Hilarity and Heartfelt Moments in Gaming Plus Discussions on Star Wars Hunters, Life Eater, and Multiversus

Welcome to another episode of The Gamerheads Podcast! Ever had an embarrassing moment in gaming that you wish you could forget? Brace yourself, as we kick off this episode with some of our funniest and most cringe-worthy gaming mishaps. From a triumphant mess-up in Fortnite to a tipsy escapade in Overwatch, we share tales that remind us why gaming with friends is never dull. We also take a trip down memory lane with Mike's nostalgic yet awkward experiences, proving that even the most mortifying moments can become cherished memories.

As we transition from laughter to nostalgia, we debate and reminisce about classic Looney Tunes video games. Whether it's "Tazmania" on the Genesis or the unreleased "Sylvester and Tweety," we cover it all. We even let our imaginations run wild, conjuring up fictitious titles that could have been hits. It's a playful and spirited discussion that leaves us all yearning for the golden days of cartoon-based gaming.

We then shift our focus to current gaming trends and our personal preferences. From the robust mechanics of a Star Wars-themed free-to-play game of Star Wars: Hunters to the dark narrative of the indie game Life Eater by Strange Scaffold, we cover a wide spectrum. Mike's newfound love for Multiversus, Phil's challenges with The Quarry,  and our collective thoughts on Hypercharge Unboxed round out an episode rich with insights, laughs, and heartfelt gaming camaraderie.

Join us for a memorable ride that promises both humor and depth.

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Speaker 1: 0:00

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Speaker 2: 0:11

Hey, this is James from Mega Cat Studios.

Speaker 3: 0:14

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Speaker 1: 0:19

This is Stephanie from the Boss Rush Podcast and the Boss Rush Network. Hey, this is Mark and Kion from Bonta Affold. Hey, this is Sebastian with the PronerdReportcom and the Single Player Experience Podcast. Hi, this is Chris.

Speaker 2: 0:33

Mike and Garrett from Daylight Basement Studio. Hey, this is BaronJ67 from Level One Gaming. Hey, this is Todd Mitchell from Code Right Play Salutations.

Speaker 1: 0:42

This is Mike Carroll from Stroll Art hey this is Jeff Moonen from Fun and Games Podcast.

Speaker 2: 0:47

Hey, this is Patrick from the Backlog Odyssey.

Speaker 3: 0:50

Hey this is Rune from Runic Codes. Hi, this is Andrew from Spalada Birds. Hi everyone, jill Grote here from the Indie Informer.

Speaker 4: 0:59

Hello, this is the Crypt Master and you're listening to Roger Ritchie. You're listening to Roger on the Gamer Heads podcast.

Speaker 1: 1:19

And welcome to another episode of the Gamer Heads podcast. My name is Roger. Along with me are my good friends and co-hosts. We have the president and CEO of Gamer Heads, Phil.

Speaker 3: 1:32

I was really hoping you were going to introduce Mike first, because I had something that I was going to say when you introduced me, but I couldn't remember what it was and it would have given me the extra six seconds to think. So now I'm going to stall for time in case Mike's got anything witty that he's got just off the cuff that he's ready to just unload on. But I'm super stoked to be here.

Speaker 1: 1:50

If you remember it, we can go back to you. I think I might have. No, it's not there, it's gone. We also have our good friend and co-host. We have Mike.

Speaker 2: 2:03

Well, I was going to say Ho-Hokum, but I'll stall for time so Phil can remember it's not going to happen. Well, it's Switch-related stuff, so that'll give you plenty of time to zone out.

Speaker 3: 2:18

Wait what? Why the hell are we talking about the Switch one minute in. You know what I? Liked about last week. Now that you've made me mad and talked about the switch, that cam was not just a huge hardcore switch fan and didn't sit here and preach the switch. Thank goodness for people like cam who?

Speaker 1: 2:30

who has ever come onto the show and just preached about the switch?

Speaker 3: 2:34

nobody, I've never outside of people that only release games for the switch nobody what, what, what, what are you talking about?

Speaker 1: 2:43

what, oh, oh, okay, okay, okay, okay, uh, okay, fair, fair, um, but anyway, welcome to the mic. Yeah, hi, mike, hi, uh, welcome to the show everybody well wait, I seriously had something to say.

Speaker 2: 3:05

Oh, okay, yeah, switch. Yeah, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1: 3:08

Oh, I'm sorry, Sorry.

Speaker 2: 3:09

I forgot.

Speaker 1: 3:09

I got so distracted there.

Speaker 2: 3:12

Well, I'm telling you this for your benefit, roger, if you go to the Switch online thing, there's new Donkey Kong icons.

Speaker 1: 3:20

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 3:21

So if you want a profile profile picture, did you not see my response to that? No, I didn't see response where. On what?

Speaker 1: 3:30

you.

Speaker 2: 3:30

You put it in our group chat oh, did I yeah and I said, and I said, oh, that's cool, I already have the donkey kong one oh well, there's more uh, and then okay, and then the other thing I got also new, also new, switch Online.

Speaker 3: 3:45

What the hell is going on here? Have we started this show again?

Speaker 2: 3:47

Yeah, I'm giving you time, Phil. I'm doing this for your benefit.

Speaker 3: 3:54

Oh, it's not going to come to me when it was.

Speaker 1: 3:56

I love how this is for Phil's benefit.

Speaker 3: 3:59

Yeah, talking about the Switch is never to my benefit, unless you're trying to add on to these gray hairs. There you have.

Speaker 2: 4:03

Well, let's All right, you know what I'm not going to say it then.

Speaker 1: 4:07

No, I do. No, I want to know. I want to know, I'm going to leave you hanging. I'm going to leave you hanging. No, I want to know the audience is going to get mad. Everyone. Are we going to?

Speaker 2: 4:17

come back to. No, it's just that Nintendo's, like literally 20 minutes ago, just uploaded five Mega man Game Boy games to switch online. Oh, that is really cool.

Speaker 1: 4:31

Oh, that's awesome. Wow, okay, I have to go check that out.

Speaker 2: 4:36

I don't know if you were sincere, if you were being sarcastic.

Speaker 1: 4:38

No, I'm really being sincere, like I love.

Speaker 2: 4:40

Mega.

Speaker 1: 4:41

Man yeah.

Speaker 3: 4:41

Yeah, yeah. Do you love anything else that starts with Mega, mega Cookies? Jesus Christ man, I just gave you a beautiful throwaway. That was a perfect segue.

Speaker 2: 4:55

You must not have been taking this drink in order to understand his reference.

Speaker 1: 5:00

Okay, well, I get it, but I was not quite there yet, phil.

Speaker 3: 5:04

Well, you could have been, you could have gotten it out of the way early, because Can I just follow what I Can I just follow the show.

Speaker 1: 5:12

Can I follow the show notes?

Speaker 2: 5:13

please. He's got the show notes. We don't have notes.

Speaker 1: 5:15

We never got notes. Well, yeah, but.

Speaker 2: 5:17

Phil's the CEO, so doesn't he get veto power?

Speaker 1: 5:20

I guess. Anyway, can I welcome everybody else to the show. Welcome, everybody. Well, I welcome listeners to the show and welcome our patrons Sarah, jill and Matt. Thank you so much for supporting the Gamer Heads podcast and listener, you can also support the Gamer Heads podcast Did you say listener singular.

Speaker 1: 5:49

Yeah, I'm talking to that one person that's listening right now. That's like I'm on the fence if I should support the gamer heads podcast and I'm telling them support the gamer head podcast. I'm speaking to that one person, that one person that's listening right now. You listen to their name. Fill in your name right here.

Speaker 1: 6:02

Whatever your name is, fill it in anyway, uh, listener, thank you so much for giving us a listen. But yeah, you can support our show for as low as three dollars a month. Uh, you can go to patreoncom slash gamer heads podcast where you can find out how to sign up. Uh, and three dollars a month. We'll get your name read on air as well. We also do have higher tiers, but $3 is the starting tier.

Speaker 3: 6:29

My name is.

Speaker 1: 6:29

Phil, I know your name is Phil, okay.

Speaker 3: 6:34

Not tier. Well.

Speaker 1: 6:38

Okay.

Speaker 2: 6:38

That was a bit of a stretch I caught it, I caught it, I caught it.

Speaker 3: 6:44

I got Roger Flustered four minutes and 50 seconds into the podcast.

Speaker 1: 6:51

Well, let's talk about the promo then I'll just throw that out here. Yeah, thank goodness for Magic Mind. Thank you first of all for sponsoring the podcast and secondly, it has made many like obviously I didn't catch your reference there, I you're, I think maybe it wasn't the greatest well, if you were taking magic, then you'd be not all punches land not, that's true, not all punches land, but uh.

Speaker 1: 7:15

but I've been taking magic mind for a while now and I will say this that it has helped my uh mood, uh, and and also they gave us some free samples to give out to listeners. So I did give out some free samples and but one of the best feedback I got was uh, I thought this was a placebo effect. They said that is not a placebo effect and it actually works out. Really like they were really shocked at how well it works and how well, how much energy they had throughout the day, even at the end of the day, and their mood was much better, much more improved. So, listener, if you also want to get your own magic mind, you can do so by going to the show notes. There's a link there. We can get a discount on your subscription to Magic Mine. Yeah, it's one of the things I've been using for several months and I stand by it because it is pretty awesome and the people there are pretty cool too. Okay, I do have an icebreaker though, before we get into anything else. Are you ready?

Speaker 1: 8:25

I'm ready bring it uh, what's the funniest or most embarrassing gaming moment you've ever had? And if you'd like me to start, I have one and you're both involved. Yeah, I think you're both. At least phil was, I don't know if mike.

Speaker 2: 8:39

I don't know if you were there, I think you were I would have thought your funniest gaming moment was your story of goldeneye at christmas damn it, we're gonna go with five straight years of that story it is a good story.

Speaker 1: 8:55

uh, I was thinking more of the embarrassing moment for me, uh, and this was when we were playing fortnight and it was down to two teams and it was squads of four and everybody was down except for me and phil. You were there and I know kyle was there. I don't know mike, you were there, I think maybe you were, but everybody was shot down and it was just me and the other person because they all his teammates were dead too, like they weren't even there. They weren't even down. They were like dead. And Phil and Kyle are yelling just come back here, come back here, roger, just come back here. Do you remember this, phil?

Speaker 3: 9:35

Yes.

Speaker 1: 9:36

OK, and you guys.

Speaker 3: 9:37

I didn't take my magic mind.

Speaker 1: 9:38

OK, that's true, you guys were telling me to go back and, uh like, basically, heal you, and I kept saying I got this, I got this and I didn't. I didn't have it and I died, and I remember everybody just kind of sat there silent for a moment because I believe I yelled out leroyeroy Jenkins after that.

Speaker 1: 10:06

That was really embarrassing. But you know what? Here's the thing. This is why I like playing games with you, phil, because like you didn't, you didn't make me feel terrible, you're just like, yeah, it happens, it's fine. Like you're just like, I don't really care, I'm not playing it to like move up in ranks or anything, it is what it is that happened. But, boy, that was really embarrassing. I, because that was my hero moment I thought to myself this is it. This is the moment that I'm gonna show everybody that I can do, this. I can. I and I was gonna be a big hero and everybody's gonna be like, oh my gosh, everybody was down except for you and you took the guy out and it was amazing and I and I didn't.

Speaker 3: 10:43

it was, it was quite the opposite it wasn't even close, if I remember correctly. You just got wrecked what can we do?

Speaker 2: 10:50

we have to like, dive deep, dive into it like oh yeah, that's the whole point of the segment I?

Speaker 1: 10:57

I'm pretty sure I was. Uh, I already told you how embarrassed I was, so anyway, it happens, dude yeah, no, it was, it was, it was funny. I'm glad it was with you guys, though I will say, I will say and I've said this before, mike, like the first time I ever listened to you on a podcast, which was the controller throwers, I remember you saying, uh, something about destiny players and I thought I'll never want to play destiny with Mike because I'm too afraid, uh, because I'm not good as you should be yeah, no, but but since, but since, since playing, since playing with you, like I realized, oh, like it's fun playing with you, but I was really worried that you'd be like oh gosh, you're awful at games.

Speaker 1: 11:35

But you never said that to me. You guys always been really nice to me, that's your face anyway, that's my embarrassing gaming moment. Uh, I don't know who wants to go next I'm really having trouble thinking of one I can I can buy

Speaker 3: 11:52

some time. Okay, not a ton of time, because, as you just alluded to, my entire philosophy is that I really don't care if I win or lose, I'm just here to have fun and play the game. But there there was one night playing, of course, overwatch I don't remember if it was one or two, because they're essentially the same game. It was myself and my friend Andy that were playing together. I think Kyle and Carrington might have been there as well, and I may have been imbibing on a couple of adult beverages, as I am apt to do, especially when playing video games with my friends, because to me it's basically a social happy hour. With the controller in my hands, right, play video games, I get to have a few beers, I get to bullshit with my friends. Life is good for me at that exact moment. I don't get too, and that's why I don't get super stressed out about things, and I'm not. I'm slightly competitive, but not to the point where I get angry.

Speaker 3: 12:35

But it was one of those where you're pushing the payload types of the thing, so like if you're on the payload and there's your enemy's not there and you're on offense, you're pushing the payload forward. Well, myself and I think it was. Andy cleared out the entire other team and we're on the payload and standing there and I start swearing why the f isn't the effing payload moving, why the f isn't the payload moving. And I'm just getting mad about it like super hot. I'm like this effing game is broken.

Speaker 3: 13:02

It was right after overwatch 2 launched and they were having all sorts of glitch issues. Now that I'm starting to say it out loud and I just hear Andy dead ass silent for about five seconds and he goes Phil. I'm like yeah, dude, what's up? And he's like we're on defense and that's all I could say was word like yeah, I totally wasn't at all paying attention. I was just killing things and wondering why the damn payload wasn't moving, and it's not that it embarrassed me, it was just kind of one of those hey, dude, just pay a little bit of attention when you're playing, instead of treating this like happy hour that's pretty good.

Speaker 3: 13:38

That was pretty good but I was super pissed that the payload wasn't I know like legit angry I'm like this effing game is. Had like spent so long trying to get to the game because, like, load times were insane. At that time Everybody was playing and, yeah, I just thought the game was broken. Turns out it's me.

Speaker 1: 13:52

Well, I mean, but in your defense I mean, the expectations were set that the game was going to be broken and it was. I know that's what I'm saying. When you got into the game, you're like everything was broken up to this point. Why wouldn't this be broken too Like that was. You know what I mean.

Speaker 3: 14:12

So like broken to the point where Andy's name wasn't his gamer tag for probably the first three seasons. And then finally managed to fix it, whereas gamer tag was his gamer tag. Yeah, he'd show up as somebody different every, but everybody else would appear the same. Yeah, it was just him. Oh my gosh, that's weird.

Speaker 1: 14:28

That's bizarre, I got to talk Overwatch in two straight episodes, yeah. Cheers to me. Mike, do you have anything?

Speaker 2: 14:35

Yes, I remember two, but I want you to. Which one do you want to hear? Do you want to hear the embarrassing, interesting or maybe funny one, or do you want to hear the embarrassing, sad and awkward one?

Speaker 1: 14:47

I want both yeah, I kind of want both.

Speaker 3: 14:49

Yeah, you can't. You can't lead with a tease like that.

Speaker 2: 14:52

Yeah so, okay, I'll do the interesting one first. I was, uh, I was 15, uh, it was my birthday and so I was having some buddies over um for uh, you know birthday gaming night and we couldn't afford any new systems. So I rented a PlayStation from Beggar's Video mom and pop rental shop. So I rented a PlayStation and I rented Resident Evil Awesome experience. I loved it, but didn't get very far. So I'm playing Resident Evil and I go and, as try as I as I might, this, it was not working. This thing was not working for me, and I was getting so mad and so mad and so mad and I'm like I got so angry that I called up the video store. And I'm like I just rented this system and I'm playing this resident evil game and I'm trying to save it, but it won't let me save the game and they're like it's a CD. Cds don't have.

Speaker 2: 15:54

You can't write to a CD you need a memory card and I'm like a what. What is that? It's?

Speaker 3: 16:07

it's a thing you put into the playstation that see, you can save your goes in the little port that says memory card.

Speaker 2: 16:10

It's the first time I ever played a playstation. I was so angry that, yeah, and I'm like, oh, that's a thing that's so funny.

Speaker 1: 16:17

I bet you you owned, as everybody owned lr croft, this memory card. Did you own the look I've?

Speaker 2: 16:23

got. I got two. I still have them yeah, I think I have mine too yeah, I got mine because they were on clearance at game stuff for like a dollar ninety yes, yes, that's where I got mine too, because it's on clearance. I'm gonna see if I can. It's all the way over there. I'll show you later, phil um, what's the other story? Okay, now I'm gonna this, one's this, and I'm gonna tell you, like this is gonna make you feel bad. I'm just I'm giving you a heads up.

Speaker 2: 16:48

This is wait this is not a good make me feel bad for listening to it, or make me feel like, like awkward on my behalf oh, so last wednesday so I logged on to this chat and okay this is 100% true story and even thinking about it just kills me inside. It really does I feel so horrible. I was playing when Xbox Live first came out. That was my obsession. I'm like. I loved Xbox Live, my game of choice. Return to Castle Wolfenstein. I played Return to Castle wolfenstein all the time and I was playing with um in in in the party was my college roommate's best friend, so he and I not your friend well, I mean, we were you know your friends.

Speaker 2: 17:41

Yeah, like we only, we only hung out when we both when my old college roommate was there, but we still talked and we knew each other pretty well, so we were having a match and he was celebrating that. He's like I got 25 kills in this game and you only got three Because he'd like to raz people. He's like I got 25 game and you only got three Cause he you know he'd like to to raz people.

Speaker 2: 18:05

You know he's like I got 25 kills and you only got three, and, um, my response was well, your mother must be very proud, and I had forgotten for a brief moment that about a year ago, oh no. His mom had passed away.

Speaker 1: 18:24

Oh no.

Speaker 2: 18:25

So I said the sentence and my brain reminded me in the middle of my sentence. So I go well, you're my and I stop. And he's like what was that? And I'm like nothing, he's like. He's like. He's like he's like what did you say? And I'm like and I'm like dude, I am so sorry, I'm like I am. So he's like no, don't worry about it. He's like it's okay. He's like I'm not. I'm not, I'm not offended or anything like that, but just the fact that I you were just trying to bust balls a little bit.

Speaker 2: 18:58

Totally forgetting and, oh man, I felt so horrible. I like for the rest, I was quiet for the rest of the day. I felt so, so terrible that I said that. But yeah, and then I just so that, see now everybody, you see, the two of you are quiet right now because you feel like you're feeling my regrets.

Speaker 3: 19:20

I feel your shame, but I also at the same time in my brain. Anytime anybody brings up my mom, my answer is always which one?

Speaker 2: 19:29

Yeah, I mean that's good.

Speaker 3: 19:33

But it just kind of see it has that exact reaction on people, and that's exactly what I'm looking for. Anytime anybody says it like yeah, well, your mom, and I'm like yeah, which one?

Speaker 2: 19:40

Do people even still say mom jokes anymore? Is that still?

Speaker 1: 19:43

Yeah, they do.

Speaker 2: 19:44

They do.

Speaker 1: 19:45

Yeah, oh, okay, interesting.

Speaker 2: 19:48

You asked for the embarrassing moment. I gave you the embarrassing moment.

Speaker 1: 19:50

I delivered man, yeah, you did.

Speaker 3: 19:57

Like that was way more embarrassing than my thing. Do you still talk to the?

Speaker 2: 20:00

person at all, no like, and that's because that was the last time it's only because I don't really I don't really talk to my old roommate as much well, I was gonna ask, do you?

Speaker 1: 20:09

I mean I it's a night, this is gonna sound bad, but I don't actually talk to my old college roommates me neither yeah, um, why is that funny?

Speaker 2: 20:20

I, I, I thought you didn't go to college. I didn't.

Speaker 1: 20:23

Oh, that's why it was funny that's always another embarrassing moment for michael.

Speaker 3: 20:28

Yeah, nice to try you ain't gonna get me on that man, but in all seriousness, I did live with two people, one of which was going to college at the? U of m, my girlfriend at the time, and then we did have another roommate and he just passed away like a year ago.

Speaker 1: 20:43

So it all kind of full circles, oh well I did still talk to him, yeah, but not your ex-girlfriend, I'm assuming. No, no, no, okay, okay.

Speaker 2: 20:54

That's my embarrassing gaming moment.

Speaker 1: 21:03

Now you're bringing back old memories, yeah, uh. Well, I don't know how to transition out of that, so we'll just talk about the games that are coming out next week. Uh, this is for the week of the 10th of june through the 15th, and the first game that I have here is rocket night adventures resparked. It's coming out on playstation 5, play Switch and PC on the 11th of June. V Rising for PlayStation 5 on the 11th of June. Task Master VR for Quest 3, quest 2, and PC on the 13th. Monster Hunter Stories for PlayStation 4, switch and PC on the 14th. Monster Hunter Stories 2, wings of R pc on the 14th, and monster, monster hunter stories 2 wings of ruin on the 14th, and that's coming out for playstation 4. And then shin megami tensei 5 vengeance. That's coming out on playstation 5, xbox series x and s, playstation 4, one, switch and PC, also on the 14th. Any of those games interest any of you? No, no sir.

Speaker 3: 22:06

Yeah, I don't even know what most of those words meant.

Speaker 1: 22:14

Yeah, me too. How about you? Okay, no, no. I mean, I think the Monster Hunter ones look cool, but I'm not going to spend money on it. I guess that's the thing. The V Rising I heard good things about, but I don't have a PlayStation 5.

Speaker 2: 22:32

Yeah, that Rocket Knight Adventures. I mean. I always like a good reboot of a game. But I never played the original Rocket Knight Adventures. Yeah.

Speaker 1: 22:41

I didn't either.

Speaker 2: 22:43

But that's a 16-bit game.

Speaker 1: 22:46

Oh, is it really.

Speaker 2: 22:47

Yeah, it's like a Genesis game, I think.

Speaker 4: 22:49

Oh, okay, I think it's a Genesis game. I think you're right.

Speaker 2: 22:53

So, nope, nothing interesting. We're in that lull right now, but this will be good because next week we'll uh learn about a whole bunch of games that are supposedly going to be releasing soon.

Speaker 1: 23:07

So that's right, all right, yeah, although I could, I just I mean this will air after summer game fest, so it'll be kind of weird when you're listening to it. But it was interesting that keely said don't get your hopes up too high, like that's because everybody gets pissed off about everything.

Speaker 3: 23:21

I'd tell everybody not to get your hopes up too high. Like that's because everybody gets pissed off about everything. I'd tell everybody not to get their hopes up too, even if I was like new elder scrolls was dropping today and I would still tell people not to get their hopes up. Yeah, that's true yep, that's true.

Speaker 1: 23:31

People, people like do get so angry and weird on the internet.

Speaker 2: 23:37

Internet's weird yeah man, it sure is um well, let's move into our and I totally destroyed, derailed this entire conversation. We were doing great, we were firing all cylinders.

Speaker 1: 23:49

Yeah, it was all funny story about yeah, uh yeah, you come back.

Speaker 3: 23:55

I'm not blaming you for it. I'm blaming rachel coming in here and making me sniff snakes to see if they're still good or not. I don't know if you're still good or not. I don't know if you guys caught that or not, but that's what actually just happened?

Speaker 1: 24:05

I was whispering, I didn't know what was going on.

Speaker 3: 24:09

I was smelling meat to see if it was still fresh or if it was foul, and the verdict it was fresh. I don't know. I can only smell 50 things. I've smoked for 30 years.

Speaker 1: 24:18

so my sense of smell is dead, but I can usually smell rotten meat. Okay, I was going to say, had she relied on you to determine if that was good.

Speaker 3: 24:26

She has bad ideas. She's been dating me for a long time.

Speaker 1: 24:32

Mike. Hi, you have a game for us this week, do you not?

Speaker 2: 24:36

I do not, I do, yes, I do.

Speaker 1: 24:40

You do Back and forth. Last week there was confusion. Yes, Okay, Last week there was confusion.

Speaker 2: 24:50

There was a bit of confusion.

Speaker 1: 24:52

I asked you to run this game and you didn't know what I was talking about, apparently.

Speaker 2: 24:56

I had no idea what you were talking about. I could have thought of something on the spot. That's okay.

Speaker 1: 24:59

I called it a of something on the spot I could have. Well, no, that's okay, that's okay, I called it a trivia game. It's not a trivia game. What do you call it? Back and forth.

Speaker 2: 25:06

It's just yeah, back and forth.

Speaker 1: 25:07

Yeah, what's the premise of this game?

Speaker 2: 25:09

So the premise of the game is, I'm going to give a topic or a yeah, a topic or a theme, and Roger and Phil goes back and forth and they say something that relates to that theme. So, for example, if I would say, oh, I don't know a character, video game, characters with a mustache and then Roger would say Mario, and then it would go over to Phil and Phil would say I'd draw a blank after Mario.

Speaker 3: 25:43

Phil would say Hagar, from Final Fight.

Speaker 2: 25:44

final fight, I'd say the iron sheik, iron sheik, he's in video games, and then it would go back to roger, so it would go back and forth and then whoever uh can't think of uh something loses. That's it. Yeah, this is a.

Speaker 1: 25:55

It's a fun game, but it's a lot harder listeners when you're listening and you're under the pressure of trying to think of games like this. That's the hard part. So how many, how many games are we talking here?

Speaker 2: 26:05

We're just. I've got one, but here. I'm going to do things a little bit different. So. I'm going to say the topic and then I'm going to talk a little bit. And while I'm talking. That'll give you an opportunity to to think you Give you like 30 seconds to jot anything down. How does that?

Speaker 1: 26:20

sound Okay.

Speaker 2: 26:22

Yeah, sure, okay, so your topic for Back and Forth is going to be games that feature Looney Tunes characters. So when I mean by that I'm talking Bugs, bunny, daffyy duck, tasmanian devil, wiley, coyote, the roadrunner, speedy gonzalez, sylvester and tweety, um, anything on the nintendo, super nintendo, phil. Come on, I'm I'm stalling for time here. Uh, the nintendo, super nintendo, sega, genesis, game boy. There were some game boy games, um, there were a couple on the n64, there were some on the playstation, there were a couple based on movies, um, and the reason I chose it is because, um, the only game I've been playing and I'm gonna jump ahead and say what we've been playing is I've just been playing multiverses and and you just got rid of one of my three titles.

Speaker 2: 27:25

I never said that. I never said you can't use it. I've been playing multiverses and, uh, tasmanian devil has been my, uh, my main, so, um, so that made me think, okay, what were some other games, uh, that featured looney tunes, characters, okay, so I think I did enough stalling, phil, we'll start with you Multiverses. Alright, so, phil, you guessed Multiverses, so that is a game, roger.

Speaker 1: 27:51

Does Tiny Toons count?

Speaker 2: 27:53

Anything in the Looney Tunes universe.

Speaker 1: 27:54

Okay then, Tiny Toons on the NES.

Speaker 2: 27:57

Okay.

Speaker 3: 27:59

Animaniacs.

Speaker 2: 28:01

I'll allow that, because that is that Yep, that is in that same universe.

Speaker 1: 28:06

Tasmanian Devil had a game on the NES.

Speaker 2: 28:10

On the NES.

Speaker 1: 28:11

I think so. Or was it Super NES? It was on a Nintendo system, yes, or maybe it was a Genesis. No, maybe it was in that genre. Okay, it was in that era, but it was a Genesis. No, maybe it was in that genre Okay, it was in that era, but it was a Tasmanian Devil game. There was a Tasmanian Devil game. I remember it.

Speaker 2: 28:25

Yes, the game was called Tasmania. It was based on the cartoon and released on the Genesis. That was my other one. There's a Super Nintendo version.

Speaker 3: 28:36

I thought about doing that. When Roger said the Super Nintendo one, I was like can I take the Genesis version? I believe there was a Duck Rogers game.

Speaker 1: 28:43

That was my other one.

Speaker 3: 28:44

Duck.

Speaker 2: 28:44

Dodgers for the Super Nintendo.

Speaker 1: 28:48

Porky Pig had a game.

Speaker 2: 28:50

That's right, porky Pig did have a game. It was like a Haunted House style game.

Speaker 1: 28:54

Yes, it was a Haunted House game.

Speaker 2: 28:55

That was on Super Nintendo, yep. It was not good I always liked the animation in those they always have the animation.

Speaker 3: 29:05

All right. Uh, there was the n64 super smash brothers ripoff called.

Speaker 2: 29:09

That's all folks oh, is that true no, it's not true okay I was about to say, say that you had me going for a second.

Speaker 3: 29:24

I did too. I want to say there was one called Bugs' Big Adventure or something like that on the Nintendo.

Speaker 2: 29:30

The original Nintendo.

Speaker 3: 29:32

Yes, making the Game Boy.

Speaker 2: 29:33

I'll give you. There were a couple of them.

Speaker 3: 29:38

Do I get all of them?

Speaker 2: 29:39

Well, you got Bugs Bunny.

Speaker 3: 29:43

But there were a couple.

Speaker 2: 29:43

It wasn't well, you got bugs, bunny, but there were a couple just naming booney toons character. It wasn't big adventure, though there were actually.

Speaker 3: 29:47

So there were two bugs bunny games on the original nintendo I'm not gonna give you a name, I just remember the one picture on it it had like a green label, if I remember you know, you know what.

Speaker 2: 29:59

I'll allow it. You're talking Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle.

Speaker 3: 30:03

Yeah, like I said, big Adventure, crazy Castle, big Adventure in a Crazy Castle.

Speaker 2: 30:06

There we go, the Crazy Adventure Castle starring Bugs Bunny.

Speaker 3: 30:10

Not my million.

Speaker 1: 30:13

I'm pretty sure there was a Roadrunner game.

Speaker 3: 30:16

There was. It's got Roadrunner and Coyote on the label, but I couldn't tell you what it was called.

Speaker 2: 30:20

Yep, it was just called Roadrunner.

Speaker 3: 30:22

Damn it, that's too easy.

Speaker 2: 30:25

Actually, no, I'm sorry. No, no, no, death Valley Rally. It was called Roadrunner's Death Valley Rally.

Speaker 1: 30:30

I think if you just named Looney Tunes characters, they'd probably have a game I don't know.

Speaker 2: 30:35

We can go back and forth. Go Name a Looney Tunes character in a system.

Speaker 3: 30:39

There was a Sylvester and Tweety game, I want to say on the Super Nintendo.

Speaker 2: 30:42

That is absolutely 100% correct. It was called Sylvester and Tweety, actually, you know what's interesting.

Speaker 3: 30:50

I ain't got the name of it.

Speaker 2: 30:53

The game was made, but it was canceled. It never released. I'm going to say that you knew it was in development and then it was canceled because of your gaming history knowledge.

Speaker 1: 31:03

All right, Roger, that's what I was thinking too. I think there was a Brainiacs game, wasn't there?

Speaker 2: 31:13

What the heck is a Brainiac? No, no, what was that Brainiac? And I know what you're speaking of.

Speaker 1: 31:18

Who was that? I'm not telling you. Oh God damn, we're in a battle to the death. Oh gosh, what was that name? Oh my gosh, oh no, come on His name. And he said what we do every night we take over the world, god, what was the name of the cartoon? Brain, brain Five, brain Four Brain.

Speaker 2: 31:44

Brain Pinky and the Brain, pinky and the Brain. Was there a Pinky and the Brain video game though? Yeah, there was, that's an Animaniacs one.

Speaker 3: 31:51

Alright, phil, back to you there was a Marvin the Martian game on the same Genesis.

Speaker 2: 31:56

Mind you, I have not typed anything there was yes, there was a Marvin the Martian game. I don't know if it was on the 64 or not, I thought it was on the Genesis. Maybe it was. I'll have to look that up, I'll have to see what that was. But you're right, there was Okay. So, roger, back to you.

Speaker 1: 32:18

There's more Looney Tunes games.

Speaker 2: 32:20

Oh God yeah.

Speaker 1: 32:22

Is there a game called just Looney Tunes?

Speaker 3: 32:25

I don't know, you have to tell me Throw Adventures at the end.

Speaker 2: 32:28

Roger, I think there was a Looney Tunes game on the NES. I'm pretty sure there was Just a Looney Tunes game on the NES.

Speaker 1: 32:35

Yeah, it was called like Looney Tunes on the NES.

Speaker 2: 32:44

I don't think there was.

Speaker 1: 32:45

No, but there was a Bugs Bunny game on Atari.

Speaker 2: 32:48

Yes, was there.

Speaker 3: 32:52

My brain looks a lot like Kaboom.

Speaker 2: 32:53

No, okay, you are wrong. There was no Bugs Bunny game on the Atari.

Speaker 1: 32:57

Oh man, I just made that shit up. I was hoping there was.

Speaker 2: 33:02

Phil, do you want to no wait there?

Speaker 1: 33:04

was one on the Commodore 64. Everything was on the Commodore 64.

Speaker 2: 33:09

No there was not a Bugs Bunny game on the Commodore, alright, so look, I think, unless you got anything else, I don't have anything else. Alright.

Speaker 1: 33:16

Phil, you won.

Speaker 2: 33:17

Phil, congratulations, you win this back and forth. Do you have anything to put a cherry on top of your victory? Any other video games.

Speaker 3: 33:27

No, but I remember one on the PlayStation, but I couldn't tell you what it was at this point. I just remember from my days of working at the Funcaland warehouse of seeing him.

Speaker 1: 33:34

There's probably some racing games that I don't remember.

Speaker 3: 33:39

Looney Tunes Adventures it's adventures, tracing game.

Speaker 2: 33:42

So I'm gonna throw out some of some games that that may sound familiar. So you had bugs, bunny's crazy castle, bugs, bunny's birthday blowout um, I remember that one yep, bugs. Bunny. Rabbit rampage. That was on the snes. Uh, let's see bugs. Bunny in Time. That was on the PlayStation. No.

Speaker 2: 34:03

Let's see. So you've got Daffy Duck in Hollywood for Genesis. Daffy Duck, yeah, duck Dodgers. This was a game I always wanted to play and this was on the DS. It was called Looney Tunes, duck Amok, which is basically like. If you remember, that was like one of the most popular uh daffy duck cartoons, where he's having an argument with the animator the whole time and the animator keeps drawing different, keeps it right and tracing things.

Speaker 2: 34:31

Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, mouth off and stuff like that right, and it's a video game based on that, where it's daffy duck and you do different things with the stylist to make them angry.

Speaker 1: 34:41

Interesting.

Speaker 2: 34:42

That's the whole game. There's the Tasmania games. There was a Tasmania game for the Atari.

Speaker 1: 34:48

Oh, was there really? There was no Bugs Bunny game, but there was a Tasmanian Devil game.

Speaker 2: 34:52

Sure was yep.

Speaker 1: 34:54

Well it's probably easier to draw a little spinny thing.

Speaker 2: 34:58

I guess yeah, taz Wanted was for the gamecube and ps2 and xbox. Huh, there was a road runner game for the atari. Uh shit, I actually own that do you? I did yeah nice, uh, what else, what else? Um, there was a game. Oh, sheepdog and wolf, youoyote and Sheepdog on the original PlayStation. There was a Speedy Gonzalez game for the Super Nintendo.

Speaker 1: 35:24

Oh, I should have guessed.

Speaker 2: 35:26

There was the Sylvester and Tweety game for the Genesis, and now we're going into actual Looney Tunes. Oh yeah, looney Tunes B-Ball Anybody ever play that?

Speaker 1: 35:41

That's what I was saying. I said looney tunes b-ball. That's what I said. Did you not hear me say that I said looney tunes? I said that. Did I not say that? I said looney tunes people. That's what I said I said it I whispered it oh, okay, yeah you just didn't hear it.

Speaker 2: 35:55

Uh, as the person that won this challenge, I disagree yeah um the name of your game ro Roger Porky Pigs Haunted Holiday.

Speaker 1: 36:02

Yeah, oh yeah, I thought it was Haunted House. But yeah, you're right, it was like, but it was haunted something.

Speaker 2: 36:07

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 36:08

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 36:09

There was a Space Jam game.

Speaker 1: 36:11

Oh fuck.

Speaker 2: 36:12

Totally should have counted that too.

Speaker 3: 36:13

There's been like three Space Jam games. Sorry about the hard F-bomb right there.

Speaker 2: 36:17

That's all right. Looney Tunes Racing, of course, and then, oh, looney Tunes, back in Action, based on the. You know, I'm going to say this If you haven't seen it. If you like Looney Tunes, that is a good movie. It's what Brendan Fraser and Jenna Elfman is in it also.

Speaker 3: 36:35

Some of them are live action, the rest were all the Looney tunes were animated, right this one this is live action, where it's like a roger rabbit type movie yeah, yeah great movie if you haven't seen it.

Speaker 2: 36:44

Looney tunes, back in action. I think it came out in like 2000, if I'm not mistaken. Uh, what else acme arsenal that came out for the wii and the 360 and the ps2? Uh, let's see looney tunes and then multiverses, that's all. Oh yeah, there was that space jam game.

Speaker 1: 37:01

I was gonna say there was a with lebron lebron in it, right, yeah, yeah, that was a beat-em-up and everyone hated the chrysler lebron the what chrysler lebaron, not a lebron.

Speaker 2: 37:10

Thank you, so glad somebody got there so yeah, so that was our so there, yeah, there was a lot of times I forgot about the uh space jam.

Speaker 1: 37:21

Beat them up like, yeah, not many people like that game. There was not a pop. So I'm assuming that multiverse obviously is the most recent, but was the space jam one the the second most recent one then?

Speaker 2: 37:31

yeah, yeah that came out. Yeah, uh, yep, and then space jam and then, other than that, there was a there's an rpg, that's on phones, the looney tunes rpg what yeah, it's like a free-to-play garbage, turn-based rpg or something like that. That's on, uh, that's on phones.

Speaker 1: 37:53

So I, I, um, I, you know outside of multiverse, and I guess the last space jam movie it feels Looney Tunes hasn't really been in pop culture a whole lot lately.

Speaker 2: 38:05

Have you heard Not since they were on Jackets.

Speaker 1: 38:09

Yeah, that's true. They were really popular on Jackets for a long time, oh yeah.

Speaker 2: 38:13

Nineties, oh yeah, absolutely Everybody had one of those. Did you hear this whole story about C coyote versus acme?

Speaker 1: 38:22

yeah, yeah because that was gonna be a max show, right, wasn't it gonna be a movie?

Speaker 2: 38:27

theaters the movie is done. Everything is done for that movie. It is sitting in the warner brothers but they said, no, we're never gonna release it because we would rather take the tax break from not releasing it. And people are angry about it because it was supposed to be a good movie like it was supposed to be really good like it.

Speaker 2: 38:47

It it was, uh, you know, the people that preview it or the test audiences. Test audiences were loving it, but basically it was the coyote. Um, one of his uh, you know things he buys off of acme goes, uh, goes haywire and injures him. So he files a lawsuit against the Acme Corporation. That's another one of those live actions slash animated hybrid movies and it was supposed to be good. But we'll never get to see that because reasons. Yeah. And I didn't know this segment was going to go so long.

Speaker 1: 39:17

All right, yeah, that was a good segment. Nice. It was funny to think about the old games and all I could see is pictures of the. I couldn't remember the names, but I could imagine the box art right.

Speaker 2: 39:30

That's how we chose games back in the day.

Speaker 1: 39:32

Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 2: 39:33

There were no reviews.

Speaker 1: 39:42

So it's funny that you say that, because Mega man when I first saw mega man on the shelf, we did not pick up that. We picked up every game. So we we'd go to a rental place and it was like hometown video. That was a place it was called and we would pick up every game. We would not pick up mega man because of that. That cover looks so generic of a guy that looked like from tron or something you know. It was just weird looking and and also the fact that it was called mega man and growing up there was like I don't know if you guys had this growing up, but there was these things called mega cookies and they were generic like oreos and it's called mega cookies and so we just assumed that it was generic man. That's what we thought it was. You know, mega generic. Uh, that's why I never played hydrox man never played what hydrox man, hydro Never played what.

Speaker 3: 40:20

Hydrox man.

Speaker 1: 40:21

Hydrox man yeah.

Speaker 3: 40:23

Hydrox were generic Oreos.

Speaker 1: 40:24

That's what we had.

Speaker 2: 40:25

Okay, there was a spinoff of a cheap version I would get of Dr Mario called Dr Thunder. Yeah, that was a joke. Dr Thunder is a cheap spinoff of Dr Pepper. Dr Pepper, yeah.

Speaker 1: 40:38

Yep, yeah, anyway, and then we finally rented it and realized it's a really good game.

Speaker 2: 40:43

But anyway, you know, what's funny, roger, is that I had the exact opposite situation. I, there was a uh, you thought that was good.

Speaker 1: 40:50

You thought that was good I was enthralled by that box art. I'm like this is so fascinating.

Speaker 2: 40:55

And then I would flip it over and look at the little screenshots yeah gas city, a gas station, was the only place in my neighborhood that had megaman and I would constantly rent megaman from gas city. Um, because I loved every.

Speaker 1: 41:10

Every time I had an opportunity, I would rent the game from that place you know it's funny to think back to like, I don't think places really rent games anymore. Yeah, um, you know where we, we, you know where we found one place that actually it's not renting. Well, it's renting, but not really you. We at our library we can get switch games.

Speaker 2: 41:28

Yeah, we can get switch games at my library too.

Speaker 1: 41:31

Okay, and board games, which was pretty cool, but but yeah, like it's funny that you said about the gas city because, like every place, you could rent either movies or games, like every place, gas stations we had a pizza place where you can rent movies we had a grocery store Piggly Wiggly we could go.

Speaker 2: 41:51

Yeah, grocery stores we had Dominic's. You could rent movies at Dominic's.

Speaker 3: 41:56

I grew up on an Air Force base and the only place that we could rent video games was at a place called the Shopette, because we'd have the commissary, which is where you'd buy all of your food, and then we had the BX, which is where you could buy all of your like normal everyday home goods clothes, electronics, all that kind of stuff. But then the Shopette was kind of like a convenience store. It didn't have any gas pumps. There's only one gas station on base.

Speaker 1: 42:20

But the Shopette you could rent. You could rent movies and video games from. Yeah, that's, that's just another thing from the past, because, like, that's not even a thing anymore. Um, so anyway, uh, let's move on to games that we're currently playing. And, mike, I'll start with you, since you ran that game. What games are you currently playing?

Speaker 2: 42:36

I know you mentioned multiverse but that was it, I was just playing multiverses and, uh, last time we, uh, we spoke I said I wasn't sold on it. I'm feeling a little bit better about it because, um, I'm doing well online against other people, so I'm actually, uh, I'm not doing too bad my, uh, my mains right now. Besides, uh, taz, I've really grown, uh, fond of Shaggy, so I'm enjoying. He's got he's a good brawler, he's got some good, good attacks. So, and it's not just the playing against other people online, it's it's the single player mode.

Speaker 2: 43:10

Single player mode has enough, like I'm finding it to be more Packed with gameplay options than smash. It's really interesting. You're, you know that you go into these different rifts, which is basically like single player ladder style. You know you just you fight somebody and then go, but there's like these little mini stories, like I'm right now I'm chasing after stripe, you know, from gremlins yeah, oh, I was thinking about the fruit strides gum oh, the zebra guy, maybe because now you've got me thinking super retro, and that's where my brain went.

Speaker 2: 43:45

So I'm chasing after him and there's, you know, it's just, it's, it's just there's like story. It's not crazy stories, it's just little mini stories that are fun.

Speaker 1: 43:53

When.

Speaker 2: 43:53

I was playing the Jason Voorhees rift, a lot of the characters that I was fighting against had, uh, jason vorhees masks. So harley quinn had a hockey mask on really black and a hockey mask on and I was fighting against them and they have like different like mini games, like break the target if you you know like from smash, if you know that one.

Speaker 3: 44:13

Um, yeah, there's targets, phil, and then you break them so I'm not just going into a target and ransacking it.

Speaker 2: 44:21

No, you're not, yeah. And then there's another one where your character is in like this little tiny tank and you have to shoot missiles to protect like a big diamond. So it's got like really interesting mini games, the daily missions and everything that you need to do. You know, the battle pass, um, they're not, they're not really that challenging. So you can, I can, get through a lot, uh, of the the stuff I need to in just maybe an hour, hour and a half. So you know what honestly I'm, I'm, it's growing on me.

Speaker 2: 44:56

I'm enjoying it so far, especially hey it's a free-to-play game and there's interesting, like you know, like I said, they put a lot of love into it, like the the bugs bunny outfits you can get. You can get his outfit as the Viking, uh the gold, like what's opera, doc, yeah, and you know a whole bunch of other stuff. It's just um yeah it's a good game. I'm enjoying it. So far, that's what I've been putting most of my time into.

Speaker 1: 45:20

Cool.

Speaker 3: 45:24

What about you, phil? What have you been playing? Obviously, the usuals, which I'm not even going to mention, except I just did. But outside of that, rachel and I finally, a year later, completed the quarry. Yeah, our success rate was not very high. It does not help if she's not in the room. That Success rate was not very high. It does not help she's not in the room. That last night, when we wrapped it up, she had the final section of the game and managed to get three people killed. So I think we only saved five out of the 12 people. Yeah, she did not have a good streak, was having some button issues, the controller was not cooperating with her. Definitely was not the Tito sodas, but the controller was not cooperating with her.

Speaker 3: 46:01

Played a little bit more of Evil West. I'm down to two levels, I believe, according to walkthroughs, so I'm almost done with it. I will wrap it up at some point, maybe over the course of this week. Outside of that, I don't really think that I've touched anything else, because it is the last week of the season of MLB the Show. So I was trying to grind out and get to the get the boss cards. I'm not going to make it because they set the xp levels exponentially high. No pun intended, um, but the new season starts tomorrow, so I definitely won't be playing that at all uh for myself, uh more hyper charge unbox um so I did stream it.

Speaker 1: 46:40

Yeah, that game's good. I like the fact that there's a lot of challenges in the game and it allows you to go back to levels that you already played and see if you can get those challenges. Some of them are pretty difficult too. Some of them are like you have to jump from one place to the next place. And, yeah, so it's. It's a cool game and, and you know, they unlock different cosmetics and that's fun. So if you want to read our review, you can do that, going to our website at gamer has podcastcom, or you can go to our YouTube channel and watch the stream that I did the other night and I'm going to be streaming more often. So that is, my other goal is to stream more often on Wednesday nights. So I've been playing that Another game that I've been playing. Phil, you're going to roll your eyes, but I'm going to say it anyway. I did download the Star Wars Hunters on the Switch, that free-to-play arena battle game. Does your phone not work, oh?

Speaker 1: 47:41

my god oh, my god, anyway. Uh, you know, I was leery going into this game, thinking is this going to be a joke? It's actually pretty good. It's actually pretty good phil.

Speaker 2: 47:56

Okay, he's supposed to, I'm not even gonna bother, I'll just take your word for it, buddy. Pretty good, phil Hi. Okay, I'm not even going to bother, I'll just take your word for it, buddy.

Speaker 1: 48:06

No, it's free to play. Outline the concept to me and maybe you can sell me. So think Overwatch with Star Wars characters. Are you lying to me right now? No, that's really what it is. It's four versus four and the two, the two battles that they have right now is up to 20, like 20 kills. So each team has to get up to 20 kills, or it's already not overwatch or capture.

Speaker 1: 48:32

We'll just hold on or capture three different areas. Now there might be other. Just can you, can you? Just? I didn't say a word, the listeners couldn't see what I did, that's right. There might be other types too. I just started this yesterday, so there might be other game matches too, but those are the two that are out there right now, and so there's different characters you can unlock as you go through the free pass. You can unlock a Wookiee. You can unlock a Sith assassin. You can unlock a rebel, who her main? She's the only healer, I think, in that whole thing, but she's a healer. And then there's a stormtrooper. That's a heavy stormtrooper. He carries like a gun that has a shield. There is a bounty hunter, and then the one thing that I will say that I'm like not too keen on is the premium pass is the only way to get the Mandalorian character right now Free to play.

Speaker 3: 49:33

dude Free to play.

Speaker 1: 49:34

I know, but it's not free to play. Though that part's not free to play. But yeah, the game you can play for free, but if you want the extra cosmetics you got to pay for it yeah overwatches yeah, yeah, but but like this one thing, that for cosmetics, but this is like a whole character overwatch is the same way but also yeah, I mean like it.

Speaker 3: 49:55

They steered away from it, but for a while, with every character they'd unlock, you either had to do x amount of hours in quick play or gameplay to get the character, or you had to be part of the battle pass and you'd get them at. Actually, no sorry, you'd have to get through the battle pass level 50 to unlock the character, or if you bought the battle pass, you just get the character right away yeah, maybe, maybe it is farther down in the battle pass.

Speaker 1: 50:17

I just didn't realize it. But yeah, you bought the battle and it was 10 bucks. I did buy the battle pass because I was like I'm playing it and I'm enjoying it, so, um, but it's cool. I mean, I'm not the greatest at it and now I'm actually unlocked the rankings so like I'm bronze three right now. Uh, so we'll see how well I do now that it's actually ranked matches.

Speaker 3: 50:39

But roger, you're kind of speaking my language I know, I know, I know, uh, the.

Speaker 1: 50:45

The one thing I will say is that there's a lot of menus in the game and there's a lot of tiers, so like each character has their own leveling system to end. So like that kind of threw me off because I thought there was just the battle pass. Oh no, each character does so, it encourages, and character does so it encourages and I get it right it encourages you to play all different characters so that way you can level up those characters. Um, which is kind of cool. Um, I did unlock the storm trooper. Um, uh, uh, I did unlock some cool cosmetics for them, but then I did buy one, for I think it was like a dollar 99 or maybe it was $5.

Speaker 1: 51:21

I'm not sure, but it was like all black suit with like red and it looked really cool. So I was like, whoa, that's super cool looking, but it's fun. I mean, the matches are really short. That's what I like about it too. It doesn't last real long. It's like I don't know, less than five minutes a match. It goes really fast. Um, and then it's supposed to be in a, in a hut arena, so like this is all sponsored by a hut.

Speaker 3: 51:44

So yeah, that's cool uh, can I ask more questions before you move on?

Speaker 1: 51:48

yeah, yeah are you still describing the game no, no, I can ask questions at the end. No, I'm done describing.

Speaker 3: 51:53

Yeah, uh, so are any of the playable characters, with the exception of the, the Mandalorian, that you unlock through the battle pass? Are they named characters or just generic characters?

Speaker 1: 52:01

Well, they're named, but they're not anybody that I they're not part of, like any Star Wars.

Speaker 1: 52:08

Not part of the canon that you're aware of. Right Like, I think the Wookiee is Roz G-R-O-Z-Z. I think that's the Wookiee's name. I never heard of that character. The Sith Assassin has a name too, I don't know. The Mandalorian has a name. I don't know who these people are Like. If they are part of the lore, they're like part of this deep, deep lore that I am not aware of at all. The Stormtrooper doesn't have a name, obviously, because it's just stormtrooper, um, but uh, and then and then the bounty hunter and the rebel, uh, rebel soldier, has uh a name too, but they're none of the, none of the characters I I ever heard, so like they're not big name characters.

Speaker 3: 52:47

Yeah, they're not big name characters uh, second question yeah is as you're unlocking things as you're playing through, say, for example, as a stormtrooper. Are you unlocking abilities or just cosmetics? As you're leveling up the, the character themselves? Both. Can you pay to level up your character?

Speaker 1: 53:05

yes, that's bullshit yeah, yeah, so like the uh, so you can pay. They have like in-game currency, like gems or some of that that you can pay to level up your character faster. Um so, and then I think there's fame points too, and I think fame points or maybe you can't, maybe you can't level up with gems, but you can with fame points and maybe, maybe that's, maybe that's what, and I maybe I misspoke there I think you can unlock the character with gems so you don't have to go through the progression of the battle pass to get it. You can just use the gems to unlock it right away. I misspeak, I'm I misspoke, I'm sorry. You don't level up your character with it, but you use fame points and fame points are only earned, uh, in game, so you can't buy fame points and fame you get them by doing things like getting kills, getting assist stuff.

Speaker 1: 53:56

Yeah yeah, okay and then. But you can just level up just by playing the game too, right? So, um, so there's two ways. You could either spend your fame points to level up your, your character, and level up and, like their abilities, level up, or you just play the game and just level up the character that's you okay, uh, how many characters total are there in the game?

Speaker 1: 54:16

so right now I think there's like 10 or 11, but it looks like there's enough space. There's either 10 or 12, I don't remember, but there's. It looks like there's more space for more characters to add in the future, because it only has two and they all have different abilities.

Speaker 3: 54:34

All the different characters do yeah so, like today, go ahead.

Speaker 1: 54:37

Well, I was gonna say like the, like the stormtrooper, his, his uh special ability is that he calls down two other troopers and they like fight alongside you. Uh, and the mandalorian, for instance, their special ability is they jump up there and they shoot fire from uh, from above and they just like toast everybody below them. So I mean, those are just two examples uh, does it have the characters?

Speaker 3: 55:01

see, like I said, you're speaking my language. Now we're gonna have a conversation.

Speaker 1: 55:07

It's free to play.

Speaker 3: 55:08

Phil, it's free to play do the characters have, like, different roles that are assigned to them? Like you kind of alluded to the fact that one of the characters is a healer. Yeah, do the teams need to be filled out by? Like, for example, in overwatch, you get one tank, two dps, which are basically your shooters, and two supports, which are essentially your heaters. Your healers, not heaters. Um, damn it. I just remember rosno saying the intro fuck, just like that. Um, or can you just is it a free-for-all for?

Speaker 1: 55:39

like, you don't have to choose what kind of a class it is that you play you can choose any class, but only one person can play that character on your team, on your team, right, so like. The wookiee and the stormtrooper are considered heavy class, so you can have two people playing a heavy class. Um, there's only two heavy class right now, so it's that would right, so like. And then there's, uh, I don't know what, the. There's an assassin, the sith assassin, but there's also like a sharpshooter and I don't know, I don't have him unlocked yet, um, but I don't know if there's another character like that. But then there's like the bounty hunter, um, who's also kind of a light character, so, and then there's only one really support character I've seen so far and that's the rebel that throws down heels. That's the one complaint I have seen online is that their levels like throwing down heels doesn't like level you as fast for that character as like assist or taking out enemies does which is dumb if they're a support character, but I'm not.

Speaker 1: 56:39

I'm not gonna go super hard into that yeah, but it's, you know, it feels to me like a overwatch light type game, right with star wars characters, like not not too complicated, because like I'm able to just jump in and play and and it's in this fast matches. And I think that's what they're trying to go for is just get folks that like may be interested in games like overwatch but like maybe intimidated by it but like star wars as well, and just want to have quick. I mean, I played probably like five matches, five or six matches in 15 minutes, okay sounds like my kind of game yeah, and also like you said too, like after you played so many quick play matches or whatever, you unlocked rank.

Speaker 3: 57:21

So now you're part of rank which is that's, that's the same overwatch system. They're the same way.

Speaker 1: 57:25

You got to play 25 quick plays before you can start playing ranked, yeah, and then there's dailies, like you have your daily goals and you have your uh season things, and then if you buy the season pass, uh, you get different missions like additional missions, because, uh, there's additional missions with uh, with the mandalorian, so, um, but it's only on mobile and switch right.

Speaker 1: 57:47

Correct, right now, correct that's unfortunate yeah time to get out the dust spray okay I suspect that it will probably come to other systems at some point. Um, it seems like every time I jump into the game, it seems I mean it's not, I don't wait long for a match, but I do suspect that sometimes, like, like, I get bots playing with me when there's not enough players.

Speaker 3: 58:11

Uh does it show people's. I'm gonna call it a gamer tag, because it's the only word that I know. Yeah, it's usually pretty obvious if they're a about or not. If it's, uh, relative to the game, like if their tag is relative to the game like rogue one well, you'd actually kind of feel like a boss actually, now that I stop and think about it yeah, but yeah like if it's like rogue one killer or like yeah lay his left hand or some shit like that yeah, I, I uh, yeah, I mean it's, it's pretty easy.

Speaker 1: 58:38

And the other thing that you'll find, like the ai is not all that smart. So like, for instance, like the capture the um area, uh, one, we get to capture two areas to love to like the percentage goes up if your team has two areas out of the three um. I noticed that my we captured one area and then the ai just kind of sat there and didn't do anything, even though an enemy walked into it. Just kind of sat there and I'm like what are you doing? Like, if you're gonna protect it, do something. Right, dude, it happens sometimes you gotta pee in mid-match and then even the ai, uh, but yeah, no, it's cool, I think I.

Speaker 1: 59:17

I mean, I don't know, for a while there I was on a hot streak. I didn't lose any matches. I have lost a couple now, but for a while there I was top of the team and had lots of wins. So since then I did lose and there's some that were kind of embarrassing losses. But it's fun, I like it. I mean, again, quick matches, they don't last long. And it's in the Star Wars universe. You have two announcers like announcing things as they're going on. It's kind of cool.

Speaker 2: 59:48

Are they like the announcers from uh Phantom Menace?

Speaker 3: 59:50

From Pod Racing. That's exactly what I pictured too.

Speaker 1: 59:53

Uh, I don't know. I kind of I mean, yeah, so there's, there's just two teams and I don't, I don't know the references, I can't remember what they're called, the two teams. There's only two teams and I don't understand the reference, but they just, oh, this team one or this team one, and you don't get to pick what team. You just kind of get randomly put on a team, um, and then, yeah, they're announcing, like what's going on? They're, oh, they only need one more point to win this match. So, yeah, it's pretty decent. You didn't expect that many questions, did you? I did not. I was expecting just being laughed out of the podcast. But the other game that I've been playing and listeners you can go out and listen to my interview with Zalavir Nelson Jr about this game I've been playing a game called life eater and it is

Speaker 1: 1:00:47

a kidnapping horror sim sci-fi game jill talked, jill talked, jill talked about it a couple yeah a couple weeks ago when she was on the podcast. Mike, were you on that episode when jill was here?

Speaker 2: 1:00:54

last. I don't know that was. That was one of my uh. That was when I was in jail, remember.

Speaker 1: 1:00:58

Oh, that's right, that's right, that's right, I forgot. Yeah, so Jill talked about it and so I'll mention it here. So, yeah, so you're a guy named Ralph who has a god talk to him, who says you need to kidnap people and sacrifice them, uh, and if you don't like bad things, like the world will end, so you need to do this, and he's been doing this for the last several years and, uh, and and, and it's interesting, so I'll just the story. Wise, he, he, he's been doing this. He's been very isolated. So he does he what? What he does is he? He, uh, like, stalks people and then kidnaps them and then he hasn't been seen. Nobody recognized him for a long time, except for one person who was like a delivery boy, and he said, hey, how's it going? And then he realized he got caught and then he kidnaps that person, but he doesn't kill that person. This is part of the story, um, but so the gameplay.

Speaker 1: 1:02:04

I'll talk about that first. So you uh are, you have, uh, you have a target and you have to on a timeline, like a video editing timeline that's what it kind of looks like. You have to select the different things you want to do during this time and it could be things like you're gonna, like I don't know, take out the garbage at the same time they do. So you can witness, like what they're doing and it gives you a little clues like what, what's going on. Jill kind of talked a little bit about this. Like the first character, the first this is not spoily because like it's it's the first one, the first person you like as you're going through and spying on them on different things you find out that they buried a dead body in their backyard. Like what the F was that about? Like that's weird.

Speaker 1: 1:02:45

And then, after you get to a certain percentage of like watching this person for a while, then you can abduct them and then you do a ritualistic sacrifice and it'll ask you questions like uh, this person gets more than six hours of sleep? If they do get more than six hours, I'm sorry it doesn't say this person, it just says does this person get more than six hours of sleep? If yes, break ribs three and four. If, if not, break ribs eight and 15. And then there'll be questions like does this person arm endeavor? If yes, crush the pancreas. If not, crush the spleen or whatever.

Speaker 1: 1:03:32

So it's pretty dark, okay. So it is pretty dark. It's pretty dark, okay, it is pretty dark, okay, but it is pretty dark. It's pretty dark, okay, it is pretty dark, but I think what people get hung up on is the whole oh, I'm kidnapping people and I'm sacrificing them to this god. I think the piece that I took out of the game is it's a story about a guy who has been isolated for a very long time and the mental anguish that he's going through through his isolation, through his belief in this god that he knows is wrong, but he feels like if he doesn't do these things, bad things will happen. Uh, that to me, I think is is the story of the game and it's it's, it's a powerful, it's a powerful story, uh you've got me intrigued, man.

Speaker 2: 1:04:18

This, this is this, this sounds like it's, I don't know.

Speaker 1: 1:04:23

I I'm intrigued yeah, it's different, and that's what I and that's what I like about this game, because it's not your run-of-the-mill, and and the other thing I will I will say about this game too, too, is when you hear, oh, it's a kidnapping, horror sim game, it sounds like, oh, somebody was just making this game to make a name for themselves, right right.

Speaker 3: 1:04:48

You think Manhunter Postal.

Speaker 1: 1:04:50

Yeah, right, but that's not what's happening here, like there is. This is a deep game with some really deep story going on here and and and listen to the interview that I have with Salivier, because he talks about the philosophy and the and the thought process behind all this. I mean, I actually asked him how his faith played into the part of like making a game like this. What, like, how does that affect his, his, his stories and the stories that he creates? And he goes into depth with that and it's really fantastic. So I highly recommend going listen to the episode. You can listen to the episode while you play the game.

Speaker 1: 1:05:29

There is some voice acting. The voice acting is really well done too, but it's just I asked how do you make a game where you are playing a bad guy and you have to connect with them, right? So he talks about that too. Um, it's really well done and I'm so thankful that we have uh indie developers, like strange scaffold, uh, that he that's his studio, uh to make games like this, because nobody is taking on games like this, nobody's thinking through deep philosophical thoughts and and things like that. So, uh, that's on, it's on steam, so I don't know if they have any plans to bring it to other systems or not, but right now it's on steam. It's not expensive. I think it's like less than 15. I think it's like really cheap and it's not that graphically intensive, right my potato?

Speaker 2: 1:06:17

no, it's like less than 15. I think it's like really cheap and it's not that graphically intensive, right my potato? No, it's not.

Speaker 1: 1:06:20

Yeah, yeah, it's not. Yeah, you could like my computer can run it. Your computer could run it. So okay cool. Um yeah, so those are the games that I'm playing check this out yeah, it's a. It's a. It's a. It's like I said I'm thankful for the fact that we have game studios that are willing to do something different than Madden every year. Watch your damn mouth.

Speaker 1: 1:06:55

I didn't know you were a Madden person. Are you Madden? No, he's talking about I won't be the show. Yeah, yeah, uh, okay, well, that's the show. Before we head out, why don't we go around and tell people how they can get a hold of us and find us on social media, phil, so they can stalk us on social media, phil? How can people, how, phil, how can people find you? I almost said how can people stalk you on social media? How can people stalk you on social?

Speaker 2: 1:07:22

media, the same way they stalk me on regular media.

Speaker 1: 1:07:25

Yeah, no kidding yeah okay.

Speaker 3: 1:07:27

Well, now I'm just confused because I got really mad about you shitting on the show inadvertently.

Speaker 1: 1:07:33

There's nothing wrong with that. I'm just saying it's nice that we have options. This is the great thing about the industry right now there's so many different games. That's what I love about this industry. There's a lot of things I don't like about this industry, but that's one of the things I like about this industry is that there's so many. Whatever you want to play, there's a game for it.

Speaker 3: 1:07:51

So back back, back yeah yeah, you can find me on social media, on the Twitter, at, you know, 23.

Speaker 1: 1:08:00

And Mike, how can people find you on social media?

Speaker 2: 1:08:02

You can find me also on Twitter at PezGuyMike.

Speaker 1: 1:08:07

And listeners. You can follow Gamer Heads on social media at Gamer Heads Pod. You can also find me on social media in a tenderage. You can go to our website at GamerHeadsPod. You can also find me on social media and NintendoRodge. You can go to our website at GamerHeadsPodcastcom. And you can go to our YouTube channel where you can hear this episode and all our episodes All 300. Some episodes no, there's more than that. I don't know how many episodes are out there, but there's a lot. So you can go out there and listen to those episodes if you'd like, roger, there's a lot, uh, so you can go out there and listen to those episodes if you'd like, roger. I I prefer you not listening to some of the early episodes, but that's up to you.

Speaker 2: 1:08:41

Those are the best, though are they? Yeah, before we went through puberty.

Speaker 1: 1:08:46

Dude mike, was this something you were gonna say?

Speaker 2: 1:08:50

yeah, what if I want to watch you stream on twitch?

Speaker 1: 1:08:53

oh yeah, on twitch. Twitchtv slash gameramerHeadsPodcast. Every Wednesday I'm going to be streaming. I think I'm going to make it around 8.30 to 10, 10.30-ish.

Speaker 3: 1:09:06

Is that just last night you streamed?

Speaker 1: 1:09:08

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 1:09:09

Holy shit.

Speaker 1: 1:09:10

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 1:09:11

Word Everything's okay.

Speaker 1: 1:09:12

Yeah, so that's it, phil. Thank you so much for joining us this week thanks for having me and Mike, thank you so much for joining us this week always and listeners.

Speaker 1: 1:09:26

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Speaker 2: 1:09:57

So long.

Speaker 1: 1:09:58

Take care.