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The Wait For It Podcast
Hosted by MrEricAlmighty and PhilTheFilipino, the guys discuss all things in Pop Culture from movies, gaming, anime and anything in between. New episodes every Wednesday, all you have to do is...WAIT FOR IT!
The Wait For It Podcast
Creator Spotlight: Gafiltha
Ever wondered how to keep your sanity while juggling the demands of podcasting and live streaming? Join us for a heartwarming reunion with our old friend Gafiltha, a dedicated Twitch streamer and co-host of the Filthy Raine podcast, as we reminisce about the early days of our content creation journey. But even today, it isn’t always smooth sailing, and Gafiltha offers an insightful look into the ups and downs of maintaining a consistent online presence.
We also dive into the world of gaming, particularly Gafiltha's love-hate relationship with Destiny 2. From the vibrant community dynamics to the evolution of the game, we explore what makes it both compelling and frustrating. We touch on our personal gaming habits, the allure of impulse purchases during game sales, and the common struggle of unplayed games piling up in our libraries.
Whether you're a seasoned gamer or just starting out, this episode offers a blend of nostalgia, practical advice, and plenty of laughs. Don't miss out on this engaging conversation that captures the essence of gaming and streaming culture.
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Speaker 1:Mr Eric, almighty and Phil the Filipino.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they've got you covered and all you gotta do is wait for it. This is the Wait For it Podcast. Hey, everyone, welcome back to the Wait For it Podcast. I am your co-host, phil Smith, aka Phil the Filipino, and joining me, as always, is your other co-host, mr Eric Almighty. And Eric, we are here with what is easily our favorite series here on the podcast, the Creator Spotlight, and not only because we get to highlight different content creators from all walks of life, but also, selfishly, because we get to hang out with some friends, and today we have a very old friend that we haven't gotten to hang out with in a while. And that's one of the great things about this podcasting space is, even if we're not in the same place physically, we can get together in a podcast lobby, shoot the shit and hang out. Eric, this guest is somebody that goes back like. This is an OG podcast movement buddy. Like, we shared chicken tenders in at at uh, what's it called? At disney springs what was, what was that restaurant we went to?
Speaker 1:it was, uh, what was it the famous chef?
Speaker 2:so that's who we're bringing in today. I'm very excited to have him back after a very prolonged absence, so it's much overdue that we get to hang out with him today.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, the theme of the podcast, especially with the what Did I Miss series, is Guy Fieri. Well, it's not Guy Fieri. We're bringing back a lot of people that have been on the podcast before, and this is very long overdue. So, phil, I mean you've kind of expressed it just to add on to that Super excited to finally get to catch back up. This guest is not only a fellow content creator, but also a fan of the show who's really given us our flowers. Thought we left him in the dust, but no, we never forgot you. So, with that being said, you've got your favorite streamer, a great podcast host and gaming extraordinaire. Gefilte, how are you doing and are you excited to finally catch up after literally, I think, about four years since we last recorded together?
Speaker 3:oh, yeah, it's been. What. What an introduction, man. Thank you, I'm humbled. Whoo, what an expert. What an expert there, man. Uh, yeah, it's been a long time and what was? It was a planet hollywood or something I think it was, yeah, hollywood.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was like the guy. Yeah, it was like the big. Remember it came on a big like carousel, yeah, something like that.
Speaker 3:It was like yeah yeah, some, we just decided we're like we're in orlando, let's go over the top right now. You know, good old pod fest, yeah, and when I think about it I was like man, we go back to even being in buzzsprout, like at the buzzsprout headquarters. I was like it's just oh geez, oh geez. I got y'all's shirt. The wait for it podcast, the blue on yellow, it was beautiful. Oh man, oh man, oh man you don't have to lie.
Speaker 1:That design was like okay, you don't have to know it was, it was, hey, listen, even listening back to that episode, so different, all of us, just all of us, but definitely me and phil. So, like I listening back to it, phil, I, uh, I wanted to shoot myself in in the head because that was, it was rough, that was that was still like pre-official, that was like we're figuring out how to do podcasting. Still so, gefilte, I hope you're getting us at our prime and we hope to really really show out for you on this episode.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah, yeah, Especially. I mean knowing what I've listened to you guys back then, to what I'm listening now. I'm like, wow, are these the same guys? I'm just like they're just so on it. And the posts you guys make, the little, the little, you know video clips that go on. You just grab me. You're like, oh, hey, you know, let's the 10 seconds that you just hooked me on. I'm like, damn it, now I gotta listen to the whole episode.
Speaker 2:So I go on spotify and I pull them up well, hey, don't sell yourself short either, because you do that as well with the content that you put out, and I'm very excited to have that discussion with you, uh, as we kind of go through this episode, because I have just so many questions about twitch, uh, which has been a mixed bag for me and our friend jordan as far as just figuring all of that out, but still having a whole lot of fun.
Speaker 2:So, uh, yeah, eric, uh, before we get started, I'll, of course, welcome in any returning listeners as well as brand new listeners. Maybe you are coming over because you are a fan of gefilte and you're part of his community. Welcome, make sure you stick around to the very end of the episode. We'll let you know where you can find all the rest of our content as well as gefilte, and, uh, you know it's going to be a a whole lot of fun. So, uh, eric, with that being said, you know let's just dive right into this discussion because, again, I have, I have talking points that I have uh notated here that I want to speak to you about. So we got to get this started.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah for sure. So I know we'll get to those streaming questions here shortly. But, gafiltha, we knew you first as a podcaster. You know we referenced kicking off the episode. You know, going back down on memory lane, and I want to definitely talk to you about what you're doing now in the podcast space. Getting to hear a lot of the clips and some of the gaming news that you cover has been a lot of fun. So tell us a little bit about your show, what you do over there, and let us know a little bit more about Filthy Rain and anything else you do in the podcast space. It's a great opportunity to plug all that, but we'd love to hear it and hopefully our listeners will stop by there after this episode.
Speaker 3:Oh, absolutely yeah. So when, when you get a amazing partner like mine, rain and you, just you're both gamers, you both love the industry and you're you're passionate about different sides. I mean, she, she's a master coderer, so she builds games, and then I'm just love playing the games. And then when we talk about the games, right, we should have a podcast. So here we go, we're I was like I've done a podcast before, let's start a podcast. And here we go on filthy rain and it's just a gaming podcast where we talk about, uh, weekly or bi-weekly news on gaming drama, which I love.
Speaker 3:I love all the t&D industry the who Got Fired, the this Drama, blizzard, that yada, yada. Then there's all the streamer stuff, the upcoming games and titles, our weekly bulletin board on different updates and DLCs, things to look out for, and the best part is, we love to incorporate what people bring in to us. So if people like you should talk about this, or you need to look out for this game or this, this content, or have you heard about that, then I'm like, oh, I'm putting that on top of my list. I was like, clearly, oh, this is juicier, this is what people want to hear, so we're going to bring that one up. So the input from everybody that's listening is the best part for us, because I really know what's what's at the key top of importance in the gaming industry. But man, do I love my tea in the industry. It's. That's the best part about it, right there.
Speaker 2:It's just bringing everyone the heat you know what's funny is you just naturally brought up blizzard, because they're they're always at the top. It's usually just like what did Blizzard do this week? Yeah.
Speaker 3:It's like we've been doing the episode for like what? Two years now, I believe yeah, two years. And it's like Blizzard has been a nonstop thing for the entire time. Just Blizzard, blizzard, blizzard.
Speaker 2:Blizzard. You can have just a segment, like just the Blizzard like just the Blizzard like spot of the episode this week on what did blizzard do?
Speaker 3:yeah, love it and uh yeah, we're just gonna do a uh sub podcast. Uh uh, filthy rain. The blizzard sub edition the blizzard sub edition?
Speaker 1:I mean, I would, I would love that. I mean just with filthy rain alone, I think you guys are getting uh close to that 100 episode mark, which is super exciting a milestone. You guys are getting ready to cross and through buzzsprout as well. So I highly implore you guys, especially on the gaming side, uh, definitely check out filthy rain, but that's not all you do. And, phil, I think you have some questions because, uh, we couldn't. You couldn't help but notice gefilte has got the background going. He's looking all fly and just seeing your clips gefilte are always hilarious on your from your streams. So, phil, I'll let you take it away from that standpoint yeah.
Speaker 2:So here you know, on our side we have we're probably a few months into our twitch journey and again it's been various levels of success. There's definitely never been. So here you know, on our side, we're probably a few months into our Twitch journey and again it's been various levels of success. There's definitely never been a week where there is no technical issue. So I don't know if that's just a constant. I will say I do have an element that not necessarily all streams have to run into, in that I stream with somebody else that is not here, so they are remote, so there's somebody else. So I'm constantly like resizing, you know the, the images to fit in the, in the boxes and all that kind of stuff. So throughout your twitch journey, of course, first you know talk about your channel and what you do over there, and also, does this get any easier?
Speaker 3:Ooh, does it get easier? That's, yeah, kind of kind of. It's like I swear. Every time I just try to set up to go live, it's like it's a new issue. It's just like what? Why? Why, you worked perfectly fine the past 4,000 streams. Now why did you decide to disconnect and have to reconnect this entire web socket to you know, and you got to go back and watch this video that was made in 2009 on how to connect to the version one? Because nobody's ever had the issue, ever again. And it's just like it's. It's quite. You become a tech savvy guy learning it through the process. It doesn't become easier though.
Speaker 3:Yeah, in a way I guess in, in a way it does. But yeah, twitch, twitch has been a fun journey. It really only happened because covid and I was like left with no work, with nothing to do, locked inside a house in old florida with, you know no, nothing real to do, and I was like, you know what, let's fuck it, let's go live, let's's do it, we'll go live. And here we are and we'll have a good old time. And so we hit the button and we just started streaming every day. And before you know it, you know, here's, years later, I'll just keep coming up with ideas and I'm like, oh, let's do this, let's do that, and I love sci-fi, I love space stuff, so we had to keep with the theme and be in space stations and having all that fun. But it's, it's been a journey. It's we, we stream, uh, as often as I want.
Speaker 3:There used to be a schedule, but let me say the biggest thing on streaming is burning out. Everybody just burns out so much because they're like I'm gonna do monday, wednesday, friday, or I'm gonna do tuesday, thursday, saturday, tuesday, thursday, saturday, and you go every day on those days at 8 pm sharp, and then one day you're just like I don't feel it, I'm tired, and then you lose it and then suddenly they're out. It's just like you guys know. It's just like podcasting. So many podcasters do the pod fading and just disappear, and then it's. It's tough, but you got it, you got to have good balance. Now, these days I just go live, when I go live and when people, people just got to have the notification on and then they got to get their phone and go, go, go, go, he's going, I give a little headway, but you know, I feel like it's it brings more importance. Whoever got that notification, whoever is paying attention, they come, they get the show of a lifetime.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there you go, and you know that's a good point, because we only even do it once a week and we've even already run into that burnout, not necessarily because we don't want to stream, but the level of quality that I want the stream to be, I feel like sometimes isn't there. And you know we're all content creators, we all know when the level of quality isn't there you just do feel like man, do I even want to do this right now? So there have been weeks where I'm like oh, that was great. And then again another week where it's just like like eric, when we played sea of thieves, 30 minutes into that I was like I'm over this. I know, I know for a fact that people aren't having fun watching this because I'm not having fun playing it so you got stuck behind a tree for like a solid 20 minutes.
Speaker 2:20 minutes and then the ship got stuck, I got stuck in between it. It was a disaster and I was just like I don't want to play this anymore. And it was, uh, it was a nightmare. So, yeah, getting burnt out. That's not even just a streaming thing, that's just a content creation thing, and you got to keep that fresh. Do you use obs, or do you have you found something better? Or, uh, do you use something different? You know you're obviously much more farther into this than I am.
Speaker 3:I started with Streamlabs, obs, and then I even messed, looked into I think it was another one, I don't remember that the other one was called. But then I went to OBS. So I've kind of just learned in so many different ones just to try to figure out which one works best for me. And OBS has so many different third-party tools that people have created for it, so it really helps out to really get all technical on the back end. So that's going to help me automate a lot of it onto third-party software. So just have to run and I don't have to push so many buttons on the stream deck on my 52 monitor setup with my 18 command keys and my 42 side buttons here, because you know of course that's how every streamer's got it with their 100 key stream deck on there. You know totally, not just a single keyboard no, definitely not.
Speaker 2:I'm not running everything from a single monitor and just one keyboard.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's definitely not what I have here.
Speaker 2:I'm not going to turn my camera around to show you guys, because it's just too much. But uh, that's definitely how it is. Yeah, I will say, like once I got into at least the the very basics of obs and I had a buddy of mine uh, actually a shout out to andrew from friendly neighborhood gamers who got on here and and just walked me through it like once you do get a grasp of everything. It is pretty user-friendly. There's just a lot to manage, but you know, once you get a hang of it, it's been uh, it's definitely been a lot of fun we are um, looking to.
Speaker 2:I think one thing that's interesting is like just finding what content people want to watch. Like I think maybe the most viewed we had over the last month was we were doing, uh, chain together. Remember, chain together was like all over social media for a good couple of weeks and we're like, ok, this is something maybe we can latch on to, and then, you know, another week we'll play like Overcooked and they'll be like nobody in there, because you know, you just got to figure out what people want. People want and also make it more interactive for the audience that is there, which is something we've been working on as well. But yeah, it's been fun. I mean, uh, eric only seems to pop in when I'm struggling to crop. Uh, you know images and that just happens to me.
Speaker 1:When the one time he pops in, I'm like well, this is great maybe I'm I'm the source of him feeling this way, because I definitely have popped in and been like yeah, I shouldn't like each time.
Speaker 2:Each time I'm like how does this keep happening?
Speaker 1:I'm like this is only my third time logging into this Twitch account and I can't stay. I cannot stay. It's always bad timing, but obviously I felt that you've been doing this for quite a bit. You know the commander himself always navigating everyone through a fun time. What would you say is the thing that your community knows the most about you from twitch? Like, is it the persona, is it the character? Is there something a little bit more in depth like what is that one thing that you're, you feel like you give to your community every time that you get on stream? Maybe it's a goal or it just happens that way. What is that one thing?
Speaker 3:Oh man, what? Pulling out the difficult questions? I was out here rehearsing in the mirror. I was like, okay, if he asks me this, I'll say this, if he asks me that, I'll say that. And then he just pulled out a card and I was like, oh my gosh. And now it's embarrassing for everybody because the commander persona is going to be out here like I have an answer for everything and I am trained in rhetoric and you know, let me. So let me reverse your question and turn it around on you, like some politician.
Speaker 3:But you know, generally I have, you know that's that's a tough one, because the three, the three cores that I kind of initially started it on, was energy, positivity and future. So I always want to provide energy hype. There's never going to be a me, like quiet, staring at a thing, tired, like if I'm getting to that point, it's time to end it, it's time to wreck. We're always at 100. Positivity, only positive. We're only talking good, we're only speaking good, we're only spewing good, nothing. I'm not going to be on there moping, I'm not going to be trying to get some. You know, somebody come and pay attention to me, or nothing. And you know, whatever it might be.
Speaker 3:And then future, because I'm trying to look for the next best tech, the next coolest things, the next little features, the next, uh, fun little add-ons and extensions to add on. I'm like always I'm in all these little groups and forums and discords. I'm like what's all the new stuff that we can do on twitch? What's all the the cool little integrations on there? There's things you can print. You can have somebody sub and it prints out a receipt. On there you can have holographic images, a bunch of cool, cool tech.
Speaker 3:And, uh, obviously the wall is what's hindering me right now. You know, there there's always the funding part, but the one thing is they can always expect a good time, a good time and to be to be cherished and well and taken care of, because, I mean, you could be a stranger man, you could be a stranger and we're going to become homies in five minutes. You could be the guy in Europe that's tuning in because it's 8 am over there but it's 3 am over here and he's like good morning, you know, but they're always gonna have a good time. I was gonna deliver and uh, make you go. Wow, how did you do that? And make you question are you watching a movie, or are you watching this live stream? What are you watching right now? Was that live right now? Was he really in space, who knows?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I will say one thing that's really been fun about messing around in OBS and Streamlabs and all that stuff is, like you said, all the different extensions that are on there and I need to get back on. I think what my worry is is I've gotten to a space now where I am pretty comfortable, where everything is so adding something on new. I'm like God, was that gonna? Is that gonna work correctly, or am I gonna fuck up everything that I worked so hard for to get to just this point where I'm not even comfortable now? So that's, that's always something that I'm like a little worried about, but it is, you know, like we just talked about keeping things fresh. Keeping the audience engaged is such a huge thing. I do want to transition into, because Ericic talked about community and your community.
Speaker 2:One community that you've constantly been a part of and you're always posting about is destiny, and I want to know, because destiny has always we always kind of like circle destiny as something like should we dive into that, eric? Should we check that out? Is that something we should get into? Because, uh, you know, our gaming backstory goes all the way back to the Bungie days. When you're talking about Halo 2, 3, odst Reach, and that I played the first Destiny and Eric did not, but I played it for a little bit and I don't really remember if I ever dove into Destiny 2.
Speaker 2:So if you were to tell somebody, or if you were to try, and if somebody came to you and was like, hey, is this something worth getting into now in 2024, why would one do that? Or are you one of those players like with um, some of our friends that play like league and they're like don't ever jump into league is destiny in that space? Or is that something where the community is like yes, please come join us and and you know, check out what we've been doing here in this game?
Speaker 3:Wow, well, destiny. Yeah, just same like you, man. I've been a Bungie guy since before Halo came out. I was out there seeing that concept video that I got on some GameStop DVD that it was for brute force on original Xbox or something and I was like what is this force? Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a crazy pull.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I just had to pull it out.
Speaker 3:But uh there was a nice little concept thing of like the 2001 Mac world, uh, video of what Halo would have looked like, and I'm like I want that game. So I finally got the game and I'm like I'm a believer, halo, halo, this, that boom, boom. And then, when Destiny, I was like, oh, this is going to be perfect, it's wonderful. And it was. And I got in a relationship with Destiny and we went on for five good years happily, and a few backstabs a few, okay, backstabs a few, okay, I still love you. A few backstabs, okay, I still love you. Oh, horrible, I keep falling for the trap of a next expansion. And then destiny 2, and then you know it's like, oh you let me down, okay, you made it up. Oh you let me down, you made it.
Speaker 3:It's such a roller coaster with destiny. It's such a toxic relationship that that every destiny player has had with Destiny. And now that it's kind of concluded 10 years of the whole narrative that they've been piecing together and they did it so wonderfully with a nice bow, such a nod to all the veterans that have been on there since the beginning. And it's probably in its best state right now, where you know whoever comes in can dive in and it's the most polished, well-balanced, beautiful game. But I will say the new player ramp is just so steep, like you need a friend. If you're going to just go in yourself and, oh, I'm going to start Destiny, you're done, you're gone, You're not, you're going gonna be bored, you're gonna be like I can't figure anything out. But if you got friends or you got a clan that's why I'm always inviting people to my clan I'm like come on in, come on, we'll help you out, I'll help you out. Commander's got you. Which is kind of where the commander title came from.
Speaker 3:I don't think I've shared this with too many folks. I was just kind of the go-to leader, like, hey, we're going to do this, do this raid this night, do this raid that night. And people were like, oh, you're the commander. And I was like, oh, whatever. And then people just kept saying hey, commander, hey commander, commander, commander. I'm like all right, we're just going to take the title. Then, if everyone just keeps calling me commander, I'll just say commander Grafilza, and it just kind of stuck that way but way, but um, I was like I don't, I don't really command anything. There's no rank or nothing.
Speaker 3:But I love the game. I've religiously played it. It's always my go-back game. When your new games come out, you go to another title. I'm like, oh, this is hot, let me jump into helldivers, let me go jump into this. And then I'm like, oh, now I'm bored, what do I play? I know I'll go visit that destiny down in the cellar and, you know, pull her out again and reconnect because you're always there for me.
Speaker 3:But I'd say, definitely get some friends. If you're diving into Destiny, definitely make sure there's a group or a clan that can bring you into the fun activities that you need six people for, three people for, and then you can have fun. But recently yeah, I'm going to say with the last episode we had of Filthy Rain, there's been some stuff happening over at Bungie that have made me kind of lose some trust in where the series might be going. And I mean the 10-year conclusion is there. This might be my first time I might uninstall that game since I first installed it. I don't know. But I still will play. Like, say, phil and Eric dived in right now, I'm in it, I'm in it, I'll rock and roll with them until they're bored with it, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I would say no chance in hell.
Speaker 2:but you know, I Eric is definitely never going to check out Destiny. There might be a time where I just like install it and check it out. I'm like, hey, I installed Destiny, let's see what this is all about, but Eric will never play Destiny.
Speaker 1:Phil enjoys pain. He just recently saw Borderlands in theaters, opening week, very interesting choice Knowing exactly what he was going to get into. But yeah, listen, I digress. I like going to the movies.
Speaker 3:If you wanted to throw your money away, you could have just burned it.
Speaker 2:I wear the same dress. Your money away. You could have just burned it. I wear the same suit that nicole kidman wears and I walk in with my popcorn.
Speaker 1:Stop saying that stop saying that and you already reached platinum status, so you really didn't have to do it 32 and counting.
Speaker 1:Baby, I'm trying to get to 50, trying to get to 50, yeah, but uh, you feel I think that's just so funny because, like you're, you're kind of like at the, you're getting close to or envisioning the end of your destiny journey. Our toxic, toxic relationship game has always been Fortnite. So that has been our toxic game and we just finally, I mean, I mean I don't play it unless Phil asked me to get on. So Phil does get on from time to time, but that used to be our in the pocket game. We're like we're bored. We tried something out, we didn't like it or we got tired of it.
Speaker 1:Let's go back to Fortnite and I'm finding myself now kind of getting out of that habit. So very, very interesting, definitely the end of some eras happening here. But I am curious. Especially recently you mentioned hell divers, which I know we were super excited about when it came out. You played Starfield. What are some of these games since we last talked we'll just say the last five years, to kind of put a number on it what are some of those games that have really captured your attention? So, when you're not playing Destiny, what are some of those other games that you've been touching and enjoying, streaming or not, from a gaming perspective?
Speaker 3:Hmm, well, firstly I gotta say it sounds like I'm reinstalling Fortnite and I'm gonna pull Eric and Phil right back into it and be like let's go get these dubs boys.
Speaker 2:I mean listen. I still play it quite a bit because my daughter has now gotten into it and listen, listen I just got done telling phil this uh, a fortnight dub still almost nothing beats that.
Speaker 1:I'm just gonna be honest. So I mean, if you asked, yeah, we will come, but yeah, continue, we're getting their epic install it, we will come like field of dreams there we go fortnight of dreams fortnight of.
Speaker 3:There we go, fortnite of.
Speaker 2:Dreams, fortnite of.
Speaker 3:Dreams. There we go. We can make it happen, folks, we can make it happen. Yeah, and I never played Fortnite until the Star Wars, I think it was, whatever the one where Boba Fett's skin dropped after like Book of Balls. I was like you know what I'm bored, I'm going to give Fortnite a try. Oh, it's because no build. Because I tried it like long ago and no build was probably going to be the only thing that drew me in and it did. So I decided to buy some Star Wars skins in there and I was like, oh perfect, because I can't figure out how to build and all that stuff.
Speaker 3:It's too much for the most brilliant Battle Royale move, like maybe of any. Oh yeah, honestly it was. It was so smart, yeah, as a, as a destiny titan for for the folks who don't know, titans, we're the big. Just punch, punch, eat crayons and that's I just shoot and punch and shoot and punch. I'm very, uh, a stupid gamer. I mean master chief has grown me to be that way just point and blast something until it dies, so that's all I know. I'm not all about the cool mechanics and the magic and the spells and acrobatics, no, I just shoot, I just shoot, uh, but man, oh man, yeah, hell, divers too.
Speaker 3:Of course we all had to go in for democracy. You know that that thing was a uh awesome game. There were some decisions there from, you know, sony and higher ups that you know caused it to lose some folks. But hey, I'm still going in there. I got my mug that says, you know, liberty. I got to, got to go in there and do the fight for for democracy. We all got to kind of dive in, you know, when nobody's watching, and I can go in there, do my service and and clock out and go back to other titles, and no one got to know that you know I'm one of those divers out there in the world still fighting the fight.
Speaker 3:But starfield 2, man, see I, I always put my money in these games cyberpunk, starfield, what what other titles are? I'm sure I looked at my whole entire roster on steam in my xbox and I'll be like, oh, how was I let down this time? Because I'm so happy and thrilled when these games are coming out and then they just kind of kind of fall a little short. And what feels bad is I'm that hype guy. I'm the guy to tell my friends, bro, you gotta look for cyberpunk 2077, you better pre-order that game, it's gonna be dope, check it out. And he's like, no, I don't know.
Speaker 3:And it came out and I was like now I look like a fool. I'm supposed to be the gaming expert, I'm supposed to recognize what's good. I was like it was cd project red. They had 10 years to cook it and then they failed and it was buggy and broken. But man, and I'd say starfield has kind of taken me. Whenever I'm not streaming and I just want to vibe back Starfield, I just kick it on, even though you hit points where you're kind of like you know, it's a Bethesda game. You hit a point where you're like, eh, I'm kind of bored, let me go switch some gears. Lately. I don't know if you guys ever played Middle Earth, shadow of War or Shadow of Mordor. I forgot, it was like the newest one.
Speaker 1:Oh, those games are sick. I was just yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I beat them both and then I just realized I never did the DLC for the Blades of Galadriel and the Baronor guy. I was like, let me go, you know 2024,. I said I'm going to knock out all these titles that I've just had on backlog and I've yet to finish because I just keep playing Destiny and I was like, let's put Destiny down and let me knock out some freaking titles. So now, especially on stream or even off stream, I'm like I need to start chomping at all this stuff that I've already paid for and it's a sit in there just wasted money and it's just sitting there just wasting money.
Speaker 3:So I'm trying to knock that one out and I'm still shocked that nobody has taken that nemesis system in any other way in any other game. I'm like how has nobody said hey, there's this cool system where if this guy kills you, he levels up and gets something else and comes back. Or you kill him, he comes back to hunt you down, remembers how you killed him, so he learns how to defend against that. I'm like like that's genius. Somebody else come on, get in there. But man, oh man, and, I guess, valorant, when I want to get sweaty a riot games, I'll play league but I I get down on playstation.
Speaker 2:It's been a lot of fun. Eric does not enjoy it, but he'll get on I'll get on and play it.
Speaker 1:Let's get eric. Yeah, I'll get on and play it. I got it installed, but am I having the best?
Speaker 2:time maybe not always not to switch gears really quick. And have you seen this? This, uh, pc gaming article that came out a month ago that said steam users have spent 19 billion dollars on games they've never played.
Speaker 2:I, I have not seen that article, but I believe it I I believe it specifically mentions red dead redemption 2, which I bought in the last summer, the last spring sale, and so I immediately started playing. I was like, I'm gonna show them, I'm gonna play this right now oh man, you know how close I am every time.
Speaker 3:That game I still haven't bought in it. But every time it goes on sale I add it to the cart and I go oh, I should buy time. That game I still haven't bought in it, but every time it goes on sale I add it to the cart and I go I should buy it. And then I go, but there's so many other games I gotta get into first. And so I go I'm just gonna take it out of my cart. I'll say it'll be on sale later.
Speaker 2:It will absolutely back on sale yeah, and you have to commit so much time into it, because once you do finally dive into it, there's's so much to do. You can spend hundreds of hours in it and it's still. I think and I know a lot of people agree with this it's still Rockstar's best game to date. So, yeah, again, it'll go on sale in when's the next one, october. So it'll be fine, it's the next sale. It'll probably go on sale in between now and then anyway, so that is not going anywhere.
Speaker 3:But I wanted to throw that number out, and it's Rockstar. In five years it's going to have the Red Dead Redemption 2 Remaster XL Edition and then in ten years it's going to have the Red Dead Redemption 2 with Red Dead 1 Master Complete Edition.
Speaker 2:And then they have to throw in Undead Nightmares and they'll do like the Undead, like Red Dead Pack, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so it's going to repackage it and keep selling it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like when they just they recently released Red Dead 1 on Switch and the PS5 for some reason, like why, what do you mean? Why we don't need that. So yeah, and I've only had my gaming PC for I've had less than a year and I already have games in my library that I know I'm never gonna play like I bought. I told this to somebody I think it was andrew last time he was on eric. I have call of war as gunslinger because it was like three dollars. I was like, yeah, I might play that one it just.
Speaker 1:It just feels like financially. Maybe that three dollars would help in other areas in your life.
Speaker 2:I I wanted to play. I one of the reasons I really love park simulator, so I'm like a big jurassic world evolution 2 fan so I've always wanted to play. Because frontier also made planet zoo. So I was like one of the first things I'm gonna buy is planet zoo when I get my gaming pc. And that is when I learned that I do not do well with a park level, a park creator with that level of customization options. So I barely touched it since I bought it because I was like this is too much. I'm gonna go back to Jurassic World, where it's relatively simple. Yeah, and maybe one of the games I've played the most, uh, my dream setup where I can set up a fit, like I can just put together a bedroom or a gaming room or a living room wherever I want and I just sit there and put on some music and vibe.
Speaker 2:So that's, that's where the that's the state of me, of, uh, where I am right now. Oh, thief simulator, I think I played that for half an hour and haven't touched it because I saw a youtuber, play it. I was like this looks fun, and then I haven't touched it in months. So I, a YouTuber, play it. I was like this looks fun, and then I haven't touched it in months.
Speaker 3:So I'm just sending Phil all the simulators I'm just going to. I got to get your Steam ID and gift you every simulator ever, seriously, just to build your backlog he loves simulators.
Speaker 2:I do. I do love a good simulator.
Speaker 1:You love Power Washing Simulator. Power Wasoshi Simulator, Power Roshi Simulator is excellent Police Simulator oh yeah, we've been playing Police Simulator.
Speaker 2:That one's good Insane.
Speaker 1:What other?
Speaker 2:simulators do I have in my wish list. You can continue, eric. I'll check my wish list here real quick. You don't have to do that. You know what I have? Dinosaur Fossil Hunter that's in my wish list right now. That's just an aquarium simulator. It's not out yet, so it's a wish list. Well, you know what? That's what I got.
Speaker 1:It's funny that Phil's talking about his wish list and a couple of games that aren't out, because my next question was going into 2025, you know what are some games that you are looking forward to getting your hands on, to playing. You're hoping are good. This is your chance to either redeem yourself on the cyberpunk take or to make another cyberpunk take Really. Time will tell.
Speaker 3:But what do you got for us folks? It's time to cement it in right now. This is the make or break moment. All right, my number one title right now. That has me hooked. That made me uninstall another title as soon as I played one match, and that's going to be Marvel Rivals man they just deliver.
Speaker 2:That's one of my bullet points. I'm so glad that came up organically.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, oh yeah. Once I went into Marvel Rivals I was like, wow, this is Coast Test Beta. I was like this is well-polished and yeah, there's little tweaks and I'm sure Magneto has to be debuffed on this or maybe Hulk needs buffed on that Little tweaks and stuff that I'm sure they're going to find and adjust and balancing. But overall visually looks great. You know, gameplay wise, it's fun. The team ups in that game is pretty dope. The way you can team up with characters that actually connect in the universe. I'm just like, oh yeah, wanda and Magneto, of course, because that's his daughter and you know well in some comics. But um, and I was just this is, this is wonderful, it's fun. I went to overwatch 2. I hit uninstall. I said I'm never gonna see you again. I don't need that toxicity. I don't need that.
Speaker 3:I don't want to play with you anymore yeah, so yeah, andy dropping his little woody straight up man, that one's number one hype, and I just wish there was another open beta because as soon as it ended I was like what do I do with my life? What do I do now? I can't go home and go. I can't wait to dive into Marvel Rivals and the fact that they have such an unlimited roster of characters to just keep pulling from. I'm interested to see how obscure they they're going to pull characters from. There's got to be a deadpool and a wolverine in there because I mean, that movie is doing phenomenal and it was phenomenal. But I don't know if I don't know if phil and eric enjoyed it as much as I did. I don't know if that's a that's a different episode to uncrack but man marvel rivals was definitely on top of the list. Dragon Ball I forgot what it's called now.
Speaker 1:Sparking Zero.
Speaker 3:Tenkaichi Sparking Zero. That's what it is. I just had it right there. That one, right there, is going to be a fun game I'm going to lock in right now. That one's going to be a hit. That one's going to be a hit because they're literally doing what Tenkaichi was doing. Right, looks like the same gameplay. It looks like the same characters. They're building a huge roster in there and they're delivering nice little trailers slowly showing the different characters that they're adding in. I think that one's going to be really fun. I think we're going to be hooked. Fighting games obviously aren't something that people play year round every night, but it's going to be something that's going to be really special.
Speaker 3:I had my eyes on Space Marine 2. I've never played Space Marine 1, but it looks like they're really taking advantage of more modern tech to just make it look beautiful, render a lot of enemies, put a lot of blood on the field and just get down. Man, other than that, I can't think of anything off the top of my head, because now that Destiny was done, I was just like that's kind of it for me, man. I was like I'm done with gaming. I'm putting up the cloak. Stream is ending. We're turning it off, man it's over. I'm going. We're turning it off, man it's over.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna go sell my xbox sell my pc and start reading books. You know, just that's it. Yeah, like I said, I'm really glad my marvel rivals came up because I was just so interested in it and literally the other day my sister and brother-in-law and I just spent maybe a good hour watching gameplay on all the characters and just familiarizing ourselves with it because we definitely want to jump into it. Unfortunately we didn't get to try out the beta, but it just looks so interesting and, you're right, they have such a deep well of characters to draw from. And you know, I'm glad you did bring up Overwatch, because a lot of people from the Overwatch community were obviously paying attention to this game, just because for something as simple as character design and character presentation right Like we didn't play Overwatch 1, but we did jump into Overwatch 2 for a little bit and just the juxtaposition of how the Marvel Rivals characters are presented and Overwatch 2, which used to be so rich in lore and now it just feels like an empty space, which is such a bummer because even when I didn't play Overwatch, I still watched those like cinematic trailers they made for each character. I was like this is so interesting, this would make a great show, like I would watch the hell out of this. And now that's just gone, which is a bummer. So very interested to jump into Marvel rivals. And yeah, the team up thing is so cool. Eric like in, like Rocket and Jeff and like other animal characters. Like they can, if they're all on the field at the same time, they'll like boost each other depending on the type of character they are, and it's just a really smart system, depending on the type of character they are, and it's just a really smart system. So what looked like a throwaway money grab is actually seeming to be like a legitimate game that could stick around for a while.
Speaker 2:Again, just because you said there's so many characters, there's that character, magic. I'd never heard of that character. I don't know that. That's the style of character I would play as far as, like you know the kind of character she is, but like, still, still, it's a. It's a sweet design. Like, what a cool character I. I looked into who that character was after seeing her in marvel rivals, so I didn't even know jeff was a thing, and now I am obsessed with that little shark. I would die for him. And the yeah, what a a game. Again that we thought was going to be nothing, and I'm glad to see it making waves.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean as far as Marvel rivals, I think that is a opportunity where you know there's all these games that are coming out that are trying to make their mark but they have that IP behind it. So I think that definitely helps. And I was never a big overwatch like follower of, like how the game was created, the community. But Phil, when we jumped into Overwatch 2, I mean we knew that game was missing parts. You know there's something not making sense, not lining up, so that wasn't hard to see. But I did enjoy some parts of Overwatch 2. And to kind of hear those comments, gefilte, I think those are great. But off the top of your dome, I mean you named a lot.
Speaker 1:Phil's been trying to convince me just recently about warhammer, which I was shocked about, uh, but we were huge gears of war fans and there seems to be little small elements there. But there are also a lot of other things. When you kind of start to hear about the game, dylan from our, uh, from your friendly neighborhood gamers we've been shouting them out a lot between him and andrew. He's a big fan of it and I'm excited. I'm also Phil already knows where I'm going to go with this Astro Bot dude so excited for Astro Bot on the PlayStation. It's going to be game of the year. I just want to keep saying it. So it goes. I just need a nomination. I don't even need it to win, I just want a nom, that's it. But yeah, I think those are kind of the big ones, unless they all of a sudden release hollow knight silk song, which, uh, apparently that game doesn't exist, so I don't know not real, not real.
Speaker 2:Stefan has convinced me, eric's brother has convinced me that that game is not real, so I don't think we're ever gonna see it it's absolutely crazy, absolutely crazy.
Speaker 1:But, phil, what? Uh? Do you have any other bullet points, uh, any other items that we haven't touched on regarding our guests, before we get ready to jump into some games here soon.
Speaker 2:Well, Eric, I think we would be remiss just because we run into so few of these like-minded people when we have them on.
Speaker 2:And I just have to talk to you about Xbox, because the state of Xbox and the state of and I'll also just couple in Halo with this as well, because, as we've already talked about, it's such a big part of our journey and where we are now, I mean everything, can be traced back to those early Xbox and Halo days. What is your opinion on the state of where Xbox and Microsoft is, where they're going? Because you know we just actually talked about on last month's episode of what Did I Miss, we discussed the price hike in Game Pass, which is just not great, especially since it's happening right before Black Ops 6 is coming out. So you know this falls in line right with, you know, all the gaming news that you love to talk about. What do you feel about the future of xbox and microsoft and also what's going on with halo man? Is this a dead ip is? Is there any chance they can resurrect the chief, or is it? Do we just have to press f and pay our respects at this point?
Speaker 3:oh, that that's. That's a in-depth one there, man, because yeah, I've been following them so rigorously and just trying to figure out, yeah, what's happening Every step-by-step, since they've acquired or went for the move for Activision Blizzard acquisition, I've been like tailing everybody on every episode that I could on Filthy Rain and just trying to tell everyone what's happening. What's happening, and after years of just following it step-by-step, step I've been an advocate for xbox I'm like, hey, man, they're trying to do good, they're trying to spread games more places. Give switch some games, give pc some games, give it to everybody. I was like, oh, that's good, it's good. But in the back of my mind I always had the. This could also be a very bad thing for the industry as a whole and you know, to kind of monopolize all these, these developers and studios, under one umbrella could also be very bad at the same time and they could just be lazier. Now, what's unfortunately happened in the whole recent layoffs and everything, and then the price hike and it's like, yeah, right, when you're about to get black ops out like how's, you know, it's very, very, you know, anti-consumer. Now, you know, I thought you were looking out for us.
Speaker 3:I know some folks that kind of have worked through Xbox and they say Phil Spencer is one to be trusted. They say he's a good dude, he's dedicated for the gaming, and I'm like, all right, I'm going to put my marbles in there. I'm hoping that there's a light at the end of it. Come on, man, don't just be another corpo in the suit that's just out for the money. But xbox, I'm hoping they they kind of pull through. Um, I know they've been struggling financially and their payout hasn't been nice, but hopefully they kind of come out and do something good for the industry as a whole. I mean, having the game pass period is has been a nice benefit, but the price hike I did set my rules on what dollar amount it would reach, and I would have to just say I'm sorry, xbox, I'm just gonna buy games the old school way now because it's, it's. Yeah, I can't keep those subscriptions going up.
Speaker 3:But halo, man, oh man, yeah. Infinite had a rough launch, had a whole rollercoaster-y ride. Ooh, it's back, it's dead, it's back, it's dead. Their esports, though, has been non-stop, which I definitely applaud. Their Halo Championship Series has been nice. I had a lot of friends that go to it, compete in it, and they say they're like how's it dead? It dead man. Look at all these thousands of people I'm with here. They love it and they're enjoying it.
Speaker 3:So I know the esports side is it's not done for a while in that title and um, but I know, on the general aspect, yeah, they kind of lost a lot of folks, especially how they cut the campaign stuff out of their most recent title, halo infinite.
Speaker 3:I'm like what I thought this was gonna be, the one where you just keep throwing in my way kind of live service-y style. But uh, right now the rumor is 343 lost the ip and then 343 came back and said no, we still got the ip. And I'm like, okay, we're gonna find out what happens, because there's so many things in all these studios that are just being chopped off and you 200 are out, you 50 are out, this project's cut, that project's cut. And I kind of saw this thing about a year ago that after we have the whole ramp up of COVID and they hire all these studios, hired so many people, they're going to eventually fall back down and here's that big crash and I know it's probably going to go on for another year and studios are gonna be hurting. We're gonna get some bad dlcs and bad expansions where we're like you want me to pay 20 bucks for this, just this 20 megabytes of of skin and that's it.
Speaker 3:But I think halo's got something for it cooked. Not anytime soon, I'd say man, but I really wish I. You know. And what's funny is, just before you know, we're out here recording. I was looking at my original halo 1 uh xbox disc and my halo 2 disc, comparing with my girlfriend's halo 2 disc and her halo, and that's like where did we start? Look where we started. I opened it up, smelled what it smelled like to be in 2001 and I was like man.
Speaker 3:Times were so much simpler back when these games were just full games on a disc, beautiful package, everything ready to go. And now it's just. It's tough to just really put out your heart and dollars at every title that comes your way, and I have faith, I want to believe. But every title that comes your way and I I have faith, I want to believe. But every, every step that a lot of studios and the industry is doing makes it tougher and tougher to to commit to their next title or their next expansion, their next patch and such. So it's it's tough, but I I want to believe, like Halo 3.
Speaker 2:I think the rough thing also about Halo Infinite Air because we tried to get into it when it was having a little bit of a rise there, when they had fixed quite a bit of stuff and honestly and this is going to show my age and this will definitely be an age thing is just we just weren't good at it anymore.
Speaker 2:You know, we had adjusted our first person shooting to a Call of Duty or to a third person with Fortnite, you know, and we got to that point where we're just getting annihilated and similar to Overwatch 2, when you're just getting destroyed. What was that other game we played recently, x-defiant, you know, when you're just getting absolutely lambasted by people that are way better than you and it's just not fun. So I too hope for, and I think it's great for gaming if there is a resurrection of halo. But, eric, I just don't know if it's going to happen. And you couple that with the tv show being what it was and it's like in a rough state all around yeah, well, that being canceled doesn't help, and I know we talked about that.
Speaker 1:I always thought it should be a movie, just because Halo is so bombastic and it's just so cinematic that I think it would have really lent itself to it. But I think that ship is gone and I don't think we'll ever see anything live action until they figure out what's going to happen in the gaming space. I mean, they're bread and butter. They literally don't have any bread or butter. So I don't know what they're going to do, but I think it'll definitely be interesting to see how it goes. It's funny to hear you say that, gafiltha, because I'm starting to realize my age and sound like that bitter old man more and more when it comes to gaming compared to any other medium, which I think is absolutely crazy. So definitely appreciate you sharing that, phil, any other items that you have before we jump into our two games that we have for our guest and you to partake in, which is curated very fairly and definitely not leaning one way nor the other.
Speaker 2:You guys see me, I'm watching on YouTube and you see me. Jim, look into the camera because he's lying. No, that's it. That was all the bullet points and I just had to take the opportunity again. Whenever we have fellow Xbox lovers on the channel, we have to pay our respects to the OG. We've branched out to other things now, but we, uh, we'll still have love for, uh, that microsoft console that could. So, no, I think we're good, uh to transition into these games that, again, are going to be so fair they're very fair, very fair and, again, great opportunity for for us here.
Speaker 1:Uh, we've got two games that we're going to play. We're going to start off with the probably most straightforward one, which is guessing this video game based off of the Metacritic score, and Phil will share that on the screen. So, gafilta, feel free through the recording studio to maximize that screen so you can see everything. I just pulled the scores and information from metacritic. Uh, phil, I think we used to do the reviews. Metacritic reviews are very difficult to filter through, uh, so I just decided to go a different route. I think this will be fun. I've got five games that we are going to try to figure out solely based off of their metacritic score, and if there's any hints I need to give, I'll give those, but it'll be a point for each one, and whoever ends up with the most points at the end wins. Pretty simple, but, yeah, we'll jump into that here. And then I've got a debate game afterwards also gaming style that I think we'll have a lot of fun in, although Phil is already dreading it that.
Speaker 2:I think we'll have a lot of fun in, although Phil is already dreading it. Yeah, I'm trying to present this properly without seeing the slides.
Speaker 1:As long as you don't see the third slide. You're fine Presenter view. As long as you can't see the third slide, you'll be okay.
Speaker 2:I am trying not to.
Speaker 3:So just skip to the third slide.
Speaker 2:Just close your eyes how am I supposed to then hold on? All right? Uh, oh, hide live edits. Nope, that's not what it was. I'm trying to hide the bottom of, because it's not doing it like it did last time I shared. Hold on a second, sorry guys. Um, because in presenter view, eric, it still shows the net, the slides down at the bottom and I'm trying to get that to go away. Hold on, okay. Well, I can't see you guys, obviously, but we're good cool, all right guys, pretty straightforward.
Speaker 1:there's really no rules to go over on this. One guess the video game based off of the Metacritic scores. So we will jump into our first game and for this game you guys will see the Metacritic scores Once Phil moves forward.
Speaker 2:You got to tell me because I can't see your indication.
Speaker 1:I thought you would just kind of hear the cadence, but that is perfectly fine, I can be more blunt. So you guys will see that this game has a Metacritic score on Xbox One, ps4, and PC. It is playable on the updated new gen consoles, but there is no Metacritic score. You're going to see the Metacritic score for critics is at an 85. Majority are positive and you're going to see a 5.1 average for user reviews for this particular game. So, just off of this information, what are we thinking? Do we have any guesses?
Speaker 2:Something that users hated, but critics enjoyed.
Speaker 1:Yep Should be anything.
Speaker 2:That's tough.
Speaker 1:Almost 3,000 ratings, 43% were negative.
Speaker 2:Xbox One, PS4. There's a lot more PS4 reviews than Xbox reviews. No, that was an Xbox game. 85.
Speaker 3:I know that's a tough one.
Speaker 1:Coming here with the challenges today.
Speaker 2:Yeah, is this the first Destiny?
Speaker 1:It is not the first Destiny. No.
Speaker 3:Hmm, it's.
Speaker 2:Or no.
Speaker 1:Is it Call of Duty Ghosts? It is it call of duty ghosts? It is not call of duty ghosts? Damn, it's overwatch, it is not overwatch. Uh, one, one or two dang now. Phil, you did say the first destiny, so I feel like for this one, I kind of have to at least reveal it. It is destiny 2. Okay, it is destiny 2, so I will give you that one because otherwise I feel like we take a full left turn, because you would have thought no destiny, okay, okay.
Speaker 1:But destiny is fair. All right, so that's our game, and now we're going to continue. So, phil, our next slide will show. This game is on ps5 and pc currently. Uh, a critic score of 82 and the average for user is 7.4 can't be god of war, no way this is hell divers 2 this is hell divers 2, all right oh I remember because eric got 12 points in our fantasy critic league and he's mad about it I'm pretty pissed.
Speaker 1:I feel like. I feel like when this game launched and how good it was at launch, I feel like this that should have been way higher.
Speaker 2:Personally, Probably because it had server issues in the beginning, so maybe that was detracted from it.
Speaker 1:I mean, I guess but even then I was still having a blast. I was happy to wait.
Speaker 2:We did wait. Remember we played a couple weeks after it came out, so I think maybe upon launch it was a little rough.
Speaker 1:Yeah, alright, phil's up to nothing, gaf to nothing. Phil came here to play, he did.
Speaker 3:He's just knocking it out, but let's see.
Speaker 1:Let's see if we can turn it around here. This one's a little bit all over the place, so you're going to see. Metacritic score. You're going to see Metacritic scores for every console pre-gen, but the Switch was obviously a huge difference bad switch port.
Speaker 2:We got it bad switch, as they usually are so bad switch port.
Speaker 1:You're going to see an 89 generally favorable critic reviews and then you're going to see a 6.7 at almost 2 000 reviews for the users. So about 57% of it was positive, 20% mixed, 23% negative.
Speaker 2:What had a bad Switch port 38 reviews on the PS4. Why are there so many less reviews for Xbox?
Speaker 1:I don't know. Honestly, I was kind of surprised to see how little the reviews are in general for Metacritic.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, only 38. Very few, it can't be oh yeah, only 38.
Speaker 3:Very few. It can't be the Witcher 3, Wild.
Speaker 2:Hunt. No not the Witcher 3. Those are probably higher than 89.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's like that. Yeah, but then I was like the port was bad yeah.
Speaker 1:Did the Witcher come out during the 360 time, or was that Xbox One?
Speaker 2:Oh, it did come out towards the end of the 360 life cycle 360. Was it? Yeah, maybe I can't remember Yep 88's across the board pretty much, yeah, wow.
Speaker 1:And there's no scores on the current gen versions for the game.
Speaker 2:But it is on current gen. This isn't like a WWEwe 2k title, is it?
Speaker 1:no, I did not, uh, I did not dig deep. This is a, this is a game you both would know.
Speaker 2:So just like the first two, okay, um man 54 yeah, on. I got nothing. You want to throw us?
Speaker 3:Red Dead Redemption Jew. No, it's neither Red Dead Okay.
Speaker 1:What I can tell you as a hint is that this game was released in early 2019.
Speaker 2:2019?.
Speaker 3:Yeah, where was?
Speaker 2:I in 2019? Oh man.
Speaker 3:And no Series X or PS5. That's the stinger so late in 2019.
Speaker 2:This came out right before the, came out right before the new consoles, but still new enough for it to be playable on current gen, on the Switch, of course.
Speaker 3:Playable on the Switch.
Speaker 1:There is a version in March of 2022 became available for PS5 and Xbox X, snx.
Speaker 2:I got nothing.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, another hint here. This is a EA game.
Speaker 2:Of course.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I was like I see.
Speaker 2:Star Wars Battlefront 2?.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I was literally just about to guess that one too. I was like big EA game 80s, not perfect.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I will say, this game was published by EA, is what?
Speaker 2:I'll clarify A way out.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, very specific, no, this is a free-to-play game.
Speaker 1:Whoa, it is a free-to-play game.
Speaker 3:Wow.
Speaker 1:It is a free-to-play Fortnite Save the World. That's your best guess so far, but no.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Again published by EA.
Speaker 2:Knockout City the dodgeball game.
Speaker 3:No, it wouldn't be Knockout.
Speaker 1:City.
Speaker 3:I was going to say I thought you had had it, I thought you had it right there I was like he's funny, of course I I think the last hint that we'll probably give it away.
Speaker 1:Uh, it is not only a free-to-play shooter, it is also a battle royale style game ea battle publish ea battle royale 2019.
Speaker 3:Didn't battlefield one do something? No, but they're no, no, yeah, that wasn't on switch, or?
Speaker 2:2019 battle right.
Speaker 3:This was way after, and pub g is not a ea not pub g yeah, not if it's, if it's not pub g and it's not PUBG and it's not Fortnite. Warzone.
Speaker 1:And it's not Warzone, okay.
Speaker 3:Apex Legends.
Speaker 1:It is Apex.
Speaker 2:Legends.
Speaker 1:Apex.
Speaker 2:Legends is on the Switch. Yeah, what.
Speaker 1:I had no idea, Neither did I. Yeah, there are a lot of negative reviews. Oh my gosh, Damn that's five years old.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, wow.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right, our next game. Great job, phil Context clues. This game was released on current JetXbox and PC and you'll see here it is generally favorable, with an 83 among critics and a 6.8 average among users. With over 12,000 user ratings, jesus 57% are positive, 16% are mixed, 27% are negative.
Speaker 3:Halo Infinite.
Speaker 1:Not a bad guess, but not Halo Infinite Dang.
Speaker 2:Let me see Starfield.
Speaker 3:It is Starfield. Infinite dang pc.
Speaker 1:Starfield, it is I was literally thinking the next thing. I was like it has to be. We just talked about it. Yeah, I'll be honest, phil, getting destiny and starfield before you, there's not not much I could do here.
Speaker 3:I'm a fake fan, what can I say?
Speaker 1:All right, this one, we'll just say this one is worth three points.
Speaker 3:There we go.
Speaker 1:Totally not rigged. Our final game you're going to see is our most diverse game, is our most diverse game. This game has ratings, metacritic scores, for all pre-gen and current gen consoles and PC You're going to see generally favorable, 86 among critics and a 7.2 average among users. This one has over 35,000 user ratings 67% positive, 9% mixed, 24% negative.
Speaker 3:All five consoles. Just because the PS4 and Xbox One are so low, I want to say it wasn't properly done for the older gen console. So I want to say cyberpunk 2077 what a comeback bajillion to three what can I say?
Speaker 2:was that the last one?
Speaker 1:that was the last one, all right, so very good uh so that was that. We'll say that was our test run, uh. And now we're gonna move into our debate game. Uh, the debate game uh will work a little differently, uh, but it will be gaming focused and we have five rounds. The points are going to increase each round and we'll go over some of the rules for that. But I think this will be a lot of fun and, uh, who knows, this might lead to some hot takes or some unpopular opinions, so it'll be interesting to see.
Speaker 2:But, phil, whenever you're ready, we'll start at the beginning. There we go, all right.
Speaker 1:All right. This is where friends are lost. Enemies are made. This is our gaming debate, phil. Proceed to. Our rules slide, and the rules are simple. Each debater is going to have 60 seconds to state their argument. You will have to make a debate between two options. So even if you get stuck with one you don't agree with, you still have to make a debate for it. During the opposing debate. Please stay on mute or be silent and do not interject, and the winner will have the ultimate bragging rights. So this is really what it's all about. Are you guys ready? Let's do it. Born, born ready. All right, phil, if you'll start us off on round one. Which console controller is superior, the xbox controller or the playstation controller? Now for this one, you can choose any version of xbox or playstation controller for your argument, but the guest is going to go first for round one. So, gefilte, you get your choice to kick things off. Do you want to debate that the xbox controller is superior or the playstation controller is?
Speaker 3:We're going to go with the Xbox controller.
Speaker 1:Okay. All right, Phil, that means you are going to come back with PlayStation. I'm going to start the time. We've got 60 seconds and your time to debate why the Xbox is superior for their controller.
Speaker 3:starts now for their controller starts now. Nothing did better than the Xbox 360 controller after it dropped. Perfect buttons, great ergonomic layout versus the Duke that came out before in the original. Then they added the LB and RB buttons, bumper buttons, which are just mind-blowing, instead of black and white buttons, and you got the thumbsticks separate, unlike the playstation, so you're able to have proper control of your thumbsticks. It's just exceptional triggers, bumpers, thumbsticks not too closely placed together with a beautiful white controller. Xbox is the best it has to be, the best. It outdoes it. Yeah, it needed batteries, but they had a plain charge kit as well. So I mean plain charge kit. That was awesome. And you had the little connector adapters for the chat pad. You had the connectors for the, the headphones, right at the bottom of the controller.
Speaker 1:It was exceptional, beautiful, nothing, oh time it All right Five seconds to spare. Phil did a great job, great job. So we've got a strong opening debate. Phil, you've got 60 seconds to tell us why the PlayStation is superior.
Speaker 2:Starting now yeah, the only real controller that Sony can go head-to-head with the 360 controller is the PS5 controller. Now I've said this very recently I have started to come around as somebody who uses both controllers pretty frequently. I do prefer the PS5 controller now to the current Xbox controller. I think they've really finally gotten down how comfortable it is to play. It's also got you know the speaker right there in the controller. That really kind of ups the ambiance of whatever game you're playing, whether it be a horror game, a shooter, a sports game, anything like that. And, Eric, it is beneficiary to the your favorite game of all time, which is Astro's Playroom and its sequel that's coming out here in the next few months. In terms of controllers it is. It is absolutely on the forefront of what we are going to see from Sony, and Xbox is probably going to send a steal some of those ideas going forward. So the PS5 controller, where we're at now, is the best controller in gaming.
Speaker 1:OK, right at the mark there and Phil going deep there trying to get a deep cut on me shit, it worked all right. I'm gonna give you our first point for your argument there that was uh, that was very good. I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker 2:I thought when you brought up the accessories because that chat pad and like the controller I mean that I was.
Speaker 1:I was like oh no, I was oh, I was for sure sold, yeah, but uh, yeah, no dude, the way that playstation remote works. That's why I genuinely think it's like not a joke. I think astrobot has a real shot, because the thing they've never taken advantage of, that playstation remote, with what the promises of playroom? Astro's playroom kind of showed us what we could do. Um, so I think it's going to be excellent. But, phil, let's go ahead and go to our next round. This is going to be worth two points. Again, points are going to increase each round. Which Nintendo franchise is more important, pokemon or Super Mario? The winner of the last round decides which side they will argue for. So, phil, you have winner's advantage here. Who do you want to take, pokemon or Super Mario?
Speaker 2:I'm going to have to go with what I'm more familiar with, which is Pokemon.
Speaker 1:Okay, Confilta, that means you'll return back fire with Super Mario Phil. You've got 60 seconds. Why is Pokemon the most important Nintendo franchise?
Speaker 2:Pokemon in terms of its importance to pop culture really cannot be understated. I mean, yes, mario is, of course. When people think of gaming, they think of Mario, but when you think of just the cute characters and when you think of Pikachu, there is at least one Pokemon. No matter what your experience is with the franchise, you can always think of Pikachu or Jigglypuff or something along those lines. There are Pokemon assigned to specific precincts in Japan that are that precinct's guardian Pokemon. That's how much of an impact it has within Japan, and not to mention what it has over, you know, in the entire world. I mean, we just lost the voice actor of Misty and you know people who haven't watched Pokemon in years were sad over that and you know just the cultural impact it had from 1998 or 99 on. Look at Pokemon Go, the closest we've had to world peace, right. So I think you got to go with Pokemon, especially now with what it's meant to so many people.
Speaker 1:All right, phil's got that one minute timer in his head. That was perfect timing, do I? Okay, I was like oh, I feel like I'm getting close.
Speaker 2:That was solid.
Speaker 1:That was solid.
Speaker 2:That's the stand-up comic clock.
Speaker 1:Internal clock in me Telling you that time management All right, gefilte. You have one minute to tell us why is Super Mario the most important Nintendo franchise, starting now.
Speaker 3:Oh baby, now does Pokemon have its own world at Universal? I didn't think so. You know Super Mario has its own world for a reason because it's the most important. They said we are going to make a world. What are we going to make it about Pokemon? No, no, no, we are going to make a world. What are we going to make it about pokemon? No, no, no, we're gonna do mario. And now, when you think about the last few years in gaming titles that are coming out, pokemon has delivered some very lackluster projects that haven't really been doing too hot. You know, mario has still been taking the ball with the dubs and the does, because mario doesn't lose, he doesn't catch l's, he only catches wins. Mario by far is nintendo's most important franchise because he started it before. Pokemon is that 80s boy 82, 84, something. Around that time he pioneered the consoles. Super mario 64 come on. Like you know, you have Mario Galaxy man, oh man, he's iconic. You look at Mario, everybody knows him. He's a Halloween character too.
Speaker 1:Nobody dresses up as Pikachu for Halloween. That's a solid argument. I'm going to give you the points for that one. That is, two points to Gafilta.
Speaker 2:Very strong argument. You bring up the billion dollar movie. That's true. That's true to gefilte Very strong. You didn't bring up the billion dollar movie.
Speaker 1:That's true, that's true.
Speaker 3:I haven't seen it yet.
Speaker 1:No, he already buried you at Super Mario World.
Speaker 2:That was a pretty strong opening. Yeah, no, there is a Pokemon theme park, but obviously it's not like you know. It's not Mario World.
Speaker 1:And this is America. So, yeah, america. Alright. Round three is going to show us which classic arcade game is more iconic. Is it pac-man or is it galaga? Uh, the person who's been streaming longer gets to choose this round. So that is actually, I believe, if the math serves me correctly, gefilafilta, gafilta. What Forgot about these? What option do you want to pick? Do you want to say that Pac-Man is more iconic or Galaga?
Speaker 3:Oh, man, we're going to go with Pac-Man. We're going to put our money on Pac-Man. Final answer.
Speaker 1:All right, phil, you've got Galaga, so this one is worth three points. Points increase every round. Gafilta, you will go first. You have 60 seconds to tell us why Pac-Man is the most iconic arcade game. Your time starts now.
Speaker 3:There we go. Ask your older sibling about Pac-Man they say I loved it. Ask your parents about Pac-Man they loved it. Ask your parents about pac-man they loved it. Ask your grandparents about pac-man they loved it. Ask them all about pac-man they loved it. They were at the arcades back in the day playing what? Pac-man, not galaga. They weren't playing that. They're playing pac-man. Everybody knows pac-man. There's miss pac-man, baby pac-man, little bit. There's pac-man inside the uh the movie with ryan reynolds, whatever that movie was again a big old pac-man's in. There's a pac-man in uh the movie with adam sandler or whatever the pac-man, because pac-man's iconic. It's iconic the big yellow eating man eating balls. You can't miss it, everybody knows it. It's the same like pikachu. You see pikachu, you know it's Pokemon. You see Pac-Man, you know it's Pac-Man. It's popular, it's everywhere and it's never going away, because there's always Pac-Man on digital storefronts today, I'm sure of it. And any arcade you walk in today, it's there. It's right there, pac-man.
Speaker 1:All right, right on time, perfect timing. And Philil, that was a very strong argument. I mean, to get pac-man and super mario back to back is crazy. But uh, yeah, phil galaga, uh, you got a minute.
Speaker 2:Get started if it feels like galaga isn't the equal here to pac-man. I don't, I don't know what it would be, but you brought up pixels, but Galaga was also in pixels, I guess. So Adam Sandler like that as well. I will say Galaga is one of those games that always finds itself in other games, like I think there was a Call of Duty where you could play like Galaga on the arcade while you were waiting for a game to load up.
Speaker 2:There are some other examples that I can't think of right now, but the simplicity of Galaga is always also going to be very, very popular and you know, even though it may not have the mass appeal of a Pac-Man, people can get into Galaga, move a little spaceship back and forth and shoot at aliens. You know it's always going to be a fun and simple time. Pac-man, you got to overthink where the ghosts at where, where oh no, where the little balls, so they can turn into purple ghosts, not galaga. You just shoot forward and, uh, shoot aliens out of the sky and you're good galaga, yeah all right, phil, I'm gonna be honest with you I didn't even believe that you didn't really believe that.
Speaker 1:You started off by saying I don't even think galaga should be in the conversation, so you pretty much.
Speaker 2:I feel like something else would have been the equal to Pac-Man here in the arcade.
Speaker 1:They mentioned Galaga in the Avengers. I mean that's pretty.
Speaker 3:Batman is playing.
Speaker 1:Galaga, that's true.
Speaker 2:We didn't think we saw him, but we did, but we did.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I'm going to give this one to Gefilte. I will say Phil the alternative. I thought about Tetris. The alternative was, instead of it being an arcade game. I was just going to say game in general, like classic game, and I was going to pick the dinosaur game, and I don't know if you know what I'm talking about. No, it's the game when your browser doesn't have internet.
Speaker 2:Oh God, you just click.
Speaker 1:And you just click. I was going to pick that.
Speaker 2:You could have gone. What's the?
Speaker 1:Mortal Kombat.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I guess, but yeah yeah.
Speaker 1:All right. Round four Gafilth, a great job. You're at five. Phil, you're still at one. Which gaming opinion is stronger? The Wii didn't deserve the hate it got. The Kinect didn't get enough hate. The Wii didn't deserve the hate it got. The Kinect didn't get enough hate. The winner of the last round gets to decide what they're going to argue for. So, Gifiltha, this round is worth four points.
Speaker 3:Do you want to argue that the Wii didn't deserve the hate it got or that the Kinect didn't get enough hate? That's difficult, right, that's mighty difficult. The Kinect didn't get enough hate. Hmm, we're going to go with the. We didn't deserve the hate it got.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right, phil, that means you've got the Kinect Gefilte. You have 60 seconds to tell us why did the we not deserve the hate that it got.
Speaker 3:Starting now, listen, I was working at this beautiful place called Circuit City If some people don't know, it was the Best Buy competitor and every day people came in asking do you have the Wii, do you have the Wii, do you have the Wii? Where's the Wii? I want the Wii and I was like this Wii must be insane. When I got my hands on the Wii, I said Wii because this thing is just awesome the way you can play, have fun, play tennis, play boxing. And now to even this day, the little console is still pretty solid. There were some great titles released on the Wii. The motion stuff is found in arcades to this day. You'll go to a nice little uh barcades arcades. They all got the Wii. You know why? Because it's still a good homey console that you can give the joysticks, joy cons, to grandma and she can feel like she's boxing and she's having fun. So it didn't deserve all the hate. It was a nice homey console. The Wii U is a different story, but the Wii was a wonderful little title.
Speaker 1:All right, Strong arguments from Gafiltha Phil 60 seconds to tell me why the Kinect didn't get enough hate. Starting now.
Speaker 2:Well, not to mention that the Wii is the seventh highest selling console of all time. So I don't know about the hate that the Wii is the seventh highest selling console of all time, so I don't know about that hate. But the Kinect didn't get enough hate because it set Microsoft and Xbox back to pretty much where we are now, because they wanted to compete with the Wii for some reason and compete with the PlayStation, whatever their movement controls were. But the Kinect, as far as it, was just such a half baked piece of equipment and, yeah, we got our fun out of it when it comes to dan central and like connect sports. But after that, I mean for every one of those, you have 5, 10, 15, 20 connect titles that were just absolute garbage the star wars one, uh, the um, the fighting game. It was just a disaster of a console.
Speaker 2:And it's unfortunate I just mentioned this recently that connect adventures is the number one selling xbox 360 game of all time because it was bundled with the connect. After a while at gamestop eric, you know when I was working there we had these piled up in the back and again I think we can. We just talked about the demise of xbox and I think a lot of it started right there with the connect. It took the game that we love and that's why we are where we are now. Uh, because of the connect allct.
Speaker 3:All right Well that was a very strong comeback.
Speaker 1:And this is the closest one so far. I am going to give a slight edge to Phil. He made some real strong arguments there, God. I hate the Kinect so much. All right. Well, this is for all the marbles, so it's worth five points, but that doesn't really matter. It could be worth one point. This will decide the winner which? Gamers are more toxic. What is this? Pc only or console only gamers. And the person whose name does not start with a P gets to choose this round.
Speaker 3:Hold on, let me check my ID.
Speaker 1:Yeah, double check. I believe Gefilte is with a G, so we are going to go Gefilte. You get the choice here. Do you want to vote that PC-only gamers are more toxic or console-only gamers are more toxic?
Speaker 3:You know what I'm going to have to go with PC-only? Final answer.
Speaker 1:Okay. So Gafilta is going to argue that PC only gamers are more toxic than console only. Phil, you'll do the reverse. So Gafilta, tell us why in 60 seconds, why PC gamers are more toxic than console players. Starting now.
Speaker 3:Have y'all logged into a League of Legends match. That's it, right, that's it. I could end it right there, but no, seriously, you look at World of Warcraft, go play League of Legends, go play any Riot game, any Blizzard game, and you're going to find people that are just going to trash you and just bash you because you're just in the game trying to play. They don't care whether you're new, they don't care whether your your thing shows, rank one, your thing shows you know beginner. You're in beginner lobbies, doesn't matter, they're gonna go in there. They got this nice little thing called the keyboard. They're gonna be able to just spam in everything they can, even pc, overwatch, pc, uh, any Battle Royale, modern game. They're going to just destroy you on their keyboard and try to flag you. They're going to find your IP. They're going to try to hunt you down Just because you picked the character that you had no idea they liked, and they're going to try to be toxic about it. Hands down, pc are the more toxic gamers, for sure.
Speaker 1:Okay, right on time. So there we go. Uh, phil, you're gonna go ahead here and give your argument for console, only why they are more toxic than pc gamers.
Speaker 2:Uh, your time starts now all great points by uh, my cohort here, gefilte, will say you know it's a tough argument when it comes to, like, blizzard and Riot Games and all that stuff, but you know what type of gamers thrive on console Sports gamers and sports gamers are ruining the just the whole atmosphere and the just monetary down decline of gaming.
Speaker 2:When you look at 2K, when you look at Madden, when you look at 2K, when you look at Madden, when you look at ultimate team, all this shit, that is just all these micro transactions, it all comes down to ultimate team and my park or my career, whatever the fuck it's called on 2K, I don't care. They're the worst. They're the worst type of content creator as well when it comes to sports gamers. So while the, the, the Mad worst type of content creator as well when it comes to sports gamers. So while the, the madden pc community is great, they're modding the crap out of the game and making it better the console sports community is an absolute disaster and again, I think they are responsible for why. Microtransactions right now are just an absolute disarray and that's why I would say console gamers are just a tad bit more toxic.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right, two very passionate arguments. There can only be one winner. I'm going to give this one to Gefilte. Gefilte, congratulations, you did a great job. Great, great job, phil. Great argument, great, great argument. But I think that Gefilte had it from League of Legends. That was a great example. Great, great argument.
Speaker 2:But I think that could fill the hat from League of.
Speaker 3:Legends yeah, that was tough. That was tough, we could have just mic dropped right there.
Speaker 2:I did feel good about the sports argument, though, because it's true Sports content creators they're the ones buying up the Madden Ultimate team cards and the 2K money, and there it's a disaster.
Speaker 3:They're paying $100 for the Ultimate Edition just to play two days early. Like what?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think for NBA 2K and I only know this because some of my friends play this I think in order to in the last 2K game, in order to fully max your character to a 99 overall, in whatever the online mode is, you have to spend something like the equivalent of like $150, $200 on VC on rather virtual currency, just to be competitive in 2K online, which is insane the reason we have the term now whales is probably because of the PC toxic people that just threw money at Blizzard saying take these money for these skins and take money for skins, skins, and then it's kind of where we ended up now.
Speaker 3:It's like I could have stolen that Right.
Speaker 2:Are there any microtransactions in Marvel Rivals? I assume probably not in the beta right.
Speaker 3:I didn't see any, and if so it probably I feel like it'd be overwatching.
Speaker 2:it'd be very like you just buy certain cool skins skins and stuff, yeah I mean, and that well is, that's another endless yeah, but as long as long as there's a way to kind of earn a different currency in game, I'm all for that.
Speaker 1:So yep there we go. Well, this was a ton of fun. Gefilte, thank you so much for coming on and just really shooting the shit with us and getting to talk about everything that we've missed out on since the last time we've chatted. Definitely won't be the last time we connect, but I want to make sure that, in case our audience misses the next episode you're on, they catch you here and hear about everywhere they can find you. So this is your opportunity to plug Filthy Rain streaming on Twitch everything under the sun. This episode will be released on the 28th of August. So what you got going on and where can our audience find you?
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