February is Stacked with Big Games and Our Initial Reaction Rivals Season One

Tony and Jaime preview new games coming in February before diving in to their initial impressions of Marvel Rivals Season One.

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Tony Sisk
Hi, guys. Welcome back to Good to Game Radio. I'm here tonight with Jaime, and it's just us two. We're going to be talking a little bit to start off with the new games that are coming out in the first couple of months of 2025. And then we're going to jump into some discussion on the season one of Marvel Rivals, which has been a big topic for us here the last month or so. and So we're going to keep diving into that because we just had a brand new season.

00:00:31.63
Tony Sisk
Drop a few days ago and we had the opportunity to play together in a lot of instances and get a good feel for what's new, ah what some changes have been and the new characters and maps that have shown up in this new season one of Marvel Rivals. So let's jump into it. I mean, how's it going?

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Jaime G
Hey man, how's it going? I got a couple of good stories to tell our listeners today about playing with you in advance over the weekend.

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Tony Sisk
ah

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Jaime G
But if everything's been going good, good ah the last time we recorded, I had just gotten back um from being away visiting a family over the holiday break. Life's back to normal.

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Jaime G
Dude, I just finally took down my Christmas tree. which i I think I spent like three weeks, maybe two weeks more than I should have in taking it down.

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Tony Sisk
Yeah.

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Jaime G
and And my family was still arguing with me like, hey, why are you taking that down?

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Tony Sisk
Yeah. That Christmas tree came down the day after Christmas, I was at work.

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Jaime G
as

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Jaime G
No, no. we

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Tony Sisk
I had to work the day after and I went to work and um I brought it up to ah some of my coworkers and like. Oh, our Christmas tree is coming down. I guarantee it's down already. It's like eight o'clock in the morning, day after I bet you my wife's already working on taking it down. And sure enough, I got home. It was down. Everything was down. Like you couldn't even tell it was Christmas.

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Jaime G
Okay, so we're, of I mean, ah growing up in Mexico, depending on the part that you're from, you don't really celebrate Christmas the 24th for the gifts as much. You kind of wait until January the sixth, which is the epiphany. um So, you know, that this is not historical, but people say, Oh, January the sixth, that's when the wise men showed up and deliver the gifts to to Jesus, right?

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Jaime G
So in some cultures in Latin America, they use January the 6th as the day that they give Christmas gifts. So for us and my family, we will always say January 6th, that's when the Christmas tree can come down. Well, dude, it was like January the 12th.

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Jaime G
and and And literally, my wife yesterday was giving me a hard time. She was like, why are you in such a rush to take this down? I'm like, cause we're like the only house in the, in like the whole neighborhood that still has any Christmas decorations.

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Jaime G
So, yeah.

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Tony Sisk
that's funny yeah that's that's an interesting fact that the factoid that you brought up i didn't know anything about january 6 uh being kind of like the gift gift official gift day based on when the the wisemen showed up with the gifts interesting

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Jaime G
I mean, again, I mean, it's not it wasn't January the 6th, right? I mean, for all we know, it could have been like August the 13th, I don't know. But historically, that's when, you know, there is an exchange of gifts that happens in the Bible.

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Tony Sisk
Yeah, sure.

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Jaime G
so but So for us growing up, we would always celebrate Christmas, you know, remember the birth of Jesus, and then wait until January the 6th to receive any sort of gift of any kind.

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Jaime G
which as a kid is hard.

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Tony Sisk
That's cool. Right. All right.

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Jaime G
Yeah.

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Tony Sisk
um So we've got some new games. We have a bunch of new games coming in the first couple of months of January, February. We've kind of gone over a list here.

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Tony Sisk
There's dozens of new games. Most of them were probably nobody's ever going to hear about. But there are some major titles that we just like to bring up. And and I think most of those are in February.

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Tony Sisk
So you want to get us started? You have the list?

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Jaime G
I do. I do.

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Tony Sisk
All right.

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Jaime G
So actually, you're right. And there's there's nothing of note for January. So let's just skip the whole month.

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Tony Sisk
Right. We're all going to be playing Marvel novels anyway, so.

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Jaime G
We're halfway through the month. Exactly. We're still we're still hooked on that.

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Tony Sisk
Right.

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Jaime G
Starting starting in February. Tony, have you ever played the franchise? Yakuza like a dragon?

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Tony Sisk
I have not, but I feel like that that's a franchise that is just I keep hearing more and more about it every year.

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Jaime G
So, so, so Yakuza, I believe is the main franchise and there's like multiple games around this. But ever since they launched like, yeah like a dragon, they embraced a whole silliness aspect to this type of game.

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Tony Sisk
Yeah. Embrace the silliness.

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Jaime G
Cause it's like an RPG.

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Tony Sisk
Right.

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Jaime G
Right. Right. I mean, imagine like there's a boss fight where you're fighting like a Roomba, like a big vacuum cleaner. Um, and so they did like.

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Jaime G
Like a Dragon, Infinite Wealth, which was like really well received about a year ago. And they're doing this exp- I believe it it's an expansion to it. I don't think it's like a main entry in the whole storyline, but it's called Like a Dragon, Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii.

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Tony Sisk
Right.

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Jaime G
I mean, just the name of it sounds silly.

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Tony Sisk
Yeah.

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Tony Sisk
and Yeah.

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Jaime G
That is coming out late February ah for any of the ah Yakuza Lack of Dragon fans. Maybe this is something that people were like so anxiously waiting when like similar to when Assassin Creed players were waiting for Assassin Creed 4 just to do like the pirate ah or the ship navigations aspect.

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Tony Sisk
Yeah.

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Tony Sisk
yeah Yeah. ah I feel myself getting closer and closer to diving into this franchise, ah just, but I don't want to spend, you know, 69, I don't, I don't feel that it would appeal to me enough for me to drop, you know, $69 on it. But, you know, if they want to drop it in one of the subscription services and I could try it there, maybe once I get taste in the future, I can jump in, you know, with a,

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Tony Sisk
with more assuredness that I'm going to like it at whatever price point it's at. But. But I'm interested, I'm getting more and more interested because the last couple of games have received a lot of positive.

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Jaime G
Right.

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Tony Sisk
Of coverage and stuff, so yeah, apparently they're not bad and they've they've embraced the silliness. It looks silly, everything I see about it looks silly, but.

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Tony Sisk
ah They've embraced it so.

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Jaime G
Yeah.

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Tony Sisk
All right. So that was, uh, Yakuza in Hawaii, right?

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Jaime G
at the Basically, I mean, that's honestly the best way to describe it.

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Tony Sisk
Yeah.

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Tony Sisk
That's an extra.

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Jaime G
It's like Ninja Academy in France.

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Tony Sisk
All right. What else we got?

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Jaime G
um I don't know. Are you a fan of Munster Hunter?

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Tony Sisk
I have tried to play Monster Hunter, a couple of the different versions of it. And for whatever reason, it's just because I think it's because ah it's kind of like a lot.

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Tony Sisk
It's not a live service game. Is it a live service game?

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Jaime G
I don't think it is.

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Tony Sisk
It's not okay. It comes across as like, there's more like a.

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Tony Sisk
I don't know something that's going to take a lot of time.

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Jaime G
Oh, yes. No, definite that that is true. Like, you're gonna end up killing the same monster, like 30 times before you move on to the next one.

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Tony Sisk
Right.

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Tony Sisk
Right. So, yeah. It seems like a game that's going to take a whole lot of time. um And I don't know if I want to commit to that time, but I did play the demo, they dropped the demo ah like a month ago.

00:08:30.88
Tony Sisk
And I can say that I was really, really super impressed with what I did in the demo or how that was presented. So I'm like, man, maybe I'll give it a shot.

00:08:44.34
Tony Sisk
I'm like, maybe I can find the time. But that was, that was, I think it was right before Marvel Rivals dropped. So now it's like, okay, do I have the time?

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Jaime G
Well, Monster Hunter Wilds is dropping February the 28th.

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Tony Sisk
I don't know.

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Jaime G
Before we started talking, I i told you that i I definitely sank like maybe 60 to 80 hours on Monster Hunter World, and just world alone.

00:09:12.73
Tony Sisk
yeah

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Jaime G
They later released an expansion called Iceborne, maybe. It was ice something.

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Tony Sisk
Yeah.

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Jaime G
And I bought it, and I remember just looking at the cart at the game CD and thinking, this is another 60 hours. I don't want to do this.

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Tony Sisk
Yeah.

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Tony Sisk
Right.

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Jaime G
Uh, but it was, but it was ah a, it's, it's a really well made game.

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Tony Sisk
Oh, man.

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Jaime G
The thing is, is that as you progress through the campaign and the whole objective is you're trying to get better armor, better weapons, but it's like, Oh, you want this type of armor.

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Jaime G
Go kill the the monster. Oh, he didn't drop enough resources. Go kill the monster again. Oh, this time he did. He dropped no resources. Do it again. So.

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Jaime G
repeat 50 times, right?

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Tony Sisk
Yeah.

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Jaime G
And as I was saying, I know that there was a Monster Hunter game that was released, I believed, at the time that it was like a Nintendo Switch exclusive.

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Jaime G
Now, the setting changed, it seemed like it was like feudal Japan-ish inspired. um But then, I don't know. I feel like I've seen it for other consoles.

00:10:37.18
Jaime G
Maybe I'm wrong about this. But since the month, since the entry that I played to this one, there's one game in between, which I skipped. And Wilds is something I like to invest a little time in just to play it.

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Jaime G
It did have a multiplayer aspect to it, which I liked.

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Tony Sisk
Yeah.

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Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:11:01.48
Tony Sisk
OK, so there's a couple of other big titles at February is actually.

00:11:08.98
Tony Sisk
Chocked full of some really big franchises, and we can income deliverance. I don't know if you ever played the first one me medieval RPG.

00:11:16.77
Jaime G
i never did

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Jaime G
um

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Tony Sisk
um I tried it. It was very clunky. So I just kind of moved on from it fairly quickly. But I know fans of this game are huge fans of this game. It's one of those games that just has a really big following that just love it. So the new ones coming out in February 4th.

00:11:42.43
Tony Sisk
I probably won't dive straight in, you know, but I just, just because I, the first one was just too clunky for me. But for those that they they're interested in this franchise, uh, that's coming on the fourth. So meie medieval RPG. So.

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Jaime G
Okay. Well, if you're into games that are a little bit weird and embrace the silliness on February 14th, which is, you know, the most romantic day of the year, some would argue there's a dating sim that's coming out that's called Date everything.

00:12:22.49
Tony Sisk
in everything okay there's a couple people I know that are basically doing that but yeah in real life

00:12:24.19
Jaime G
Date everything.

00:12:30.09
Jaime G
No, no, well well, there's a difference between date anyone to date everything. Now, the whole premise around this is that you receive some magical glasses and makes your apartment come alive.

00:12:49.20
Jaime G
and datable, uh, this is as much as I know about this game,

00:12:54.85
Tony Sisk
the Okay.

00:12:57.80
Jaime G
but apparently they're, they're saying that it has a hundred datable characters. And one of the characters name, his name is who Hoover.

00:13:12.82
Jaime G
And he seems like he's like the vacuum.

00:13:13.01
Tony Sisk
Okay. Right. Yeah.

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Jaime G
and and and And there's at least three endings per datable character. So that's potentially 300 endings if you want to achieve that trophy.

00:13:23.92
Tony Sisk
Wow. Wow. Okay.

00:13:27.48
Jaime G
Uh-huh.

00:13:27.63
Tony Sisk
I mean, props for the creativity, I guess.

00:13:32.71
Jaime G
Yes.

00:13:32.88
Tony Sisk
ah Probably not something I'm going to be checking out, but you know, there's a game for everybody, I guess.

00:13:39.32
Jaime G
Hey, there hey there's there's a dating simulator about but dating a pigeon, man.

00:13:47.14
Tony Sisk
Yeah. All right. um February 18th. for our Xbox listeners out there avowed. So this is a big franchise, big.

00:14:01.77
Tony Sisk
um It's kind of like a Skyrim type of ah fantasy RPG.

00:14:10.60
Jaime G
You nailed it. You nailed it. From what I've seen, um i'm I'm thinking Skyrim. That's the first thing that came into my head.

00:14:16.68
Tony Sisk
Right. ah Yeah, you're going back to the well, you know, going back to, hey, This works and it still is one of the best selling games out there, which is unbelievable to me that that game is still charts.

00:14:27.64
Jaime G
It's still selling as much as it does.

00:14:30.03
Tony Sisk
How many years it's been now? Oh, yolly.

00:14:34.89
Tony Sisk
It was right, right.

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Jaime G
10 plus.

00:14:37.04
Tony Sisk
I think it's more than that. Because it was a wasn't it wasn't like PS3 and Xbox 360 game.

00:14:46.10
Jaime G
Uh-huh.

00:14:46.85
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:14:47.92
Jaime G
Oh, actually it was released and in 2011.

00:14:48.51
Tony Sisk
But it's not for the same people. This this is not from the same people, though. This is this is this I think about is from Obsidian.

00:14:56.83
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:14:57.13
Tony Sisk
But they they've done like, what was the last game, the big space game that they did?

00:15:07.20
Jaime G
Starcraft.

00:15:07.95
Tony Sisk
I came in. No. It was the space RPG. It was very. I mean, it was very good game with lots of choices and stuff like that.

00:15:18.65
Tony Sisk
Lots of dialogue options, lots of character interaction and stuff. And I think this is probably along the same lines, but I will i will say.

00:15:24.56
Jaime G
Man, I want to say that you're thinking the outer world or the outer.

00:15:29.10
Tony Sisk
Outer worlds, exactly.

00:15:30.79
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:15:31.13
Tony Sisk
I think that's the same people, but yeah, but

00:15:31.79
Jaime G
Yeah. It is. and

00:15:37.24
Tony Sisk
I don't know. I mean, I'm interested to see how this game looks because from what I've seen of it in videos, I'm like, um, for where we are, where we are at generationally with the consoles and stuff. Like I was kind of expecting more, um, in this regard, but I try, I'm not trying to be too critical because I know like,

00:16:05.11
Tony Sisk
some of the best games that have come out aren't necessarily, you know, graphical powerhouses.

00:16:14.01
Tony Sisk
While some of the ones that have been, have been poorly ah poorly received or don't play very well at all. So, but, you know, still, I think there's like a, it would be nice to hit a certain benchmark going forward, but we'll see.

00:16:32.71
Jaime G
Correct. Forever.

00:16:35.38
Tony Sisk
So that's a vowel on February 18th. Now the last one, uh, for February, for February, we have civilization seven and you're, and I, and I brought this up and you're like, that's a big game to civilization seven.

00:16:42.60
Jaime G
forever

00:16:47.29
Jaime G
I can't believe that you...

00:16:55.64
Jaime G
I thought you were joking.

00:16:55.87
Tony Sisk
It's this, this is a huge four. What was it? What do they call them? Forex game.

00:17:03.20
Tony Sisk
so I mean, I shouldn't even have to explain this. Civilization.

00:17:07.95
Jaime G
I thought that you were so joking when you said you were you were interested in this.

00:17:12.91
Tony Sisk
Dude, this is like the the King of all Sims, like rule your own empire, you know, from caveman days all the way up until you like sending dudes to to another galaxy, basically. It's like,

00:17:31.30
Tony Sisk
Warfare and science and all wrapped up around. It's great to love this game. I will lose hours and hours into this game when this will be the one game that when I sit down and I say, do I play more of a rivals or do I play something else?

00:17:47.39
Tony Sisk
This will be the game that I will play. I will play. I will play this game.

00:17:50.72
Jaime G
I am speechless.

00:17:53.58
Tony Sisk
Yeah, everything else. Like I said, I don't have the time. I can't find time for a monster hunter or Yakuza or kingdom deliverance, but I will find time for civilization seven.

00:18:08.38
Tony Sisk
And it's, it's, and I'm just not the only, I guarantee you dude, this game is going to be huge and I'll give you props for more of arrivals.

00:18:14.83
Jaime G
Yeah. yeah

00:18:18.86
Tony Sisk
All right. And we call it held average to last year.

00:18:21.95
Jaime G
I'd remember that, yeah.

00:18:22.85
Tony Sisk
Right. I'm telling again, this one right here, mark it on everybody's calendar. This one is going to be big game, big, maybe not, maybe not 20 million big, but pretty big.

00:18:33.35
Jaime G
All right, so if anybody's... I was gonna say, if anybody's listening here, are you on Team Tony or Team Jaime on this one? Because team tone Team Tony seems to be in on this. Team Jaime was not even aware that this thing was a...

00:18:52.33
Jaime G
a game that had anything much more than, I don't know, when did this start in super Nintendo days?

00:19:00.50
Tony Sisk
oh Oh, maybe not that far back, but somewhere around there, somewhere, like early nineties, for sure.

00:19:08.06
Jaime G
Yeah, that's, that's, that's super Nintendo time right there.

00:19:10.50
Tony Sisk
Yeah, somewhere around there. I mean, this game, like civilization, like my wife doesn't play video games, but there were two games that she, no, three games she played, right?

00:19:13.42
Jaime G
Okay.

00:19:24.96
Tony Sisk
She played Diablo, she played, amusement park simulator or whatever that was, or roller coaster, roller coaster tycoon.

00:19:33.90
Jaime G
I remember that one. Yep.

00:19:37.54
Tony Sisk
And the other one was Civilization.

00:19:42.71
Tony Sisk
So those were all great franchises, but like, that's an addictive game. It's an addictive game.

00:19:50.40
Jaime G
Okay.

00:19:51.07
Tony Sisk
It's like people playing Sims.

00:19:54.37
Jaime G
Well, Tony, I mean, so okay, so those are our biggest releases that are coming in the month of February. we're and We're still in January. We're looking a month ahead and trying to figure out what's what's what's the thing that that's going to get us away from Marvel Rivals? For Tony, it's going to be Civilization. For me, probably it'll be a little bit Monster Hunter Wilds. Let's see how good it is. But Tony,

00:20:19.48
Jaime G
Here's an interesting thing I just discovered recently. For the life of me, I can't remember if I've ever talked to you about this. What was the game that won Game of the Year award before Elden Ring?

00:20:37.45
Tony Sisk
Hmm.

00:20:44.37
Tony Sisk
um

00:20:45.66
Jaime G
I'm giving you hints. I'm doing some air gestures over here.

00:20:50.17
Tony Sisk
I'm trying to think, yeah, to the two player one. Oh, I can't remember what it's called.

00:20:57.80
Jaime G
it It takes two.

00:20:58.00
Tony Sisk
I know you said you were going to play it. It takes two. The one the game I was critical about, it's like, how can this game win game of the year?

00:21:01.08
Jaime G
Okay.

00:21:04.89
Tony Sisk
It requires a second player.

00:21:04.96
Jaime G
Okay. Okay. So you were right. It does require a second player, but it was, uh, on PlayStation Plus, I think in the month of December, maybe November.

00:21:18.17
Jaime G
Dude. This game's awesome.

00:21:22.81
Jaime G
I am going crazy because I'm playing this with my son and he doesn't get the nuances that we have to do things together and sometimes in sync and at the same time so that we can get through different parts.

00:21:35.10
Jaime G
But the narrative is great. The graphics for this game are just, you know, so cute.

00:21:40.00
Tony Sisk
Mm hmm.

00:21:44.70
Jaime G
They're, it it just works the world that they created. It's, it's It's a surprising find and it deals with like the two main characters are trying to get divorced or they're going to get divorced.

00:21:58.05
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:21:59.77
Jaime G
And their daughter kind of basically somehow has this magical book about love.

00:22:07.30
Jaime G
And they get converted into like two toys that she needed or created.

00:22:13.00
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:22:13.41
Jaime G
And so they're trying to like go through all these things and the book is like, oh, love, right? Like think of like Antonio Venderos. You must work together to get through these obstacles and fortify your love.

00:22:29.30
Jaime G
It's awesome.

00:22:30.51
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:22:30.92
Jaime G
Now I had to take a step back and not play it because playing with an eight year old who again, doesn't get like, Hey, let's, let's do these things together is sometimes like,

00:22:39.98
Tony Sisk
No, no, little kids don't get teamwork. Not not that not in that fashion.

00:22:42.93
Jaime G
no no and and as you get we're like on the third level yeah i think that's right uh the challenges get more and more in sync where you have to do certain things like like okay player one has to do this so that player two can advance to a certain part of a maze but then player two has to do something

00:23:07.39
Tony Sisk
Right.

00:23:10.86
Jaime G
in a certain window of time so that player one can advance. So it's it's really cool and interesting what they did. I get how this game could have won Game of the Year award when it did. I would have never played this for the fact that, if not for the fact that it was on PlayStation Plus. So ah Tony, if you have somebody you that you can play this with, it is it is definitely fun. The narrative alone and the craziness of that book character, I think,

00:23:40.05
Jaime G
Dr. Naeem or something. He's got you in like a weird name.

00:23:43.27
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:23:44.33
Jaime G
It'll it'll it'll ah hook you for sure.

00:23:47.61
Tony Sisk
Okay. Well, I don't have anybody to play with.

00:23:54.40
Jaime G
You want to play with with with my son? you That'll definitely increase the challenge level like tenfold.

00:23:57.19
Tony Sisk
Oh, I'm good. I'm good now. Okay.

00:24:01.38
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:24:04.34
Jaime G
And the other game that was last month's PS Plus game that now I'm going to be able to play after I bought it for black Friday was the suicide squad kills the justice league.

00:24:15.69
Tony Sisk
Oh, yeah, that's right. i Forgot. ah I that to the library.

00:24:21.91
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:24:22.00
Tony Sisk
So, yeah, I want to get into just to check it out.

00:24:24.32
Jaime G
I'm going to give it the old college try just to check it out.

00:24:26.32
Tony Sisk
Just to check it out. Yeah.

00:24:27.72
Jaime G
It it was one of the biggest duds of 2024 in the gaming industry, but I want to give it a fair shot.

00:24:36.54
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:24:37.06
Jaime G
I mean, everyone said that that the story was great. The gameplay was just like. Not something that was going to be competing in today's environment, but let's see.

00:24:47.12
Tony Sisk
Yeah. Now the question is, is how long would, would you be able to play it for? Like we, are they going to take the servers down at some point?

00:24:58.77
Jaime G
At some point in the near future, most definitely.

00:25:00.18
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:25:02.48
Tony Sisk
Yeah. And two years max.

00:25:04.70
Jaime G
Uh-huh.

00:25:05.49
Tony Sisk
There's a window here, right? If you don't play it within a certain amount, not unless they add something to make it where it's playable offline, but this game was not playable offline, right?

00:25:14.46
Jaime G
nah no there wasn't uh-huh right so this is another thing that's out there so if anybody didn't catch it i mean i know that the world was pretty harsh with this one i was ah i was always one that was saying rocksteady's gonna do this game right whatever maybe i was wrong okay but i do know that there's a lot of media coverage out there that

00:25:15.06
Tony Sisk
You had to have an internet connection. So there you go. There's a window of opportunity to play the game.

00:25:43.16
Jaime G
jumps on this bandwagon. This game is the worst thing ever. And, you know, maybe it's not a a great title like their Arkham trilogy.

00:25:53.00
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:25:53.95
Jaime G
But at least give it a shot. I mean, it's on PlayStation Plus. You're not going to if you already have a subscription, you're not going to be out any ah any money to get this. Like like me, I discovered a text to which is a wonderful experience.

00:26:09.75
Jaime G
I'm probably not gonna say the same thing about the Suicide Squad, but maybe I'll enjoy maybe a couple of hours from it.

00:26:18.89
Tony Sisk
Yeah. OK. Yeah, yeah, yeah it's gonna that I just thought about that, that the there's only a window a year or two probably for this game vanishes and you won't be able to play it.

00:26:32.67
Jaime G
Yeah, at some point you will not be able to play it.

00:26:34.10
Tony Sisk
That's kind of crazy. That's an aspect of the whole online feature that really considered like. It could go away and never be seen.

00:26:44.67
Jaime G
there. So a lot of the sack boy games were like that. There was like there was like some type of connection to do like a part parts of the game and all the servers were shut down like, like within a year or two of the of the of the release for these titles.

00:27:06.94
Tony Sisk
Huh. All right. All right. Well, let's move on to our part two of the episode where we're getting into season one of Marvel Rivals. We were looking forward to it last in the last episode. And now we've had it for almost what, four or five days now it's been out.

00:27:27.90
Jaime G
Yeah, Friday, yeah, four dates.

00:27:29.31
Tony Sisk
and yeah And I'm impressed. um I can say that I've been impressed with ah with the ah with the new season. What about you?

00:27:42.07
Jaime G
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, you're impressed. You hadn't even figured out parts of the new season.

00:27:46.65
Tony Sisk
Oh, I know. Well, what I've played, I've been impressed with.

00:27:48.13
Jaime G
Okay, okay, so so for just to fill in listeners about this thing, I was texting Tony and Vance a couple days ago and I said, hey, I'm really liking Doom match. And, you know, no response, no response, no response. And then we played together ah yesterday. And Tony's like, what's this Doom match thing that you ah you mentioned? and And so it's a new game mode that was just introduced.

00:28:18.18
Jaime G
where it's six, I think it's 12 players, but it's a free for all. So now they finally introduced like, what, how do you call this King of the Hill or what's the right name?

00:28:28.95
Tony Sisk
Yeah, King of the Hill, free for all, if you're using cod term, free for all.

00:28:31.16
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:28:35.00
Jaime G
Yep. And so, and now you can, you're, you can't just pick one copy. I mean, there might be multiple Mr. Fantastic running around the map. So Tony and me play.

00:28:47.98
Jaime G
He ends up like, what? Ninth? Tenth?

00:28:52.19
Tony Sisk
Yeah, ninth.

00:28:54.51
Jaime G
Ninth.

00:28:55.90
Tony Sisk
To be fair, I was playing Wolverine and I'm not that great with Wolverine.

00:28:56.00
Jaime G
So anyway, so, so, um, all right. So anyway, you're liking the new game modes. This is one of them.

00:29:07.08
Tony Sisk
Yeah. So. Yeah, let's talk about the new game mode. So we've we got that free for all mode that you can play. And then, ah well, there isn't any new game modes yet that have been dropped outside of that. ah we We still have the domination, we still have And I don't know what the difference between convergence and an escort is, but escort mission, attack or defend.

00:29:29.29
Jaime G
The escort.

00:29:37.46
Tony Sisk
Right. So ah those are still your primary modes that you're playing with.

00:29:38.61
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:29:44.06
Tony Sisk
um And but we have a new map, right? We have is it Midtown New Empire or something?

00:29:51.20
Jaime G
mit

00:29:51.48
Tony Sisk
What's it called?

00:29:52.54
Jaime G
Right, it's called Midtown, and that's the one where you're escorting Herbie to go collect data.

00:29:57.73
Tony Sisk
Yeah. So we have, uh, the New York map and we have the, uh, Dracula kind of narrative.

00:30:03.96
Jaime G
the sancto sanctorum house of Dr. Strange.

00:30:09.01
Tony Sisk
Yeah. So we have that and we have the new two new characters. We have Mr. Fantastic and we're invisible woman. Have you had a chance to play either one of those characters?

00:30:17.59
Jaime G
Yeah. I've played a lot with Mr. Fantastic because a lot of the objectives in the season pass revolve a lot more around Mr. Fantastic than they do about the Invisible Woman. It's it's always like,

00:30:33.92
Jaime G
get into inflated state five times in a match use Mr Fantastic super three times in a match but but i have not come across anyone that says you sue storm for whatever so i've played a lot of Mr Fantastic he he's interesting man um yeah he can go into tank mode when he

00:30:46.93
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:30:57.94
Jaime G
increases his elasticity and his health bar just explodes into like the 600s and 700s. And he can, i was as I was saying, he's a duelist that feels like a vanguard.

00:31:13.75
Tony Sisk
very much so, very much so. When he flexes out into his vanguard form, basically, I mean, he's huge. And I have a hard time dealing with that guy. If he has any type of healing going on behind him, I mean, he's tough, hard to bring down. and It's almost to the point of kind of frustration when dealing with him.

00:31:44.82
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:31:46.55
Tony Sisk
So, yeah, he's impact when I see him in every match like somebody is playing Mr. Fantastic.

00:31:53.24
Jaime G
yeah

00:31:53.89
Tony Sisk
Just because he's not one of those characters that it's like, you know, you know, he's just OK. You know, somebody will play him every once in a while. No, this guy is a staple already.

00:32:05.41
Tony Sisk
um Yeah.

00:32:05.87
Jaime G
is.

00:32:06.97
Tony Sisk
And Invisible Woman is I actually play quite a bit of Invisible Woman. um She's a strategist. And she has quite the tool set, too, of ah abilities. you know she she can she Obviously, she turns invisible.

00:32:27.38
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:32:28.17
Tony Sisk
So if she's just standing there, she'll turn invisible. You can also initily initiate invisibility by doing like a jump, double jump, which will turn her invisible. um Her her attack is she's shooting out like a little balls of force fields and what's unique about those what those you unique what's unique about them is ah it will go through multiple enemies right up to 30 yards or until it bounces back off a hard surface

00:33:00.37
Jaime G
And then it it circles back to her like boomerang.

00:33:02.69
Tony Sisk
Yeah, it comes in like a boomerang. And so it will pass through multiple targets and then come back through multiple targets. So that's unique ah attack.

00:33:15.97
Tony Sisk
And then she has a her healing ability where she can just cast it. And I find her casting ability is way easier. versus like playing no Luna. I can't hit anybody when I'm trying to heal with Luna. I have a hard time because everybody's jumping around so fast. Like you're making it hard for me to heal you. So, but with ah the invisible woman, there's almost no targeting. It's just pointing that direction and she'll hit.

00:33:51.27
Tony Sisk
with the heel. And along with that heel, which is unlimited, she unlike Mantis, um she's not...

00:34:00.10
Jaime G
She's got a ah number of of leaves and then you have to like refill them before you can use them again.

00:34:04.55
Tony Sisk
Right. Yeah.

00:34:05.18
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:34:05.21
Tony Sisk
So it's unlimited. It's as fast as you can spam to heal. Right. Also, she has a force field that she can cast that has like 300 armor health, but it will also heal any ally that's standing behind it.

00:34:23.00
Tony Sisk
So she's pretty powerful. Oh, and her ultimate is like a 20 yard wide cone of invisibility.

00:34:31.17
Jaime G
but ah But by the way, I've been on a boat on an opposing team and whenever she uses her ultimate You have no idea where short shots are coming at you because whatever's inside of the dome that she creates If you're standing outside, you can't see it.

00:34:47.55
Jaime G
Yeah anything inside any player that's inside Well, yeah, but but here's the thing that

00:34:47.92
Tony Sisk
Right. But you can still blind fire into it, though. Yeah.

00:34:56.21
Jaime G
three to six people that are in there are targeting you where you're just blind firing to see what do you hit.

00:35:00.23
Tony Sisk
Right. But. Well, it also he it also heals.

00:35:05.72
Jaime G
And it heals if you're standing inside for sure.

00:35:06.92
Tony Sisk
Right. It also heals. It also has a slowing effect on anybody that goes in there. um

00:35:12.05
Jaime G
If it had a damaging effect to the opposing team, that thing would be overpowering that said, it has to be nerfed.

00:35:19.07
Tony Sisk
Right. and no And it sounds like I've listed a whole lot of abilities for Invisible Woman. There's two more that she has. Her her other ability attack ability is she can find out she throws out a psionic pulse that will actually acts like a like a little point of gravity and will pull players toward it as it deals damage to them.

00:35:47.52
Tony Sisk
That's annoying to deal with if you're on ah on the receiving end of it. And then her other ability, which I was practicing with today, is her ability to either force, like force project, like knock people off the ledges or knock them away from you or whatever, which is very handy. However, dude, there's an even better option to that. That's the force pull. You're like a freaking Jedi out there, dude.

00:36:17.33
Tony Sisk
You can pull somebody to you. And that's all I was doing today was like, Oh, let me grab that guy who keeps ducking behind that corner.

00:36:29.39
Tony Sisk
As soon as he steps out, pull them and pull them right into the middle of your team dead because

00:36:36.56
Jaime G
Oh, OK. Actually, remember when you and I were playing this past weekend? You didn't see this, but there was one point where I was complaining because this must have been planned.

00:36:47.05
Jaime G
I mean, this kind of lines up with what you're saying. Somebody was playing Penny Parker. She drops the the the thing that creates like little minds, right? And these minds, if you get into the spider web, they'll just swarm you and kill you.

00:36:57.11
Tony Sisk
Yeah. Right.

00:37:03.11
Jaime G
Well, there is a spider man on the on their team. And at one point, this was like very intentional to do just like web zips me, pulls me into the middle of the spider web dead.

00:37:12.57
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:37:16.25
Jaime G
I mean, took completely intentional. And I was like, man, that I was telling you, like, that was a great combo because you can't counter that one.

00:37:25.29
Tony Sisk
yeah

00:37:25.67
Jaime G
As soon as you get too much into the web, you know, you're dead.

00:37:29.13
Tony Sisk
Yeah. Yeah. The combo effects, man, in this game, it's crazy. Like people are just coming up with all kinds of different interactions and combos with, you know, that they can do with their character, but they also can tie it with another character.

00:37:43.97
Tony Sisk
And you guys, you have playful pulling off some interesting combos like that. And as.

00:37:48.88
Jaime G
Exactly.

00:37:50.25
Tony Sisk
Yeah, it's like. I didn't even think about, Oh yeah. Cause a lot of games you do have a so ah penny Parker on your team laying down mines. Like they may pull them into the mines, right? Oh, great idea. Yeah. So invisible woman, incredibly powerful. Uh, and has a lot of utility. Just her healing is so easy. I'm like, it's.

00:38:14.76
Tony Sisk
Man, both these characters, I haven't haven't played Mr. Fantastic in a game yet. I've just used them at the practice range.

00:38:25.24
Jaime G
You and I have are flipped.

00:38:25.46
Tony Sisk
But they definitely have promoted, they have definitely promoted, hey, here's two new characters. We're gonna make them super powerful.

00:38:34.09
Jaime G
Okay.

00:38:34.46
Tony Sisk
and

00:38:36.82
Jaime G
This might be a controversial conversation, but I'm going to go there. Okay.

00:38:40.53
Tony Sisk
Mm-hmm.

00:38:42.09
Jaime G
I do think that the scan that they're selling for What's her name? The visible woman is definitely bordering on the NSFW side, meaning not safe for work, not safe for, I'd say not safe for gaming side.

00:38:51.17
Tony Sisk
yeah

00:39:05.76
Jaime G
It is definitely like, I don't have the skin, but whenever she is using this skin, it's like, what is,

00:39:11.92
Tony Sisk
Yeah, I've seen it.

00:39:15.64
Tony Sisk
Yeah, I've seen, I've seen the skin you were talking about, people have brought that point up.

00:39:22.42
Tony Sisk
But yeah, I mean, most people are just using the base skin, but I do see it every once in a while.

00:39:26.96
Jaime G
Well, yeah, I mean, when it comes up and and if it comes up as, you know, MVP, you're like, dude, this is, I mean, I take it that you're taking some creative liberties, making, uh, the female characters attractive, but this one was like, yo, they're changing the meta.

00:39:33.49
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:39:44.49
Tony Sisk
Yeah, but yeah, it's it's great to have the two new characters, but what's interesting is there the impact that they've had on kind of like the, I won't say the meta. Yeah, I'm like, they've changed they've changed the meta through basically adding the two new characters. And yeah, it's like where before everybody was running, Luna.

00:40:10.59
Tony Sisk
Now, ah you still see Luna, but it's not as predominant.

00:40:11.21
Jaime G
right

00:40:14.08
Tony Sisk
And I think everybody's pretty much experimenting with Invisible Woman, but the experimentation has turned into, you know what, this is good. like So now, I don't think there's been a good answer.

00:40:26.59
Tony Sisk
like um I can't figure out what the answer is. I need to watch some videos or something on how Mr.

00:40:31.20
Jaime G
Uh huh.

00:40:32.38
Tony Sisk
Fantastic, how to deal with Mr. Fantastic, and how

00:40:39.14
Tony Sisk
The Invisible Woman is impacting the matches ah outside of being just a great healer.

00:40:43.14
Jaime G
I OK. I will tell you this, if you're in a match and you're playing Mr. Fantastic and you have the invisible woman in your team, you're like so overpowered because Mr. Fantastic can generate shield.

00:40:58.41
Jaime G
by just by attacking characters, he generates shield. Then you can like the team up ability with invisible woman is you basically for like five seconds regenerate health. And then when he goes into like Vanguard mode, he his health bar just like like increases by a quarter.

00:41:20.95
Jaime G
He is really, ah to what you to which you were just saying, like I don't know how to properly deal with him. You just gotta stick with it because if there's somebody behind him healing him, plus again, the fact that he can generate shield and he can get like this regenerative ability, he's just a pain to deal with.

00:41:39.44
Tony Sisk
Right. And what I think, what I've noticed or what I think I've noticed, ah but should be a better term. What I think I've noticed is the, is something that we already knew beforehand, right? Is you have to deal with the healers that are healing these guys. Right. Because it was, it was true before. It is really, really true now. Like if you don't.

00:42:09.54
Tony Sisk
Deal with the healers. You can't take these guys down unless you're standing right in front of your, you know, Mr. The Punisher and he can fire away free will on them like you. So characters like Iron Fist.

00:42:30.92
Tony Sisk
And in any diver, any player that can dive the back line and just harass the healers, you don't necessarily have to kill them, but you have to harass them every match where I've been in.

00:42:42.07
Jaime G
Yeah, you have to get them to break formation.

00:42:43.96
Tony Sisk
Yeah. Right. Any match where we've gone up and ah dozens of games I've played now where the other team is allowed to just stand behind the front wall of Mr. Fantastic and the Hulk or Groot or whatever. Uh, if they're just allowed to stand back there and heal, you can't kill those guys. They're just not, it's not going to happen. Uh, they're just going to roll over you. So, um, and I think,

00:43:13.67
Tony Sisk
really in a lot of the lobbies that we've been playing and we played some ranked matches the other day. And and I think but there's just a lot of people that don't understand, right?

00:43:27.88
Tony Sisk
Like, okay, we got five DPS in here, you know?

00:43:29.84
Jaime G
Man, Tony, I was pulling my hair out whenever we had a Luna player in our team who wanted to play Luna as a duelist. Like, I mean, i i I know Luna can do some damage and she can do some good damage, but that's not the main role because when your team needs you, you're dead.

00:43:57.00
Tony Sisk
Right.

00:43:58.23
Jaime G
And man I know, I know what you're talking about with like some of these matches.

00:43:58.51
Tony Sisk
never Yeah.

00:44:01.99
Jaime G
I was like standing behind in this thinking like, what in the world are you doing?

00:44:07.90
Tony Sisk
ah so Right. And like, yeah, there's so so much frustration in the lower ranks of the competitive ladder.

00:44:18.48
Tony Sisk
ah like ah So many people, ah twice today, twice today. And I only you played like two hours today. I was in lobbies where there was no tank and there was no healer until I switched to one of those things.

00:44:33.22
Tony Sisk
I switched.

00:44:33.54
Jaime G
Yeah, everyone must have been like, woo, that guy.

00:44:34.77
Tony Sisk
Like, and, and, and the advice, you know, I know a lot of the people that, that are almost pro gamers advise them, I mean, don't, don't switch, stick with what you're playing.

00:44:46.55
Tony Sisk
That's somebody else switch. Like, well, there must be a lot of people taking your advice because nobody would switch.

00:44:53.12
Jaime G
Nobody wants to write.

00:44:54.68
Tony Sisk
Right. And. If we, yeah, I had, I switched. I waited to the last possible second and I switched both times and we just got destroyed.

00:45:04.84
Tony Sisk
It didn't matter because one, one healer is not enough or two. One tank is not enough.

00:45:09.32
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:45:10.42
Tony Sisk
You can't have Dr. Strange by himself. A lot of times when everybody's like. Not even utilizing the utility of his shield and they're just charging through.

00:45:22.45
Tony Sisk
That's the funniest thing. I have the shield up right in front of me.

00:45:26.51
Jaime G
yeah

00:45:26.98
Tony Sisk
I'm just walking slowly forward, you know, blocking all the shots. And I got to, I got, um, what's his name, uh, star Lord star Lord comes and doesn't stop at the shield.

00:45:42.66
Tony Sisk
He just keeps going right, right through the shield.

00:45:43.51
Jaime G
Oh, he's dead.

00:45:48.01
Tony Sisk
You know, and another guy, right through the shield, what happens to him?

00:45:51.17
Jaime G
Did I?

00:45:52.60
Tony Sisk
They die.

00:45:55.25
Jaime G
Did I?

00:45:56.11
Tony Sisk
Like you do realize that the shield is what's preventing you from getting hit, right? Before you actually get on the other side of the shield. And when you get on the other side of the shield, you're going to die.

00:46:04.47
Jaime G
Right.

00:46:07.36
Jaime G
Tony, okay, what do you, I mean, this is kind of normal when um when you're playing trading in card games like Magic the Gathering, et cetera.

00:46:17.94
Jaime G
Every time that they release a new set, ah they kind of grab cards that used to be in the previous set, they retweet them and they give them like some added bonus and they're like, that's the new meta.

00:46:21.03
Tony Sisk
Mm hmm.

00:46:34.50
Jaime G
I do feel, this is my own opinion, that these two new characters have really shaken up the meta in a way that, like what you were saying, I feel like in every match, I'm running into either a Mr. Fantastic or an Invisible Woman and sometimes both, like constantly. The point um I was trying to get to here is to say, did you think that as they release uh the thing ah they released johnny storm blade is imp is imminent right this is this is a vampire theme season having blade in there makes sense um are they just going are the the new characters going to like slowly and surely replace more and more all the characters or do you think that they're going to take an approach where all the characters are balanced

00:47:30.43
Jaime G
I mean, I do think that Mr. Fantastic is is a tattle over overpowered in most scenarios if he's going against us a storm or a Iron Man, then you know, they're gonna win because he really can't reach them But in all other scenarios he date that character can hold his ground against any other character

00:47:53.15
Tony Sisk
Right. So what I think is usually in the TCG thing, they were they you you get introduced to new cards that are more powerful.

00:48:01.61
Jaime G
up.

00:48:05.72
Tony Sisk
It's like Power Creep that's going on. Uh, or some new ability that, uh, that changed the minute, just like you said, right.

00:48:14.58
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:48:16.46
Tony Sisk
But a lot of times there, a lot of times there can be an answer. Uh, that's already existing to that.

00:48:27.59
Tony Sisk
That's already existing in the game. Right. So, so you don't necessarily have to make a new card or new character to counter them per se. There's already somebody in the game that is built to kind of handle it.

00:48:44.97
Tony Sisk
That's underutilized already. Right. So it's, it's like, the question is, does that exist right now when it comes to dealing with

00:48:47.62
Jaime G
Ah.

00:48:54.87
Tony Sisk
Mr. Fantastic. And that's why I'm getting at where I'm saying there are characters that don't necessarily counter Mr. Fantastic directly, but they counter how the utilization of Mr.

00:49:04.57
Jaime G
Mm hmm.

00:49:09.95
Tony Sisk
Fantastic because he has free reign, because is he's getting healing on the backside, right? so

00:49:18.18
Jaime G
Uh huh. Right.

00:49:19.21
Tony Sisk
Black Panther, who who's Holly mobile iron fist, um silo characters that can get into the back line and just harass those healers, right? Those characters that have been kind of pushed down in season zero.

00:49:38.02
Jaime G
Uh huh.

00:49:39.57
Tony Sisk
um Now have an opportunity to kind of step up and affect the games, right? Because I've seen this. play out over the last couple of days, you know, a Black Panther, at what when I'm healing as Invisible Woman or as Mantis or whoever.

00:49:59.81
Jaime G
Huh?

00:49:59.90
Tony Sisk
I mean, there has been games where I can't even get a heal off. one I'm getting camped at the spawn point. There's some guy sitting right outside the spawn point waiting for every healer to come out the door or, or that's primary target.

00:50:11.59
Jaime G
yeah

00:50:14.50
Tony Sisk
Number one, the healer. I've definitely have felt that change where before, yeah, you were, you were the target, you know, before, but now I am definitely the target.

00:50:27.88
Tony Sisk
Like.

00:50:30.96
Tony Sisk
Regardless of what else is going on, they're going for the healer, right? Because they can break that link. Then Mr. Fantastic is not near as powerful and or any of the tanks or, you you know, so it's like they got to break that link. So that's where. Scarlet Witch, everybody says, well, Scarlet Witch is no good because you can't get her ultimate off. Right. But what makes Scarlet Witch so usable is the fact that she can she can not turn invisible she can she yeah she's mobile in that she can dematerialize right and fly herself through the front line and get into the rear area

00:51:04.63
Jaime G
She can go. Yeah, she's she can be mobile.

00:51:16.14
Jaime G
I was complaining about that. I was complaining about Scarlet Witch with you yesterday because I feel like the new maps in both Doommatch and the Midtown, they favor her. Like she can get into the middle of a battle, phase out, go heal, get back and and into it like very few other characters can. But i think I think these maps bring her have made her be a lot lot more viable character.

00:51:49.46
Tony Sisk
Yeah, like, yeah, and like you said, you know, the map having an influence on how to play them how to play the game. But yeah, I feel that Scarlet Witch is way more viable just because she can she can get behind and harass um any character that does that can do it.

00:52:07.44
Jaime G
and Totally.

00:52:10.98
Tony Sisk
So to me, like it just makes those characters, like I said, characters that are already in the game that were underutilized. now have a much more important role that it's like if you can have a good player that knows how to use them, get back there now. We'll say this, Spider-Man. Come on, Spider-Man players. I had a game yesterday. We lost. It was a domination game. No. No, it was a convoy match, right?

00:52:46.42
Jaime G
oh

00:52:46.80
Tony Sisk
We, we lost by like a meter, right? And our spider man was eight and 27. Oh, over two, over two matches, right? The attack in the fin. No. And we had a tiebreaker. Yeah. We, we even have to do the tiebreaker eight and 27. You're not effective. You, what were you doing?

00:53:14.80
Tony Sisk
Maybe he was harassing the back line. I don't know. I don't think so, because I can you know how you can see the outline of the characters on your team.

00:53:17.81
Jaime G
I don't know, man.

00:53:21.94
Tony Sisk
You know, I mean, there was quite a few times where I just saw him kind of standing like behind a window for forever. You know, I mean, dev there's some good spotter guys out there, Spider-Man, but I don't know.

00:53:38.85
Tony Sisk
I think I'd rather have another character.

00:53:39.03
Jaime G
he He's not a character for me, man. He's too difficult, honestly.

00:53:42.38
Tony Sisk
Yeah. I'm like, need something more impactful.

00:53:48.77
Jaime G
Well, I'm i'm ah so far my thoughts on the new season that just dropped have been positive. I'm still trying to work my way. I bought the. The season pass or what is it was the the the battle pass.

00:54:02.86
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:54:04.58
Jaime G
Right. It was it was I had scored enough points through the currency that you get where I just had to like buy five bucks. I was like, I'm down.

00:54:15.05
Jaime G
And plus I'm liking the skins that they're given away after you earned them. i'm I'm sold on this still. Again, I have high hopes to see how the new characters will impact the gameplay. The new characters right now feel like, like what they're trying to do, right?

00:54:34.02
Jaime G
It's a new character, give him a tad, a tad buff over somebody else so that people start playing them. And they do then the balance patches where they nerf a little bit other characters like right now they nerfed Hawkeye. Now he can't one shot you from across a map.

00:54:54.07
Jaime G
He has his his effective range to do max damage has been reduced because guess what? There was a lot of people through that were like really good at he one shotting people.

00:55:06.25
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:55:08.55
Tony Sisk
Yeah, I mean, they they did do a few nerfs, but nothing major, like Mantis, right? Like I play Mantis, they nerfed her speed. I'm like, okay, well, that is really, a she's still fast.

00:55:19.63
Jaime G
She was she I thought that was fair, though.

00:55:23.56
Tony Sisk
She's still fast though. Like, coconut

00:55:26.07
Jaime G
Oh man, you know what's funny is that I play cloak and dagger, she they got a buff.

00:55:33.48
Tony Sisk
dagger kind of buff. I can feel it.

00:55:35.03
Jaime G
Yeah, well, their super had like three dashes, their supers now it's now it has four.

00:55:39.63
Tony Sisk
Now let's get to fourth Yeah Yeah

00:55:43.68
Jaime G
I saw a video, legit, I saw a video where you like somebody just stacked the four and then somebody used the Punisher Ultra on them and they were just standing there where they had stacked the four, the four ah what is it, puddles of like goo?

00:56:02.82
Jaime G
And Punisher couldn't kill them because she was re-healing so faster than what Punisher's Ultra was able to dish out.

00:56:12.52
Tony Sisk
Wow, that's pretty fast.

00:56:13.92
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:56:17.40
Tony Sisk
Yeah, okay, cool.

00:56:17.77
Jaime G
Anyway.

00:56:19.19
Tony Sisk
But yeah, so far, season one, it's pretty fun. I will i do have one one complaint I've had the last few days with season one, and it's not necessarily because of the season one thing, I don't think, but is there've been a lot more players disconnecting uh yeah in competitive mode like I don't know if that's you know just a computer issue or a network issue on their part but when it's happening like every game they need to increase the penalties if people are are doing the intentionally like whatever the penalty is they might need to increase it like if you quit in the middle of a match

00:56:42.57
Jaime G
Oh, oh, oh, in competitive mode.

00:56:53.12
Jaime G
No.

00:57:08.43
Tony Sisk
then you can't play for like an hour or something.

00:57:11.21
Jaime G
Well, you and I kept on playing playing several matches and and every once in a while, we'd be like, we are just getting demolished and we would go and see the players.

00:57:11.67
Tony Sisk
like

00:57:26.29
Jaime G
Oh, we it was ah five now because somebody dropped out. And it seems like people are waiting for the end of the first match. If they lose that first one, they're jumping out like immediately.

00:57:40.75
Tony Sisk
Right. Yeah.

00:57:41.57
Jaime G
and And then, yeah, but you put the whole team at a disadvantage.

00:57:41.61
Tony Sisk
Cause I think they're saving time because they can immediately go and jump in. they They can immediately go and jump into another favorable, something that they think is favorable to them.

00:57:53.60
Jaime G
Yep.

00:57:54.20
Tony Sisk
Like the penalty needs to be immediate. Like you quit 30 minutes. You can't play.

00:58:01.38
Jaime G
Yeah, I mean, look, if in a 24 hour window, you disconnect once,

00:58:01.45
Tony Sisk
Do it again, but an hour you can't play just progressive.

00:58:10.46
Jaime G
You get a warning. You disconnect twice. You can't play competitive for another hour. You do it again and this, and again, 24 hours, like after you were able to play back command. Now the penalty is two hours.

00:58:24.01
Tony Sisk
Yeah, like they shouldn't be in competitive because they're ruining it.

00:58:25.06
Jaime G
Because no, there's too many people doing this.

00:58:28.06
Tony Sisk
It is. Yeah, it is an issue. I feel that is becoming bigger and bigger. So.

00:58:33.69
Jaime G
Uh-huh.

00:58:35.72
Tony Sisk
So add that that's something that they need to kind of to snuff out now. So that that would be my one complaint that I've had so far with the game is.

00:58:41.28
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:58:46.20
Tony Sisk
It's it's probably player behavior when it comes to quitting the match. And what's so what's crazy about it is like people are quitting the match when the outcome is not yet determined.

00:59:01.35
Tony Sisk
right It's like we could have won the match. I've had multiple games where we would have won if we actually had a six player.

00:59:05.56
Jaime G
um

00:59:11.54
Tony Sisk
right

00:59:13.05
Jaime G
I mean, the moment that we had lost one person, you either lost a strategist or a duelist tanks. I seem they seem to kind of like, you know, know what they're going in for.

00:59:24.17
Jaime G
it But it was always like it's when there's at least three matches where you and I were like, what just happened? We just lost a player.

00:59:34.36
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:59:35.86
Jaime G
Yeah, I forgot to bring this up, but you're right about it.

00:59:35.86
Tony Sisk
So, and then, and I'm not, it's yeah. Yeah. Or is it even a thing where it's like, Oh, I can't get the character I want. um I'm, I'm quitting out and I'm not so sure that that's not even from the very, very beginning.

00:59:50.68
Tony Sisk
Cause I've had matches at the very beginning before we even started. Really that player never got into the match or he would, they sat in a lobby and then left.

00:59:59.48
Jaime G
I think.

01:00:03.94
Jaime G
OK, I'm not going to say that it's not a possibility what you just said, but for the most part, that's why you you try to get at least two characters. The odds of but within 35 characters, people.

01:00:17.92
Jaime G
Use in selecting two of the ones that you play, it kind of slows slim. It could happen. But I don't think that's the case.

01:00:25.47
Tony Sisk
Right I had a funny funny Funny one yesterday. I was playing a match and I've been playing Loki right and I Think it was domination.

01:00:35.57
Jaime G
Yeah.

01:00:39.14
Tony Sisk
We were playing domination on the Hydra maps and We actually won the first game right pretty handily Uh, and then we played the second game and then we, we lost fairly handily.

01:00:57.45
Tony Sisk
So it was even so far. And then in the lobby, one of the players was like, can I have low key? I'm like, okay. Well, I don't care.

01:01:07.81
Tony Sisk
Like I'll go to another character.

01:01:08.57
Jaime G
yeah

01:01:11.66
Tony Sisk
I like. I was actually leading the team in kills, which is how bad it was, like as Loki ah already, but I'm like, okay, cause I wanted to switch to Mantis because there was a Iron Man and I wanted to be able to hit Iron Man, right?

01:01:26.44
Jaime G
Uh-huh.

01:01:31.69
Tony Sisk
So I switched off, right?

01:01:32.04
Jaime G
Yeah.

01:01:34.22
Tony Sisk
Can you believe that after I switched off to this guy who was begging to play Loki, the guy did nothing, nothing.

01:01:42.76
Jaime G
but Dude.

01:01:43.70
Tony Sisk
in the third match, didn't get a, didn't like never, never got any heels off.

01:01:48.12
Jaime G
Dude.

01:01:50.87
Tony Sisk
You know, it's like, are you serious? You begged to play this character. I can't, I can't, I kept seeing him pop up on the kill feed, right? Like, why did you want to play him?

01:02:02.65
Tony Sisk
Cause you obviously sucked. like

01:02:09.48
Tony Sisk
i have to Whatever.

01:02:12.74
Jaime G
Well, I don't know, but at least at least you weren't, you were chill and cool about it, right? You were like, yeah, go ahead. I mean, you gave him the benefit of the doubt.

01:02:20.64
Tony Sisk
Hey, yeah, I came in the benefit of that. Hey, he might be better. Lucky player than I am. I'll let him have it.

01:02:26.56
Jaime G
Yeah.

01:02:26.64
Tony Sisk
And, um, and then he proved, then he was like nowhere to be found the entire match.

01:02:26.77
Jaime G
And you're like, Oh no.

01:02:32.32
Tony Sisk
I'm like, dude, come on.

01:02:32.96
Jaime G
Oh man. I hate it when that happens, man.

01:02:34.45
Tony Sisk
At least I was up there healing and getting kills. Like, I'm like, I'm thinking like, Oh, this guy's going to do some sort of so spectacular MVP play or something.

01:02:46.09
Tony Sisk
And then, no, nothing.

01:02:47.82
Jaime G
yeah let's check him out

01:02:54.16
Tony Sisk
Alright, well, that's cool.

01:02:54.80
Jaime G
oh

01:02:59.03
Tony Sisk
Anyway, so, um

01:03:03.79
Tony Sisk
yeah, and we got some good games to look forward to in February. ah Don't know if there'll be a good enough to knock us off Marvel marvel Rivals. You know, I still wanna, you know, I wanna make, climb that ladder.

01:03:13.09
Jaime G
Yeah.

01:03:15.13
Tony Sisk
Maybe one day, have some success on it.

01:03:17.10
Jaime G
Maybe one day. Let's let's get Tony to gold.

01:03:20.50
Tony Sisk
Yeah, right, don't need to go. um But yeah, thanks for listening in on our episode and ah check out our Discord.

01:03:32.50
Tony Sisk
ah There's always a new link for a Discord in the comment section. So click on that, go to our Discord, join the conversation there. We have a lot of Marvel Rivals talk.

01:03:44.15
Tony Sisk
We were actually able to get an entire team, an entire team, six players from our Discord server together at the one time.

01:03:50.65
Jaime G
Oh, oh, Tony, don't get me started. Don't get me started on this.

01:03:56.73
Tony Sisk
and Harry couldn't get in.

01:03:56.98
Jaime G
All right.

01:03:59.34
Jaime G
Okay. For, like for anybody who's listening, I know that we're about to sign off, but. when When this happened, Tony's right. There was like a whole team got together and and and I'm like over here on the side, like begging like, guys, can I play?

01:04:14.00
Jaime G
Everyone's like, no, we've got a full squad. I'm like, can I play? No, we've got a full squad. Anyway, they bit Tony and the team decides to go play competitive, right?

01:04:26.85
Jaime G
And and you learn that you can't have like a whole six person team to go competitive. Like it maxes out at four, I think.

01:04:31.26
Tony Sisk
Right. Yeah. Yeah.

01:04:33.56
Jaime G
so So I'm over here saying, OK, I'm going to go play it by myself. I get on this lobby. And they're all like, you know, I'm reading the text. they They're like, we're getting crushed. Meanwhile, I'm here by myself playing a strategist. A strategist, people. I end up with 36 kills, 24 assists, zero deaths.

01:04:58.76
Jaime G
I get MVP and I'm like sending them their picture. I'm like, this is what you missed out on. They're like, yeah, we needed a strategist.

01:05:06.53
Tony Sisk
yeah Yeah, yeah, we did. We needed one bad.

01:05:13.27
Tony Sisk
But yeah, but yeah yeah, that's kind of participation. We're getting over on our Discord for Marvel Arrivals. So if you're interested, ah join our Discord and i get in. Now I get one to sign off, but I always keep thinking of something new.

01:05:27.46
Tony Sisk
So I was thinking, Jaime, I was thinking, so you know how you could do the private match, right?

01:05:29.52
Jaime G
What? Yeah.

01:05:34.71
Tony Sisk
We need to test this out. We need to test out setting up a private match, one versus one, with five bots filling out the remainder of the roster on both sides, and then play a game and see and do a tournament.

01:05:46.02
Jaime G
Oh.

01:05:55.88
Tony Sisk
What do you think?

01:05:56.33
Jaime G
oh you You plus five bots against the world.

01:06:00.47
Tony Sisk
You plus five bots against another player plus five bots in a bracket format tournament.

01:06:08.86
Jaime G
Okay. Do the bots get selected by ah randomly or can you change them?

01:06:14.53
Tony Sisk
You pick them, you pick them. You just submit the list of bots that you're gonna pick. You can't change them though. You gotta go in with what you got.

01:06:21.84
Jaime G
That sounds interesting, man. Imagine if, if you have that one bot that's carrying the team and you win.

01:06:30.31
Tony Sisk
Right. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, but it's like a way of playing a tournament with but you don't actually have to have a full team of people. You just have to have the one real life player and then five bots.

01:06:44.62
Tony Sisk
You pick the bots.

01:06:44.95
Jaime G
I think this is, this is a fun idea.

01:06:48.87
Tony Sisk
Yeah, I think we should test it out on the discord.

01:06:52.44
Jaime G
Yeah. it's the but By the way, we have a three-day weekend coming up.

01:06:58.91
Tony Sisk
Yeah. Let's just see if we can do it.

01:07:00.41
Jaime G
MLK Day.

01:07:02.95
Tony Sisk
We see if we can set up. I mean, I know you can set up private matches and private lobbies.

01:07:07.02
Jaime G
Right, right, right.

01:07:08.67
Tony Sisk
So.

01:07:11.40
Tony Sisk
So the question is, is like you can set up the bond.

01:07:12.17
Jaime G
Let's see if we can do this. I like the idea. Don't get me wrong. Yeah.

01:07:15.66
Tony Sisk
Yeah. And it saves everybody the hassle of trying to get five other people to get on the same timeline with you.

01:07:23.76
Jaime G
Yeah, you just need yourself.

01:07:26.43
Tony Sisk
Yeah, just need yourself.

01:07:26.51
Jaime G
And good luck with the bots.

01:07:29.34
Tony Sisk
Yeah, well, I mean, they have the easy, the medium, and the expert mode bots, right? So set them all to expert and go.

01:07:34.57
Jaime G
Right.

01:07:39.48
Jaime G
Hey, let's plan this out. i'll I'll start posting something on the Discord between today and tomorrow and see if we got some some takers.

01:07:46.07
Tony Sisk
all right cool all right see all right folks you see what you're missing out on if you're not already in the discord now's your opportunity to join the discord by just clicking on the link in the show description uh like us follow us whatever platform you're listening to us on um

01:07:47.64
Jaime G
All right.

01:07:58.65
Jaime G
Yes.

01:08:05.45
Tony Sisk
Get you to know we're one of the what top five indie podcasts for Xbox.

01:08:11.52
Jaime G
Xbox.

01:08:11.71
Tony Sisk
Amazingly, we don't even talk that much Xbox. I don't know. I don't know what that says about Xbox is a podcast community, but but hey.

01:08:22.17
Jaime G
But we're crushing it.

01:08:23.07
Tony Sisk
Yeah, we're crushing it in the indie podcast department, across all but across you know ah platforms, or what do you want to call it?

01:08:27.23
Jaime G
Yeah.

01:08:30.15
Tony Sisk
but yeah So anyway, thanks for joining us in this episode, and we'll catch you guys again next week. Bye.

01:08:36.89
Jaime G
ah that you guys in

01:09:01.23
Jaime G
I'll talk to you guys soon