Marvel Rivals is Spicy!!

Marvel Rivals finally released and the gang at Good2Game Radio love it! A hero shooter that has all the right ingredients to be a runaway success in the genre. Listen to us gush over the game!

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00:00:02.25
Tony Sisk
Hi folks. Welcome back to good to game radio. I'm your host Tony speaking. I'm here again tonight with Jaime. What's going on, man?

00:00:08.77
+Jaime G 
Hey man, what you up to today?

00:00:12.65
Tony Sisk
Nothing. Went ate lunch with the wife today. We had some tacos at a place that she'd been wanting to eat at. They were pretty good. And then we came home.

00:00:22.81
+Jaime G 
Hey.

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Tony Sisk
I asked her, do you want to go shopping? She said, Nope, not really. I'm like, okay.

00:00:27.13
+Jaime G 
Okay, I know a thing or two about tacos. um Partially because I'm from Mexico, so where did you get some tacos?

00:00:37.61
Tony Sisk
ah House of Tacos.

00:00:44.20
Tony Sisk
House of Tacos. It's across from Slim Chicken next to the Super Walmart Murfboro.

00:00:51.27
+Jaime G 
You can't you can't go wrong with it with a name like that.

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Tony Sisk
And that gives it a little shopping center.

00:00:53.71
+Jaime G 
Okay.

00:00:56.20
Tony Sisk
The House of Tacos, yeah. wasn't too It wasn't anything very fancy, but it was good.

00:00:59.45
+Jaime G 
Okay.

00:01:01.93
Tony Sisk
The tacos were good. They had these little cups of spicy sauce that I put on there, gave it a little kick. I like my food to be spicy, so that was a nice nice touch to have.

00:01:16.63
Tony Sisk
And then they were just good.

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+Jaime G 
Well,

00:01:18.74
Tony Sisk
I had steak tacos. I had three of them, and they were all steak tacos.

00:01:20.94
+Jaime G 
i went I went to a Thai place yesterday, Tony. And they, you know how they ask you, like, do you want a one through five?

00:01:30.45
Tony Sisk
Mm hmm.

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+Jaime G 
I said three. And for the most part I survived, but there was one bite that I took at one point that was like, that all the heat was in that one bite.

00:01:40.53
Tony Sisk
Yeah. Did you go to Lucky Tie?

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+Jaime G 
it's It's that Thai place that's that's over by ah El Camino, like from by by near Stewart's Creek.

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Tony Sisk
I don't know. I don't know that one. Oh, wait, yeah, I do.

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+Jaime G 
All I know, man, it's like B.

00:02:00.42
Tony Sisk
Oh, no, no, no, I know. I know what you're talking about.

00:02:03.95
+Jaime G 
Thai or something.

00:02:05.02
Tony Sisk
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:02:05.30
+Jaime G 
It's got a B.

00:02:07.28
Tony Sisk
Yeah, I know that. I know that place. I've never eaten there, but I know which place you know.

00:02:09.44
+Jaime G 
the The food wasn't bad, but again, it was, it was very tricky because I was like, okay, this isn't too bad. Let me, let me keep on eating this. And then all of a sudden there was just one bite that I swear, Tony, it tore me up for the whole afternoon, man. And it was just one bite. It was like, ah,

00:02:29.94
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:02:32.72
Tony Sisk
ah When we go and eat Thai, we always, I tend to always order the same dish. It's the basil fried rice with chicken.

00:02:44.50
+Jaime G 
Uh-huh.

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Tony Sisk
Just so I can compare, like this standard dish you can find in all Thai places. I want to compare how all these different places prepare that dish.

00:02:55.96
+Jaime G 
I thought it was a pad tie that then that you can find in all the places.

00:02:59.33
Tony Sisk
Yep, that's when my wife orders that, but I do the basil basil fried rice.

00:03:04.84
+Jaime G 
OK.

00:03:05.03
Tony Sisk
And and then I'm like, okay, kick it up to the highest heat level you have. And yeah, there's a place not far from here. It's a Lucky Thai, it's off of Highway 96.

00:03:17.82
Tony Sisk
And that place there, Basil Thai fried rice at ah spice level five. Just, it's so hot. i I can barely eat it and I can eat hot food.

00:03:29.45
+Jaime G 
wait you go level you go five ye you're crazy man

00:03:34.04
Tony Sisk
Yeah, I go five. um And every time I go there, well, every time I go there, I'll have to alternate. Sometimes I'll go four. but It's just like, okay, I just can't, I can't handle your five today.

00:03:44.57
Tony Sisk
So I'll give you four, but I can go back and forth between the four and five, but every other place that we go to, we've gone, we've probably eaten to maybe every Thai restaurant in middle of Tennessee.

00:03:56.58
Tony Sisk
And it's like, oh, theirs is the best, Lucky Thai.

00:03:59.41
+Jaime G 
Tony, I know. OK. This thing, honestly, I mean, it was so great. Just don't get me wrong. But I had to drive afterwards to Opryland for like their ice, you know, ice exhibit that they do every year.

00:04:19.74
+Jaime G 
Dude, I was you.

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Tony Sisk
You were looking for the bathroom.

00:04:23.74
+Jaime G 
Dude, you know that exit. You know that exit right on, uh, right before you get exact.

00:04:26.36
Tony Sisk
Oh, that exit is horrible.

00:04:28.99
+Jaime G 
Okay. Imagine 30 minutes.

00:04:31.72
Tony Sisk
It probably took an hour to get into Iverland.

00:04:34.64
+Jaime G 
and yeah It was 30 minutes just to get off that exit, man. And and after that tile, I counted every minute.

00:04:46.06
Tony Sisk
Well, you know what else is spicy?

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+Jaime G 
Marvel rivals.

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Tony Sisk
Exactly you hit it right on the head first guess yes yes ah Marvel Rivals the new release it came out last was it Thursday Yeah, it was Thursday because the we thought the official release was on Friday, but it was actually Thursday for us

00:05:01.94
+Jaime G 
but Okay, so here's the thing you. Well, it's because it was midnight. Of the server time zone and I don't know where their service is at, but I was able to download it at 5 PM my time on Thursday.

00:05:20.67
Tony Sisk
Yeah, and and we play. I know we played. You me and Vance played some on Thursday night.

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+Jaime G 
Yeah, that was fun.

00:05:27.83
Tony Sisk
Yep. um Yeah.

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+Jaime G 
Hey, by the way, this, I'm not kidding. We started doing a lot better when you logged off.

00:05:37.21
Tony Sisk
and I'm sure. um That what day was that Friday?

00:05:42.97
+Jaime G 
Yes.

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Tony Sisk
Oh yeah, that was Friday. Yeah. Well, I mean. I had been playing since like two o'clock that afternoon and you guys didn't get on to like 9.45 and that was basically I was out of gas and I had to go to bed because I still had to work in the morning but yeah I was just kind of like beat by then.

00:05:53.77
+Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:06:02.60
+Jaime G 
Well, I think I know what happened. So, okay, we're all figuring this game out, right? And you're supposed to have either, you know, the mix of Vanguard, to strategist, to dualist, which I guess is the...

00:06:17.98
Tony Sisk
No, I know what happened in that one game I was with you guys. Every single person played duelists.

00:06:23.27
+Jaime G 
Exactly. we had We had absolutely zero support And, and as I play this game more and more, I realized that that is a very key differentiator. If you have somebody who's on point doing, doing what they need to, you can go that much farther.

00:06:42.55
Tony Sisk
right so people okay before we get in it further into the game for the part of the audience like you know like a buddy of mine yesterday who texted me last night he's like hey man what was that game you were talking about that's free and I'm like Marvel rivals and he had not heard of it

00:06:59.78
+Jaime G 
What?

00:07:00.51
Tony Sisk
Which is amazing because he I know he's a huge Marvel fan. and he didn't and But he didn't know anything about the game. I'm like, dude, you've been under a rock? But anyway, he texted me last night wanting to know what the name of the game was. So I'm guessing maybe he's playing today. but ah So, yeah.

00:07:18.54
+Jaime G 
Marble Rivals.

00:07:20.60
Tony Sisk
So for the audience, um it's a six versus six shooter, and it's a hero based shooter where every person has a specific character, in this case, a character from the Marvel universe that they they did choose to play.

00:07:37.96
Tony Sisk
And each character has its own set of powers, making each character unique in some in in multiple ways.

00:07:46.14
+Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:07:48.06
Tony Sisk
So you're part of a team of six, and usually you know you're playing on a map in the three modes, I think, that are the primary modes. There's one kind of like you fight over one particular point and try to hold it for a certain amount of time.

00:08:03.04
Tony Sisk
um And then there's like an escort where you're, there's usually a vehicle of some sort that you have to escort as a team through multiple streets to get to its final destination.

00:08:09.88
+Jaime G 
Right. Mm hmm.

00:08:15.85
Tony Sisk
There's a timer on that and multiple checkpoints. so You have to hit each checkpoint in a certain amount of time. Otherwise, you lose. And if you're the defending team, you just want to keep the but offensive team from um making it our way to the end.

00:08:31.55
Tony Sisk
ah And then what's the final mode?

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+Jaime G 
Right. What's a third mode?

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Tony Sisk
um It's like a best of three of capture point, right?

00:08:40.16
+Jaime G 
I don't know. I feel like i've I've mainly played the first two modes that you just that you just indicated.

00:08:47.11
Tony Sisk
Yeah, but those are the primary team based modes. Did you know there's an arcade mode in this?

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+Jaime G 
I haven't figured, how did you get into that?

00:08:56.89
Tony Sisk
I don't remember, but I got into it and. it It's great if you're trying to practice with a certain character against live players versus just doing the practice AI where you have a team of live players going against AI. ah In the arcade mode, you get to find it out over tiny maps against another live team. And what's great is to respawn, there's no running back.

00:09:28.04
Tony Sisk
You literally just respawn right there on the edge of the map of the tiny map and you jump right back in.

00:09:28.25
+Jaime G 
Right.

00:09:36.47
+Jaime G 
Man, you know, this is weird because on Friday when when you and Vance were playing, remember I was texting you everyone, everyone like, how do I even play?

00:09:36.87
Tony Sisk
So.

00:09:45.31
+Jaime G 
I don't know what to do. I found that first introduction to the interface to be quite confusing.

00:09:52.30
Tony Sisk
Right. I'm glad you brought that up because um once you sign in with your free account and you start playing. um They send you an email.

00:10:05.04
Tony Sisk
And it says, hey, here's a survey. Fill out the survey, you get like 100 or a certain amount of tokens. ah one of their I think there's two or three different two or three different type of currencies.

00:10:13.27
+Jaime G 
Right. Add purple currency.

00:10:17.52
Tony Sisk
And one of them, they offer you like 100 of these tokens to fill out a survey of your experience, so forth, the game. So I filled mine out.

00:10:27.72
Tony Sisk
I'm like, OK, let me do this. play PlayStation 5 takes you to its internet browser. to where the survey is. It's like five questions, you know, simple, super simple. But one of the questions is like, you know, what would be like one of the negatives you would have to say about the game? My negative was the user interface text is too small.

00:10:49.10
Tony Sisk
i can't read half i mean I can't read a lot of what's on the interface.

00:10:52.68
+Jaime G 
ah

00:10:53.12
Tony Sisk
It's too small. for And I find that to be the case with a lot of console games that are primarily PC games. like there's not a good For some reason, there's not a ah good happy medium for console players.

00:11:10.20
Tony Sisk
So the text is small all the time. But, you know, so it's hard to actually see the navigation of the menu and and there's a lot of weird. Like you have, there's like a, a mouse feature where you take the cursor and you put it over a section and then you can scroll that section.

00:11:28.93
+Jaime G 
Yes.

00:11:29.24
Tony Sisk
But the mouse, the mouse has to be over the section.

00:11:29.84
+Jaime G 
Yes.

00:11:32.15
Tony Sisk
If it's not over the section, it won't scroll. You don't even know that it has that capability. So I spent like two hours on Saturday, just going through all these different pages and trying to see what was was hidden.

00:11:45.86
Tony Sisk
And that's how I ended up on the arcade section.

00:11:50.07
+Jaime G 
Right. Right. Right. So, I mean, my my my initial complaint here is that At first glance, I had no idea how to jump into a match, how to connect with players.

00:12:01.55
+Jaime G 
I was lost until you added me to to the squad. I had legit no idea what to do.

00:12:08.81
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:12:10.12
+Jaime G 
I mean, it wasn't like my UI experience was not the greatest to start off. um But once I started playing with you guys, I i realized that there's something interesting about this game.

00:12:23.33
+Jaime G 
ah Before I go down that path, there's only three game modes, by the way, combo, like you said, escort something. Domination is where you have to hold the the a certain area until you reach 100%. And there's a third mode called conversions, which is kind of technically the same exact thing as domination. ah You're assigned as like in kind of in domination, both both the teams are trying to hold a certain spot.

00:12:52.46
+Jaime G 
Whereas in conversions, one team has to try to hold the spot, the other one tries to. It doesn't matter if they hold the spot or not. They're just trying to make sure the other team doesn't do it, which to me is kind of like the exact same thing as domination.

00:13:05.44
Tony Sisk
yeah there's yeah it's it's a thin line there and it's and I know but I know one of them is a best of three so it tends to be a longer match where the oh the the just the one point is a shorter match which you know is nice yeah because two of them are kind of the same

00:13:09.48
+Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:13:15.33
+Jaime G 
Yeah. Yeah.

00:13:20.35
+Jaime G 
Yeah. That's when, when you said three months, I'm like, I only feel like I've done two.

00:13:26.72
+Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:13:26.95
Tony Sisk
ah

00:13:27.35
+Jaime G 
Now, now that's another neck for me at lunch right out the gate. I think there's not a lot of game modes and there's with the market saturated with games like this, you can take a lesson from destiny, call it duty, fortnight, overwatch, all of these to come up and to at least say, Hey, I can come up with more than three game modes. And yeah, actually maybe I would have been even happier if it would have been three very distinct game modes, not three and two of them are kind of like the same.

00:14:03.15
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:14:03.76
+Jaime G 
and

00:14:05.48
Tony Sisk
Well, I'm sure there's going to be some other game, over but it seems like ah a game is such a like a core part of the game. It's like.

00:14:13.74
+Jaime G 
Right.

00:14:15.28
Tony Sisk
Like.

00:14:18.00
Tony Sisk
out I see that as a significant upgrade. oh So something beneficial of a future release or some sort. They're trying to to to like milk this for as long as they can.

00:14:26.29
+Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:14:29.83
Tony Sisk
right I'm sure this is one of those projects where we want people playing this for 10 years. just like overwatch people have been playing overwatch for what over a decade now right when the last generation of consoles released back in 2014 I think overwatch came out maybe 2015 so we're looking at nine years 2016 so eight years

00:14:48.46
+Jaime G 
2016.

00:14:52.50
Tony Sisk
um

00:14:52.57
+Jaime G 
and And by the way, the first Overwatch was worth 40 bucks on release. And if you're if anywhere you go, and I actually had it on release, ah it wasn't really that great of a game. But but here we are, right? Eight years later, and it is in They have built up a lot to beat with a point that they're at right now.

00:15:21.06
Tony Sisk
yeah And I remember when Overwatch released, I think it only had two game modes. It had an Escort and it had Capture and Point. I think that was it. Same same deal.

00:15:30.91
+Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:15:31.77
Tony Sisk
And this in in Marvel Rivals is pretty much a clone of Overwatch.

00:15:32.05
+Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:15:37.69
+Jaime G 
Oh, okay. I got, I got.

00:15:38.27
Tony Sisk
It looks almost exactly like it in a lot of ways.

00:15:41.05
+Jaime G 
Actually, marble rivals, bears, too much of assembly resemblance to Overwatch. just it's It's uncanny like the X-Men, man.

00:15:53.00
Tony Sisk
Yeah, so, yeah.

00:15:53.14
+Jaime G 
See what I did?

00:15:55.88
Tony Sisk
um Yeah.

00:15:59.68
+Jaime G 
But but it has it has some unique features that I do appreciate. um and but But let's talk about that for a second. The team up abilities when properly executed, they can be game changers.

00:16:17.37
+Jaime G 
There's some team up abilities that are just terrible. I mean, they, they just did something to say that they did something, but there's some, like I, I've been playing moon knight a lot.

00:16:22.99
Tony Sisk
yeah

00:16:28.87
+Jaime G 
And if you have cloak and dagger in your team, moon knight gets an ability where he can go invisible for a couple of seconds.

00:16:35.54
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:16:36.54
+Jaime G 
That actually it was great. and And it's like, I also like the fact that when you're creating your squad, there's a way that you can request a team up with a character.

00:16:47.65
+Jaime G 
So if somebody's like on the fence of what am I going to pick and somebody saying like, Hey, I really need you to pick Thor.

00:16:47.70
Tony Sisk
yeah

00:16:53.26
+Jaime G 
Yeah. Somebody can be like, Oh yeah. Well, let me go help you out.

00:16:56.18
Tony Sisk
Yeah. And I think also when you're when you're in the character selection screen, which I will say that I need I'm going to need like 15 more seconds in the character selection screen.

00:17:08.24
+Jaime G 
Yes, I agree.

00:17:09.95
Tony Sisk
They give you 30 seconds. It's not enough time because one, it takes you 10 seconds just to figure out the navigation of the character selection. And two, you're trying to wait to see what everybody else is playing.

00:17:21.27
Tony Sisk
And there's people in there holding off a picking just like you are to see what everybody else is picking.

00:17:25.86
+Jaime G 
Right.

00:17:27.22
Tony Sisk
So nobody's picking anything until the timer gets down to like eight seconds. And like, I guess I'll house have to take this. And then it's like, okay.

00:17:34.53
+Jaime G 
Yeah, I'll play strategist. I'll take the bullet, right?

00:17:38.00
Tony Sisk
Yeah, I guess I'll for I'll be the healer, you know, or we don't have a tank. I guess I'll do the tank thing. um But.

00:17:50.75
Tony Sisk
Is there a lot of difference in how overwatching this game play? and No, not really.

00:17:55.31
+Jaime G 
Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.

00:17:55.54
Tony Sisk
ah in In the core aspects of it, right?

00:17:58.05
+Jaime G 
Whoa.

00:17:58.62
Tony Sisk
But the team up ability. ah Is like you said, for most of them, insignificant, but there were some that are good. Uh, but just the fact that you have that aspect is really cool because you know, there was a one team up ability Vance and I were playing a game you weren't on at the time. Uh, we were playing a game and there was a group had Jeff, the land shark on his shoulder, right?

00:18:32.12
+Jaime G 
Right.

00:18:33.91
Tony Sisk
And to me, I was like, okay, is that really helping? I mean, that's a team of ability.

00:18:37.46
+Jaime G 
No, that's, that's one of the ones that I think is terrible.

00:18:41.11
Tony Sisk
Actually, so Jeff is one of the better healers in the game. When he's on Groot's shoulders, he's he's literally healing Groot continuously when he's up on his shoulders.

00:18:56.19
Tony Sisk
So it makes Groot into like a super meaty tank.

00:19:00.53
+Jaime G 
Super tank.

00:19:01.93
Tony Sisk
super tank so I don't know I mean in some cases they're great like the one where you throw Wolverine I don't know when you're like you can pick up Wolverine and throw him I don't know how great that is

00:19:11.06
+Jaime G 
Well, I mean, i but no.

00:19:17.05
+Jaime G 
But see, here's where I think if you have a really well-formed squad, you can make up for character flaws. I've been playing some Bucky, and Bucky is a character that has his primary weapon, only has three bullets before he has to reload. And sometimes it's is very key when you spend those three bullets, okay? And if you're not a good shot like I am, it's it's even more critical.

00:19:41.52
+Jaime G 
However, if you have Rocket Raccoon in your team, Rocket Raccoon can launch this little pod, or I don't know how to call it, I haven't played Rocket.

00:19:51.17
Tony Sisk
Yeah. Oh yeah. His team up ability gives you like a boost in your damage, right?

00:19:56.96
+Jaime G 
No, infinite ammo.

00:19:59.43
Tony Sisk
Oh, okay. Infinite. It's infinite ammo.

00:20:00.92
+Jaime G 
So imagine I have a character that his primary weapon is is strong, but you only have three shots, that's the trade-off. So now you have a really strong weapon with infinite ammo and you're not reloading.

00:20:13.95
Tony Sisk
So I will say this about that team up ability, if you're playing Rocket, I believe you actually have to initiate the team up ability with that particular in that particular place where you're you have to push the triangle button on the PlayStation controller, and he will throw that infinite ammo onto Bucky's back or whatever. ah Because a lot of the past a lot of the team up abilities, a lot of them tend to be passive. You just have to be in the group.

00:20:42.24
Tony Sisk
um

00:20:42.30
+Jaime G 
No, no, no, no.

00:20:44.34
Tony Sisk
No, some of them are.

00:20:44.41
+Jaime G 
I mean, there there's some that are.

00:20:45.84
Tony Sisk
i've i've I've read through them.

00:20:46.58
+Jaime G 
ah Yeah, you're right.

00:20:46.88
Tony Sisk
They're just passive ability, but some do require you to initiate things.

00:20:48.90
+Jaime G 
You're right.

00:20:52.51
Tony Sisk
ah So one of the early achievements, and there's all kinds of achievements in this game, and you want to or you want to work through the achievements because they give you currency, ah different types of currency.

00:21:04.44
+Jaime G 
Yes. I've been trying to but play a lot of the missions to get the currency so I can buy skins or graffiti or whatever.

00:21:13.68
Tony Sisk
right so uh i can't remember what it's called like there's a main it's a main event and it looks like a triangular broken glass that's not filled in but it when you complete certain achievements it fills in the picture well the very first achievement on this is uh use thor force with Captain America or or so or Storm.

00:21:40.23
+Jaime G 
We're captain America or storm. I was just right now trying to get that and I can't get anybody to team up with me.

00:21:43.71
Tony Sisk
um

00:21:46.98
Tony Sisk
Dude, you cannot get that by yourself, right? Because here's the thing.

00:21:49.58
+Jaime G 
I know.

00:21:50.32
Tony Sisk
One, it says use Thor Force if wow cap while playing Captain America or Storm, okay?

00:21:58.17
+Jaime G 
Uh-huh.

00:21:59.46
Tony Sisk
So me and Vance tried to get that. We played One played Captain America, other played Storm, right? We couldn't get it. Well, it comes to find out after a couple of games of trying to get it to work, you need Thor.

00:22:14.11
Tony Sisk
You can't get it unless you have somebody playing Thor because Thor is the one that that causes Thor Force to occur.

00:22:24.09
+Jaime G 
Yes.

00:22:25.03
Tony Sisk
So if there's a Thor player on your team, whenever he initiates certain actions, he generates Thor Force. In the case of Captain America, that electrifies his shield.

00:22:37.30
Tony Sisk
And then he has to kill somebody with an electrified shield in order to get the credit to accomplish this achievement.

00:22:38.06
+Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:22:43.50
Tony Sisk
You have to get five kills. So you, you, you have to either play Captain America or storm when there's a Thor in the, in the team.

00:22:53.77
Tony Sisk
And Thor has to be activating his store force. Like it's not something that is just.

00:22:57.21
+Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:22:59.33
Tony Sisk
All in all the time.

00:23:00.21
+Jaime G 
Okay. Literally before you and I started recording this evening, I told you I was playing rivals.

00:23:06.96
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:23:07.96
+Jaime G 
I was playing a storm and I was like kept on signaling people you store. I need a team up ability. Nobody did.

00:23:20.38
Tony Sisk
Not a lot of people are playing Thor and I have an interesting story about Thor as soon as you finish your story.

00:23:26.67
+Jaime G 
Yeah, no, no, no. So, so I know exactly what you're saying, but, but look, it's got us talking about this. It's interesting there. What I am defining about this game is that it literally rewards you for experimenting with different characters, or it at least tries to reward you to experiment with different characters and combinations.

00:23:46.83
Tony Sisk
Right, and the experimentation portion is fairly easy. ah you know So when you go to the character selection screen, just in the general menu, not during a game, ah it gives you a complete breakdown of every character.

00:23:52.11
+Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:24:05.09
Tony Sisk
You go go into the menu and there's you tab over to their abilities.

00:24:12.13
Tony Sisk
And it shows a video. of every ability that they do. You just put your cursor over it, and then you just watch the video.

00:24:19.15
+Jaime G 
Right, right.

00:24:22.06
Tony Sisk
So that's that's a good way to like get an idea of what each character does. And then you can go into the matchmaking system and change the matchmaking to a practice.

00:24:34.53
Tony Sisk
And you can practice against the AI system.

00:24:36.48
+Jaime G 
Galak bots.

00:24:38.48
Tony Sisk
And that will put you into a, yeah, bot. So it puts you into a match. with other players on your team are all human guided players. And you're going up against another team that's all bots. And they're actually pretty hard to beat, actually. um Yeah, like can even easy bots are hard to beat. ah But you can you can practice using your ah character's abilities in there.

00:25:09.56
Tony Sisk
and You can actually gain some achievements in there too. Uh, in certain cases in just practicing.

00:25:16.62
+Jaime G 
I didn't know that.

00:25:18.02
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:25:18.24
+Jaime G 
Okay.

00:25:19.11
Tony Sisk
Um, just practicing. And, um, and then then you want to take that, uh, uh, what you've learned and into a real match. You know, and try it out there. Well, you're going up against human players. Let me take going up against human players. is It's chaos. but It's absolute chaos and a warning. If you're just getting into Marvel arrivals, you've never played an Overwatch style game or hero shooter style game. There is a learning curve to this, right?

00:25:52.61
Tony Sisk
because you're going to run into players that are very, very good with their characters.

00:25:56.63
+Jaime G 
Oh, definitely. Most definitely.

00:25:57.90
Tony Sisk
And a lot of times the the base is very far away from where most of the fighting is happening. And most of these characters, when they die, when you respawn at the base after like 10 seconds, it is a very long run.

00:26:18.16
Tony Sisk
And a lot of these characters are very slow at running. Uh, and you're going to get back to the fight and immediately die again.

00:26:26.21
+Jaime G 
So actually what you just said for the anybody who's listening to this is one of the reasons that there's some characters that I just refuse to play. um I've liked for example the Punisher because he's got a grappling hook mechanic and I use that to try to just like immediately dart and try to get as fast as I can back into the action area. I like playing this as Luna because one of her passives is if you after you walk maybe for like five seconds she starts skiing and it's achieves quite fast. The drawback with Luna is that

00:27:02.93
+Jaime G 
If you make it to the battle zone first before everyone else, you're probably going to get killed because she's not a she's not a duelist.

00:27:09.99
Tony Sisk
Right.

00:27:10.43
+Jaime G 
She's a strategist. ah But there's things like that that you just come to accept. And you try to overcome that by changing error your play style or your characters.

00:27:25.21
Tony Sisk
Right. Yeah, that that long run back in the slow movement of most of the characters, most of the characters are fairly slow. ah makes it so it makes it hurt so much more when you die. Because like, Oh, God, I got to make this long run back. Unless you have somebody on a team that can revive you. And interestingly enough, ah the first character one of the first characters I started playing was a rocket raccoon. And he has a revive, he can revive one person on on his cooldown. And

00:28:00.87
Tony Sisk
You're lucky if you're that one person because he's going to respond wherever he throws that down and assuming he's not being, you know, a troll and throwing it way away from the fight. oh If he throws it next to the battle zone, you'll be right back in there, but you know.

00:28:19.10
Tony Sisk
Revives are very few but far between. But yeah, there's a there's a high skill level of this game. And it's just you're going to have to play through a lot of difficult times.

00:28:30.51
Tony Sisk
The very first couple of days of of this game, it was just because you kept asking me, Tony, what kind of what what hero yeah are you going to main?

00:28:41.10
Tony Sisk
I have no idea.

00:28:41.22
+Jaime G 
Yeah. Like I kept on asking people over the weekend, like, are you shifting? Are you finding yourself leaning towards new characters, different characters? Kind of what's, what's the story?

00:28:51.94
Tony Sisk
Right. And I could just never give you an answer. Right. I'm like, I don't know. Right. Because like I kept trying a character, trying different characters. um I probably went through like 10 or 12 characters.

00:29:02.13
+Jaime G 
So have you finally decided on somebody, maybe not your go-to character every single time, but a character that you feel comfortable saying, yeah, I like playing this character?

00:29:13.05
Tony Sisk
I have found that character. I definitely have found that character.

00:29:15.84
+Jaime G 
Do tell.

00:29:18.57
Tony Sisk
Thor is my character. Let me tell you. He has a knockback.

00:29:29.57
Tony Sisk
That is really, really good. um And it's not even something that they like. It says it in the in the ability description news, Thor's hammer.

00:29:41.95
Tony Sisk
And you basically what you do is you launch yourself as Thor. um And you hit somebody with the hammer as you're launching yourself. Right. And you'll grab that person or you hit that person and you'll fly through the air. um And you'll make up basically knock them 20 or 30 yards back off the zone. Right. And it will go further.

00:30:06.22
Tony Sisk
Like you, how it starts is you spin your hammer, right? you So you spin your hammer and then when you release your, uh, lease your hammer or release the trigger, he is Vanguard.

00:30:15.47
+Jaime G 
Is he vanguard, by the way? Or dualist? Okay.

00:30:19.60
Tony Sisk
He's a Vanguard. So when he spins his hammer and you release, he launches himself. You hit a play and you, you aim for a player and it will hit him. and you and that player will go flying like a long way away from the zone.

00:30:35.81
Tony Sisk
So you can knock dudes out out of the area, right? And what I really love to do is aim for the healers and or or the duelist.

00:30:48.08
+Jaime G 
Oh, you're disrupting the strategy. Yeah.

00:30:50.04
Tony Sisk
Yeah, aim for the healers first. If not, I go for Hawkeye or Black Widow, any of the guys get one shot you right from the back line, I go for them and I'll launch them out of the, I'll hit them and I'll take them right out of the zone. And then they're helpless because after I, the knockback concludes, there's kind of like a little bit of a stun effect. And then I just finish them off with my hammer with a couple of licks. And then I go back to the zone, dude, I've gotten four matching VPs I've scored.

00:31:27.39
Tony Sisk
At least two matches where I've had over 30 kills.

00:31:31.73
+Jaime G 
I've yet to get ah an MVP. I've got an SVP though.

00:31:36.41
Tony Sisk
Yeah. I don't know what SVP is.

00:31:38.79
+Jaime G 
Second.

00:31:40.10
Tony Sisk
Okay.

00:31:40.39
+Jaime G 
i don don't I don't know, man.

00:31:41.07
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:31:41.95
+Jaime G 
I'm making it up.

00:31:42.15
Tony Sisk
Second valuable player. Yeah. I've got, so one of the achievements is score MVP five times. I have four of them and they're all with Thor and.

00:31:54.06
Tony Sisk
one because he's vanguard he's fairly big he absorbs a lot of damage right and if you get paired if i get paired with a good healer

00:32:05.77
+Jaime G 
Yeah, yeah.

00:32:06.28
Tony Sisk
i I, dude, I dominate the point wherever it is. And I just knock dudes back. I would knock them off. you You can throw a shield up. The shield's just okay.

00:32:18.08
Tony Sisk
But when you throw the shield up, ah like it's like like a little globe shield. It doesn't really block a whole lot.

00:32:23.36
+Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:32:24.00
Tony Sisk
But what it does is I think it generates Thor Force. um And then you can also kind of use your hammer to like launch lightning bolts.

00:32:36.18
Tony Sisk
And dude, um I'm having a great time with the winner. Sometimes I'll have a bad game or two, but it's usually tied to the fact that I don't have a healer working with me.

00:32:44.31
+Jaime G 
The right exactly. So, so, okay. So SVP stands for second valuable player. And it's basically the MVP of the losing team.

00:32:54.68
Tony Sisk
Okay, gotcha.

00:32:56.55
+Jaime G 
Okay. Well, okay. Much like quick. I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm hearing some excitement in what you're in. And you tell us about Thor and your playthroughs.

00:33:06.62
Tony Sisk
Oh yeah, um but I'm 11 Thor.

00:33:08.15
+Jaime G 
Okay.

00:33:09.13
Tony Sisk
loventhor I've actually leveled him up a rank.

00:33:09.37
+Jaime G 
Okay.

00:33:13.00
+Jaime G 
Tonight or something.

00:33:13.17
Tony Sisk
I don't know tonight. Yeah. So I've already got him up to tonight, which is no small achievement because it takes a lot of points. um ah cheat Like I don't know what they're called.

00:33:21.50
+Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:33:23.66
Tony Sisk
They're called. They're like, I don't know. They're kind of weird how the point system for the level leveling up works because when you go into after

00:33:27.96
+Jaime G 
Lattice or something.

00:33:34.30
Tony Sisk
Like when you're out of the game, you can go to like the character selection screen and check the proficiency that you have with that character.

00:33:41.42
+Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:33:43.67
Tony Sisk
And it shows like four different categories.

00:33:43.84
+Jaime G 
Yep.

00:33:47.27
Tony Sisk
ah And it has...

00:33:47.69
+Jaime G 
One of them is is how much time you've actually played with the character.

00:33:52.39
Tony Sisk
Right. So every time you hit a certain like an hour, like an hour's time,

00:33:54.12
+Jaime G 
I remember that stuck with me, yeah.

00:33:58.73
Tony Sisk
ah gives It gives you like 50 experience points or whatever it is that they're, whatever these points are that they're giving you, it awards you with that. And that's how you rank up your character. So yeah.

00:34:10.79
+Jaime G 
Okay, okay, okay, Tony, so myself, I mean, other than Thor, are you kind of like miss experimenting with another character that you really want, like want to talk about?

00:34:20.91
Tony Sisk
Uh, well, I've always been, I mean, I still in search of a, of the healer that I really, um because you know, I tend to gravitate to support South gameplay. Uh, so um I was looking for a healer that I really enjoyed.

00:34:36.37
Tony Sisk
Um, haven't quite found that yet. I thought Luna was decent.

00:34:39.97
+Jaime G 
Jeff, so cute, man.

00:34:42.07
Tony Sisk
Uh, or, you know, Jeff the shark, I haven't played Jeff the shark yet, but, um, Jeff the land shark, but, uh,

00:34:47.77
+Jaime G 
Have you heard him just like strolling around whenever you're, you know, when you first leave the spawn and everyone's like trying to get to the objective, the little Landshark is just like, you know, humming along and he's got like some so such, such, such cute effects.

00:35:00.68
Tony Sisk
Dude that character man i I keep my ear period out. I mean, ah oh, wide open. If I see Jeff the Landshark on the other team, because he makes that every character makes like a particular noise when when.

00:35:13.92
+Jaime G 
He makes, No, but he's like humming or doing something that's just so cute.

00:35:15.72
Tony Sisk
Oh, yeah, when they when they activate like major abilities and stuff like characters will don't tip it by making a sound of some sort. And you got to.

00:35:26.32
Tony Sisk
That's another thing. OK, learning. Oh, you know, when you hear Scarlett, which make her Scream or whatever it is get out of there, right? ah That's the same way that most of the characters Like Jeff the Landshark what he'll do is he'll swallow you up and this is really bad on the Black Panther map ah Where you're fighting the points what he'll do is he'll come in activate his ability Whirlpool everybody into his mouth and then he'll go and he can do one or two things he can spit everybody off the ledge and Kill him

00:35:35.69
+Jaime G 
Right.

00:35:47.89
+Jaime G 
Oh, he'll just Okay, by the way, here's but here's kind of where I think his abilities like

00:36:01.46
Tony Sisk
by doing it that way or two, he can jump with himself off the ledge and kill anybody that he's got in his in his mouth.

00:36:14.03
+Jaime G 
interesting is that when he swallows up everybody, he swallows up both teammates and opposing team members alike.

00:36:21.30
Tony Sisk
Mm hmm.

00:36:22.63
+Jaime G 
And when when you spit out ah the characters, you can decide if you want to spit out your teammates or the other guys. So it gives you a lot of control over kind of how you're going to continue the match at that point.

00:36:31.87
Tony Sisk
Oh, okay.

00:36:40.49
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:36:40.67
+Jaime G 
But i I have been in one of those where I just get like, he just spit me out and I was like, I didn't have a character that had like a multi jump or an air dash or anything to survive it.

00:36:51.28
Tony Sisk
Yeah, I was able to survive one of those with Thor because um he spit me out over the ledge and I was able to to use my spinning hammer to launch myself back up onto the platform. So.

00:37:09.27
+Jaime G 
Well, Well, I'm gonna tell you something here, man. There's something that's just brilliant about this game. In one of my matchups, I was playing Bucky. And I, he before the match started, you know, there's this wall that you're waiting for it for it to come down before you actually start. I started shooting it and then punching it and then like doing the different abilities that Bucky has. Each ability left different kinds of scuff marks on the wall.

00:37:41.08
+Jaime G 
that that were like really close to what I was doing. So if it was a bullet, there was just like a little little hole. If it was like one of the one of the abilities where he launches like this energy blast, there was like this big old explosion on the wall. But there's another level, okay, where there's like a a a drum.

00:38:03.89
+Jaime G 
And you can actually hit the drum and it'll make different sounds based on where you're hitting it.

00:38:09.82
Tony Sisk
yeah

00:38:10.19
+Jaime G 
There's a lot of really interesting small details like that. But, so you know you how you were talking about the Black Panther stage, but Wakanda having a lot of ledges and being able to like throw characters off the screen.

00:38:26.29
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:38:27.29
+Jaime G 
Okay. I've used Spider-Man once or twice. He's a really hard character to master. He's got like mobility, like nobody's businessman.

00:38:33.41
Tony Sisk
Right.

00:38:37.15
+Jaime G 
But I was playing against somebody who did this twice to me. The first time I thought, that is random. The second time I realized this guy knows what he's doing. So we get into like the the melee nearby the ledge. Dude kind of like jumps a little bit off the the ledge. And then he's got like this web ability where he'll grab you and yank you. So dude was like gra jumping off the ledge.

00:39:06.31
+Jaime G 
pulling me off the ledge and then web swinging back to safety.

00:39:10.32
Tony Sisk
Oh, nice. ah Thanks for good aim too.

00:39:11.61
+Jaime G 
That, but I was like, well, it does, but I was like, I was like so surprised that there's some characters that can benefit really greatly around those types of things because I was playing Bucky and Bucky doesn't have anything.

00:39:26.46
+Jaime G 
I mean, there's something that could have done, but at the moment I was like, what? Did this just happen? um But but the characters okay, so the characters I've been playing I've been playing with Bucky mainly because I wanted to complete one of the missions that was like Deal so much damage damage or receive so much damage with this character um And that's kind of I think he's an interesting character, but not my my type for a duelist I'm I'm really happy with the playstyle that moon knight has

00:39:44.94
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:40:00.58
+Jaime G 
Okay, he's he's like a Batman clone, but the what's really cool about him is that if you place your ax properly, you can ricochet shots and just like, you know, get people off like hiding spots and do like a lot of crazy damage with you know, just your regular fire.

00:40:23.77
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:40:23.96
+Jaime G 
He's not on the stronger side, but he makes up for it and just trying to be a creative character, right? Because if you go face-to-face with somebody, that's it, you're toast.

00:40:36.02
Tony Sisk
Right.

00:40:36.26
+Jaime G 
But you're trying to figure out, okay, how do I like bounce my shots to actually get him? And if there's like two or three players, his batarangs will, or moonarangs, whatever you want to call them, will bounce up to three times nearby characters.

00:40:53.35
+Jaime G 
So you hit one and it'll bounce and hit the next one, then hit the next one. If there's two characters, it'll hit the first one, then the second one, and then go back to the first character.

00:41:02.16
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:41:02.73
+Jaime G 
So so it's really cool because sometimes, again, if there's multiple people on screen, you just kind of throw the egg, put it somewhere where it's kind of strategic. And you're not shooting at the other player.

00:41:14.08
+Jaime G 
You're shooting at the end and it's ricocheting off of that to hit them.

00:41:17.92
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:41:17.97
+Jaime G 
So it's, he's got a really interesting play style and I'm like totally loving this character. But but I realized that I'm also really liking cloak and dagger.

00:41:30.31
+Jaime G 
If I'm playing a strategist because cloak and dagger has got this really cool mechanic where it's two characters in one. And in Dagger, her primary a shot has a homing capability.

00:41:47.14
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:41:47.27
+Jaime G 
So she makes up where I really lack, in like which is a perfect aim. And that's also why I like Moon Knight, because again, if you're trying to recoche ricochet the shots off the egg, you're not trying to you're trying to hit this big, big target, not a moving target.

00:42:00.80
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:42:02.59
+Jaime G 
um But you can switch characters, and all the abilities in the two characters are not tied. So you can hit like L1 with Dagger, switch to Cloak, and then use his L1 ability, and they have different cooldowns.

00:42:19.81
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:42:19.86
+Jaime G 
So in in a sense, you really, I thought at first like, oh, if I hit L1 with this, with one character, go to the next one, I won't be able to use it. I was like, no, you absolutely can.

00:42:31.70
+Jaime G 
although The clock is more on the weaker side.

00:42:35.44
Tony Sisk
yeah

00:42:36.79
+Jaime G 
But again, it gives you it gives you some latitude to be ah creative in how you're going to use them. So I'm really enjoying this.

00:42:47.16
+Jaime G 
um I shared with you that in the first three days, Steam steam charts have said that there's 10 million players that have signed up to play this game.

00:42:59.22
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:43:00.99
+Jaime G 
That's no easy feat, my friend.

00:43:03.06
Tony Sisk
Well, I will say that when you go to enter a match and you hit quick match, for example, ah it's almost it's two seconds and you're in a game.

00:43:12.51
+Jaime G 
yeah bam.

00:43:17.93
+Jaime G 
I've, I've noticed that. Yeah, there is no delay in in and you hopping into a match.

00:43:21.10
Tony Sisk
I'm like, there's no delay. I'm like, two seconds, you are into a match. um So I don't, that's just kind of like the general quick match. I noticed that they have like a, do they have a ranked lobby system now? Did that just open?

00:43:38.20
+Jaime G 
Uh, there is like this marble championship, MRC marble rivals championship, where I guess now yeah it is kind of ranked.

00:43:44.62
Tony Sisk
Well, that's a tournament that's coming up, right? That you can sign them for.

00:43:48.38
+Jaime G 
Yeah. Yeah.

00:43:49.54
Tony Sisk
I've read through the rules. Boy, I don't know. I mean, the tournament stuff is a cool idea, really. But man, you got to have a dedicated team or a factions, what they call them.

00:44:01.57
Tony Sisk
And you have to coordinate meeting up with another team in this thing at a certain time.

00:44:05.11
+Jaime G 
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

00:44:06.80
Tony Sisk
and And then there's all these rules about how it works. And it's a lot. like it's If you're going to do it, you've got to be really dedicated to doing it. but

00:44:17.39
+Jaime G 
i got I got two questions for you. Based on what we've seen in the last four days since release, is the future hopeful for Marvel Rivals?

00:44:31.44
Tony Sisk
I mean, yeah, I think it is. One, it had i mean it one it's got Marvel characters right i'm like and the artwork and how they look.

00:44:33.50
+Jaime G 
I think it is too.

00:44:44.10
Tony Sisk
And if you just listen to them talk, like when you're waiting for a match to start, they're like and they they have dialogue like between them.

00:44:49.04
+Jaime G 
They have dialogues between them.

00:44:53.20
Tony Sisk
ah It's really cool. And I think they said there's <unk> supposed to be like this yeah story narrative that's going on. The only thing I can tell is like it's are're all written like somewhere.

00:45:08.10
Tony Sisk
I haven't really bothered reading into it. but But I would like to see maybe some more like animated stuff, clips stuff.

00:45:10.97
+Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:45:15.31
Tony Sisk
But ah I think the quality is there. the fun factor is there the skill level is there like i've noticed like a lot of these uh are media outlets and stuff starting to come out with like oh tier list right for heroes and i read one of them i shared you you know what the uh shared with you guys you know what they were saying about certain characters so

00:45:35.14
+Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:45:38.83
Tony Sisk
and And this is what I've kind of, I'm thinking now after playing, you know, ah solid a six hours on Saturday and playing every day since the game has been out is really.

00:45:53.98
Tony Sisk
I mean, I don't know if there is a real tier list right now, unless it's coming from people that have played it in beta for a long time.

00:46:00.41
+Jaime G 
Well, yeah, there there's people who have been playing it for like eight months.

00:46:01.82
Tony Sisk
But but i've ah I've seen people, I've seen some of these tier lists, list this characters as low tier characters. And I've seen those characters dominate a match.

00:46:16.33
Tony Sisk
I mean, I've seen players dominate matches with characters I thought were just weren't that great.

00:46:16.67
+Jaime G 
I agree. Right.

00:46:24.09
Tony Sisk
And then to get but turn around and get my butt whooped by somebody playing that character. So it's hard for me to really even judge truthfully what a great character is because so much of it is tied to who's piloting that character and how well they understand the character, when they use the abilities in their role.

00:46:41.20
+Jaime G 
and And their role.

00:46:43.35
Tony Sisk
Are they playing the role?

00:46:43.56
+Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:46:44.59
Tony Sisk
I mean, if you want to win, just like in any game, everybody

00:46:45.40
+Jaime G 
Mm hmm.

00:46:50.18
Tony Sisk
has a responsibility in contributing to winning. And a lot of matches in his public lobbies, you know, oh, you know, multiple times yesterday I was in a lobby and there was nobody wanted to be a tank and nobody wanted to be a healer.

00:47:06.69
+Jaime G 
yeah Yeah.

00:47:08.59
Tony Sisk
And it's like, well then we're just wasting our time, right? Because if nobody is one of those things, you know, especially healer, we're going to get rolled.

00:47:17.72
+Jaime G 
And that's kind of why I started playing a dualist and a strategist. And I started messing around with the tanks, but I can't get into, I tried Penny Parker, I tried Groot, and I was like, I don't know about these things. So I kind of default back to, um okay, if I've got 203, I'm doing fine.

00:47:35.18
+Jaime G 
But I got like the second question I have for you, Tony is. Do you think right now somebody at Sony is having a heart attack? Because this game, which is free to play. Probably had lesser of a budget than Concord. And it's like a completely different story. big and And Concord and this are kind of like ah along the same genre.

00:48:03.46
Tony Sisk
Right. Yeah, I mean, I think a lot of the issues with Concord, and I didn't play the beta that came out, one but I heard a lot of the criticism of that.

00:48:14.67
Tony Sisk
It was like a lot of the character models were really weird. And obviously it's a new thing. So it's like nobody is affiliate knowledgeable about.

00:48:23.54
+Jaime G 
Right.

00:48:25.11
Tony Sisk
This this stuff that's going on in this game and the combat looked It's funny, the combat looks slow, but Marvel of a Rivals is combat. I, even though we can get super hectic or whatever, I was telling somebody, I think I was telling Vance the other day, like with Thor, right? When I was in the groove with Thor.

00:48:51.13
Tony Sisk
come Everything so was slowing down for me, right? Even though it was this hectic, I could see clearly what I was trying to do, right? It's just like, you know, when you do, when you, when you do a job for so long, you can do it in your sleep, whatever, that sort of thing. Like if you stick with the character long enough and you learn the in and out,

00:49:13.77
Tony Sisk
the in and outs of the character, and then that's gonna be like the next, it's like being a quarterback, you know? When you're a rookie, everything's so fast, but then when you're a vet, it all slows down for you. So I think that the combat end in this game is actually, when it slows down for you, it's not that fast, right? It's not Black, ah it's not Call of Duty fast, right? where you're dying in less than half a second when somebody sees you.

00:49:40.80
+Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:49:43.19
+Jaime G 
Oh, yeah.

00:49:44.05
Tony Sisk
Somebody sees you first, you're dead, right?

00:49:46.63
+Jaime G 
Yeah. Call the dude is like.

00:49:47.20
Tony Sisk
It's not like that. You actually have an opportunity to kind of respond a lot of the times. So yeah so it's the same it's the same sort of, it was the same sort of thing in relation to Concorde.

00:50:02.53
Tony Sisk
Concorde's fighting was slow, but like I just think that this, is if so much better just on the surface. It looks so much better and just like nobody could.

00:50:11.76
+Jaime G 
Well, part, part of me exactly agrees with you with what you just said.

00:50:12.97
Tony Sisk
Having that Marvel IP is so huge.

00:50:18.53
+Jaime G 
I think that this game, if you would have changed all these characters and put like different names, right? The game would have struggled to find its footing as fat as fast as it did.

00:50:32.45
Tony Sisk
Right, yeah. I was looking at something today, and it was Deadpool, right?

00:50:38.41
+Jaime G 
Uh-huh.

00:50:38.59
Tony Sisk
I'm like, Deadpool is not in Marvel Rivals. How is Deadpool not in Marvel?

00:50:42.76
+Jaime G 
Not yet.

00:50:43.93
Tony Sisk
How is Deadpool not in Marvel Rivals?

00:50:44.61
+Jaime G 
and yet

00:50:46.25
Tony Sisk
And then I'm thinking, wait, Deadpool is not yet in Marvel Rivals, but Deadpool will be in Marvel Rivals. And it's like, I've got this excitement. I don't even like Deadpool. But Can you, one, can you imagine like what he is going to bring to the table when he comes to this game and whatever funky comments he's going to make in the, in the, in the, in the game itself, while you're talking, it's going to be humorous.

00:51:11.41
Tony Sisk
I'm sure, but, and I'm thinking.

00:51:12.53
+Jaime G 
Oh, yeah, that's that's going to be his whole stick.

00:51:14.19
Tony Sisk
I'm thinking, and that's a character that I'm not even a huge fan of, right? But he's not in the game yet, but there's going to be people that are huge fans of that character.

00:51:18.54
+Jaime G 
Right.

00:51:22.87
Tony Sisk
And they're just chomping at the bit for that character to be released into this game.

00:51:26.81
+Jaime G 
OK. Prediction time in less than 12 months from now, Deadpool will be a DLC character.

00:51:35.56
Tony Sisk
Oh, yeah.

00:51:37.04
+Jaime G 
I'm telling you, it's got to be.

00:51:37.58
Tony Sisk
Yeah. Dude, I've already I'm already in the I'm i'm in the. I haven't bought the battle pass yet. I will buy, I probably will buy the bad pass because I will to support the game.

00:51:47.89
+Jaime G 
I bought it.

00:51:50.91
Tony Sisk
Right.

00:51:51.08
+Jaime G 
yeah Yeah, me too.

00:51:51.07
Tony Sisk
Because they, when you get a good game, you need to at least buy the battle pass at least one time. Right.

00:51:56.68
+Jaime G 
Well, the battle pass is $5.

00:51:56.90
Tony Sisk
I did the same thing with, uh, I did the same thing with hell divers, you know, by the, by, uh, bought the buck twice. Um, yeah, twice I bought it.

00:52:05.82
+Jaime G 
Wow. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. What?

00:52:10.47
+Jaime G 
Well, I bought it. I don't know how last time we were talking, I said that you have like points that you can convert to gift cards through the PlayStation All-Stars thing, or PlayStation Stars.

00:52:18.65
Tony Sisk
Yeah. Yeah.

00:52:22.79
+Jaime G 
So i I basically said, I have some some extra ah points there right there that's not really costing me any physical money. And the battle pass right now is $5.

00:52:35.89
+Jaime G 
I was like, hands down, there you go. Take, and you know, it's like that fry meme, shut up and take my money.

00:52:41.56
Tony Sisk
Right. Yeah. So I'm definitely going to I'm probably going to go buy it when we get off the podcast today. You know, just I haven't had a chance to get on the game today yet.

00:52:48.26
+Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:52:52.44
Tony Sisk
And what the hour or two I did have, like I played on the path path of exile to.

00:52:59.52
+Jaime G 
Okay. By the way, check out the Discord if you're listening to us. I actually posted on the Discord a free code to get a brand new skin for Iron Man. I don't know it off off the top of my head. Check us out on the Discord. There's one in there. If you're on PlayStation Plus, you can download a skin for Penny Parker. And there's another way that you can get a free skin for Magneto that involves watching I don't know, like four hours of Twitch.

00:53:27.72
+Jaime G 
I'm not going to probably do that, but I did. I do confirm that the code that I shared with everyone for Iron Man is working. Cause I, I have it, I've tested it and it's, it's legit.

00:53:36.40
Tony Sisk
Yeah. Well, there was a Spider-Man skin on PlayStation. Did you get it?

00:53:42.16
+Jaime G 
That's the other one. Yes.

00:53:43.46
Tony Sisk
Okay.

00:53:43.82
+Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:53:44.40
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:53:44.56
+Jaime G 
And that's exclusive to PlayStation.

00:53:47.78
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:53:48.17
+Jaime G 
The penny Parker is, I think like everyone has access to it, but okay. Yes. So there's three skins right there out the gate. Don't have to do anything. Again, there's a fourth one. If you want to see four hours of of Twitch, have at it, but yeah, do that.

00:54:02.18
Tony Sisk
Yeah, and the character models in this game look fantastic. um I'm just, yeah, just amazing.

00:54:05.83
+Jaime G 
They look awesome. I mean, somebody said in Hawkeye, right? Hawkeye is this like kind of sort of boring-ish character. And they're like, this is what Hawkeye would look like if you were cool.

00:54:19.88
Tony Sisk
Right, but the alternate, like there's other character skins that each character has that you can unlock.

00:54:27.66
+Jaime G 
And they're not just, by the way, they're not just

00:54:28.93
Tony Sisk
and and

00:54:30.70
+Jaime G 
They're not just like the random ah color changes, like here and there. ah The Penny Parker skin that I downloaded, literally her robot has different armor pieces.

00:54:42.30
+Jaime G 
It looks different. And there's actually different MVP animations if you have certain character skins. So so it it is interesting to me that you're getting more than just a skin.

00:54:49.87
Tony Sisk
Yeah. And. Yeah, and I noticed them in the game, too, when I'm playing, it's like usually you don't notice really, I mean, unless you're getting some something atrocious, like in Call of Duty. um But like, I noticed when other people what people are wearing with their characters, when it's different, right? Because it's like, that's not what Iron Man typically looks like. That's a new skin and I like it.

00:55:18.65
Tony Sisk
And it makes me want to go, oh, I want that skin, but.

00:55:20.00
+Jaime G 
Right.

00:55:23.00
Tony Sisk
um

00:55:23.72
+Jaime G 
and And for example, the three venom skins, you have your regular traditional venom, you have anti-venom, and the skin legit looks like anti-venom. And one is like space-type venom. And there there there there have been different different comic books throughout history that have different plot lines where he looks like these characters. I mean, I was like, they did their homework.

00:55:48.73
+Jaime G 
the The fanboy in me is happy.

00:55:52.41
Tony Sisk
Oh, yeah. If you're a fan of Marvel ah Marvel characters and stuff like that, this is a great game that pays homage to, you know, those characters and really respects their the the the art and everything that that goes into the Marvel universe.

00:56:07.29
+Jaime G 
and

00:56:15.58
Tony Sisk
I mean, even the maps, you know, they look a lot like Overwatch maps with like you know, maybe a new skin over it.

00:56:20.77
+Jaime G 
yeah Yeah, they do. With destructible environments.

00:56:23.08
Tony Sisk
But you know, so you get like, yeah, sure did this is true. Oh, that's the thing we haven't talked about. And it really hasn't impacted in my matches overly much. But the fact that there are destructible destructible environments is really cool.

00:56:38.77
+Jaime G 
It is. And and and they gave you a nice, easy way to realize, hey, this wall is breakable. Let me punch it a couple of times so that so I can tear it down.

00:56:48.44
Tony Sisk
Yeah. And then I, right now we just haven't figured out how to best to destroy the map to give us an advantage in the games. Right.

00:56:58.83
+Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:56:59.68
Tony Sisk
So, but that's going to be coming. Right. Okay.

00:57:01.85
+Jaime G 
Well, but you know what I've liked is that if you have somebody who's really good at taking cover around certain structures, there's nothing stopping you, for the most part, from destroying the ah structure, and there's no coverings.

00:57:01.93
Tony Sisk
hot If.

00:57:15.05
+Jaime G 
It's like, bam, bam.

00:57:16.25
Tony Sisk
Yeah. Yeah. And the flying characters, that's an interesting aspect to this because it's like, you know, that's a whole nother axis that you have to be aware of.

00:57:26.89
Tony Sisk
It's like the guys up in the air.

00:57:27.46
+Jaime G 
like storm iron man Deadpool in the future No,

00:57:32.06
Tony Sisk
Yeah, Iron Man, Iron Man, his his super. What's he say when he shoots it? ah I it's one of those. It's like I hear him say it and it's like, oh, no, because I know.

00:57:45.39
+Jaime G 
I got I got one for you, but but you go first with iron man Right

00:57:46.22
Tony Sisk
ah Oh, yeah, because he he basically launches like a mini nuke and it has a huge error of effect and it, you know, it kills you if you're caught in it and it kills me all the time.

00:58:02.78
+Jaime G 
man, when, when I hear in the map, judge jury executioner, dude, I I'm running for cover.

00:58:09.01
Tony Sisk
Oh, yeah. Punisher.

00:58:12.20
+Jaime G 
I don't know where the bullets are coming from, but I know I'm dead if I don't.

00:58:16.83
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:58:19.33
Tony Sisk
i I first heard that and I was like, who is saying that?

00:58:20.05
+Jaime G 
ah

00:58:22.61
Tony Sisk
And then it's like oh, it's Punisher. And then I didn't I know some saying it out. I was like, man, there's a lot of people playing Punisher in this game.

00:58:29.81
+Jaime G 
Yeah. Yeah, he is a fun character.

00:58:32.70
Tony Sisk
Now, he's the one who gets to turn to you, right?

00:58:33.37
+Jaime G 
ah He gets, dude, one of his base abilities is he puts, he lays down this turret, gets on top of it.

00:58:35.78
Tony Sisk
Turret.

00:58:44.19
+Jaime G 
And when you're in the turret and somebody is like hitting you or something, they don't necessarily kill the Punisher. They destroy the turret first.

00:58:51.09
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:58:52.46
+Jaime G 
But if you're in line of sight of this, that's it, man. You're going down. I don't care if you're a tank or what.

00:58:59.48
Tony Sisk
Yeah, it's pretty funny like fighting over a point and then all of a sudden you hear him start using that and you see bullets just flying everywhere.

00:59:08.99
+Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:59:08.98
Tony Sisk
And then you see your teammates just dropping. It's. Yeah, it's a massacre when he pulls out that.

00:59:16.99
+Jaime G 
Yeah.

00:59:18.30
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:59:19.09
+Jaime G 
I thought he was going to be a lame character, honestly, but after playing with him, I'm like, dude, you can really master this guy.

00:59:24.88
Tony Sisk
and date Even character like Star-Lord, his pistols are very, very good.

00:59:33.68
+Jaime G 
I wasn't able to get the hang of it his play style because he's, he's meant to be fast maneuver out of he's, he, he will like empty his, his bullets in three seconds.

00:59:37.97
Tony Sisk
I haven't played him. I've just suffered dying from him many, many times.

00:59:51.91
+Jaime G 
So he's like high fire rate and like dash maneuver, get out of the the zone. He's kind of like guerrilla style.

01:00:00.74
Tony Sisk
Yeah. But, yeah, I'm loving the game so far.

01:00:04.02
+Jaime G 
and And, and, and Tony, here we are just talking about a handful of characters. We haven't even scratched the surface of 33 characters.

01:00:10.34
Tony Sisk
There's 33 characters right now. It started the opening with 33 characters.

01:00:13.30
+Jaime G 
Right.

01:00:16.27
Tony Sisk
i I've I've told you about Thor and Rocket Raccoon.

01:00:21.06
+Jaime G 
I've told you about moon knight and cloak and dagger.

01:00:21.08
Tony Sisk
Right. I mean.

01:00:25.52
Tony Sisk
Right. There's so many characters and so much. variety and what they can do. I mean, in the lethality of them.

01:00:34.69
+Jaime G 
Yeah, that that's just like the characters are unique and and different and it's just it's just fun.

01:00:35.85
Tony Sisk
Oh, gosh.

01:00:43.59
Tony Sisk
Yep. All right. Well, we thought was like, oh, we have a we figured we would be talking mostly about Marvel Rivals, but we really.

01:00:55.96
Tony Sisk
We've hit our ah one hour mark. We're still talking about Marvel Rivals.

01:01:00.27
+Jaime G 
I know.

01:01:03.63
Tony Sisk
All right. But if you if you listen to the podcast episode, you know, give us a comment. Let us know what what your favorite character is, you know, and let's hear what you're playing. You can do that by just sending us a message. There is a reply to us link in the show description. You click on that and I will send us a text message to and to our emails. So ah Click on that message and and let us hear from you what you are playing. If you're in a discord, just say just let us know in a discord and also i looking for other players. We've got other people in there playing.

01:01:43.50
Tony Sisk
If you're on a Discord, if you haven't joined the Discord, ah be sure to, there's a link for the Discord in the show description too. um and Join the Good to Game Radio Discord and get in on the fun there as we've kind of made it more of a rival as our community game for the season for right now. ah And so we have a lot of people in there playing and jumping in for the first time really, I think that,

01:02:08.09
Tony Sisk
A lot of them have never played this type of game before, so jump in on the action there. So anything else you got, Jaime?

01:02:16.96
+Jaime G 
No, man. Thank you for for a reminder to hit us up on Discord. We we' are always monitoring this. So if you post something, we will definitely respond and expect some call outs on Friday nights to be like, hey, let's play some variables.

01:02:32.48
+Jaime G 
Let's see how many people we can get. Actually, did you realize that on Friday, we had a five out of the team of six, we had five people that just like said, let's go play.

01:02:42.84
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

01:02:43.39
+Jaime G 
It was just casual, fun. Let's keep it going. Let's make it the community game of the season.

01:02:50.67
Tony Sisk
Yeah, and that was really yeah if we can get a some teams together, we can, you know, face off. There's I think just custom map capability in this game where we can play each other. And, you know, maybe we can challenge some other players like SGL League or something. Maybe they'll have a team that they can throw against us and we can, you know, um battle it out there.

01:03:12.68
+Jaime G 
Yeah.

01:03:13.12
Tony Sisk
But thanks again for listening to a good to game radio and i keep an eye out. though I've got the good to game radio ah gaming blog ah being put together right now. And we'll have a place where you can go and you can read of no our opinions and experiences of in the written word anytime.

01:03:33.09
Tony Sisk
So ah thanks for joining us.

01:03:34.49
+Jaime G 
little Tony side project there. Yeah.

01:03:37.50
Tony Sisk
And I'll talk to you again later.

01:03:39.88
+Jaime G 
See you, man.