oh, I spent
money on it just so I can have fun. It's I'm
having so much fun. I will spend money on this
Right. You emptied your free clip. Pay two dollars
in order to get your next clip. Would you would
you like to reload? That'll be 50 cents. Yeah.
The way I feel, if it's this good, if it's anywhere
close to as addictive as War Thunder is and their
their model is similar, I can see myself spending
money on it. It just it. Can't be one of those
games where me and you were playing against each
other. I decided to spend ten dollars on the
game Now the only way you can even have a chance
of killing me is if you spend money. It can't
be if it's like that Yeah, I don't think war
thunder doesn't feel like that. So um, yeah But
war thunder wouldn't be as fast pace. I don't
think is this no, but it can be it can get kind
of crazy Especially the little chat window man.
You can start some shit in there Jason and I
grief people in the chat window all the time
Because you're both dicks another game that I
wish this sounds like a game I want to play just
because contrast makes me think of like black
and white and shadows Because that's what contrast
is yeah And it's on the PlayStation 4 which means
is probably something artsy fartsy, which I'll
probably end up playing anyways And fart see
DC universe is also coming to PlayStation 4 As
a launch title free to play obviously like it
is now. Yeah, so awesome on the ps3 How could
you possibly pass that up? I played I had fun
with it But I'm interested to play it because
Sean I know will pick it up and I would have
somebody to play with and I think that would
actually make it interesting Oh, yeah, definitely.
That was the one thing that sucked is that I
didn't I mean first of all I had all of Three
friends on the PlayStation. Yeah, and none of
them had that game So well, it wasn't I downloaded
the moment it came free and you were no longer
with I did yes three So I didn't give on the
give up on the ps3 it gave up on me Okay Next
game is dive kick Which is available on the Vita
right now. The concept of this game just makes
me giggle. Isn't it just jumping and kicking?
Yes, it is. That's literally the game is diving
and kicking. I've seen some videos. Do yourself
a favor right now. Pause the podcast. Go on YouTube
and just watch the making of or the commercial
for it because it's fucking hilarious. And then
come back and finish listening. The link of which
you should put in the, uh, show night things.
I don't do that stuff. That's way too much work.
Oh my god, copy a goddamn link! What do you think?
What? Whatever. Why don't you do something for
the show, Shaunzy? I don't have to. I'm lending
my voice. He's lending the only thing he has
that's worth lending. And even that isn't that
good. Next up is Drive Club. Where's my box eraser
blade? I can't wait to not play this game. Well,
okay. I'll play the free version. Right. Drive
Club is going to be free for PlayStation Plus
members. It's made by the guys that made Motorstorm.
So I'm interested to see what they do. That could
make it kind of interesting, I guess. But it
won't have the apeshit craziness of Motorstorm.
Again, I think the social aspects of what this
game is kind of trying to... to to dig up or
get its hooks into people i think that's more
promising than the actual game maybe but i feel
like criterion or i feel like criterion ghost
studios and dice are going to be able to pull
that off better in need for speed rivals so um
the game everybody's been waiting for just dance
2014 moving on killzone shadowfall This game
looks really good. I'm not a killzone guy in
this game. I played what was the newest one that
came out on please station three? Three yeah,
I played that and it's just It's just weird.
It's floaty. I don't trolls bother me. It's It's
just weird. I don't I Didn't get into I played
I played the story through and I thought that
was pretty cool Think I played multiplayer with
you a little bit, right? We were like this is
I we couldn't even play it really Maybe that
was yeah, I did play some multi played it like
I think we played like for like one afternoon
or kind of like yeah Let's go play Modern Warfare
2. Was that mag? No, we played mag to separate
that was separate. Okay That was like I I think
gorilla they make really pretty games but I feel
like they can't figure out controls for the life
of them. Or maybe their games are just so good
looking that the controller lag is something
that they can't fix because of system resources
or something? I don't know. Maybe it will be
fixed with the improved controller for the PlayStation
4? Don't know because we're not able to play
these games ourselves. Next up is Knack. It's
your stereotypical action platformer launch title
that's just there to show off how powerful the
CPU is. Look what this can do. There will not
be a second one of these. And if Danner was going
to let his kid play with his PlayStation 4, he'd
probably end up buying Knack. Yep, but I'm not
gonna let that happen. However, he is gonna buy
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes and the PlayStation
4. Eventually. Possibly. When Graydon's old enough.
And I buy a second controller. There you go.
That's $120 proposal right there. Yep. I'll let
him buy it himself Okay, here's your allowance
son. Here's $120. What are you gonna do with
it? Go buy Marvel. Let's go buy a game Madden
NFL 25 is also coming on launch for that. Oh
my god. We must buy and now we've got the Minecraft
PlayStation 4 edition Exclusive to the PlayStation
4. Mike, that's still a thing? Yep. People still
play that? Yep. I heard decent things about that
new Mass Effect mod thing they had. You would.
So we've also got NBA 2K14 and NBA Live 14 coming
on this day as well. And now we've got The Playroom,
which is actually just coming preloaded on all
of the PlayStation 4s. and the stuff that i've
seen inside of the playroom actually had me put
the i had the playstation eye camera in my like
pre -order for like a couple of hours the other
day i could really i'm sure i'll end up buying
it at some point but i couldn't really bring
myself to buy it at launch to buy what i'm sorry
the camera oh the camera yeah so Mainly because
you don't have to use the stupid wand anymore
to use it because the sensors actually built
into the controller itself Another game I'm looking
forward to, Rezogun Which is also free on day
one with the PlayStation Plus It's made by Housemarquee.
They made Super Stardust HD, which is actually
one of my favorite PlayStation 3 games Then we've
also got Skylanders Swap Force Super Motherload
which I have not heard of that sounds it's like
regular mother load, but it's like the next version
tiny brains This is the game developed by Danner
I Thought it was about your penis My brain has
my penis has a tiny brain Yeah, cuz it's tiny.
We've got two more free -to -play games one I
don't know anything about and the other one I
am really excited for We have Warframe. Again,
free to play. Come try it. It's a free game where
what you do is as fast as you can, you build
picture frames. And pit them against one another.
No, no. The only thing you're framing is pictures
of war. That's why it's called Warframes. Oh,
I see what he did there. Booyah! last but not
least war thunder Which I'm really excited for
Just because I'm enjoying playing it on my computer
a lot So that's it for now This is a crap ton
of games a lot and quite a few free ones and
Again, we're gonna end up with you're gonna end
up with Call of Duty ghosts. You're gonna end
up with Assassin's Creed 4 Battlefield 4 on launch
day Watch Dogs is gonna be a week later, unfortunately
So, I kinda made a preliminary list for the launch
special that we're doing in November of the release
games and this actually is the biggest list of
launch games I think this is the biggest launch
List we've had for a generation because I mean,
oh god the lunch for xbox 360 Tony home America
Wasteland and gun Hey gun was a good game even
if it was a port, uh, shut up Screw you that
game. That was a good game. I'll say it all day
long. I love that game now you would So If you're
picking up a next -gen console or you just want
to let us know why not leave in the comment section
what games you plan on picking up So I Don't
know if we want to talk about this Do you want
no, do you want to talk about the game of the
year thing? Like the the the game of the generation
list or like Because let me pause this let me
pause this Alright, so in the comment section
for for this one. We're actually going to include
a List that list of questions that Danner generously
provided for off the cuffs But you want to call
it generation like the generation awards the
video game generation awards It's a series of
questions. We would like you to pick three for
each one and apparently from what I've been hearing
from Danner it you can be as completely vague
as you want Try not to be completely vague because
Joe's list was terrible. So what we're gonna
do is That's a lie, Joe's list was fine after
you fixed it Normally we would just take You
know amongst the four of us we just take a list
and Danner would graciously see what matched
up and do his little mathematical wizardry and
important stat graphs and everything and we'd
present you with a list but we'd like to cut
you in this time so yeah we're gonna post that
in the comment section feel free to fill it out
you can I don't think Danner wants to give you
his email address here but you can send your
completed list to feedback at geekcastradio .com
and we'll make sure that it gets to Danner and
we can tabulate your answers with all of ours
and we can come up with a list that Maybe everyone
is happy about or maybe we'll just have a whole
lot of games talk about The new four -hour episodes
yeah So yeah, if you want to do that or you want
to ask maybe that might be a two -parter Or you
want to tell us what you're looking forward to
this fall like I said you can comment on our
parent site at geocastradio .com or Send emails
to us at feedback at geocastradio .com You can
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me on Twitter at art dinner or on the PlayStation
network at x51 the machine man Chauncey I've
been Chauncey Brown. You can find me on Xbox
live at weapon 87 you can find me on Twitter
at at Chauncey Brown And the next gen you'll
be able to find me at what was I weapon 87 on
there, too? Yes Okay Yeah Yep, we're all preparing
for this we're gearing up and I promise maybe
sometime in the future. We'll have a retro topic
to talk about Don't threaten them with a good
time. No, I'm not so until next week play smart
or go home Is it just me or do we is it our dinner
especially rowdy tonight? I don't know if that's
just me Yes Okay, just checking. I think it's
just John. I like it, but I'm not saying it's
wrong You're not gonna hang as long as we don't
get off of this and you end up in your and you
don't go cry I'm perfectly fine with whatever
you guys do to each other. Can you can you even
cry while you're choking yourself to death? I
don't think there's like my tear duct will even
work. All right Were you pleased that you were
recording that? I was. It's all going in the
bloopers. We're gonna have a good blooper section.
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