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.com. Excuse us, listeners. Hello everybody,

my name is Michael Powers and this is Off the

Cuff episode 38. We took a week off for some

family holiday bullshit. That's nice. Yay, family!

It's accurate. Joining me this week, as you've

already heard, is Seanzy Brown. Oh, even you

announced me before you, Danner. How does that

feel? And Seanzy actually tipped the hand that

Danner is here. It feels like saving the best

for last, bitch. Yeah, you know what I like to

do last in the morning? Shit, so that's what

you are. I'm the feeling of relief you get after

you get rid of all the bad stuff. After you dump

your Sean off at the pool. That's how you feel.

He doesn't get dumped off the pool. He gets drowned

in it. All coming up art. Are we done? What?

Yes. Yes, I am. We haven't been done for five

years, man. All right. So obviously, as I mentioned,

we took the week off for Thanksgiving and Black

Friday. Black Friday being the bigger deal, in

my opinion. What have you guys been doing basically

the last two weeks? Who wants to go first? Don't

all jump in once. I'm going to say that Danner

can go first. Oh, I'm sorry. What were you saying?

What? Are you serious? I kind of spaced out.

What have you been doing the last two weeks?

What have I been? Something came out. Been playing

a lot of PS4. That's what I've been doing. That's

a PS4. So do you hate it yet or do you still

love it? I like it still. I mean, don't get me

wrong. I think our launch. Titles are meh at

best But I've but boy they are pretty Yeah, they're

I mean knack knacks good. I'm enjoying it still

It's I I don't really have anything more to add

from what I've said last time we talked about

it I played the single -player all the way through

for ghosts. How was that? Cuz Mike doesn't know

cuz Mike doesn't play the single -player. How

was it compared up? Did you play didn't play

black ops or black ops 2d? No, I played I've

played all the mall modern warfare single players

and Call of Duty 2 so does it have anything to

do with the other modern warfare games? No, okay

It's in all way show up. Please. It's gonna be

it I think it's gonna be its own thing because

it ended on a cliffhanger So it definitely opened

itself up to further to be a Ghost 2. I'm assuming

they'll do what they've done in this console

generation, like we'll get the Treyarch one next

and then we'll get Ghost 2 in two years is my

guess. I just don't know what the Treyarch franchise

will be. I doubt it'll be Blobs 3. I like the

story from Black Ops and Black Ops 2. It's becoming

more and more Michael Bay style action packed

game. The end sequence is ridiculous. There is

a fight on a train on a suspended car train and

all the cars swing independently. And it is just

absolutely ridiculous. Like it is the most dizzying,

vomit inducing level I think I've ever played

in a game. And it's awesome. Now play it with

the Oculus Rift. God, if it was a 3D, I would

have puked all over my living room. I thought

he was going to say puke all over his erection.

I would have I would have joy vomited all over

the place. It's cool. The tank levels were badass

in that game. The tank levels were a lot of fun.

I had more fun, I think, with that stuff than

anything else. But I thought the story was pretty

solid. But it's short. I mean, it's. But I mean,

comparatively to the amount of time we sink into

multiplayer, the single player is always super,

super short. That was fun. I started playing

the battlefield for single player also, and that

is just gorgeous. I actually want to talk about

that because I've seen a little bit of the single

player for ghost because on launch Jason was

over here playing it because I can't play those

games. But we were more or less drinking beer

and just mystery science. Well, you can't sit

in one in one spot and play. That's not no, that's

not the issue. Come on. Give me a little more

credit than that. I I just can't. I don't I don't

really care for them. That's not that's not why

I buy the Call of Duty games. But, you know,

Jason and I were sitting there BSing with the

game and Like we switched over to Battlefield

4 and that was like that's like night and day.

Yeah. No, it's like Pixar versus Fox animation

studio I would say it's like Toy Story meets

Wally Okay, who says it like that wall it's Wally

Whatever doesn't matter how you pronounce it

I think I think it's that I think it's that that

type of a difference because obviously Toy Story

is their first their first one and you know,

it still looks good and they chose to make and

make toys because you know that everything will

look like plastic and there's this photorealism

to the first half of WALL -E that is You know

amazing. I think it's it's that to me. It's it's

it's kind of that that same type of thing I just

I for me I I Played ghost single -player first

and I was like everything looks really good in

the game It is a beautiful looking game and then

I played battlefield 4 and I'm just like, oh

my god, like the details just Stupid in the levels

just stupid ridiculous Like why would I need

to be able to see this much detail but still

it's appreciated exactly and it's and it's one

of those things that I'm just like Also, I keep

thinking it was like this is the first. First

go at it on the PS4. I'm like, if this is like

the pinnacle of the starting position, what's

it going to be like one or two games down the

road? OK, I have to look at it. I look at it

that way. I look at it as the same way like this

is the starting position, but I look at it like

a slightly different way where it's like this

is the starting position for a third party title.

Yeah, like. What is? Second son I keep thinking

about that, but there's a there was a moment

when I was you and I tried to play you and I

tried to play Battlefield 4 together in a multiplayer

match and There was no one playing and so we

were in on a server by ourselves And I remember

I had to go let my dog out and I was like crouched

in this bush I was just watching you drive a

tank around shooting stuff And the generation

that we just left, if you're sitting in a bush,

it's not really a bush, it's more of a green

blob with things that look like leaves on them.

With the second you get close to them, you see

pixelated leaves. Exactly, and that didn't happen.

Like, I thought I was looking at... Obviously,

I know I'm looking at a game, but it looked like

someone took a snapshot of an actual leaf and

it didn't matter how close I got to it. Actually,

the closer I got to it, the more detail was present.

Like you could see like the veins in the leaf

and there might have even been like a little

bit of translucency to the leaves from the sun.

And I was just like. And that was the online.

Yeah. And I was thinking I saw that and all I

could think about is what is Uncharted going

to look like? Yeah, I Can't even fathom what

that's gonna look like my face is melting trying

to think of what uncharted is going to look like

I can't I don't know what's going to happen when

I actually see uncharted Remember Mike if it

lasts for more than four hours you have to go

to the hospital That can't that can't be true

it's been only six side note though And then

I'll let Daner go back to talking about Battlefield

4. I forgot it was Daner's turn to talk. Well

this Friday I actually purchased the camera for

the PlayStation 4 and Jason's coming back over

and we're going to have beer and live stream

some Call of Duty and some Battlefield 4 for

people. Off the cuff, Decligerent streaming!

Decligerent, yay! Okay now, tell me, the only

purpose of that is just to be able to show yourself

while you're streaming? Yeah. Okay. Some people

want to see that though. Like, I think there's

more... Kind of like when you're watching people

twitch and you can see their faces. Yeah. So.

But yeah, Daner, go back to Battlefield 4. So,

yeah. Battlefield's just... beautiful. Just...

Dumb. Dumb beautiful like I can't get over how

much details and I've always thought they were

the pretty like between that and Call of Duty

That was always the prettier game and the thing

is that the stories actually like the first ten

minutes in the battlefield 3 story I'm just like

this is dumb I'm shutting it off. I couldn't

get into it and like they got me from the get

-go on a battlefield 4 it starts off with a Crap

I think it starts with I think total eclipse

of the heart. Yeah, is yeah It's like if a it's

just black total eclipse of the hearts playing

and it starts with the four of them Underwater

trapped in the car. I think this video has been

out. I think they've showed this video. They

didn't show anything. Yeah. Yeah and it Seeing

the video online Today it does absolutely nothing

for does no justice to how good that game looks.

That goes back to what some people like Arthur

Geese and some other people in the gaming industry

that were able to actually see the next gen stuff

before any of us were. That just goes back to

what they were saying, which is no matter how

good the stream looks of whatever it is that

you're watching, it just looks way better in

person. And for like a little while, I didn't

know if that was going to be possible, but no,

I assure you it is. Oh, no. Yeah, it is because,

man, it is just... Also, while Battlefield has

always been the better looking of the two of

Call of Duty and Battlefield, when the game is

running at 60 frames a second, it's an entirely

different story. Yeah. Which Battlefield has

never run at 60 frames a second on the 360 or

the PS3, so... Oh, yeah, there's just so much...

Crap going on. I can't keep up with it. And it's

just it's and the best way I can describe Battlefield

4 storyline so far. It's a good blend of. It's

Battlefield 3, but it has those elements that

we're missing from Bad Company. So it's got a

little bit of that and it's a little more. So

this is this is if Bad Company and three had

a baby. Yeah, it's it's it's like a more serious

version of bad company, but it doesn't I don't

know it just has I Don't know. It's the story

just feels better Than it has in the past now,

let's talk about the bad side of battlefield

4 the online it's Broken and they're still working

to fix it and they still have it and it's not

just a PlayStation 4 problem. It's an Xbox one

block problem. It's just not working on either

next gen system. Hey man, feature parody. We

finally have it. Yay! So that is, yeah, plus

side for Battlefield 4. Looks amazing. Story

modes, really good. Multiplayers completely broken,

which is the majority of the reason why you buy

the game in the first place. Know they're working

on it. They're gonna patch it. It's probably

gonna be completely playable in about a month,

but you would hope it would have been a lot sooner

because Man as pissed off as I was with a double

XP this weekend on battlefield. I'm sorry on

Call of Duty I would have totally jumped over

to battlefield if I knew they had fixed the issues

because I was getting I would be interested.

I would be interested to play battlefield for

with somebody else with somebody else that has

the same play style that I do, because there's

the sniping in Battlefield 4 is way more involved

than it is in Call of Duty. You have to compensate

for bullet drop. Yeah. And I think the way that

they the way they made it kind of easy is that

they gave you they give you a rangefinder. And

then you can zero out the scope for that range.

And thereby the bullet drop is taken out of the

equation for you. You just have to set the scope

up the right way. Yeah, but then it only as long

as something's at that distance. Right. And that's

why I think it would be interesting to play Battlefield

4 with somebody that had the same mindset I did,

where you could do a proper sniping team, where

it's like you have a spotter and a sniper. And

that way, I wouldn't have to switch between the

rangefinder and the... and my scope to like dial

it in. I'll be your spotter, Mike. You don't

have to do that. I'm just saying like, I think,

I think it would be really interesting. I'm already

doing the support class, which is the medic.

What the hell else am I going to do? Heal people?

I don't know. Exactly. I can be your spotter

and throw health packets that you won't need

because it'd be far, far away from combat. But

does every class have the rangefinder? I don't

know. Maybe you can equip the rangefinder. I

know you have to hit up on the D -pad. Yeah.

To get the to get the rangefinder. But that but

that was really that was one of the neater things

that I found. And how how powerful or because

I mean, like, if you're taking all this time

to do a shot, is it you have to get like how

accurate does your shot have to be on the body?

I think it's two shots and they're dead with

the sniper rifle. Because it used to be in three.

If you're using like the high powered single

shot ones, anything center chest or head was

an instant kill, obviously. I want to be completely

honest with you, because the game is rather as

big as those maps are multiplayer. They are very

frantic. People are moving constantly. Yeah,

it was very hard. No one sits still. It was very

hard to find like another sniper or somebody

like on a mounted turret. So it's it's I'm not

entirely sure how accurate my shots were I think

I was electioning I'm being completely honest

and things actually unable to kill like three

people with a sniper rifle and like the five

matches I played Was really good for um Well,

what's the mode? Rush where they have to stay

in a certain area Where they're trying to protect

an area? I'll have to try that Yeah, it's unlike

conquest. It's harder because you could be set

up on one and they could go to four other things,

never even come to yours. But on Rush, you have

to go to a certain area and they have to defend

that exact area. Right. So, you know, there will

be guys there. I will say this, though, it doesn't

feel like as much of a PC game as Battlefield

3 did to me. It seems a little bit more like

a hybrid, it just seems to lend itself a little

bit better to the console this time around. Yeah,

I will say that. I don't know what that could

be if I'm being completely honest, I just know

that - It could be how incredibly sexy the PS4

controller just feels in your hands. That's true

too. It's a very nice controller. It's pretty.

So, any other PS4 games you've been playing?

I finally cracked open Killzone and started playing

that. I've heard such mixed things about that.

Here's what I will say about Killzone. Killzone

is very, very pretty. It also has the most ridiculously

complicated controller setup that I've ever used

in a game. Is that because it uses the touchpad?

It uses the touchpad? But okay, here's my issue.

You have You have an owl which is like your personal

drone that kind of helps you as a shadow trooper

I Kind of it helps you in the field with the

touchpad you swipe up and It attacks you swipe

to the right. It does a grapple so you can like

rappel down to repel from a higher place down

to a lower place you can use it to heal you and

you can use it for shield and it all involves

swiping up down left right just depending on

which mode you want to use the thing I hate you

swipe and then you have to hit L1 to accept that

command so it's like an extra unnecessary step

I feel I feel like you should just be able to

swipe on the touchpad and it should be it Yeah,

cuz it's not like you're accidentally going to

hit the touchpad. Well, that was it. Here's much

better back touchpad front touchpad So here's

the insane part of it. I'm being attacked by

four guys at once I am shooting and focusing

my gun with my our will my r2 and my l2 so I

can, you know, zoom in with my L2, fire with

my R2. I'm trying to swipe my pad to get my owl

to do the commands, and I'm trying to hit L1,

and I'm trying to throw a grenade with my R1,

and it's just like, oh my god. All the time they're

trying to solve cold fusion. It's like you have

to anticipate. what you want to do with your

owl before you even engage an enemy and if you

try to use your owl while you're in the middle

of engaging the enemy you're fucked you can't

shoot and operate the owl and accept the commands

and do everything it's like such a learning curve

for the controls for the game i'm sure once i

get the controls down it'll be easier but it

is just like there's so much shit going on with

that controller and that game and it's I've never

I've also never played a killzone game before

this is the first killzone game I've ever played

and that's what people have explained to me that

I've talked to about it is they said that killzone

always has a complicated control structure it

always has unnecessarily I'll say but the guns

are amazing in that game though there's so much

fun there's like secondary fire options to a

lot of the guns um one of the guns is it kind

of looks like a rail gun it's like a pulse blast

rifle but then it has a thing where the uh you

hit one of the buttons and the the uh barrel

of the gun extends and it turns into this giant

pulse blast sniper rifle that you have to charge

the shots in order to shoot. And it's a bitch

to get lined up. But if you hit somebody with

it, it just knocks their ass flat. And it's another

one of those games like the draw distance to

that game is just ridiculous. I've only gotten

about an hour and a half in, but it's huge learning

curve on the controls. That's my biggest knock

against the game is it's not a game you're gonna

get used to the controls right away. I'm sure

if you're familiar with Killzone and you like

Killzone, probably the complicated control structure

isn't going to hamper you as much, but I would

definitely say don't get cocky and try it on

hard mode right away, because you will regret

it immediately. It's definitely one of those

games you kind of want to ease your way into

it. Play for a couple playthroughs. Yeah, you

you definitely need to get used to the control

first on it So that that has been my ps4 playing

But I also downloaded a few kids for Vita tear

away cuz Tara way came out and Tara ways awesome

tell me on Tara way Tara way is Pure sunshine

in a bottle Okay then. Sounds hot. It's for those

that don't know. Tearaway is Media Molecule's

new game. They're the gentlemen and gals that

brought us a little big planet. Tearaway is a

paper craft game. Everything in the world is

made out of construction paper. You as the player

are God in this universe. And there is a message

they're trying to send to you, the player, God.

And the message takes form as the main character.

So the envelope turns into, I want to say Iwata

is his name. It's Iota and Iwata, I believe,

because you could choose if it's a male. or a

female. So you get the option of what your character

looks like. And then every time they peer up

at the sun, your picture, the camera is constantly

on. So any time you look at the sky, you see

your own face in the sun at all times. You also

choose your skin tone in the game because there's

times in the game where Like there's jump pads

and stuff like that and you hit the back of your

Vita to activate the jump pads there's also spots

where enemies come in and You actually poke your

fingers through the back of the the system where

it looks like it pokes through the back of the

system That's the reason you choose your skin

color So your fingers actually poke through the

floor of the world and take out the enemies So

your guy doesn't get killed It's not weird at

all. No, it's it's incredibly weird. And that's

what's so charming about the game is how bizarre

and how incredibly interactive the game is. It's

probably the most use of the all the features

of the Vita I've seen, but it's not overwhelming.

they're constantly introducing new facets of

gameplay throughout the entire game. They don't

just use stuff over and over and over and over

again like even up until like the last 20 -30

minutes they're still introducing new stuff in

the game. It's just very very well thought out

really interesting game and just a blast to play.

The other interactive elements they have is like

you have a camera in the game and you'll find

things in the world that have no pigment or color

to them and if you take a picture of them they

gain their color back in the world but then you

also unlock a paper craft and then that paper

craft goes to a website that you have and every

one of these paper crafts you actually unlock

in the game unlocks in this website through your

Media Molecule account And then you go on the

website and you have papercraft instructions

that you can print off of any of the characters

in the game. So then you can actually create

3D paper crafts of anything you've unlocked in

the game in the real world, which I thought was

an interesting kind of fun, quirky element to

the game. Also, the customization in the game

is ridiculous. I've seen many, many pictures

online where you can go in and take pieces of

cardboard pieces of construction paper in the

game and then cut them up and design them however

you want and then place them on your Iwata or

Iwata and He did some of the cool ones I've seen

online is I saw somebody who actually cut out

all the pieces to make Wolverine and Place them

all on the character. So it looks like Wolverine's

running around the game and there's just some

crazy crazy stuff you can Do and it's crazy customization

like you get in little big planet. It's one of

those things if you take the time and One of

with the time. It's like who had the creativity

to get this It's just endless Whatever you want

the game to be you can make it. It's so I mean

if you're in the little big planet it's like

a it's a Structured version of little big planet,

but with but with paper and more of an artsy

type of a game. I'd love to get Joe to play the

game. See, I'm kind of bummed Joe's not here

because I'm tossing around two portable the the

the idea of purchasing one of two portable games,

but, you know, probably end up buying both. One

of them was Tearaway, but I'm also mildly interested

in A Link Between Worlds. So Joe could have been

here to Talk you into it. You should be here

next week. So better be So I tear ways fantastic

if you Have a Vita. It's definitely a purchase

It's definitely something every Vito owner I

feel should own if you absolutely hate little

big planet And it's not a game you've ever liked

or played the game and you just hate it. And

what the fuck? What is wrong with you? Probably

that you won't. I don't think you would like.

I don't think you would like to tear away. You

have no soul. Yeah, and you have no soul because

if you can't find joy in a little big planet,

then there's something wrong with you. Especially

going through the vagina level. Exactly, because

the vagina level is awesome. The other game I

picked up for Vita is I picked up Black Gate,

which I know you've talked about. And I have

not put very much time into it, but I've only

done like the intro level. So far, I just got

to the prison. Okay. And, gotta say, it is way

prettier than I thought it was gonna be. Right?

I know! It's gorgeous. I was very surprised.

I did not know you got Black Gate. That makes

me happy. I got it for 20 bucks. So I Yeah, I'm

very pleased with it so far I'm excited to play

through it because I I enjoyed origins even though

the ending was kind of a meh, but uh, I I'm liking

it. So I I'm looking forward to playing through

that and On top of the fact this soul sacrifice

just went free to play which I also have downloaded

and I just started playing Hotline Miami also,

which is an incredibly gory puzzle game. That's

the best way I can describe it. You know, I really

want to start using my Vita more and I've used

the remote link on the PS4 remote link for it

a couple times. And I just bought a bigger memory

card for it too, so maybe that'll make me go

and use it. I do want to point out that Remote

Play with PS4 is okay, but whatever you do, do

not use your Vita to Remote Play multiplayer

online of Call of Duty Ghosts, because you will

die a lot. I can see that just from... Holy shit.

I can see that just from the limited number of

buttons. The limited number of buttons because

a lot of your melee I notice that your melee

gets connected to your touchscreen on the back

But it's the buttons the touch of buttons on

the back Let me think let me gather my thoughts

the touchscreen on the back gets divided up into

four touch buttons essentially in order to execute

It's there's four quadrants. It's upper left,

lower left, upper right, lower right. In order

to execute the buttons, you have to tap from

lower to upper in order to activate like melee.

So if I go to the bottom, essentially you have

to swipe up and you have to hit both sections.

So it's essentially so you don't accidentally

touch the back of your system and only hit it

in one spot and accidentally do something. It

has to be people accidentally knife all the time.

I know, but it's so you don't have those accidental

moves. I definitely in Battlefield 4, that was

how they had to divide it up with the melees.

You had to swipe the bottom and up into the top

quadrant in order to activate those buttons in

the back. I got killed so quickly in Ghost when

I was trying to play because the screen, there's

just so much information on such a tiny screen.

It's so hard to see people. That I was just,

ugh, it was bad. It was, oh god, I got just raped.

Terrible. I've enjoyed Rezogun and Need for Speed

Rivals on the Vita. Like the cross with the remote

play. Yeah. Anything else you want to add? Oh

god, no. I couldn't possibly talk about anything

else. Alright, Seanzy? Uh, yeah, I've been playing

a lot of Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag. Aw, crap,

I didn't even talk about Assassin's Creed. I

wasn't gonna bring it up because I figured I

was gonna talk about it, so you'd chime in when

I was talking about it. I'll chime in when you

talk about it. Because as far as I am aware,

the only difference between the current gen and

next gen is the graphics and smaller load times,

correct? There's no features that are different

that I'm aware of. except for the fact that the

map is completely touch screen. With the touchpad

on the PS4, I can use that to navigate my map

and then click on it to set my my markers on

my map. I do it on my I do it through the companion

app. So yeah, you could do you do the same thing

on the companion app. So you could just do it

on the PS4 controller. Well, I don't have to

bring up the map. It's always out. Don't have

I've heard about people disabling the HUD and

having it just display on a tablet while they

play Yeah, well, I haven't done that. I haven't

got rid of the whole thing. But like especially

like when I'm on the ocean I hate pausing to

look at the map to see where I have to go. Yeah

Well, so I can just do it which is cool, which

is which is one of my favorite Companion apps

to go with a video game so far easily Now I've

seen instantaneous. I've seen the first 20 minutes

of Assassin's Creed 4 like I know the first little

twist that happens What like are we gonna like

spoiler alert this or I don't want to spoil it

Wait are you talking how he's not an assassin

yes, that's that's a huge That's only the tip

of the iceberg. Yeah. But I mean, like that's,

well, I hate how they use that as an excuse to

get rid of the calling an assassin's mechanic,

which I love doing that. We looking at a garden

distance and hitting LB and just having a guy

jump at them. I miss that so much. I used to

have so much fun with that. Oh, you weren't using

it right. If you weren't having fun, sir. There's

nothing funnier than looking at one guy and hitting

LB so fast that eight assassins come out of nowhere.

Sounds like you're blowing your load all at once,

to be quite honest. How else do you blow your

load? Little by little? Be a man. He dribbles.

He dribbles, yeah. We've proven this. I'll leave

him wanting more. Yeah, Tanner, I'm sure they

always want more when they're there. They always

want more. It's because they haven't had enough.

But I've been having a lot of fun. Just I don't

know if you can speak to this. I have fun. Just

screw around the boat. I forget that I'm doing

missions all the time. It sounds like just oh,

God, it's it's devolved into something else for

me because it. When you first start out you're

in Havana and it feels so much like an Assassin's

game even though you're essentially this imposter

Yeah, and then when the story elements start

to drop and then the main motivation of what's

going on in the story happens I'm just like,

okay, I think I can get behind this but the moment

I get to the assassinate assassins game I have

put All of the money I have earned in the game

so far directly into my ship. I've done absolutely

nothing for Kenway himself, and I literally have

just gotten to the point. Any boat I come across,

I don't care what they have. I'm destroying them.

The only ones I have to stop and take pause for

a second is mana wars. I do have to think about

them, how I'm going to attack them. I can't just

run straight at them. Then I gotta think I should

soften up with mortars first before I get in.

I was gonna say any of the level one or level

four ships, all they literally do is steer directly

towards them and then run into them. Wait till

you get the, have you gotten any of the elite

upgrades yet? Not yet. When you have the ram

and the elite hull, if you ram into a boat, you

take zero damage. Nice. Doesn't matter how big

the boat is. You can run in the sun. Oh, it's

so good. Those little boat. Like I was trying

to I wanted to capture a gunboat just because

I don't know if it's possible because I killed

them too quick. I can't. For anyone not that

has played in order to capture a boat, you damage

it enough to has like its life bar and a little

part of its red. Once you get the damage down

to the red, the boat's dead in the water. It

can't move. It can't fight back. And you're allowed

to board it. I've gotten so good with the swivel

gun that I haven't actually boarded a ship in

days. Yeah. It depends on what the objectives

it gives you. When you get some of the bigger

ships, it changes them. Sometimes it'll be like,

oh, you have to destroy the flag. So you kind

of have to go over there. OK. Sometimes it'll

tell you to just kill so many guys. Like the

smaller boats that kill five guys, those I can

usually two or three swivel gun shots and they're

done. Just a powder keg Exactly, or you aim for

right behind the first mass of the floor. That's

where they spawn from. Yep So one or two shots

that are usually gets five guys, but sometimes

they'll give you random things like oh you have

to kill the captain You have to kill these two

Officers it makes you destroy the powder kegs.

It makes you destroy the flag. It makes you kill

The marksman that'll be up on the top of their

masts now I'm interested to see what you think

of this because well one of the guys I follow

on Twitter Made a comment today about how he

feels that Kenway is probably one is the has

the least amount of personality out of any assassin

since LTA I Was like I don't think that he has

no personality. I don't think that's what it

is. I think his motors are so straight forward

and blunt Yeah, he has no archery motives. Everything

he's doing is for the exact same effect. I'm

a pirate. I want money I'm a pirate. I want money

and I want to protect my fellow pirate. Yeah,

exactly I'm trying to save the world. Fuck the

world. Don't care. I can I have money ten minutes

into this game? I was like God I like him so

much more than I like Connor. Oh way way more

way more. Oh, yeah, like this like As soon as

I got out of the Havana and got into a ship,

every bad feeling I had about Assassin's three

was washed away. Oh, yeah, this is this is an

amazing and I I'm going to say it again. I called

this game way back when we played three when

I said they need to make the next one pirates

and assassins. I mean, it's black like I'm like,

I want royalties. I want all the monies. But

I don't know if you've had the same experience.

He doesn't feel as graceful in combat. I don't

know if that was done on purpose He doesn't feel

as graceful when he's traversing terrain either

because I don't know if that's done on purpose

or not Them saying he's not as nimble. He is

an assassin. He's just doing this stuff It's

kind of like the one mission where it's like

it tells you show us some of your assassin skills

Which I thought was really funny like, okay Well,

if you stand around long enough Uh, they will

tell you what they're expecting you to do. That

was hilarious. Oh yeah. They're like, Oh, why

don't you show us what happens if you run out

the guy and stab him and he's like, okay. Yeah.

That, that entire sequence was pretty funny,

but I'm having a huge amount of fun and I'm not

having the same issue that I was with Connor

with Connor. As soon as I got the, um, Assassin

Tomahawk. I never switched weapons. Yeah, I never

switched weapons. This game, I find myself going

for the hidden blades, to the blowpipe, to the

dual swords, and I so want to get the gun blades.

Oh, so bad. I know, the gun blades look badass.

Have you seen any of the videos of the takedowns

or whatever with them? Don't want to see him.

I wouldn't experience it for myself. I saw like

two of them and I stopped at Mike. No, that's

awesome. I've even got a way to get a complete

every assassin's contract in the game. I haven't

even which sucks because I've already blown one

of the contracts. You can you can go back and

do them. If you if you fuck it up and the guy

runs away, you just like have to wait a day and

come back. I didn't pick it up. I didn't fuck

it up. I accidentally blew up his ship that he

was on. I was supposed to wait for him to get

off at the plantation. Oh, yeah, you just have

to wait for it to reset. Council is a failure.

Just have to wait for it to reset. Sons of bitches.

Yeah, I haven't even gotten far enough in the

storyline to actually get the blowgun yet. The

blowgun is fun. You get two kinds of darts with

it. You get if anybody's watching the videos,

you get. Berserker darts, which think of poison

from assassins too. It's well the blowgun is

something from liberation because Because yeah,

there's poison darts and then there's these in

raging darts which basically make the guy go

crazy and he kills everybody who's around him

typically Yeah, and then after a timer goes up

he dies Yup. And then there's also sleeping darts,

which is an interesting new mechanic of long

distance non -lethal takedowns. Because when

you hit him, he like he goes dozy for a second

and falls asleep. It doesn't seem very piratey

to make people go to sleep. No, but then you

could walk up to him and there's a timer and

you could hit X sort of to knock him out. You

basically just kick him in the side of the head

and knocks him out, but he's still alive. I find

myself so many times kicking him again just to

kill him. I don't have to. He's not getting back

up, but I'm gonna do it anyways. And probably

the swords, the dual cutlasses, has some of the

most gruesome finishers I've ever seen. I don't

know how many times I've stabbed dudes to the

face. It's so messed up. It's been pretty awesome

though. Oh, yeah, it's definitely awesome There's

times where it's like oh that guy really I probably

could have just made friends with him, but oh

well stabby stab stab And have you have you gotten

to the part where you can actually recruit ships

Nope, not yet. That's also amazing ships whenever

you're attacking a ship you any ship you can

just look at when you're on your boat and I'm

like I'll attack that one and it's always better

to board it than to destroy it because you get

way more resources which are actually important

in the game it they didn't they made the um economic

stuff work out so much better that it's not it's

not like the third one it's like we got to build

a naval you got to build a convoy then you got

to fill in stuff you have to send it here you

have to go protect it It's not like that at all.

It's more like sending assassins to do contracts.

It's real simple. You have two mechanics when

you go into your fleet. You can battle in an

area to make that area safer for your boats.

And then you can send them on trade runs. And

it actually depends on what, like if you send

a big heavily armored ship, it can carry way

more product. But it goes slower In the actual

in -game timer which can be several hours in

the real world Will get bigger if you use a bigger

ship that's slower And if you use a small quick

ship you can only use it on some missions because

it's carrying capacity is really low But it can

get it done faster So and once you send it on

a mission you can't use that to then attack and

make a different area safe because it's gone

And there's no way to cancel it. Once it's gone

on a trade run, that ship is gone for however

long it takes it. And the way you get these ships

is when you board a ship, you're given three

options. You can either destroy the ship and

use it to repair your own ship, which is the,

I think that's the first. That's the first option.

First, the first option. Then second option is

to lower your wanted level. Cause you have like,

it looks like two cutlasses cross, like basically

the bottom part of a Jolly Roger is simple. Just

the two cutlasses. And when that, it slowly fills

up red as you attack more and more boats. You

know, as you pirate more. Once it fills up, ships

will actively start hunting you. They will go

out of their way. Like if you can't hide anywhere,

they will, they will come for you. There's a

pirate hunter class ships. Yeah, they, they're.

They're fast. I don't know if they're faster

than you, but they're pretty fast. They're not

easy to outrun. They're not particularly powerful,

but sometimes if they will come in like twos,

which it makes a little trickier, you got to

pay more attention what you're doing. So you

can use it when you board a ship, you can use

it to you. Basically, I don't I'm not sure what

it is. I think you're telling him you're making

friends. You're making nice, nice with whoever

the captain was. And he's making it. He's making

the Ristia. I don't know what you want to call

it the Negative awareness go away Yeah, and the

third you're bringing them on to join your crew

is what yeah It's like you're the survivors.

Yeah, well you always take the survivors you

always take people But it's like this one you

let the ship go kind of you're like hey, we're

not gonna kill you But you don't say shit to

anybody kind of thing we're taking your cargo,

but whatever you're gonna live And the third

option is, is the ship becomes your own. You

send it off to your your your fleet and you grow

your ranks and you can look at the ship and see

what level it is. And that's exactly the ship

you're going to get in. Your fleet. And you can

replace ships at any time, so it's not like,

oh, I got this shitty ship at the beginning of

the game. I want a better one. You can always

replace and get rid of it. But it's just it's

really cool to be like, oh, that ship so bad

ass. I want it to be mine. Although I haven't

tried taking on legendary ships yet, because

those things look hard. In the world, there's

in each corner, in the in the corners of the

map, in the two or the four corners, there's

legendary ships. I don't know if they probably

are actual historical ships. I don't know. I

haven't seen one yet. They're all more armored

than you there. I ran into one and as soon as

it happened, the entire map filled with fog.

So I couldn't see. So I was like, Jesus, I'm

running. I just left because I was like, I was

like, I was down on health. There was no way

for me to heal. There's no ships around me to

to attack so I could get my health up. So I just

ran. Sometimes that's the only thing you can

do. I was freaked out. I didn't have any of my

special M .O. types. I'd have any more than have

any heavy shot. Didn't have any fight fire barrels

nothing. I was like if I attacked him I would

have died and I forget you get something for

killing all of them I forget what it is you get

a huge chunk of money first of all you can't

capture the ship If your actual character your

boat can hit the ship whatever, but if your actual

character touches if you die instantly There's

no way to board the ship But uh yeah, they're

they're like this huge hulking. They're basically

four boss fights in the water spread around They're

like the um they sound like the oh Help me out

here Danner Final Fantasy 7 The ultimate weapons

the weapons yeah, yeah, that's essentially what

they are they're different They have different

play styles like I guess there's one that it's

it's really fast So what it'll try to do is as

soon as it sees you it'll turn around try to

book it So that you have to get like close enough

to hit it to with your change shot, which is

there you can shoot forwards You couldn't do

that in the last on the water with the last eventually

you get the Rear cannons as well, too. I haven't

a lock them yet, but do I haven't got I I've

seen ships with rear cannons other ships do certainly

but I don't I don't think we can oh Jack don't

can there's gotta be a way Just use the mortars,

dude. You have a way to fire out your ass. It's

called Taco Bell, dude. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. But

yeah, it's. This is easily the most fun I've

had with assassins since probably Brotherhood.

And the non game stuff is actually kind of cool,

the non in the in the. simulation stuff. It's

different. I mean, I don't know if that banner

played. You've played liberation. Is it more

like the stuff from liberation? There was no

out of game thing in liberation. OK. Well, it's

you're a designer. That works for animus studios

or whatever your game developing or working at.

Yeah. Developing a pirate game. Yeah. Which it's

actually and you its first person. so you're

just nameless drone and you can go around hacking

everybody's terminals and find out pieces of

what's going on and Within like three seconds

of you actually doing that part of the game you

walk up and you see a courier dropping off a

package and you see somebody working out like

a Some kind of food stand and the dude working

at the food stand is the English -speaking guy

from Desmond's team And the courier is the little

Asian chick who does all the tech stuff I don't

know if they come back later in the game or not

Well, there's a I'm assuming there's a much deeper

thing going on and yeah that whole thing That's

what I'm interested to find out. Oh, yeah, it's

kind of It's interesting. It's It's definitely

refreshing. Where are you? Are you playing the

game yesterday? Was I playing yesterday? No,

why? Because they had the scroll at the bottom

saying that today is the anniversary of the day

that Desmond Miles sacrificed himself for humanity

Really? Yep. That's cool Which I thought that

was kind of neat. It's kind of cool that it's

well, I'm assuming that's only to people that

have Internet connection and you play accounts

well anyone if you don't have the internet you

can't do the You play stuff you play stuff and

I don't think you can do the the Kenways fleet

either. No, you can't yeah, that's only online

Which is kind of weird Man if me and Dan were

playing on the same system I could go into I

could see his boats and make his boats speed

up and heal his boats For him while they're doing

their runs But we're not cuz you suck Yeah, but

I get paid decent money to do it so Then why

can't you afford a PlayStation 4? Oh shut up?

I've been doing that I've been plans. I've been

playing more GT GTA 5 online stuff Still waiting

for goddamn heists. Oh That's so annoying and

I finally beat it took me forever, but I finally

beat Diablo 3 God that took me forever. I Allen

I have Sidelined that as we wait for the ps4

version because we found out that they're going

to allow you to import your character That's

cool Plus the doesn't I don't know if it comes

with it by default, but doesn't it that it's

gonna have the expansion, right? Yep. Yep I don't

know if you I don't know if that's like a different

version if there's a Diablo 3 and the Diablo

3 Awakening I can't remember what it's called.

No, it's it's it's gonna be like there's like

called like ultimate collectors edition or ultimate

dungeon or some weird ultimate edition and it

has the the game and the expansion and Some of

the other neat things is they've promised 1080p

and 60 frames a second So it should look a lot

better than it than it did Yes, it's that was

fun it was Very triumphant. We're feeling at

the end. I don't know. It's just weird Look I

had a moment at the end was like yeah, I got

him All right, uh So what have you been doing?

Well, like Danner, I have been playing with my

PlayStation 4. That's his nickname for his penis,

ladies and gentlemen. Yes, it is. I will admit

also, I agree with Danner that the launch games

for the PS4 have been or they've left me kind

of wanting. But I don't know that I kind of came

to the realization the other day that I'm a little

more. Bummed about watchdogs missing the launch

window than I thought I would be That's what's

kind of put me my you know, my ass on in gear

if you will From getting a PlayStation. That's

that's completely understandable. I We own my

wife when I own Assassin's Creed 4 she's just

playing it right now and I refuse to play it

until she's done with it but what that leaves

me with is three games that have a very heavy

online component and if I'm not playing them

online like I'm not playing online with like

friends I don't really care to play and so then

I sit there going man I should really just play

something I bought this thing I should just play

something and then I sit down to play it and

I don't have as much fun as when I um sit down

and actually play like ghosts or or something

like that with with Danner um There isn't that

single -player game that I can actually sink

my teeth into and I was like I wish I really

wish Watch Dogs had been a launch title And I

know what makes me really sad is I don't think

there will be Anything like that until March

with Second Son But you know, I I'm enjoying

it I feel like I've noticed in the comments there

aren't a whole lot of they don't seem to be a

whole lot of PC evangelists in our comments Which

makes it kind of a lot easier to talk about console

gaming in general but I will say There's a lot

of stuff that I'm Regularly impressed by what

the ps4 can do just from like a software hardware

standpoint that I think we said it In the last

episode, like in the Giant Size episode, it's

like there's things that you don't realize are

missing until you actually have them. I thought

for the longest time that the 360 and the PS3,

I thought they were great. And I thought that

they were fairly snappy and all this other stuff.

And that was just how it was. But this current

generation just completely opens your... opens

up your eyes to how things should be, especially

like going forward. Like, what was it the other

day? We were playing Ghosts and for some reason

it all of a sudden decided to prompt us that

we didn't have the map pack installed. So Daner

and I, you know, you hit the guide button, you

pop out to the dashboard, you hop into the store,

you go and find the content, the map pack to

download it. You start downloading it, you jump

back in the game. And it doesn't stop the download

in the background. And the game never stopped

running while we jumped out and went to the store

and said, download this. And it as soon as it

was done, you got the notification says it's

done. And then you got another notification says

it was installed. Now, I don't know if we could

have kept playing the game and the map would

have just come into rotation. So we just kind

of as soon as we got those notifications, we

quit out to the dashboard and just from default.

Yeah, and went back in. That's how you've played

forever. Yeah. So I don't know if the map would

have come into rotation that way, but just that

simple act of being able to go do something else

while a game is running, it still kind of blows

my mind a little bit that that kind of stuff

can that we can do that stuff now. And my only

fear is, is this going to shorten the lifespan

of the system? No, because it's all software

based. It's just stuff. It's not like an extra.

It's not extra wear on the hardware. It's not

like the CD drives constantly spinning or anything

like that. It's just like you're using your computer.

You just, you know, jump out. I don't think it's

going to. I don't see it having any kind of negative

impact on it. That's what I hope not. I really

don't see how I really don't see how it could.

It's not like I mean. Yeah, sure, a Windows computer

gets slower the longer you have it, but. I don't

know I don't see that being an issue with the

with the consoles I will say there's a I've been

reading a lot of like the Xbox One stuff that's

because that was released on the 22nd and you

know hearing this that and the other thing I

hear a lot of people getting really excited about

the ability to snap apps to the side of your

screen while you're playing a game or watching

TV through it and for me that just I don't know

that's not something that I want Well, you know,

there's people that want to see their Facebook

at the top of the screen or whatever the entire

time and I understand that there's always gonna

be those people I don't understand those people

that want that but that's just like not That

that's not a feature that interests me and that

just goes back to the message of the PlayStation

4 has been about games from the very beginning

it's been about games and The Xbox one has been

about everything but games And it's just it's

just weird I mean it it feels like a flip the

PlayStation 3 when it came out felt like it was

an entertainment system that also played games

and the Xbox was an Xbox or Xbox was a game system

that they Eventually added all this other stuff

to and this one. They almost feel flipped Yeah,

the whole PlayStation seems very more game centric

And let's just talk about the paint. I still

can't believe what Xbox did what two days before

their release Where they told people all you're

not gonna be able to do the streaming Yeah, but

that's coming I mean it's coming but you two

days before this like They knew well before that

that it wasn't gonna be in the launch You'd like

a week's notice nothing two days That just seems

like really just assholish behavior well, I've

heard that I I Read an article that some people

were kind of I know there's people that are making

a list of all their complaints with like the

Xbox one And Microsoft has seen the list and

they said that they're going to address the the

issues that people are having and stuff like

that But there was a follow -up with that article

about Saying That the Xbox one was six months

behind like the The OS was six months behind

where Microsoft wanted it to be. And to me, that

sounds like they released another Wii U. OK,

we're going to release all this stuff. Eventually

it will. Yeah. And instead of waiting until it

was fully baked, they were just kind of like,

well, now we've got to get it out the door. So

here it is. And all this stuff will come later.

And that's not to say that Sony hasn't done the

same thing. There was there was some features

that Sony Said was gonna think they don't have

the suspend resume stuff yet That's absent from

the system and Some other things are absent.

I can't remember what they are but For the most

part anything that has to do with gaming like

works like the live streaming works the posting

videos to Facebook works That said there are

some things like the Xbox one actually allows

you to Allows you to actually save your video

footage to the cloud so you can actually pull

it out and edit it yourself on your computer

where I Don't there isn't a way to remove your

recorded videos from the PlayStation 4 right

now. You have to edit them all from inside the

inside the system itself But that's fine. I'm

pretty sure they'll end up just like last generation.

They'll end up with some feature parity there,

but Was really happy when I started doing the

streaming I did find out that you could turn

off the There's a sort of like it does this picture

-in -picture kind of thing Where the right side

of your screen is? Like your twitch comments

so you can actually see what people are saying

to you while you're playing the game That's kind

of cool. It is but at the same time when I first

when I first set it up I was kind of like I don't

I wouldn't want to play a game like this Luckily

they There's you can disable that so you can

get the entire screen to yourself While twitch

is still running So and I honestly I think the

twitch integration is probably my favorite thing

so far. I remember I woke up on Thanksgiving

I got up earlier than than my wife did and I

was just kind of like, you know, I don't really

I don't feel like playing anything because Like

I said a lot of the games I have are all multiplayer

based and nobody was able to play at that time

So I was like, I don't really feel like watching

anything or playing anything, but I'll see if

anyone's actually playing anything. So I went

on to Twitch, on the Twitch website of my computer,

and I started watching some guys playing Need

for Speed. And he was playing it on the PS4 and

he was inviting people to come play with him

because he was like in a private room by himself.

So I was I sent him a message in the chat. I

said hey, I can you know, I'm booting mine up

right now I'll come play with you and he I sent

him an invite and like a real name request and

I jumped in his game and we played around for

like a couple hours it was really interesting

to see like another way of Like social interaction

like you don't just have to meet people in the

game It's like another way to meet people that

are playing the same game as you Yeah, you can

beat him on twitch or whatever bit. I'll join

your game. Sure. Yeah, exactly And we pussed

around on that for a little while. I'm friends

with him. I met another guy on there, too, that

jumped in from his live stream. Look at you making

friends. So and these are actually the first.

It's the first. It's like watching a little kid

go off to school the first day and coming home

saying how we met all these new friends. It's

the first set of new people I've added on either

platform since like 2009. Yeah. That's that I

haven't had any interaction with them outside

of that I've accidentally sent one of them an

invite to play Call of Duty with Dan or and I

the other day If you're listening dickhead sorry

that I called you a dickhead Need for Speed rivals

is another one of my the games and I'm actually

enjoying right now. It's kind of this amalgamation

between Need for Speed hot pursuit and burnout

paradise Where it's entirely open world and they

give you like Stunts to do and they want you

to go off like big jumps and do all these crazy

things I've been having a lot of fun with that

and I they have You guys talked about how you

know Assassin's Creed has the tablet integration

And battlefield 4 also has the tablet integration.

There's they also have that for me for speed.

It's called overwatch and you can when you log

on you see like the entire map and you can see

your friends as they're driving around and it

tells you what they're doing like are they in

a chase are they pursuing somebody and you can

target them and you can do certain things like

you can either you can repair their car for them

or you can refill their boost Or you can be a

dick and remove some of their special abilities.

Oh, that sounds good. You control your friends.

Well, you can. But you can also. It's not necessarily

just your friends either. Like yesterday when

I was at work, nobody was playing, but I could

still see other people that were playing the

game. So I was kind of like, well, I'm going

to take away some of your power ups and I'm going

to give them to this guy over here. I was just

like dinking around with it. And eventually you

level up enough to where you can get. Like you

can call in roadblocks and helicopters to help

out your friends Those are really but the whole

system it it's really weird because it's the

app functions the same way that Like the free

-to -play games do where it's you have to spend

30 minutes You have to give up 30 minutes of

your time to earn more fuel because you spend

fuel to like repair someone's car or any of those

special abilities, they all cost a certain amount

of fuel points. And eventually you end up either

at the level up to refill your fuel gauge all

the way or you have to do side missions that

take you out of the action for about 30 minutes

and then they give you like 25 fuel points. So

it's kind of a bummer that they limit you that

way, especially when there's no way It's weird

that they have that in there when there's no

way for you to like buy fuel. Like it's the free.

It's the freemium model, but without any without

the ability to pay for anything. So it's like

you have to wait for it. Is there a way around

it? Nope. Yeah, exactly. And actually bringing

up the freemium and the free to play model. Dan

and I have been talking about this when we've

been playing Call of Duty Ghosts. I would not

be surprised if. Like. Treyarch's Call of Duty

or the next one after that has some sort of freemium

model to it The I don't know if black ops 2 had

this but they introduced squad points into Into

ghosts so what happens is you as you do certain

things through like either leveling up or Accomplishing

certain challenges and stuff like that You gain

not only do you level up through this stuff,

but you also gain squad points and Squad points

are used kind of like the money was in black

ops where you can Like unlock your guns or your

attachments. Okay, so you don't need to level

up to use the guns You can just buy them with

squad points Now where I think the freemium model

comes into play is when you go to pick your perks

The perks are either unlocked through like leveling

If you level up, you can unlock a perk or you

can unlock a perk early by spending squad points

for it. So I can totally see them. Like I feel

like on a subconscious level, they're tracking

all that and on a subconscious level, but I feel

like they're they're tracking all the information

to see like who's willing to buy stuff early

rather than earning it. To see if they can like.

Assign like a real -world currency to those squad

points and so like instead of earning them through

play, maybe you pay $5 for like 50 squad points

or something like that And I know that sounds

like a lot but I'm just like throwing I'm just

throwing numbers out there for like the next

game like, you know You spend five bucks you

get 50 squad points and then you can you know

You can unlock all the stuff that you want right

from the get -go I I feel like something like

that is coming because again, it's like half

of a freemium model But I don't know I'm really

enjoying the system. I'm looking forward to What's

coming though? Definitely? Definitely looking

forward to a second son So Does anyone else have

anything they want to add? Today, um Old man,

they'd go change his cloth to me back. No, whatever

so Interesting thing, I didn't realize this until

I saw this online. So, Titanfall is supposed

to release in March. And that's a respawn game.

Arthur Geese from Rebel FM and Polygon tweeted

out that it would be kind of a dick move for

Activision to start the Destiny beta. The same

weekend? Yeah. That's what I would do Why not?

I mean they could I am looking forward to destiny

that seems gonna be good So if anybody wants

to buy me a next -gen system for Christmas I

think you're on your own for that one Sorry The

viewers don't like you that much If you buy me

one I will kill myself by next Christmas there

There is incentive for everybody listening All

right. So you buy me both systems. I'll do it

on the on air. I'll throw in some money. A lot

of money. So before we start rambling on and

starting like a bunch of old coots, it's that

time of year again where we're going to start

compiling our 2013 game of the year lists. We

would like to invite all the listeners to participate.

much the same way they did with the Game of the

Generation award. The way we do it is all the

hosts here will make a list. It will include

the top five games of the generation or not generation,

but of 2013. We've already done the generation

thing. Yeah, it'll be the top five games of 2013

that you've actually played and we'll give all

that information to Danner and he will pick.

whichever one is most frequent is the one that

will probably end up being the game of the year.

We'll do it a little bit differently this time

and put them in one through five in the order

number one being your favorite five being your

least well I mean they're all your favorite of

the year but one's the best. Five is the lowest

and I'll compile points based on the rankings

you give it also. So it's a little more even

keel wins. Oh, my. No. What am I? Let's put it

this way. When you choose your game, that's number

one. I'll give your number one game five points.

Oh, good. That's not going to confuse me at all.

Number two game is going to get four, four, three.

You'll get three. Two will get I'm sorry. Four

will get to get one. And then Regardless rank

them in the rank the ranking matters. Let's put

it that way. Okay them and the ranking matters

All right, so top five games and the ranking

matters It sounds like you're going to do what

they did for for the two for what they did for

the 100 top 100. So, okay. Yeah. All right So

that's how he was gonna do what they did on like

whose line is in any way where the shows made

up of the points don't matter Like we'll pick

whatever we want. I'll pick whatever I want to

win. All right now I'm gonna start a grassroots

campaign to get Saints Row for the best game

of the year Game of the year. I'll start making

We don't allow reskinned games from last year

to be a participant in this year's game of the

year Anyways So yeah, that's how that's that's

how that's gonna go if you would like to submit

your list or Just talk with us about the PlayStation

stuff here You can get in touch with us You can

comment on our parent site at GeekCastRadio .com

or you can send emails to us at feedback at GeekCastRadio

.com If you're sending in your game of the year

submission, just put off the cuff game of the

year And in the subject line and send that over

to feedback at geek cast radio comm You can find

myself Michael powers on Twitter and on the PlayStation

Network at booth ninja 81 If you're on the PlayStation

4 and you friend me up, I will send you back

a real name request because that's just awesome

Danner you can find me on Twitter. I'll sleep

our Danner and You can find me on PlayStation

Network at x51 the machine man Shonzi I've been

Shonzi around which is always better than dinner.

Um, you can find me on Twitter at Shonzi Brown

You can find me on Xbox live still And by yourself

weapon 80 so I'm holding strong man. I'm holding

strong somebody's got to carry that Xbox George

All right, Danner do we have a We are and we're

missing co -host this week. How about we talk

about him? Give him give his stuff other Joe

Reed We don't give yours when you're not around.

Yeah, I'm you do so you you you you acknowledge

my absence I Acknowledge Joe's absence. I said

he wasn't here to talk about link to the past.

We know how happy we are that you weren't here

Miss Joe though, but I got I got my Joe fix yesterday.

So alright, so that's it for off the cuff episode

38 until next week I am the great mighty poo

and I'm going to throw my shit at you I'm so

good. I didn't have to say it. I would have started

laughing and peed my pants by the time I said

shit He called the poop shit He called the poo

shit When you're right you're right And when

you're I know the man I'm when I'm wrong, I'm

usually awake Anytime I'm breathing when you're

wrong Okay You're Saints Row 4. Wait till you

see what my game of the year is gonna be. Saints

Row 4? And you will never be allowed on this

podcast again. I'll send flaming dogs to your

guys' houses. Alright. Here we go. Can you find

me a sign off boat, Dan? I'm working on it. We're

not doing any viewer feedback. No. Screw those

people. No question this week. Nah. I'm feeling

kind of lazy. Yeah, you sound lazy. He's like,

hmm, I could. We're gonna finish this up and

go play that play stage. Something like that.

You sound like a sad panda. Me? Yeah. I took

a decongestant earlier. Better than a sexual

harassment panda. Sexual harassment panda. Daner

has two presents on the way to his house. Yeah.

Oh, I know what that means. Ooh, John is off

buying me for speed. I got a good one for - No

god, I can't believe that I just looked at it.

What is this from? Conker's bed for a day? The

giant poo monster? Come on, you don't remember

that? How do you not remember that? I played

the multiplayer where it was just some guy running

around. Yeah, it was like axis versus Teddy bears.

Yeah, but still how have you not heard of this?