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yo we're back high chat two streams one day yeah a little bit you
You know, a little bit, you know, we out here,
we're trying to get it.
Tomorrow's the big day.
This might be the last time in our lives
that we don't know if we don't know
about Final Fantasy VII, part three.
It might be the last time in our lives
waiting for this shit for frigging 15 years or some shit, man.
This is the dawn of the final day.
Like literally, dude, two XKO trailer,
You got Harada popping off.
Harada literally reinforcing shit that I've been saying.
Like, I love it.
I love it that Harada came out and defended his team,
defended like the people that he's been working with.
Like literally popping off on the Tekken community
cause he does not need to be called.
He doesn't work for them anymore.
Like, damn dude.
Harada is the most real one out there.
We'll go over it cause there's a lot of stuff
that he specifically, there's a lot of stuff
that he specifically is like debunking
of how the community reacts to certain things
and how the community targets certain people.
All that kind of shit, you know what I mean?
Max seems pretty confident.
I don't know, dude, I'm just feeling it.
Like after the latest rumors and I feel like this is it.
Hamaguchi's also in town, right?
Um, apparently he's going to be on IGN, so that's a big deal, dude.
Um, like IGN live or something like that.
That's what's also going down.
Um, yeah.
So I don't know.
He's on the IGN live show.
We're going to check out the two XKO trailer dude.
What was his name set?
Um, thrash, thrash, thrash, thrash just got announced.
Uh, he seems very cool.
We, it's funny.
We were just watching trailers last night and then how's that bitch?
I'm gonna check it out who got to see the avatar stuff
Kiyoshi's pretty fun. I realized after fighting Simmons with a fast character. She's hard to use
But she's gonna be one of those characters once you get used to her. I think she's gonna be really fun
I'm actually looking forward to I'm looking forward to Kiyoshi more than I am Azula now
because believe it or not, I don't know if I love the whippy zippy characters in this like Azula and
And who else was it?
Azula, and who's the dive kick guy?
God damn, my brain is fried.
No, Korra, no, Zuko, thank you.
God damn, chat, my fucking brain.
Remembering characters.
I like Korra.
Korra was whippy zippy in different ways.
Ridley enough, Kiyoshi took some getting used to,
but I like how much goddamn damage she's doing, dude.
Like, holy hell.
Avatar Legends looks insane, especially for $40.
I got good news for you.
It's not $40.
It's $30.
It's actually 30, it's even cheaper than that.
So, yeah.
You're talking about the tall blue people, right?
Yes, yes, Avatar Legends.
Legends of Pandora, the fighting game.
Yeah, it's 30.
You guys didn't know that?
Avatar Legends is 30, maybe 40 Canadian.
40 with the season pass,
but the base game is $29.99, right?
Am I misquoting?
I'm not sponsored for any of this.
You have to correct me if I'm wrong.
Do you know she seems like the big tank of the game?
Yeah, in a way.
She has a lot of directional command movement.
So it's cool.
I just think she looks cool, dude.
I like all these characters that have
a multitude of avatar elemental stuff at their disposal,
which is what Korra had.
She has a bit of everything.
This guitar in the game, yes, and she was breaking the game, right?
She was breaking the game.
Why'd the stream get unlisted?
Did it?
No, every single stream after the stream concludes is unlisted
until I make it live.
And I just got back, so I made it live.
So if you're looking forward to the Kyoshi stream,
it is live on YouTube right now.
I just made the whole VOD live.
So Nico and everybody else, I just figured,
best if I just make the Vod live and I put it on the sub channel.
You mean, meaning Azula? I don't think so. I don't know. I think she's okay. I'll have to mess
around. I'm going to be playing a lot of different characters in the game, but I really liked Kiyoshi.
I really did. I don't know if I liked Toph too much. Kora, I liked a lot and I really did Kiyoshi.
I'm curious who else I want to play, at least right now. I need to put more time into, I need
I need to put more time into Azula to really get the hang of it.
I might be a Korakiyoshi player, yeah, no kidding.
Or Saka, I didn't get to play Saka at all.
Dude, we barely got to play anything.
There was so much stuff to cover on the characters and shit
that I got to play like two matches,
like two or three matches and that was about it.
So eventually we'll, I'll get some games in,
remember where the heck the buttons are and shit.
Azula looks very fun.
Yeah, she looks good too.
Your odds Kojima shows up whatever to Mark Kojima.
Kojima usually shows up to Jeff things. I don't know if I'll have anything to announce, right?
I don't know if I'll have anything to announce.
What are your next picks for Tokon DLC?
It's pretty much the Ghostwriter team is Blade.
It was the other one. It was Blade, Scarlet Witch, and...
There's one more on there. Punisher.
Blade Scarlet Witch Punisher, unlike Team Midnight Sons.
That could also be Moon Knight.
Yeah, that's who I think it's gonna be.
Moon Knight makes sense because there was a comic book thing.
But Scarlet Witch being an antihero, this could be.
Dude, the teams don't make any goddamn sense in Tokon.
They make no fucking sense.
Like, they're doing whatever the hell they want and they're just giving it a team name, you know?
So they can put any good guy on a bad guy team and just make it make sense.
And that's fun. Yeah, exactly. It does not lead us to, we know exactly how this is going to be. We know exactly how all the teams are going to go.
I think the whole point of Tokon as a game is that it's not something that is going to line up with all of the characters you know and love from previous games.
I'm pretty sure if Venom shows up as DLC, he's going to be like Agent Venom or something like that, because Carnage already has a ton of Venomisms all over the place, dude.
They really didn't try to distinguish his playstyle completely different than Venom
It kind of is like big and bulky like Venom and he also has a lot of Venom looking shit
So it's like oh, you know carnage is sort of like we don't really need Venom because carnage is just red Venom at this point
He's not like small and scrawny and sharp, which is what they could have done with him. No, he's like big and bulky
So it's like damn
Carnage is pretty awesome. Holy shit. This is really cool
I'm probably one of the coolest looking characters in the game. So at that point, I'm gonna be real
I wanted Venom more than probably any other character outside of like X-Men
But I'm cool because Carnage is doing it for me dude. Like most of that stuff
Looks like Venom at that point. Yeah, if you just paint him black like black and white, he would look like Venom
so anyway
If Venom did show up it would be a weird version of Venom and by weird
I mean like one that has not been in a fighting game historically
Which would be like agent venom or something like that a lot of people have said that before but venom with guns and shit
You know, you might just not make it. Yeah, you might I don't think is I don't think I think he's definitely not making it into the base roster
But you might just not make it at all
Which is fine
Just fine. It's okay
boy
Wow, are we threshing?
I'm definitely, I need to check out that full trailer.
Is there a full trailer for Thresh as well as a character breakdown?
Is there both?
I need it.
Shout outs to JJ for she fixed full gore chat.
It was very nice of her.
She fixed full gore.
It was very nice of her.
Just a trailer.
There's no character breakdown.
I want a character breakdown.
How did Fogor die?
The back of him, the old cardboard.
He's completely reinforced in the back.
And I have to put him together like once every few years.
And he kind of buckles in the middle.
So the cardboard isn't connected anymore.
So you have to find ways to like reinforce the back of him.
But like wood planks, like mini venture wood planks and sticks in the back.
And tape it all down so that he stands up.
Got to charge his butt batteries.
He's top heavy.
No, it's a mega tip.
No, it's a mega top heavy standee. That's like eight feet tall type shit. So you should see how big this fucking thing is, dude.
Popsicle six, literally big popsicle sticks from, uh, Michael's and shit. That's how it works.
Anyway, hi. Did you guys like the Kyoshi breakdown? Was it fun?
I really want to play that game now.
Right. I got to get like a little taste. I got to get a little taste of the game again after like not playing a ton of it
since like even beta one I didn't get to play beta two that much and man I really
want to play more I really want to play more it's very fun very fast-paced dude
so I love it that Kyoshi is breaking all the norms like all of the way she she
moves and operates is very different like the way she does shit is very
different than the other characters in the game I think that's mad cool dude
He looks sleepy. I am. Fuck you. Anyway, I think Devs of the Place was really cool.
I thought it was up in a few times before. It's not that weird. You think FF7 is gonna
be playable this weekend? You're saying FF7 isn't going to be just, FF7 isn't going to be just
shown that it will be playable? I hope so, dude. I hope so. I really hope so. I have a pretty good
feeling. I just have a really good feeling. This feels like it. Like too many things are lining up.
Hamaguchi and Nomura on stage, I don't know, but he's in town. He is in town. He's going to be at
IGN, either to talk about rebirth or something. I'm going to lose my goddamn mind if it's playable.
But this just feels like it, dude. I don't know. It feels like it's time. And especially with them
talking about multi-platform shit? No Nomurian text! Bro, what if he's there and he announces
Nomurian text? We have a message from our co-director, Tetsuya Nomura. And that's what
he's here to show. Nomurian text only. And then Jeff Keely is like, here you go! And
everyone just reads the Nomurian text.
Thank you for your continued support of Final Fantasy 7 series. We're eagerly
awaiting to bring you to Part 3. We're working extremely hard and we'll do our
best to deliver a satisfying conclusion in a way that brings the fans
together. Dearly yours, Tetsuya Nomura. Wow. Wow. And Jeff is like, alright everybody,
Thank you for coming to Summer Games Fest. We'll see you later.
That's exactly that.
Just the Nomurian text goes up and everyone's like.
That's a platform.
Oh, my God, dude, it would be something else.
You just be Kingdom Hearts one FM today.
Let's go Kingdom Hearts four.
Yeah, I hope you get what you want.
I hope you get what you want with scrolls like Star Wars.
Probably not.
Moonflayer, thanks for the five dudes.
Keyboard PC.
Thank you.
My bed is one of three FF7 three make reimagined what it could be revive what I think it is.
Everyone's so fascinated by the name of Revengeance what I want it to be.
I still am leaning on like not return, but returns here.
You want to hear something fucking crazy?
The more I think about it as time goes on, I don't know if Return or Returns make sense.
My GIFs subbed still hovers it, yeah right?
Yes, if Return or Returns, I still have a GIF subbed on that bitch, it's right there.
So I get it, I'm putting money down because that's what I sort of thought it's going to
be for a long time.
However, Final Fantasy VII Remake, you understand as you beat the game, is not describing the fact that it is a Final Fantasy VII Remake,
it's describing the intentions of a character to remake events.
Which characters' intentions do that belong to?
Sephiroth.
And it's like, oh yeah, this is kind of like talking about what Sephiroth is doing.
um final fantasy seven rebirth no characters in the game are technically getting reborn
maybe you can consider erith is like reborn by the end kind of um maybe but the majority of that
game is like technically about a character being reborn at the end of the story because like
Like, the final song is actually called Sephiroth Reborn or something like that.
It's talking about Sephiroth.
Like, it's about Sephiroth discovering a new way to exist in some way, right?
So what about Final Fantasy VII Returns slash Returns doesn't line up with that?
What's the implication of it being called Returns?
we're effectively returning to like the original Final Fantasy 7, right? We're returning and
going back to the OG, right? That's sort of the feeling that we are things are being restored
in some way. Yes, like exactly. That doesn't line up. And the more I thought about it is
that like that sort of aligns up with what the party wants, what Aerith would want, they
would she would want things to return without him, you know, it does not necessarily line
up with the motivations of what the series is technically about and discussing in in title,
which is actually Seferoth's intentions and what he's doing. It would have to be something else,
like, and that's where the initial presumption was, which was something like reclaim. What was the
other one? Reunite, reclaim, reunite. Starts to make a lot of sense. He already does the reunite
thing. That already happens. So I think the more we understand it, the more this story
is actually like Sephiroth's story. I don't know. Just it's just me because the first
two games are so focused on him. And I just don't think that return lines up with that
naming pattern. It doesn't. Doesn't necessarily. Why not reunion? There's they already used
it. Yeah, they've already talked about using it. Everyone I mean reunion would be the greatest
fucking thing ever, but it is already used. They use it on crisis core reunion.
What if I was to start with RE at all? It'd be weird, but it's weird that this is one of the
easiest discussion points of the entire trilogy moving forward, or has been since rebirth. And
when we know that like the re-re-rees are going to be the re-re-rees, it's weird, you know?
So I don't know. The more I think about it, reunite, reclaim, those more directly are an
association of what Sephiroth's goals are, or what his mystery goals are. We still don't
know what his endgame is. We don't. That's the whole mystery. They literally rectify
that fact in Part 2's first trailer, where it asks, this is Slam's the text right on
the screen, what is Sephiroth's endgame? Like it's different? And then Cloud exclaims what
his end game is that he wants to, you know, take over the planet and rule with Genova
at his side. There's a problem with that. So the cloud is the unreliable narrator. He's
wrong. Like he's not, he's not right about that shit. So it's like, oh, okay. So everything
that cloud is saying is fucking wrong. So until until he becomes like a normal character,
everything he says is fucking wrong. I don't know. I just don't think it's return or returns
anymore. I feel like I like the sound of it. I like the sound of Final Fantasy 7 Returns.
I like that shit. But it might be something else. Requiem would also make a lot of sense.
If it wasn't for Resident Evil Requiem that just came out, Requiem makes a lot of sense.
I don't know. Ken, thanks for the 5. It's about Sephiroth, but it's also about Aerith
wanting to challenge events so that Sephiroth is dead dead. You're not wrong. That's definitely
my interpretation as well. Slayer, well thanks for the five reunion, would have been a great
title for part three, Crysis Gord already taken it. Exactly, it's weird. Even the devs said that
that was weird. Returns is just so so expected it would make an exciting name drop. Yeah, exactly
subtext. Like, yeah, any ever crisis hence lately? I don't know. I don't know. Dude, I have to give
shout out to Blitz. He literally, the Final Fantasy 7 theory crafting horseshit continues
to this day chat. He sent me a message about the ending of rebirth that I don't know if
many people have seen until recently. FF7 rebirth ending. Check this shit out. He can't
believe we've been looking at this shit for two years now discussing it. At the
end, the very end, right before Cloud and everybody get on the ship, I'm curious
if this is what happens. Cloud looks up and sees the the death sky, right? He sees
the sky of death. This is minor spoilers for the end of rebirth if you guys are
playing this at the end right now on Switch, right? He sees the death sky. What
he told me to was to pay attention to Tifa's reaction here. It's not a theory. He said to look
at something. So let me let's just look at how Tifa reacts to this. And a reminder,
Tifa is the only other person in the party that has had direct connection to the live stream.
Like Tifa and cloud are directly connected to the live stream. You know, look at this.
Don't look up.
Well, now I gotta look.
Fine. But don't let it get to you.
Don't let what get to me. Huh? It's not real
Just an illusion. I don't know
Let's do I do he was saying that Tifa
Doesn't she turns and looks before everyone else and looks at cloud then looks down stone silent the whole time
Almost like she knows hold on a second
Almost like she knows that it's already there like she's seen it
Don't look maybe is a stretch
Well, now I've got to look fine, but don't let it get to you. Don't let what get to me?
I don't know. I feel like a stretch to me. Justin, it feels like a reach. Now let's go
get Sephiroth. It feels like a little if I'm little hiding up north, a little stretchy north.
She does eventually just look at it, you know?
Yeah, too richy.
Yeah, I'm down for theory and everything,
but no, I don't think that's hinting
towards anything specifically.
No, remember Max Cloud is like a schizophrenic?
Well, he is, he's seeing this shit.
The presumption was that Tifa could also potentially
see this shit because she's live stream connected.
Why did all the uh why do all the assholes in Dreamland right in Zach's world why do they all
see it well because they're technically like in the livestream right they're they're like connected
to the livestream and shit so they see it pretty much hinting that like the world is going to die
so I don't know I'm wondering I'm wondering
I love it that they just admitted it eventually. It's been so long and they've strung us along
for such a long period of time that they're like in all the recent interviews, yeah, we
pretty much put a ton of this stuff in the game so that you would theorycraft for a long time.
This is pretty much how we did it. We wanted to create questions and have those questions have no
answers until the final game so it's like neat neat you got me you got me yeah I
don't know man look at this crazy alien looks like a goddamn alien bro the
fucking goddamn alien anyway whatever is in that last trailer whatever is in that
last trailer, dude. Whenever it does show up. Here's my hope. I'm still keeping this
on here. Do I have anything else on there? Yes. If it's the full gameplay, this is an important
one. If it's actually a gameplay reveal and not a teaser, 200 gift subs. Like seriously, 200 gift
subs. I want this shit to have like a big reveal of some kind. And it could just be a teaser. Like
as a reminder, it could be a 30 second to 60 second teaser. That is just like, here's
the announcement, here's the title, here's like a small snippet of characters running
around and that's it, which is what they showed for FF7 Rebirth at first. That could happen.
Spamatron, thanks for the five. What are the odds that Suryansk wanted to use Requiem?
Saw Calcron specifically, Suryanari 9 and went, damn it. Pretty much what happened
with reunion. But if they had a demo announcement too, I think there will be a demo for the
game. There's been a demo for every single one of these games. There's a demo for almost
all of the big Square games nowadays. Yeah, it's gonna happen.
You want a three minute like Rebirth Summer Games Fest trailer? I do too. Yeah, I want
like, here's like three, two to three minutes of like reveal and gameplay. Man, I feel like
They've been talking about this shit for so long.
Uh, 20 bucks from KYH.
Thank you for having me to show part three trailer here
and not just wait for screening show.
Like they did with Rebirths first trailer.
That's a good point.
I mean,
Hamaguchi could be in town to hype up part three even more and also talk the good
shit about the switch version of rebirth.
That that game is still in its promotional phase.
You know what I mean?
So
It's not a guarantee. I just have a feeling. I have a good feeling on this one.
Feels like this is probably it. And just based on the way that everyone is
acting and reacting and what people are saying, it's like, I don't know man. It's
just like, might be the prime spot for it. This might be the biggest goddamn stream
of my life. Like no shit. Tomorrow might end up being so much so that I'm gonna
have to like start to stream way earlier. I think I'm gonna begin streaming
around noon chat to like get everybody on board and check
and shit out.
People are going to be upset if it doesn't show.
I think there's a chance of plenty of other things being
there.
Dude, we're going to find out.
I think this is almost a guarantee as well, right?
Let's talk about what is actually likely, right?
I think this is pretty likely at this point.
I think we're emotionally ready.
Final Fantasy VII fans, myself, we're emotionally ready.
This would still be bonkers.
I think this is really likely as well.
I think the chance of getting a real Virtual Fighter trailer, that's really likely.
This is pretty unlikely.
Really unlikely.
Maybe?
A new Resident Evil remake?
Yeah?
Pretty likely.
I think this is also pretty freakin' likely, dude.
Monster Hunter Iceborne?
Or Wilds Iceborne?
What the hell are they gonna call it?
Yeah, we're at that spot where we would be getting an expansion to Monster Hunter.
I mean, I was sort of surprised that it wasn't announced at the PlayStation thing.
So it's like, this is a big Capcom show, if it is.
Sorry, this one. DMC Remake, that's really unlikely. I just don't think that's necessarily happening just yet. I really want it to, but we're gonna find out what the hell happens to Street Fighter.
I'm fairly sure, dude. Like almost every Summer Games Fest has been Street Fighter announcements. Almost every single one, dude.
So, it's the Season 4 League fake. I think the majority of it is, yeah.
I do. So much so that I'm putting money that it's like Vega.
Just to see if all the leakers were right, because they've all said Vega and other characters,
so you know, about Tifa and Street Fighter.
No, I don't think that's real.
I think I'm putting money on this with the idea that this could mean that that could
happen.
I still think it's bullshit, because several leaks have come out and a lot of them have
been wrong.
So if Vega's in it, again, if we watch that trailer and all of a sudden Vega is at the
beginning of it, oh shit, 1,000 gift subs, bro, because that means that they weren't
actually bullshitting.
But here's the thing, several of them have not been lining up with what some leakers
have predicted before and some leakers have said then.
It's not all of it is directly cooperated.
So I don't know.
How much Tifa's in it?
I'm not betting on Tifa, because I think that's bullshit.
I still think the Tifa part of it is complete bullshit.
I don't think it's happening.
As soon as I read it, I didn't believe it.
I was like, what?
I still think that was entirely clickbait,
pay attention to me type shit.
So I don't know.
We'll see.
If it has all those characters that were in it,
and it's like, oh, fuck, they were actually legit.
What if it's not, though?
Then yeah, it's great.
Then I'm putting in a thousand gift subs for Vega, like legit.
I'm not betting on the thing
that I think is literally clickbait.
I don't think it is.
So, but if Vega's in it, then that's lining up, bro.
That lines up.
I'll do it.
New FromSoft game, I hope this happens.
Shit, dude.
Shit.
New Netherrealm game, I don't know if that's gonna happen.
Ease a section, thank you.
I don't know, it could, like it legit could.
We could get a new Warner Brothers NRS game tomorrow
and it's playable, like no kidding, playable at SGF.
I just don't feel like it's that time yet.
Feel like we gotta wait a little bit more.
Maybe like, maybe next year, I don't know.
Three years though, I know, right?
It's been three years since they showed
Mortal Kombat 1 at SGF.
It's been three years.
All right, NRS Games, usually playable at reveal,
they were, they are, and they have been.
They get shown right before E3, and then we play it at E3.
They get shown right at Summer Games Fest,
and we played it at Summer Games Fest.
So thank you, Section, my god, dude.
I think this is also very likely,
based on the announcement from Offspring, bro.
Bro!
Vega's pretty likely even without the other leagues.
Yeah, he's been in the story mode and all that shit.
I know, I know.
But Vega's the one that lines up every single time
they start talking about the big T.
So anyway, we're talking about Crazy Taxi.
I think this is also pretty likely
based on the offspring announcement.
Offspring's dropping a song on this day chat.
And they took a picture of them in a taxi.
like in the big backseat of a taxi.
Like what the fuck? So I don't know man, things are lining up there.
It's for the trailer. I know, it seems like they're gonna have like exclusive new music for the game.
I don't know dude. Pure coincidence.
Nothing to see here. Pure coincidence.
We all know this isn't happening. This is pretty unlikely. This is really unlikely. This is very unlikely.
This is super on these are just throwing darts at a dream dartboard
This is this is probably gonna happen Kingdom Hearts 4 is probably gonna happen all this should have probably happened
And then yeah, there's the elaborate crumble verse came back and Stella blade, you know a few things in here
I think are actually pretty high probabilities of happening and to be honest if even half of those happen then
Then it'd be pretty crazy. What about smash probably not
no that
Nintendo I don't think would save a giant first-party game announcement if or teaser for a Jeff Kealy show
I think they would wait till their own Nintendo direct for that
Yo cloud, thanks for the 10. Could year 4 have Vega and a Tekken guest character, Kazooia?
I mean it was the idea that we think they're gonna do to guest characters still
Maybe I mean it would be surprised if Tekken crossed over into Street Fighter, but we already know that's not happening to Tekken
Nintendo does support Jeff, but not only TGA is not SGF. Yeah, they've been at TGA's
and they've done TGA announcements before.
Guilty Gear Strive third character. Nah, the Guilty Gear Arc system works doesn't have
like hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend on an SGF spot for a DLC character in Guilty
Gear Strive. Probably not. That's a big probably not.
That'd be better for a place like Evo.
How much of these SGFs starts costing?
I think a lot, like several hundreds of thousands of dollars, you know, for a good spot.
If it's like a minute, I think it's like a lot.
It could be like half a million dollars or something like that.
Is it a hundred K per minute?
Probably even more because these things get even, these shows get even bigger and bigger
every single year, you know? Even more viewership every single year. Yeah, even at the game awards,
there was rumors that they were in the millions. That was like, that was like Super Bowl ad placement
back in the early 2000s and shit, a million, a million dollars for a 30 second ad at the
Super Bowl. That's crazy. Now it's like, feels like nothing. Everything costs so much goddamn money now.
Now, one billion dollars, you know, fingertip to mouth.
How about Konami?
Bitch, read, read bitch.
Bitch, read, right there.
From Kotaku in 2024, $250,000 for a one minute trailer.
She's expensive.
Wanna add the next Capcom collection?
No, because I don't know what the hell they would do.
If anything, Chad, I think the next Capcom collection is likely going to be Street Fighter
related, because guess what next year is?
It's the 40th anniversary of Street Fighter, and Street Fighter is 40th.
So there might be a very specific Street Fighter focus collection once again, similar to the
Street Fighter 30th anniversary collection.
It's the big 40.
Third strike with Better Online, some shit?
I don't know, man.
I don't know.
No, no, double may cry six. I don't think that shit's happening anytime soon. Yeah, I could they could have three fighter ex in there
It could happen
What are the chances we see making money again? Oh?
dual override
I'm not even thinking about it not here. I don't think that happens here
It comes out in 2027 dude
I'm on new breath of fire
Capcom is giving you guys Breath of Fire games. It's those Monster Hunter RPGs. That's what
that is. Those are your Breath of Fire games, chat. You got your Breath of Fire games are
now the Monster Hunter RPGs and your Dino Crisis game is Exoprimal. Brother. That's the Monster
Hunter Stories games, yeah. That's what it is. Exoprimal is your Dino Crisis and your
Breath of Fire is our monster hunter stories, right? Everyone's super happy about that.
Really happy. Very happy. Super happy about that. It's exactly what you guys wanted. I'm just
kidding. I think it would be very cool to get a Breath of Fire collection. If you need to get
old Capcom RPGs into a collection of some kind, that'd be cool, dude. That'd be actually really
cool. Max stop. Um, anyway, we're still playing tech and eight actively. I'm playing it right
now. I'm, I'm literally, this is a video that you're seeing. I'm playing it right off stream
and every other fighting game right now. Would you prefer a guest character from SNK? Yeah,
I would prefer like Keo or something like that. Again, I want to see Capcom make Keo.
I want to see Capcom make that character look as fucking cool as possible, dude.
Like Keo, exactly. You guys need to be reminded.
With his cool ass like KOF 98 outfit, none of that other craziness shit.
Nah, no Eori. No, I'm not Sakurai.
I think Keo has always been cooler than Eori.
Come on. Over Jin Kazama. Yeah.
Yeah.
Jin's been a lot of different things over the years.
Keo really hasn't, you know, he's just gotten worse designs.
God damn, it's KOF 14 design. That shit was trash, bro. That shit was trash, man. 98
KO or nothing. Raina would sell like hotcakes in the 3006. Yeah, that would be a good call.
That would be a good call. No, we don't want old man KO. KO needs to be like permanently
like early 20s like forever forever ever a step thanks for the five what about
Code Veronica remake that's right here dude the weed use bitch new Resident Evil
remake it's right there right there come on anime character in Street Fighter 6
like what one chat what if Street Fighter six is like Vega Goken uh who else was leaked I don't
fucking know Vega Goken and um Hagar and they all roll in and then a sword comes and like slices
is the darkness and they're like what and then walks out a character with her purple hair and
her glowy sword and it's roomy damn damn crazy I wouldn't be mad a k-pop demon hunter suddenly
K-pop demon hunter is in Street Fighter.
Capgrime's got the money for that shit dude.
The depression would be acting up.
I mean it would do wonders for...
At that point that kind of shit does wonders.
Like that makes sense.
Cause the game is already so big and shit.
That starts to make sense.
They don't need a K-pop collab in Street Fighter 6.
There you go.
To me, it's not happening then.
And then a character walks through a door with red hair
and a machine gun in their hands, and it's Regina,
the most popular Capcom character of them all.
Regina walks through a door and shoots Chun-Li in the face.
And she's like, I'm the leading lady now, Regina.
That's what the polls said, all right?
It's what the poll?
All of the Capcom polls said Regina was more popular than Chun-Li.
They all did.
Dude, Regina must be the most popular Capcom character ever.
Cinema.
Uh, Asura.
That shit ain't ever happening, bro.
Asura is never getting put into fucking anything.
That game bombed, my dude.
Me and you and people in my chat know who a Sura is.
Like, come on.
I want it more than anyone.
You know what?
I was mostly fine with the Sura not making it into anything because tabs did such an incredible
job sticking a Sura into Marvel 3.
Like that representation of that character in Marvel 3, the mod is fucking bonkers dude.
It is practically like he was made uniquely for the game.
Like, I don't know man.
You've pretty much got like everything you could possibly want, including all of us supers
in a badass level three.
It's like shit.
I'll never forgive you for making my daughter cry.
I just slugged the shit out of Felicia.
Dot and in Street Fighter.
Chat, when, when we talk about things that only appeal towards unks, um, what are things
that only appealed towards unks in an extremely niche fan base? What about unks and then the
unks of the unks? And then we started to get God hand, right? Like that kind of shit. Like
PNO3 fans. Where is, uh, not Veronica, what the hell does that Vanessa Schneider? Where
the fuck is Vanessa Schneider? Why is she not in Street Fighter? Come on. It becomes
the Unkverse. Jesus, man. I'm just lucky that Strider's been in enough shit where Strider
has not directly entered the Unkverse. Right? My dude has been in a few games in the past
like 10 years, okay? He's made some appearances. So my hopes of this eventually hopefully continuing
does not completely go away. Goddamn, Unkverse.
Linkura Sawa is in Unkverse, right, which is Unks that know Unks that know Unks, and
the third generation of Unks knows who Linkura Sawa is, okay? That shit ain't happening.
Ain't no way, bro.
Dudley could show up. Dudley was in Street Fighter 4. He just missed one game, all right?
He missed one game.
So Ryder's not in the Unkverse, dude.
He was in Tep and he was in MVCI, he was in Marvel 3.
Shut the hell up.
And then he had his own game.
Got his own game 10 years ago.
Shut the hell up.
He's not been Unkverse yet.
He's not limited to and only on.
He's not the main fucking guy from Chaos Legion.
What the hell is this bitch's name?
I'm gonna go grab the copy of the game.
I'm gonna take you to the cap cup on first right now. Listen you stupid bastards
Fuck it up to here with you chat
Where's my copy of chaos Legion?
God dammit over games fast
But I'm a batch
on first
Welcome home, moron!
Bitch!
I'm sick!
Who stole my copy of Chaos Legion?
Was it you?
Goddammit!
Son of a...
Bitch!
I...
Found it!
This is a shit...
...unkverse.
I grabbed my copy of Guitar O Man as well.
There we go!
God.
Chad, you want to go that deep into the Unkverse?
Uh, that'd be like, hey, brother, uh, who the fuck is this guy's name?
Play as the young knight.
Siegwater Heights. Where is Siegwater Heights for Street Fighter 6? Where? Where is he?
Capcom! Come on! It's time! Summer Games Fest 2026. Siegwater Heights. Tears open a space in time.
Because of Ingrid. And he's in Street Fighter. This is the Unk of the Unkverse type shit.
Where's Vanessa Schneider?
Come on.
Where's Regina?
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Telling you, freaking Jesus.
We're three layers deep into the young first, bro.
Those characters aren't coming back.
Sorry.
Anyway, yeah, here's my copy of Guitar Man.
Had this shit forever, dude.
Had this shit forever.
This game's very fun.
I'm actually quite, I think I know the people
that are bringing these games back.
I think I know. They have similar taste as me.
Genji, Dawn of the Samurai.
Uh, that guy, not Genji. What the hell?
Who the hell was the blue Onimusha dude?
The blue-n-musha man.
Blue-n-musha man was in Fatsunoko vs. Gashu.
Soki?
Soki, yeah.
Bluey? He was in, um, he showed up in TBC back in the mid 2000s.
That was it.
shit never happened again. I just don't chat. Street Fighter 6 is too popular of a game.
You're not going to get these mad deep cut characters. I don't know dude. I don't know
where those characters ever show up. You have to, this is why I want Marvel vs. Capcom to
continue because even when MVC one came out, you got characters like who are relative unknowns
at the time. Captain Commando, who only had one game really, and kind of just fell off
the radar completely. You had Jin Sautame, who was in a really specific arcade game that
almost nobody in the West knew about at all. And there was a couple others. Hayato, well
yeah, Hayato's from Star Gladiators. There was at least a couple of Star Gladiators. Spencer?
No, Spencer was a big Capcom game at the time.
Sansan is a good one, yeah.
But even Strider was from like old NES games and shit.
You know, NES and Genesis, he was from a while ago.
That shit's cool.
It's cool seeing some of those characters
come back in some way.
Ruby Heart, well, she was unique to Marvel too.
She was an original.
She's not like a returning character
that's been long lost, no.
The fact that she came back technically
in Street Fighter V was already very weird.
I mean, what I'm trying to say is that this is why
I like Marvel versus Capcom because it allows them
to dip their toes into the crazy myriad of wild
Capcom bullshit that could actually be really cool
if executed in a new cool way.
And that's what MVC did.
That's the whole point of like Marvel versus Capcom, dude.
To be real, even bringing Hagar back,
like Mike Hagar, who had not been in anything in God knows how long, was like a Primo character
in Marvel 3. Like, that was really cool. Even Tron, you know, was in Marvel 2, but still.
What about Sakura coming back to Street Fighter? I think that'll happen eventually. It'd be
Nice.
Be nice.
Welcome back to The Sting of History.
Stop making their PlayStation titles exclusive to maybe some platform exclusive combatants.
Yeah, I don't know if that works well with modern day marketing very much because of
cross play.
You're right.
Like if you start thinking about it, fighting games pretty much are cross play now.
They kind of need to be cross play.
So you can't be fighting against Link and you're on the PlayStation.
There's no world where that should make any sense anymore, dude.
It's pretty much relegated to Soulcalibur 4 slash Soulcalibur 2.
Except Smash.
Well, Smash is only on one thing.
It's only on Nintendo.
It's not like you're playing a Microsoft version of Smash Bros. with the Nintendo players.
Is there another Street Fighter character that would make you grown like you did with Ingrid?
Um,
Lankford was surprising because their execution.
But if you mean like audibly grown at like, oh, my God, they're doing this.
Oh, dude, if it was fucking Rufus, yeah, 100 percent.
If it was Rufus.
Yeah, sorry, Justin.
Adon, I mean, I think you can actually maybe make Adon kind of cool.
There's a way.
But I think if they specifically brought Rufus back of all characters, I might just like the
overall package of Street Fighter 6 less if Rufus just was brought back as offensive as he is, you
know? Now, we're talking about Fat Rufus in his, you know, gross ass happy trail. What about
about Rolento Rolento I hate I hate fighting Rolento but he makes sense in
Street Fighter he's a cool character
please not Elfort a Elfort a feels like kind of a one-off character but so does
Rufus you know dude Rufus would have a podcast yep that's how that would work
Modern day Rufus would 100% have a podcast.
Yup. And a YouTube channel.
Don't want it. No, sir. I don't want it.
Rufus definitely went to January 6th. He definitely did.
He was definitely like not first in line, but he was probably like in the second or third row.
row. Yeah, he definitely was there. And now he's trying to like get his like fighting
spirit back. Yeah. That's like his story now. He's trying to get the pardon.
Damn, we're coming up with a significantly more interesting backstory.
The allegations.
I don't know man, no I don't think so. I don't think so. I don't know if there's any saving
Rufus like they did with Ingrid. I don't know man. You know who I would like to see come
back and I'm with Steve on this one. I would like to see the conclusion of G. I think G if not Q
however they would continue that and then Dudley, Sean, Dudley, Sean are like obvious ones that I
really want but whatever the next evolution of G and Q is because they're obviously similar characters
you know. I think it would also be very neat if they just made GQ. At that point, they just
actually continue the storyline, but Street Fighter never continues the goddamn storyline.
They'll never fully acknowledge that. They'll just leave little references all over the place.
You know, A.V. Prox, thanks for the 10, dude. What about Ozenpic Rufus? Fixed it, man. That's
That's exactly what I want.
I just want him to be skinny.
There wasn't the fact that he was fat.
That was the bad thing.
It was that he wasn't disgusting on the outside,
even though he treated himself as that way.
He was disgusting.
He was obnoxious.
Like he was literally the most,
here's what we think of Americans.
Ha, ha, ha, like type of shit, you know?
was mostly accurate but I'm just saying it was like it was the most unlikable fucking character ever
like the most unlikable so I don't know if like
Ingrid was just boring like that was that was what I appreciate what they did with Ingrid they
made her interesting Ingrid was just uninteresting like what is this this doesn't even feel like a
street fighter character you know so now they didn't now she's not even a street fighter character
at all. They turned into a god demon, which that is like extremely good.
Kat, is the balance in Street Fighter 6, I haven't been keeping up with it because so
much shit has been happening. Is the balance in Street Fighter 6 working out that Ingrid
is really goddamn good? She's going to waste a lot of characters in the game, but she gets
blown up in a couple of matchups. I've been seeing her get wasted by Sigots. Like if you
have somebody that you know that's playing Ingrid, you just counterpick and just
blow her up. Something like that. She gets mauled. That's what I've been seeing, is
that she's really good, but she has some bad matchups. Like she gets fucked up by
some characters. So it's like, okay, this is interesting. This is definitely some
polarizing fighting game stuff. My still my. Yeah, my just doesn't. My doesn't have
many bad matchups because she has like a DP, right? She's like a wake up get the fuck off me. If she
didn't have that, then it'd probably be a much different. We're going to check out the Thresh
trailer. We will. Brian F and I don't feels like she's super upper middle tier.
Powerful tools. Fun as shit. Don't get me wrong. Fun as shit. But that starts to be very fighting
gave me where a few things are really goddamn good, like really goddamn good.
So good. Ingrid's like a scrub killer. Maybe we'll see. We shall see.
Kakeru is currently maning Ingrid. That's cool. That's cool.
She does look fun. I can tell you she is very fun.
Like she's enjoyable to play.
Never a character that I would ever think that I would play,
But of this entire season, I had the most fun with Ingrid the second.
I enjoyed Segot the most.
I really loved what they did with Segot.
He was a great time.
I put the most time into him too.
There was like a few sessions where I'm like, I had a really good time with Segot.
But Viper, I was like, yeah, Alex was like, yeah, cousin fuckering it.
And then Ingrid is like, she's pretty fun.
teleport and HK is annoying. Yeah, I did her dry brush. HK is mad good. You need a con.
I didn't. A con is a weirdo. He's definitely one of the weirdos of Street Fighter. Um, I
wouldn't be against it. I just think there's I want some cool characters, man. What really
cool characters. And Scott was really fucking cool. I thought they would before the allegations
hit. Alex was really fucking cool. I mean, I'll be real. Ingrid never looked really cool.
She looked odd, which was fascinating. Viper was like, okay, it's Viper. It is C Viper.
If you had to pick one character from Street Fighter V, G, without a doubt. If I had to
pick one character to come over from Street Fighter V, it would be G. If we're considering
him unique, even though he's like Q. He is unique. Alligations, the bitch said shit.
We'll see what happens after the court case, okay? We'll see if these are allegations until
a judge passes judgment on this and there is a proper jury that sees all the evidence
present chat. We cannot, we cannot immediately judge Alex based on one story mode segment.
We have to wait till he goes through Metro City justice system. All right.
Jury or a jury, a jury of juries. Yes. With or their feet out type shit. With their feet on
like the podium. There's a visual for you.
Phelan? Phelan could be really neat. Yeah. I think they could make that character
sick. But Dudley, dude. Like, could you imagine Dudley's break shithouse upper
body and not the stupid small-framed weirdo that he was in Street Fighter 4?
Brother come on. Like Dudley looked so goddamn cool in the Street Fighter 3
series and they fucked up his his character still a wet in Street Fighter 4.
They fucked him up. He doesn't look nearly as cool. Imagine Dudley dude.
Massive dude punching hella fast. Everything's fancy as shit though. My
My God, dude, target combos out the wazoo.
Oh, I wish.
I love the way that character looks, dude.
He's just so, he's so cool looking in Street Fighter 4.
The gentlemanly boxer.
So, please, it's so different from Ed.
It's so different from Balrog already.
Yeah, Rose set up some shit, my God, man.
Smug was pretty much responsible
for making Dudley cool in Street Fighter 4
because he did all the hard combos, you know?
Yeah, if it wasn't for him,
most people wouldn't be give a shit.
I still am butthurt about his presentation in that game.
I'm still butthurt.
I was really excited for Dudley,
and then I saw him and I heard him, I was like,
uh, this is not translated to 3D very well.
Not very well, but he had a lot of cool gameplay shit.
What if it's owning an evil Ryu?
That could be cool.
I think a lot of people would be into it.
I don't want Kage, Christ.
Can we not have Kage?
We don't need Kage anymore.
Evil Ryu would be cool.
Oni would be safe for that to come back.
Oni had a cool last play style.
I like the hybrid Shodos.
I think they're very neat.
Budzeku, a Strider-like?
I'd be down for another Strider-like.
Hell yeah.
But his horns though.
His horns and his fangs though.
We're really excited for that, right?
Or Ehas, thank you.
Akira again.
I don't know if I would want Akira again.
I think I would prefer a different rival schools character.
That'd be neat.
I think there's opportunity for them to do that.
Bringing characters from other Capcom games.
Yeah, Botsu is the obvious pick.
Threshfit is out.
New one or the trailer?
Do they have the character breakdown?
Edward Falcon, power stone out of nowhere.
I don't know if that makes sense.
What makes sense?
Going poison back, she should come back.
There's a lot of ways they could go.
I just hope it's interesting.
I just hope it's like kind of surprising in some way.
Because most of the stuff that they've like shown
or that's been discussed outside of like,
I'll be real.
Most of the stuff that's in all these quote unquote leaks,
there's only one character that's actually
like genuinely interesting, in my opinion.
Bringing Goken back would be like,
all right, how old is that fucker gonna be?
Holy shit, bro.
Dude, Street Fighter IV comes right after Street Fighter II
and characters have aged.
Like Goken is going to be like older than Gen.
Bra. He's going to be in a wheelchair. He's going to provide, he's going to fight like
Professor X in Mutant Academy 2. Like, god damn, he's going to be a spirit. A walking,
a walking corpse?
3 was a prequel. No, Street Fighter 3 was the latest in the story. The order of events
for Street Fighter, go Street Fighter I, Street Fighter II, Street Fighter IV, Street Fighter
V, Street Fighter III, Street Fighter VI. So in Street Fighter VI, they are the oldest
they ever have been. But then, I'm sorry, the Alphas is a spin-off, but the Alphas are
technically like before two.
That's after one before two.
So again, in a universe, bringing back Street Fighter four
characters specifically, like it would be like, what about
again? And it's like, didn't he die? When has that stopped them
from bringing those characters back, you know?
New game Street Fighter Origins prequel with young Akuma, Goken and Gen.
Dude, I don't know where they go.
Like, if we start being real, we also don't know if Street Fighter 6 is going to continue at this point.
Like, there's weird shit happening. We don't know where Street Fighter 6 is going to go.
We're predicting that Street Fighter 6 is going to have a Season 4 with characters.
But there's also questions that are happening right now based on how they are approaching the game's development, where we do not know.
We don't know if there's just going to be a season four with the same characters all over again like four more characters
We don't know
Like that's a big mystery, you know, this could have this could have been their last one and maybe they're just not going to spend
Like six plus years per fighting game anymore
Maybe they're going to approach it similar to an NRS thing where there's like hey our games in the last like two to three
Because they're already stopping development on the big single-player stuff. So it's like
It's too successful to let it die now. I agree with you
I think they should continue but at the same point it does go against the previous idea
that let's just write out the popularity as long as possible till it's unpopular and then introduce
a new game. What if you write out the popularity while it's still good and then you know get another
product in a similar time frame but even if that happened they would have had to have started working
on that game two years ago. Games take a long time to make. Anything takes a long time to go through.
But I know it would be depressing, it would be weird because we are so accustomed to Street Fighter being something that lasts a long time.
Not Capcom fighting games, I'm a Marvel vs. Capcom fan personally and I'm used to my games getting 6 months to 3 months tops of developer support until that shit is into the hands of the community and that's it.
You know, that's what I'm used to as a Marvel vs. Capcom fan, my brother.
To be real, Marvel vs. Capcom Collection got more developer support than any other Marvel vs.
Capcom game ever. That's what's crazy. Got more dev support than any MVC game has ever had in history.
Over a year later, they were still adding shit to the game.
game. Nuts. Nuts. Imagine how NRS fans feel. Yeah. Well, I mean, NRS fans get, NRS fans
get like a year and a half to two years of support and they get a new fucking game. Like
they just, they don't even have time to really sit and simmer with one game. They just get
a new game constantly. They're, they are so fed, you know, and then somebody that follows
those games and wants to like a lot of them and plays them. Yeah. There's always something
fucking new happening.
All I'm saying with this conversation is that we're talking a lot of the hopefulness of
Street Fighter 6 Season 4 characters and who it could possibly be, but there's no actual
guarantee that we know that that's going to be where Street Fighter 6 is going.
We just don't know.
It could be a big shake-up, it could be a new titled version, it could be just the same
exact shit all over again, but it is weird that they are stopping development on a part
of the game that is seemingly so popular.
What are you hoping it is?
I hope it's Dudley and Sean and Q.
And no, let's go Dudley and Sean and Vega.
Because if it's Vega, then it means something else.
That's what I hope, but what I think it's going to be is probably just like, I think
it's going to be like Makoto.
Makoto would, I mean, I'm going to wait a long time for Makoto.
Makoto is always at the top of the popularity charts, right?
I don't know.
I just kind of want to be, I think what I want is to be surprised by something.
I just want them to do shit that I'm like, wow.
Street Fighter Season 3 was kind of like, oh, okay.
Season 2 was pretty crazy.
No one really saw that shit coming.
Season 1, we knew exactly what that shit was
before the game was even out, but
Season 4, I hope is surprising.
Ingrid was surprising, but not in the ways that,
you know, I'll give it to you.
Ingrid was pretty fucking surprising.
You weren't surprised by Alex.
Are you asking, was I surprised that Alex and Segot
were DLC characters again?
When the last time we saw those characters,
they were also two DLC characters
in the previous Street Fighter?
That was not very surprising.
It was like, oh, okay.
Oh, the cousin shit.
Yeah, that was pretty fucking surprising.
Didn't see that shit coming.
Alex surprised us in a myriad of other ways.
Oh
Shit
Yeah, I just think I think that's my entire ordeal now
I'm excited for shit, but I kind of just want to be surprised by stuff, you know
Surprise disappointed I
Was definitely surprised that they are bringing Ingrid back
That was like what that was the biggest what the fuck character of season of season three
That was a big like what the fuck dude. Are they really doing this? Whoa, what are their plans with this shit?
And it worked out. Okay. I actually worked out pretty good
It's out there
Dude chat what if in the next season they add the code holders and their one character
What if they add ace and butch?
Whatever the fuck those guys names are.
I mean, let me Google Capcom Cold Holders.
Is that what they're opening up for?
These fucking guys.
Are they gonna put these fucking weirdos in the game?
Ace and butch.
Didi and Rook, I was close, okay?
Didi and Rook? I was close.
Aysen Butch on Pride Month?
Are they going to add these weird fuckers?
They'll be one character.
I like Aysen Butch. We should we should officially rename them now.
Oh, shit.
Capcom Fighting Collection 3 would include Capcom Fighting All-Stars. That would be pretty
neat. That would honestly be pretty kind of goddamn cool.
What about an entirely new character, like brand new character? Yeah, that's a good thing
to also think of. We are four seasons in and we have not gotten completely brand new Street
fighter characters since Aki. She's the last one? I'm trying to think. Is she the last one? She is.
Yeah. And she was season one. Terry and Mai don't technically count. They are pre-established,
pre-existing characters. So they're not brand new Street Fighter characters. And Street Fighter 6
already launched with a lot of brand new characters. So it was the majority of the roster, right? Or a
large part of the roster, not the majority. So, we're now four years in, probably a pretty
good likelihood at least one character is going to be completely new. Hakon 2. Yeah, probably very likely.
Mel Masters' debut, isn't he still young? He's like not even, he didn't like age.
realistic graphics icon yes oily and hairy
yeah Ed doesn't count he was he's from Street Fighter 5
yeah I think Aki is the last new character shit chat I think we solved it
That's been a long time. 2023 or some shit? Bitch, it's been a long time. Don't
bring Falk back. No, no, no, Falk doesn't count. No. It would have to be an actual
brand new character.
Luke's brother? Duke?
Now you're talking hawk. What's up, dude? Heinz Teller, Lengaser, ghetto runner or a house.
Thanks for the five gift subs. Duke, ace and butch. Team up.
For their super attack. Yeah, the gorilla. Yeah, the gorilla. Where's that neo shadow
Lou but gorilla that we thought was gonna be in Street Fighter 5 just put a fucking gorilla in Street Fighter
Just do it quit being a bitch. Can somebody put Harambe in a goddamn game already?
We've been asking Tekken to do it forever
What if Tekken just had a big fucking gorilla as a character dude? What if?
What if it's kazooia's gorilla
They can make so much goddamn money I
I don't want some telepath gorilla garage shit. No, I just want a big fucking angry gorilla
that you got to beat him up. Come on, dude. That's what I want. Somebody put a gorilla
in a fighting game for Christ's sake. Virtual fighter. Who's got the balls to put just a
Straight up gorilla in a fighting game with pants. Okay, be respectful not a tie
Just pants tribal rage is true
Donkey Kong exists
But he needs like he needs to be dignified
it needs to be that a gorilla
with
The mental acuity of a man. He's got swag. He wears glasses and shit
Oh gotta do this one on my own
Yeah, I like it. I like it. He's trolling. Am I trolling Winston? Yes, but just make him
smashy-smashy. I mean Donkey Kong. God damn it. Stop. Stop logicking my dream character
you're out of existence chat, just a big fucking gorilla.
Anyway.
What about a bear?
It's we already have bears.
We don't got kangaroos.
What's the next logical evolution?
You know.
A fish.
A shark? Stupid. That's stupid. A shark is actually really stupid. But a gorilla.
Can I watch this trailer now? A crocodile? How does he fight? He's going to be like
you're fighting Yoda in Soulcalibur 4. What the fuck are we talking about, Chad? Put a
a little bit of thought into it before you say shit. A gorilla! It fits everything!
You're too hard to argue with, okay? Disappointed in your chat. You don't see the vision.
And the Thresh was added to 2xKO, or is being added to 2xKO,
which is a pretty exciting news.
We were just checking out trailers on this guy yesterday.
And I was like, dang, it looks a lot like the Scarecrow,
in terms of moves and shit.
Dude, like, straight up, hold on a second.
Before I look at the Thresh trailer,
I wanna look at the Scarecrow trailer from Injustice 2.
Hold on a second.
Let me just see, how similar is this shit?
Is it similar at all?
It's been long times since we had that a look at this shit,
but how similar is it?
Are they way different?
No sets on the website, we'll check it out.
This was the first character that I played in Injustice 2,
and he was really fun.
We belong in Arkham Scarecrow.
So I can break out again.
So you can get help.
Didn't Scarecrow also have like a crazy lantern or some shit?
Yeah, like have magic of some kind.
Ugh.
This guy was tough to use in this game, dude.
He was not meant for this world.
He didn't have a lantern.
Maybe I'm just making that shit up in my head.
I like the art style of this game a lot.
Yeah, it's way better than the Justice one.
All right, you're thinking of the Collector from FK1?
You know what?
I think I am.
You think I am?
I think I am too.
I think I was thinking of the Collector.
All right, and now we check out the Thresh trailer.
I wonder how similar they are because I kept saying, man, I might like Thresh a lot if he's
like Scarecrow and Injustice too.
Maybe we'll actually get a game where that kind of a character can work out in some way
Okay, oh
Oh damn. Oh damn, bro. Oh, he's way better than Scarecrow. He's got an oaky ghost
Okay
I want you to break it.
Why don't we make a deal, son?
Sure. If we win, I'll shoot you, yes.
I'm gone.
Dude, I love the story shit that's happening in this trailer.
Hold the dialogue?
Wow.
Holy shit, dude, he looks so cool.
So cool.
I got Goosebumps.
Congrats to XKL.
That hasn't happened yet.
You know what that did happen?
That happened when all of a sudden there's Warwick characters in the game and I was like,
whoa, crazy dog monster.
I got noosebumps. Holy shit.
That was a great trailer because it also had a whole bunch of like characters
interacting with each other, right?
Like this was the thing we talked about before, like several of the trailers
didn't really feel like the characters are like engaging in their world.
They're just like, I'm in the game now. Here's my gameplay. That's it.
Dude, now you get like, oh, wow, there's actually history behind this stuff.
There's story behind this.
like there's implications of stuff like that. It feels very cool. Um, this is the first bad guy
technically. Maybe that's it too. Damn. Ah, damn. I'm watching this shit again. He's a character
who can active tag without an assist being on the screen. You press the tag button with the lantern
out and your other character spawns out of it?
Huh.
This is very different, right?
This...
I think what it is, is that this feels very non-arcane adjacent.
Is this character in Arcane Chat?
Is there like a part of Arcane that has this?
It feels so out there, no?
So I don't know dick about League of Legends, but it feels like very opposite of
The universe that they sort of have established a little bit and it's like leaning into some of this other stuff
Teemo different region. Hmm. Maybe why why does this feel so different? I mean, I I don't know
I don't know. This is easily the best trailer
I think they've made outside of like the cinematic trailers and I think from a gameplay perspective and not knowing that this bitch
Practically exists at all until seeing this shit. This shit is doing a lot
I am 100% gonna deal with the control scheme of this game to learn this shit.
Like, this is the moment, dude. He comes out what, next week?
Damn, bro.
Why is he so fucking cool?
Huh. Why is he so fucking cool?
I like the strong ones. They're so fun to play.
You can teleport to the lantern as well.
That is bad ass, bro.
Bitch has space stone.
on
a
Wow.
Goddamn.
Bro, suddenly this game is killer instinct.
Like
Holy shit, dude
Holy shit
Voice acting the visuals his moves like everything. I don't know what to tell you like
Teemo is not Teemo's a yordle piece of shit
Move list, uh, hold on a second
Where is
Thresh, move list, quicksfear champions.
I want to learn more.
I definitely want to learn more.
God damn.
When Thresh's lantern is deployed,
Quick Tag sends teammates directly to the lantern.
The tag can be steered by holding forward or backward
with Quick Tag.
Lantern tag can be done.
This shit is fucking crazy.
Lantern tag can be done in the air
and follows the same cancel rules as the special move.
Can also be performed by Thresh's teammates
if they are the point champion
while Lantern is deployed.
Damn, even more duo shit.
This is an edge lordy as AF edge lord character.
Holy hell.
I don't know how to read special moves in this game.
I do not know.
I have Unk Brain.
I have to play this game a lot to understand
how to read special moves more.
So he has a lot of command normals.
Wow.
Bravo.
Did imagine his alt costumes and shit.
Wow, this is cool looking.
Oh, it shows the move?
Oh, really?
What?
Oh, I like this website. Okay, so he pretty much has a chain and pull. Cool. Cool.
Cool looking special, yeah.
Neutral S2 and in the air.
Wow.
Interesting.
interesting so you can put this shit anywhere
don't click the lantern it'll teleport you are you using league shit try to get
my attention it won't work on me I don't know how to use a mouse what you
You can... it walks forward slowly, exploding when reaching an enemy, hitting the wretch,
causes it to crawl quickly towards the opponent.
It can be destroyed in two hits.
It gets pissed off if you hit it.
Wow.
That's cool.
He's a trap character.
He's a long range trap character, but not projectile based, right?
He's not all about like zoning and trapping.
He's not jinx.
Trap long range.
Interesting.
Ah, interesting.
This super is cool looking.
I like it.
Oh!
Ah!
Hey!
Oh!
Hmm.
Ooh!
Okay.
Okay. You get his air dash?
Well, that one's not as impressive.
Okay.
The more killer instinct we lean into with like monsters and shit in this game, buddy,
The more we get like weird kind of crazy characters and not just like normal ass looking people
and stuff, even she really is pushing the limits because she turns into a ghost half
of the time dude, the better.
This game to me became the most appealing when a giant feral dog was added to the roster
and I was like, what big dog, big doge?
This looks great.
This really looks great.
I don't know.
I'm feeling like vibes are vibes are up right now on 2x
KO, dude.
After Senna, who already was very cool and is a ghost,
then you get literally king of the underworld type shit.
Stunks are up man. Can we invest? Is it possible? Can I go tell my financial advisor time to invest? Okay
Fiddlesticks, I mean, I don't know if they're gonna do fiddlesticks right after this guy because they're both like scary
They're both scary
Is there like a 2x ko coin I can buy I'll take 10
This shit is cool. Oh my god, man. Check his league skins. Yeah. All right. I'm gonna give you, I'm gonna tell you which one of these I would personally want. Thresh, LOL.
Okay, if I could choose the skin and the entirety of Riot needs to my mercy, Max, whatever skin you want, pick one.
That ain't it.
It's okay.
It's like an ony? It's okay.
What am I looking at? He's back here? That's not it.
Damn space demon okay.
It's a game from doom.
It's like a bird. Why does he look like a bird?
What is he back here? Is he like a power ranger? Sentai?
Why is he sexy? They gave him nipples?
more nipples. Not bad. All right, so there's my number one pick. There is my current number
one pick is a steel dragon Thresh. The bird's back. Lunar Emperor Thresh. Winter Blast.
The janitor.
That's it.
Damn.
Is that crazy?
Should you play league?
No.
I think the best one is this one.
Yeah.
I don't know what the meme one.
I want him to look even cooler.
I like this one.
Right.
The janitor is probably going to happen.
They have a lot of goofy skins in 2XKO.
I like this one.
I think this one is sick looking.
The other ones I'm not really down for as much.
The Doom one is actually a hell cow boy.
Yeah, but he has like a goat head, right?
What was it again?
He's got the head of like a bull.
The cow is the long horn
Looks cool, but I wouldn't choose it. I
Do like that. It's different give you that
Just ghostwriter. I'd be down if he had a big crazy skull. I
Hate horns dude. I don't know what to tell you. I
Hate horns. I'm just not into them and characters get horns and shit. I don't know why I don't know if something
must have happened to me. I don't get it. I just hate horns. I don't get it. It's Devil Jin PTSD,
dude. I don't get it. Like, as soon as Devil Jin got horns, I'm like, this shit sucks. This shit
sucks. They gave evil Ryu horns and called them Kage with an underbite. I'm like, this shit sucks.
What's going on?
Come on!
Dragonsaur, thanks for the 5 gifts, dude.
Felkfolk.
Anyway, bad take.
An anti-horn, I don't know what to tell you.
I am...
They cooked, right?
They cooked, this looks really cool.
Chat characters are everything, dude.
They're so important.
Characters are everything.
Like I literally did not have any characters
I really wanted to play as.
I was just playing Darius just because of familiarity
for the longest time and ended up liking Darius
the most gameplay wise, but.
I just didn't have any characters I vibed with.
Nothing was, like, really doing it for me.
This shit is so cool.
I don't care if he's bad.
I don't care.
Look how cool this shit is, dude.
I don't care.
Butchering is realizing the freaks are peak.
Yeah, game looks pretty cool with them.
That's for sure.
I don't know, man.
You're getting token just for Gigi and Carnage?
Wait, Gigi, uh, not Ghost Rider.
There's Gigi, my brain.
Green Goblin, oh yeah.
Yeah, he's definitely a freak, dude.
He's driving that shit around.
He's gonna be weird as hell to play.
And he's very freaky.
I don't know, dude, this shit looks mad cool to me.
Like, here's the thing.
There wasn't something, when there was stuff in this game that made me want to actually
learn the control scheme, we got pretty good at it, you know?
We were finding cool-ass TODs with characters, like one-touch kills and shit, and like, you
get somebody stuck in the corner and they're fucking dead, and it was like, cool.
This is cool.
I found a strategy that is getting wins, and I'm having fun with this shit, you know?
Um, so it was fun figuring that stuff out.
It was fun like playing the game and discovering this stuff, dealing with the top tiers was
definitely very painful at the time.
That was one of the contributing reasons why I just didn't want to play much anymore.
I got to my goal and I was like, I'm good with my goal.
Um, but once you get like a character back and every time I've jumped back in and tried
to play characters, I really got to remember the control scheme.
It's like, eesh man.
control seem as rough because I wasn't exactly motivated to play a character that I really
didn't enjoy that much, you know. It's just the nature of it. Am I going to do freestyle
this time? Maybe. Maybe I should. Freestyle is just the way to go. Two XKOs, the supers
and animations are way too long. I don't know about that. I think some of the supers are
kind of short. The level 3s are a little long, but that's normal. Having a character that
you give a shit about that you just think is cool will motivate you. It will give you
motivation to want to get through and sort of eclipse any barriers that exist. At least for me,
man. Like that is my always existing casual nature that has always contributed to my
competitive nature, especially back when I had the time for all this shit to just dedicate to it.
I didn't care. Just going to learn it. Sorry. Don't give a shit. I don't care how hard it is.
I don't care how hard people say it is. I'm going to learn it. It's just fun, man.
Can you get games consistently in days and 2x KO? Yeah. I'm pretty sure. I think they
opened up the search parameters as well. I think so.
You know on Street Fighter 6 and you're still waiting for a character that came out that
you're excited to play, you're homeless in that game. You're not wrong. Some people
are feeling the same way in Street Fighter 6.
Who are you pairing with, Resh? I don't know dude. I want to play Senate as well. I like
than a lot too. I'm not to check them both out. I mean it's enough to suck complete ass. Just
acknowledge that I will just suck complete ass and just be a noob for a bit until I learn how to
play two characters. You're so sick of playing against Ingrid's man. Amen. She gets easy wins
right now, okay. But yeah, a lot of people have echoed the same thing. That's three,
Street Fighter 6, a lot of people are in character crisis.
I don't think, I definitely was,
because man, everybody hated Ken so much.
I can probably go back and play Ken now,
but now I have different character,
I have a different version of Ken that I like.
I have Ken in, I'm not gonna play Ken in Street Fighter 6
as I have Ken in Fatal Fury.
I like him in that game, he's like my main character.
So, it's Terry, dude.
I think if I genuinely just sat down
and did not play anything else for like two game sessions,
I would probably fall in love with Terry
all over again in SF6.
He's genuinely fun.
I think of any character that was added to the game,
the most natural fun I had right out the bat was launch Terry.
He was hard too.
That's when Terry was difficult as shit.
I wonder if that contributed to me liking him.
We'll see.
I enjoyed Kimberly in the beta.
I did.
It wasn't the nerfs that got me off of playing her.
It was just, I felt like I was kind of done.
I felt like I was kind of done.
Yeah, I heard Terry's even more fun now.
Do you know?
So, anyway.
Bro likes Terry and Street Fighter and Ken and Fatal Fury.
I told you dude, that's been this way for like a year.
Been this way for a while now.
Like, no shit.
What time will I be streaming tomorrow?
Oh, around noon Pacific.
I'll be live a couple hours before the show starts.
Yo, Bear Commander, thanks for the tier one, dude.
You don't like Akuma?
Oh, I think Akuma is fun, but I've never maimed Akuma in any game.
He's always a character you just can play and try and have fun with.
I've never dedicated a ton of time to Akuma in any fighting game.
Ever.
Dudley, that shit is over, dude.
Street Fighter 6 Dudley?
shit is over. I think the Akuma I've spent the most time with in any fighting game is
no shit. Marvel 3. Yeah, I really like Akuma in Marvel 3. What about Vega? I hope Vega's
in it. I did like Marisa. She was fun. Not for a long time, but of all the new characters
that were added to the game? Yeah, it felt great to crank out absolutely ballistic fucking
damage like 7000 plus damage combos against people. I really liked her. Really fun playstyle
too. What I liked about her is that I never played a character like that, you know, in
Street Fighter. She didn't play like anybody that I've ever played before, which was really
cool. I dug that.
Love story short, I can play like any fighting game and have fun with it, but unless a character
and their gameplay really strike a spot with me, will I want to come back?
Well, I'm like, I'm enjoying this, I'm having a good time, but let's check out something
else, you know. And that's the thing right now is that I'm not, I'm not like everybody
that is sort of beholden to doing one or two fighting games, you know, that they're known
for. I've sort of created an environment where I'm allowed to meander and roam and find the
things that I like and the things that I like, I'm just going to play. That's just it, dude.
That I have a character in Sam's show. No, not really. I enjoyed Sam's show. But not
enough to like really get good at it? What kind of characters you like? I don't know.
I don't know. Like that's the thing. I have my types that I really like. I dig Ninjas.
I dig heavy sword wielding characters like Stigfried. Stig like big blonde dudes with
big swords. That'll do a lot for me. Red scarves do a lot for me. And weird shit. And also
crazy characters like monster characters usually. I really like that kind of stuff.
that's neat to me. Also fucking gorillas. Where is the gorillas? You know what? The
blondes and jackets thing doesn't apply anymore because I don't like rock anymore. Not in Fatal
Fury, dude. Like, I realize there's certain, it isn't just, oh, this character will be in
anything. He's going to be amazing. He is arguably the best he ever has been in Fatal Fury. I don't
like him. I don't like his character in that game. I like Ken, weirdly enough. It's that kind of shit,
you know? But I stopped liking Warwick and 2XK. I thought that I stopped liking it. It's just that
I hit the goal that I wanted and then just started playing other stuff. We played quite a bit.
I had a good time.
But he says, gonna take you for a ride? He kind of does. Yeah, the Marvel 2 reference is appreciated.
Yeah, I like Nightmare and Siegfried, both of those characters, a shit ton.
I like Rockin' KOF 15, I did, yeah.
To be honest, he's also very different in that game and also very different in KOF 14.
He kind of is.
I prefer KOF Rock than his depiction in Fatal Fury, I don't have to tell you, man.
I don't have to tell you.
Even though he's maybe better in Fatal Fury than all of them.
What kind of changes would you like Capcom to make to Street Fighter 6 if they did like
a Strive 2.0?
All right, so listen, we've talked about this several times.
They only need to add one mechanic and it's called Reverse Drive Impact.
Follow me here and this will really help competitive play.
When you jump in the air, you can press DI, so there's a jumping drive impact.
But instead of the drive impact going forward, it flips the screen.
So you teleport backwards and pop on the other side of the screen with an armored move, like
your Scorpion and Injustice 1.
Air DI, and it's an overhead.
It's also an overhead.
You with me?
Throw an air parrying.
That sounds horrible.
Air reversal drive impact.
Motherfucker, just what scorpion?
I'm just kidding. I don't know, man.
I want them to, you know what I want?
I want them to add throw and vulnerability on wake up.
That's what I want.
Unless you commit to a parry,
I think they should just fucking third strike it, dude.
I really do.
The game is not really designed around it right now.
The game is designed around throw loops opening you the fuck up.
And the way that Street Fighter 3 balance that was that you can't get thrown
within five frames of your wake up.
So after five frames, you can be thrown.
However, if you went for a low or forward parry attempt in Street Fighter 3,
guess what happens? You could be thrown even immediately.
So it led to a very interesting mind game of meaties and meaties having counters
and you you throwing to catch that shit.
it was kind of cool. It was kind of cool. So I don't know. I feel like I'm so sick of seeing
throws. There's so fucking many of them. And it's, and I get it, it doesn't happen at the highest level
constantly. It happens sometimes. But it is a thing that happens in the game, you know? Like,
it is, it is not like, just because it doesn't happen at a high level doesn't mean that it doesn't,
like, oh, it just doesn't happen very often. Like, no, dude, like, this happens in this game a lot.
Like the throw is extremely threatening. It is unreactable. So you just have to guess or eat shit.
Just take the throw type shit, you know. And yeah, that close range interaction feels very canned and
and force. It's a lot. It's a lot. Street Fighter 4 had a block. Well, yeah, Street
Fighter 4 was fucked up. Don't get me wrong. I find it funny that most of the Street Fighter
games post-Street Fighter 4 have had pretty uninteresting wake-up scenarios, like their
strike throw. Because strike throw kind of started with Street Fighter 5. You could react
to text in Street Fighter 4. But yeah, Street Fighter 4 had the vortex problem where you
You get knocked down and wake up and have to deal with crazy unblockable vortex shit
which they try to patch in delayed wake up in Street Fighter Ultra.
And then it's all about like the meaty or the throw in Street Fighter 5, you know, their
wake up game.
And then Street Fighter 6 is an evolution of that with Perry now.
So I don't know.
We'll see.
Nobody wants, nobody wants the vortex days.
The last time, the last time there was interesting oaky in a street fighter, in my personal opinion,
like actually engaging an interesting oaky was Third Strike.
It was the last time.
And also even like Street Fighter III isn't that much of an oaky game even.
It's crazy how oaky focused Street Fighter became when it hit the 2D, 3D era, you know?
It's interesting to think that Oki isn't like, we're talking about wake up opportunities
chat when like you wake up and you have to deal with what your opponent is going to do
or do you count it with an uppercut or do you block or do you throw like all that kind
of shit.
Like Street Fighter 4 really set up the Oki game like really hard.
Third strike it's there, but it's not like the hyper focus you get returned to neutral
quite a bit in that game.
And then Street Fighter 4, it's fucked.
Street Fighter 5, it's the whole, it's a big part of the game.
In Street Fighter 6, it's the most now.
It's like even more.
Do you have five technical popularizes in a bit?
You're not wrong.
Interesting.
Never really thought of it that way.
Nice guy focus.
Thank you.
What's an Oki?
It's called, it stands for Oki's MA.
It just means when you wake up like off the ground and your character gets up off of the
ground and you're forced into that situation where you have to like get up
and you have to deal with your opponent it's that situation is called like
oaky you know like a wake-up moment there's a better definition for it on
on FGC glossary if you Google FGC glossary type in oaky now it's just
Commonly known
Kogar, thank you
Anyway
Yeah, okie used to be a big thing that virtual fighter players would throw around then it became part of everything
My favorite character in guilty gear uh in x art it was uh leo
Did I check the Sena skins?
Did he check the Sena skins?
Sena...
Where could this go?
We already saw that she had an extra skin.
Fuck me.
Well, that one's the best one.
This is the one she had. Yeah. Lunar Eclipse. Halloween. Yeah. This is cool. The Sentai
thing. Brother, I don't know. I don't think anything's beating this one. Cool last red
scarf and shit. I don't know. Sorry. It's the Strider shit. True damage is the K-pop one.
This is the one from a music video, whatever.
Insane bias, whatever.
I don't care.
Looks the best.
Saw the scarf and I locked in.
I just pressed it.
Why do you think I like spawn so much?
You think every single other one looks better than this?
Nah.
Hell no
Can we get Tifa in a fighting game already I don't care which game I have good news for you
There's a little game called air guys
Oh
Not to city air guys
this guy is like dude how old are you bitch
Long enough to have perspective.
Tifa with her jumping fireball.
There's one thing that never came back in FF7 Remake and Rebirth is that Tifa doesn't
ever wrestling moves.
Doesn't have any of her crazy wrestling DDTs and shit.
I'm actually curious if they bring that back in the next game.
Excellent.
and
excellent
You don't need Tifa in any modern fighting game chat, you literally have like the best
one right here.
You're not allowed to talk about Tifa, alright?
Until we see that Tifa isn't in Street Fighter 6, that's when you guys get to say the word
Tifa again.
That's the way it is.
You're not allowed to say the word Tifa, I banned it.
So tomorrow I will unban several things depending on what's announced.
So that when the character's not in the goddamn game and we just get Vega instead or some
some shit. I'll dish out the gift subs and then we'll just move on with our fucking lives.
Fair. Fair. And be excited for Thresh and potentially a Virtua Fighter trailer. Holy
shit man. I'm ready to see a VF trailer. I really am.
That's what the chicken is shit. Now we take that off. I'm not going to shit a chicken
if it's Vega put into the game and nothing else. I ain't shit in the chicken for that.
You're asking too much of me. Is Vega going to have a cage drop install super? He should.
We should drop a cage anywhere.
Yeah, that'd be funny.
Fucking Vega.
14 hours, yep.
Chat.
Hold on a second.
I wanna, we're close.
Hold on, we're close.
I need I need a good one
Good bro chat when they when this game series was announced
we were in a different timeline.
Like, this was like pre-COVID, I'm old enough to tell you that pre-COVID Earth was kind of like living in the US before 9-11.
Like, that was when everything changed, right?
it was like the old world shit.
And then a giant world event happens
and shit is different now.
Everything is just like worse
and it takes a long time for it like 10 years
for it to eventually start to get better, you know?
And now we're like halfway through,
things are really bad,
we have to wait another like 10 years
or some shit for things to finally start getting better.
It's like, when this was announced,
we were like very different people,
society was very different,
Shit was very different.
What the hell is that?
Where, what?
Streamlabs hasn't updated.
What was that?
I heard a goddamn visit.
Akassi, thanks for the two months.
Thing is frozen.
Jesus Christ, 100 bucks from Passure Disaster.
What the fuck?
As a fellow 39 year old,
I love seeing the passion for FF7 to the videos.
I've gotten to relive some of the magic all over again.
You're a real one.
I still hope they somehow recaptured the feeling of the 2015 reveal.
Yeah.
Yeah, thank you, dude.
You were there.
I got to talk about, eventually, if FF7 is announced,
and we get our year of Final Fantasy VII shit.
Thank you again, Pastor.
That's super nice of you, dude.
To talk about why Cloud is Mr. RPG character, why?
Why does he resonate so much as a character
with people that are of my age, you know?
And even others, like why?
Why is it that way?
I'd love to talk about that eventually,
because I think there's a pretty good reason for it,
and it's not like obvious.
It isn't just like, oh, he's just cool, you know?
Hair spiky, big sword, there's, if you play FF7,
I think there's like other reasons
that eventually leads to it.
Hold on a second, let's just watch this.
But after the long talk, there are now little gains for us to earn.
The reunion at hand may bring joy, it may bring fear, but let us embrace whatever brings.
This is the G-Guy it is, yeah.
30,000 people just losing their fucking minds
Look at that stadium dude chat we lived in a different fucking world
We lived in a different world my dude
It was a different time
Oh my god, dude, live in a different time and then the the best reaction it isn't mine
The other thing has brought up
Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
Okay, that might have been them.
Okay, we got some indies now. We got some indies.
Dude, pull off.
The best reaction.
Oh my god!
What's up?
What the fuck?
You see?
You maniac!
What are you doing?
looks exactly like that.
I love this shit, dude.
What are you doing?
D3, what are you doing?
You're a destroyer!
Why?
Oh, god.
But after the long come, there are now the beginnings of the stair.
This was still the best E3, yeah.
If it had the best announcement.
Jesus Christ!
It's got to be like a movie or something no
Bro we lived this shit
What a time to be alive, bro. What a time to be alive. We had to wait five years. What
a goddamn time to be alive. Dude, it brings tears to my eyes. Shit is just glorious.
I love it. I just love it. I love it that we all were there for this shit. Oh my god, man
Oh my god, what a goddamn time to be alive
Shit was magical on max reacts
Thank you so much for the 1080p ps1 game
Why would you give that guy stage time now fuck this that's
Many years ago
Square Enix released a groundbreaking title that went on to become one of the most beloved games
You might have contributed 10,000 views to this video. I'll have you know, uh, 10,000 views.
What is that? Is that a live stream?
Do you think that's a live stream?
Tonight, I am proud to announce that my popular man-
Hold on to your butts!
...a very special treat for everyone.
Hold on to your butts!
Oh, fuck!
Long ago, we looked upon a fuckboat.
Look at my wife. She knows I'm losing my mind.
It's so funny.
She's so happy.
Losing my fucking mind.
I've been talking about to Jessica about a Final Fantasy 7 rebake since 2005, bro.
You're in the theater for this joy? What was it like? Explain. Describe taste. What was
it like? You gotta tell me. You were actually in the audience for this? I never get to go
to the audience stuff because I have to stream this shit. How what? Describe taste. It was
It's wild.
We knew...
...Dosie.
It looks super fucking cool!
Hehehe!
Ah! Fucking music!
Someday we would see them again.
Perhaps it was no more than a wishful...
Don't be a movie!
Don't be a movie, Nomura!
Not Nomura. I'll never come out.
I'm okay with him.
I'll never come out.
If they took my patchwork on this I'm okay with him.
Simmons was right.
Hahaha!
was right everyone when they when we saw that Nomura was the director it was
like uh-oh even even the easy allies guys are like uh-oh this might be bad
news but that is quality work isn't quality it's just that this shit takes
forever Kingdom Hearts fans are currently going through it
It may bring joy. It may bring fear.
It's only going to be a little...
Whatever it brings.
I don't want to believe it.
Look at him already!
They're coming back.
Oh my fucking god!
Don't worry!
Oh my body!
You all right?
Oh, Jesus, here's what's crazy.
But eventually gets delivered in a three-part series.
I remember playing this year, 2015, playing Final Fantasy 7 for like the first time on
stream and playing through it wondering how they would remake the majority of this shit,
you know, what they would do.
And it was better.
my expectations of what direction they would go and how they would approach it and how the
characters were going to be depicted was like, I was expecting something that was close to
Advent Children characterization. The fact that Final Fantasy VII remake and Rebirth,
like the fact that the remake series understood the characters so much, I don't,
It's like they were missing, you know?
It's like all these depictions of Final Fantasy 7 characters post the original FF7.
It's like the characters were missing.
They're sort of here, but they're not like exactly them.
It's not like this is it.
The fact that the remakes almost understood that, that they got it, they got the message,
And they like over delivered on the characterization.
That was the thing I was the worried about the most where it's like, can the characters
just actually have character, you know, can they not feel like anime robots, which is like
at times what a lot of Square Enix stuff in that, in that release, release era, like
2015's to 2010's, like a lot of the characters were sort of like anime robots.
They're just saying shit.
It's like, hi, can we actually have them have character, dude?
So, and then not even to mention that the game has arguably,
like some of my favorite combat in games period.
Like, I'm still mind blown how fighting game adjacent,
especially FF7 Rebirth is.
Like it's crazy to me how they expanded the combat
and gameplay.
And it's like, OK, so here's the craziest action RPG combat
system you've ever fucking seen with Materia, which
was one of the coolest things in FF7.
And it's all about just mixing and matching
and doing all this wild bunker shit.
I cannot believe that this stuff already with two parts
has met the majority of my expectations.
I feel like because it sets expectations so high,
In my head, this could just have played out like another crisis core, you know,
the entire series could have been, could have felt like it's just crisis core all over again.
But they didn't. They're like, the first game is like a Yakuza. Second game is a super expansive,
almost like Yubi game in many ways, which Square's never really done before. And the third game,
who fucking knows, you know? So, and the fact that every single game is so different. Like,
the first one doesn't play anything like the second. Chat, what I'm trying to say is that
I deeply appreciate this shit. Like, every, every single decision that they've done,
Not everyone do I emphatically agree with it 100%, but what my expectations were of what this series could have been
and what they eventually delivered was not nearly that high. Like the level of quality at which they were delivering this shit
was unfathomably above what I thought Square Enix was capable of.
and I get it a lot of folks hold Square Enix in very high regard but there has
been varying levels of you know quality and execution over the past 10 to 15
years of a lot of their games you know and a lot of us have really fond memories
of a lot of old Square stuff being so goddamn cool but I didn't know if Modern
Square was able to like execute this shit where it's like, man, can we really actually
do this? Like, would this be good? And the fact that like, it felt like they deeply cared,
like these guys really got in touch with what Final Fantasy seven is like as a concept and
what people like about it, to actually give us a game series that is able to be nostalgic and
mysterious and still feel new. Like it's the same shit. It's just, you know, I still love it that
we don't know. I kind of love it the fact that they added like almost back to the future level
mystery with Sephiroth. Like what the fuck dude? Sephiroth is like Biff Tannen or something like
as soon as that started being like a realization of like what the fuck are they doing with the story?
This isn't just a remake type shit. You telling me this shit is a sequel? Love that shit dude.
Is it? We still don't know. That's the question that is still unanswered all the way to this day.
It's a fucking sequel. Is he Biff? What the fuck? I love that shit, man. I love the fact that it
isn't like one to one. We're just playing the exact same thing again because I've seen Simmons get
his favorite game remade one to one and it's just the exact same thing that he is the exact same
thing that he played before and that he loves and he's like this is my favorite fucking game and he
he gets his game and it's just like a better looking, better playing version of just that
old thing exactly one-to-one and it's the most forgotten about thing ever like in two
months. And he's like, well, it played exactly the way I thought it would. And it's like hmm.
So I kind of like, to me, I don't, I don't really like it when a lot of remakes for games don't
Innovate because I have the old game. You're not you're not you're not gonna take away the og final fantasy 7 dude
Like that's final fantasy 7 like we can't go back in time and replace that shit
The best thing you can do is offer aid an experience that
Relies on the events, but is different, you know, which is why re2 ended up being as successful as it was
You know ff7 is like one of the greatest fucking games of all time
The best thing you can do is bring those characters back like they've been missing, you know
Man, I feel like every single decision they've made, outside of the questionable ending for
Rebirth, which even they knew was questionable, so many times I look at this game and when
the things are happening on the screen, I'm like, dude, this is exactly how I would do
it.
This is exactly what I would do with these characters.
This is exactly what I would do with this combat.
This is exactly how I would do this shit.
my god man I deeply appreciate the remix series like I can't believe it's real I
still can't believe it's real dude
This game was a different game.
This was a different game, too.
They scrapped this shit and went back.
Different game.
Azure, thank you dude
You are more than a few, girl. You best be worthy.
Look, I don't care about your politics.
Hey, do you guys remember when they decided to recast all of the voice actors?
Remember what all of our reaction was?
It's Jover.
Remember that?
We all heard of that announcement came out that people were pissed.
I was pissed.
I was like, damn dude, what are they doing?
What the hell are they doing?
And you realize how much of a good decision that was because they didn't want you to be
attached to the previous versions of characters.
They wanted it to feel different.
Like it had to feel different because they're telling a different like story.
different narrative that's happening now, you know, around similar events, around similar plot,
but it's a different story, you know? It was ended up being probably the best fucking call ever.
here.
It runs at 10 FPS.
Okay, let's go.
George Nuber is still the best Sefiroth.
I think the new guy, I think Tyler's doing a really good job. I like them a little bit more in part one than part two.
Weirdly enough, you know, um
Um, Tyler Houghlin, is that his name?
Superman, uh, the other Superman, but Lance Bass, though, um, but the depiction of Sephiroth
in part two was a bit different than part one.
You know, it's pronounced heckling.
Gotcha.
Part, I think Sephiroth in part one was way more threatening.
Like you seem way more threatening in part two.
They almost softened them up in a way.
You know, as good as Superman to dude.
has been depicted by Superman twice. The dude the chat just mentioned played
Superman in the animated series and then Tyler who plays Sephiroth now was
Superman in the the latest live-action Superman show. It's crazy. It's been two
Superman played Sephiroth. Is it deliberate? No, it's just crazy. It's just
weird. Shadowman thinks for the 20s so five years since the main Kingdom Hearts
for my come around tomorrow.
Been here for four years, four years,
I want it to stop, I can't end all the way anymore,
I want a trailer, I want Kingdom Hearts 4 trailer,
come out please, please.
I want you guys to have it too.
Azure, thanks for the triple sevens.
Yankee posted a capcom interview about Pragmata
and the future titles that are unannounced to release
within this fiscal year, it's pretty good, what?
Interesting.
Mary, thanks for the 27, my spouse and son,
all enjoyed remake, rebirth and the OG together
because you reminded us how hype it all is.
My son has an avalanche logo painted on his room wall.
Thank you so much. That's actually crazy. Mary. Thank you, dude
the big one
That's mad cool. That's mad cool. I'm gonna be live in around to tomorrow
Man
Where's that journey video
that
the
apparently this video has been translated in a few languages I got
contacted by another like Japanese Japanese dude that makes YouTube videos
and he asked if he could translate this and I think it's still on YouTube where
they translated it in Japanese so it's unlike Kira-gana or katakana or some
shit.
What is that?
The PC, it is of the Final Fantasy.
Oh my God.
The crucibility, the presence of war,
of the spring.
Oh yeah, that's right.
We gotta make a new opening for the last game, of course.
Thank you so much for the 1080p PS1 game.
Dude, I was a different person.
Like, it's wild to go back and look at this shit.
How long we've been following this?
How long have been following this shit, you know?
Not even a dad. Now we're close to it.
We're close to being a dad.
What I get along with my younger self...yes, I think I would.
Um, yeah, no, I think I would.
I've definitely changed a lot since becoming a dad.
I find a lot of my old content cringy.
I don't like watching my old content,
but that's like sort of normal for content creators.
I really can't get any space.
I really cannot like stand myself,
but that's sort of normal.
Like after you do a lot of growing up,
when life shows up like really hard.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm, I don't know, Chad, I'm, I'm, I don't know if people give a shit.
Do people like mellow Max way more?
I'm much more mellow.
I still have a lot of fun with shit.
I'm able to explain why I like stuff way better to get to communicate it better.
But I don't know.
I don't know.
I feel like my audience has naturally aged with me, you know, similar to
like a Harry Potter movie series, where by the time it's one thing at the start, and everyone's
having this great time in our 20s and shit like that, and everything's unhinged and crazy. And
then as you grow up, it's just like a little bit more grounded takes. Next column is old. I'm not
saying you're old. I'm saying you've been watching me for too long. That's how time works. I mean,
I get it, shut up! I'm just trying to say that I feel like we have an aged audience,
a little bit more than the typical audience that exists on this website. Just because
I feel like my chat and community have also grown up with me is all I'm trying to say.
I feel like the way that people talk and communicate and what we look forward and what we do has
has matured a little bit. It's just the nature of it, you know, because we all did. Obviously,
we went through some shit.
Now we're all unks. Exactly.
Everything. We're all unks and we still like this shit. And we're able to explain and sympathize
with others that like it just as much, you know, we're able to share our grievances without
pissing other people off or making the people that make this shit feel bad. Like, I feel
like if there's one thing that I wanted to continue moving forward, I felt that the larger
my audience got, the more of a responsibility I felt that it's like, okay, there's a lot
of people, maybe we can make a difference. Like maybe we can actually utilize all this
energy to turn it into cool things and get the message out, right? And that one was like
bring back AI, free Marvel 2, like all that kind of shit. Turning it into something that
is progressive in some way that can like result in cooler shit happening better results things
we've been asking for there's a lot of us that want this shit look at look at all of us dude
We out here.
Hahahaha!
Hehehehe!
Hahahaha!
Broom!
At this point, CyberConnect2 was still the developer.
Square was squared?
Here's the crazy part, Chad.
What's up, Andy?
When this game began development, Square, SquareEnix did not have the capability of making a
a Final Fantasy VII remake.
Isn't that crazy?
As a company, these guys were incapable of doing it.
Their core independent staff like Nomura and Kitase
and all these dudes were there, right?
They were there.
They were there to direct and guide the project,
but to actually have it made in-house didn't exist.
They needed outside help.
That is crazy, you know?
To realize that's the case.
Like, we're spending too much time and too much effort
was going into Final Fantasy XV for so long
that they just didn't have the resources to make their games.
Didn't have the resources to do it.
It's bonkers.
Until Push comes to shove two years later,
and they go like, it seems like they're practically like,
who the fuck are we if we can't remake one of our biggest
games?
Like, what the fuck?
When they realized that CyberConnect 2 wasn't really
able to deliver what they had in their heads of what
Final Fantasy 7 Remake could be and at that point it's kind of like, oh well shit, what
the hell are we?
Are we, are we, are we making games or what?
You know?
Almost like a harsh realization.
So that was at the time where a lot of Japanese companies were outsourcing things like crazy,
including Capcom, you know?
Capcom was outsourcing like crazy around this time frame too.
Final Fantasy, including the main scenario being completed.
Big scale.
Yeah, right around this time they start poaching the shit out of Capcom devs.
Yup, that happens. That begins happening right around this time frame.
Midgar open world, everything, whatever.
Not Nostradamus.
event and it was just the art. Chad, right around this time 2017, I think it was early 2017, Square
restarts development of Final Fantasy 7 remake. The scenario is done. They know what they're
going to do. They know what they're going to have to make for part one, but they effectively have to
start over because they have to make it in-house. They choose to make it on a different engine.
they choose Unreal Engine because their engine is unreliable. The Final Fantasy 15 team had too
many issues with it at that point. The only ones that knew how to use that shit was pretty much
the devs that were already using crystal tools. The choice to move to Unreal, the same thing
happened to Kingdom Hearts. They're just going to develop that skill set. But that's crazy to think
that like the actual the actual game like ff7 remake as a game beginning
development in-house starts in 2017 it's when it begins so three years three
years of development is what it took to get part one to come out
It's really cool, and it does have a weird kind of black wing thing going on to Sephiroth, but...
Dude, it's key art. This could have been done by a couple of people over the span of a week.
But what the hell is going on?
Which would be pretty cool.
I have zero expectations. It begins!
Poggers?
Okay.
That was Final Fantasy 7 sound effects.
You wanted to give you a new look at a long-awaited game.
Hahahahaha!
Hahahaha!
Hahahaha, whoops, what the fuck dude?
Chell the fuck out pat, right?
I should've added that in here.
I should've added the cloud reaction.
Oh, well, we'll do that in the next one.
Yeah, we'll do that to the next one.
oh my fucking god the return draws closer dammit chat oh my fucking god
I don't know what I'm looking at
Okay, there's a there's a fucking future
You did a good job, Tony. You did a good job. No chairs respond
You reminded us that Final Fantasy 7 remake exists
It's been four years
like it's aware this I wore that shirt last time I wore that I wore this shirt I
oh no not the Marvel one shirt damn that is the that's a lucky shirt bitch chat
that's the same shirt I wore when Marvel vs. Gapcom came back that's a lucky
fucking shirt over there that's the same shirt I wore when NBC came back with the
collection. God damn. I have another lucky shirt, though. It's my
Shinra shirt from E3. The ones that the Skrainex folks gave me at E3 2019. It's
the Shinra shirt. That one I got from the Sephiroth one. We're in both. We're
in both. We're both of them tomorrow. That's a lucky fucking shirt, dude.
Here's
I get to wear this through the concert
Yeah, I'm happy
I'm happy Kenny shut up Kenny
Lies here chat reminder
Kenny lies
He comes into my chat and says, �Square Enix is taking reservations for FF7 at E3.
It�s going to be playable.� He is completely fabricating it.
is lying through his teeth. So fucked. Here's the crazy part. All of that came true. He
is so lucky. Video games would have been three people after this. But according to God, which
Kenny must have made really happy.
We continued as a group.
He was, he was really lying.
He just made that shit up.
And literally that's what happened.
That literally happened at E3 the following month.
They're going to make reservations at E3.
It's going to be playable!
As these guys were demonstrating the game that they had been making for the past like
five or something years.
I'll still never forget this shit, bro.
I bum rushed. This was when, so let me paint you a picture. What E3 was when it was proper E3,
this is the last E3 by the way. There's shows that happen in the morning and like reveals,
big game reveals, and then you go to E3 and you could practically play those games. So you just
found out these bitches existed moments ago and then you bum rushed to E3 to get in front of the
doors as they open for pretty much curtain drop and then you just haul ass straight to the booth
and the number one thing that you want to play right so luckily uh e3 has press time the first
two hours before noon they open at like 10 the first two hours is for press and you know youtubers
and things like that so i gun it just straight to the square enix booth and i don't make it in time
for the first presentations. And they're like, and I'm like, Hey, do you guys got anything
behind the scenes for FF7 outside of the big line? Because I'll wait on the big line. And
they're like, Oh, oh, and then, and then somebody recognizes me, because I don't know, I don't barely
anybody at Square at this time, I worked with them on the Dissidia. Somebody recognizes me and
comes back and they're like, hold on a second, they leave for like 15 minutes. And then I'm talking
to somebody else at Square and they're like, come back here immediately. I get escorted into
some back area behind all the Midgar shit that they built and they're like, come in here really
quick. There's a spot just sit right there and they opens the door and it's literally Kitasesan
and like one of the lead producers on the game with like some other journalists from like Germany
and stuff like that, like other parts of the world. They have translators and I walk in and
And I'm like, this is the director of Final Fantasy seven.
And I sit down and they like recognize me.
Like they'll recognize me from apparently the trailers and the videos
we were making over the past like four years about FF seven.
So I'm like sitting here in the corner, like watching a presentation.
And I just cannot fucking believe what I'm seeing on the bombing run.
The characters, like everything, I couldn't believe it.
And then they came up and talked to me after this shit.
Hamaguchi was not present at the time.
No, he was not there.
He was the co-director of this one,
but I was the lead producer of the game as well as Kitase-san.
It was unbelievable that this was just happening to me.
I was there, like, looking at me every single time it was happening.
And then I take a picture with both of them,
and I put it on Twitter, and I'm like, fucking crazy.
I'm standing with and hanging out with the literal guy who directed
FF7 parts of the new development staff and he was like before you go can I get a picture with you?
I would like to show the development staff and I'm like what so he takes a picture of all three of us together
Things were tough for the team and they were trying to figure things out and what was like the right choice
He was saying they always showed the team
video from first reaction
One where we first off FF7 that I made like a story out of this
I was saying now whenever the team was feeling down and he wanted to motivate everybody, they would watch that video.
And then they said he gave them energy to try to go forward and make the right choices.
That shit's crazy to me because like you start to understand what they went through.
Like we didn't know that CyberConnect2 was dropped at this point. We had no idea.
We had no idea. Um, so to understand that like they went through some insane shit,
like as a development company of like what do we do if we can't make our own games type shit
you know like just behind the scenes like that's that's a big moment for them to sort of like
realize oh we're gonna do this and we're gonna do it the right way or for what man like so there was
probably a lot of crazy push comes to shove moments because even Hamaguchi didn't get involved until
like 2017, 2018. He started talking about that, where he's like, he wasn't involved in the early
conceptual at all. And then he got brought on as a co-director next to Nomura for part one.
So that's why we just didn't hear a lot from him, because he was working his ass off on part one
and two. So anyway, crazy, like the behind the scenes of Square Enix, like as a company, and
them having to turn around and like bake shit, like this is what we got to do. What are we going
to do if we can't make this you know it's nuts it's just nuts
i can't believe what i'm what i was seeing in in the first beginning of the
demo much less what i played with the boss fight
i don't believe it like chat like like this game series could have been the
most seven out of ten shit ever or like absolute
Like middle of the lane, it's all right.
Like some parts of it, I get it, aren't great.
But like this so easily could have been
on the same quality of like a dirge of Cerberus.
It could have been that was that was the last game we had before this shit.
It could have been like on that same depiction.
The last thing we know of what screen
X interpreted its characters was dirge of Cerberus.
So.
Could have been like that.
It's not. It completely recontextualizes the characters of Final Fantasy 7, which is its
most powerful element. The characters of FF7 are the best part of the OG game. It's not
the story, it's not the plot, it isn't just the world building, no, it's the characters.
The characters carry the whole fucking game. The game plays great, everything else is amazing,
but that squad, that crew, the storytelling, all the nuanced storytelling, all the subtext,
about its narrative is like god damn the characters carry everything bro which is why the best
moment of Final Fantasy 7 to everybody which is going to happen in part 3 is the cloud
dream sequence. Everybody says that shit dude. Like why does every Final Fantasy 7 Final
Fantasy 7 fan tell you the best part of OGFF7 is Cloud's Awakening because it is literally
the best character moment of the game. There's no gameplay, my dude. There's zero gameplay.
It is just characters coming together finally after like 30 hours of shit. It's just the
best part. And that's because characters are the most powerful part of Final Fantasy 7.
I know, I almost, I almost don't believe that you can make a full 40 hour game be on a even,
even fraction of the quality of what that, that beginning bombing run is. The best thing
They can do is let other people experience this really don't want to be describing this game like a crazy goddamn person that
This is a long stream
I just really hope that they eventually show off more of the bombing red man
Holy crap, there's a summon!
This is fucking good!
Jesus man, look at fucking Zeffron!
The Tekken 7 stream, yes, literally.
This fucking apps!
That's a good luck shirt!
Look, it's a good luck shirt!
I'm wearing this one tomorrow, dude.
I'm wearing this one tomorrow.
We need good luck.
The vibes are intact tonight, dude.
dude. I had it ready, it's washed.
moving in a proper. Dude, I have. I literally just bought it. I found it in my size. I just
bought a polo that is a Final Fantasy seven polo.
FF seven remake and it was given to GameStop employees right on the back. It says finals
fantasy seven remake. March third 2020.
I'm not looking forward to it, I think last it said we're on 50 days, 50 days, so here
we go.
until April 9th brother. COVID fucked everything, dude. Time. This is January 14th. Is it moving
in a linear fashion anymore? Jesus, not COVID fucked everything.
Oh, Jack, can you believe that they made Final Fantasy 7
rebirth during COVID?
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
Right?
They made that game in less than four years during COVID.
And, yes, and DLC for the first game.
Holy shit, dude.
We're back to the middle, man. We're at 56 days. 56 days. We're almost back to that
point we were before when we said that the only way this is going to go away, this isn't
a change if time stops. Time stopped working before, which is why we were at here. But
we're under two months. There's been people saying that, oh, they're going to put out
that demo, there the original release date was, which I think is a great idea. If there's
a time frame for screenings to put out that the the the supposed demo you know
the demo that was apparently leaked and all this stuff that came out like on
December there's a time frame for that dude the beginning of March when the game
is originally gonna come out is the best time frame literally March first
Literally March 1st
I love that quote
FF7 remake. It definitely gave none of that
better face. None of that kind of promotion
made it for rebirth dude. And I remember that like FF7 fans remember that shit
zilch. Like they sold FF7 rebirth on word of mouth alone. And it's like they spent all of the
the marketing budget on Final Fantasy XVI, which was six months before, and that was
it.
And we got like a couple mental health ads, which you can find still, like they're still
around.
That was it.
It was weird.
It was very weird.
The marketing for Rebirth was, they're just going to assume you know about it.
That was it.
It feels like it's marketed more now for the Switch release.
weird dude freaking weird a huge flashback to like the mid 90s and shit like 1997 when
the first one came out where ff7 promotion was just everywhere it was just absolutely
everywhere it's practically here i'd like to i'd like to have a big thank you to everyone
that's been joining me on this uh five-year uh trip around the earth i'm just glad that
I'm going to be surrounded by a lot of people that are just as excited for Final Fantasy 7 as I am.
I don't know if there's any other thing that you could want for what might be your most anticipated game,
just to be around everyone that loves it just as much as you do.
If you want to join in on that, it's going to be on Thursday, 5 p.m. Pacific, Final Fantasy 7 remake.
The impossible game is actually here.
This shit is impossible, Chet.
Like, you see, like, perspective.
That's the thing, is that, like, this shit shouldn't exist, and it should not be nearly
as good as it is.
it's impossible. There is quotes of them talking about this stuff back in the
PlayStation 3 era of the PS3, FS7 Remake PS3, when they talk about this and
they're like scared to do it during this time when they talk about like oh so
So, would we eventually have a remake Final Fantasy 7, like, very casual conversation,
like in a group of Final Fantasy, like, you know, big, big names?
They all talked about how they were freaked out about doing it, like, they wouldn't want
to, because they wouldn't want to mess it up.
All having big discussions about this shit.
I didn't notice something.
Aerith has huge hips in OGFF7 and this version.
And they skinify the hell out of her.
They make her super skinny in the new version.
She does.
Like her old artwork.
I didn't really notice that before.
I'm like, Arith does look a lot different in newer FF7.
She really does.
And OG Arith, and the same depiction in this 3D model,
yeah, she actually has really big hips, the real controversy.
And now she's actually way skinnier.
It's a genuine big difference in her redesign.
I never really noticed that until I look back at her old artwork,
And I was like, oh, that is there.
Weird.
This chick is like Shakira.
What no FF7 does to a man!
Ha ha ha!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
This cutscene drove everybody insane.
This is what began this shit, bro.
Look how fucking ugly this shit is, dude!
Look how butt-ugly it is!
Oh my god!
Jack, could you imagine the Final Fantasy 7 remake looking like this?
Could you imagine it?
Whole game is brown and gray.
The whole fucking game.
The live stream is brown.
You know?
Oh my god dude.
If they chose to remake this game in this era, we were spared.
Like, yeah this was what Advent Children looked like.
and children was also extremely drab looking dead
the whole movie was just
lifeless looking for the majority of time
pull up a side-by-side it's unbelievable
a side by side do this shit
i just talked about the
the translations are right there
do it is a shit listening to me
I fucking love the intro to this game so much.
It's so sick.
The God, the music in this game is unbelievable.
Like what they do with music in this game, it's like they're picking at my soul.
I don't understand it.
I've never, I don't know.
I think the music in this game has almost impacted me
in these games has impacted me more
than almost the original Final Fantasy 7 at times.
Because I love the original FF7's music,
but like the fact that this game expands upon that
and almost uses your emotions,
it uses your nostalgia and memory,
like it utilizes it and then it does shit with that.
That is crazy that it's like it is changing the narrative in my head just based on what music they're using it is weird dude
Not very few games have the ability to do that because of how powerful the original soundtrack is for Final Fantasy 7
I don't know dude
It's special
Yeah, the fact that music is a literal form of storytelling in FF7 Remake with a bunch
of, like, nuanced storytelling to it, a bunch of subtext as well?
of
the
Yeah, I don't know how they made this, honestly.
How does this shit get this so well?
People take this shit for granted now.
That's all I'm saying.
Is that nowadays people take this for granted?
It's almost by accident.
How do you understand what our memories of Final Fantasy 7 are so much?
Like how do you get that?
Dude switching the stars transitioned into this?
What the fuck, man?
Fucking brilliant.
Just the notes of Sephiroth's music.
Just the inclination of his existence, subtext, blitz, isn't it wild to think when we first
were looking at this?
We didn't think of this shit at all.
We were just like, oh man, that's cool that they're alluding that like, Sephiroth is haunting?
he's there. Not thinking about it in any complicated way at all. Like, it's so crazy
to see that, like, he's fucking haunting this game. Like, Sephiroth is literally haunting
the narrative. The after sight is so bonkers. It just seemed clever. It just seemed like,
wow, that's cute. That's cute. It's like, like the inclination that Sephiroth is coming
for her like we know like wow that's that's a cool little narrative thing cool
all the crazy storytelling things they do with this shit he's literally haunting
the goddamn narrative of the game
Sephiroth's showing up in this timeline to kill her the 30 year cook it's like
Eryth knows. She knows to run away. Why the hell would she know? Because we find out in part two
that he literally is hunting her ass in every existence possible and murdering her.
That's pretty brutal. That's pretty fucking brutal. She's hiding, yeah.
the lights flickering hold up hold up perspective is such a bitch dude
perspective perspective is such a bitch now that we know where this story is
going
It's there to keep it unsettling, this isn't normal.
Hips gone, so is the hope.
This is the third time we've recreated this scene, and we are becoming exceedingly efficient
at it.
This fake out is incredible by the way.
The fact that the music fakes you out, I love this shit so much dude, because we all know
how this sounds and what happens.
We all know what it sounds like, we all know what happens, but the fact that it uses a
moment to like, here's what's happening.
Nope!
And then it pulls back, dude, the music in this game does that shit constantly.
It fucks with you.
It uses your memory as a tool.
Goddamn, man. Goddamn.
Look how cool this place looks now.
Holy shit.
Look at all the fucking lighting, man.
I love the lighting of this game in the nighttime, not in the daytime.
Nice, dude.
Chad, I saw this for the first time before, like, nearly anybody in the world did.
I could... I was fucking dying.
Like, I'm sitting here, like, in front of the director of the game of the old FF7.
and I'm sitting here like, like, trying to fucking contain myself.
This is what we watched.
It's sort of like, they watched me play.
No, they did a demo in front of me.
I was like, I couldn't believe it, dude.
Is hearing the characters talking to each other and shit?
I
could not believe that the characters of Final Fantasy VII were emoting and had the voices
of like people and not what they had before, where everything felt so stilted and awkward.
Every time characters talked in Final Fantasy VII before when you actually hear them talk
or see them talk, it was always like stilted and awkward. And to have them like act like
people
Like I was like, huh? What what the hell?
Isn't this a writing issue though?
Nah dude, it's performance, it's everything.
Things aren't just writing, things aren't just voice acting.
There's also voice acting direction, right?
Like if you don't have a good director for the voice actors, they don't know what the
hell to do.
Voice direction, localization are all big deals.
So having localizers and having voice directors that are in tune with the actual creatives
of the game is a big deal.
Then you get the problems, like then you get the advent children's, then you get the
Dirt Disturberists and shit.
Even the crisis score to a certain degree, the best part of crisis score is that Zack
acts like a normal person, which is the most endearing part of the game because everything
else around him is fucking weird, man.
You almost feel bad for him that he lives in anime world and he's just trying to live
his life, dude.
He's like the most normal person of any of them.
He ate my hair, like that kind of shit.
It's so funny to go back and play that game and to see it from that perspective.
So anyway, the weirdest part is that Zach is the same, but now he's the anime character
because everybody else is like super grounded, like they'd really try to ground all the characters
way more in the remake series. Now, Zack comes across as like the almost from a different
world anime super positive guy where it's like, huh, like it's weird now that he's been
put the tone of his character is put into different perspective.
It's
also a reminder that, like, this game was in tune with the localization of FF7 OG, where
how the story is depicted is probably different in the Japanese version of FF7 compared to the
English localization, because in our heads, FF7 localization was edgy as fuck. Like, it was,
it was a little pompous and kind of edgy. So to have the localization of even FF7 remake,
even though it doesn't get everything lined up perfectly, the remake series meets those
expectations that the English translation of the game needs to match the memories you have of how
those characters are depicted because some of the characters can feel a lot different
compared to their Japanese counterparts, right? So, the really garish kind of elements that
characters have, the way they talk, the way they curse, all that kind of stuff, the fact that
Cloud says shit, the fact that Aerith says shit, and it's like, yeah, this is sort of how I remember
it. But is that necessarily the exact same way in the Japanese, not all the time, because that is
how we remember it in OGF-07. That's how like, especially from the American side, how a lot of
of us remember the way this shit is. Let's dance, asshole.
Nobody do something this crazy just for money. They may not think you're a true believer, but you know what I think
So good
Cloud is fucking perfect. I miss this cloud
Here's what's crazy is that like cloud goes through a lot of character change in the next game and he gets softened up a bit because he has to
do. But I miss this cloud a little bit. They turn, this cloud is a dickhead. Here's what
I almost, here's what's funny about the follow up game. Chad, you remember that in rebirth
cloud is like, he gets softened up a bit. But then there's other parts where he's like
legit mean, like he's mean to Arith at certain parts. And that's to that's to build up the
fact that he's gonna have to feel really bad about him being mean to her. He's mean to
her in that game. There was a side quest in FF7 Rebirth that I forgot about where he goes
and has to collect shells and it's a side quest with Aerith and it's a thing that you
have to do around like Corral and no shit. Like there's a part where she's like I'm sorry I didn't
mean to offend you and it's like super awkward. Like is that all? Like it's like he's straight
up mean to her and she's like she just ends the entire quest with like I'm sorry I won't bring it up
again and I'm like whoa this felt uncomfortable and then there's this shit in the end where he's
straight up is saying like she's like pouring her heart out and he's like are you finished
like I'm like ooh damn he's gonna remember this and he's gonna feel real bad about it
and he's gonna feel really bad so they do this at several points where he's like and he's mean to
Tifa as well. That's from Rebirth. Yeah, I'm talking about Rebirth. Several moments in the
game where it's like after after not playing the whole thing, 100%, I never forgot that he was
like this way. I was like, damn. All right. Interesting. And his character is a lot different.
He's a dickhead in this one. And in the follow up game, he's either like, weirdly,
he's like, he's like sort of coming to but he's really at ends with himself. Like he's not,
He's not the cloud you think he is, which is kind of the entire point of rebirth.
Is that everything is sort of like misdirecting the shit out of you?
Anyway. Fascinating, right?
Very, he nearly kills Tifa and he's like mean to Arith.
Wedge.
And this one, this doesn't give a shit.
You better be worth the money, Mark.
Every last year
So cool
Got a boy
So fucking cool.
My god, the music just orchestrating everything about this part of the game is so sick
Chad could you imagine I mean I think you probably can because a lot of you a lot of you actually can
playing Final Fantasy 7 for the first time and it's like this and
and realizing like oh no this shit still resonates
like the the plots the themes the characters
this shit still resonates even not having the perspective of the 1990s
version
of the game and just being introduced to just this
holy shit dude what the fuck
let's go
I always wonder how people
You know what? No, no, no. I didn't because I watched some FGC dudes that I follow, right?
For the first time, they were playing FF7 Remake and they had no experience with like Final Fantasy
before and everyone was playing this and it was just like hyped beyond belief, you know?
And I watched them playing it and they were playing through like the bombing run and playing
through FF7 Remake and they're like, this game's cool. Final Fantasy is like this?
this. Why did anybody tell me? They straight up like, damn, this shit's great. This shit's
cool. Like no perspective on what Final Fantasy really is. Already have a predisposed idea
or concept, what it kind of is in their head. And then they play this shit and they're like,
God damn, this is fucking crazy. Me, me and literally 1997, like legit, actually me in
1997 as I as I don't give a shit about RPGs and all this wizardry bullshit, and I see my friend playing this
I'm like damn, this is cool. What the hell? This is cool
Huh, not so fast. We've got company.
Try to keep up.
See ya.
It's over.
We're gonna have to have a moment where like I go back and review...
Oh, this fight is just fucking bonkers to me.
Like, we played this not that long ago, but like the music,
Everything about this blows my fucking mind. How cool it is.
I love this shit.
Did you notice from a localization standpoint, they take away a lot of the anime grunts,
right? Where they're like almost uncomfortable to not let the scene just linger. They have to
fill it with things, you know? That was a localization fix that they fix in part two.
Like that has improved upon the localization aspects of like character depictions. They just
let scenes linger and they do not fill them with they utilize silence instead of trying to avoid
it and that's the thing that like a lot of anime dub tries to yeah maybe not so
much nowadays but it was definitely a big thing and like the teens and the early
20s especially Japanese Japanese translated games it was like it's
frustrating people don't do this you know fine now it is you'll call
Merck
Pretty cocky agent
You double-cross
Heads up
I've reinforced I'm inflated with the internals to be overloaded lightning magic, you know what I didn't you notice because they go like
really ham
With all the character dialogue like the characters banter like crazy and they talk about literally what's happening in the fight only during really important fights
and it happens in
FS7 rebirth when cloud and Sephiroth are fighting the materia keeper
They banter and they tell each other what to do, and they work together like crazy.
It doesn't happen nearly as much throughout many other fights throughout the game,
but they really put a ton of effort into like the introduction fight.
Until like the end of the game, when characters are all saying shit to each other like the really important, really critical fights, there's a lot of dialogue like this.
What the hell is this? It's a doom rat! Kill it! One doom rat down! There's another one!
I got it! That's two doom rats down! Scan the doom rat! I missed it! Better go find another
the doom rat cloud they don't do that for anything focus and get this doom rat
oh this shit
thank god dude
This needs to go in there, right? These need to be added. The fact that these did not make
the compilations, like these need to be added. When I make the finality of this shit, whenever
Number part 3 eventually gets announced and it comes out.
F*** you.
No!
Four million views, god damn.
Still coming back to this bit in 2026, just to believe in something.
Oh my god.
Just to believe in something.
Oh, no, it was definitely it was a different time chat. There was a different time. It just was you know
There's a different time
It's just some belief is something
No
What the fuck? Oh
My god
What the fuck
Oh my god no fucking way no fucking way dude dude
Oh, the shit is this real? How is it real?
No, that this would eventually be quoted so much. No. No.
This is a nut into orbit. Yeah. This is a nut orbiting announcement.
This is a nut orbiting announcement, dude.
man. That's her in orbit. Put your shit down.
Sauron. It's going to be Monster Hunter?
Oh my god. I did not ask for the power of prophecy chat. I did not ask the power of prophecy to some random
of YouTuber. Immediately, Sora.
I hope it's Monster Hunter. Oh my god.
Shokie baby. Everybody shut up.
Well, it's highly produced.
It's actually a CG trailer, yeah.
It's going to be the hand.
No, no.
Yeah, the hand.
Can that be a waste?
You know why I was wearing the Final Fantasy 7 shirt here?
in the hopes that the PC version was going to get announced.
That was my hope that it'd be like, hey, here's a PC version of Final Fantasy 7.
We were still in that timeframe. This is before Final Fantasy 7 Integrated even happened.
It happened the next year, like literally one year after this, the next game awards,
is when they announced the Epic Games Store version of FF7 Remake.
So this year we got this.
you'll be a waste got him Kenny right back streets
all right in sync weird shit what the hell trunks enough to do that trunks trunks no way
Why you suffer on us?
Fuck you!
Now fuck me boys!
Oh my god!
Look at the music you're making!
How old are you?
You're so fucking crazy!
I'm fucking crazy!
I love Final Fantasy 7 so much.
He's wearing the shirt!
Oh my god!
And you know what I love?
I love that soccer eye likes it just as much as me.
Oh my god!
Max is on stage!
What?!
Look at Max!
He paused!
Oh my god!
Max is wearing a shirt!
He missed Zalda, he's trying to stab the shit out of her.
He missed his own stage in the crater.
Dude, yeah, his- oh my god, his stage is the different phases of the final battle against Genova.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Genova, Genova final form.
This trailer is so sick.
His final smash is gonna be this crazy fucking-
You get the shit fucking CG trailer?
I'm gonna watch this 30 times after this shit.
Oh my god!
So many admin children references
This this this literally happens and this reference to admin children
This happens in the final battle of rebirth like no kidding. There's literally a Sephiroth can hit you or
Yeah, I can hit cloud with an attack where it reframes everything and it sets up this shot again
And it's like cloud once again impaled on the sword bleeding out type shit
it, skewered, and it just lets it ride. And Sephiroth says something bonkers. Like, does
he not say, I have to go back and look, but he says some weird shit during it. Almost
like been here before. Like some weird shit. I have to go back and check that. I need to
go back. Yeah, that's what he says. He says just like old times when he stabs it. I'm
like, not a sequel, huh? What the fuck, dude? I have to go back and pull up that fight.
There he says something crazy that is like, have we been here before?
Oh, no, this is incredible.
Look at all that amazing fake-out.
Shit, it's incredible.
Wow.
I need to go back up and pull that fight out.
Oh my god, you suck, Christ, a fucking advent children fan.
I don't believe it.
Ha ha ha ha.
Greatest movie of all time, man.
Omni Slash version 5.
Oh, he gets a unique Omni Slash against Sephiroth.
That is f**king amazing!
You're f**king amazing, dude!
I don't f**king believe it!
Award show redeeming!
Nice sword!
Genesis!
Holy shit, that's gonna be some crazy some crazy final smash
Man
Man, oh man
It comes out the same year as Remake.
Yeah, this was December and Remake came out in April.
Yup.
Yep.
One of the most iconic video games is a debut on the original PlayStation.
We were bringing the title back to the PlayStation.
What is this?
Everyone is so... look at that fucking crowd!
Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Played that before.
The audience shot was not the best call here, dude.
That was not the best call.
The crowd.
Ehh, the collective woof.
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
He told us.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
I've been told you told us.
Oh my God.
I don't know what the fuck happened, but what they talking about y'all, it's not equal
to shit and a game.
I felt vindicated that it wasn't me that just felt like, what the, do you stupid bastards
like, so mad that you would do this to us.
I was so mad.
Oh, I'm in here too.
Everyone was so mad.
Everyone, we felt betrayed.
That was the problem, dude.
like it felt like the literal spit in the face of Final Fantasy 7 fans after like 20
years, let's just spit in their face too. It's like, brother.
Now, many years ago, Square Enix released a groundbreaking title that went on to become
one of the most beloved games in PlayStation in video game history.
I love this shit so much.
Tonight, the storytelling, dude, you got to understand they knew, OK?
They knew when they were bringing back Final Fantasy 7
to get it back into, like, your mental acuity, they knew they were setting us up.
They knew people are going to be pissed.
Like, PlayStation Xperia, how about great day?
Like, they knew six months later, dude.
I am proud to announce that by popular demand, we have a very special treat for everyone.
Long ago, we looked upon the film of East Sky.
The memory of the star that threatened the wall.
It turned all your hearts.
Is it? Wait.
Is this Final Fantasy 7?
Wake. Game and age of silence.
Look at this dude.
Then with each fond remembrance, we know those encountered.
Everybody just completely... nobody's saying shit.
Just every moment, every line of dialogue.
everyone the anticipation is you can drip feed that shit you can turn it into a
cool aid
I love this dude
It may break
People, like, like they are literally seeing like a deity fall from the sky.
Oh!
Holy shit!
So funny.
Oh, I need him.
Oh no.
It's so funny, dude.
I love this shit so much.
I just did a fucking video about this shit.
Oh
Oh my god!
What up?
Fuck it!
People just grabbed their phones to record the moments.
Dude's just breaking down!
This was the equivalent of all the Capcom fans throwing up after all the announcements.
Fun of that is the seven fans began breaking down after they realized what's happening
And Capcom fans started aggressively vomiting after all the announcements.
Oh, this is so funny.
At least kids are out.
Oh my god.
Oh, it's so funny, man, chat.
There is something so special about like sharing even an eclectic moment on the Internet.
You know, like what I what I relate this to is like, you know, like a sports team and
And you're all our big fans of a sports team.
And then the dude pulls up from a three pointer with half a second on the clock, throws the
ball into the air and that shit somehow sinks and everybody goes, what the fuck?
Like, you know that like across the world, there is a shared kinetic energy going across
the entire fucking planet where everybody is losing their God.
We're in this together like type of shit.
It's such like a magical feeling.
It's such like a moment that is like, oh my fucking god.
Like, you know, you hear people across the place
losing their minds across the street and shit.
There is something about that shared moment
that we're all here in some wild bonkers thing just happened.
Like that's some insane fucking thing.
It's the same like relation in my opinion,
where in the video game space, that's what this is.
This is like this massive goddamn slam dunk
of us all just being here in this moment
and we were here for this shit, dude, it happened.
The synchronized reaction.
I think it honestly is one of my favorite things in life.
Like, I won't lie.
Like, I deeply appreciate those moments when they happen.
When some insane goddamn wild bonkers shit
brings everybody together in this one spot.
I love it, man.
I love it.
It's one of my favorite things of all time.
I love reviewing it.
It makes me realize why reaction videos like this are like special to me, you know?
It just, it brings you back to that moment, that place in time.
It's just, I don't know, it's just special.
It's gonna be really crazy when there's no announcement tomorrow.
It's gonna be real crazy if there's no announcement tomorrow.
Hey, but at least we have this all right at least we have this
I'm all clowned up brother
We're getting some kind of announcements, okay
We're getting something if it isn't the ff7 announcement
It's either gonna be Street Fighter or virtual or something dude. There's gonna have to be something there
Anyway, let us announce FF7 Remake again. Yeah, that's what they'll do. Let us announce FF7 Remake again.
Oh, chat, you got me all hyped up and excited. This shit hasn't actually happened yet, okay.
Okay, understand. This shit hasn't actually happened, aww.
Jesus, brother.
We count on you, man.
What?
Henry, I haven't even died in Niko.
Your beauty's undeniable.
Your mind is going to die.
I'm sick of this.
I'm sick of all of this.
Forgot about this scene.
Holy shit.
30 year cooking shit.
Huh.
That's why we gotta go back and replay this shit.
This game is so goddamn cool.
The craziest thing is that the gameplay in Rebirth makes this game look like a baby's
toy.
Bro.
This game looks mad simple in comparison to how Rebirth plays.
You should talk about your play through on this fight.
Has you used an ephrate in his ultimate and it lines up perfectly to this song?
I wasn't given...
Hey, there it is.
I love all the...
I love all the uh, party.
Like blood of a-
Okay.
I'm gonna- I'm gonna- uh, focus strike.
Oh shit.
I've never, I chat, you guys have seen this more than me.
I experienced this once, I didn't experience it again.
is more than me. I experienced this once, I didn't experience it again, so I don't remember this shit.
It's been a long time since I've played Remake. Like, since before Rebirth came out, it's been a long time, dude.
It's a Q-Raw on Cloud ASAP.
Oh shit, we got some, uh...
Hands are up!
Jesus Christ!
This game is fucking incredible, dude. I'm getting goosebumps just watching this shit again.
Get the key up.
Oh shit, please bring it on.
Do your thing.
Goddamn cool this is dude.
Not dead.
Boop she down.
Shit, that's right, okay.
Alright, we're gonna have to get you to force us on this target.
Dead.
I'm going to figure out what the hell is this boss fight doing dude.
This fight was a, what do they call it?
This fight was a hard block for a lot of people because this is the first fight in the game
that really makes you like in a while.
Oh, if you're not using all the mechanics, you get fucked up.
It's a big skill check.
Yeah, if you're not utilizing everything, if you haven't been equipping your materia,
have been getting new gear you're gonna get fucked up like it's hard this in the
hellhouse especially
I love all the extra dialogue dude, it's so cool
Holy shit, holy shit, what is this fucking game, god damn man, shit, I don't, I don't
I don't
It's just the best shit ever sorry it's just the best shit ever this shit is the best shit ever dude
Shit is just the best shit ever
God damn man
Chopper, you know.
Dude, and there are so many fucking boss fights in rebirth.
There's like even more.
There's like twice as many large scale boss fights
in rebirth that are just insane.
There's so many that you like forget about them.
Like I had a part of the game where I was like
just testing my HDR on my TV.
And I was at the spot where Red 13 and Barrett
are going through Cosmo Canyon and Cave of the Ghee.
And I was right outside the Cave of the Ghee boss.
And I had to do that fight again?
Holy shit, dude.
The goddamn, that boss fight is fucking, it's so sick.
It is so fucking cool.
And I almost like, you almost forget
about some of that shit.
There's so many of them that happen in that game.
I'm looking forward to doing it again.
And let's do some thunder.
All right, watch your turn.
Let's go.
Okay.
Good, go to the game.
That fighting hard mode was tough, yeah.
I still need to do my full rebirth hard mode run.
Oh my God, chat.
Do you remember that goddamn wall?
What's it called?
What's the actual name of it?
The death wall.
When you're in Temple of the Ancients?
When that the demon wall, when that music kicks in,
and you like one side of the other
and the goddamn drop of the...
That shit's amazing. That shit's fucking amazing and it starts pincering you in and shit.
So sick.
The Red Dragon fight was okay. I didn't love it as much.
All this extra dialogue does so much
He's the bathroom, dude. Hold on
God damn you!
Cloud, you're about to die.
Oh, and Chiba's about to die.
I think Chiba just hear Cloud.
You got me!
Give me this thing.
the
I love seeing struggle on these fights, man. I love it that these fights were hard. You actually have like feeling during them, you know
I love that about it. I like that about rebirth as well. They just had to struggle. They actually had to try
to heal the shit out of Barrett.
How the fuck did they get this game running on a PS4? It's still incredible.
It's still insane, dude.
How would I rate my old gameplay out of 10? Hold on, let's find out.
How'd I rate my gameplay of the first time? Uh, let's see.
Wait, hold on. One, two, three, four, five.
Five out of ten. I give it a five out of ten. Five punches out of ten.
Wow.
Perfect refined gameplay as boring as fuck, Chad.
Boring as fuck.
Tankbuster, that's not good. You're on myself.
I'm boring as fuck. I mean, somebody actually tries.
There's actually a story there.
if
Oh, my God!
I was too high when I rolled into it. I was getting too excited.
We don't have long to get clear.
Take Tifa and get out of here!
Ha! I was wrong about you.
This ain't the end of the line for you or me.
No!
Come on!
Jesus, dude, this game is on another level.
This game is something else.
Shit was special.
Shit was special, man.
Need a cigarette
I
Here we go
They say she's a monster, that she can cure her inside you, into the very depths of your soul.
That she can be from those you hate, those you fear, those you love.
And make all of her a gentle car.
What in the hell is this shit, dude?
Oh that's fucking dumb.
LOL.
Don't overdo it.
This shit is so goddamn cool.
Oh my god
I cannot believe they went so ham with jenova.
like in general, right? Because Genova doesn't lean into this body horrors shit at all until
the very end of Final Fantasy 7 when you get all the wild ass like transformation shit
with Hojo. Like this doesn't really happen very much. Like the weird ass Eldritch horrors
shit, they don't. Like Genova always had like the generic forms and then you just fight
it over and over again until it changes in the finale, and then Hojo has the crazy body
transformation shit.
But now, dude, they made this shit worse than Resident Evil bosses, it's horrific, I'm
like god damn dude, it's almost like shocking what they're getting away with, it's gross
looking. What I'm saying is that, yeah, hard to do on PS1. What I'm saying is that that
isn't the original vision for Genova. Like, Genova has that sometimes in the OG1 that
happens sometimes in the OG1 with like the Hojo fight, but not all the time. This is
like a huge expansion on what Jenova looks like and what it's capable of, then the original
Final Fantasy 7.
This was not this way, dude.
What the fuck is this thing?
of
the
me reacting to me reacting to music. Let's do it. Let's do it. All right, chat. All
right, chat. Stellar Blade is flush. Stellar what? Never heard of it. Never heard of it.
still what 12 more hours let's just stay up and watch final fantasy 7 shit how
much was to go to sleep now right how am I supposed to go to sleep now chat you
know better than this you don't ask me to play something else than what I'm
currently doing then I'll just tell you I'll never do it again ever I never have
done it it is literally 12 hours until summer games fest chat 12 hours
Harada has been typing up Twitter all night. Seriously? He's still going? I did actually save his one tweet. Hold on
Wow, you are not wrong holy shit
Holy shit, Harada is saying some shit, dude
What is going on? Yeah. This post is unavailable. What a bitch. What the hell? Yeah, okay. So
this is, I actually had this one saved, believe it or not. I still have it here. I actually
have it like, documented so we can read that tweet.
Harada's going in.
So anyway, I kind of wanted to highlight this
before I end the evening,
because once again, thanks to Katsuhiro Harada,
we have a better understanding of kind of how
the Japanese games industry works
because he's pretty candid about how this shit works.
Anyway, Harada chose to chime in on a situation
that I think is pretty, once again,
is validating a lot of the stuff
that I've tried to remind people
how the game development system works,
how things aren't the fault of one individual person.
Games are massive developments
and we just had a big conversation
talking about this when Nakatsu left Tekken.
So someone was talking about how
the balancing of Tekken 8 has been moved
and led by specifically Yasuyuki, Dr. Bayashi,
I think was like a co-director of Tekken 8. He doesn't have a social media presence,
but he sure knows his stuff since he's behind the balancing of Tekken 5DR and Tekken 6 to a degree,
Tekken's in good hands, saying that all of the recent balancing is because this guy who was
on the Tekken team, it's there the reason why it's good. All the people that sucked at it are
leaving and the people that are good are the ones that are in charge now. Pretty much deductive
logic, right? Um, Harada is getting one guide here, but he does offer a pretty good explanation.
Check this out. So small clarification. The work that was done in this update has been,
has been work in progress since last year. And what is currently being delivered is the result
of a long running effort. And anyone who has worked in game development will tell you and
understand the timeline that it's not just debugging in QA, there are first party certification
and approval process is involved, yes, like things take a long goddamn time. Like the effort
that was put into here is an effort. People are so recency biased that they think that like,
oh, what's happening right now is good. The people that I am thinking about in the moment
are reflective of it. No, dude, like, game development takes so goddamn long, and there's
so many moving parts that you're not even thinking they've been working on this shit forever. They
They know the DLC characters two years before the game's even
release date.
So about a year ago, I made this post,
which is probably pretty interesting to say
that it was a challenging game in some aspects
of the new team for battle tuning.
We have returned to the team structure of members of the past.
This is talking about what happened during season two.
They went back to their old development team,
then the new one.
And yeah, the direction of this patch update
was actually led by Nakatsu, who just recently left.
And at the same time, the other director
that you mentioned, Nakabayashi,
who was also deeply involved with the direction,
because there's multiple people running the ship,
and Mishima Star, right?
The reality is that they spent the past year
working towards this release.
And this update became the final work
they delivered before leaving the company.
So a big reveal, Nakatsu, which we knew,
but Nakabayashi and Mishima Star
all left-band Dynamco, which is all pretty telling news that this company is going through
some shit. And at this point, this should go without saying, but not only for this update,
the results of the product that you're playing in many projects are working, many project
members working incredibly hard. Even in their names, even if their names are not known,
they're not the faces. I literally just talked about that that people blame the faces that
they see. People think that oh no, made street fighter. People think that like this guy does
this because that's the face that you associate with it instead of ignoring the absolute massive
credits list of like thousands of people and shit. Main developer staff that's like 200 people.
Because of that, I hope people will evaluate these achievements as the work of a team rather
than focusing on individual names.
Sakurai made all of Smash, my dude.
Thank you, God Sakurai,
ignoring the entire Bandai Namco development team
that made Smash Brothers.
Personally, I don't think there is much value
in studying the credits and trying to attribute
every intricate thing to specific individuals.
I also see a variety of speculation and analysis
from this community.
Unfortunately, most of it is just not accurate,
and I don't mean just this particular topic.
In fact, the directors whose names you mentioned,
including Nakabayashi, is it Nakabayashi?
Yes, have already left the project
and began new journeys on their own.
There are also a small number of people
who explain things based on their supposed knowledge
of the game industry, and unfortunately,
most of these explanations are just not accurate.
Pretty much going back to the fact
that this all started from somebody
kind of targeting specific individuals
as the root cause of their grievances.
We see this happen with Tetsuya Nomura a lot
in Final Fantasy, especially at Square Enix,
specifically targeting one individual for their grievances
with an entire franchise or a game
or alluding that other people are directly responsible
for things being good and or bad instead of a team, right?
Instead of a lot of people are working on this shit.
So anyway, this is simply just factual clarification and nothing more, nothing beyond that.
So Harada just clearing the air that like, hey, no, you stupid shit, this is not how
things work behind the scenes and these things do not come down to one individual person.
Like they are a team and they make these, these choices like as a collective.
So anyway, he goes on to answer some other stuff.
So somebody, so it takes a year to release a tiny borderline insignificant patch.
What's the timeline for a slightly bigger patch?
Two years.
All right.
Herata goes in.
Since I assume that you're just not familiar with game development, it is understandable
that it may be difficult to grasp.
Armchair devs.
Let me break this down a little bit in some context in my previous post, though I will
appreciate a little bit more reading comprehension.
The restructuring happened a year ago.
does not mean that this particular update took an entire year to develop. Even though
I said that the work on this update began last year, that does not mean that it started
exactly one year ago. Mentioned before, this update is simply one of the many updates and
pieces of additional content that Nakatsu and Nakabayashi had been continually working
on in parallel. Some of them may have started on as early as November or December of last
year, while others likely began development in January or February. Some people, looking
at the timing of Nakatsu and Nakabe Ashi's departure, also state that making this rather
strange assumption that they had nothing to do with it.
So I added clarification that they in fact did.
They were the ones that executed this final update before leaving the company.
This wasn't the only point I was making, you dumb bitch.
More importantly, some people seem pretty eager to pick out individual devs rather than
and build a narrative around those individuals with assumptions and judgments.
It is not really the way to look at any game development at all.
Games are made by teams.
Rather than focusing on specific individuals, I would appreciate if it was evaluated on
a team as a whole.
Don't blame one person, blame everybody.
I also pointed out that many of the assumptions and conclusions that people reach are frankly
really off the mark.
Depending on the topic, a surprising amount of speculation I see is just inaccurate.
Before posting conclusions based on assumptions, it is worth taking a moment to think them
through.
essentially what my previous post was explaining, having broken it down this far.
Harada is straight up to the moon and sick of seeing his coworkers and a lot of other
people thrown under the bus directly, right?
And this is mostly, this mostly boils down because Tech-in-8 has gone through and not
just Tech-in-8.
Like, we've seen this happen with Square Enix, we've seen this happen with a variety of developers
that are the faces of projects, um, nearly any game. Oh, it's this guy's fault. This
is bad. Oh, it's this person's fault. This is woke or some stupid shit. Like it always
boils down to some, we need, we need to get angry at somebody and it can't be a general
collective. It's got to be a Nomura. It's got to be a Harada. It's got to be a Mike
Murray. It's got to be a Nakatsu. It's got to be some shit, right? We need to get mad
at someone. We got to get them out of here because they're ruining this shit. It's somebody's
fault directly, you know? It's just pointing fingers and focusing, and focusing higher,
right? And Harada is just so sick of it, dude. He just absolutely hates this shit because
it is just not representative of like any reality. It's just not real. Like those decisions
are not made by individuals directly. There's no like king calling the shots all the time.
If anything, the one thing that you can focus anger towards is a team. Like this team made
a bad decision on this thing, right? Not one individual person. The way that this was handled
was not good. Instead of being goddamn you piece of shit individual, this is bad because
of you. He's saying your energy should better be focused on the fact that we made this decision
as a team and we fucked up.
And they acknowledged that they fucked up before
and they had to work at it.
This is why I usually chat.
If there is a moment and an opportunity for me to be like,
we're really big pissed and big mad at this.
And honestly, it's happening right now.
Who is the general focus and direction
that I like to give you in most of these situations
if we don't know exactly where this stuff is happening?
It usually is from the higher ups.
It's from like Bandai Namco.
Shit is clearly fucked up at B&E right now.
Like there's some bad shit going down behind the scenes
of how this stuff is happening.
And Bandai Namco Entertainment,
the executives that run this shit,
the head honchos that are responsible for all the money
and all the distribution and all the profitability.
Yeah, I think, I personally feel
as we've seen this happen time and time again,
this shit is also fucking up Tekken pretty hard.
And it has come to a head where now even the people
that run Tekken and love Tekken and I've been doing this shit for 20 to 30 years are all
peacing out and we're making our own company. Like, yeah, it's pretty freaking obvious where
our focus should be. And it's the fact that shit is going down at Bandai Namco right now.
Instead of just getting mad at individual developers that also have to deal with corporate breathing
down their necks. Anyway, the only other opportunities where I like will offhandedly
say bad things about certain individuals in the industry, like Yuji Naka and Ono and stuff
like that, just beating a dead horse is because there are stories that you hear for years that
like these people aren't good. Like a lot of bad things that have happened to projects have been
because of like personal emotions of people tied to shit, just dragging it into the ground, just
dragging shit into the mud. And there is no chance of there being any future of this stuff when some
of these people are involved. It's like, oh my god, dude, like what the hell is going on? And you
can only hear about that from secondhand folks that you personally know, where it's like, yeesh,
man. Capcom employees hated Ono. I didn't say it. I didn't say it. Anyway, we already have one person,
so Herata continues. You already have one person doing exactly that, making comments based on
assumptions and their own interpretations of things I never even said or mentioned. Key words,
I never brought up and things I never actually said that was exactly the point
I was making this kind of speculation tends to be completely off the mark. So let's just avoid it
Still most people seem to have understood what I meant correctly. So I suppose that's fine. Yeah, I mean
He's right games are not made by one person like soccer. I did not make all of Smash Brothers
you might be upset about him for something but
People don't realize that like Bandai Namco entertainment and a unique dev team made those games like
Like, holy shit, man.
It's the same thing in filmmaking, too.
It's the same thing in movies, dude.
Like, with anything that has a larger development that requires, like, a lot of involvement
and a lot of people, like, there is a lot of places that you can focus your aggression
that aren't specifically individuals and shit,
especially if shit goes south.
So busy sifting through resumes
and read out all the developers.
What the hell?
You're probably saying this as a joke,
but if I reflect on what actually happened at the time,
this is how it went.
I assume you're referring to the situation
where initially a tech and characters chest
didn't move at all,
but as development neared the end,
some physics code was secretly added when I wasn't looking,
and it turned out that a certain designer and programmer
had quietly slipped that chest movement into the final ROM?
As for that, what the fuck?
As for that episode, did I actually get mad
at the developers who added the physics afterwards
or feel dissatisfied or think they should be removed?
No, that's exactly what I referred to it
as a fun anecdote of the past.
In reality, dude, people just spinning shit.
People hearing one thing and they just spin
some absolute insane narrative in their head.
Holy shit.
We appreciate the fact that they wanted to express
creativity in a way and I personally value such proactive developers so it's a good memory but
I appreciate it. I appreciate them to the end and they're still my good comrades. Trying to take
some twisted thing and turn it into an entire narrative that doesn't line up with any kind of
reality at all. Thank you, Harada. You are a real one. You also an OG and you a real one. I can only
wish you the best in your future endeavors of trying to add actual perspective and bring people
down to earth when it comes to some of this shit because it's crazy, man. It's so much more
interesting if you can just build an idea in your head of what it is and just go with that instead
of hearing what the developers are actually saying and doing instead of hearing what devs are telling
you just going off on wild tangents and shit and targeting individuals directly as a focus
of your ire of why you don't like thing. I just hate it, man. It's hostile projection.
Yes, it's mostly projection. Anyway, yeah, what he, Harada does this multiple times where
he comes out and he says this shit and he clarifies it and he just tells you how the
fuck it went down, how it went down from his perspective as somebody that is literally
running the ship. And does he have to do that? Do any Japanese game developers do this? They
do not. You never hear about this ship from Japanese game dev. This shit follows them
to their graves alongside the other people that are involved in the project. They just
don't talk about it. They'll talk about it with each other, but they are never candid
about how this development works. It is, it is all insanely mysterious. So that's why
a lot of this allure, a lot of this shit has happened of like this dev involved in this
stuff and all that kind of shit. There's a reason why I talk about stuff like no Murray
and text when it comes to a numera because they're practically like enigmas. We don't
know how they work. They're so mysterious and shit. But in reality, when people just
want to blame people, that's when shit gets nasty. That's when shit gets so fucked up
is that the shit gets turned into like weaponized hatred that you just build social groups
that are here to weaponize hatred and just make people feel terrible. Make devs want to leave their
jobs and shit like that. Anyway, Harada didn't have to clear this shit up. It's not his responsibility
anymore, but the fact is that he's sticking up for his team members. He acknowledges when they
fuck up and they're pretty much acknowledging the game that you're playing right now is a direct
product of them trying to fix their fuckup. And they, before they left the company, they knew
they wanted to fix these rights and they worked the entire past year making this shit right.
because they most likely were sick of dealing with Ben Dynamco.
Probably was a big contributing factor. Anyway, are they mad that they left the game and doing
this now? No, no, I don't think they're mad they left the game. They wanted to leave the game in
the best state they possibly could, you know? That's what Harada is saying, that they worked
their asses off over the past like six months to a year making this shit happen. And it was their
final work where most of the main Tekken devs left. Why did that all happen at the same time?
I wonder. I wonder if it's all the stuff that Herata spoke negatively about Bandai Namco
corporate over all these years. I wonder if that has anything to do with it. I wonder.
Anyway, yeah, Tekken 8 is in a pretty good spot right now, with a pretty cool future ahead of it.
You just got to hope that all that carries forward, you know, for future characters and stuff like that.
Something reached a breaking point. Yeah, they all pieced out at the same time. Yeah,
the only one that like we know of that's like a legacy guy. One of the only ones is like Mike Murray
and a few other devs. They're still there. Anyway,
Tekken post Harada is worrisome. It's not just Tekken post Harada. It's Tekken post Harada and
many other key members. Harada, we say Harada because he's the face, right? But it isn't just
the face of Tekken, Harada wasn't a developer. He's not a dev. Harada has not been a developer
of Tekken since like five. So it's been 20 plus years that Harada's even worked on Tekken
in terms of its actual game execution. The game execution of Tekken has been done by
a completely different development team that is the same development team that is also
working on Tekken 8. And now most of them have left. Well, not most, but a lot of the key
players have left. What's going on in Bandai? I don't know, dude. I don't know. It's not
looking good. I think the new studio will bring a new IP to the fighting game scene.
Oh yeah! No, I think they want to do something fresh. I think they do.
Dish, man.
Depressing.
Does it only affect tech and our other Bandon MCO IPs?
Well, I don't know.
We don't know, but you would assume that the corporate pressure that is being felt on one
side of the company would likely be felt on the others.
Jesus man, it's depressing.
I appreciate Arata.
I appreciate him being very coy about this, but it is depressing.
Do you think they'd buy the Tekken IP given the chance?
Probably no.
That doesn't happen, dude.
It doesn't usually happen where Japanese pubs like sell their IPs and shit that does not usually happen
They just don't do anything with it
It's not usually the nature of it
Yeah, if that was the case then Kojima would have bought Metal Gear
They said, I love that, but that should go ever.
Yeah, there's way too much legality and that that just doesn't happen. Like the only chat,
yeah, the only time a company gets rid and splinters their IPs to different different ways,
like what happened with WB before it was WB games like Midway, you know, they were bankrupt.
So they were literally yard-sailing their IPs like whatever they had they fully owned like moral combat and many other things
They were just splintering that shit off and just selling it to the highest bidder and then WB came out and bought, you know, MK
Before WB games even existed pretty much
So when a company is like down to nothing and they're bankrupt
And it's like what we seem to make as much money as possible with whatever the fuck we have
Time to start selling shit and the highest bidder
Yeah, Marvel did this in the 90s. This is how Capcom and Marvel started working together, because Marvel was mad cheap!
Ugh.
Anyway.
Yeah, Herod is a real one.
This dude made Tekken 3, man.
Like, I don't know, it'd be pretty hard to ever get him on my bad side.
It'd be pretty fucking hard.
It also helps that every single time I've talked to Harada, he has questions for me.
He always like, for like 10 plus years, him and Murray are always around and they always
like found a way to seek me out and like ask me about shit, like talk about stuff.
So, they've always seemed to be like very in tune with multiple sides of the community,
not just the competitive side for things to get better.
Need a high note to end on?
Yeah, yeah.
That definitely grounded me a little bit, the kind of questions, you know, stuff relevant
at the time but not really relevant anymore.
Yeah, we saw Thresh. He looks incredible. He looks incredible. You think Ueda game is
showing up? Oh, that would be cool. I'd be really cool to see that tomorrow. Dude, how
long is Jeff's show supposed to be? Is it two hours? Two, two plus hours. Oh my God.
Damn, bro.
Jesus.
But there's one thing I got to ask Harada.
I got to ask him if I if I get a chance to be on Harada's bar or something like that.
It's because I've never been to Japan to set that shit up.
It'd be ancient history.
There's one thing I would want to know about and from him.
How did Hey Hachi get into Soul Calibur 2?
Because he wasn't the first choice.
I would ask him about that.
I would want to know.
That's like the deep Bandai Namco history that I really want to hear from his mouth.
Because it's in rumor, it's still in rumor that it was supposed to be cloud.
It hasn't been directly confirmed.
It was only heard from people at the time that told stories about this, but nothing
straight from the horse's mouth that initially Soul Calibur II was supposed to have cloud
on the PlayStation 2 version.
And then it didn't work out because Square pulled out for some reason.
And that they needed a character quick and they chose Hayachi, which is why Hayachi is
the one that makes the least sense of all of them, which is weird, you know?
was like an interesting pick because he's greening on an Xbox and Link on a Nintendo
system of course and then hey Hachi is like what a second character? Weird. It was always
a weird choice. It makes sense now because we're just used to it. But yeah, I would
love to know because he was pretty close to that he wasn't on the Soul Calibur team then
because they were like rivals. But they were enablers of each other. They helped each other
like make games is what Harada described it as.
Imagine that shit, dude. Holy hell.
Him and Yoshi are like in the same games. Yeah, they share games with each other.
You know, I would love to know how he responds to that, who that character was.
And also like, that's the shit that gives me hope. It's like, man, if there is a Soul Calibur 7,
Holy shit, dude, Bandai Namco, if your head isn't nine feet up your ass, you have an opportunity
to hit a goddamn fucking grand slam if there's a Soul Calibur 7.
You have an opportunity right now to hit a grand slam.
And your hero character, your hero guest character for Soul Calibur 7 is right fucking there.
And it's also on every, could potentially, it's also on every system now.
It's literally on every system.
It literally is available on Nintendo hardware, Xbox, PC, PlayStation, everything.
As of, like, yesterday.
It's cloud.
It's fucking cloud, dude.
Now, I don't think Tifa fits Soul Calibur necessarily.
Well, Tifa fits Tekken because she's like, she's a combat fighter.
She's a fistic of combat fighter.
That's why she's always, that's why Tifa has always fit a fighting game better than any
other character in Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy 7.
She's literally punch girl, you know, with crazy, you know, flamboyant moves and shit wild wrestling shit and dolphins and nutty shit, you know, she's, she's crazy.
Tifa fits like a fighting game with like a fully realized moveset that already exists in remake and rebirth like fully realized.
But Soul Calibur.
Cloud fits that shit pretty well, dude.
Cloud fits that shit pretty well.
Did you see the Sony Flexstrike reviews?
No!
People reviewed it.
Is it any good?
That's the token stick, right?
Areth, Areth fits Street Fighter 6 because of Ingrid?
At this point, you're not wrong.
At this point, you ain't wrong.
Areth drops down an Arcane Ward and a Radiant Ward, and you never leave halfway point on
the screen. You just never leave. Sorry. Time to go to hell.
Last Soulcalibur wasn't great. Last Soulcalibur didn't release in a great spot, but it ended
in a really good one. Soulcalibur 6 is really good. They had issues at the start, though,
but they did rectify those issues. And the game ended up selling okay. Jeff Kealy has
not announced the partners for SGF and before didn't he he's done that before
that's happened where he says like he has the big JPEG and it's got like all
the partners that are showing up he's done that before he hasn't he has not
done it this year
huh he only said it's the biggest SGF show ever he's not done it not this
year, what are they hiding? What is he hiding? No, that's not worrisome, it's that he doesn't
want you to know who's there, because it's a spoiler.
Huh.
High Guard 2. It's High Guard 2. In secret, being made High Guard 2.
That's it. He's bringing back blue point Jeff bought blue point
Does somehow death loop came back better believe it
Dragon our thanks for the five dude curious if you're gonna review massive the universe like Kenny did I did grown up watching
Man in the 80s will 2000 reboot looking forward to the upcoming game of the ring games did you review more coming part two?
I talked about MK part two. I thought it was better than the first one. There's not a ton to discuss
There's a little bit might have an opportunity to do so in the near future
but I thought it was better than the first one.
Some of the story stuff didn't land for me, especially,
but at least they had a couple of very good fight scenes.
Like they had some, especially the Kung Lao Liu Kang fight
was really good.
So I think if you liked the first Mortal Kombat movie,
especially, and you were hoping that parts of that were fixed,
literally they fixed almost all the stuff
that fans complained about, that all got rectified.
It still leads to a movie that feels like it's practically made by fans, you know?
It feels like the movie's there specifically just to appease Mortal Kombat fans,
but that might be what some people are looking for, you know?
So, I didn't love it.
I thought it's gonna be hard to beat Mortal Kombat 95.
It's really gonna be hard.
Watching Blind Viewers react to it has been a strange experience to Mortal Kombat 2,
Like having no education of what it is, just watching MK2.
Am I going to watch Masters of the Universe? I mean, if it's good, maybe.
I might kind of want to see it. I didn't see the back rooms. I haven't seen any of the movies.
So busy getting stuff ready for like this week. The Avatar thing happened, which was fun.
Yeah, Obsession isn't usually a movie I go see in theaters. I usually don't go see horror movies
in theaters, just in general. I'll see Resident Evil though. Looking forward to Resident Evil.
Did you see Hoppers? I didn't, but Jessica just watched it because it shut up on Disney Plus
and she was weirded out by it. She could not. I'm like, was it good? She was like, I don't know.
No. It was very weird. She did not know how she felt about it. She's like, I think it
was heartwarming. I'm like, was it? And she's like, sorta? She was like, it was very forgettable.
It's weird. Yeah, apparently it's weird. Apparently it's like a weird movie. So I didn't know that
about it. That Hoppers was weird. I was like, huh, interesting. I'm kind of curious. Why
Why is it weird?
Yeah, Pragmata reached over 2 million sales.
Absolutely deserved.
Do you think Jeff will be more conservative
with the last game slot?
Yeah, apparently the High Guard fiasco.
And to be real, Jeff probably gave High Guard
more of a chance of being a successful game than ever.
Like, whether or not High Guard was at the end
of the game awards last year,
does not change what the game is, right?
So if that game was the most God-like game ever
and Jeff showed you it, you're like,
God damn this game is fucking God-like, look at this shit.
Let's keep playing, it's so God-like,
then that wouldn't change.
If Jeff didn't tell you and it just came out
and there was just word of mouth
that this fucking free-to-play high guard thing,
God damn this shit's God damn, look at this,
get God damn, look at this fucking horse,
like everyone would have just,
the word of mouth would have got you playing it
no matter what.
So, the result is that Jeff put it in front of your face
to give the game an opportunity to be as sick as it could be
and whether or not it was gonna take off or not, no.
Like, he had good intentions,
but the game being the game that it is,
you know, maybe that just doesn't line up
with what his impression of something
that could be God like is.
So, I'm not even saying it was bad or anything.
I didn't even play it.
not much interest to play it, but it is what it is, you know.
So either way, yeah, I think he will be much more careful about the games he exits on
because that does create an expectation.
There was this intro that didn't match the game. I heard that behind the scenes that
that was a scramble, you know, because all of us did. We all came to the same conclusion that
the Star Wars, what is it? What's the RPG? The trailer for the Star Wars RPG, the sequel, right?
I forget what they're making. They're making, what is it again, Chet? Yeah, the co-tour,
not Eclipse, no, no, no, photo, right? Whatever the heck it's called, the new one. Fate of the
Old Republic, right. That was probably the best trailer of that show. God-like trailer. And I
I don't, I don't even like Kotor, right? I don't even like these Star Wars Western RPGs.
But that trailer was, whoa, this is super fucking cool.
Wow, a modern day, nights of the Republic shit.
Wow, this is so cool.
That should have been the last trailer
easily and they easily could have swapped the places.
And nobody would have said anything.
Apparently, shit went down at the last minute and something that was supposed to be at the end had to get pulled.
Mega Man trailer was also a last minute thing that apparently the devs did specifically for Jeff.
They weren't super ready to show it, but Jeff asked about it and they made something special for him even though they announced it really early.
Yeah, because they did them the, oh, they did it.
Jeff gave them the O'Commy favor before.
So something happened in the end where the,
there was gonna be a different trailer there
and they pulled out.
And Jeff gave the spot, did a favor pretty much.
And Jeff has done that.
He does favors for like big announcements like,
hey, if you got something to show here,
I'll give you the space for like discounted
or free or some shit, you know?
So he wants big announcements.
That's one thing that Jeff wants to do.
He wants there to be big announcements for stuff.
But things don't work exactly according to plan all the time.
It's a creative industry and things just don't line up.
So I think that he'll definitely be more cautious
about that in the future.
It was pretty clear that when we all were watching
the final game of the game awards that like,
is this hitting for anybody?
And no, not based on the trailer, not necessarily.
It's just an unfortunate outcome.
I didn't want the game to do bad.
I wanted the game to find its audience.
But the game seemed fine, but that's the problem.
Is that like a game that is just like in that space
of a free to play environment where the game is entirely
dependent on people just engaging the game
through straight gameplay and will give them money
just through being convinced of gameplay,
then that game's gotta be fucking amazing, dude.
It's gotta be really good.
This is the way it is, man.
It's a it's a ruthless live-service battlefield of everybody competing for
attention. So, you know, I remember Apex had a rough
reception. Now Apex at the start, like Apex came out of nowhere and just launched.
And in a space where there wasn't that many BRs, now that shit was very well
received. Like I didn't love it but it was it was the big it game for a very long time.
Because it was a fresh take. Yeah, it was a much... BR was a very specific thing made by very
specific people at that time. And that was a bonkers. You have to give it to them. Apex felt
like it had a unique vision of what Battle Royale could be that other games were not doing.
And it felt like really fresh especially from controls and a world-building perspective. It was like fuck. This is this is really cool
This is neat
So why so it's lasted it worked they had a they had a really good concept they had a good idea, you know
They made that shit in secret bro, they made that shit behind EA's back. Isn't that crazy
Easy, X call of duty devs and Vince rest in peace, you know, he passed away and they made
that game in secret bonkers without EA knowing they built up the budget and they made that
shit happen.
And then it became one of the biggest BRs there is EA was mad about it until it started
making the money.
much of the X cod for modern warfare two guys. Yep.
Just started dead space remake. How could you not do to write dead space remake was incredible.
It was incredible. Dead space remake is one of those remakes that overwrites the original.
Like don't need to play the OG anymore. God damn. It's it's just everything about
the original but way better than sell enough. They wanted like 10 million units sold.
Is that the reason for the shadow drop of Apex? Yes. Yeah, they got their own servers ready for
it internally at EA and kept it under. They just launched it. They tested it with streamers and
stuff like that. They did some internal testing, but it was made behind the scenes without EA
knowing. It was a side project.
I managed to hide all that. Yeah.
Yeah. How does this happen secretly in a massive corporation?
Well, bitch, in game development, if you're hitting all of your
milestones and all of your project management is working out fine,
then you're doing some shit on the side. There's not people breathing down your neck,
right? There's not like EA cops walking up and down the aisles of your studio keeping you on point.
No. The lead people, the executives of like Respawn, the people that are running that shit
just had a few dudes, a few people that were building a project on the side that they believed
in that they really wanted to do and they knew that EA would never sign off on it.
So they found a way to get the budget internally to make that shit happen
and they executed it and then they released the biggest BR there is.
And then at that point, EA didn't give a fuck.
Chat in this industry and a lot of industries like this that are creative and stuff,
you don't get approval, you ask for forgiveness.
You just do the thing and then say sorry but we did it and then it makes them a
whole bunch of money. It's usually how you have to go about it or else they're
always gonna say no.
Yeah don't look for permission ask for forgiveness or get fired yeah but here's
the thing you ain't getting fired if you're making the money because that's
all it matters. That's all it matters. If you have something you know that's gonna
make a shit ton of money and they just will never give you approval and then you make the
thing anyway with like a select people and just keep it super hush hush and then it ends
up making them a shit ton of money. Guess what you're going to be doing? Still making
the thing. Oh, you made us all a bunch of money. Well, okay. They just fire you after.
No, you stupid idiot. No. These are businesses. They will not fire you if you, if you're making
them a shit ton of money. They won't give you bonuses and shit, but they will definitely
be like, damn, you do that behind our backs, huh? All right, keep going. They don't give
a shit. They don't give a shit what you're doing behind the scenes and shit. They'll
just you keep making us. All right. That's all that matters. You have to understand to
higher ups to executives, that's all that fucking matters. It is the bottom line. That's it.
They're not here for the creative integrity of all this shit, not in this Corpo shit.
No, dude, they don't give a fuck. Good job. Never do that again. Like, sure. Sure.
It's Corpo shit, dude. That's the thing. Creatives, people that are creators want to make shit.
And in in when you're when you're under the corporate overlords, they're not ever gonna like you make anything creative
They're only gonna be you're only gonna make the thing that is safest fuck and you're gonna have to
Guarantee to get revenue out of it, you know the EA way and taking a huge risk on making some wild ass
BR that doesn't play like the other BRs and shit
Yeah, it was risky. It was super risky
Also made him a fuckload of money
It goes from making TV, any creative industry, any creative industry.
Dude, even like, you got to go back to like stories of when they made Forrest Gump, where
the studio was severely undermining parts of the film and like under budgeting Robert
Zemeckis and shit, like legendary directors, right?
He's making like one of the most well-received movies of all time and the studio just doesn't
believe it's any good. And literally, like Tom Hanks and Bob Zemeckis are like gathering
cash so that they can afford the shot of forests running across like the United States, because
they they're the executives were like, you're cutting that out, we can't afford it. And it's
like the one of the best fucking parts of the movie that like you can't we can't afford
to do that. Don't do it. So they literally, they literally pulled from their own bank
accounts and, and shot that shit by themselves without their approval, they just asked for
forgiveness later.
Like that this shit happens constantly in this industry, dude, because they just, that's
their vision.
Like this is, this makes the movie better.
You can't fuck this up for us.
We're going to do it without, we're going to say we're not doing it.
We're doing it anyway.
There it is.
And then like, why, we told you not to shoot this while we did it.
Sorry.
It's there now.
Good thing the movie went on and made a shit ton of money, now they don't care.
Same thing happened to Avatar, like Jim Cameron said this, James fucking Cameron of all people
had to argue his dick off that he, the executives wanted him to cut out all the flying scenes,
all the part where they get on the banshees and fly around and shit in the first Avatar
movie, like the best shit in the movie.
All the executives wanted to cut out there, we don't need it.
It's not, there's no plot development or anything, you know, we're not learning anything about
our characters like no we don't need it it just takes so much time so they wanted to cut like 30
minutes out of the film that was all the flying sequences and Jim Jim went fuck you you're leaving
it in the film like argued with them like crazy and then he eventually had to make like a wager
against like his paycheck or some wild shit in order to get that in to stay in the film too expensive
fucking. This is what it's like to be that this is what this is what the tech and devs
have to deal with chat. Like you have to understand this. Imagine what they're actually dealing
with when I'm when I made the story up that imagine a Bandai Namco executive is watching
their 14 year old kid play tech and online and getting absolutely fucking smashed and
The kid is crying, and the corporate executive
goes to the tech and devs.
My 14-year-old kid is crying playing this tech and game
that we're making.
We need to do something right now.
And he undermines all of the people
that are actually making the game
and just forces people to change shit like crazy
to better benefit his 14-year-old.
My 14-year-old said he should do this, this, and this.
So just do it.
We don't need to talk to anybody.
Just do it.
I've heard of crazy or shit that happens.
Literally crazier shit than that.
That's relatively normal.
That could happen.
And now we start thinking about like,
oh, that happened to Disney.
Yes, that literally happened to Disney,
but literally has happened in movie and film production
to shit where executives like,
my kid doesn't like this, let's go change this shit.
It's delusional, it doesn't make any fucking sense.
And then imagine what the tech and devs
are actually dealing with under the guise
of like massive Bandai Namco.
And Harada's been publicly complaining about that shit
and their relationship for like five years.
So I've been five years of being these fucking executives,
show up and don't know what the fuck is going on
and they just want money.
Like Harada's been very vocal about it, dude.
Yeah, we read all this up that Harada tweeted.
Yep.
Anyway, chat, you have to, when shit comes out and it's cool and it feels like it's
artistically aligned and they were able to execute that vision despite all of the wild
shit that probably happened behind the scenes, bro, like, I deeply appreciate this shit.
With having a little bit of insider knowledge of how this stuff exists and how it gets made
and how big these things are when you come out and you see these games that are produced
and movies that come out and they're actually good and they don't suck complete dick.
Like you're like, damn. Wow. That's crazy. This shit feels like it's a fucking miracle.
It's a miracle that this doesn't completely suck. Like it's it would have been so easy for this just
to be ass, like absolute trash.
Anyway.
You got to get that from soft respect.
Yeah, devs aren't in that spot, dude.
They're not in that spot to have from soft respect.
And if you about the God of War thing, the new one, I love it.
I love it.
I love that it looks like it plays like the older God of Wars.
It's mysterious to always like other mythologies and shit.
it's mad cool. That's why I that's why I'm critical in the spots that needs to be critical
when developers are missing the mark like chat. We were pretty fucking critical of the Street
Fighter devs when weird shit was going down without eSports stuff. And they vastly changed
how that relationship is going to work in the future.
We were not happy that they're charging an arm and a leg for us to watch finals and all
of this shit.
Those changes aren't happening right now, but the insane disconnect between the eSports
side of Capcom and the Capcom devs, I was trying to tell you, were like, they're two
completely different entities.
The Capcom devs probably don't even know this shit is happening.
And then they came out and talked about it and had a big presentation that was literally
the case where they're like, we're actually going to work together in the future.
We're gonna change the way this works moving forward, you know
We're gonna make it so that you can actually watch the stream in the game
Like all this shit like this was not gonna be here before dude because this shit sucked and everybody complained about it
Like this was bad. Like this made the game look greedy and shitty
And the Street Fighter devs are like why fuck me?
This is wait what like and they went out of their way to try to fix that shit when whatever best way they possibly could
So, they didn't pull back the pay-per-view, they couldn't because those plans were set
in place for like a year.
They made it, they literally created in-game streaming in Street Fighter 6.
Does the Capcom devs have no control of how that shit works?
So the devs worked with the eSports guys and figured out a thing where they can actually
make it that you can watch the Street Fighter Finals in Street Fighter 6. When that functionality
just didn't exist before, it didn't exist before. It was horrible though. Dude, they
hobbled that shit together within a month. They had to figure out how to make it work.
They tried something, but they said moving forward that this was not the way it was going
to be that this has to not be this way moving forward, that the eSports side of Capcom and
the development side of Capcom actually need to work together. And that seems like what
they're doing now. It seems like that's essentially their goal. You didn't have to pay to watch
the final security on the game pretty much. You just couldn't restream it from the game.
I earn higher ups right sometimes.
You see gotcha game, microtransactions still make insane money, so they chase that.
Right, but I don't sympathize with people just chasing the bag.
I mean, sorry.
Sometimes things make a lot of money, sure, and they just keep going with that, but the
entire reason society is at where we're at right now is that the only goal was to get
more money.
That's it.
It's just to raise the bottom line and not give a shit or help out any of the individuals
that are actually making that stuff work better, making their lives better.
No, it's just everything gets worse for all those people that are actually making the
money.
We're in a spot right now where art is severely depreciated and devalued and it is the entire
reason the shit exists.
From that standpoint, I will never sympathize with executives that just prioritized, let's
just go keep making money and just have this thing go away.
Like, no, fuck you.
The whole point this thing exists from the standpoint is that people made it, artists
made it, you know?
It isn't just about a bottom line of eventually moving to Pachinko or Gotcha or only the things
that make that money.
So I deeply don't fuck with it.
If you want to know something about me personally, I am deeply anti-corporate.
I work a lot with these corporations, but not at the high level.
I work with the people that are making shit, right?
I give feedback and have communication with over the many years, with the people that
actually make stuff, right?
With people like Harada that are empathetic towards the humans and the individuals that
are making this shit, with the community that is actually involved with this stuff.
the people that just tune up to make a buck and then they're gone, right?
I am extremely anti-corporate.
I fucking hate corpos, dude.
I can't stand it.
And when you see corporations like go out of their way, like I'll be honest, like even
Capcom, Capcom now pays is hiring way more and pays their employees in Japan better than
the majority of devs.
They gave like a 25% pay increase last year to all their employees or some shit.
Like current Capcom is extremely money focused.
No they are because they're doing good but my dude they just built another building.
They hired a shit ton of people and they're some of the best paying devs in Japan.
People at Capcom are paid well.
And guess what they're making fucking games dude.
And guess what most of those games are really fucking good.
They're on a generational run right now.
You know why? Because they invested in their IP and they invested in their artists. They
actually did. Like, it's weird. It makes no fucking sense. They are the antithesis of
like big corpo bullshit. And yeah, I get it. Monstera Wilds had some problems. Not everything
has been a generational banger. But the whole reason they're at where they're at right
now is because they invested in their, in their community. They invested in their building
They're making shit. They found a way to make games hot net not take nearly as long either like
It's it's been very rare to find a capcom game that's like under an eight and
Most of those most of their games now like score in the high 80s 90s and shit like it's crazy dude
Not everything is great. There's been some rough spots here and there
but
When they fuck up what I really appreciate about capcom is this especially in the last like almost ten years
When they fuck up, they shit changes.
They don't just be like, all right, just run that shit again, homie, made us a lot of money.
Fuck it.
No.
Re-evaluate the whole thing, redo the whole thing, come back and be like, fix this shit.
Even the Street Fighter devs, like, I just talked about it, they could have ignored that
shit completely and just let people bitch.
They didn't.
They spent, they spent a shit ton of money, they did all this shit, tried to add and make
all this shit work the way it does.
Like I deeply respect when there is an effort to actually improve, when there's an effort
to make the things better moving forward and to carry and actually become more efficient
and better at this stuff.
Like to make things better for the consumer, all that kind of shit.
Like that's the whole fucking point.
We can learn from this and not have to repeat the same mistakes and stuff, you know?
And from a fighting game perspective, yeah, Street Fighter 6 might not be the game I want
to play at all times, but that bitch is the most fully featured goddamn thing you have
ever seen ever in the fighting game industry.
From a functionality standpoint to a mode standpoint to a single player standpoint to
an online standpoint, bitch, everybody wishes that their game could work in the way that
Street Fighter 6 does.
It just fucking does everything.
And the problem is is that because a lot of people haven't been around enough, you take
it for granted.
I get it.
I understand.
I definitely have been there.
You take that shit for granted.
So but as someone has been to the trenches when Capcom was at their worst, I don't.
It may not be the game I want to play all the time.
I dislike parts of it too.
I've had a lot of shit to bitch about Street Fighter 6, but in terms of what they're doing
and how they executed and what that shit finally offers. Oh my god, dude. I can't believe it.
Can't believe they managed to ship a product that is as high quality as this because it's
taken so fucking long for them to do it. Yeah, we talked about the Herodotweets. That's
when we began this whole conversation. Yeah, RE3 Remake had issues, for sure.
Don't get me wrong, I was the first one to talk about it.
Just a waiting on your RE3 remake refund.
Yeah, RE3 was outsourced.
They stopped outsourcing, dude.
They legit, they stopped doing all that outsourcing.
That was the time they did it.
There was even rumors that Resident Evil 4 might have been outsourced as well, and they
stopped doing that shit, and then RE4 was just made by the RE2 team, you know?
I think that was all in response to like RE3 being made by a completely different studio.
So it's like shit dude.
I was never directly confirmed but I don't know.
RE2 team made the RE4 game and that shit came out pretty good.
Sold pretty well.
Again, RE4 Remake is a good example of a remake that is so close to the original that it's
It's better in many ways, but that's one of those interesting ones to talk about where
it's like, does this like completely override the original?
No.
RE4 Remake is not a Dead Space remake.
That's the example I'm trying to give.
RE2 Remake is pretty much a completely different game.
Completely reevaluate what RE2 could be.
You'll find a reason to play either.
Right.
I enjoy RE4 Remake for different reasons that I enjoy the OGRE4.
They coexist alongside each other, but they're not that spiritually different, you know?
They're not.
I still think I definitely like OGRE4 much more still.
But RE4 is goddamn parry.
Oh, that shit's so much fun.
It's really cool.
So unlike Dead Space, the Dead Space remake just overwrites the original man.
Like, I don't think I'm the only one to feel that way.
There's very few things to be attached to in the original Dead Space that are way better
than the remake.
The remake just seemed to do everything.
Like it just, that's one of the few examples where it just is completely, like this is
just way better. Demon Souls remake? I don't have, I didn't, so I played Dead Space a long
while back. I put it back in like 2015, right? So I did not have, well actually I played Demon
Souls in the same time frame. To me, I can see why Demon Souls misses the mark in some places,
but it hits the mark like in 98% of the others.
So, I think to me, if I have to play Demon's Souls, I'm playing the remake.
I'm definitely playing the remake.
If I had a choice between the two, I'm definitely playing the Demon's Souls remake.
But I can understand by people that are really attached to OG Demon's Souls, why that game
misses the mark.
As I've seen the comparisons, I can understand that.
I don't see them because I didn't obsess over it, I just played it once.
I can see.
it misses the artistic mark in some spots.
But, for like 98% of it, dude, holy shit.
Metal Gear Delta, I don't know, I didn't play Delta.
I'm assuming Delta's the exact same shit, right?
Where Metal Gear Delta is just a game that,
like, tries to override the original, you know?
Where it's just like so close to what the original is.
I mean, you tell me.
Similar to Shadow of the Colossus.
Yeah, I think for me, I feel that way about Shadow of the Colossus, like,
Shadow of the Colossus, I'll just play the remake, dude.
The OG is nice to go back to, but
if we're talking about the actual OG Shadow of the Colossus, it's rough.
I really dig the new one.
PS3 HD is a good version too. I've heard the same thing. I never played that version.
I heard that like it ran a little bit better. Delta is now FF7 Remake. Now, the only thing
that you can compare FF7 Remake is almost completely unique dude. Like the only game
that I can really compare FF7 Remake to in terms of its execution, it's kind of like
RE2 remake where they're making a different game, right? That is so spiritually lined up with the
original. The difference is that in RE2 remakes case, it's just one game around one small game,
right? It's like a two to four hour game. And they make another like sub five hour game around it.
So the RE2 remake is great because it completely reimagines what RE2 could be. It's brilliant.
It's fucking brilliant. Why wouldn't you compare it to RE4? Because RE4 and RE4 Remake are the same
fucking game, dude. Like, we understand the difference between one game being an over-the-shoulder
third-person shooter and one game being a static camera angle game, right? Like, they are very
different things. RE4 created the third-person shooter that we know today. RE4 invented that
shit. So when they remake RE4 again, it wasn't some massive expansion conceptually of what
RE4 was. It was kind of like RE4 again, but different in some ways, you know?
This is why it feels better when Capcom remakes the older REs. I'll just say that.
Why even RE3 Remake was a reimagining but doesn't hit the mark in many?
It did feel different.
It felt very different because it's a completely different perspective, you know?
When they remake RE4, it's just RE4 again.
But imagine if they remake RE1, like OGRE, the mansion, remake that shit, remake RE0,
remake Code Veronica, remake these games that like kind of need it, especially Code Veronica,
dude.
Code Veronica needs to be reimagined.
It's got a cool setting.
It can have cool characters.
But that shit needs to be re-envisioned in some way.
Like I'd be down for Code Veronica if we did not have to play it the same way I will
with Code Veronica.
Like see, Code Veronica needs it.
RE4 did not need a remake.
I'll just say it right now, Final Fantasy 7 needed a remake.
That's like early generation 3D gaming, right?
It's losing a lot of our imagination here, especially if you play it nowadays using a
lot of your imagination.
I am still in the boat that you can play RE4 nowadays, that shit's still a fucking eternal
banger.
Like, it'll control rough, don't get me wrong, you gotta get used to the controls, but RE4
still is fucking awesome, dude.
This game is fucking awesome.
Tank controls are rough, don't get me wrong.
But like, the pace of that game, the shooting, everything, it feels so cool.
So that's why I compare like the remake series, the FF7 remake series to RE2 remake, you know.
Metal Gear Solid needs it.
Well, they already did it.
They already re-envisioned Metal Gear.
That already happened, man.
Twin Snakes did it.
Hey, thank you, Darko.
Appreciate it, man.
They ported RE4 to VR and it was one-to-one perfect.
Yeah, I mean, you didn't get a chance to play a lot of that.
Have you seen the SGF delusional bingo card?
Not delusional.
We have our gift sub-bits.
Yeah, and I'll be real.
There's a game that can, dude, if there is a game that could probably use a third-person
shooter RPG gimmick remake, that's Parasite Eve, man.
Like imagine if you turn Parasite Eve into a third-person shooter RPG.
Starts to get kind of interesting.
What's your take on that shit, you know?
Make it in the 90s and shit, you know?
Like period piece that bitch.
Now it's got a cool gimmick.
Now it's in the 90s and stuff, like weird kids like retro shit.
That literally exists.
Like, Parasite Eve should not just be a one-to-one remake of what the old game is.
Is that basically what third birthday is?
Yeah, but third birthday...
Very few people played it.
The other problem with Parasite Eve is that like the whole reason it didn't continue and
exist very much is because of licensing problems. Rare, I'm sorry, a square does not own all
of that franchise, you know, it's based on like a book or something like that. Yeah,
the IP owner of Parasite Eve is a little iffy. Dude, just imagine. You're like running through
the opera and shit in Parasite Eve. Just imagine, dude, and there's like the shit and these
these dudes light on fire and stuff,
and you're like shooting these guys,
and you see all this shit,
it's a third person, and you're engaging all this stuff,
and all of a sudden these fucking ghosts show up,
these whispers, they'll fucking shit up,
and you're like, what are those?
What's going on?
They could remake that shit, man, it'd be amazing.
Naturally, they do a dino crisis remake, you know?
Then Regina's all running around,
and she's all shooting dinos,
and these ghosts and whispers show up.
What's happening?
The Dino, the Resorex, the T-Rex comes back to life.
What the fuck?
That's crazy.
Just add whispers to it.
Way better.
I think it's way better.
The fuck?
What is all this shit?
Shit, yeah.
What an idea.
Hey, books, thank you.
dark and emissive so that's junior semiotic
uh... he began thank you i have no idea how much money that is
i appreciate that
they should have the star fox sixty four we make
that's why the fucking star fox sixty four we make is such a god damn bummer
because it's the fourth god damn time they've done this shit anyway
he books
i'm so excited i still want to play it i can be wrong
uh... truce and getting corpos make these uh... remakes for the sake of
funding the next game sometimes i truly believe that's how we met legends
are you told to be a new game that confuses you a little sometimes they do
it too uh...
to gauge interest yeah
a little bit
is that crazy taxidermy make happening
am i the only one that that forgot that were that remember that that happened
right and i the only one
they said they wanted a remake crazy taxi one and they were also making a new
crazy taxi
did not fucking happen
Those got years ago or some shit.
It was so long ago now, but there was like,
it wasn't just one brand new crazy taxi game.
It was like the OG is being remade
and there's also a new one.
It was something, too many taxis.
They tease it the other day, right?
Well, crazy taxis tweet and shit,
but I don't know if it's gonna result
in a new crazy taxi game or a remake of the old one.
Either way, I think I'm pretty fucking happy.
I think I'm pretty happy to like, dude,
imagine crazy taxi online where it's like,
you're dropped into a city with 16 other people,
all pick it up people and shit,
and who can make the most goddamn money
in the shortest period of time?
That shit sounds mad cool.
Like, holy shit.
That shit sounds mad cool.
You gunning it for the green, you know,
the green customer at the same time,
trying to drop and get them off the person's like,
what the fuck?
And then he jumped in the back of your car,
see a bitch beep beep and you'd like drive away hell yeah peace out asshole
damn this sounds cool i hope so crazy taxi br yeah that shit would fucking happen that should
be fucking cool i think you turn this into a big multiplayer game that shit would be fucking cool
cool. Add proximity to chat to that. Proximity chat, crazy taxi. Wow. Wow. Wow. That damn
Sega
Wow holy shit that is genius holy shit
You can only hope you could only hope
Goes driving down the road
Let me play as a customer.
Dude, imagine you being a hard to pick up customer.
I don't want to get in the taxi.
So many possibilities.
Holy shit.
We need a crazy taxi legacy.
I think we do.
Chad, it's 3 AM.
There's one thing I want to end the night with.
There's one thing before our lives could potentially,
We could be completely different people in 12 hours, right?
In less than 12 hours, we could be completely different people.
You, especially.
I had this thought the other day, and I just wanted to try it.
No way, me, especially you.
Not as much me, but mostly you.
Uh, hold up. Give it a sec.
I have the shirt. Don't worry. It's ready for tomorrow. I will wear it. I will wear it.
Did you say I got a bank loan? I did not make any preparations. No.
Honestly, pretty stupid of me.
I'm gonna wait for the retro tank to heat up
My god, man
You got a fresh pair of underwear for tomorrow good man
Not to prepare
My drunk always something brother
Hey yo, hey yo, hey yo, seriously, nothing, what's wrong with the TV, is it showing up
on the TV?
God damn it, God damn it.
Now, damn it.
Now, the retro thing, I don't think it's good.
Hold up.
If I could end the night on this, that would be great.
Yeah, no signal, okay.
Let's go over.
That's around the PlayStation.
There it is! The fuck, man!
This didn't catch it.
HDMI bullshit chat. I hate it. I hate this HDMI horse shit
I'm gonna take you on an auditory experience
But I just want to sort of experience myself
that's accurate. Let me just, I had this thought the other day, I wanted to take you guys on
this audio adventure. I want to bring you back to the ass. No, not P.D. No. Hold up.
Talking about this game like did shit to me the other day. Like I was weirdly I don't know.
I have to show it to you.
Who is this?
What is that?
What is going on?
Hold on.
Yeah, I think it was the net link one.
Yeah.
Listen to this shit, Chad.
I'm gonna give you the proper audio experience.
I'm gonna take you for a ride really quick
in the audio scape that is Sega Raleigh
and how weirdly relaxing this game can be.
Especially on if I get the final level.
I'm gonna try to get the final level.
By the way, Zycon, thanks for the 20, dude.
Been in the use of this 2019,
just after I went into recovery, been a hype.
Been a hype few years.
Can't wait for part three with you in the chat.
Me too.
I'm gonna bring you on this audio experience.
Gotta use the imagination on the graphics a little bit.
None of my save data is on here, damn.
Wait for it.
As a reminder, the lead dude on this game was Tetsuya Mizuguchi, and that name might not
sound familiar to many of you.
He's the guy that did Tetris Effect.
He's the guy that did a little game called Rez.
He's the guy that did a little game called Luminous.
His entire philosophy is sort of like flow state gaming.
Everything about what he makes is about putting you into this weird flow state and having
you enter this sort of spiritual connection to a game where you don't realize you're playing
a game. And I think that Sega Rally actually does it really well, more than most racing
games? Let me see if I can demonstrate why. Hold up.
I think the Saturn version is an even better example of it than the arcade version, because
The audio's better.
Some of the tracks will be very familiar.
Controls in this game are mind-blowing how good they are.
No racing, no rally game to this day feels as good as this shit.
Not a single one.
They never get it right.
My weight pink car.
I'm in a bad spot. 11.
Okay.
Very long easy right, baby.
Very long easy left.
Even Sega Rally 2 doesn't do a good job of encapsulating this feeling, in my opinion.
It's only Sega Rally 1.
I need to be in 5th by the end of this, I don't think it's going to happen, it ain't happening,
All right, we're gonna have a tough a tough mountain
Okay, stream just started
You would have placed first 15 years ago I gotta get the first place to get the final stage jet
five places to go.
Nice. Nice.
Shit!
Out of the way, Rad. Bridge racer car. Get out of here.
Damn, ten-ass roads.
Shit! Shit! I'm a big shitter!
Oh, no.
Don't worry about it.
Too fast.
Take two.
If I don't get past the red car on the first one, it's very hard to get this shit.
Does YouTube at hell know you don't experience it?
Just YouTube the video game.
Just YouTube it.
Ha ha ha ha!
Ugh, fuck playing it!
Oh my god, does the god turn!
Does the god turn, we fished it!
The jump over this asshole, oh my god!
Oh my god!
Here it is red.
If I can just pass green?
We're in the one.
on the way you red shitter come on come on there we go we're in good spot now
hell yeah you big red bitch I want this car in real life so bad Chad this is the
the only hero car I've ever had.
Three, two, one, one, go.
Oh, to Celica GT Forest D205.
From 1994 to like the year 2000.
Only released in Japan and the UK.
They're only right hand facing, only manual.
One, you did right, baby.
You can actually legally import him now from Japan.
He's like 25 years old.
Nice goddamn turn.
Got my way.
Don't ruin it.
Part of the power slide.
Wow.
Part of the power slide.
Oh my god.
Let's get this turn right here.
I
Yeah, bro, look at this shit
What about that?
Women's fourth place am I gonna take third on forest? Oh, Jesus Christ get the fuck out of the way you green dip shit. Oh my god
You green dip shit. Let's go. Let's go third place on forest. Holy shit
Okay
A new Sega rally or new Outrun. I'd be down for a new Outrun. Yeah
They've done several Sega rallies, dude. Outrun also gives you like crazy flow state gaming shit
I love this track.
This isn't the audio-tory experience chat, believe it or not.
This is just my flow state gaming.
I'll take you to the audio experience after this.
There he is.
There's Lansia.
Here you piece of shit, Delta.
Oh my god, oh it's trashed. Oh my god. He flew ahead
Yeah, let's go
Okay, all right.
Tripping at 88 miles an hour.
Let's go, brother! Let's go easy first place. Easy! Let's go.
Well, it feels so good.
What's the story of this game?
Toyota's adventure cheaters is the story.
Alright, that's about to get mad hard.
Listen to this shit.
oh my god sucking an absolute bucket right now oh my god ow get away from me green
Okay, let's go let's go let's go good turn
The length.
The dubs.
Swans.
Oh my god. Oh my god. Zero miles an hour.
Come on you son of a bitch!
First place still. Let's go. All right.
Chad, would you believe we just did everything in this game?
And would you believe of all the Sega Raleigh games that have a shit ton more courses, more stages, more cars?
None of them are as good as this.
Because none of them feel as good to play as this one.
Like, just repeating these stages over and over again.
Listen.
Sam, dude, that made this music as the guy that made the Daytona music.
What is this?
An egg?
Yeah, I'll fuck it up.
You know, look it up.
Check this out.
Run the credits.
Yeah.
Oh, I actually can't skip this.
I actually cannot skip this, we have to let it rock, because we got the first first place, it's the actual end of the game.
What happens after is the shit that I actually really wanted to show you guys, once you get a full run.
Basically Toyota is the first brand to do a well in rallies, and normally it was European brands that win rallies.
The Toyota was like, Japan is showing up, right?
They cheated.
Their turbo restrictor was mad cheating,
but it's still legendary as fuck, dude.
Frank the Sega Rally games, the first one.
The first one.
I know what the last one is, that horrible last PS2 game that only came out in Japan,
Sega Rally 2006.
What the fuck, dude?
That game sucks!
I forgot it existed, I got it on PlayStation 2.
My god, man.
Arcader console, I think Sega Rally's better on Saturn.
No shit.
I don't, Revo, Revo's fun.
I like Revo.
It's really enjoyable, but the best Sega Rally is still the first one.
Sega Rally 2 is okay.
It's okay.
Yeah, the stratus is fast as fuck, but it's hard to handle in this.
those are the secret car. This was right before Colin McRae pretty much took over the world,
you know, of rally. So check this out.
The 60fps-ass menu.
Check this out.
Oh my god!
Three-fourths a second!
Watch this.
So here's the audio experience.
All right, let's watch you run one more time on the desert course.
New music.
Completely unique song just for replay.
They made completely different music specifically for the replays.
So you're going to sit back and watch yourself like tear ass.
Whoa!
I love this shit man. It's so cool.
Wow! Do you see this takeover? Holy shit!
That was so cool looking.
Just listen to this shit dude.
Listen to the announcer and stuff.
The mood this makes.
Well, you're going to see your excellent run one more time.
Cool breeze, birds and clouds, relax and enjoy.
That's the Daytona guy.
That's the Daytona guy, dude.
Gabe Oda, that's him.
It's like a radio announcer of Sega Rally.
It's like, what the fuck, dude?
It's so cool.
Where can you buy this game?
It's only on the Saturn.
This version of Sega Rally is only on the Saturn.
Teams don't have this kind of shit anymore.
They really don't.
John Datesona.
Wow! Oh my God!
Taking your own sweet time Taking your own sweet time
Taking your own, sweet time.
Let's watch. The key to victory on this cool course is patience.
But as you know, only patience is not enough to win.
That's so cool.
Is this stream-starving?
Aw, shit.
Sigirally One music is unchallenged, man.
It's fucking incredible.
The replay tracks are unbelievably cool.
Now you guys get to see in your head when you listen to this music, get to see what
I always see in my head.
This is what I grew up with when I listened to this music.
I see a car driving. Can you just grab the AM2 vibe? Actually this wasn't made by AM2.
I can't remember who technically makes it. They're a very unique name.
if you have to drive only one course for the rest of your life
this is the one
is this heaven?
yes
is this heaven?
yes
this game's fucking amazing dude
Yeah, this was 1995.
The Chess was like 11 years old or some shit playing this.
Ha ha ha ha. It's so cool.
Dems just love this shit.
AMD, R&D, AM3, R&D Department Number 3, yeah.
They got renamed to something a bit down the line.
Damn, we're all neck and neck right here.
Look at this dread, holy shit.
Ow.
Lakeside Replay Song is so good.
Sega sure made this game.
Hey, Garali, championship, you up.
Come on, do it again.
Chat, you've effectively seen the majority of content in the whole game.
Like, that is the whole game.
It sold you on just this experience, the fact that it feels this good to play when you play it.
And that's it.
Literally, there's nothing else.
You don't really get to do much else with this shit.
I don't even know if they have 10-year rally on here. I don't think they do.
Well, I played Guitar Man before now. I would never play Guitar Man. I would never, like, play Guitar Man. I don't like that game at all.
I don't think it's necessarily very good. I would never collect it or talk about it or not do that.
Oh, I could change...damn, bitch!
at this I can change the music per area you don't have to listen to the same music per area
crazy.
BGM tests.
What is Monorail?
Mono.
You never heard of Mono before?
What is Mono?
Damn!
Do that.
Save.
Reflex sounds like came out of old guilty gear. It kind of does. I love that song
How do you get the stratus I can't remember
Hey
Hey boy, hey boy
The audio sounds really high quality that was the goal most of the space on the disc is for
Is for the audio
What makes Rally 2006 bad? It's simulation!
Gods are so squirrely.
By the way, you purple bastard!
As far as the best top speed, but you hit yourself killed, like people have in real life.
Oh, my God.
Oh my god!
Easy fight!
Walk the game right!
Holy shit!
Oh my god! Wow!
The Stratus!
Fuck!
Holy shit!
I just lost an entire controller guard!
Easy fight!
Oh
All these cows over here chat
Oh my god, oh my god
You see that horse
That was a trash ass left
These are African cows.
Right there, they're African cows.
Okay, Jesus Christ, hard mode.
Okay, Jesus Christ hard mode
I need to do shift
Shift braking you do shift braking and say around I gotta go back to manual
God damn, dude. What the hell, this car is so hard to control.
So a big cool thing in Sega Rally is that you just drop gears, like two gears, to take
a tight turn and you just go. Then you just rip it back into fifth and it flies.
Please hot turn
This bitch is so hard to control it's insane. I want my cell to come back
If I accelerate out of the turns I go nowhere this shit sucks. This car is ass
There's a cool thing
This is the stratus, it's just win or die.
speed.
Chill, dog!
Wow, you do get more control of the car.
Oh my god, you suicidal bitch.
What an asshole.
140 miles an hour, Chad.
could have died this guy's hauling ass dude is this my ghost
I
Have the way shithead
Out of the way shithead
Very funny if you're right, baby.
Yep, shift turning.
Shift braking.
Never use the brake, you only just downshift.
The only thing that the arcade version has over this is that you get a rear view mirror
in the arcade version, you can actually see behind you.
But I think with all the audio enhancements and shit, the Crackets are nice in the RK
version, but, bro, the music is so much better in the console version.
Tip of my ass.
I love this fucking game. Fucking love it. You guys aren't really getting the majority
of the experience, too. Because feeling the controls of this is something else. Like the
aspect of like taking all these power slides and shit, it just, the only thing that rivals
it is like OutRun 2.
Do they not have the rally vocal version in this?
I guess they don't.
Heartbeat of the land?
I think that's only in the soundtrack.
it's on youtube yeah
i do this as a play the same music
All right, let's watch you run one more time on the desert course.
Yeah.
It's something special. The 35th anniversary edition of my dear friend Raleigh.
I'm staying by Mr Yoshi. Yeah.
Yeah.
Can I play those both at the same time?
Uh, I think I can.
I
Do this channel on
This was also made specifically for the soundtrack of this game.
And in the form, why are you giving me keys?
So you can bring it to me, man.
If you're on, you know what to do.
Feel the heartbeat of the night.
There's just something about it, man.
It does shit for me.
Feel the heartbeat of the night.
It's so 90's.
Where's the teammate up line dude?
I want Sega Rally 99.
Could you imagine?
Did you even imagine Sega Rally 99?
It would be so cool.
Pure chaos.
They just treat it like it's F-Zero, you know?
It's the same guy that does Daytona, yep.
This is special to me, bro.
The older I get, the more I like Sega Rally.
I'll beat that unk bitch.
Take that unk.
You take that.
used to be cool they're trying they're literally going back that's like their
entire new initiative is to go back my virtual fighters coming back
Sega Touring Car Championship has an amazing soundtrack it plays like ass
though it plays like ass Sega Touring Car is mad I have a copy it's mad cool
brah it's it's a rough playing game I don't know I've never liked it but
Sega Touring Car music is godlike it's very cool
Anyway, thanks chat for being here. I appreciate it. I will be back. We will reconvene later
today for possibly the most life-changing stream ever or or not or not. Then things
just continue as normal. Thank you all for being here. Thank you for hanging out. I will be back
and I'll start streaming probably maybe around noon tomorrow or later today.
Anyway, have a good one dudes. Shine on. I will see you in a bit. Peace.
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
We all need to shine on, to see
how far we've come on the journey.
How far we've yet to go
searching for our star.
Deep in the night,
where my heart,
from that flash of light,
To y'all a real rebel, to y'all a real rebel
To show all my power
To get to the age of soldiers, to carry on
Why do I give it up for the better?
I gotta get to the age of soldiers, to carry on
To go
To shine