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here we go here goes wait look up. Hey soul sister.

I'm totally I'll be right back you guys talk

amongst yourself Stereo the way the way you move

ain't a failure by the way I've already hit the

record button so anything you say will be used

against me a court of law Well, then I have to

wait for the time that I was actually gonna play

cuz I can actually sing to one Why aren't I using

my efforts to learn video game songs? I don't

know. Let's go find some prescription for your

Herpes meds or what? Yes, only they're not herpes.

They're nasal asthma preventive Nasal spray nasal

herpes got it nasal herpes. Yes. I Was sniffing

your mom's crotch and I caught nasal herpes.

Oh my god That's the first time you've ever burned

me. Oh, no, it's not. Oh, I've never said anything

about my mother before. I like where your head's

at. Oh, wait, is our other call is on hold? I

don't know what. I think our old call is probably

on hold somewhere. Yeah. Hold on. I should be

able to end it. There they just send on your

side, too. Yeah. OK. What are you ending? Me

and Joe were calling it was on hold so I didn't

want to fuck up anything so I Ended it. We're

still recording good on your end, right? Yeah

La la la la you missed it Joe fucking Basically

said of your mama joke I like your mama jokes.

It's hard to dive in on those when my students

are telling them because I want to I've seen

your mother's crotch. It's easy to dive into

that Alright, I just found a whole bunch of video

game ukulele tabs. Find a song that I actually

know. There's gotta be some. Can't you do an

Akureto time song? It's it's hard cuz I can't

um Oh gosh, that's crazy a lot of them are finger

-picking and I can I've only really figured out

how to do chords. So I'm kind of I'm kind of

lost. Excuse me I'm looking online. It's so depressing

a lot of Xbox ones have game bundle ones You

know where it's like you get it with two controllers

and I game whatever yeah place since the only

one I'm really seeing a bundle with is like NBA

2k14 you know why because there's not a lot of

good games out right now for I know it's because

the The ps4 is out selling the Xbox one so companies

are trying to move their Xbox one stock Okay,

that makes sense Because they're just sitting

there on the shelf so there's a lot of retailers

that are doing like $50 back if you or a free

game if you buy a Xbox one it's because they're

trying to move the console because I'm looking

at what I'm gonna go when I get X it should be

within a week Hi, I'm giving you a kiss Maybe

someday you could join us on the podcast. Maybe

when we when you and I start playing Mario Brothers

together In two more years you and I are gonna

play Mario Brothers together Oliver Oliver say

hi to everybody Oliver say hi to everybody. Hi.

Hi Say hello to our hello. Hello off the cuff

listeners say let's try that one more time hello

off the cuff listeners can you get him to say

hello and welcome to off the cuff can you say

hello and welcome to off the cuff off the cuff

off the cuff hello Hello and welcome to off the

cuff Welcome to off We got it That may be the

cutest thing I want to use that in the beginning

over Daner's intro or at the end as a sit boo

-boo sit Oh, man, is there any way to pull that

file? and save it for other things. That could

be our sit boo boo set for the end of it. I was,

that's what I was thinking. I can do that. For

like, like for future episodes. Yeah. That'd

be so good. Or put it like maybe put it right

after the intro music. I'm either thinking of

replacing Danner's intro tonight with it or just

using it as the sit boo boo sit at the end. So

I gotta ask, are we waiting until we're actually

In the swing thing is talk about Guardians of

the Galaxy or we'll talk about it here. Just

one second. Okay, cuz yeah Hello, hi, you're

not set up. Are you? That's the intro to the

Mario Brothers underworld underwater theme That's

all I got. I did. I just thought you were plucking

things. I didn't even. You missed the most adorable

thing that has ever happened on the show. Well,

don't say it because then Dan will just try it

out and do them. I'm not going to say what it

was. He will know afterwards. I need to grab

a drink of water and take my pills real quick

and I'll be right back. Well, you don't die I

love we're all getting like we're all getting

high before we record Flonase boys One one of

these days I'm gonna get properly drunk for this

I Don't understand why that's not a an every

week occurrence. I guess you don't know you think

I'm bad now I'm an alcoholist Are you mm -hmm?

I get touchy with lots of people I touch indiscriminately

when I start drinking so when am I coming over?

Never I think of you playing that ukulele is

the song from 51states that Adam Sandler plays.

Yeah, I don't even know it. Forgetful Lucy. She's

got a nice caboosey. OK, that's enough of that.

I'm torn between getting plants versus zombies

garden warfare on the 360 or the Xbox one. Well,

you get 360. I can play with you. Again, I know

but you got an Xbox one to be playing by yourself.

I know Normally, I would say that's a problem

except I've enjoyed I've enjoyed Titanfall of

like the last week by myself So I Don't like

online games unless I'm playing with my friends

But that's just cuz I don't like being spanked

by strangers and I never felt like I was You

guys have your predictions ready to go for tonight

I do I have two maybe a third one it depends.

I'll go last Okay, I Forgot what we're predicting.

I'm gonna go look at the notes. It's just the

year for 2014 because what I want to do is is

you know We're gonna do the predictions tonight,

and I'm gonna we're gonna write. I'm gonna write

them down And we'll see who had their predictions

come true at the end of the year Sweet What the

off the a cough awards no best predicting. Who

can predict the future? Future, future, future.

I'm usually good at that sort of thing with video

games, except I don't know what's going on enough

with the Xbox One and PS4 to have a clue. What

the hell was that? That was a broken up. Because

that's what it sounded like. I'm like, dude,

fucking breathe. Don't don't hog past that shit.

How long does it take to get a glass of water

in Daner's house? Or is he trying to get it from

his ceiling? Oh I heard I saw that thing I saw

that post that's gotta suck Never or is the finally

just started did you hear what I said? He said

how long does it take to get a glass of water

unless you're a less of course ceiling I'm sorry,

I can't hear you over the ukulele. So how long

does it take you to get a glass of water unless

of course you're getting it from the ceiling?

That's funny. You think it's funny if it wasn't

my house that's falling apart. No, I gotta hold

the Janelle. So now I have one other question

before we start. You're using you're going through

the Nessie right now right for your microphone.

Yeah, okay. Just doesn't sound like it usually

does Is this better oh, that's so much better.

Oh wow Just a little bit good don't be weird

Mike what? So I finished all of the Ultimates

up through the Requiem's for Ultimatum tonight.

Okay, I have to all I have to read is Cataclysm

and then I'm done with it. I was gonna say I

read the first three issues of Spider -Man post

Requiem and it's just so goofy that I don't know

if I even want to read it anymore. Here's what's

interesting about that. It starts to feel a lot

like the 616 universe does. Yeah. In that the

coherency that they had up to Ultimatum is kind

of gone. And like the big events, you don't see

them coming from a long ways away anymore. They

just kind of happen. Yes. And it's very disappointing.

Even Cataclysm just kind of happens. So, and

you don't really need to read all of Age of Ultron

to get Cataclysm. So. Okay. Because it. It really

has, you can actually just read the, it's like

Ultimate Hunger or something like that. And like

the little description in the beginning of Ultimate

Hunger, it actually explains to you the setup

for what happened in Age of Ultron that causes

Cataclysm to happen. So it was kind of I was

kind of like, I just wasted my time. So. Yeah,

I think I'm moving on to I'm either going to

read the entire run of X Factor next or. I'm

going to read. The brightest day, darkest night.

Tonight, I just downloaded the original Guardians

of the Galaxy. You mean Blackest Night? Yeah,

like whatever like it's stupid DC thing with

the lanterns. Oh, it's you think stupid. It's

so good Joe went and did it he brought up Guardians

of the Galaxy you now the original run like the

old -school 1980s run that I think that runs

1960s some of the characters started showing

up in the 80s, but the Origin of all the new

Guardians of the Galaxy movies based on started

in 08. Yeah, there's the new series that's going

on right now That's been Bendis is writing that

I am reading currently because the issues are

coming out but 1 through 25 downloaded Guardians

of the Galaxy to kind of That cuz that trailer

was amazing. Yes, so good. I can't believe how

much I love me So they're just a bunch of assholes.

Yeah, my favorite part is like, because when

I always thought of the character Star Lord,

I'm like, that's the dumbest fucking name. When

it's like Star Lord, who calls him that? Mostly

just himself. That is. Yeah, that was a very

surprising trailer. I didn't have I had no negative

thoughts about Guardians of the Galaxy only because

I didn't know what to expect going in. And yeah,

I didn't know. I'm going to get over how good

it looks. Yes, I'm still waiting did the atmosphere

isn't just everything look yeah It looked like

if a firefly and fire escape had a baby. Yeah,

I yeah cuz I reminded me a lot of Serenity. Oh,

yeah, totally. That's that's Captain Mal right

there But did he say did? Did you we hear Vin

Diesel's voice at all no no no that is still

gonna be problem with me Is that I did you just

your Bradley Cooper either? I don't think I think

you heard him so but that's about it Yeah, and

they really here. What's his name Drax the Destroyer

either Batista there? I actually the only person

you really heard talking was uh, what was the

only one you heard and John C Reilly? Yeah, I'm

a giant high sue, but like I get that. He only

says Groot But it's it's I just hope it doesn't

sound like a disembodied voice. It's got to sound

like it's actually coming from him. That's the

one that's the one problem I always have with

some CG characters do it well and some don't

when it's just a voice. And if it doesn't sound

like it's coming from him, I think it'll be further

to grew is is Rockets live in muscle slash house

plant. Yeah, I love it. So good. There's Also,

love the I'm sorry. I don't know how to work

this piece of machinery It took me a second.

I didn't see what he was doing. I just saw his

hands are moving I was paying attention and I

saw the blur box like that is awesome So there's

also in there was Ronan the accuser Also for

a split second collector from the end of four

yep, yeah, yeah Mean, how big is he supposed

to be in this? Well, it's all it's about the

infinity gems. I think yeah. Well, no, it's about

from what I from what I heard This is gonna add

one more. So there's the tesseract. There's the

What they call it and fucking door. I can't remember

Chaos or something like that. Whatever. Yeah

that one and this is supposed to be another one

somehow they're gonna get possession of it and

that's the movie is Well them doing something

with it. I don't know who they're running from

or running to. I don't know. Ronan the Accuser.

Ronan works for. It's holding true the comic

book. Ronan works for Thanos. Yeah. And Gamora

is Thanos' daughter, isn't she? That's what I

thought I heard in the Bendis run. See, I don't

know. I'm not familiar with Guardians of the

Galaxy. I'll report back and find out. One thing

where they showed us still of the ship flying

away. First of all, the ship looks really cool.

Like a space. I saw the Lego version of the ship

before I saw the. Yeah, well, me too. Well, I

mean, like there's still and they were showing

a picture of it over top of a planet saying that

that's the Nova planet of the planet of the Nova

Corp. So I don't know if they're going to know.

And the John C. Reilly and the guys that are

processing are Nova Corps. Yeah. The police of

the galaxy are the Nova Corps. Yeah Which I'm

slightly disappointed that Nova's not in the

movie, but I'll get over it. Do we know for a

fact that he's not in the movie? That's what

I'm saying is that he may be the special like

at the end of the movie type thing Where it's

like he shows up and it's like what the hell

happened guys. Has anyone else said that Fox

still has silver server? No, like until there's

until I see a movie with really isn't it until

I see like a plot line for an actual Galactus

not fucking mystical cloud They can hold on well

that was from the old that was more or less from

the ultimates But as Tanner and Dan are slowly

starting to realize there's a lot from the ultimates

that they borrow for the cinematic universe Yeah,

well it lends well because the ultimates um they

make a lot of stuff more fantastical obviously

It's not more fantastical. It's actually more

grounded, but it's also streamlined for I mean,

I mean the looks of them like they're the clothing

is like they Away from what they you know, the

original I still can't get the image out of my

head of blob eating Wasp That is that is an image

in that comic going to haunt me. What did you?

What did you think of that picture that I sent

you of the Hulk? Yeah, I said I sent that picture

to Jason I was like pooped him Because that also

you know they brought Being just a little bit

farther they they started talking about the infinity

gems and the infinity gauntlet and ultimates

Yeah, and I think they only the gauntlet only

has well there's in ultimates. There's two gauntlets

and each one has four stones Rather than one

gauntlet in five stones So I'm interested to

see what Marvel decides to go with for the cinematic

universe They're gonna go with Well, if they

have two gauntlets that means there's eight stones,

right? Yeah, and they won't go that much Well,

I know but I'm thinking there but but they could

even do one gauntlet with four stones. I mean

Well, let's let's see Well, hang on. I think

they've already revealed two stones haven't they

or was the gem or was this gem in the staff?

the Tesseract Know the gem in the staff was connected

to the tesseract because I'm in the staff is

what's part of the The gauntlet Like in the comics

or in the movie no in the movie there that they're

highly connected They might even be the same

thing, but that blue one is the mind Jim which

is lies mind -controlling Yeah, that's what the

the yeah that the tesseract energy. I don't think

it's so much gonna be the stones I think it's

gonna be loading the energy from these things

into it because I don't see those things being

in a gauntlet unless they're smaller. You know,

it looks kind of goofy. Well, it transforms.

That Loki's gem would fit in a gauntlet, the

one that was in the staff. And I think that's

kind of what the Tesseract became eventually

was that staff. Do we see the Tesseract app?

Yeah, we do. Yeah, they use it to power the portal.

He uses the staff to poke into the force field.

So there's those two. There's to get home to

yeah, yeah, that's how you transport some home.

That's a then the s guardians take it to the

collector They take the Ethereal or whatever

the hell they call it from Thor dark world that

they take to the collector just because they

don't want to keep both of them together That's

still a terrible idea Can't throw them into a

son no no Superman And actually in true ultimate's

fashion they went way in depth into what the

gems actually were So I don't think the sub would

destroy them So make sure hard to get to Yeah,

yeah, I've also heard there's this big conspiracy

that you know how I'm like in the trailer for

Captain America to they show like Nick Fury well

messed up and hurt There's like this huge thing

going that he's going to die and they're going

to place him by like the. The white guy, you

know, white Nick Strype. I hope they don't, because

it would be stupid. No way. I'm still going with

Tony's going to bite in Avengers 2. I think,

well, yeah, I want to talk about Avengers 2 because

I read an interesting article. And after, you

know, rewatching, I watched like the first half

of Avengers last week. And there was a really

interesting article about how Ultron might actually

come to be. I think you talked about it. Did

I? No, I think I read the same article and I

talked to Joe about it. Because Tony basically

stole all of S .H .I .E .L .D.'s archives in

Avengers and then Jarvis will eventually probably

craft himself his own body. Or load himself into

an armor or something? Yeah, exactly. You think

that's what's gonna happen? I don't know. But

I think that's what's going to happen. But what

I'm wondering is what's going to be the tipping

point to turn him evil? Like, because that'll

be the interesting thing. So anyways, I don't

I think it's going to be I think it's going to

be. What's happening in the Captain America,

too, with him kind of seeing the shittiness of

preventing. These bad things by you know being

this huge oppressive force I think it's you know

if if you see you know Jarvis if he becomes him

would you be I made it be interesting but going

like the only way to protect the world from shield

and these Superpowered beings just destroy all

of them. What's what's interesting? It'll be

interesting to see how it plays out because I

read Age of Ultron yesterday at work mm -hmm,

and it relies that whole story relies very heavily

on Wolverine and invisible woman so they're like

even if they really wanted to I know they they

said they're only using the name and they're

adapting like a new story just for the movie

but even if they wanted to use the comic they

would really have to work around not having access

to those two characters and in that regard it's

not as good as Age of Apocalypse I mean because

I feel like the X events used to be like or the

crossover events in the Marvel Universe used

to be like this grand thing. And now they're

just kind of like. Nothing. It's going to say

to me, they're really I don't know. I think Avengers

disassembled was the last or really big. Thing

and Civil War, Civil War is probably the last

epic scope type thing they did, because everything

else just doesn't feel like it really. Feel has

a very interesting brand is as big I heard all

I heard all sorts of weird things like people

saying that um That eventually we was gonna lean

into you know, so or no actually planet Hulk

No, so I it's more likely I think delete. No,

I know I'm saying I was just some of the weird

stuff I've been hearing on but I really don't

think it's going to just because of the fact

that I don't know Like I said, I think I don't

he's gonna bite it in Avengers. Yeah He may not

I don't know if he's gonna bite it, but there's

gonna be some weird thing where he's gonna be

If you don't have Tony you can't do so more Yes,

but do you actually need Tony? Can you just have

the like all they need is the Iron Man armor

and a voice that sounds kind of like Tony? No,

it's no no you need Tony. They will pay Robert

Doherty jr. Enough money to come back Maybe yeah,

but don't pay him for a whole movie pay him for

Yeah, his contract will get negotiated because

once he's in the armor, it's only the voice it

doesn't really Matter so much. I think his is

Whoever negotiates his rate would would beg to

differ and want more money anyway So are we gonna

do this yeah, oh yeah now that it's half an hour

and we should actually start yeah You guys No,

Mike are you actually recording? I've been recording

for the last 25 minutes. That's fantastic You

got all of this. It's a gold gold your positive.

I've been waiting for you to take the reins Yeah,

I've got it. I've got both sides of the conversation

Take the brains even know I've been controlling

everything that we've been talking about Okay.

The whole time you were doing that, all I could

think of was, why don't you come down into my

basement and get a popsicle out of my pocket?

Why, you do that really well. I've been practicing.

If anybody does creepy, creepy guy enticing little

kids, it's Joe. That's why he's a school teacher.

Yeah. I don't do that voice at school. That is

absolutely sure. He went outside the door for

a little challenge. Come on guys come in here.

You want to do some art? Wow, I feel dirty Welcome

to off the cuff episode 45 I Am your host this

week our Danner With me this week is Mike Powers.

Hello. Joe Reed. Hello. And Sean Z. Hi. So this

week, we're going to continue our discussion

of what we do when, you know, games aren't really

coming out, which we, you know, talked about

a couple of weeks ago, prior to the Game of the

Year episode. And we talked about, you know,

talked about me and, you know, my unhealthy obsession

with comic books. Such thing as unhealthy obsession

with comic books. Well, no, it's there is no,

yeah, comics. Which is all around them, which

is only continued this week by, yeah, me reading

all of the books, the ultimate books up through

ultimatum. I blame you for. Me reading comics

for the last like three weeks. Yeah. Well, so

you mean you're welcome Yeah, you're welcome

except my backlog of tv shows is like huge. I

know I got a problem right now. I got so many

things To watch right now. Um So what you're

saying is you're mad at dana for getting you

to read How dare me? Yeah, you tricked me into

this How dare I learn fantasy things that are

far more interesting than everything else is

going on? Not necessarily true, but go ahead.

So this week we're going to talk to Joe on what

he does in his offseason. Which is all year round.

All the time. Since he buys two to three games

a year. Yep. That's because that's all that's

good anymore. And I guess I did want to talk

about that because I've felt like a horrible

dirt bag, both on the podcast and in our conversations,

because I just hate on everything. Yes. And I

feel I feel like little kids, apparently, except

for little kids. I love little children. Not

like that. Come on. But I. You know, I you can't

come down into my basement and say that I hate

video games Little kids then you talked about

coming down your basement Joe just you guys not

little children. Yes. I know I'm a teacher but

man Art trusts me he lets me babysit his kids

Can I try again? I should never have done that

voice for you. Oh no, you should have. And now

just in the back of my mind all the time now.

I'm totally going to have you do that. The royalties

you must make off a family guy. Seriously. I

should make appearances as the old man. I think

you do. So continue. Well, yeah, it's okay, huh?

I'm sorry that I hate on everything and I don't

think you can come down to my basement and say

that I hate video games because of how many that

are here, but I don't and it absolutely was working

at GameStop for ten years of my life that turned

me into a cynic and a hater and an art I don't

know how it didn't happen to you and Going there

being able to check the games out bring them

home and play them, you know after about Year

of that out of ten. I really didn't do it anymore

because I could kind of like see Through the

matrix code and I realized how much garbage there

was and I just didn't want to play it I could

call what games were gonna be classics before

they came out and and Yeah, that one is going

to be a good one That one will be memorable and

no even though there's 400 pre -orders on this

game in one year Nobody's gonna care about it.

Like I can I think I can see through that The

depressing part now is that since I'm not a GameStop,

I don't even see a lot of those games coming

outside of what I hear from you guys, because

you follow the news closer than I do. And so

I'm learning things from you. When you abduct

the kids, look in the magazines they have in

their backpacks. Sure, sure. But they don't have

no power anymore. Because no one does. Is that

why you're doing it? Because Nintendo is out

of power. I don't know. You know, I think in

Joe's. cranky older age He is kind of reverted

back to kind of may have reverted back to when

He was a child and first started playing games

where maybe you didn't get a whole bunch of games

either Maybe you only got like three or four

games a year But I remember as a kid and being

a Nintendo person getting the Nintendo power

I kind of knew what games I thought I wanted

to get you knew what games Nintendo wanted you

to I knew what games Nintendo wanted me to get

but they were generally correct as Think they

have a picture of a green -looking elf do with

a sword and a shield in the front then yes, how

about an Italian also good? Yes, you didn't know

she was a chicken the copper suit okay wearing

a necktie I would I would see those games and

and and it'd be I mean even as like a middle

schooler into high school. I was looking for

the games that had that new, innovative feature.

First game with 3D graphics, Star Fox? Yes, I'll

buy that. First thing with a rumble pack? Yeah,

I'll buy that. Which was also Star Fox. Yes,

later. Yeah, with that one. And so, first decent

first -person shooter on a console, Goldeneye?

Sure, I'll get that. I knew what games were coming

out that had the new things. Donkey Kong Country,

first time. Computer generated things bit mapped

into things with beautiful 3d looking backgrounds.

I love that stuff and Nowadays, I think those

innovations like that are fewer further between

or harder to detect because I I still can't I

can see when frame rate gets bad But lower than

or higher than 30 frames a second. I don't immediately

notice it. So that doesn't bother me or upset

me but Yeah, I just none of these games that

these kids play are are interesting or new enough

to catch me short of the weird ones that uh that

get my portal good classic game we'll be talking

about that for generations uh come on guys what

else i'm brain farting here this was your rant

yeah no i understand what you're saying um Gone

home. I mean, I only played 10 minutes of that

at four frames a second on my computer that can

barely run it. But I know that's going to be

good. Because it is. Yep. I think that's more

like what you want. First person shooter. I think

you'll really like that, especially given what

you've just said about things. So. Yeah, I'm

very, very tired of the first person shooter

genre. I'm waiting for something new. I'm waiting

for a first person. where the goal isn't to shoot

my friends in the head. You know, I welcome to

Titan. That's right. That's right. What's that?

Evolve looks good. I prefer the co -op, but we're

still shooting. You know, I don't know. I'm tired

of shooting things. I don't think that's you're

tired of your cursor being a gun. Yeah, I get

that. A lot of a lot of you had a game, Joe,

where instead of shooting things, you threw flowers

at things. Played flower for ps3 that was beautiful

It looks a lot better on the ps4 a gun I'm waiting

for a new mode and that'll make me happy So Joe,

what what makes you happy? What what what do

you do? When you're not playing games, they keep

your hands occupied. That was wonderful Uh, well,

I collect them, but that doesn't count because

we already talked about that. But it's a lot.

Don't worry, he has little tiny. I'm waiting.

I have some jokes, but I don't want people to

take me seriously. Down there with this correction,

no one is taking you seriously. Do not worry.

I draw superheroes badly and I draw Ninja Turtles

halfway decent. Yeah, it was the ABCs, the superheroes

thing was pretty sweet. You know, a couple of

weeks ago, one of my students, I showed it to

them. I put it on the projector one day when

we were done with work, because, hey, that thing

you were working on in class, show us. And so

I put it up there. And one of the kids said,

can I buy that? I'd like to have that. Well,

sure. I'll. print them out and five bucks. I'll

give you a whole card stock bound thing. And

he brought in his five bucks the next day and

said, can I buy it? Can I buy it? Like, well,

dude, hold on. I don't have them printed yet.

He held onto that five bucks cash for three weeks

for while I was making them all the right size,

printing them out. And I sold it to him today.

So what you're saying is is you're illegally

selling and working a business out of your classroom

back room art dealer. And then you announced

on the Internet. Is it illegal? A pedophile should

know better. I make sure that they know. That's

that's the thing. And I think it's a inner city

school thing. You do. You do awesome things in

front of them. And it's can I have that? And

not just art, but music or you bring anything

to them. Oh, that's a thing. Can I have that?

No. You got to teach them that this stuff has

value and and their work has value. I buy work

from students, but I insist on. Paying for it

when would you say you also buy services? I do

not my services or something I really think you

are like a dog with a chew toy Somebody says

something early on in an episode you just grab

it and run with it for the rest of the damn show

And I'm here chasing you chasing you and you're

thinking it's a game and I going to start referring

to Sean as Captain Callback. I don't get that

joke. It's like, God, continue with what you

were talking about. All right. Take longer to

explain. It's not. Sure. And lately, I have well,

since November, I have picked up the ukulele,

which for some reason are you asked me to play

for our listeners. You're going to make me. Do

that and embarrass myself because I'm not actually

playing that long. You shouldn't be embarrassed

what you know again You've gone over this already.

I sang Wild Wild West So you would play your

fucking ukulele. That is awesome. See I still

can't put my fingers on the right spot said your

mom but Or the kids in his basement. I was like,

I was like, oh, don't you can't throw them out

there because I'm like with the two time like.

You're terrible. So yeah, I I've always wanted

to learn a musical instrument and I had no talent

for it. Took piano lessons as a kid and it was

like bang, bang, bang. Am I doing it right? No,

don't do that. Stop. So I kind of. I gave up.

And but I've always been fascinated with sound

and talking to the choir teacher. He said, yeah,

ukuleles are easy. All right. So I went and found

one on Craigslist, started banging on it, and

I can I can kind of play things now. It's not

a drum, but I think you're playing it wrong if

you're banging on it. I think that's the wrong

thing to do. Strum. I'm banging on it gently

with the tips of my fingers, said your mom. Now

you see if I could sing and play that strum that

pattern at the same time that would be Yoshimi

battles the pink robots Which I love quite a

bit But that's that's too best. I can't sing

to it at the same time. It's like Patting my

head rubbing my tummy and jerking off at the

same time. It doesn't work Where are you getting

the third hand? Your mom, of course I don't know

what she's doing here. I'm trying to figure out

why Shonzi hadn't asked that question. He's looking

for a number two. But what I can sing too, I

actually serenaded Art with this in my kitchen

the other day. You did? Yes. How far did you

get? One verse, because that's all I know. Third

bass? Third bass. So you'd be an Austrian nobleman.

commissioning a symphony in C. And I can't do

this chord, which defies all earthly descriptions.

You'll become me. You sound like Kermit the Frog.

Commissioning a symphony in C. I was gonna say

you sound like Kermit the Frog. Why do you sound

like Kermit the Frog? I can't do that voice,

actually. It doesn't shock me at all. We were

driving down the road one day, my wife and I,

and first, I don't know where it came from, we

started singing the theme song to the Muppet

Babies, Muppet Babies, we'll do those things,

and it got to the Kermit verse, and how does

it go? And Kermit jumps in, when your room looks

kinda weird and you wished it. Jenny heard my

Kermit come out of there, squealed at the top

of her lungs, almost swerved off the road. It's

like, that was, oh my God, that was perfect.

And it's okay. You swerved off the road and they

both died. End of story. End of story. And we

both died. That's like, it's like this whole,

you know, podcast turned into like, he's been

dead for 40 years. It's a ghost cast. I'd be

wicked. Wicked and impossible. You mean? Yes,

yes, it would be. We can all come out and be

dead people. I see. Well, if we're dead people,

me offering to kill myself, if we get a thousand

listeners, really hollow. Yeah. I mean, how disappointing.

That shows he's not going to be able to kill

himself. Yeah. Mainly. I mean, who's going to

call back to the jokes from the beginning of

the episode? I don't know. How will you ever

fill that gaping hole between John's legs? Sitting

there. So that was that was very lovely, Joe.

Thank you. That was terrible. Providing us with

your. Have you are the best player on the podcast?

So I'm glad to see that you completely wasting

your time or our time at all. Wow. So with that,

we're going to take a break. We'll see you on

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of the fun. What's that? What is it? It's a Jew

harp. It's a mouth. It's racist. Wait a second.

What? Whoa, whoa, whoa. This is a family program.

It's a Hebrew harp. OK. Keep it respectable.

Jew harps. Wow, Joe. I never thought you were

in your city. That's what they're called. Yeah,

okay, whatever you say. Alright, I gotta go check

something real quick. I'll be right back. Okay,

day. Joe, that was not bad. Make sure you guys

have your predictions. I have my prediction,

thank you. Oh, man. Shoot. Just flipping through

the game informer. That's the noises Here that

listeners that's the sound of excitement ready

I've got yeah right there. I feel like a couple

of wild ones, but a couple wild predictions yes,

um I have I Don't know if anyone are really wild

like I'm pretty sure one of my predictions will

come true. It's the other two that I What scale

predictions are you thinking of here because

I can't think of anything? incredible that would

happen this year besides Nintendo announcing

something that people will get excited about

and then realize sucks. Well, that happens every

year. Exactly. Although I hear that Donkey Kong

Country Frozen whatever is actually pretty good.

Yeah, on what system? Wii U. See, nobody will

play it. I know someone got a, one of the reviewers

got a death threat in the comments. Because and

they said that they're gonna kill the reviewer

for giving it a 10 out of 10 Because it took

a studio away from making Metroid Can't be a

10 out of 10 because it's I'm sorry future I

walked in on the end of that Who gave it what

what were they death -threading about there was

a reviewer gave the new Donkey Kong game? Oh

you a 10 out of 10 and a commenter in the thread

for the review was saying he was going to kill

the reviewer because it gave the game out of

10 out of 10 and and because It took resources

away from making a Metroid game Well, I can't

argue with his logic He should die and then become

a ghost on our podcast You should be angry at

Reggie Fils -Aime for the fact that they're not

making a new Metroid game I'd like to think that

Reggie has enough sense to know that Nintendo

is screwing up and he's just toying the company

line because he wants a job. Yeah. I don't think

the guys at Nintendo exactly know what they should

be doing, but I think Reggie does. But then why

wouldn't you just leave? Because they probably

pay really, they're a really good company to

work for. Why are you going to walk out of that

fat bank? I mean, the man invented stuffed crescent

pizza, you'd think he'd do okay at Nintendo.

See after inventing stuff crap, what was it stuff

crust pizza pizza? Yeah at that point stop you've

you've apexed Amazing this award -winning game.

Oh, okay amid this great system. Okay stuff crust

pizza stuff crust pizza God among men. Oh man

us Americans. Thank you We are fatter for it

Hey, if we probably gonna play video games, it's

all recorded Especially that Joe wanted to know

I know it's all recorded. Well, I thought you

pause between. Oh, no, not anymore All right

happens in between the breaks You should you

should give us breaks just so you can save the

files and not accidentally lose it because of

a computer crash or something Never lose now

that you've said that just mine Why would you

jinx it like that save it now? See Joe's expecting

my computer to crash which is Not going to happen.

You've never anticipated any of the problems.

We've had my computers never crashed on me It's

usually it's just a way it wasn't recording me

just never recorded at all, which is not my computer

crashing, okay? Completely different problem

the program doesn't know how to hit record Well,

that's not fair. I always hit record Just sometimes

in click just sometimes the computer. It's unrecorded

No, it's the the app that I use doesn't sometimes

it doesn't like to connect with all of its little

tendrils in my computer so Yeah So that answer

just recording by half the conversation and I

sound that's good. That's really interesting.

That's it. That's good That's you know good radio

right there telling radio one person talking

to three invisible people So Dana, what's next?

All right. So on the flip side of the break,

we're we're back. We've been back for a while

because I'm not getting any of this. I've decided

to save myself some time and to add some humor

and some levity into the podcast is that I will

never edit anything out. Good. Discuss this with

the person who's leading and hosting. Unless

it's offensive. Look like an ass. Unless it's

directly offensive to anyone. That may be listening.

The Jew Harp. Jew Harp. That's what it's called.

I'm looking for something a little more specific

than that. But yes, basically that. I don't find

anything to be more offensive than the Jew Harp.

Jew Harp is the least religious person here,

probably. I will fight him for that. The atheist

throwdown. You don't even know. I am more atheist

than you, sir. I believe I'm a nihilist. I believe

in nothing. I don't believe in nothing. I just

believe everyone's wrong Don't believe everybody's

I believe everybody's entitled to their own opinion.

I believe everyone's leaving whatever fantasy

book They want to believe I know this is ripping

off a comic But I I really think everyone's just

fighting over the who has the best imaginary

friend No, I'm sorry. Everyone is allowed to

believe in their own flying spaghetti monster.

Just don't try to tell me you're right and I'm

wrong You're wrong You're wrong. Like really

dinosaur bones. Lawyered. And there you go. I

shouldn't be able to break your belief system

with something my dog dug up. Uh oh. Did we lose

him? I think he muted it. He did. So. Do that

as a cough break roll. Oh No, I will have to

edit this What the hocking that makes good that

makes don't you know if you go to steez or cough

or hack? You could at least find the mute button.

I do I've been coughing We need to get you a

new microphone Joe. Oh is it okay? Is there a

mute button on microphones generally? Yes, like

a cough button. Yes. Okay. Well, I'm gonna mute

my below -nose What blowing his nose yeah, but

who says it like that I'm gonna mute my blow

nose I I sometimes talk faster than I think that

happens He trips over himself Well my tongue

trips over my back tooth just checking for stuff

just because of like distance and and and stuff

like that and length of knowing someone I think

Joe you're up next for me to buy a microphone

for so I don't know when your birthday is though,

so I'm not sure when you're gonna get it. Should

I make you work for that or should I just tell

it to you? Just tell me. Sorry, I'm back. Yeah,

but that would require me to buy myself a drink.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So anyways. We're back. Alright,

so predictions for 2014. In this segment, we

are going to make wild accusations about what

we think are going to happen this year in video

games. So who wants to throw out their first

inaccurate wild accusation? I'm sorry, prediction.

Wait, inaccurate? Well, then I probably should

go first. Actually, no, I have two, I have three,

but two of them are like way out there. So. I'm

just going to, since we're going for wild and

inaccurate and crazy stuff right now, I'm going

to go ahead and say that we will see an Xbox

One this year without the Kinect. You mean you

can be able to buy the system separate? Yes.

Well, due to the fact that you can't even turn

the system on without a Kinect. Well, he can

now. No, they changed it way back when. That

was one of the things that they backpedaled on.

I heard the system can't even be turned on without

the Kinect attached. That's what it was. Yes,

that's what it was. They had a hardware default

where if there was nothing plugged there, it

wouldn't turn on, but they got rid of that. I

can go test this right now. I was going to say

the Indoor Kids podcast can't use their... Xbox

one right now because they were gonna play the

Titanfall beta But their connect is broken and

they can't it won't even let them turn the system

on It's not supposed to I'm just telling well,

that's okay. First of all that can be patched

out So there's that That whole because if they

backpilled everything else and everything else

They said that it couldn't be patched out that

it was baked in and they've patched out everything

else So that could definitely be it is the 180.

So exactly. So I that's that's my first wild

and crazy prediction. I think I think you'll

see it like in November, like, you know, unlike

the one year anniversary of the system being

out as like an attempt to bring the price in

line with the PlayStation four so they can try

and play catch up this holiday season. Because

they are and for live ever again So I but I think

I do think we'll see we'll see that this year

because Right now we're seeing a lot of the a

lot of places we were talking about this before

the show proper But a lot of places have Xbox

one stock sitting on the shelves and they're

starting to offer incentives like, you know get

a buy an Xbox one, either get an extra controller

for free or get a game for free. Or the favorite

one I saw yesterday, the advertisement, which

was great, which was buy an engagement ring before

February 28th. As long as three fourths carat

diamond in the center cut, you get a free Xbox

one with it. Yeah. What? OK. And not to mention

in the last we had the first Set of NPDs since

the like the next -gen consoles came out, and

I don't have numbers because I don't really care

about numbers, but Microsoft all through the

360s lifespan. They've always given numbers for

the amount of units sold This is the first month

that they didn't and they didn't they did for

the 360 But they didn't do it for the Xbox one.

That's a whereas so long time where Sony came

out and said that they've sold You know five

point four million PlayStation 4 since November

15th Wonder if playstations changed the way they

did their numbers because in the old days with

the ps2 they Reported numbers shipped not numbers

sold. Well, this is sold Good. It's not it's

obviously numbers sold because you still can't

find them anywhere Yeah, everyone that's the

thing a lot of and a lot of the news sites and

stuff when they do announce numbers They the

one of the first like the first two sentences

in a paragraph they do point out this is number

sold not numbers shipped like they they do try

and so like if they if the article does say like

you know 500 units shipped they do draw attention

to that to that is shipped I think it also helps

the fact that whenever they've shipped they've

also sold well yeah but I'm just saying like

they the articles that trumpet this that the

numbers are making it very clear that it's either

sold or shipped it's not they're not trying to

hide the numbers and stuff like that so Yeah,

I'm sensitive to that because Sony, when the

PS3 came out and they were announcing how many

they had sold, there was a point where for three

to five months we didn't sell a single one and

had 30 or 40 in the back room storage closet.

And that's where the Xbox One is right now. Yep.

And that's because of the $500 price tag for

a piece of hardware that nobody wants. Yeah,

I will give it right now that Xbox does have

the better lineup of games right now. And especially

like within the next couple of months hold on

hold on hold on what hold on wait what what Xbox

one? Exclusive is better than what's coming to

the PlayStation 4 No, I'm not saying I'm out

right now. Yeah, he says it has a better lineup,

so I'm asking you right now Yes, games that are

out. What's what brown what? Groundbreaking games

are out for the PlayStation you can't get anywhere

else right now. No no no wait a minute You're

saying the Xbox one has a better lineup. What

game can you get on Xbox one? You can't get on

the Dead Rising franchise rise. Oh, yes, those

are two great games What what's what's to fight

them right on the PlayStation? ghost That you

can get ghosts on Xbox one right there is it

the problem is I understand what you're saying

They've got two there's two exclusives to hold

on none when they do I love Sony's exclusives

I think they have some very cool games. They

just I think Xbox's release window for games

especially with exclusives was better than Sony's

I still think Sony's the better system, especially

being $100 cheaper. I think I think that First

of all, I think Sony didn't really have a first

-party title other than reso gun, which was amazing.

Yes System seller not quite but definitely definitely

worth buying it for but you know we bought other

games too but the you're you are actually you

know you're not in the same position daner and

i were in whereas we got the system on november

15th and we saw like watchdogs and some other

stuff get pushed so it was like oh crap what

are we gonna play but you're you're getting yours

now so you're like a month away from like infamous

you're a month away you're like a week away from

thief and a thief i'm interested i don't get

as hard as you do and we had knack and killzone

as exclusives Which I will take both of those

games over rise any day. I mean I've heard good

things about I've heard good I've heard good

and bad about both, but I've also heard good

and bad about Dead Rising and rise Yeah, yeah,

like they're just there, but they're just your

typical launch games I think what Shaw's he's

saying is that he they just had the exclusives

they had interested him more than killzone and

neck I'm not a killzone guy. I was gonna say

out of all those games none of them interested

me I'm just saying if you had to pick two games

to play Out of all those it would have been number

one. It would have been assassins for didn't

matter That was not one of those four, but what

I'm saying But I picked but I got killzone and

I got knack and I'm very knacks good It's very

simplistic I like Killzone, but it's incredibly

overcomplicated for what it needs to be. But

that seems to be a Killzone thing. They're all...

the close game is always complicated. I don't

think they've really nailed down the whole first

person show. All right, all right, all right.

So we could talk about the merits of which system,

Sean Z, or what games, blah, blah, blah. But

this is about predictions. We don't want... Yes.

Unless predictions predicting so that that was

my first crazy one Which was we'll see an Xbox

one without the connect at some point this year

are we each doing one? Are we doing all of our

predictions? I thought we'd go around. Yeah So

who wants to go next? John okay, um whatever

I'm predicting that Sometime within the next

year don't steal mine. I don't know what yours

is don't steal mine either Okay, cuz halo 5 is

still a ways off right? It's this year Is it

this year? Before Halo 5, there will either be

a Halo 4 port or some kind of HD version. There's

going to be Halo 2 anniversary edition, which

is going to include the Halo 5 beta with it.

It's also going to include the maps for 3 and

4. You don't think they'd do the same thing with

Halo 3? It's the anniversary of Halo 2 this year

though. I don't think we'll see this, and it's

because of the upgrade path that Microsoft is

taking with their HD remakes. What they're doing

is they're running the original game underneath

it, and then they're running in Unreal, they're

running a skin on top of the original game, which

is different from what Sony or the HD remakes

on the PlayStation 3 were doing. Unless they

have emulation software in there or the games

are completely rewritten, you're not going to

see them on the one. Like Microsoft isn't putting

the amount of money into their HD collections

as Sony did for theirs. Which I think is a massive

mistake. Fable just got their anniversary release

and it's the exact same game. The two games are

running side by side. Is the anniversary release

just as disappointing as the original? I've heard

it has all the same bugs. But that's because

they didn't change anything. All they did was

slap a new code. They literally just put the

same engine in. As far as I know, it's running

in the same engine, isn't it? Yeah, it's the

same engine, but Unreal's running on top of it

to give it the new look. And the interesting

thing with the first Halo, the Combat Evolved

Anniversary Edition, you could hit the back button

or something, and you could switch between, on

the fly, you could switch between the updated

graphics and the original graphics. Because the

original game was running underneath, but unreal

was running a skin on top of it Yeah, all you

do is peel back the skin for however long so

and that's yeah that that's basically what they've

been doing with their with their games so you

have to and Let's not forget the 360 can run

Xbox games as long as you have a hard drive on

it. Yeah, so it's not that That's half is not

seems like a mistake to me that Microsoft has

a system right at you know I mean how late in

the year is Halo 5 supposed to come out? That's

right, November. Yeah, so so towards the end

of the year and when is uh, actually probably

september isn't september the halo thing I don't

know like I think no, it's usually the first

week of november. Yeah Um, and the halo too that's

supposed to come out what around the same time?

But like slow like not very crazy far before

because it's got the bait in it But like I wouldn't

be surprised if they do it. Yeah in a couple

months Okay. I think it'd be more of a June release.

It's disappointing to have an Xbox console that

cannot play a Halo game at the moment. Well,

that's like saying it's disappointing to have

- That's why most people don't own them right

now. That's like saying it's disappointing to

have a PS4 and not being able to play it in Chartered.

Okay. I completely agree with that statement.

I completely agree with that statement. The last

time there was an Xbox that couldn't play a Halo

game was before Halo 1. The 360 didn't get halo

until 2007 but halo 2 was backwards compatible

like it was yeah at launch Yeah, I was put because

I kept my halo 2 copy and played almost immediately

Joe uh biggest Prediction for this year is that

Nintendo will announce something that'll get

everybody excited and then shortly before it

releases We'll all realize that it's a terrible

idea, and then it will flop Wait, what? What

do you think they're going to announce? I think

they're going to announce a new piece of hardware

of some variety, either a dedicated console that

does close to actual current -gen graphics, but

not really current -gen graphics, and nobody

will play it. We talked about this on the last

podcast, didn't we? Or the one before that? Pretty

much. I mean, yeah, but they're either going

to announce a new... console console that just

plugs into your television and does things that

Maybe gets it closer to this current gen, but

I don't you know I'd love to see them come out

with a real -life current gen system with a controller

that yes might be bonkers But could also do a

twin stick shooter But I don't think Nintendo

is quite there yet I think they're gonna release

or announce at least announce some kind of hardware

That may or may not come out this year But it's

not going to be what we need it to be yet I think

they're gonna screw up one more time before they

go Wow, do you really think our customer base?

Wants a real -life HD console with slick beautiful

wonderful current -gen graphics and all of our

intellectual properties Maybe we should give

that to them You're talking crazy. I know right

these are the crazy ones my prediction that they'll

go back to just doing trading cards I know They'll

make the weed too We'll ship with we sports too

Beyond that I think destiny will get announced

as a multi -platform game. You all will go bonkers

for it. I'll release. It's crappy multi -plat

destiny is multi -platform you do you mean cross

-platform? No No, no, it's everything No, that's

PlayStation 4. Destiny's on PS3, PS4, 360, and

Xbox One. What's the new first -person shooter

that's exclusive to Titanfall? Titanfall? Oh,

yes. OK. See, I don't even care because they're

just first -person shooters. I think eventually

Titanfall will come to PlayStation 4, but I think

it'll be one of those things like Mass Effect.

No, I don't... I think... Like Titanfall 2. I

think Titanfall 2 will be multi -console. Titanfall

2 will be multi -console. However, I think that

if... I don't really want this to cause one of

my predictions. I think that if... Because of

how Microsoft is doing, they're going to put

a lot of muscle behind Titanfall being the reason

to buy an Xbox One. There's going to be Titanfall

branded Xbox One's. Right. Trollers and Xbox

One's. Right, but maybe you'll just end up with

Titanfall branded consoles sitting on the shelves

like the Xbox One is right now. You already have

Xbox One sitting on the shelf. Right, exactly.

So they'll just have more of them. Exactly. But

I'm wondering if it doesn't sell... The way that

the numbers that Microsoft wants it to and it

doesn't move consoles the way that Microsoft

wants it to I'm wondering if yeah, you'll scramble

and get a ps4 version of it together like if

you'll see like Titanfall Subtitle something

come out on the ps4 Titanfall like Yeah, yeah,

so it's a vengeance. Yeah, like something like

that like hit the ps4 this this fall You know,

it's all falls again. There has to be all Titan

fail. Titan fell Titan fall, the one you want.

Yeah, Titan fall. We hope you guys will buy this.

Well, you know what, guys, all of those deals

are already signed. I mean, Xbox, if I think

they know it's going to go multi -platform already

and they didn't know that their system wasn't

going to sell. I don't think they negotiated

something to get it in as a pack in, maybe as

a Christmas pack in. No, it is no, they've got

those those boxes there. No, they're out really

not yet. I mean they're coming So well, yeah,

I yeah, I just think that if the numbers aren't

there I think you'll see you know We could we

could see Titanfall and ps4 I mean if it doesn't

matter how good the game is it's kind of like

with with all the problems with the We you the

game can be the most fantastic thing if only

a million people possible can play it But here's

the thing not worth making a huge game Microsoft

doesn't own Titanfall. They just bought an exclusive

window for tight That's what I'm saying is that

is that it's gonna be just another fact of them

going well We're not gonna make freaking exclusive

with you if this is the shit that's gonna happen

And if the loophole is simple as Titanfall something

subtitle then EA will definitely take that oh

God knows they will so Wait, EA try to make money

off a first person shooter? Get the fuck out.

The fact that it's under it's being released

by EA and it's exclusive just absolutely blows

my mind. That really. Yeah. Do they make any

other exclusives? No. Microsoft may be the only

crap that I'm aware of. Because they want to

use it as a way to show off the cloud services

for the. The fact that when they announced it

was exclusive, the developers didn't even know

it until they hit the stage. Yeah. That's shitty.

Anyways, one of my predictions for 2014 is that

Half -Life 3 will get announced this year. You

bastard! That was my prediction. Wait, we started

with the worst ones. Wait, that it'll get announced

this year, but it will not have a council release

except for on the steam machines and it'll only

be... And it'll launch with the actual release

of the steam machines. Yeah. I was going to make

a similar prediction. I was going to predict

that it was going to get at least announced this

year, and that it was going to be a timed exclusive

steam machine first, just to help sell those

systems. Well, I'm betting that there's just

not even going to be a console version. I would

agree with you, except their steam or valve is

not anti -consumer. No, they want they want people

to play their products, and I think I don't even

think it'll be that I don't even think it'll

be that I just I think that they want people

to play their games any way that they can There

will be some incentive to get on steam machine

versus everything else. Yeah, it'll be cheap

might be a price cut or something Yeah, but I'm

not gonna go out and spend Wait, you don't want

to buy a computer. They can do limited stuff.

No You already have two of those You're not making

any sense. I have three of those actually. Four

of those under my TV. I don't need another one.

More! More! Faster! Alright. Mike, what's your

next prediction? It's Nintendo. And I've championed

this before. It also involves the Wii U, but

without the gamepad. Just because no one's using

it. No one is using it because you can't the

reason they aren't using is because they trump

they they keep trumpeting that off TV play. And

I think I don't think I don't know. You don't

think $200 we you would move? I think it would

move. Or at least the patch that allows the 3DS

to do the exact same thing as the. As that gamepad.

Well, that's fine. They could do that too. I'm

just saying I think I think you'll see the 199

skew without that gamepad If we don't if I mean

that's a last ditch. I don't think they're marketing

and putting enough emphasis on the gamepad You

think that well, that's the problem is they're

all there never does that with their cool accessories

They never back them all the way. The problem

is no here's the problem with that They are only

showing off the Wii U gamepad, which is why people

think it's just an accessory for the Wii and

not a new console. It's that very reason that

they had to send out an email to all the Wii

owners out there informing them that the Wii

U was a brand new console. I got that email.

That's because they think you're dumb. Because

it went out to everybody that had a Wii. Because

they think they're dumb. And then sold it immediately.

But I just, it's that kind of, the people that

bought the Wii think that the Wii U is just an

add -on controller, not an entirely new system.

So the marketing was wrong. They should it should

have been like I really think they should just

call it the Wii 2 or Like I or the Super Nintendo

the second coming of the Super Nintendo the Super

Wii You could have called it the Super Wii. No

you couldn't Here's the thing I first heard about

the Wii U somebody there was a guy that I don't

remember who it was but there's an article that

liked likened the Wii U to like If the Wii was

the NES, then the Wii U was supposed to be like

the Super Nintendo. And if it had been marketed

in that way, it probably would have been great.

I don't think any kind of marketing would have

made that system good. I think it just came out

five years too late. That too. I think it would

have made better sales numbers, but that doesn't

change the games that much. Sure, more sales

numbers would have changed the game. But here's

the thing. No, I mean, it wouldn't have changed

them that much. But the thing is the 360 and

the PS3 are going to get all the same or are

still going to get games for the next few years.

But the Wii U isn't going to get any of them

because they couldn't sell them. To me, I don't

know. To me, you buy a Nintendo system to play.

Nintendo games, which is why I think if they

lost that game pad and drop it to $200 I mean

there there are there are Nintendo there are

Wii U games I want to play I'm just the $300

price tag is not blowing up my skirt So not anymore

Joe do you have another prediction? You know

it's no because it's gonna be a really flat year

I have nothing on my horizon that I'm looking

for besides Watch Dogs, which I don't have a

system for yet. And Thief. You could play that

on current. It's going to be on PS3. Yeah, if

it's the same version, I'm down with that. I

think the only thing that's supposed to change

is load times and graphics, right? And the online

connectivity? Yeah. Well, it will the only online

connective in that game is when people are controlling

cameras and stuff, right Joe it's okay You can

come over to my house and see how cool it looks

on the ps4 and then you can go back to your house

and be like You got you want him to come over

and witness watch dogs on your on your TV when

he didn't even really see a difference in Assassin's

Creed That's cuz I played him like weeks apart

not with you know If I had it one day or a couple

of minutes apart as I drove home, I might have

noticed. And I think if I played AC4 now at Art's

house, I'd see a difference. Can I just do a

side note here real quick? Daner, you have Tomb

Raider. Yes. Great. Looks great. Die. The framerate

is almost so high that it's jarring to me. Yes,

agreed. It almost seems like it's overclocking.

It almost feels unnecessary. It is unnecessary.

I wish it would be 30 frames a second. Because

it is just like, oh my God, like it just hyper

realistic. I guess is the best way I can describe

it. It is a very pretty game. It is gorgeous.

It raises the bar for what Naughty Dog has to

do. Yes. So. I can't wait to get further because

I. I did the pack of wolves thing and that was

the last thing I did. So what you're saying is

now for the first time and God knows how long

Uncharted is actually trailing. No. They haven't

had a shot yet. Not in numbers wise, obviously.

Here's the thing. Tomb Raider, the definitive

edition came off of, you know, obviously it's

an upgrade from the Tomb Raider version, but

Naughty Dog is starting from The Last of Us.

which looked way better than Tomb Raider did.

So they've got a lead. There's no doubt in my

mind that Naughty Dog will trump what Crystal

Dynamics did. So, not Crystal Dynamics. Yes,

Crystal Dynamics. You're right. All right. So.

All right. Sean Z. Okay. I predict. We will have

a Assassin's Creed 5 announced this year And

that all Assassin's Creed games from now on are

gonna have a subtitle after my black flag dead

Do you have a prediction as to what type of game

it's gonna be this time like what please ninjas

No, I think it's only gonna go forward and diamonds

not go backward So let's see if it was that answer

five watch dogs. Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute You can't say that

because four went back in time before three.

Yep. Oh Okay, but okay within that was within

you know, the same generation almost because

I mean it was what 50 years. No, not even Something

like that, right? But so you were still really

in the same time period just a little different

It wasn't crazy different not like the jump from

I'll tie your two at CEO. But I don't know, to

be honest, because I think if they bring it too

modern, it will lose its fun of the game, because

if you lose the melee combat, you lose the game.

As long as they don't make it super boring like

the modern levels with Desmond. Yeah, that was

such a drop ball. Yeah. It just felt like a completely

different game, and it also felt like it was

just incomplete. A waste of time. A different

company made that, didn't they? I think so. Waste

of time. Yeah. I don't know if I waste the time.

I had a guess. I guessed black flag. I have I

had to guess pirates. I do remember. Yeah. I

was like, the next game needs to be fucking Assassin's

Creed with pirates. Then they're not black flag.

And I'm like, I will expect my realty check in

the mail. Signed out to me. So what do you think

is going to be this year? To be honest, I don't

know. I think they're going to continue the Assassin's

Creed 5 slavery slavery it's yikes No, I actually

think because okay everyone here has everyone

here be and ask you for or at least know the

endings Okay, Mike spoiler you find out um The

guy you're playing as Edward has two kids. He

has the son and a daughter I think whatever the

next game is it's gonna follow the daughter's

bloodline not the sons which will blow everyone's

mind The son goes to um, it goes to a Connor

and that's not really as interesting Well, we

know he was not he was one of the least interesting

I'm not disagreeing with you. So I think it's

gonna go to the daughter and I'm not sure where

it's gonna go from there though Well that it's

probably you know, it's probably gonna follow

down her line to Civil War times if I had to

guess because there was still What? She's gonna

be really old. No, I'm not saying that she's

gonna be in. I'm gonna say you're gonna follow

her bloodline instead of... I don't see Connor

having a kid and continuing that line. I don't

see that. If the next assassin isn't a female,

I might pitch a fit. I don't know. They've already

had a female assassin. I think it wasn't as big

of a gamble making it a... Portable right version

of the game, and I think it paid off well because

a lot of people liked her and I think that you

know I think it's time for a proper Assassin's

Creed with a female lead or ninjas What about

a ninja female a female that's fine female ninjas?

Big ol' boobies. Thank you, Shaunzy. I'm expecting

it to be a Assassin's Creed set in the culinary

world and with assassins and Hell's Kitchen.

Yeah, I was going to say almost like Iron Chef.

The mystery of the day is Jumps the shark and

turns into a cooking game. I would let you know

if they do do a girl thing is this is gonna make

me sound like a horrible person But um, they

won't do I don't see them. Yes more horrible.

I don't see them doing a full -length game I

could see them doing the beginning part like

the beginning of three when you're playing as

uh, Hey, hey, them was his name, right? Yeah.

Hey them I see the beginning of the game you

playing as a chick and then you finishing up

playing as A descendant of hers her bringing

like the prologue playing as a woman. No, I don't

see her them making I don't honestly don't think

they'll put her put a woman as the main Character,

I don't see why it would be Here's what I want

to see them do I want to see a Assassin's Creed

game that takes place in ancient Egypt Those

there's there's things that said that they were

gonna do that I don't see them doing it though.

It's either that or I want to see the precursor

society Yeah, and I want to see that that is

the two things I want to see I want to see ancient

Egypt or I want to see one that actually is Set

in the time of the precursors with apples first

stolen I Still want to see them do modern -day

Assassin's Creed. I Watch dogs in the same world

If they don't somehow link him, if they don't

somehow link, I can't ever remember what the

main character's name from Watchdog is. Him to

them, that would be a cool thing, I think, to

not necessarily make him, you know, part of that

bloodline or whatever, making him an actual assassin,

have him interact with them. We only have to

wait like, what, three, four months? Yeah. At

this moment. No, they said it's out before June,

so. Okay, and they also said it was launch title.

It's all right. They dropped the Wii U, so now

they're good. They're saying June. They sent

the Wii U ones back on. Well, yeah, but it's

later, so they've pushed it aside to focus on

what matters. My other prediction is that we

will... I don't even know if I want to make this

because I'm more hoping it's going to happen

than think it's actually going to happen. I think

Fallout. Four is going to get announced this

year. I don't think we're going to get it this

year. Oh, definitely not getting it this year.

I think it's going to get announced. Yeah, I

think we'll see that at E3, especially given

what was leaked a few like a month ago. Yeah.

Now, do you see we'll actually see something

being played or you think we'll see like a sizzle

reel or something? I think we'll get a sizzle.

Yeah, I don't see any gameplay again. I think

you'll get gameplay at E3. I don't think we'll

get it at E3. I think we'll get it later on,

but I don't think we'll get gameplay at Tokyo.

Yeah. I don't think we're supposed to go. Oh,

they probably don't. I think I I think there

will be some type of real limited vertical slice

at E3. If not there, then it packs. Packs, I

could see it, but I'm guessing E3 is going to

be some kind of video only non -gameplay kind

of thing. Well, I think OK, I think I think the

video will have gameplay in it. Maybe you won't.

They won't have hands on gameplay. But I think

they'll be exhibiting gameplay in the I'm sorry,

but if you're not showing on stage or something

someone actually moving the guy then that's a

fucking cutscene, uh Disagree, especially now.

Yes. I'm sorry, then you're not watching the

game run. You're watching the game them hand

-picking itty -bitty pieces and splicing them

together. But that's what happens when they do

a hands -on demo anyways. No, they're... They're

running it on a computer. They're not running

it on the software. No, no, no. That's not what

I mean. I mean, when they show videos of actual

gameplay footage, the game never looks like that.

You really... They do now. No, no, no. I mean,

not prettiness -wise. They never are that smooth.

They never are... I mean, I know I don't have...

No, they do now. They don't have it. Okay. Thank

you. Mike, do you have another prediction? Just

the one that I've been trumpeting since, you

know, last year, which is Grand Theft Auto V.

For next -gen systems. And that's the... of the

three that I've given, that is the one that I

see actually happening. At this point, I don't

even know if I want it. Because if it comes out

in the next -gen system, I want to get out in

the next -gen system. And I don't want to have

to start over my multiplayer character. If they

could somehow get the transfer, that'd be fantastic.

I'd be going for an Xbox to a PlayStation. I

wonder if... Because I know if you went from

the 360 to the Xbox one, you probably would be

able to, or the PS3 to the PS4. If they made

it so you could save your character on the social

network, you could do it. Yeah, that's what I'm

wondering. I'm wondering if they might do that.

I know if the social network is down on their

end, you don't have access to your character.

So the information is stored on their end. For

those guys, for your online characters. It might

be doable then, but you wouldn't want to start

over just to play with the Adder and I. Man,

I just got some awesome shit. We would level

ourselves up so fast. No, I just, dude, I'm like

level 70 now. I have such nice shit. Yeah, but

you don't have nice shit with us. I have a grenade

launcher and my own personal Adder and like $1

.4 million. I don't want to have to do that all

again. It sounds like you actually play the game.

I still. I play it. Joe just drives around with

me. Times a week still, Joe. I would love to

play it, but I they just did a new expansion

pack the Valentine's Day Massacre pack. Really?

What's a tommy gun? You get to dress like from

your than from the 20s. They let's put on special

clothes. They put out a I forget what they call

it. They call it Roosevelt. It's like a Bonnie

and Clyde limousine type car that's heavily armored

and you can hang off the sides of it and shoot

your tommy guns. They did that they did They

did a couple of updates to the game which suggest

that Heists are right around the corner. They

haven't set any dates yet That's what I wanted

when the game came out. Thank you building up

towards it, but they just can't seem to pull

that trigger Well, I'm I'm having fun anyways

with that but like I'm having fun playing and

just I've already come up with the best We've

come up with the best screw around game. It's

called king of the train It's like a bad episode

of Smallville. He's going to fly next week. He's

never going to pay off. It'll pay off for like

three seconds at the very end. They're always

going to get you work you up to the point where

you're on the edge of coming and then it just

doesn't happen. Edging is not fun. Edging is

not fun. It is if there's release at the end.

That's not edging. That's not edging. That defeats

the purpose. It's fun if you don't jump. Sean,

did you have another prediction? Not really.

You stole my half -life one, you jerk. I forget

if I didn't jump on it early, you would say something.

Ooh, Left 4 Dead 3. You know what? I don't know.

Don't you think all their effort, I mean, that's

the same, the same people are making the evil,

right? No, Valve made Left 4 Dead 2. Well valve

essentially took it took a left for dead and

kind of bought the the rights from it from Turtle

Rock And then they took over yeah, um I don't

know The thing is though is if if I think valve

was gonna work on that that means they're not

gonna work on other things of course So but like

if I had to pick between half -life three and

a for dead three I predict we're more likely

to get Left 4 Dead 3 than Half -Life 3. I think

we're more likely to get Left 4 Dead 3, but I

would love to see Half -Life 3. I think if Valve

did Left 4 Dead 3, I think it'd be a real dick

move, especially because they'd probably try

to put it out against Evolve. That would kind

of be funny. Although at this point I'd probably

go with Evolve. I'd rather play Evolve. From

the make and the versus the game made from the

makers of Left 4 Dead 2. It would just be really

funny to me. From the makers of Left 4 Dead,

Evolve. From the makers of Left 4 Dead 2, Left

4 Dead 3. Left 4 Dead 3. From the company that

brought you the amazing sequel to the Left 4

Dead game. From the guys who sold the property

off and ran away with their bag of money, Evolve.

Do you have another one, Daner? I... yeah i don't

i do but i don't i just i threw out two completely

ridiculous ones i know you did you yours were

far more ridiculous than i was expecting um because

i've been fried at work they were ridiculous

slash safe at the same time So I don't really

the Xbox one without a camera I think is inevitable

I think I think we made a lot of more a lot more

bolder predictions in between the big ones though

All right, I could throw out a ridiculous one.

Well, not really ridiculous. Um Call of Duty

motion controls will take off Don't even choke

Call of Duty before Christmas Oh, seriously?

No, okay. Yes, that's one I've got. Not the Christmas

one. That's just dumb. Going to the three -year

life cycle, I don't think this will, I'll be

kind of surprised if this pays off, but this

is more like a long -term prediction. I think

at some point in the next three years, there

will be, microtransactions will be added to Call

of Duty, and you may be able to buy just the

multiplayer for 20 bucks. I agree half with you.

Because I think that from the trend that I've

been noticing, and especially it kind of presented

itself way worse in Ghost, is that they've been

playing around with microtransactions without

actually charging you anything. Yeah, getting

you used to the idea of buying individual things

Exactly, and I think that things you want right

it really hit home with ghosts and the stupid

squad points because now I have a ton of squad

points But I don't want us. I don't have nothing

to spend them on because I've already bought

everything I want that makes and I you're flying

pretty shit Well, I'm not even buying anything.

I'm just like it's just sitting there So I'm

I feel like it might not be it might be Treyarch

that does it first it might not be sledgehammer

Like but it might be Treyarch that does it so

it might be next year, but at some point one

of the next three call of duties will introduce

microtransactions. I predict that I'm probably

not going to buy any more call of duties. I can

totally see that happening like an optional thing,

but I also I they're not going to drop it down

at 20 bucks from all the clear only for the simple

fact that they though call of duties are as close

to a freaking guaranteed sale as you can possibly

have. Yep. So you think it'd be $60 with Microtransactions?

I think it'll be a $60 game, full game. I mean,

they may spend less doing the single players.

You know, actually, I kind of agree with you,

but I think there's gonna be, because especially

with Titanfall being a multiplayer -only game,

I think they're gonna feel like they can get

away with it as well. The only issue I see is

that Titanfall and Respawn, but we all know that

EA can go behind Respawn's back, Respawn has

said that microtransactions will not be in Titanfall

Even though it does have microtransaction -esque

hooks, especially with the burn cards but they

They've said that they don't have they have zero

plans to implement them I'm wondering if I just

think for a for the average gamer even for like

the hardcore gamer I think if they tried to charge

$60 with microtransactions I think there would

be a backlash, but I could be wrong, because

most of the things you expect people to get mad

about, they don't get mad about. With other games,

yes. With Call of Duty, nope. Call of Duty is

that that's the game where they can literally

do pretty much anything they want. And people

are still going to buy it. People will be knocking

each other. down to get that game. I don't I

see. Here's the thing. Ghost didn't do as well.

Ghost still did really well, but it didn't do

like I think Ghost was like the first down sale

they've had since like four. Oh, no. Only 30

million copies. But whatever. But that's kind

of a big, you know, that's enough to get people

scared. So they're trying to incentivize another

revenue stream in there. But the other I just

and I'm wondering how much of that had to do

with the transition. Possibly. Waiting to buy

ghosts until they get their next gen. Well, there

was also that but they see that counts as a copy

sold, right? So I mean, but they only made ten

dollars off of that second copy So no, no, I'm

saying people people that didn't buy it on on

current gen systems are like, you know I'm gonna

hold off people like me like I have an Xbox but

I'm going to PlayStation now note like, you know

Say I'm a really huge call of duty or knowing

that my things not gonna have to do it all over

duty Children children Anyways, so say I know

I'm going to that so my thing wouldn't transfer

anyways I'll just wait till my next gen system

and I'll buy the game then I have a feeling that

over the next year they're gonna that state that's

gonna have a staying power of ghosts being sold

Of those those numbers are obviously they dropped

off from you know launch all games do but that's

not gonna Twitter out like I disagree because

I think anybody any hardcore Call of Duty fan

that was waiting for the next gen system Probably

already has an action system with a copy of ghosts

some do some can't afford it Or some can't find

a ps4 Also or some are like they tripped over

an Xbox one on the way to get the game They're

playing all over the place. All right. So I guess

I do have a few more predictions. Yay. I do.

I predict that we're going to get a Borderlands

2 Game of the Year edition complete version.

Oh, you stole that. For Xbox One. With all the

headhunter stuff? By the end of the year. I think

we'll get a lot because they just announced that

the one that just came out was the last one or

the one coming out. Yeah. And I also, and I also

predict that, uh, it's not going to be as evident

this year, but I think it's going to be more

evident next year is you're going to start to

see the bigger companies, um, shy away more from

distributing disk wise. And I think throughout

this entire generation, I think we're going to

start to see a lot more push towards digital.

I think we're going to see now once the, uh,

By September, when all the next gen consoles

are a little more established and have a year

under their belt, I think we're going to see

more of a divergence in prices between digital

games and hard copies of games to push people

into that digital direction. I hope you're right

on that one. In theory, digital gaming is awesome.

I can download it. I don't have to go to the

store to get it. It's on my thing. Whatever.

I don't have to worry about changing discs. But

it's still the fact that I pre -ordered my copy

of Thief at Best Buy because it's 60 bucks. Yeah.

And if I download it and pre -order the digital

copy, it's 60 bucks. Yeah, I'm not saving anything.

If I'm not saving anything, I'd rather have a

physical copy. Now, if there's a $10 difference,

just a just $10 difference. I would go with the

digital copy. Absolutely. See, I would pay 10

bucks to have the physical copy. This is one

trend I hope does not go. You're not going to

win that one. You're not going to win that one.

It'll eventually be digital only, and that saddens

me. And you know why, Joe? Because of the fact,

and this is how they're going to get people like

you, because this is how they got me, because

I was very much adamant about the fact that I

didn't want to go digital. But when they come

out with sales, like this week, on the PlayStation

network where they have all the Rockstar games

for so dirt cheap that I can buy LA Noire for

seven bucks, that I can buy a complete Max Payne

with all the DLC for six bucks, that I can buy

Red Dead Redemption for four bucks for digital

copies. They had one going on Xbox too. I came

so close to getting dishonored for like eight

bucks I just yeah and it's if they keep doing

sales like this and what they're doing is they're

giving you these games for dirt cheap to buy

the digital version of it and then you'll be

like well now I'm buying all these digital ones

at these really really low prices and then you

get used to buying those digital ones and then

you're noticing that it doesn't bother you as

much as you originally thought it did Until you

have to upgrade your heart slowly kind of breaks

down in it because I was the exact same way that

I'm just like I don't know about this if the

discount was there and the value is there I Don't

need to have the physical copy and I can I will

Never spend more than $20 for any game digital

copy only They will never sell me a $60 digital

game at 20 bucks for a digital only game It had

better be a really, really good game. I have

no problem spending three, five, seven bucks.

Okay, seven bucks is starting to get like, do

I really want to play it? But I just, I couldn't

do it. It'll kill me. It'll totally kill me.

I realize what my problem is with digital games.

Yes, the price is there. Like if it's $60 in

the store and it's $60 online, yeah, sure, I'd

probably rather have the physical copy. But really,

and I realized this when I was out to dinner

tonight, What gets me is that I don't want to

have to wait until 5 p .m. on Tuesday to download

my digital copy I want to be able to down that

at 1201 Like I'd be able to if I just went to

the store at midnight. I'm sorry if if you're

able to download a game I Should be able to get

it a hell of a lot more before than that release

date Download a digital copy kind of like, you

know how like on I don't know if they do some

PlayStation you want to be able to preload it

They know they do know. Well, yeah, I'm not sure

this on PlayStation, but Xbox is a thing They

have all the time with like movies be like, oh

download it now pre DVD. Oh, yeah Okay, I see

your say nights. Yeah, you can get the digital

copy the weekend before Yeah, because you don't

have it doesn't have to be a ship to the store

They don't have to worry about it that one I

know that one I agree with but I also think they

should allow at least the preloading and the

game should unlock at midnight like they need

to adopt that from steam and because they can't

Yeah, but how many people have cracked that and

able to unlock their games before midnight? No

one. Not that I've heard. They can do everything.

It's the interest. It's going to be interesting

for me because I've bought my first digital game.

Which was? I've already bought and paid for my

copy of Second Son on PlayStation now. I was

debating on whether or not to make Titanfall

my first digital game, but... Like I said, I

want to be able to play it at midnight, you know?

Yeah. And if I can't do that, I mean, it's kind

of... That sounds kind of stupid. There's no

way I'm going to play Titanfall at midnight on

Monday because I have to work at like six, seven

AM. I'm not I'm not going to do that. But if

I stop being an adult. But if I let Amazon say

midnight, things are anything for me anymore.

I'm too old for that. But if I had but if I wait

for Amazon delivers the game, Amazon delivers

the game on Tuesday while I'm at work, then it's

at least here when I get home and I can get it

immediately. So it's kind of like but I can also

queue it up to start down. If I could, I would

queue it up to start downloading at midnight

and I go to bed and it would be the same thing.

But if I can't. It goes for the Xbox one or the

ps4 if I can't Start downloading a game at midnight

so that I can play it like all day on Tuesday

Like if I went and bought a copy, I really don't

want to buy it digitally. It's not so it's not

so much the price It's about being able to play

it When I want to play it. Yeah, so it's That's

kind of where I am It's not reliable enough for

me to be totally on board with digital Sam in

the middle of downloading the download the game,

right? I'm at like 90 % Power outage happens

happens sometimes up here shitty USA electric

If I'm not missing I have to wait the new consoles.

I think have a resume function Yeah, they do

no no no it'll pick it'll pick up, but or like

I'm sorry I didn't mean to say power outage.

I meant to say like something internet yeah internet

drops out yeah No, I totally get it. It'll pick

up when it's got the internet. I had the physical

copy Well, I can't plan on but at least I can

chill through the you know I can still play this

game that I've already They already have my money

for the whole online thing is something we can

do with another episode Yep, but I did you get

a chance to actually finish off your Borderlands

2 game of the year thing? Which is that it would

be a next -gen release? Yeah, I said that I didn't

know I didn't know if anyone heard you say that

so oh I did I did not hear him Yeah, my prediction

is that yeah, we'll get a Borderlands 2 next

-gen. We will all give me your relief. Nope Nope

Fool me once Actually, no, I could probably play

through the single I was gonna say I would probably

buy it on the ps4 because All the DLCs are included

with would you do it if it was 40 bucks? I? Would

do it if it was 60 would you really yeah? I Spent

60 bucks to pay and play all those DLCs that

I never paid for because that's pretty much how

much it would cost if i go back on 360 and get

live usually when uh they release their game

they're ones with all this stuff it's not full

price i bet it will be if it's a next gen release

yeah if it's a next gen i will put money on the

fact that it's full price see i would i would

probably do that too because ali's been itching

to play through it you know like she's she never

played through the dlc i would at least be willing

to go through the game again on at least play

through one Yeah, and we did at least know which

DLC is to skip. True. Sir Hammerlock, fuck you.

Although he has Son of Cromerax in his DLC now.

No, his new one. The new one. But it's in that

DLC. Like, isn't it like in that land? It's a

patch for that DLC. Yeah, I don't think you have

to go through that, his storyline though. No,

I don't think you have to, but I think it's in

that realm. Because I don't think you have to

own Sir Hammerlock's thing to also own that.

Don't think it requires you to buy one DLC to

get the second one. I Guess we'll find out I

think I'm not sure anybody else have any predictions

for 2014. No We're gonna move on we're gonna

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So we're going to start something new here, which

is probably once a month will sit down and give

you a list of the upcoming month in games and

let you know what is coming out. And we're going

to start by doing the 2014 March releases and

go over the the upcoming schedule of games that

you will be seeing in March. And we will start

with March 6th. So far, the stick of truth will

be coming to PC, PS3 and the Xbox 360. Who's

getting this? I'm totally buying this after seeing

a 13 minute preview. Will you get on 360? You're

going to get PlayStation 3. I'm not. I'm going

to get on PlayStation 3. Well, no, here's the

problem. No, there's no reason to get on the

360. There's no multiplayer. Exactly. Oh, there's

is there not? No, no. It's single player only.

Did not know that I thought it was I just I guess

I just assumed it was multiplayer You could have

sworn at one point they said it was gonna be

multiple way back when maybe it's a it's a real

playing game It's a turn -based role -playing

game that is set in the world's South Park if

you have not Gone online and watch the 13 minute

preview of gameplay. Please go online and watch

it. It is a riot It looks hilarious. It is true

We watched like six or seven more videos at work

today. And just everything I see just makes me

laugh even harder than the last thing. I did

not think I was going to care for that game until

I I didn't even watch the whole thing, because

I said I know I've heard about South Park in

like five or six years. So I know I've liked

South Park recently because it's actually been

kind of funny. So I don't know. I've always I've

always had a soft spot for it. The their their

their take on the BP oil spill was. Yes. We're

sorry. We're sorry. We're sorry. We're sorry

Anyways, it's gonna be I don't know. Is it gonna

be 20 bucks? It's gonna be 60. Is it really?

Yeah I'll see if they lost me. Oh, I'll wait

for that to hit PlayStation Plus Well, if we

know what their limits are. I'm sorry. I have

a $20 gift card to Toys R Us. So I have I have

way too many other games between this coming

Tuesday and the end of March to buy to buy South

Park. Yeah. So also the release is the following

week are any Adelier Esha and Logie. alchemists

of the dual skies. I'm going to go ahead and

guess there that on the cover of that game there

are big blue -haired people with giant eyes and

big breasts. Yes. Yep. Wow. PS3. Just went right

for it. I'm assuming it's the... One will have

pigtails. Yep. The male. I'm assuming it's in

the Adolir saga, which was on PS2. I'm assuming

it's another sequel to that saga of games. And

it'll probably be some strategy RPG that's by

NS... America or whatever the fuck. So if you're

into that kind of thing, awesome. Dark Souls

2 also comes out that day on PC, PS3 and 360.

I want to buy Dark Souls 2 just to bring it over

to Joe's house with my game capture thing and

have him play it. Just so you can watch the frustration.

Yes, I can stick so I can live stream his frustration

because it could because the First game I expected

to be just as hard and just as frustrating and

just as old -school video game because just It's

one of the few games is out there that just I

think is built is specifically to just torment

people I would love to live stream it with Joe.

Yeah I'd love to see him throw a controller.

I'll bring one of mine. She doesn't Also on the

11th of March little game little games Titanfall

released on PC and Xbox one. Okay moving along

don't need to talk about We've already talked

about time. Yeah, we talked it. Well, what else

do you have to say? Wait, we've talked about

it. I've talked about it I've tried to convince

some people I got dinner to watch like an hour

of it on Twitch It's cool. I mean, don't get

me wrong. It's cool. I like the fast paced nature

of it and it looks like a fun game. But once

again, I'm not buying an Xbox. I'm not spending

500 bucks. That is complete. That is completely

understandable. Yeah, it is to me. To me, I think

for some people, yes, it is going to be a system

seller. I think this is also the first major

good game that's going to be out for the Xbox

one. I think this is going to be this is the

Halo two as Halo is the Xbox Titan falls Xbox

one. I think that'll Halo five comes out for

Xbox. Halo five. Yeah. This is going to be the

first game that none of us remember next year.

No, no, no, I don't think so. Chromehounds, here

we come. Oh, jeez. Wow. I don't... I don't really...

By next year, there will be something else that

you care about more. I absolutely guarantee it.

I think... Well, here's the... You write that

down because watch. I like Titanfall. I've been

playing the beta and I really enjoy it. And I

think one of the reasons I really enjoy it is

because it reminds me a lot of Call of Duty 4.

Yeah, I remember the big max in Call of Duty

4 is really fun Yeah, so and here's the thing

it was made it's it's made by most of Infinity

Ward like when the guys left after Call of Duty

2 or Modern Warfare 2 like Most of that team

left infinity war has been a shell since that

game This is what they have been working on since

2010 like this is a game That's like what do

they bring to a first -person shooter that other

first -person shooters don't have there's a level

they have a level of There's a certain amount

of level design that goes into into a first -person

shooter and just the way that it plays and the

way that it feels when you're playing it and

Titanfall there's been there's a level of Like

the maps and call it we've Dan and Dan or and

I and Jason and and Sean's that you'll probably

agree the maps in Call of Duty have not been

as good as they were in Call of Duty 4 like no

those maps you call it the maps in Call of Duty

4 are still like really really good and they're

and they put those in Call of Duty 2 or Modern

Warfare 2 as like part of like DLC bundles and

like that got us to buy those because those big

What was that vacant vacant overgrown? Was wet

work? No, wet work was not in it. Wet work was

two. Wet work wasn't the first one. It was the

boat. Yeah, it was the boat. Yeah, was that...

I can't remember. That was in four. That was

Call of Duty 4. Was that four? Yep. Yep. But

some of those maps are classic, and these are

the guys that made those maps. And playing on

the two maps in the beta, they really... I mean,

they're not... It's not vacant and overgrown,

which were part of the Call of Duty 4 beta, but

they are really good maps. And they just The

It feels like the level progression is there.

It's not you don't feel like you're just getting

like junk. It's In the past few Call of Duty

games It's been like you level up and then you

have to spend something to like you level up

and you unlock something But then you have to

spend something to actually achieve it this one

They definitely have that carrot on a stick that

makes you want to keep playing Which is every

time you level up you get something new and you're

always getting something they they They get that

carrot, you know, the carrot stick thing, which

has just been kind of they, they brought that

to Call of Duty four and no one's really gotten

it right since then. And this, this is like,

it's, it's, this is that distilled and they brought

that team. Like these guys have been working

together. They've done interviews and stuff.

These guys have been working together for 10

years. It's not, they didn't, you know, they

started with Call of Duty. They started before

that with Medal of Honor at EA. Oh my God, would

you just get a room with the damn game? I'm just

saying. Yeah, I know. Like you're just blowing

the load all over. Fine. So many more games to

go over on this list. Jesus. Yes, we know you're

excited about Titanfall. I'm excited for you

about Titanfall. The next game I'm looking forward

to as well. March 14th, Yoshi's New Island for

the 3DS. I can't wait to throw Higgs. I didn't

know about this game until I saw it on this list.

I want to see video of it. It looks just like

Yoshi's Island. I'm sure it's going to be awesome.

I don't have a 3DS, so it really doesn't. It

looks like Yoshi's Island. In fact, they're supposed

to redo, I guess the the plot behind it is that

they drop the babies off at the wrong house.

At the end of the first one. So the the running

gag is maybe they'll actually drop them off in

Brooklyn this time. March 18th sees the HD remastered

re -release of Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy

X2 for the PS3 and PS Vita. I will not be purchasing

either of these games since I find them to be

the lowest of low points in the entire series

of Final Fantasy. I think Final Fantasy X2 is

a travesty at the fact that it even exists and

I still refer to it as Barbie dress up Final

Fantasy. So I won't waste any more time talking

about those two stupid games and Waka is one

of the worst characters ever made. With that

being said, Waka Waka Waka Metal Gear Solid 5

Ground Zeroes releases on the PS3, PS4, 360 and

Xbox One. This is the one that's like the It's

the 40 dollar prologue that will be coming out

for Metal Gear Solid 5 The Phantom Pain. And

the only thing that has me nervous about this

is the rumored early talk about this game. Is

it the campaign section that is our game? Two

hours from two hours. OK, not even four. That

means you're paying. $20 an hour for entertainment.

I know that's like three blow jobs inside, but

I think now Mike probably knows more about this

than I do, but I'm it it's open world, isn't

it? Yes, it's open around zeroes is so I mean,

I think there's gonna be a lot of stuff to do

and I bet it's just the story line is probably

just. The missions that they've included that

are actually story related are probably only

two, three hours long. From what I understand,

they're kind of taking the same approach that

Prologue took. Well, yeah, that Gran Turismo

5 Prologue did. Prologue, yeah. They're kind

of using this to help. It's like their own little

version of a Kickstarter. So you pay $40 for

this. You're going to help fund the rest of the

game, even though they don't really need it.

But more than that is... I guess they think that

the core gameplay in Metal Gear Solid V is so

radically different from previous Metal Gears

that this is like a tutorial. You're paying $40

for a digital instruction manual, so you get

like your two, I'm gonna say three, two to three

hours of story, because we both know we're gonna

watch five hours of a movie. And then I think

so you're going to get that. So you get your

connection to Phantom Pains and then they're

going to give you a bunch of side quests and

objectives to show you like, yeah, and you can

do this in the world and you can do that. And

the weather, look, it's raining. Look at all

the lightning in the skies. And this is from

what I've come to understand that Ground Zeroes

is the end of a big boss's story where Phantom

Pains is the start of. Solid snake story. I thought

ground zeros would lead I for some reason phantom

pain sounds like it takes place before metal

gear and I think I think But I think grounds.

I think I think ground zeros Takes obviously

takes place before metal gear and I think and

it leads into phantom pain I think you're gonna

play metal I think phantom pain will end leading

into metal gear like yeah with I think you're

gonna play through big boss or play with you

know Big Boss as he's founding new outer haven

Yeah. I think that's the name of it. But I think

you're going to it's going to end somewhere in

there. I think you do spend the game playing

as big boss. I don't know that. Because I'm pretty

you play. I'm pretty sure Phantom Pain is solid.

Well, that would be great because we haven't

played a solid snake in a long time. Good solid

snake in a long time. So I'm. I'm intrigued,

but I'm hesitant about this game at the same

time. You can borrow my copy. I know that's probably

what's gonna happen Also March 18th is the release

a Yabba Ninja Gaiden Z for Windows PS3 and 360

No idea what the fuck this game's about. It's

Ninja Gaiden. I don't know why they're calling

it Yabba Ninja Gaiden Z Why not just call Ninja

Gaiden Z? But regardless, March 21st is the release

of the infamous second son for the PS4, which

I know I'm excited about. I know Mike's excited

about. I know Joe doesn't get excited about anything.

And then Sean, well, whatever his opinion is.

I mean, I will play it, but I'm not as in love

with the whole series as you are. I think it'll

be a cool game. It'll be a cool game to play.

But I'm not. Have you played any of the infamous

games? I played the first most of the first one,

and I've played bits and pieces of the second

one, just like friends and stuff. I played half

of the first until the difficulty wall nailed

me and I can't play it anymore. Well, Chauncey,

you're in for a treat. Well, is how different

is this one supposed to be from the rest of the

series? I mean, I know you're playing as a new

hero, right? Sadly well is to have they said

if the other if what's cold is in it he died

unknown Cold died if you finish it as on good.

There's a question mark Yes, and it doesn't have

they are announced if this takes it's after it's

after It's after two so no, but I mean does this

does this does this follow the good ending or

the bad ending the good? the good ending I see

That's the one thing I hate about games that

have good endings and bad endings, is that the

next game ultimately picks one to be like, oh,

this is the actual ending. Yeah. It's usually

the good ending. Mass Effect generally death

though, right? No, because Mass Effect, it's

all cyclical. I mean, it all. It all comes back

down to one thing. All comes back. Every single

one of your choices in Mass Effect. It's affecting

things later. Yeah, it's all like it walking

dead is the same way too No matter what choices

you make you almost end up with the same stuff

at the end. Yeah, so All right, March 25th is

the release of blaze blue Chrono fanatism for

ps3, which blaze blue is a fighting game Japanese

style skip. Yep deception for blood ties for

ps3 ps Vita Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls expansion

for Windows PC and Mac, which I'll be excited

when it comes to consoles. We'll get that. You're

going to you're on on the PS on the next gen

stuff. It's 1080p at 60 frames a second, at least

on the PS4. I'll have it on the PS4. So I'm just

I'm only saying that because it's a I don't think

I've seen anything run at 1080p 60 frames a second

on the Xbox one. Well, that game isn't too craziness.

Yeah, but there are other games that can't even

like Tomb Raider doesn't. Yeah, Tomb Raider's

got to have a lot more crazy, more detail in

it. But it's not. I don't think it'll run that

high anyway. Smite is coming up for Windows.

What? The Witch and the Hundred Knight comes

out for the PS3 and Titanfall is released on

the 360 Council. I want to see Titanfall on the

360. I'm interested to see what it looks like.

I'm wondering if it. Hall's ass like the The

PS the Xbox one version. I'm excited. I'll actually

play that I'll read that or something. Yeah Yeah

that I can actually check it out play March 28th

is the release of Professor Layton versus Phoenix

Wright Ace Attorney and 3ds which There's nothing

about this title that doesn't just excite me

this will probably be a game that I would I will

pick up when I buy a 3ds yeah this is one of

those things that like if I was I've heard like

a lot of people that are into the portable games

are just really excited for this but again it's

I don't have one so I don't care latent is fun

so yeah I've heard that isn't that um like puzzles

yep yep this next one my wife and I played that

together in March 31st sounds like a game for

Joe of Shovel Knight on 3DS, Wii U, and Windows.

I just think Shovel Knight. I think Shovelware.

I want to say I've heard about this game and

I just for some reason can't place it for some

reason. There's a lot of games on this list I

haven't heard of. I've definitely heard of or

not heard of more than I've heard of. For a second

I thought that witch in the 100 night one when

I just saw the witch I thought it was going to

say witcher. That's what I did. I was going to

be like what? I was like, wait, this soon? Oh,

so that is the list of, uh, games for, for March

foot. Well, with things that have actual release

dates. Um, so yeah. Uh, is it, and, uh, yeah,

that, that will do it for off the cuff. Um, you

have. I have been your host this week, Art Danner.

You can find me on Twitter at Art Danner or on

PlayStation Network at X51 the Machine Man. Mike?

You can find me on Twitter, Xbox Live, the PlayStation

Network, and Twitch .tv at Booth Ninja 81. Joe?

Oh, you can't find me anywhere but Facebook at

Geek Stuff Garage Sale. Yeah, send me a message.

I'd love to hear from you. Or on Twitter at Joe

Read Geek. Yeah, I forgot. I don't even. Can

I log in? I forgot my password. Can I log into

Twitter? Talk to your wife every once in a while.

On Twitter? She sits next to me on the couch.

She can show you how to use it. Sean. I have

been. What was it? Captain Callback? You can

find me on Twitter at at Sean Z Brown. You can

find me on Xbox Live at Weapon87. You'll soon

be able to find me on PlayStation Network at

Weapon87, I believe, also. It's been that long.

Wow. I still have you on my friends list. You

should realize the fact that you're unoriginal.

So what, you still have four people on your friends

list? I have more than four people on my PlayStation

friends list. How many? Ten. I got at least nine.

Ten, twelve. So I still haven't met anyone new.

What's really weird is no one talks on the Xbox

one. Really? Because that was the opposite of

the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Well, actually,

what's really weird, when I was streaming the

other night with Danner, there was one guy that

was chastising another player, but I quickly

muted him. Well, that's good. It's good to know

that that fan base is still there. I was like,

oh, good. At least it hasn't completely changed.

Well, remember until next time, Jill here is

a lockpick. It might come in handy if you, the

master of unlocking, take it with you.