Our Favorite Video Game Performances

This is a Head Gum Podcast. There's nothing I like more than a fine bit of acting in regards to the theatre. Well, poor Heather. When it comes to thespians using their talents to enhance the scripted dialogue of a video game, why there's no craft more admirable? More noble, more noble. What are you guys doing? I'm elevating the craft of podcasting to that, of acting. Why? Are you embarrassed? What are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing? You think this is funny, trying to make me look like some kind of idiot or something? Trying to make me look like an asshole? Well, guess what? I didn't have a lot growing up, okay? I didn't get to see the theatre. I didn't get to experience performance in any sort of way. Matthew, what about him? No. Is it true? You listen to me. I've been hard in my life, and I'd seen some shit that I'd want to see. I wouldn't want to wish that on anybody. Now look at me, sitting here, doing this show with you two. How do you think that makes me feel? He rose up from the streets. Shall we commend him for his self-sacrifices? Aye, for you to rise from nothing, to achieve the heights that you have now. Finally, you have inborn gifts. So let me stand and salute you. Whoops. Oh, I'm so embarrassed. Whoah, is me. I've just received a missive from the academy. They've asked us to never act again. Here are our motions captured in red leather, yellow leather as we look back on some of our favorite video game performances this week on Get Played. Welcome to Get Played, your one stop show for good games, bad games, and every game in between. It's time to get played. I'm your host, Heather Ann Campbell, along with my fellow host, Tiger Weigher. Oh, that's me, Tiger Weigher, along with our third host, Mr. Games himself, Matt Appadaca. Oh, hello everyone. Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the premiere of Video Game Podcast, where this week, we are talking about everybody's favorite career, acting. It's the most noble profession. It is the profession of the Greeks. That's right. It is the profession of the Greeks. That's inarguable. They invented it. They did philosophy and acting. And acting. They also like throw plates on the ground stuff. Yeah, they had vomitoriums and wiped their asses with a communal sponge on a stick. Yeah. Vomitorium, is that where everyone gathers around to watch people throw up? Yeah, you fucking puke your guts out. You have a big feast and then you puke a bunch, eat some more. Can I tell you? Yeah. Please tell us, what story could this have possibly sparked? The going on walks in my neighborhood. Uh-oh. And you know, you just kind of take in the scenery, you see what's going on. And this is the neighborhood in America, right? Neighborhood in America. Okay, great. In America, Los Angeles. All right, okay. I walk it around. I'm not looking into anybody's homes, but you know, you kind of, you look into a window. You see, like, you kind of, you walk by, you're just like, oh, look, they got that, they got a nice new chair or whatever. I'm just going to say, I'm looking into homes. Anyway, continue. Well, yeah, you're sort of like going a different route, usually behind the house. Local man found under house. Yeah, you're trying to parasite into every home in your neighborhood. Oh, man. They didn't do anything wrong. But the third act kind of is, yeah, you're walking in America. Walking in America, I see a handwritten sign, a child's handwriting. It says, Barf rules. It's been making me laugh every time I pass it. It's so funny to me. Yeah, you know, it's the kind of clarity of a child's vision. Yeah. They could just see the world for exactly what it is. Barf rules. I think it's so funny. This inspires me the next time I see Barf on the street here in America, walking around. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I want to carry chalk and put free barf next to it. Free barf. Take as much as you want. How often are you seeing barf? Because I don't feel like I'm seeing as much barf in the wild. If anything, I'm seeing more shit. I'm seeing more shit. I did one time pull into a parking space in a grocery store parking lot, opened my door, looked down, there was immediately a pile of barf, and I drove to a different parking spot instead. That's nasty. Didn't want to deal with it. Yeah. No one wants to deal with that. Well, it does seem like our country is succeeding at providing the facilities that human beings need in order to live. Remember when we were in Japan and there was no shit or piss or vomit anywhere? Yeah. It's fucking crazy. I avoided those neighborhoods. There are neighborhoods. Oh, take me there next time. Oh my God. That's where I live. Like, there are plenty of Instagram accounts. Like, I think one's called the Shibuya freak out, which is just like the deep, deep, deep, pumpkin corners of Tokyo. Oh, I love it. Like, it is not a paradise. I had a Shibuya freak out when we were there. It was like, why is everybody crossing like that? Matt. Y'all got that crossing? Matt, can I ask you about- What did I scramble at? Can I ask you about your hat? Yes. Is it like a Trump hat? It's a Los Angeles Dodgers hat. It's not a Trump hat. I think it's pretty unfair to characterize it as a Trump hat. It does not have the magic color way. But it's got the president number on the side. The brand is 47. Oh. I do have this- It's unfortunate coincidence. It's unfortunate coincidence. Oh, I thought it was like, oh, we're on president 47. No, and I know that they did go again. But it's, no, it's not that. Gotcha. No. I would never. I would never. I wonder, because I don't, you know, I was like- What if I was like, I'll debut it with a hat? Yeah, it's a Trump hat. No, no, no, no, no. I thought it was like an unfortunate, like, bitter pill you have to swallow in order to wear a World Series hat. No. Is it also has the president number on it? No, I did this by choice. The pill went down nice and smooth. Great. You know, and it is, I do wish that they would, you know, not go. Yeah. Because that option is afforded to them. What is not go? Oh. They won't go to the White House. Yeah. For McDonald's. They could not go because teams have not gone in the past. Yeah. Who knows? I'd go. You gotta go. I would not go right now. I wouldn't go right now. I've been. Y'all been. You've been to the what? The what? The White House? No. You were just out of frame in that picture with him and Joe Rogan recently. The Podcaster Summit. No, I've not been to the White House actually. Yeah, no, I've been to the White House. I was sat in an Obama press conference. Oh, wow. Yeah, I got a full tour and everything. You're painted like nightcrawler, right? It's ready to take his form like mystique. Was this part of Funny or Die? Yeah, this is, I worked on the, what ultimately became the between two ferns with Barack Obama back in the day, that little bit of liberal propaganda helped write. And that, you know, was part of why we're mired in our current fascist regime. Yeah, yeah. Because of the incremental centrism that we committed to under the Obama presidency. But what are you gonna do? Hey, what are you gonna do? You gotta go to the White House. Hey, you know what? Healthcare is a little less expensive. And not that many people are being drone-striked anymore. I saw the movie Michael. Hee-hee. That's right. Hee-hee indeed. I saw the movie Michael, the Michael Jackson biopic. Yeah. I believe there's a video game related flub. Oh. Now it could be wrong, because I don't know the Atari 2600 catalog well. But Michael Jackson goes to a toy store and a kid comes up to, like kids are coming up to me and he takes them, I'll sign some autographs for all the children. Is he a kid in this story too? No. Oh. And it's not addressed as weird that he's in a toy store on a shopping spree. Anyway, he's in line and he gets recognized and he starts, of course, he's kindly signing autographs for everyone. A kid brings up a copy of an Atari game. Is that Atari game? I love that one. He's like, yeah. And then he gives him a tip, which is like, hold left while you're blasting. That's how you, like it's like clearly like a tip from a shooting game, like in Gallagher or something like that. The game he's holding is adventure. Now that's more of like a quest game. That's more of it like, like its title. It's the proto Zelda. It's an adventure game. Yeah. It's a top down walk around. You do get a sword, but I don't, I could be wrong. Again, if someone knows Atari 2600 better than me, let me know if that's accurate. But I think what happened is that was in the script as a generic sort of Atari 2600 thing. And then the art department got a copy of, of Mittenbox Adventure and we're like, we'll use this. And everyone was like, great, fine. Didn't, didn't actually sign off on all the research. There's only one thing about Atari 2600 that I know. So I can't, I can't, uh, are you yes or no about, about your, uh, your sensitivity towards whether or not this is a video game related. And this is the only thing about the movie that rubbed you the wrong way. It's the one historical inaccuracy in the film. The only thing I know about the Atari 2600 is the Pac-Man sound ranch. Play the clip. We'll get it to you. Love that sound. Yeah. That's the best sound ever. That's your alarm in the morning, right? Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Well, the worst ports of all time. Barely playable. The best sound of all time. Sound is very funny. It is really good. Yeah. You should get it. You should, uh, you should nod your elbow to have it. You know the, the, and it ends before the movie cuts off in 1988 for some reason. The, the... They didn't want to show 9-11. They didn't want to show 9-11. So like, you know what, let's give it plenty of times. People don't think there's any chance 9-11 is coming up. Anyway, Michael Jackson of course worked on the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 soundtrack. Yeah. Originally it was going to be credited, and ultimately it ended up being uncredited, um, because of, you know, the allegations that came about. And, but there's, there's like, you know, Eugene, and Eugene Acas posted things of like him on a heli, in a helicopter approaching Neverland Ranch. You know, I just be like, give me, give me that story. Give me the story of Michael Jackson using some of the same melodies and harmonies that would become a stranger in Moscow for like a, a Casino Night Zone level. I would have included a scene where he does record the Simpsons and then be like, it was him. It wasn't an impersonator. It actually was him. Yeah. I thought it was Leon Kompowski. You gotta watch Simpsons. There's a Simpsons episode. I don't know where there's like a big fat white guy. Yeah. Who plays a piano and is maybe Michael Jackson. Lisa, it's your birthday. Happy birthday, Lisa. It's good. Okay. Do you know that ranch? No. It's real. We didn't make it up. I wish you better than your heart's desire and your first kiss from a boy. It's a, it's a Michael Jackson Bart Simpson duet that they sing to Lisa as a birthday present and Lisa is so profoundly moved. So Lisa ages in Simpsons canonically? They have birthdays. They have birthdays every Christmas. That's how cartoons, you know cartoons, you know how animation works. Well, no, but I thought, I thought that the Simpsons specifically did not have birthdays. They do, but they don't say like, I'm turning this age from this age. Oh, yeah. I'm going to this grade from this grade. Interesting. Interesting. 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Go to quints.com slash get played for free shipping and 365 day returns. Now available in Canada too, A. Go to qince.com slash get played for free shipping and 365 day returns. Quints.com slash get played. Should we talk about video games on our video game podcast? Yeah. We should. I guess we should. Nick, what are you going to do? I heard that both the merchant and I got food poisoning from the same location last week. Oh wow. Yeah. So I heard that he didn't show up. I'm glad he's back in studio today. Yeah, I'm glad to hear that and you know honestly we should catch up with him right now. We should catch up with everyone in the video games we've been playing. The question is what are you playing? What are you playing? I am the resident of a merchant and I'm back from the dead after a hard week struggling in the hospital. Oh my God. You were hospitalized. I broke records. I broke hospital records. Oh my God. Uh. Job week for the merch. So you're calling yourself the merch now huh? You got it baby. Okay. I'm back with a brand new bag. I didn't realize how cool you were. Yeah, merch is pretty cool. I'm cool enough. I, you know, I had a near death experience. Oh God. It's tough to hear that you went through something so um. Harrowing. So harrowing especially because you don't seem all that well anyway. I really don't. I made the mistake of following other to a restaurant and she, she got her food to go but I stayed in and I ate, I ate her food there and I ate all of it. You ate all of it. Do you know what? I got fucked up by it. What kind of things are we ordering here? We like you know because I feel like certain foods. Noodle. Okay noodle. Okay. I'm a fan of noodle. Noodle good. I'm a fan of noodle. Can't complain about noodle. Well don't eat like flat. Ranch you like a noodle? I love a noodle. What? You got a favorite noodle? Egg noodles. Egg noodles are good. That's a wide boy. That's a wide boy. And that's a wide boy. I guess there's different types of egg noodles. There's different types of egg noodles. Yeah you can kind of cut them however you want. Well you can cut. Yeah you can cut. You don't have to like suck it all down like you know like once you're gonna spit. I thought it was not, I thought it was a proper. Well some people are frown upon it but I think in America it's fine. You got two noodle, you got noodles types, you got, I love a noodle. I like a stew. It's good. Noodle and stew. Love it. Noodle and stew. Okay. What kind of restaurant was this? This was a kind of cuisine I love. I love it but it was Thai cuisine and made me sick. Oh that's fun. Oh I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm not stop eating Thai food just because I have one bad experience. Now let me ask. They brought me to the hospital. Did you order the food indoors and pay money for it or did you collect food? No I'm not a stranger to the game. What does that mean? Did you think the merchant was some kind of idiot? I saw Heather go in and pay money and I'm like woof. I don't know what she's doing but did you know that you can give any food for free from behind a restaurant after it closes? Yeah that's called eating out of the trash. No I don't eat out of the trash. I don't bring a fork to the trash can and just eat it like it's a big bowl. You grab a bag, grinch style and hunch it over your shoulder and sort of saunter back to your dwelling. But you know the grinch? I'm aware of the grinch. I don't know the grinch. I don't even know if he's a real guy. I assume he wasn't a real guy. But you know what you're real so who knows? I don't want him anywhere near me. No genitalia. Okay so that's not just the way he's portrayed. Yeah he doesn't just have like a foop of... Zero genitalia on the grinch. Because I don't know his species perhaps it's internal or something. I'm not even sure if he's a pervading. He's a four of one. It could be like an anus. Like an anus? We don't have time for this. We don't have time for this merchant. I just like look there's... You came in a hot merchant and it's fine I'm glad you're doing well. But we don't have time for this today. I saw God and now I'm cool. You saw God what he looked like. He's two white eyes and they look at you and they say no and then you wake back up on the bed. That's tough. Wow. So it wasn't your time yet. I think so. Well that's great. I'm glad you didn't die. It sounds also like God may have been startled by your presence. Yeah. And rejected you from the kingdom of heaven. Like you caught God jacking off. Well I hope I just keep catching him jacking off so I don't have to die. I hope you keep catching him. Yeah alright I should probably answer questions and then let me ask. Which is... Madam Badaka What are you playing? Thank you so much merch. The merch. The merch! Uh I've been... I've been playing a surprising game. Oh oh oh oh. I hadn't really floated to any of you guys yet. Okay. I'm playing the original Max Payne. Oh. The remedy game Max Payne. Wow. I'm playing this because I'm going to be going on my friend's show, my friend Conor McCabe's show to talk about it. But I was like you know what? I haven't played this remedy game. I'm the franchise. You are the franchise. Let's see what's going on. Let me tell you something about Max Payne. It's fucking good as hell. It's fucking awesome. Wow. It's really really fun. I'm playing it on my Aintor and it's just a lot of fun. But I didn't kind of know it was like this. I knew about the bullet time and just the relentless violence of the game. But it has all the like, they have all their tools available at this point like two. Like they're incorporating like Norse mythology in it. There's like weird cult stuff. They sort of like always had this vibe. I didn't know that it was also like touching on some of the stuff that then they get into in like you know Alan Wake and in the control games and stuff. So I'm glad that it has that connective tissue. It's always been in their DNA. Yes. What year is the original from? Do you know? I think it's 2001 or something. Okay. So it's a while ago. It looks, I mean it looks crazy. Yeah, sure. Because it's, I mean it's also like it's very funny that it's Sam Lake. Right. Like his face. It's his face. And so he's just like making like a really crazy face. It's like his face digitized on like a, by today's standards, crude polygonal model. Like he's trying to do a denero impression. Right. And then they've mapped him onto a square. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it has like weird trippy stuff in it too. Like there's like a, I'm in Act Two of it and there is like a section where you're reliving walking into your home and finding your wife and I think child like dead. Oh. And there's like a, you're trying to, you're in the distance you hear a crying child and you're going down like a hallway and the hallway just goes on forever and ever and ever. Early 2000s loved realizing that you could show somebody's dead family. Yes. Oh yes. Because like God of War is just a few years later. Yeah. And they're like, oh, instead of just Mario like running around, what we could do is show like a guy's dead family. Yeah, we could like, instead of him just running around. His motivation for this could, could instead of like acquiring some scepter or freeing some damsel in distress, it could be grieving his dead family. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then his, his, the way he'll get his revenge is by killing everybody in sight. Right. But it's, it's a really compelling game and I think that the, the, it has these like narrative breaks where then you'll like, it'll like have like a comic book where there'll be like multiple panels on the screen and then it'll be, I'm blanking on the voice actor now, but it'll be, which is bad for the exercise that we're doing today. But it'll sort of narrate the, the captions and stuff and they're all like really well done and it's, it's an extremely fun game. So I'm playing that. Would you say like, first off, are you playing using any mods or anything or just playing it? No mods. Just playing it. Really, really to be able. And do you have or whatever the most current build is and you, would you say, you know, it's obviously a game from several generations ago, but you say it's, it's pretty playable in its current state seems like it. I think so. I like, it's like, it's obviously like they've come such a long way and they've really refined their gameplay for, for what they do. And I think it's just as, I mean, it's like, it's, it's just a lot of fun because it is so schlocky and crazy and you're just like getting wet. Like, I've never once ran out of ammo because there's just like so much like in my end, like you're always just shooting like waves and waves of guys and picking up ammo and it's always telling me that my ammo is full, even though I'm going crazy. But it's, it's a lot of fun. I'm really, really enjoying it. I'm hoping to wrap it up pretty soon. Yeah, because I was going to ask, because you're a franchise, but you're also the finisher. You're planning on finishing this game. I'm going to finish this game. And then who knows, I might get into it. Well, I would like to play Max Payne 2 and I know Max Payne 3 is not really the same thing. But I'd like to, but people say it's good. But on another remedy tip. I'm a big fan of video game art books and I buy them pretty often. Art books are great. Okay, a little bit of Matlore. I'll get them. Like I have ones for Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom and they're like art books, but they're also like guides that then will like, will have like, you know, like, you know, info about like the shrines and things like that. The only art books I own are Death Stranding and Last of Us Part 2. Okay. I have a Persona 5 art book that I love. It's gorgeous. Can I, can I pitch something real quick? Yeah. And I want you to finish your story. Matt Artbook DACA. That's pretty good. Okay. Just that it doesn't have to be an official nickname. I'm going to just tell you right now. I'm not going to, I'm not going to legally change my name to that. That's fair. But I do like it. Okay, great. So you have art books? Matt. Yes. Yes. Artbook DACA. Yes. It's like how you would say my last name if your tongue was falling out while you were speaking. But I also. It's like how TSA would say your name. And that's it from now on. But I also have the, I have these three volume Elden Ring ones that then have like. Nice. Art, but then they have like information about just like the weapons or the enemies or things like it's, they're like guides really, but like I have that. I've coveted one for a long time and I wanted it after I, it's the art and making of control. I knew it. And it had been out of print for years. I finished the game late, obviously, like I got to the game like two years ago or something. And then was like, I got to find out if there was a book of this, like look at it more. And then I found that book and then I was like, oh, like just seeing like little bits of it. It's gorgeous. It's a gorgeous book. It has like lots of like making of stuff that I would find particularly interesting, but it's been out of print for years and every secondhand copy costs $500. Oh, Jesus. And I was like, I'm not going to buy that. I want it, but I'm not going to buy that. No. That's a little too rich for my blood for a book that I'll probably look at one time. But then most books we only look at one time. And isn't that something? Wow. Not me with the Bible. Yeah, I'm looking at the thing pretty much every day. Yeah. You know, I'm at the Paul Walter house or schedule. I'm up at 3am, the hidden, the gym, then I play 18 holes of golf. Then I say my prayers, then I make breakfast for my kids. Then I say some more prayers. Yeah. Most of the day I'm saying prayers. Most of the days I'm saying prayers. Yeah. And I won't do them now because then we'll be here the rest of the day. Right. As of today, I saw a post because at one point I felt like I emailed them. Are they ever going to reprint this? And then it's from the company Future Press. And so they, in the last year or so, had put up, hey, which one of these should we reprint? Mark Souls 3 always gets the fucking vote. Right. Or anything like that will get the vote. Yeah. Control not happening. Today, I opened Instagram for the first time this morning at around 9. Kind of late for me. Okay. Not to brag. I never look at Instagram ever. Kind of late for me to open it. Yeah. 9am. Yeah, it's pretty late. Kind of late. I always forget Instagram exists. Yeah. Really? Yeah. What do you go to? I go to the worst places.哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎 I open Instagram I see a collab post from remedy control the game and Future press that for the 25th anniversary of remedy. They're reprinting this book and I go to the website LinkedIn bio And the website won't fucking look Everybody's going crazy for it. Like and I'm on that. I'm on the control subreddit. I'm like Like I'm just like looking to see yeah People are saying and people are like goddamn these scalpers are fucking ruining this there's now the website's crashing it's not working I'm patient Matt, please. Tell me this has a good good ending I'm working on this for two hours. I love it. I love to hear it because I'm just like look I'm gonna buy this fucking book great. Wow. I'm gonna get this thing. Yeah, and I'm just like, hey You know what I'm gonna refresh when it times out. I'm not gonna refresh Before that okay, because it's you know, it's taking its time for two hours, I get a little bit closer I get a little like advancing the page adding it to cart Adding in my payment information my address information at one point It automatically had shipped to a different address Then my billing address unchecked and when you uncheck that Another little pinwheel starts. Yeah for some reason and I'm like I have to just power through. Yeah Two hours go by I'm hitting check out. It's failing. Mm-hmm. I'm just like, hey, you know what I was gonna keep doing this Yeah, and a deal with whatever happens. Yeah later do it again. Do it again. I Type in something else instead. I got like I like put a different card or something I was like, I'm having a hard time with this for some reason Do that It goes through I get the Order confirmation to my email. I've Successfully pre-ordered the reprint of the art and making of control. Oh my god I'm very excited to have this book in my possession I'm so excited so I could look at it because I actually do want to read like the making stuff because that game is so interesting Of course and the art of it is so I just love it. I think it's a masterpiece and I Can't wait to eventually have this in my hands. So that's I love this Matt. That's what I've been playing. I love it I love it Heather. What are you playing? Let me tell you guys what has happened to me? I Have played in the last two weeks an hour and a half total of fortnight That by your standards, that's not very much that is as if because that's three games Yeah, because each game is about a half hour Right. I played three games of fortnight for me It might as well not be installed on the system what I have played Non-stop I wake up in the morning. I dream about it at night Dream about it at night dream in in Tetris style. It's in my dreams. Pokopia Wow. I Have maxed out the first area at level 10 Now as you may recall It was hard for me to leave that area without maxing it out But I did eventually I was like, you know what I should probably see the rest of this game And once I'd opened up other areas. I just kept going forward. So I returned to the first area withered wasteland It's at a 10. I Am now maxing out the second area what I've been told by Social media is that once you roll roll credits on the game, which I've now done Completed the story the finisher fucking made me cry. Wow made me cry The ending of the game made me cry like I was watching a movie Wow Incredible ending incredible story incredible concept great game. I'm now Building out the resort town of bleak beach bleak beach I Have never had this game is I think I think Recency bias. I think it's in my top 25 games of all time. That's wild It has changed my relationship with the IP. Whoa, like I've always known you like the guys Yeah, yeah, you know the guys like I played the first one I Bounced off and didn't play for a while. I played the Game Boy Advance one bounced off for a while I played, uh, you know the one with Trubbish Jordan shield. Yeah fucking played through the entire thing Finished the game with an I think a near-all Trubbish party Fuck I was like, this is my guy. Yeah, and finally in my favorite one Haven't played any of the switch games. I think I bought one Played it for like an hour and was like, oh, no. Yeah, didn't play any more of it. Haven't played any of the Arceus Arceus Arceus Arceus Do play regularly religiously play the card game, right? Pokopia has made it so that I love these guys. I love it so much. I Care about them in the way that you care about pets or family members Wow Wow, I care about Pokemon I need them to be okay. Yeah, the story of the game is so tragic They are all so stupid that they don't they can't process What ditto has processed about what has happened and I would love to talk spoilers here So if you're playing through pokopia and you haven't heard the story Stop listening right now because it is emotionally effective, but I'm gonna talk to my friends about it. Yeah So hold on to your hats and glasses Giddy up because we're headed to spoiler country. Yee-ha giddy up. Yee-ha The story of pokopia is that the world started to end natural disasters perhaps meteor showers and all of the human beings took all of the Pokemon and we're like How do we can't bring them with us? We are going to build spaceships and get off the planet of earth We're getting off of earth, but we can't bring all the Pokemon with mm-hmm But we need to make sure they're safe and as we know from the games Pokemon can be stored in a computer Yeah, so they created a computer vault and took all of the Pokemon and Kept them in the computer deep underground Wow to save the Pokemon Knowing that someday They'd come back and they'd be able to bring the Pokemon back to life from the computer. That's gonna make me cry, but The people never came back. No This is canonically the ending of the Pokemon series. This is the story of Pokemon This is going to happen at the end of time in these games eventually the PC malfunctions and brings back a couple of guys Tangela and ditto Tangela is like, hey, I don't know what's going on. Where's my dude and Ditto misses his dude or her dude so much that becomes the dude becomes the trainer like it's like You have you seen this guy, right? And the two of them are like well, we'd better prepare the world for when the people come back from wherever they went and It doesn't look like the way I remember it is all wrecked and shit. So let's build the town back up Let's build the cities and then the people will see it and they'll come back and so ditto starts bringing the Pokemon back to life and With their help he starts building the cities and uncovering the story of what happened to the Pokemon Okay And each time you finish a building The fucking professor Tangela who's taken on the role of the professor is like Do you think this building's big enough that the people will see it and they'll come back and every time you as ditto Have read enough of the story that you're like They're not fucking coming back They're not coming back, but you can't tell so all of the Pokemon are like wow I remember this they used to play games and this is like an arcade. Yeah, my person really liked arcades I bet he comes back soon. It's the fucking it's the dog that laid by the grave Yeah for for generations. Yeah, guys. Do you want to know the ending of this game spoil me? Do you want to know what happens? Tell me because I I I want to get there, but you can tell me So what you learn is the people all got off of the planet Except Team Rocket who died on earth Wow Because they finally were like oh, this is what we want No, they died trying to make their own rocket because they weren't welcome on the other rockets You rebuild what you rebuild this power station That's all Team Rocket stuff right you build it takes it's the entire game And when you finally build it the the sides of the rocket of the building fall off And it is a rocket and it was for Team Rocket to leave and they never made it off And their bunker is underneath the rocket and they died in their fucking bunker Wow You have stuffed this rocket full of Supplies because Team Rocket was tricking everybody It was like Team Rocket was doing all these little missions and you were giving them all these supplies Which was helping everybody like they were trying to trick people into like oh bring up food And it'll help rebuild the building so we've stuffed the rocket full of shit The last thing you do is also we should bring a photo to remind us of What what earth was before we leave so you ditto you the player Put a photo that you the player have taken of Whatever it's like make sure it's important because we want to remember so I take a photo up on the mountain in the first area It's a selfie of ditto giving a thumbs up in front of all the city that I've built Yeah, cuz I'm like that's cool. I give it to the rocket it takes off and goes to space the credits is this rocket traveling hundreds of light years Forever getting fucking rusty getting destroyed until it finally arrives at a human colony like a thousand years later and The colony opens and welcomes the rocket and they open it and they get all the supplies and The photo and they give it to the fucking descendant of ditto's owner. I Am just Cuz like you don't know that's what's gonna have you just like throwing shit in the rocket Yeah, but you ditto have saved the people But also the person who was like the descendant of ditto's owner who has like ditto stuff in his room Yeah gets a photo which could have been of anything Yeah, and instead it was my photo of ditto giving a thumbs up basically being like it's okay. We're okay. I love it That's wild cannot fucking believe this game. I was told after you roll credits Well, how do we end spoilers? But take your hats back off. God damn it now exiting spoiler country I was safe to not be spoiled. I was told after you roll credits There's more to the game. Okay by social media people when I was like holy shit the credits of this game made me cry And they're like keep going keep going. There's more stuff. There's more story So I'm continuing to play through the game Um Breathtaking that has gotten me now. I gotta get in there. I gotta get back in killed me Yeah, I will say I think humanity made a grave mistake by keeping James and Jesse's fine asses off of that rocket It's too funny James got big guns That's what I've been playing and thinking about all the time last night I literally had a dream where I dug out a cave under water and it started to flood and I was using Blocks to try and fix the the hole in the water Nick what are you playing? All right now exiting spoiler country. You're not gonna be spoiled. There we go Unless you want to hear about what I've been playing Which I wanted to get some time and unfortunately I didn't I didn't get around to it I'll hopefully have some time with it next week, but I picked up mouse PI for hire But I was like I haven't played enough of this to really Give my impressions it is this gorgeous First-person rubber hose animation cuphead style game It looks like a stubborn cup and first person people have seen this game and yeah, and also and again You know I get I get I get deeper into it, but apparently it plays great too It's the steam reviews are overwhelmingly positive So I'm excited to get into it, but unfortunately that's merely a promise for for a future take at this point But I did get some time to mess around with a game an indie game That is a nonviolent fighting game from 2018 Called boredom it is by a solo dev named Cole Allen you now here's wait Hold on. Yeah, wait Did you clock what just happened? No Nick Nick, what have you done? I Was hoping you both pick up on it. I definitely Okay, now I'm so cool Allen who was arrested shirtless while trying to kill the president playing the game. No I know I got it. I put on my wish list And that helps yeah, and you are going to get a knock on your door. You're gonna be on a list I'm on enough lists already Inspire to got an update they thankfully nerf the silent card acrobatics, which has been OP since the first game I mean, it's like one of those things where it's just like every silent build you pretty much are gonna pick up acrobatics, which is Draw three cards discard one card. It's just way too powerful So they all they did is they made it uncommon and that seems to I hopefully been enough of an adjustment It's it's a fun card, but yeah, not making sure that's omnipresent Just gives a little bit more variety to play styles I still can't figure out the region which is one of the new classes due to sits in a chair if anyone has any regent strategies like got like like like LMK in the in the discord I will I will lurk in there and read what you what you say because I was like, hey, I figured this sum bitch out He's just plays a little bit different than everyone else. I do love the other new class and acro binder very very fun. Would you say? Jumping into Slay the Spire 2 would be crazy having not played much as fire one not at all I mean slay the spire 2 is still an early access. So it's update was pretty substantial in terms of You know, there's a lot of temporary art in there. There's a lot of placeholder art There's some the portions of the game that are just unfinished and it's and it's really unbalanced right now And a way that I think is is compelling, but there that's that's part of the reason it's in Early access and so they can they can get all that solved. So certainly slay the spire is a much tighter More polished experience as you might expect and I think slay the spire might also be on game pass Okay, so if you just want to mess around with one of them That's I would just start there But you could absolutely jump into slay the spire to the note no prior knowledge of the franchise is expected But I thought it takes this time to talk about an article that a piece that I happened to stumble upon in the past week called the Effective CRTs on pixel art and it's basically talking about how so much of of what happens with a you know with with pixel art is We see it on these really crisp modern monitors And so you see things like here's that here's a sprite from the article of of peach from From Super Mario RPG on an LCD or LED monitor Versus on a CRT monitor and you can just sort of see we're used to seeing all the individual pixels and but but in terms of how these were intended to be Observed on their original displays that existed at the time they were they were being made contemporaneous with their development It was it was meant to be a little bit more like you know the use of dithering and The the positioning of individual pixels was taking into account the effect you'd have from a low resolution CRT monitor the inherent funny fuzziness of it And so you would have a smoother thing of this like I'll show this to you the two of you right here You can sort of see that Princess Peach on the left You know, it's it's still not like a a crisp. It was certainly not a crisp image, but it's a little bit more It's a little bit more of like like a like an actual artistic representation of it versus like I mean the the pixel art version is an artistic representation of it, but it's not quite How it was meant to be presented Nick you are preaching to the Pope on this and it does kind of it did kind of make me think Make me really covet a CRT monitor I mean here's another one with us with a CRT effect on Sonic the Hedgehog Yeah, and we can sort of see it there. It's like it's like really clear that that it You know the waterfall right there like like specifically the waterfall you can see the individual lines of it and the and some of the individual pixels It's supposed to be transparent. It's supposed to be transferred It's supposed to have a different sort of effect a different sort of feel but that doesn't quite come across on a modern display so the pieces the pieces really interesting it got an update and I think the Another an aspect of it because the CRT thing has been discussed a lot but an aspect of it that is applicable specifically to CD to PC playing rather and you know, obviously it's a much easier to retro game on PC in fact There's a lot of people's a typical platform But you know a game like Secret of Monkey Island, which I played as a kid and you can play in modern form I'll just read some of this If exploring old authentic pixel art using a modern screen, you'll eventually come off come across something like this image and its image of of Monkey Island that squashed and the reason is because there was a what there was the one-to-one It's one-to-one conversion of old pixel art I'm reading more from the article modern flat screens all have fixed resolutions and purely digital influences ensuring a fixed aspect with the height ratio and completely square pixels CRTs on the other hand can display a number of various resolutions VGA for example includes the gaming standard three twenty by two hundred pixels and two hundred fifty six colors and the business oriented six forty by four eighty and sixteen colors these two resolutions have very different aspect ratios of VGA monitors that still had to be able to display both of them That's approximating the aspect ratio of six forty by four eighty rather than that of three twenty by two hundred Hence if you wanted the abundance of three twenty by two hundred games available to fill the entire height of your screen You had adjusted so the pixels weren't square which is a weird thing to wrap your head around in a modern sense but yeah a lot of this was a Lot of pixel art was designed for it's like oh these are these are ultimately not going to be displayed in its original form because we know That will look compressed and we are in fact Crafting the art taking that into account, but then if you just meet me on a modern display That that that completely goes away. So anyway, it's just like Where we're ultimately land here is we'll put they will put a link to these these articles in the these show notes, but I Just wish there were CRTs that were available now that weren't like a like 30 year old Sony monitors that cost $800 on eBay, you know what I mean and and and how come we can't get a modern CRT because there's clearly Demanded enthusiasm why why why is no manufacturing these because also they're they're making Walkmans again They're issuing music on tape. Yeah, like there is there is a hunger for CRTs in the retro gaming community And I think that there are also Nostalgic applications, there's a huge VHS community, you know that that are divorced from the retro gaming community It's different. I mean sure there's some probably Venn diagram overlap, but why isn't there it must be that? Manufacturing CRTs is prohibitively expensive. It's gotta be that because it's crazy to me that there isn't that analog For example, right doesn't make a CRT like a bespoke CRT or with all the the tech shit that gets Super funded on Kickstarter. How is that? They're not been like a kickstarted CRT monitor. I My CRT is like at this point one of my most treasured possessions and when I got it I certainly loved it. I was like, holy shit. I got myself finally got a PVM of my own and I know they look gorgeous But as time goes on it's like I am reluctant to use it because I know that it will only have so many hours Right of existence. Yeah, because eventually it'll just burn through the the tube well, especially if its previous use case was like in For video editing or in a professional television studio. It's like oh that thing was getting a lot of hours I burnt into it already. I'm really lucky that the average on my because you can see the average on the on the high-end PVMs is pretty low for the for the device, but I'm also like This is supposed to last me the rest of my entire fucking life. I just want to play super R type Yeah, you know when I have you guys over for when I make video game food Yeah, what on a future episode that we can't do because I haven't set up anything in my in my place We're gonna game on that CRT and it's gonna you're gonna be like oh my god It's so fucking beautiful can ranch come of course ranch can come can we get a Mary Kate and Ashley licensed to drive on PlayStation yeah, of course, okay great. I have it I think I have a PlayStation with an optical drive emulator. I can't remember Wow I have to set up everything. I can't remember You have so much it's got a lot of stuff I have a lot I have a gaming museum at this point. It's pretty cool Yeah, yeah, you know I can't remember these days anything. I'm fine. I know I don't know what I was not working I like asked my wife yesterday three times What day is it today? She was like kind of scared Do you think because this is a thing I read about and maybe it's just happening sooner than we think because they I've everyone that I know again, we're all we're all aging but like feels just stupider in general and I remember reading climate change global warming will lead to Higher presence of carbon in the atmosphere, which means a lower presence of oxygen Which means just like a general sort of lowering of cognitive power as you can see in low oxygen environments You know any time that's been that's been artificially created on earth. So I Are we just getting done because there's more carbon in there? You have that plus the demonstrated effects on cognitive thinking from social media and Scrolls of every kind like right of Including ninja. Yeah ninja scrolls Scroll the damned hmm Scrolls damn it Naruto scrolls But you have you have the the the cognitive decline that is affected by the presence of the internet and Every time you catch COVID you take a permanent hit to your IQ that is forever Oh my god, it's a permanent debuff and you know what I Didn't need that I didn't need that I need every point I got So like I think you know, that's all having a cumulative Effect on our ability to think it sucks. Why did I go get COVID 30 times? Oh man, that's rough. Yeah, it is tough stuff. Yeah, I thought I only had to worry about those vaccines. 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Correct and But but even if it doesn't I mean like it's it's obviously such it has such a huge impact on how a game is received and You know it can it can elevate the the writing I mean I always feel like there's kind of like a ceiling on something or rather the Maybe the floor is maybe there's a better way to put it The floor is established by the quality of writing the ceiling is established by the quality of the performance I like it and I I definitely think that's the case with some of the ones I think about but I don't know. What where do you where do you all stand in this because it's it's a place where I remember video games back in the day There were a lot of non-actors or a lot of amateurs You know who were doing voices and there were also a lot of people who like it felt like like oh We got to go anime big because this is like this is basically a cartoon So we got to really go for it and this performance versus you'll see these more nuance more more human more restrained performances in modern games well, I remember being a kid and You know a lot of the games that I played Were didn't have vio like pokemon and stuff like that or like tony hawk or crash bandicoot like you have some Noises but like nothing really like yeah, you didn't get full. I mean like You didn't get full guys eating shit full voice over in a final fantasy for instance until final fantasy 10 on the place PlayStation 2 right, I think I texted about but haven't spoken on the show. I've been playing an undubbed Hack of the final fantasy 10 rom and it is so fucking Creamy and good. Yeah, like it is amazing how much the vocal performance of titus in that game affected my ability to enjoy the game Yeah, and now that I'm hearing the original vio and it matches sort of like the physicality of the character Because it's some Japanese mannerisms right uh it fucking rules So heather can say creamy and good and it's everyone's fine, but I say creamy and good I get thrown out of best buy I'm gonna tell you something right now. Yeah, I didn't care for it I What what would buttery it's a buttery performance. Yeah, maybe cummy Cummy like yogurt. Yeah like hot yogurt on a Jammed in our toothpaste tube and shot back out The way we all love to eat yogurt, but I remember I remember um because I would play a lot of I'd play a lot of movie time games though too and so sometimes They would have the cast of the movie come do the video game Wow, right like not every instance they'd have like a sound of likes uh a lot of the time but I remember very specifically that toby maguire and the cast of the spider-man movies did the voices for The spider-man games that I loved when I was a kid uh and He's doing like full-on like spider-man stuff, but right The novelty of him doing it. Yeah has worn off and He and everybody else in those games did a bad job. There there's some That's the thing with some of these cat. I mean like and that's the kind of the opposite problem Is they're not like acting towards them the within understanding the medium or perhaps also they're not being directed adequately perhaps also they're Just not they don't have enough time in the booth and they're doing one one or two takes of everything Yeah, but a lot of those those performances by celebrities, particularly in that day of gaming that era of gaming We're pretty listless. I worked on some movie tie-in games myself One I can talk to talk about is uh Pirates of the Caribbean the legend of jack sparrow Which they they came to the development team or basically you have two options You can have the entire cast minus johnny depp or you can have johnny depp and no one else Just because of how much they cost. Yeah, and the studio opted for johnny depp and no one else So we had johnny depp doing the actual voice of jack sparrow and everyone else was done by a a you know A professional voiceover artist who was doing an impression of kira nightly or whatever the fuck. Yeah All those performances were just a little bit more locked in than johnny depp streets with a bottle of red wine in his hands I mean, I can't get into it. Yeah, that's insane. Yeah Also, all of our lives are so crazy. It really is. Yeah Yeah, that's that is wild though, but obviously over the years since then I think people have caught up to video games being a storytelling medium and like, uh, you know, you get people like uh, kiana reeves or like norman readers or something I'm sam. I'm sam They know they know what they're doing right instead of it just being like a thing that they're doing, uh, you know To and from lunch to to be fair when norman readers talks about the game He does not seem like he knew what he was doing. That is correct But it's engaged and it's fully committed with the artistry of it and his understands like this is this is uh, Hideo Kojima's vision. I'm going to do my best to deliver Now there's a way above you is is the quote right that he has in the interview where he's like, oh Yeah, now cry. Yeah Speaking of celebrity performances, my first pick is a celebrity who And a recency bias ahoy because I think one of the things we're going to be doing here is talking about some of our favorite performances, right? yeah but My favorite game of last year dispatch Okay, had a starring role uh by erin paul of breaking bad fame jessey from ringing brad and he is a very different erin paul than you get in Breaking bad and it is just so locked in and it is the emotional core of the game and it's the main character him playing robert robertson um, who was carrying on the uh, the you know the this this sort of legacy kind of phantom style the phantom style of just like this this The super the super beck that this mech that is passed down from generation to generation and and with it the the responsibility of being a superhero But he has a team of of misfits a suicide squad if you will that he is leading Here's a clip of him addressing this team When I look around this room what I see is Did you not plan this ahead of time potential go through in the end Unfortunately for you it's a curse Because there isn't a thing in the universe that goes more wasted than potential and despite how common it is no one seems to forget It's what they whisper when you leave the room. Oh So and so had so much potential it follows you forever I'm here to help you lift the curse of potential By getting you to fucking do something with it He's awesome. He's so good. He's so lucky and this is this is like a dramatic sort of monologue He gives but he's funny in the game too. Like like like it's a big it's a big range of Emotions that are projected. So I don't know just sort of show but but for me It's just kind of like Again, it's such a different character than jesse and breaking bad. I know he has that kind of range, but it just I wasn't expecting this specific performance for him. I've often said That hollywood needs to just figure it the fuck out With him because I think he's so good in everything. I would like to just see him in more stuff Well, he's awesome. It's like they gave him one shot with like the need for speed movie. Yeah, that didn't work I'm not his fault, but it's just like, I don't know. He's good. He's great I want to behind the curtains a little bit on this Which is that we had to take a break. Yeah, because our dinner arrived early So you queued up the clip and then we watched the clip after we ate And I forgot it was Aaron Paul because the performance is so fucking smooth It's really great. I was like, oh, this is great It was great and that wasn't until the very end of the clip that I was like, oh, fuck. Yeah. Yeah, that's who this is I mean That a game looks like this it looks so good. It's just such a good, uh art design Yeah, the look the the the performance physically is as well as Vocally, but also yeah, the art direction this game is pristine. It's it's it's it's my favorite game My favorite looking game of last year. Anyway, someone else go. Um, I can go we can queue up this one. This one is just like this one I feel like paves the way for Uh for video game performances in general and it's one of my absolute favorites. Uh, and of course It has to be David Hader as solid snake. Let's go Life isn't just about passing on your genes We can leave behind much more than just dna Through speech music literature and movies What we've seen heard felt anger joy and sorrow These are the things I will pass on That's what I live for. He's fucking awesome. He's great. He's so great. This is the end of Metal Gear Solid 2 Yeah, um, and yeah, we could just like to fade it out there, but it's like he's That's such a I mean we like doing the voice. Yeah, that's a good mark of a performance I think is if you like doing it It's just an all-timer. I think that across the board the performances Uh in the last 27 years of Kojima games. Yeah, have been astonishing in part because they take copy that is so Uh Almost esoteric. It's it's like this like Conceptual words instead of like the way that a person might talk to another person It's a combination of opera and a powerpoint presentation. Yeah and and they deliver it in a way that makes it sound like human Like like human choices. Mm-hmm. And and what I mean by that is it's it's a theatrical script Presented in human dynamics. It fucking rules. Yeah, and that that script is it's hard to pull off and he killed it Well, of course and and you know snatcher is as part of it but Metal Gear Solid which predated it but but A game that was more of a cult hit whereas Metal Gear Solid was the original of the solid part of the franchise was A mega hit was a huge critical and commercial success and just had Really committed performances throughout And yeah, that's that's a I think part of his legacy is establishing that sort of cinematic quality or or at least making that cinematic Sort of quality a little bit more pervasive. Yep In games one of the one of the ups are going to say also just like an interesting guy Like like he's an interesting guy. He's an interesting dude. His career is fascinating He wrote like the first two X-Men movies, right? And then I think did a pass on the watchmen movie also I think I'm realizing we pivoted from Kojima to David Hader. Oh, I'm talking about David. David Hader is an interesting guy Yes, he wrote he wrote X-Men, but also Kojima Pretty interesting himself very interesting. They're both interesting guys and that's maybe that's why it's such a good partnership Yeah, you know a game that I've been recently playing undubbed is Shenmue. Oh really? and that's another game that really suffered from From the Redubbing it would be like the the American version You know the characters like do you know what happened on that day? Yeah, and it's like in the Original Japanese it's like a like prophetic Performance. It's so good. Wow. Um, I don't remember why I was going to tie that into something we were talking about But I got nothing. No, hey, that's that's just how life is. Yeah. Yeah The theatrics of early video games maybe for house. Um Look my first pick here is going to be really vanilla It's uh, it's on the nose, but the performances are so extraordinary. Um, you're gonna take that Yeah, vanilla is a flavor. It doesn't mean playing but I'm sorry. Please continue. I got I got your meaning Uh It's an exotic bean It is an exotic bean and you know what I love vanilla. Yeah, I love vanilla too. Yeah me too Um, and and that is the the cast of uh, the last of us. Um, and while I couldn't find a clip Uh that I enjoyed featuring laura bailey. I think her performance as abby is Astonishing. Yeah, it's so good. I just wanted to like sound bitey something for a podcast So what I have here is from the first video game. It's joel miller and ashley johnson as joel and ellie And I think at this point, you know, we've seen them on hbo Reinterpreted with other actors and it's been a while maybe since we've reconnected with the original performances These performances the reason the game works is because of these two people. Um, because otherwise it's just Uh stealthy zombie game But the story carries you through and the story is carried by these performances So this is uh, joel and ellie in the last of us part one Is this really all they had to worry about? boys movies Deciding which shirt goes with which skirt It's bizarre it up. We're leaving. Hmm. And if I say no Do you even realize what your life means? Huh? Running off like that putting yourself at risk. It's pretty goddamn stupid Well, I guess we're both disappointed with each other then What do you want from me? Admit that you wanted to get rid of me the whole time Tommy knows this area Well, I'm sorry. I trust him better than I trust myself. Stop with the bullshit. What are you so afraid of? That I'm gonna end up like sam. I can't get infected I can take care of myself how many close calls have we had well, we seem to be doing all right so far And now you'll be doing even better with tommy I'm not her, you know what oh Maria told me about sarah. Ellie You are treading on some mighty thin ice here and we can break it out there. Yeah, so fucking good. So fucking good You have no idea what loss is Last of us part one and I think we're divided on where we are in the franchise I know how their last of us part two is in your all-timer list I I still prefer last of us part one just because I think it's such a like a perfectly constructed package But in both entries The performances are top-notch. Yeah, they're they're incredible and I Uh, I did get to see the last of us live Uh where these actors performed these roles on stage And gustavo played the music live wow and it was like a single night in santa monica It was the strangest weird like it was an event that Had no precedent like you don't go to see actors redo scenes From games, but they did it like a play there were like a few pieces of furniture on stage And they walked through the entire story with uh with with troj Baker and ashley johnson on stage And it was so Moving wow that's rad and very cool. Yeah, it sounds like an awesome experience while we're in uh In troj territory. I got another troj clip. I want to play let's do it. Um back to back because I think I mean he's He's sort of the andy circus of this medium kind of where he's just like good at it And he just does a great job. He's in a lot of these a lot of big range a lot of range Uh and I think his performance as higgs in death stranding and death stranding too is so fucking good Um and this is him in death stranding too his sort of intro scene in death stranding too And I think it's fucking awesome Hey brother Jim missed me Yeah, I figured you'd pay this place a visit seeing as how I've been distributing the fruits of this fine factory all over the continent The guns and violence the whole damn world could be yours Same as it ever was No Looks like you decided to trade in that rope for a stick this go around But I suppose even a porter has to pull the trigger from time to time No, what about you Hey, buddy. Hey, you just another So And what's so good about the performance is that I mean obviously This is then falls into the motion captured. They they motion captured uh The actors for the last of us also. Yeah, but Hit their likenesses are in these death stranding games and he looks fucking insane He looks so crazy He's doing so much, but it's fucking awesome and like if it was a movie you'd be like this rocks. No, such a great this I mean this is He should be in movies. He's fucking good. Yeah, he's really awesome. Yeah, he's really good But a big part of it is also the art direction of the sequence I mean and the game in general, but it's just like you hear that and I'm sure Uh, a good chunk of our listenership who has not played death stranding too is hearing that like okay I'm kind of hearing like a Some sort of sci-fi drama some terms. I don't quite clock, but I can I can follow it from context clues But what you're looking at is fucking bananas He's wearing like a mech suit Uh with like internal organs like like mechanical organs. It looks like that like a semi-transparent. Yeah, and He has a guitar. That's a gun And he's got face paint that makes him look like sting from wrestling. Yes and just a tableau You know, he's got these guards that are with him. Yeah Uh, these automatons and then also one of the lines is delivered to a sentient doll Yeah, and the doll and doll man does not like it does not like it and also animates at a different frame rate than everything else That's on screen. It's just it's such a such a visual feast. This is a for sure recency bias one as well, but like I just He's he's good. He's fucking good as hell He's astonishing in it and the lack of like Awards that stranding too received. Yeah feels like an enormous oversight by the industry for both a game of extreme passion and extreme performances It's really strange I wonder because you know when it was released everyone was like is this is a game of the year and then some time passed and I Is it one of those things where it's like, you know, the oscar movie that comes out in march And then everyone's forgotten about it by the time award season comes around I don't know. I remember when they did the first trailer for it They're like and it comes out in three months and then we were all like wait. What the fuck that's crazy Which also was because Grand Theft Auto was supposed to release in november. That's right. Yeah, so that's like clearly a fall game Yeah, that had to move release dates in order to accommodate a game that never came out And might still not you know one of the one game the soul game that's on all of our lists For favorite game of all time the one bit of overlap In all three Venn diagrams I guess it's one Venn diagram with three circles in all three circles on one Venn diagram Yeah on three different Venn diagrams, none of the circles are touching. Yeah, forget them. Forget that forget. I said that We're on one Venn diagram. We each have our own circles And we have all the games that are favorite games of all time and there's some overlap but the one that overlaps with all three of us is disco elicium and I Pick your pick your favorites to me lenval brown and disco elicium is my favorite video game performance of all time He plays the narrator and his voice is so present and so dominant and he also basically has to embody However, many different You know like like thoughts there are it's something like we think of all the emotions You can use all the affectations you can use you know your your half lights your vision core. Yeah your shivers It's uh, it's just so it's just just such a great performance. I pulled one clip of him with this is one something from the thought cabinet This is the wasteland of reality Which is when if you take one of the paths where harry ops to be the protagonist ops to be sober And you hit this and and this is something that like The writing is part of its its point and see of course this game has incredible writing But I just think this delivery is is so so great. Uh, let's let's listen to this wasteland of reality Congrats, you're sober It will take a while for your body to remember how to metabolize anything that isn't sugar from alcohol So you're going to be pretty ravenous soon Eat plenty you can expect your coordination and balance to improve in a couple of weeks In two months you might start sleeping like a normal person Full recovery will take years though. It'll be depressing And it'll be boring Don't expect any further rewards or hand claps. This is how normal people are all the time Devastatingly true Absolutely retching. Yeah, no fucking bonuses. No, not maybe I sleep better But it is so boring and miserable. What a fucking game God, what a piece of art. Well, it's also a thing of you know, because harry is such a functional uh addict If you if you take this uh, if you end up like completing this thought you end up with Three debuffs one small buff and then you also lose the positive effects you get from alcohol in the game So it's like it's a kind of thing of like you're kind of punished as a player for getting sober in the same way that when you get sober in reality, it's For some for some people it's it's it's life altering in a very positive way and and for a lot of people I I get that's the case, but for other people they're just like they just miss getting drunk. Fuck it sucks But then you also get like I feel like you then hear people like, you know, then excluded from Uh, social gatherings and things like that because there's just not something for them to do there or whatever. That is the only bonus Oh, so you like that. Yeah, I like that part Heather, what's your next one? What do you and McGregor, tom cruise Kiana Reeves, jude law, collin ferrell Martin freeman chris pratt and chris o donnell all have in common They are all officially voiced in japan by one man. Wow. And that man the official voiceover actor for every one of those actors Think what you get when you blend tom cruise when you blend Kiana Reeves when you blend you and McGregor, who is that voice? That's Toshiyuki morikawa Aka the voice of sephiroth Which also means if you watch sonic 3 in japan Shadow is the voice of sephiroth. Wow Can you imagine how fucking rad that is that's fucking awesome. Um, I play these games subtitled the the um The final fantasy remakes and also when I watch things like advent children, I'm watching it with the original voice acting by Toshiyuki morikawa. Let's give a listen to his, uh uh moments with cloud at the end of um Final fantasy 7 remake These are spoilers maybe but only if you understand japanese And only if you understand the larger context of the game I promise I won't uh make you suffer through too much of a foreign language unsubtitled in your ears But just enough that you can get that gravel that depth the deep canyon of sorrow behind every word that is sephiroth Wow The man who killed mario So fucking Delicious. Yeah, like like a cup of coffee It is like you want it you're hanging on every word kind of we kind of just like oh He's obviously bad. I gotta hear what he has to say. Yeah I love that you included a japanese language clip I do play a lot of games that were You know intended to be in japanese originally in japanese language it with the subtitles including the final fantasy 7 remake and what I played of rebirth It's a great performance. It's incredible performance. It's really good I just just in hearing that performance hearing those reads and then also hearing the range of this actor how many different English speaking actors. Yeah, he's able to embody While speaking japanese it I feel like the fucking whale here People are amazing People are amazing people are amazing. It is also kind of all those Well a lot of those movie stars you mentioned are pretty good But the fact that all it takes is one guy. Yeah, it's pretty damn He's uh his his voice as sephiroth is a is the voice of somebody daring you to fuck him While also knowing he's gonna shoot you in the head when you do. Yeah, it's incredible And I don't know if you guys have seen that I sent the lemon Sour add to the to the thread I don't know if you caught it nick because sometimes you miss my texts Um sephiroth is currently the spokesperson for lemon highball sours. Wow in japan and the commercial is him Drinking it him cg'd voiced by this actor Drinking a lemon sour and it's it's so sexy I haven't had a highball back in the u.s But I crushed so many highballs in japan because it's just like it's such like it's kind of the default cocktail there And it'll be canned very often. I drink a fucking Highball in the shin chunson. You can do that. Yeah, we did it and we did and we you can do it and we did you also You could take coffee to your room You could take coffee to your room Uh, I got one more here and this one I mean, I just think it's such a special Uh performance in an incredible video game um And it's uh, it's the actor roger clark as arthur morgan in red dead redemption 2 And like there's so many juicy moments in this in this game for him to do in particular, but like this one Uh that I picked here is like what the to me. This is the clip they would play at the oscars It's so good and uh, here we go What's wrong I'm dying sister Okay, now I got tb I got it beating the man to death for a few bucks I've lived a bad life sister We've all lived bad lives mr. Morgan. This is a nut And But I know you You don't know me Forgive me, but that's the problem. You don't know you What do you mean? I don't know but Whenever we happen to meet you you're always helping people and smiling That's son He passed away That a girl who loved me. I threw that away My mama died when I was a kid and my daddy Well, I watched him die And it weren't soon enough as cool as being a cowboy seems it seems fucking No, I wouldn't want to be a fucking cowboy. I did I'm not it's not for the faint of heart. I couldn't do it It's also strange to me when we talk about the wild west. It was a period of like 15 total years Yeah, right like it's like it's like from here to 2010 was like the era of the wild west Yeah, and these guys have have an iconography that has lasted for a hundred years. There are vikings like it's like it's it's crazy Yeah, cowboys are cool cowboys. Here's the thing, but I don't want to be no cowboy. I don't want to be no cowboy I don't want to be a cowboy cowboys are cool though. They're aesthetic is good Yeah, like the hat right That's kind of it politics probably not good probably not good Probably not probably not good. Yeah, but we can we can infer that these 19th century gun owners perhaps did not have the most progressive agenda If you ate beans outside with your friends In the 1900s 1800s 1800s You might have bad politics now Or was it 1900s, I don't know I feel like it was like turn like they were starting to have cars Well in the first one they were starting at this one might have been 1800s. You're correct because in the second one it was like closer to like 1910 It's kind of crazy. It's too current for you to be doing this All right, my actual Final clip is devora wild in boulders gate three, but i'm not going to play it Uh as good as as good as this performance is It should devora play devora wild plays lazele and a lot of people have have rightly Isolated, you know neil luban's performance as a stereo or jennifer english's performance as shadow heart The great performance is top to bottom. Everyone is good, but for me Lazele deserves some praise as well and it has gotten a lot But I just really love that performance and that's my favorite party member in the game And I also was looking for a clip of jennifer hail as fem chef Uh female shepherd the player character in mass effect, but I couldn't find a clip that just like really embodied that performance I'm go with tim curry and command and conquer red alert two ranch play the clip I'm escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism Space That is the most unbelievable thing i've ever seen What you could always tell about any tim curry performance is that No matter what he's having a fucking blast. He's awesome. He added an a before b sub Unbelievable his physicality too, I'm just like rolling his eyes up. Yeah, he's like Bless him. Wow. Yeah, one of the all-time greats Uh for my final pick, um, I would like to single out actress ellen mcclain Who plays the voice of glados in portal and portal 2 as well as uh in the voice of the ai Uh in pacific rim. She also does glados in commercials apparently for uh progressive or something. Wow. Um But none of these jokes would work without her fucking stone cold Ice queen performance as glados. So let's listen to just a little bit of a highlight From portal one Waddle over to the elevator and we'll continue the testing Well done. Here come the test results You are a horrible person That's what it says a horrible person. We weren't even testing for that I'll let that horrible person thing discourage you. It's just a data point if it makes you feel any better Science has now validated your birth mother's decision to abandon you on a doorstep Oh man, it's it's non-stop bangers in that in that script uh and Her performance like although there is slight alteration added to her voice like that's her those are her inflections Yeah, uh, and it it fucking rules Um, and it's a classic that became a meme Like how many voice actresses become a meme? Um, not many. Yeah, she became a meme. Also. She was born in like 1952 She's an older woman. God bless. That's nice. Yeah, I do that is we love our silver queens. Yeah Let's do a segment shall we segment It's time for game fuel. Wow. We've got some game related grub And this week we have the jolly bee final fantasy 14 meal. Let me go ahead and read this copy jolly bee X final fantasy 14 the X is unvoiced, but what am I supposed to do? What are you supposed to do? What am I supposed to do your hand are tied? Yeah, you gotta say that it's there It's an audio medium the X is there a jolly bee final fantasy 14 meal Featuring deliciously themed meals exclusive merch and for the first time in north america an in-game eat chicken Emote that right it comes it comes with a qr code that has a an eat chicken emote you can use in the mmo Level up jolly bee and final fantasy 14 online are teaming up for a limited time collaboration and joyful celebration of food adventure and Community So we got the final fantasy 14 Six piece bucket bundle gather your party and enjoy a six piece bucket of our juicy crispy chicken joy And three pineapple quenches served in a limited time final fantasy 14 themed bucket and includes a collectible sticker sheet to commemorate Your feast they do include due to high packaging supply due to high demand packaging supplies may be impacted and Matt I was very worried. We were really worried and I was uh, sort of half joking but kind of also serious, uh Saying that we should include a note not to forget any of the fucking stuff Uh, but we didn't have to do that because uh our prayers were answered and they did give us all the stuff Which is great. I was I was worried that they less that they'd forget it and more that they would have run out Because but we thankfully got it now, of course, this is not going to be something that's saved I'm going to save a fucking greasy bucket of chicken for the rest of my life. But bucket head. Yeah Who am I fucking guitarist bucket head? guns and roses slash replacement bucket head Can I ask some questions about the last section hero soundtrack bucket head? If your question is who's bucket head, he's a guitarist. No, I know who bucket head is What so this is my first jolly bee experience. Yeah. Oh my god Also, my I've never had it too. We've got ranch. You had jolly bee. Yeah, of course. Yeah, of course We've got chicken. We've got lemonade or or pineapple laid What is this gravy that looks like it could be gravy. So there's just like a dunking gravy Yeah, you want to dunk so you want to dunk your chicken and gravy you have that option. That's incredible. You don't have to That's incredible Yes, it is they are pineapple quenches specifically pineapple and they are all in final fantasy themed uh Uh plastic cups now they have moogles on them The way you brandished that cup was alarming. I'm doing it fine. I'm not spilling anything yet We've got some moogles with some um picked it up from the lid peach mango pies. That's cute So we got a is really cute. We got a moogle with a with a chicken drumstick a moogle with a bucket And and this is my favorite the one that's on the the bucket of chicken itself A moogle the jolly bee writing a chocobo Which is also a sticker and I think that since it's your favorite nick you should get this you should have that Oh, wow, I think we should cut up the sticker Page and and distribute stickers equally amongst us But I do think since you've called it out twice now as being your favorite guy You need the jolly bull on a jolly bee on the chick Chocobo jolly bee on a chocobo jolly bee on a jolly bee on a chocobo just fucking words jolly bee on a chocobo jolly bee on a chocobo So how do we do this we're professional voice actors we can nail that in the first take. Yeah. Well, yeah good luck with me We're just gonna taste this, huh? I mean like also you don't have to I'm just we just got the stuff is what I'm saying Uh, okay, so we got we got spicy We got half spicy and I I'm going to enjoy the spicy because I'm a bit of a heat seeker myself But we've also got half non spicy So if you want a mild the spicy ones have a little spicy flags. How fun is that? I? I love this. I I want to say you want a piece of chicken I'm gonna walk this over to you. I want to say to our listeners um, you know Both the resident evil merchant and I both got food poisoning last week and I don't know about him, but I've been Succiting on a diet of crackers Jello and then I graduated to peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. That's all I've eaten for a week I will have a bite of this chicken. There is a chance that it is going to set me back a month Okay, I took one sip of the pineapple. What's it called a pineapple refresher pineapple quencher It's heavenly. It is so good. Oh, that's excellent. Let me let me let me have a little swig myself Oh, that's great. Wow. I I also don't Have sugar and I'm sure this is full of sugar. It is delicious I rarely have a a a full sugar beverage these days myself. Um, let me go ahead and take a sip Holy shit. That's good That's really fucking good. I was going to be overpowering the sweet but instead what I'm getting is Fruity refresh refreshment. Yeah, it's great. This is like drinking a high potion It's like drinking a goddamn high potion feel rejuvenated Oh my god, that's so good. That's fucking great. It could even be a Dustin Phoenix down guys. Is this the best fast food drink I've ever had? It's delicious. This is really good It's incredible. It's doing an amazing trick of tasting like it's not bad for you. Yeah Ranch you said you didn't want one But you can't have a sip at some point. I'm also trying not to drink sugar. Oh, that's smart Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna grab a piece a piece of spicy here Oh my god, there we go. That's so good And now I wait what how do I know the flag is so fun. There anything left would be non spicy Yeah, the spicy ones have a little spicy flag guys. I'm not gonna do this All right, you don't have to you don't have to but the bucket's good, right? The bucket is good. Bucket's good It smells delicious. We did this to get the bucket. I'll tell you this this uh, this jollybee Uh on the chocobo. I may have my next tattoo It's fucking sick I love the jollybee. What a good mascot Oh my god Oh, their fried chicken is so good Fuck this is fucking awesome. I'm so happy. Oh, no It's spicy. No, it's really good. Yeah, it's really good. Can you give me a look at it? Oh, fuck God, that looks good. The spicy is really really good. Is it on a stick? This is a drumstick Oh, no, I thought it was on a wooden stick That'd be a bizarre choice. Yeah, I thought it was like an art like because sometimes you'll get vegan fried chicken And it'll be on a on a stick that crunch is incredible. Yeah, great crunch I can hear that crunch. I'm tempted to have a little gravy Have a little gravy I'll have a little although my god, please be careful. I'm not gonna spill the gravy on the carpet. Relax I did I'm I'll spill maybe a little bit. All right. Here we go. We're recording with a guest later and uh, this room is going to just smell like shit Oh My god, there was a good chance. It wasn't gonna smell too good anyway Wow, you could do I love this I don't know what we're really doing here. I don't know what to comment on we're eating fried chicken and we like it We like it The tie-in is I guess let's talk about final fantasy 14 for a second the bucket's good I never paid it was split between time to finalize 14. It was the one I kept thinking about Yeah, I just feel like I don't have time in my life for an mma. I dipped in uh, and I played it for a short while Maybe uh three months um, I've spoken before about how deeply Addicted to final fantasy 11. I was to the point where it was Detrimental to my existence um I started to feel the tug of addiction when I was playing final fantasy 14 And I had to back out So I purposefully deleted it Nick style from all of my devices sometimes you gotta do that and was like I cannot engage with this anymore because I could have done it forever um Maybe that day will come for pokopia for me Uh, because I certainly could just do it forever. Yeah, um, but that it was it's very um It's very meta game like it how it incorporates a lot of other characters from other final fantasy games um and tie ins that are Maybe inappropriate to the world of final fantasy 14, but are like larger Importance to the series on on on a whole. Yeah, um, like I think the newest update has references to final fantasy 13 in it Wow, um Lightning and such. Yeah, because that game is coming up on an anniversary So I think one of the monsters in the newest update is uh is from final fantasy 13 uh, it's a really really Great game. I'm Fascinated by the idea of the original version of it, which I never played. Oh sure I dropped chicken between the couch cushions Did you pick it up or did you just tell it out? I have to take the cushion off I was drinking the good I think it might be the best fast food fried chicken I've ever had this one. Just what I was thinking because I was like I always say Popeyes. Yeah Jollybee might be executing on a better level than Popeyes because I've had some inconsistent Popeyes. Yeah, well, I was saying earlier too Uh, because we were talking about god is fucking good our our joint fear of not getting the bucket And the cup he's cleaned the bone like a cat in a cartoon. I'm hungry If I take it in my favorite food and it's his favorite food It is it's his favorite food of all time. Are you serious? Yeah, that's why I look how happy he is He's really happy picking shit. I'm like David Hasselhoff drunk up his ass eating a cheeseburger off the floor What a mess I Saying that I I don't remember where I was going with it But basically I was like the footprint is smaller. There's not as many Jollybees as there are say McDonald's right So I think because of that they're able to operate on a higher level on a higher level Yeah, that makes sense. I mean I've certainly seen it with chain restaurants when they scale up the quality goes down Yeah, I wonder if it's also, you know, it's it's uh A non-american chain, right? Yeah And when you get McDonald's in japan, it's better than when you get McDonald's here I wonder if the Jollybee here has to be on their a game. Yeah, because they're representing An entire lineage of Jollybee. Yeah, it's great. I had never had it before this is Uh, I mean look I love it. That's five forks. That's yeah great promotion for finalized 14 That's really good because yeah, there's definitely raising brand awareness. They're doing that There was a announcement of an Evangelion tie-in to Final Fantasy 14 And then they also announced that it's coming to switch to in a confusing way. Yeah, uh, there's like a You pay a subscription. Yeah to play But nintendo switch has a separate subscription, right? That you also have to pay if you play if you pay. Yeah on other platforms. Yep. There's some real heat to that chicken Which I really like I was gonna say lingering berm. How you feeling ranch? Spicy. Yeah, it's not it's good though, right? You like it? It's not normal fast food spicy We were sort of like you get a little bit of burn. This is like a couple notches up No, not even one notch up You're used to sell a euphemistically call it white person spicy. Yes, or it's like it's been the spice level has been nerfed for Americans But this has some real burn to it again. Maybe because it's a filibino chain. Yeah, that was it's no, it's heavenly That's good stuff. I fucking love it. I'm so happy It's right at a level of spice for enjoyment. Yeah, you know what I mean? It's not like too crazy where you're like, I can't eat this actually you're kind of like this is That's the zone. I can't stop thinking about the chicken and the couch. I it's making me insane. I got it out. I retrieved it Couch chicken couch chicken Um, no that was this was a good idea. Heather. You're gonna make use of the the you're gonna make use of that chicken to moat Chicken dance moat. No, I don't play the game you chicken to moat ranch you ever messed around with finalize you 14 No, never. Oh man, maybe we should give this each chicken a moat to somebody In the discord or something. Yeah, it'd be great. We'll figure it out You have to make sure you save the receipt because you also have to include proof of purchase along with the qr code. Ah, fuck Okay We'll figure it out. We'll see if they did it That was game fuel and they hey that's this week's get played our producer's rachel chen ranch twitch.tv slash yard underscore underscore sard ranch What are you streaming these days? President needle or a queen? Where are you progress wise in the game? I'm sorry. I keep asking you as you eat chicken Um, I haven't played in a few weeks. So um, just coming up on spider town. Wow You're gonna get through it. It's gonna be okay. Yeah I'm excited to hear your impressions. I'm gonna give the Thomas a tank engine mod Our music is by ben printy ben printy music.com our artist by duck brigade design duck brigade.com Merchant kinship goods.com and a bonus episode every Wednesday on our patreon get played dlc Matt, what's this week? It's star wars month that was me being Darth Vader and I didn't have anything else for it after that May the month may the month be with you. The dlc is strong with this one. That's good. Fuck You did fine. You did fine. God damn it. You really committed to the breathing somehow dlc returned I can make you the breathing And then I got nervous that I was breathing spicy chicken on the microphone. I have to stop that Look, I got I dropped kitchen between or chicken between the couch cushions. Yeah I do a lot worse, but uh, it's star wars month on the dlc. We're gonna be talking about all different types of things All month long not just I mean, it's all gonna be star wars stuff. So it's gonna be similar in that way star wars themed things Yeah, so we're gonna we're gonna mix it up. It's gonna be a lot of fun So check that out patreon.com slash get played patreon.com slash get played and something got played this week A lot of clips of some of our favorite video game performances. That's right and also matt What did I do? I didn't do shit. You got played We would like to wrap up this week's show in memory of composer david schmoll Who composed the get animated theme song for us? He passed away this week. Check him out online. He leaves an enormous musical legacy Including his brand new off-broadway musical that just premiered last month called bigfoot All right, dr schmoll take it away That was a headgum podcast Hi, I am mandy more sterling k brown and i'm chris sullivan and we host the podcast that was us now on headgum Each episode we're gonna go into a deep dive. Yeah from our show. This is us. That's right. We're gonna go episode by episode We're also gonna pepper in episodes with different guest stars and writers and casting directors. Yeah, are we gonna cry? Yes, a little bit. Are we gonna laugh? A lot. A whole lot. That's what i'm hoping man Listen to that was us on your favorite podcast app or watch full video episodes on youtube or spotify new episodes every tuesday