We Hit Record By Accident (And It Shows)

This week on Good2Game Radio, Tony and Jaime accidentally start the podcast… and then just keep going. From dusty PS3-era games they’d never buy (unless bribed by PS Plus) to GameStop casually trying to buy eBay like it found loose change in the couch, the chaos escalates fast. The duo debates whether The Mandalorian is carrying Star Wars on its back, questions why Mario movies forgot how to stick the landing, and somehow ends up defending Nicolas Cage as Spider-Man Noir. Toss in multiverse confusion, dad-gaming moments, and zero Jedi guarantees, and you’ve got an episode that proves the pre-show might actually be the show.

Transcript

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Jaime G
talking about a game that's like

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Jaime G
over 15 years old?

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Tony Sisk
Oh, right, yeah.

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Jaime G
Not the remaster.

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Tony Sisk
i like I wouldn't buy it if I saw on the shelf. Right? It's only the fact that it's on PS Plus that I'm playing it.

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Jaime G
Whoa. It released in 2010.

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Jaime G
I was actually thinking like 2013.

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Tony Sisk
So, yeah.

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Tony Sisk
Yeah, 360 PS3 era right near the end of it.

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Jaime G
Yep.

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Jaime G
Yep.

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Tony Sisk
So so

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Jaime G
Well, all all I got, man, is I've honestly been playing. i've I've kept on playing 2XKO. I am hooked on that game.

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Jaime G
I'm surprised not a lot of more people are playing it. i I started playing with Felix a run in that Zelda game for Switch, because he's been like, Dad, you need to play your own. You need to play your own. So I started playing with him and having a little father-son experience where he's like like, I'm like, Felix, don't tell me any spoilers. And he he won't tell me any spoilers, but he'll tell me like what not to do, what who not to talk to, what paths I should take.

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Jaime G
But they're not spoilers. Yeah.

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Tony Sisk
Right.

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Jaime G
Devil May Cry Season 2 landed. And my my latesttu latest foray at with GameStop, which I have always said i hate I hate shopping at GameStop with a passion, man.

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Tony Sisk
It's been, it's probably been a year since I've been in GameStop. Though, you know, GameStop is in the news again, right? You know

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Jaime G
Because they wanted to buy eBay?

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Tony Sisk
Because they're trying to buy eBay. I'm like, is this... I mean, it's just strange, right? Because, like, GameStop is not, like, particularly famous for being successful.

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Tony Sisk
know? It's like, is that oh, people weren't looking at it at like, oh, if everybody was like GameStop, then you would be great. No, everybody's like...

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Jaime G
was on the verge of collapse, man, a couple of years ago. when when they were doing like all that stock like inflating stuff, that was like, that was like GameStop got a lot of money out of it too, but it could have tanked then and there because the the big investors were like trying to price priced them out and out of business, right?

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Tony Sisk
Yeah. Right.

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Tony Sisk
right

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Jaime G
Make make their stock like worth nothing.

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Tony Sisk
Yeah, and but people were like investing in games. I don't know how it worked. There was actually a movie made about it. and And literally like episode three or four of this podcast ever, you know, we're on like episode 170 now.

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Jaime G
Yeah.

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Tony Sisk
Like the third or fourth episode ever of this podcast talked about the whole GameStop and Wall Street, you know.

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Jaime G
Yeah.

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Tony Sisk
And was it Robin Hood, the investment app?

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Jaime G
It was that? Yes.

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Tony Sisk
Yeah, didn't they go like, did weren't they like under investigation because they like shut off all trading at the behest of like the big mega mega investment firms.

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Jaime G
Based. Yes.

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Jaime G
big Big investment firms. Yeah.

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Tony Sisk
They asked for it to turn off the cut off the trading because like these small investors were coming together at the same time to kind of mess up their shorts on the stock and drive the price up.

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Jaime G
Yeah.

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Jaime G
Yeah.

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Jaime G
Uh huh.

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Tony Sisk
Yeah, there was a movie made about it. wanted to see that movie, too. It was at the theater. I was like, I could never make it there. It's like right now, I'm trying to make it to go see Mortal Kombat.

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Jaime G
I think it's on Netflix.

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Tony Sisk
Yeah.

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Jaime G
Dude, you want to see Mortal Kombat?

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Tony Sisk
um

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Jaime G
I want to see it, but I can't take Felix.

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Tony Sisk
Yeah, I mean, I'm trying to see it. It's about to come out of the theater. They were already like two weeks ago.

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Jaime G
It came out last week.

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Jaime G
Yeah.

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Tony Sisk
But the Murfreesboro Theater is... They'll theyrell pull it pretty quickly. Their rotation is not the greatest.

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Tony Sisk
like so

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Jaime G
Well, it must mean that it didn't gather a lot of people.

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Tony Sisk
Well, I mean, they're probably putting all the screens for the Mandalorian right now. I'm sure of if Vance were here, Vance would want to talk about the Mandalorian because he went and saw it.

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Tony Sisk
But it had like $160 million dollars opening.

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Jaime G
All right, so it's...

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Tony Sisk
like it With almost no marketing.

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Jaime G
Well, the fan base is its own marketing.

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Tony Sisk
Right, yeah. You don't need to market it, really, when you have a pretty dedicated fan base like The Mandalorian has.

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Jaime G
Yeah.

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Tony Sisk
so But you know it's a matter of does it have legs? Is it that 160, that's all of the big fans? Is it enough to drive regular Star Wars fans?

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Tony Sisk
It's like Star Wars is segmented into Star Wars and then Mandalorian. which Which group is the most avid right now? I would say that the Mandalorian is like...

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Tony Sisk
Super fans And Star Wars has kind of fallen off Even though you know Mandalorian falls Underneath Star Wars as far as Like the hierarchy of things but

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Jaime G
Yeah.

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Jaime G
Well, let's see. Super Mario Brothers has grossed

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Jaime G
almost 425 million year to date. Mortal Kombat 2 has totaled about $75 million.

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Jaime G
The Mandalorian has netted $100 million. has been $100 million.

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Tony Sisk
That domestic?

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Jaime G
domestic

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Tony Sisk
Or warwa worldwide?

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Jaime G
now the domestic has been one hundred just

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Jaime G
Yeah, yeah, yeah, just domestic.

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Jaime G
Worldwide, 163 mil.

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Tony Sisk
ah See?

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Jaime G
that's That's it.

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Tony Sisk
That's where I was getting 160 from. Yeah, Star Wars Mandalorian. and Grogu opens to...

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Jaime G
OK, so Mortal Kombat is worldwide 119. OK, so it's crossed the 100 million mark.

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Jaime G
I like the first Mortal Kombat movie, man.

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Tony Sisk
Yeah. I mean, I want to go see Mortal Kombat before it goes off. of I'm looking at my app. I mean, it's playing in...

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Tony Sisk
um

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Jaime G
Oh, dude, Super Mario Brothers is like 20 million short of crossing the $1 billion dollar mark.

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Tony Sisk
Did you go and watch it?

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Jaime G
I did.

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Tony Sisk
And your thoughts on it?

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Jaime G
it didn't wow me like the first one did.

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Tony Sisk
Right.

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Tony Sisk
I'm in the same boat. Like.

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Jaime G
I felt like the the first one managed to captivate my attention a lot more than this one did.

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Tony Sisk
And.

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Tony Sisk
Right. this I wasn't a big fan of how they developed the the relationship between the father and son um Bowser, father and son dynamic.

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Tony Sisk
I wasn't a big fan of that.

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Jaime G
Mm-hmm.

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Tony Sisk
It kind of turned me off. like like There was no conclusion to it. It was just like, hey, let's just be bad together. like in the nonsensical... the

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Jaime G
Honestly, that was my pain point and in those characters.

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Tony Sisk
that

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Jaime G
The fact that you know Bowser Jr., he's bad. Koopa Bowser actually had turned a leaf, and then all of a sudden, he's just, well, I guess I got to make my kid proud, and then he's bad again.

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Jaime G
And I kept on wanting him to be like you know have a redemption moment, but he never did.

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Tony Sisk
Right. Yeah. There was just no redemption at all, which is unusual because it followed that path.

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Jaime G
Yeah.

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Tony Sisk
You know, it was dropping all these hints like, oh, yeah, there's a redemption coming. There's a redemption shot coming. And then it just never happened.

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Jaime G
Well, right, because because he he he tried to tell Val's journey like, hey, maybe we should you know do something different. And he's like,

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Tony Sisk
Yeah, it was literally like the tail wagging the dog sort of thing. Like the kid leading the dad around. um And as you know, kind of as like a dad myself, he's like, you don't want your kids leading you around in that fashion.

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Tony Sisk
It's not a good, it's not a good thing. So i just didn't.

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Jaime G
I mean, i have i have done stuff to make to try to make Felix proud of me in the last two months, and I remember clearly what it was, but it was net it doesn't get to the point where like, all right, let's do everything and anything you want me to do.

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Tony Sisk
right so yeah i mean it it fell flat for me and i i'm pretty i'm pretty sure uh vance has the same feeling on it too so

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Jaime G
I think that's why I haven't really brought it up.

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Tony Sisk
yeah i it yeah it didn't reach those heights of like the first one

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Jaime G
ah Just because, nah, nah. The first one absolutely did. This one didn't. it It was more like, OK.

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Jaime G
and And I think I left like when the first one finished and rolled the credits. I left thinking, yeah, I got i can't wait to see the second. you know Let's see where they go.

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Jaime G
Now I'm like, OK, to me, this is this is a good stopping point. you know Quit while you're ahead. kind of And financially is is where yeah I'm saying that they're ahead.

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Tony Sisk
right yeah yeah now i don't want to like don't even bother with a third if there's a third because like yeah

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Jaime G
Yeah, right? right like That's my feeling at this point.

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Tony Sisk
you cut your losses now you just right it just but yeah but uh yeah mortal combat i want to get get that in um before it comes out of the big theater and then um

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Jaime G
Uh huh. Yeah.

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Tony Sisk
Then, of course, Star Wars. Get that in, too. I mean, I'm sure it's decent. Big screen. Star Wars. Mandalorian. I mean, has all the has all the the elements that you need.

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Jaime G
It's, it's, it's,

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Tony Sisk
I don't know if it has any Jedi in it, though. I know that's your number one criteria.

00:11:08.09
Jaime G
well, I don't think it can be a decent Star Wars movie or game or anything if there's no Jedi.

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Tony Sisk
It's got to have Jedi.

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Tony Sisk
It's got Luke Skywalker in this world. It's in that time period.

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Jaime G
And the world.

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Tony Sisk
In the time period.

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Jaime G
Right. But is there a guy that shows up with a lightsaber?

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Tony Sisk
I don't know.

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Jaime G
man.

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Tony Sisk
Did you watch the Mandalorian?

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Jaime G
ah

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Tony Sisk
Was that season two that happens?

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Jaime G
no man i don't have I don't have Disney+.

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Tony Sisk
That's right. You don't have...

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Jaime G
plus

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Tony Sisk
Wait. You do now. I thought you had Disney+. plus

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Jaime G
Wait, there I got it for because I wanted to see something specifically. But then it then it passed and I canceled it because there's...

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Tony Sisk
Oh, you never watched any of the major shows? You didn't watch buafe ah the Bubba Fett show?

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Jaime G
Dude, you guys complained about it left and right. What was it? What?

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Tony Sisk
I told somebody today, I was like, somebody asked me, how many so how many seasons of Bubba Fett, not Bubba Fett, Mandalorian were there?

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Jaime G
No.

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Tony Sisk
And I was like, I think three seasons in...

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Jaime G
Probably four. thought four.

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Tony Sisk
Threes wait ah look it up how many seasons of Mandalorian are there

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Tony Sisk
um

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Jaime G
Oh, I think you're right.

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Tony Sisk
I think it's just three yeah okay so

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Jaime G
I think you're right. Yeah, three.

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Tony Sisk
Uh, yeah, there were three seasons of Mandalorian, right? But I told somebody today at work because they're, they, I brought up the movie today and, um, They did not know that there was a TV show.

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Tony Sisk
The Mandalorian. So they obviously are not Star Wars fans.

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Jaime G
What? It was quite big.

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Tony Sisk
Right.

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Jaime G
Yeah. yeah

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Tony Sisk
Obviously not Star Wars fans. Like what? You don't know who what the Mandalorian is? um So I told him it's like there's three seasons of it. I'm like oh wait no take that back.

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Tony Sisk
It was 3.2.

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Tony Sisk
three seasons of the Mandalorian because the, the Bubba Fett TV show half the season was Mandalorian. So you gotta, you gotta like give that point something to the Mandalorian as an additional fractional season.

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Jaime G
Yeah.

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Jaime G
I have not seen any of the Mandalorian, nor am i interested in the movie because I never saw the the the the lore.

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Jaime G
um Much like the last Doctor Strange movie, I feel like I'm going to be walking in with like a lot of context missing.

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Tony Sisk
So, um,

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Tony Sisk
um Right. I don't know if the promise that they gave when they said, Oh, with these Disney shows, you're not required to watch the show to watch the movie.

00:14:13.78
Tony Sisk
I don't think that is a, I don't think that applies to the Mandalorian because obviously it's like the Mandalorian movie and he's got the little, uh, Groku with them.

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Jaime G
Lice.

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Jaime G
Yeah.

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Tony Sisk
Like you kind of have to know the backstory to get anything out of the movie.

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Jaime G
Yeah.

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Tony Sisk
Um, So I don't think it applies in this case. ah

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Tony Sisk
But there's a lot of stuff coming around. that Did you, is it this week that Amazon has the new Spider-Man show?

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Jaime G
Yes.

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Tony Sisk
Right.

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Jaime G
Yes.

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Tony Sisk
case people don't know. and in case you didn't know, the podcast has already started. Yeah.

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Jaime G
I was like, when did we start? and we were We were just chatting.

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Tony Sisk
Right. Right. Yeah. I would, I would have went ahead and hit the record button like a long time ago.

00:15:03.86
Jaime G
no this the but i guess, listeners, this is just a Tony and me's random, like normal conversations anyway.

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Tony Sisk
Right. This is usually the pre-show, but I was like, you know what?

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Jaime G
Yeah.

00:15:17.58
Tony Sisk
Let's just do it. Let's pre-show. So welcome, everybody. Just get the formalities.

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Jaime G
Hello.

00:15:22.62
Tony Sisk
of it Welcome, everybody. Good to Game Radio.

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Jaime G
We're back.

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Tony Sisk
We're back.

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Jaime G
Yeah.

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Tony Sisk
um Anyway, so ah

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Jaime G
Feels like we never left.

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Tony Sisk
we've got Spider-Man Noir. I don't I think that's how you say it. Noir on Amazon.

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Jaime G
Yeah, sure.

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Tony Sisk
Right. It's a live action. With the character that. That appeared in the.

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Jaime G
Into the Spider-Verse.

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Tony Sisk
First. and Into the Spider-Verse movie.

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Jaime G
And I had to explain this to my family.

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Tony Sisk
And who's. and Right. So here's the most epic part. About this TV show.

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Tony Sisk
Spot one. Is this in black and white?

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Jaime G
I don't know, because I've seen some trailer bits that are black and white, but then I've seen like other pieces that are in color.

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Tony Sisk
like Okay. Well they're not doing it right. If it's not black and white. Two.

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Jaime G
It has to be black and white, yeah.

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Tony Sisk
right um spider-man is played by the greatest actor one of the greatest actors of all time yes nicholas cage nicholas cage is spider-man

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Jaime G
Are you being serious?

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Jaime G
i I don't, really?

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Jaime G
OK.

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Tony Sisk
so if that doesn't make you want to watch the show i don't know I mean, some iconic...

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Jaime G
I mean,

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Tony Sisk
He's iconic actor. Let's just sick as and he look us's look back on some of the movies that this he's played in, right?

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Jaime G
dude, he had Con Air and that was basically it.

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Tony Sisk
ah was that What was the first one? like One of first ones was Raising Arizona or something?

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Jaime G
Wasn't it Fast Times at Richmond High?

00:17:00.63
Tony Sisk
I don't remember what he played in in that.

00:17:03.10
Jaime G
He was the guy behind the counter of like the cafe.

00:17:09.30
Tony Sisk
Yeah, I have to go back and look. That was like when I was a kid.

00:17:11.90
Jaime G
Okay.

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Tony Sisk
i mean, most of his movies are winning when I was a kid, right? that's he's like He was like the the best grade B action hero the 90s.

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Tony Sisk
of the ninety s eighty

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Jaime G
Okay, I'll give you this. The Rock, dude with Sean Conner in him, that movie, hands down, and just earth-shattering for me when I was in high school.

00:17:41.37
Tony Sisk
then was it Wasn't Ed harry Harris like the villain?

00:17:45.72
Jaime G
Yes, but he was the villain who ended up not being the villain.

00:17:51.45
Tony Sisk
Right.

00:17:51.74
Jaime G
Like he just couldn't go through with the act of insanity he was going to pull.

00:17:55.67
Tony Sisk
Yeah. um

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Jaime G
I mean, that movie, that that I can still see that movie any day, man.

00:18:01.17
Tony Sisk
Weren't they going to gas like San Francisco?

00:18:05.18
Jaime G
Yes.

00:18:06.01
Tony Sisk
Okay. So basically what's happening.

00:18:07.13
Jaime G
Is that where Alcatraz is?

00:18:08.38
Tony Sisk
Yeah. Like basically what's happening now in California with the chemical fire where they're evacuating like this whole county because there's a chemical tank that's about to explode.

00:18:20.08
Tony Sisk
It's basically.

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Jaime G
is that Is that in San Francisco?

00:18:23.42
Tony Sisk
I don't know. I don't think it's in San Francisco. I think it's in Southern California, but it's in California.

00:18:26.97
Jaime G
ah Yeah, i was like, wait. Yeah.

00:18:28.95
Tony Sisk
You got to group all crazy stuff that happens together in California, right? It's where it all happens.

00:18:33.37
Jaime G
All right.

00:18:34.96
Tony Sisk
Let's have a Florida.

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Jaime G
So yeah, no, that's a different world.

00:18:39.42
Tony Sisk
ah

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Jaime G
um so So today I was explaining to my family because we were watching a something on television and the the trailer came up for Spider-Man Noir and I had to explain to my wife. i was like, oh, it's the same character, literally the same character that's into the Spider-Verse. And she said, but that was an animated movie.

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Jaime G
How could this be the same character? I'm like, well, you got to get your hand around like the whole multiverse. This is his multiverse. It's supposedly the same guy. and she was like, what?

00:19:13.98
Jaime G
i was like, just go with it.

00:19:16.89
Tony Sisk
How do you explain the multiverse to somebody that hasn't either seen or understand what that is in reference to? Right.

00:19:26.65
Jaime G
Ah, dot, dot, dot. I don't know.

00:19:29.88
Tony Sisk
Right. The same answer can be applied to people that do understand how where that came from. i don't know. It's the multiverse. We can explain it. That's what ah movie executives are are doing, right? It's like, I don't know.

00:19:45.30
Tony Sisk
We don't need to explain it.

00:19:46.10
Jaime G
I don't know.

00:19:46.38
Tony Sisk
Just say it's a good multiverse.

00:19:47.16
Jaime G
just Just film it. We'll fix it in post. ah but But Tony, you're like you you nailed it a minute ago when you said this this better be in black and white because remember that one scene where Spider-Man Noir, who's black and white, he's got this Rubik's Cube and he's like, I don't get this because he sees everything black and white.

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Jaime G
And the Rubik's Cube is in colors.

00:20:17.18
Tony Sisk
ah Right.

00:20:20.57
Jaime G
and And when he lead he goes back to his universe, he's like, and now I'm taking this with me. ah But yeah, it's it's supposed, it says right here that May 25th, which is today, was when, I don't know.

00:20:39.38
Tony Sisk
Okay, so here it is. Here it is. The live-action Spider Noir series gives viewers the choice to watch the show in either authentic black and white or full true hue color.

00:20:55.83
Tony Sisk
Both high contrast Fincher style monochrome and period inspired colorized version are available on streaming platforms.

00:21:04.38
Jaime G
Black and white.

00:21:04.54
Tony Sisk
I don't know. i don't know what true hue color is. It's not like where like individual things are are highlighted in color and not the whole scene or.

00:21:21.37
Tony Sisk
i don't know what that means.

00:21:21.94
Jaime G
Is that is that like like the Red Balloon movie, where you can only see the red balloon?

00:21:27.77
Tony Sisk
Maybe.

00:21:31.13
Tony Sisk
Now I'm interested to go see what that looks like. Well, first of all, I'm interested anyway, because it's a Spider-Man movie. Two, it's got Nicolas Cage playing Spider-Man. It's a period piece with Spider-Man in like the I'm like, okay, this thing, this is like every contrarian thing you can think of when it comes to the spot.

00:21:45.18
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:21:53.76
Tony Sisk
What'd you think about Spider-Man? So,

00:21:57.00
Jaime G
Do you not think it's weird that Amazon is taking the helm at this?

00:22:03.84
Tony Sisk
That is weird. Why is this not a Disney? Well, no.

00:22:07.77
Jaime G
Well, because

00:22:08.18
Tony Sisk
No, it's a Sony property. It's a Sony property.

00:22:11.66
Jaime G
Disney technically does not own the Spider-Man films or spinoffs, right?

00:22:17.02
Tony Sisk
was ah the spy Into the Spider-Verse is Sony. Pretty sure.

00:22:23.99
Jaime G
Yeah, it is. And and even like the Tom Holland movies are Sony, but why is like Sony like saying, like all right, Amazon, have at it?

00:22:36.22
Jaime G
there's i' I can't understand it.

00:22:41.94
Tony Sisk
It's got a 91 rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

00:22:49.20
Jaime G
Even more interesting.

00:22:49.21
Tony Sisk
Interesting.

00:22:50.81
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:22:55.96
Tony Sisk
Spider-Man, what the ending really sets up and why fans are desperate for season two. Okay, that's a strong word.

00:23:04.06
Jaime G
Wait, did the whole season drop?

00:23:05.37
Tony Sisk
ah

00:23:07.05
Jaime G
No.

00:23:10.64
Tony Sisk
Are they doing the whole season at once? I think they do. Don't they do that on Amazon?

00:23:16.06
Jaime G
No, I thought that they, when I started seeing the Rings of Power, I remember I had to like pace myself.

00:23:31.22
Tony Sisk
Does Spider-Man.

00:23:45.52
Jaime G
I don't think so, man.

00:23:47.22
Tony Sisk
Yes.

00:23:47.80
Jaime G
I hope not.

00:23:48.54
Tony Sisk
All eight episodes of Spider Noir are dropping at once, allowing for a complete season binge.

00:23:57.51
Jaime G
Dude, I should have done that today. i was watching i was watching Drew Carey show re episodes, reruns all day.

00:24:11.80
Jaime G
Wow, I should have done that.

00:24:14.56
Tony Sisk
Now, it's only, it's, It dropped today on MGM plus and it's on Wednesday on Amazon prime.

00:24:24.70
Jaime G
Okay, then, yeah, I couldn't have seen that, but now that tells me what I'm going to binge next weekend then.

00:24:32.82
Tony Sisk
Yeah. Yeah. I didn't even know it was coming out until like two weeks ago. And then like, really?

00:24:39.79
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:24:42.71
Tony Sisk
du i mean, it's got me curious. Yeah. um So I'm probably going to watch it too.

00:24:51.85
Jaime G
All right, I will be watching it.

00:24:55.31
Tony Sisk
All So

00:25:02.04
Tony Sisk
you want to get into some games?

00:25:07.29
Jaime G
You want to talk games or game experiences?

00:25:10.62
Tony Sisk
Game experiences.

00:25:13.11
Jaime G
Yeah, like.

00:25:19.03
Tony Sisk
Well, I want to talk about games. I mean, I...

00:25:21.27
Jaime G
I hate us with space marines.

00:25:22.01
Tony Sisk
ah

00:25:25.49
Tony Sisk
Okay. Space Marine 2. It's available on PS Plus. It's one of the PS Plus extra games, I think. But... um So came out in 2024.

00:25:39.13
Tony Sisk
A little late getting around to it, but hey, now it's free. I've been wanting to buy a copy, but all of a sudden it dropped on PlayStation Plus. I think it's on Xbox too. So I loaded it up and decided to give it a spin.

00:25:55.80
Tony Sisk
And it's from Focus. The publisher is Focus Entertainment the developer is Saber. So

00:26:07.99
Tony Sisk
yeah i mean if you if you know what space marines is it's a futuristic

00:26:14.71
Tony Sisk
you know future where it's just all about war in a galaxy i think that's their like the whole thing too it's like oh the future is war you know something like that but um it's very it the It's a very well built out universe in this. And you're playing like ah was one particular Marine in the campaign. You're playing this one particular main Marine, Titus, who is, I don't know, because I never played the first one, but I think he's been like in some sort of exile or something for something that happened in the first game. And they're bringing him back.

00:27:00.89
Tony Sisk
to complete some some task but yeah so you're playing this character you meet up with other space marines ultramarines and you do yeah you drop down onto the world and you help like the local military there fight off these like hordes of aliens like ah just think like the eight like

00:27:28.03
Tony Sisk
They're the aliens from the Alien franchise, except there's thousands of them. Right? So, yeah, the Xenomorphs.

00:27:33.77
Jaime G
the xenomorphs.

00:27:35.79
Tony Sisk
They look like that. and um And the world building that they've done in in the in the game itself is pretty impressive, actually. ah That's one thing I've noticed about like games from Focus is that they do a really really good job of kind of immersing the player in like the environment of the of the story right so it's like they really put a lot of effort in making sure that you're immersed in this world so i mean the planets the detail that's into in that is put into like the environment especially like uh

00:28:18.17
Tony Sisk
in the open areas where you get to see like waves of like aliens, like launching an attack across the ground. And, you know, there's just hundreds and thousands of them.

00:28:31.83
Tony Sisk
And you're just, you know, you've got multiple like military units, uh, fighting individually. Like a lot of the game you're with a squad. If you're not playing with other human players, I think you can team play it.

00:28:44.95
Tony Sisk
But if you're just playing it by yourself, you have a squad of ai controlled squad mates, two other guys. And, you know, what's impressive about it is like they actually kill dudes.

00:28:59.03
Tony Sisk
You know, a lot of games that you're playing, if you're playing solo and you have like other soldiers with you yourself, like especially like Call of Duty franchises and stuff. Right. You ever notice that they never kill anybody?

00:29:13.32
Tony Sisk
It's a lot of like taking cover, you know

00:29:15.02
Jaime G
Yeah. Yep. Yep.

00:29:18.19
Tony Sisk
shooting, but they're not hitting anything. You literally have to kill every single person. right like Call of Duty squad mates, AI squad mates are awful. um But in this game, ah yeahre these squad mates are actually doing some work. And then if you get...

00:29:38.01
Tony Sisk
if you take too much damage or whatever and you fall down, you know, one of them will come run over and they'll say, hold on, I gotcha. And they'll, they'll give you some medical attention and they'll lift you back up or whatever. And so the, the AI squad mates are actually pretty effective. Like you can literally like let them do a lot, like hold a flank.

00:29:59.45
Tony Sisk
Um, so, Yeah, the the the battles, world building are very impressive. ah The gameplay itself, I mean, it's like, you know, you're shooting auto rifles or shotguns or just whatever futuristic.

00:30:18.14
Tony Sisk
It's funny that in the future, like 10,000 years in the future, we're still using like projectile weapons, you know, instead of just pure like laser weapons.

00:30:28.95
Jaime G
lasers. Yeah.

00:30:29.67
Tony Sisk
Yeah, right. It's like they haven't they haven't a perfected that technology. So everybody's still just kind of using projectile weapons.

00:30:40.09
Tony Sisk
But, um, so you go around, you know, you, you carry like 200 rounds and you just, you see some ammo laying on the ground, you pick it up and you have like your load out is like a a sidearm,

00:30:53.62
Tony Sisk
a machine gun or auto weapon and you find out big find bigger versions of stuff that have packed bigger a bigger punch and stuff like that for like the bigger creatures that you run across but you can find plenty of ammo and stuff laying around and i'm playing on like the normal difficulty and uh but i yeah and on the gameplay, it's like, you know, it's not too complex. It's, you know, swing with your, you you can carry a sword.

00:31:22.68
Tony Sisk
So when you get in close and do some melee, you just swing this big sword so you can take out like multiple guys at one time. And then, yeah, you just kind of rinse and repeat this whole, you know, button. It's more like a button smasher, a masher, right? yeah It's like, it's not overly,

00:31:46.04
Tony Sisk
you know, complex combat. It's just, though there is ah some timing to it because the enemies will like launch like big attacks on you and there's a window of opportunity to deflect it.

00:31:58.46
Tony Sisk
ah do a counter and it's usually ah like ah a ringing noise. It it'll be like ding. And that'll be your indicator that, Oh, you got an attack. That's about to land on you. So you do some sort of block or a row or something like that.

00:32:12.63
Tony Sisk
And then if you successfully evade the attack or block the attack, you have an automatic counter that you can do. If you push the right counter button within this timing window and it, uh,

00:32:28.02
Tony Sisk
doing these things usually also trigger healing. So you have a, you have a shield and you have your health and you whenever your shield runs out, if you counter correctly, you can regenerate your shield. And then same way with health, like if you

00:32:51.35
Tony Sisk
do the counters at the right timing or, or just mass killing dudes. And I think your health will grow back a little bit up to like a certain amount. And then you find healing injectors laying around. You can just heal yourself back up. And then you have like a little mini ultra that is not super powerful.

00:33:16.22
Tony Sisk
um but it's it will keep you alive for like a 10 second duration when you're really getting overrun. But I will say that after like I started playing it, I'm like, I would, what I would do is I would play a mission a night, right.

00:33:34.10
Tony Sisk
In the campaign. And the reason I decided to do it that way was because after the first, say two missions,

00:33:46.14
Tony Sisk
a it came to me that the missions themselves were very, very long. Like I'm talking like an hour to play a mission.

00:33:58.94
Tony Sisk
And there really wasn't like a good point you could save in the mission. Like you couldn't just quit. and You couldn't like be in a mission and then, oh, I'm going to save it and then come back tomorrow.

00:34:10.71
Tony Sisk
Because it would start you back at the beginning of either the checkpoint or maybe all the way back to the beginning of the mission. So you're kind of like, oh, I got to complete the mission.

00:34:22.46
Tony Sisk
But maybe I was just doing that wrong. I didn't know how how it worked properly or something. But the ah if once I was into the mission, I stuck with it until I finished the mission. And like I said, the missions were like an hour long. So you're putting a lot of Effort here and uh When you get to the end of the campaign And the campaign Is like 11 missions 10 or 11 missions In length and that last Mission is like Two and a half hours long Dude It is haul From the beginning of it to the end And uh you have multiple boss Battles in there the mini boss Battles Um

00:35:09.40
Tony Sisk
and, and, you know, a lot of cut scenes and just a lot of stuff going on, but yeah, you, you got multiple planets, you got some, you know, the story is not too deep but and, um but there is an interesting thing to how they do their storytelling in it.

00:35:32.06
Tony Sisk
And that is, you're getting a lot of the story through, you know, the missions, but it's not like a monologue dump or anything like that. It's like you're piecing together from dialogue that you're hearing, especially from your squad mates and your squad mates do not trust you at all.

00:35:54.99
Tony Sisk
They're always questioning you and your motives because like you just show up out of nowhere. You join the unit and, You have no real personality. Like, Tidus' personality is, like, non-existent.

00:36:08.41
Tony Sisk
And really, they're all this way. they're all These guys are all bred to be, like, these ultimate soldiers. So this is all they've known in their entire life. So they don't have a lot of personality.

00:36:21.72
Tony Sisk
um But... is ah it's interesting how they how they're telling the story is a lot of it is through the dialogue in your squad mates as you're like as you're moving along in the mission and stuff they'll be talking to each other and they're like man I don't something's weird about this Titus guy or something like that and then then they start questioning you your actions directly in the mission like why are we here why are you doing that

00:36:54.39
Tony Sisk
Like that doesn't seem right. You know, it's like, and it kind of culminates in some like tense moments throughout the campaign where you're, you and your teammates are actually butting heads with each other um in the, in the, how they present the story. So that's a very interesting technique that they've used wins in the storytelling that you don't typically understand.

00:37:19.99
Tony Sisk
you don't get in a lot of, you know, stories, right? They they don't use that sort of mechanic of of storytelling. So that's that's unique ah in that regard. So I think the game, the campaign campaign probably took about, you know, if it was the our mission, I think it came in around 15 hours for me to finish the game.

00:37:45.59
Tony Sisk
um And then once you complete that, You can do, there's multiplayer or where you can do missions with other players.

00:37:58.78
Tony Sisk
And you I don't know remember if you played Call Duty where you, like a lot of the modern warfares, they had like ah special missions you could do and you you would try to get the best score in a mission stuff like that.

00:38:12.92
Tony Sisk
They had like a whole nother set of missions that you can do that in.

00:38:16.98
Jaime G
Yeah, yeah remember I remember.

00:38:19.38
Tony Sisk
and then and you also have uh they have a multiplayer where you're actually fighting other squads of humans and stuff with your own team um i haven't played that part because one the combat would feel clunky to me like it felt kind of clunky in some points of the game like you know it's just like i don't know if this is the aspect of like you're just controlling this big dude in armor but he's the movement is not really fluid um it's just plotting and slow in a lot of instances uh which makes sense i guess because you're wearing on this armor you're just an armored up guy that can walk a walking tank basically um

00:39:12.21
Tony Sisk
But, I mean, it it was an entertaining and and and good game i that's well put together. Decent story.

00:39:22.87
Tony Sisk
World building was good. Gameplay was, you know, ah was suitable for what the this theme is. So, I mean, I enjoyed it.

00:39:36.66
Tony Sisk
So, I think, you know, if it's Since it's available on PS Plus, PS Plus Extra, you should definitely give it shot. equal

00:39:48.50
Tony Sisk
Having played it, I'm glad that I like it

00:39:53.34
Tony Sisk
Price or something like that. i don't feel like, oh it's not a $60 game. I'm not or a $69 game. or a sixty nine dollars game

00:40:02.62
Tony Sisk
To me, it's not. To some people that are Warhammer or fans of this universe probably are. ah The one thing that did stand out, and I know fans of the miniatures of the, this is like based on a miniatures war game, a war game universe.

00:40:21.34
Tony Sisk
ah The way that they, the characters are painted out in the video game itself comes across like they're miniatures. that stands out that way. So I thought that was a important thing for them to kind of get right in that regard to appeal to the sensibilities of players that, ah you know, who so probably started off playing the miniatures of of this, ah in this universe. so So, it's a nice, ah ah nice futuristic space warfare on a grand scale.

00:41:00.31
Tony Sisk
So good good game

00:41:01.89
Jaime G
Well, OK. I mean, I remember when it came out, there was some buzz around it. ah ah think J-Rod was like all into, like, going to play this game. And then he never ended playing it. but So it's good to hear your thoughts on this now that you've got a chance to play this. But something that you said here kind of you know, pick my interest on on something you you've mentioned. i You know, one of the the games that I'm playing right now, i mentioned I'm playing 2XKO, but i'm also I'm also playing Hades 2 on and off. Did you ever play the original Hades, Tony?

00:41:42.30
Tony Sisk
Yeah. I mean, I haven't beat it. i actually started playing it again here recently. um

00:41:49.73
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:41:51.32
Tony Sisk
But I have played it. Yeah, I am trying to beat it.

00:41:54.57
Jaime G
So, so So you know the the the concept around it, right?

00:41:58.87
Tony Sisk
Oh, yeah.

00:41:59.07
Jaime G
it's a You go, you play, and you reach a point where you die, rinse and repeat. And then you try to backtrack all the way fighting through like maybe different rooms, collecting different power ups, same boss battles, and then you die.

00:42:15.06
Jaime G
so So I picked up Hades 2.

00:42:15.67
Tony Sisk
Right. Yeah.

00:42:19.19
Jaime G
think it was on sale. And I was just like, OK, sure, I'll buy And I started playing this first off. The game kind of expects you to have some context as you're going in because all I started playing, playing in, all I know is I'm Melino or Melinoe. I don't know how to pronounce her name.

00:42:40.41
Tony Sisk
yeah

00:42:41.53
Jaime G
And she's doing like night runs, going out there, trying to destroy Kronos or somebody. But the original character of the first ka Hades game, i don't think is ever, i mean, there's like hints that he exists I think they're siblings, but there's not mention to them.

00:42:59.19
Jaime G
But something that you said here while you were playing um the game that you were playing is that you said that every mission would take you about an hour to play. Here you can like do a run-through of a night, maybe like maybe between 20 to 30 minutes, ah because you will die.

00:43:10.97
Tony Sisk
Right.

00:43:18.94
Jaime G
At some point you will die. And I've made it past the first area. I've made it to the second area. And in the second area, the boss is like a a mermaid who, by the way, this game is has got like some super cool characters, man.

00:43:38.07
Jaime G
I i don't, never played the first one. so I don't, I don't know how what to expect, but like the second boss is as a mermaid and, you know,

00:43:42.51
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:43:48.41
Jaime G
As you're getting closer and closer to where the boss fight is, you can kind of hear like mermaid singing in the distance, right?

00:43:55.26
Tony Sisk
yeah

00:43:55.48
Jaime G
When you get there, it turns out that she's the singer in ah in a band. So you're just not and you're not just fighting against her, but you're fighting against the drummer in the band who's also attacking you and the lead guitarist.

00:44:11.03
Jaime G
So you get swarmed by three people. but The drummer is fixed. You can't move the drum set. The guitar player and the singer, they they're they're kind of like getting you.

00:44:21.37
Jaime G
I have made probably like five or six times to this boss fight, and I always die here. but So I know that my runs right now are probably in the 25 to 30 minutes because no two runs are the same.

00:44:35.42
Jaime G
ah

00:44:35.42
Tony Sisk
Right.

00:44:36.66
Jaime G
And that's determined by the weapons that you choose, the power-ups that you get, which are random. But at the end of every like room that you go into every chamber. I don't know how you want to call it. But you know the the fanboys are going to be hating me for for not knowing this. But once you beat an encounter, you always have two paths. If you go this path, you're going to get an upgrade for health or your magic. If you go this path, you're going to get money or an upgrade to your like basic attacks, et cetera.

00:45:07.90
Jaime G
um But there was this one room where ah somehow I ended up in in this room and there was nothing but me and a rat.

00:45:19.58
Jaime G
Just that's that's it, a rat. And it's not like this huge, humongous rat. It's just like a rat, like you can step on it and kill it. But Melino, when she goes she goes, she's in the room and she's like, I can feel that there's something powerful in here.

00:45:37.05
Jaime G
And I see this rat, like, what? Dude, that that was harder than, that was the hardest like optional, whatever random boss fight I've had in this game.

00:45:49.30
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:45:50.77
Jaime G
Cause, cause the rat was like running all over the place. Like it's hard to hit when it hits you hurt.

00:45:57.53
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:45:57.77
Jaime G
ah But this game, man, I, I jumped into it like late, like, like you were saying about space Marine and, But Hades 2 was recognized as a masterpiece. Anywhere you go is like rated in like the upper nines, even like perfect scores.

00:46:14.87
Jaime G
It's fun. It builds an interesting world. I'm just upset that I cannot get past this boss fight. And you get trinkets, amulets, different weapons. I've tried to cheat this any way that I can i cannot get past this siren.

00:46:30.07
Jaime G
And part is thinking every single time play another night, I'm going to need to go through this boss fight again.

00:46:40.51
Jaime G
And I'm like, ugh.

00:46:41.09
Tony Sisk
it's because you haven't died enough but

00:46:46.54
Jaime G
Dude, you've du I've died like so many times. But it carved.

00:46:51.38
Tony Sisk
because it's a rogue it's a is it a roguelike right a roguelike roguelike um like you incrementally improve your character every run theoretically

00:46:55.03
Jaime G
Yeah, yeah. Mm-hmm.

00:47:04.31
Jaime G
But when you die, though, your stats go back to zero.

00:47:11.90
Jaime G
it's it's all the pop It's all the power-ups that you're getting every encounter that gets you to be overpowered by the time you reach the boss.

00:47:11.93
Tony Sisk
Well.

00:47:23.45
Tony Sisk
Right. I'm trying to remember.

00:47:24.89
Jaime G
Because...

00:47:25.51
Tony Sisk
Like in the first one. i can't remember what what the thing was. It was like a little purple teardrop looking thing. And you got enough of these. You could buy an upgrade to your character.

00:47:39.70
Jaime G
Yes, there's like arcana cards.

00:47:39.67
Tony Sisk
That was permanent.

00:47:41.98
Jaime G
And so they they change different things like, hey, when you're charging on attack, the world around you moves point three seconds slower. Or like once you do meet these meet these requirements, like random lightning bolts will fall.

00:47:52.50
Tony Sisk
right yeah

00:47:58.71
Jaime G
but But you have to like be be getting slime and silver and so and collect all the resources to buy them.

00:48:05.43
Tony Sisk
have how many other roguelikes have you played i know you've played um allotro ballatro is a card-based roguelike right nope i haven't played it yet

00:48:15.38
Jaime G
did you Did you finally it play it?

00:48:19.05
Jaime G
Dude, you're missing out. Dave the Diver.

00:48:24.09
Tony Sisk
You think that's one?

00:48:26.17
Jaime G
Of course, every night that you go and dive, it's a different experience.

00:48:34.36
Tony Sisk
I mean, yeah, it's a different experience. I don't know if it's like like a roguelike, though. It's Senator.

00:48:40.57
Jaime G
I think I would...

00:48:40.71
Tony Sisk
Like that's like the core mechanic. I don't know if that's my core mechanic of Dave the Diver.

00:48:44.47
Jaime G
I'd say it is. but But this game's fun, Tony. I mean, it's I was able to scoop it up. I think it was on sale for $15. I can't remember. But that's the only reason why I said, let's buy this. And and you can play something like this. 20, 25 minutes, you dead you're dead.

00:49:02.74
Jaime G
And then you decide, do I want to spend another 25 or just call it a day? And I've been just playing like a run a day and

00:49:11.67
Tony Sisk
Yeah. Yeah.

00:49:12.13
Jaime G
it's it's It doesn't overstay its welcome. ah

00:49:16.70
Tony Sisk
yeah um

00:49:17.91
Jaime G
Although it's kind of frustrating that the last several times I've played it, except when I got killed by the rat, I always end up dying at a certain boss fight. And I picked up a charm that's that basically says that whoever was the last character that killed you, you get you do like 50% more damage on that character.

00:49:41.11
Jaime G
But I'm like, I'm going to waste a trinket space just to fight one boss. yeah I'm like, no. because cause

00:49:48.66
Tony Sisk
Have you played Did you ever play Returnal?

00:49:53.82
Jaime G
No, i heard I heard you and Clint talk about it so much that I i feel like I played it through your your experiences.

00:50:02.68
Tony Sisk
Right, yeah.

00:50:04.04
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:50:04.31
Tony Sisk
Returnal's you know, bro, like through Is it? i trying to remember. Yeah, it's third.

00:50:12.92
Jaime G
so sorrows are supposed to be.

00:50:13.61
Tony Sisk
It's third per it's third person. ah

00:50:16.69
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:50:17.27
Tony Sisk
Roguelike. It's very good.

00:50:19.83
Jaime G
Yeah, hey, this is like top-down view.

00:50:19.80
Tony Sisk
The thing is like. Yeah. um The thing about the Returnal is like. mean, because you can't see all the projectiles coming at you.

00:50:33.24
Tony Sisk
From certain angles. Right. You have to almost feel where they're coming from. So it's like. Very difficult. but it's you know And it's like, yeah, if you die, you have to start over.

00:50:43.10
Jaime G
Now, now that's that's that's a mix man and that's a mechanic I do not like about this game is that, as I said, you have to have the same boss fights every every night.

00:50:45.09
Tony Sisk
and like So a perfect run ah six or seven hours long.

00:51:01.24
Jaime G
The first boss fight has an attack that you just cannot evade. And I think that's cheap. Like I can have like, I can like be very overpowered, but there's one attack that'll debuff all your stats and make you like even run slower for like a minute.

00:51:19.93
Jaime G
And you take a lot of damage during this minute. I'm always upset because I'm like, really? i cannot... Like, avoid this.

00:51:30.01
Jaime G
and Like, you know it you know exactly at which stage in the battle it's coming.

00:51:30.17
Tony Sisk
Right.

00:51:34.49
Jaime G
And I'm just like, like you just said, like, you can't see the attacks. No, this one, I know it's coming. You just cannot evade it.

00:51:43.99
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:51:44.22
Jaime G
So, yeah. Hades 2, man, it's got...

00:51:45.56
Tony Sisk
Have you played Slay the Spire?

00:51:48.66
Jaime G
No, I wanted to after you you so you talked it up. pretty decently earlier this year.

00:51:53.28
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:51:55.37
Jaime G
i I was looking for it on my on my catalog. I don't have it.

00:51:59.69
Tony Sisk
Yeah. That's a good one because that one is like it's slower pace and it's a card-based battler. It's like you can think through things. Like you actually have time to think and strategize. You know what I'm saying? like Versus like just reacting.

00:52:19.22
Tony Sisk
This is like it's more like, oh, let me think what I need to do or how do I need to build my character or build this deck of cards or whatever so love i literally like enjoy the aspect of that because it's like you really have to think you know the long term just the even from the strategic element to out to the tactical element there's a lot more thought to it now i heard that i have this game midnight suns remember that game based in the marvel universe

00:52:28.96
Jaime G
Yeah. yeah.

00:52:55.50
Tony Sisk
It's the same. It's a...

00:53:00.24
Tony Sisk
It's like a Slay of Spire-esque card battler. But it's not roguelike, though. you know You're not dying and starting all over. You progress like you know know like you normally would.

00:53:11.30
Tony Sisk
But it's a deck builder.

00:53:12.79
Jaime G
Right.

00:53:16.25
Tony Sisk
so it's So it's not of roguelike. But the deck building... i like car I like games that have deck building aspects to them. Those are pretty good.

00:53:24.72
Jaime G
Oh, me too. Me too. i'm um' a I like the trading card games. And when you incorporate some of that element into video games, you know it's a win-win.

00:53:36.24
Tony Sisk
Yeah. so

00:53:36.86
Jaime G
So Hades 2, 2XKO for me. but But I need to tell you this story because i told I sent you a text message yesterday saying, please don't let me forget about this.

00:53:48.86
Jaime G
So it's Memorial Day, you know recognizing all the people who have fallen them and in battle. Mad recognition to them. but I'm going to take a little bit of a second to say that.

00:54:01.14
Jaime G
um But it's usually like a weekend where some retailers will put video games on sale. One such retailer that decided to put a lot of games on sale this weekend was GameStop.

00:54:16.66
Jaime G
And amongst the many games that they' so that they put on sale, there are several that you can get for like $15, which I thought, I'm a cheap gamer. I'm going to go pick up something.

00:54:27.03
Jaime G
I saw that Metroid Prime 4, which released not too long ago, is on sale for the Switch 2 edition for $35.

00:54:38.84
Jaime G
And it's published on the GameStop website. You can even see it today and on the GameStop app. Me and the family, we go to the Target here in town, and GameStop is in the same parking lot.

00:54:52.57
Jaime G
So at one point, after after the family finishes doing their thing, I tell them, hey, guys, let's go to GameStop. I want to pick up Matrix Prime 4. It's on sale. Now, for any listener who hasn't listened to me talk about this before,

00:55:07.48
Jaime G
I hate buying at GameStop for many reasons. But what I'm about to tell you happened to me over 11 years ago, maybe 15 years ago, when I went to buy Resident Evil 5.

00:55:24.31
Jaime G
The same exact situation. Okay. So I go to the store and I have, I've done all my research. Metroid Prime Form should be on sale for 35 bucks.

00:55:37.43
Jaime G
So I go pick up, you know how they have like the the cases. I pick it up, I take it to the counter. But what I noticed that it's got a sticker that says $69.99 whatever the game price was And I tell the gentleman, and I'm being super nice.

00:55:56.50
Jaime G
said, hey, man, I saw that this game should be on sale for less than that. Can you can you check it out? So he does the barcode scanner thing and looks at me and says, no, it's $69.99.

00:56:13.53
Jaime G
but he's got like a little bit of a tone to him. said I was like, are you sure? Because I have here that it should be for $35. He's like, show me.

00:56:24.34
Jaime G
So I show him my phone. I show him the gameop the GameStop app.

00:56:30.00
Tony Sisk
All right.

00:56:30.87
Jaime G
And he says, that can't be right. That's used. And i I point out to him. I said, look, look, it says right here, brand new Switch 2 edition, because there's also a regular Switch edition.

00:56:44.92
Jaime G
And he says, he just says, oh, just that. So I said, okay, so can I get this game for 35 bucks?

00:56:57.88
Jaime G
and this And this is where it goes south. He answers with like such a tone and he's like, not if you're buying it in store.

00:57:08.38
Jaime G
and And I'm like, really? He's like, if you're buying it here, you're paying $69.99 plus tax.

00:57:18.26
Jaime G
So um' I move out of the way. There's people online. I buy the game online, literally buy the game online right then and there. I get back online.

00:57:31.30
Jaime G
It's my turn. I show, hey, here's my order confirmation number. He's like, well, I can't give it to you until my system shows that it's that you bought this.

00:57:43.51
Jaime G
And I'm like, dude, I have the email here saying that I just bought this. Here's the order number. He's like, well, I can't give this to you. He's like, you're going to have to wait 10 to 15 minutes.

00:57:57.30
Jaime G
I'm like, OK, you know, I will go walk around the Target for a couple of minutes. And then I come back. mean, and then i get the email. Hey, your game's ready for pickup.

00:58:09.83
Tony Sisk
Right. Right.

00:58:11.29
Jaime G
I go back in store. Right in front of me is this kid selling his PlayStation 5.

00:58:18.87
Jaime G
And I'm waiting there for, you know, how they do like the whole inspection and they're turning it on, making sure he has all the cables, the controller works. I'm being just super patient. My turn comes up.

00:58:32.31
Jaime G
And and um I kind of show up like, hey, man, I'm here. I'm here for my turn Prime 4. and And I think he knows. I mean, he knows. he's he's He just looks at me and says,

00:58:44.54
Jaime G
I need the order confirmation and your ID. So I said, OK. I'm like, I say this. Let me read my order confirmation number to you.

00:58:56.31
Jaime G
And he says, I need your order confirmation, your ID. I'm thinking, OK, I don't know whats what's up with this guy. So I give him my ID.

00:59:04.52
Tony Sisk
Right.

00:59:07.29
Jaime G
And I mean, it's not like there's like so many people buying this game online at this moment. I give him my ID, and then he's like, give me your phone. I was like, there you go, a man. it's It's like this 20-digit number, I guess.

00:59:24.73
Jaime G
um I mean, he just – he doesn't even look at my phone. I don't know what he looked for. And he's like, here you go. and i was just like, dude.

00:59:37.05
Tony Sisk
That's the GameStop here in Murfreesboro, in Smyrna?

00:59:37.22
Jaime G
Dude, you know –

00:59:42.12
Jaime G
I'm here in Smyrna. And and you know you know why Chick-fil-A is you know making money hands over fist, Tony?

00:59:49.88
Tony Sisk
Why?

00:59:49.98
Jaime G
Because of a couple simple words. My pleasure. You go and ask for a refill, they'll say, my pleasure. You go in and say, hey, you messed up my order. They'll be they'll say, like my pleasure to fix this.

01:00:05.88
Jaime G
This dude was giving me attitude left and right. I don't know what his deal was, man. and And, you know, many years ago, the same exact thing happened to me.

01:00:16.86
Jaime G
But this is before, you know, the apps and whatever. this Remember when you you still got, like, GameStop ads in the mail every, like, other week?

01:00:23.99
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

01:00:24.72
Jaime G
or So I got one that said, Resident Evil 5 on sale for $20. Here I go to the GameStop in the town that I used to live in.

01:00:36.25
Jaime G
I didn't take the ad with me. I didn't think I needed the ad with me. And I get there and the guy's like, no, this game's full price. I was like, dude, the weekly ad said it's 20 bucks. He's like, nah.

01:00:49.94
Jaime G
I did the same exact thing. I went home. I bought it online and I had it delivered. And that time i was out a couple more bucks because I had to pay for shipping to get it home.

01:00:59.98
Jaime G
But I was i was just upset.

01:00:59.96
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

01:01:03.35
Jaime G
But I'll show the guy here like on the phone, like and he was and he was like, this is used. I'm like, no, it's not. It's new. I hate. OK, you know what, man?

01:01:12.86
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

01:01:13.60
Jaime G
Honestly, GameStop service.

01:01:14.42
Tony Sisk
They're trying to buy eBay. Come on. Yeah.

01:01:17.94
Jaime G
Yeah, no. No. um so I mean, i don't want to bash GameStop, but I will bash you know they some of their team members' customer service.

01:01:31.09
Tony Sisk
Right.

01:01:32.98
Jaime G
I was just like, this whole thing could have been just so much easier if the guy just would have said like in a different tone, Hey, you know what, for whatever reason, insert excuse, I can't price match it, you know, but dude, if you just buy it online, we can get you hooked up for the same exact price. But don't give me like, well, if you want to buy it in store, you're going to have to pay full of prices. Like what?

01:01:57.30
Tony Sisk
I don't get it.

01:01:57.78
Jaime G
Really, man.

01:01:59.02
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

01:01:59.15
Jaime G
It's like, You don't want to sell this? Or is your attempt is that your attempt at me saying like, oh yeah, let me play double for this?

01:02:09.75
Tony Sisk
right yeah i mean i mean it's just like it's a big retail chain i mean i don't know i mean it's it's amazing to me how businesses function with such bad customer service and you know like

01:02:11.27
Jaime G
Yeah. Hate GameStop.

01:02:30.26
Jaime G
Yes.

01:02:33.90
Tony Sisk
that GameStop has been over there for a while. You know, he, you're not the only one that's probably received bad customer service. So, yeah.

01:02:42.90
Jaime G
Yes. I mean, the like the people that I saw get, you know, the gentleman who was on his PlayStation 5 got some attitude. There was other people who got some attitude, but can only share my own experience.

01:02:56.41
Tony Sisk
Right.

01:02:58.42
Jaime G
It's like, don't work in a customer-facing position if that's your everyday MO. ah

01:03:08.38
Tony Sisk
be

01:03:08.92
Jaime G
I mean, ghost go go stock boxes or something. I don't know.

01:03:16.18
Jaime G
that is That is a big, big differentiator for me.

01:03:20.50
Tony Sisk
Right.

01:03:21.94
Jaime G
Yeah.

01:03:21.91
Tony Sisk
Yeah. I mean, don't, I mean, you big time buyer of games. You buy a lot of games.

01:03:30.84
Jaime G
I do. Well, if i if they're on sale, I do.

01:03:33.18
Tony Sisk
Like, well, but still, you're buying the games. You I'm saying? Like, you're, you know, you're going to the store, you're buying games,

01:03:47.03
Tony Sisk
like I mean, what more can you ask for? You're the perfect customer almost. I mean, the perfect customer would be paying full price. But...

01:03:54.30
Jaime G
Yeah. Hey, i ah they they're the ones who put the game on sale.

01:03:57.14
Tony Sisk
Hey. All right. But hey, if the right game comes along, you'd buy it full price, I'm sure.

01:04:05.90
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

01:04:06.86
Jaime G
I have. I absolutely have.

01:04:08.12
Tony Sisk
yeah Where'd you get that Switch to?

01:04:10.78
Jaime G
And yeah, because I was there but to i was there to to buy an Xbox.

01:04:11.62
Tony Sisk
Yeah, Best Buy.

01:04:17.40
Tony Sisk
ah So you're dropping money on games. Hey, that's.

01:04:22.55
Jaime G
I do, right?

01:04:24.16
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

01:04:24.25
Jaime G
So, I mean, then and and and you know, the worst thing is that my wife was there with me because again, we were like all as a family out to Target.

01:04:25.37
Tony Sisk
a lot Yeah.

01:04:34.17
Jaime G
and and And I asked her, like was this just me? Am I picking up like something? She's like, no, he's totally like just being insert word here.

01:04:44.70
Tony Sisk
Right.

01:04:47.38
Jaime G
She said, and she's looking at this ah at a distance. She's like, nah, this guy could have chosen to handle this conversation very differently. And that the outcome would have been the same, but you would have had a better experience of the customers.

01:05:01.34
Jaime G
I know. ah totally know.

01:05:03.00
Tony Sisk
Right. right

01:05:04.86
Jaime G
so So listeners, I mean, if you if you can, you know, expect, I would even say demand good customer service. It doesn't matter at the store.

01:05:17.11
Jaime G
Also be respectful. Buyers too. I wasn't there shouting or, you know, doing the scene or anything. But, you know, gaming is supposed to be fun the whole experience. Right.

01:05:30.19
Jaime G
going to the store, waiting for the midnight release. That was a fun experience back in the day. doesn't exist anymore.

01:05:36.31
Tony Sisk
Right.

01:05:37.53
Jaime G
But now going in and and buying a game and trying to you know be there and just be like, yeah, I'm going to go play some Metroid 4. And now I'm like, argh, every time I see that game, that dude at GameStop.

01:05:55.58
Tony Sisk
Right. Yeah. I mean, that we do have good experiences at retail establishments.

01:06:06.26
Tony Sisk
We just don't ever talk about them, ah but we remember the bad ones.

01:06:08.58
Jaime G
Yeah.

01:06:11.64
Jaime G
You remember the, I mean, remember, I remember how Vance told us that when he was buying there his copy of Diablo 4, like somebody there was just like buying like the Xbox Diablo 4 edition, the game, a controller and stuff.

01:06:25.52
Jaime G
Like it was like, he can tell you that it was like a fun moment with him watching somebody else do these things.

01:06:32.41
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

01:06:32.52
Jaime G
But yeah. It's not a fun moment wait now when the conversation is like, yeah, this dude just was not not trying to be a good guy.

01:06:42.40
Tony Sisk
Right.

01:06:44.91
Tony Sisk
All right.

01:06:45.11
Jaime G
Yeah, anyway.

01:06:45.30
Tony Sisk
Well, that's all got for tonight.

01:06:49.51
Jaime G
It's all it's all like it's all I got to, GameStop sucks.

01:06:54.71
Tony Sisk
Right.

01:06:55.13
Jaime G
I had one more in me.

01:06:56.32
Tony Sisk
Bye. Best buy.

01:06:57.85
Jaime G
Yeah, go to Best Buy.

01:06:58.20
Tony Sisk
Bye. Best buy.

01:06:59.70
Jaime G
by Buy at Amazon.

01:07:02.46
Tony Sisk
ah for friday Alright. Well, it was good ah talking to you again tonight. Thanks to the listeners for joining in our you know conversational episode.

01:07:16.09
Tony Sisk
and the I'll catch you next week.

01:07:19.37
Jaime G
Catch you next week, man.

01:07:20.62
Tony Sisk
Alright.

01:07:20.73
Jaime G
Oh, wait. No, I'm traveling next week.

01:07:25.19
Jaime G
Oh, right.

01:07:26.36
Tony Sisk
Oh, wait. and Did you want to do Mortal Kombat tomorrow? Alright.

01:07:33.67
Jaime G
Ping me. Ping me in in five minutes. I got to get permission first.

01:07:38.49
Tony Sisk
Okay. All right.

01:07:39.58
Jaime G
You know how it is, man. I'm a married man. right, man.

01:07:42.83
Tony Sisk
All right. I got you. I'll catch you later.

01:07:48.62
Jaime G
Talk to see you soon.

01:07:49.94
Tony Sisk
Bye.