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00:00 --> 00:04 When you want to chill and you don't have Netflix today on.
00:24 --> 00:25 Do people still Netflix and chill?
00:26 --> 00:27 I don't know.
00:27 --> 00:29 Don't ask questions over the intro.
00:29 --> 00:30 Don't chill over the intro.
00:30 --> 00:33 Don't Netflix and chill over the intro.
00:33 --> 00:35 My bad. Just so messy.
00:36 --> 00:36 Wow.
00:36 --> 00:48 All righty. Hello and welcome to another episode of Press B to cancel. I am your host, Werewolf, and I am joined by three amazing co hosts. Let's start with Sinistar. How are you doing this week, sir?
00:48 --> 00:51 I'm doing great. I got a three day weekend I'm staring at.
00:52 --> 00:59 Nice. How about you, Chard? How you doing? I'm sure you're doing great. You're supporting it.
01:01 --> 01:09 How can I be doing any better? I'm great. I had a great week. We had a great weekend last week. I'm sure everybody knows why. So let's. Let's find.
01:10 --> 01:13 Are you waiting cap still or did you order it?
01:14 --> 01:40 It's already ordered. I just. It'll come in on coming to March. They're still making them, so I got to go get my jersey. But I. You sure as got a patch coming in for super bowl number two. Put that on the arm band here. And two time super bowl champion Seattle Seahawks. Let's go, Hawks. I won't bother anybody else with it today. You're just gonna have to visually see me because even when I get too hot for this, I'm all layers of Seahawks.
01:40 --> 01:43 He's stripping down to his Seahawks for the audio listeners.
01:43 --> 01:45 Chard is naked now.
01:45 --> 01:45 Yeah.
01:45 --> 01:47 And we're gonna get banned off YouTube.
01:47 --> 01:52 I have a giant Super Bowl 60 tattoo on my chest. Yes.
01:52 --> 01:57 Why did you. Why did you tie that? Why did you tie that green and blue bandana down there?
01:58 --> 01:58 Yeah.
02:00 --> 02:00 Wow.
02:01 --> 02:03 Because we're. I thought we were Netflix and chilling.
02:03 --> 02:05 Yes. Yeah.
02:05 --> 02:08 And Jake. How you doing, sir?
02:09 --> 02:10 I keep my clothes on.
02:10 --> 02:10 I'm doing.
02:10 --> 02:15 I'm doing great. I also have a three day weekend, so that's great. But for Canadian reasons.
02:15 --> 02:17 Canadian reasons.
02:17 --> 02:18 Canadian reasons. Yeah.
02:18 --> 02:20 Well, because we don't talk about that.
02:21 --> 02:34 It's like you guys have a holiday. Yeah, it's. It's family day in Ontario, which is the most made up holiday ever. But it's also the dead of February and I'll. I'll take a three day weekend, even if it is a fake holiday. Like you guys got what, President's Day or Mattress Day or something?
02:34 --> 02:35 Yes, it's Mattress Day.
02:35 --> 02:36 It's both. It's both.
02:36 --> 02:38 It's President's Mattress Day.
02:38 --> 02:38 Yeah.
02:38 --> 02:39 Yeah.
02:39 --> 02:46 We celebrate the mattress National Mattress Sales national. Yeah. It's like Labor Day. You don't wear white on President's Day.
02:46 --> 02:47 Yeah.
02:47 --> 02:48 And car dealership sales.
02:49 --> 02:50 It's Ford Day.
02:50 --> 02:52 Sometimes furniture closeouts.
02:52 --> 02:53 That's right.
02:56 --> 03:18 All right. Well, this week we are talking about comfort games, not necessarily cozy games. We recognize there is a difference there. So games that we learn to play, that. That sort of comfort us that we'd like to just gravitate toward when we want to play something and don't necessarily want to play something new.
03:19 --> 03:19 Isn't it?
03:19 --> 03:19 Yeah.
03:19 --> 03:22 Like House Flipper or some.
03:22 --> 03:23 Yeah, that's the thing. Like.
03:23 --> 03:31 Yeah. Power Wash simulator. I think Stardew Valley, like, cafe game. Yeah. Starting will count.
03:31 --> 03:39 But Stardew Valley could be a cozy game and also comfort game. Like, it's the same thing to me. Like, I know that when you say cozy games, people think, oh, we're gonna go play Minecraft.
03:40 --> 03:42 Gets the other. I totally get.
03:42 --> 03:43 I think they're the same thing.
03:44 --> 03:47 You won't. When I mentioned one of my picks.
03:47 --> 03:53 There you go. I fear that if somebody says cozy games, they're going to expect us to talk about House Flipper.
03:53 --> 04:01 And I was about to say one of mine, many people are not going to consider cozy.
04:02 --> 04:02 Yeah.
04:02 --> 04:03 Yeah.
04:03 --> 04:08 It's Bards Tale. We know it's Bardsdale. I would argue that Bards Tale is a cozy game. It's fine. I think it's cozy.
04:09 --> 04:09 Yeah.
04:09 --> 04:14 Dark Souls 3. 9. So I don't know. It makes you feel better.
04:14 --> 04:16 Bioshock Infinite. Totally.
04:16 --> 04:17 Yeah. Just. Yeah.
04:18 --> 04:20 I don't think any of mine qualify as cozy.
04:21 --> 04:29 Okay. All right, maybe I'm wrong. I just feel like there's like a blurred lines there. And I don't think it's necessarily a genre. Genre, but I get the idea.
04:29 --> 04:32 Isn't Blurred Lines an Alan Thicke song?
04:32 --> 04:33 Yeah. Yes.
04:33 --> 04:34 Or is Alan Thicke Little K and.
04:34 --> 04:36 Alan Thicke or Robin Thicke?
04:36 --> 04:37 Robin Thick.
04:38 --> 04:42 Robin Thicke's game that's growing pigs.
04:42 --> 04:42 Yes.
04:44 --> 04:49 And not quite human. Let's just throw that one out there. So nobody knows that.
04:49 --> 04:51 And how I met your mother.
04:51 --> 04:55 There you go. Anyway.
04:55 --> 05:00 Forgot about that. Anyway, who wants to start? Who wants to kick this off?
05:00 --> 05:05 You know, since I already said one of mine for sure is not a cozy game, I can start.
05:07 --> 05:08 Get the non cozy ones out of the way.
05:08 --> 05:14 Yeah. Let's get. Let's get. Yeah. It's Bard's tale. 1, 2, 3, 4, and then construction set.
05:15 --> 05:16 No.
05:16 --> 05:35 Yeah. No, my. Honestly, the game that I gravitate toward the most when I just want to play Something that is chill and I don't have to stress and I can just enjoy. And it's got it. The cadence is slow enough for me because I'm a slow old man. Civilization vi.
05:36 --> 05:37 All right.
05:37 --> 05:39 Yeah. Sid Meier, Civilization vi.
05:40 --> 05:47 I have that. And I have yet to try those. If they're pretty slow and easy to play, it's probably something I should give a shot.
05:47 --> 06:16 There is a steep, steep learning curve. But once you understand this, the learning curve, then it's basically like, how do I want to win this, this time? And there's all sorts of different win scenarios, there's all sorts of different methodologies. You can be the, the, the military guy that just takes over the world. You can win socially, you can win religiously. You can, you know, and so there's all sorts of different options.
06:17 --> 06:23 It sounds like the hell is it like, good? I say it sounds like rimworld a little bit.
06:23 --> 06:39 Oh, for sure, for sure. And the great, the great thing about it is it's entirely turn based. So if you're. I just need to get up and go to the restroom, you can walk away from the game and nothing progresses until you click go.
06:41 --> 06:45 You said six specifically. Is that the newest one or is the seven the new one?
06:45 --> 06:46 No, seven is just gonna be.
06:46 --> 06:47 The seven is the newest.
06:47 --> 07:02 I haven't actually played seven yet. It got just like six. It got mixed reviews and six got very good from DLC and updates. And so I assume that at some point seven will get there. I haven't tried seven yet.
07:02 --> 07:19 Yeah, because like I played four forever ago and I think it was it five that brought in the idea of stackable units. Right. So for those who don't know, like you have this giant map in Civ, and then you used to have military units be separately on the map in hexes. But I think was it five that let you stack them in one big unit?
07:19 --> 07:21 I believe that was five.
07:21 --> 07:22 I think it was five.
07:22 --> 07:23 Yeah.
07:23 --> 07:48 Being people not liking that. I, I thought it was. I, I liked it, but I know a lot of people kind of had issues with it. But it seems like Civ, every, every version of Civ that comes out, there's always a certain group that complains about it. But then there's still a die hard people that still love it no matter what because it's siv. Right. But I would call it cozy because like it's, you just zone out and you're building your mini empire and whether it's world domination or whatever, it's still, it's still pretty chill. Game.
07:48 --> 07:50 Nothing easier than world domination.
07:51 --> 07:59 That's right. Well, I mean, if you're going for the social win, you know, you're trying to get everybody on your side. Right. I mean, you know, so same thing.
07:59 --> 08:00 They do every day.
08:01 --> 08:25 That's right. No, I, I, you know, it's, it's great because it has all sorts of, of additional creature comforts where, hey, I want to get to, you know, nuclear weapons. I can go all the way down the tree and click the nuclear and it'll, it'll actually select all of the, the research through the tree. So I don't even have to think about it until I get there.
08:25 --> 08:26 Oh, okay.
08:26 --> 08:27 You know, that sort of thing.
08:27 --> 08:30 So you don't need to micromanage the research if you don't want to.
08:30 --> 08:31 You don't have to.
08:31 --> 08:34 Worse than micromanaging nuclear weapons.
08:34 --> 08:35 Yeah.
08:35 --> 08:37 You know, I mean, I ain't got time for that, buddy.
08:37 --> 08:43 Look, look, I'm too busy thinking about who I'm going to blow up. I don't want to think about what.
08:43 --> 08:46 I'm going to do to streamline mass destruction.
08:46 --> 08:52 Please. Nothing says comfort game like mass destruction readily available.
08:53 --> 09:00 Let's, let's be serious here for a minute. Have you even played Civ 6 until you get death robots?
09:00 --> 09:03 No, I didn't know you Death robots.
09:03 --> 09:03 That is a thing.
09:03 --> 09:08 Death robots actually play six changed a lot. Yeah.
09:09 --> 09:11 Oh, the death robots are glory. Truly.
09:13 --> 09:22 I have not played a save game since three and I didn't mesh with it at the time. So I, yeah, I need to go back and try one of these.
09:23 --> 09:32 I loved 3. 3 was before 5 and 6. I 3 was my favorite and I played 1, 2, 3.
09:32 --> 09:38 Typically 3 comes before 5 and 6 numerically, so I assume that's how numbers work.
09:39 --> 10:13 I have a place in my heart for all of them. Like Civ 1 of course was the original. Right. And I played the hell out of that back in the day. But like if you speak of it, Civ 4 never really got me. I loved Civ 3. I played a little bit of 4 Civ 5. I loved, I actually loved that from day one and Civ 6 once they kind of did some additions and some, some updates. Now I think it's, it's kind of my favorite at this point for both 4 and 5.
10:13 --> 10:45 My favorite part of that was you could, you could get user made maps and there's always somebody out there who makes one gigantic in the shape of the world map. And especially with the later version of Civ you can have a bunch of AI Players to fill all the populations. So I like playing even though those games are basically. I'll never finish it because you have like 12 AIs and the entire map to deal with. But something about being on a somewhat accurate map of the earth. Plain Civ is a good time. It's always great when you know like you have something like Mexico's invading Canada just because.
10:46 --> 10:56 Absolutely, absolutely. Well, I love the fact that you start out as like these world leaders from long ago and then you're in the year 2200 and you're still Genghis Khan.
10:56 --> 11:00 Like, you know, it's like Genghis Khan needs death robots.
11:00 --> 11:00 Really?
11:00 --> 11:02 That's just how we go.
11:02 --> 11:04 Nuclear weapons. Yeah.
11:04 --> 11:06 Yeah. Can you imagine if Genghis. Not even Genghis.
11:06 --> 11:07 Atomicon.
11:10 --> 11:24 Exactly. Wow. No, so Civ 6 is, is fantastic. Someday I'll try Civ 7, but it still, I think gets mixed reviews and I, I kind of trust that because I, I'm fickle about my civ games.
11:25 --> 11:35 Yeah, that's fair. That's like an rts. Yeah. I've not played many sibs at all. I've not played any sibs, to be honest with you. I think I got yes 6 because it came out, it was like a dollar.
11:35 --> 11:37 It's turn based strategy.
11:37 --> 11:37 Is it turn based?
11:37 --> 11:46 It's X for the management side of things. Like there's definitely battles, but it's like you don't interact with the units. They just kind of do their own.
11:46 --> 11:51 Expand, explore something and exterminate exploitation. Yeah. And extermination.
11:51 --> 11:52 Yeah, of course.
11:53 --> 11:55 Well, if you've got death robots, you.
11:55 --> 11:57 Might as gotta have extinct.
11:57 --> 12:00 I mean if you're gonna have death robots and nukes. Right.
12:00 --> 12:02 I mean, just thought they were on.
12:07 --> 12:29 Here's one of my other favorite things to do because you have different eras, right? You have like the Iron Age and the, you know, Stone Age and the, you know, et cetera, et cetera. And you can upgrade units as the time progresses or you can leave them as they are. And so I love to have like spearmen running up alongside my like bombers. Like.
12:30 --> 12:31 Yeah, yeah.
12:34 --> 12:42 It's just like having the Amish in your game. Just, you know, the low technology, but they still make fine, fine furniture for your cozy game of destruction.
12:42 --> 12:45 Several wooden catapults that launch Scud missiles.
12:45 --> 12:47 Exactly, exactly.
12:47 --> 12:49 Yeah. I love. So yeah, Civit Civ is great.
12:50 --> 13:10 And, and honestly that I think the reason for me, it's the real reason for me it's a comfort game is because the timing feels very relaxed. Sure. You'll get into battles and you'll be like, I'm going to lose that. That unit. And it's. I'm stressed about it, but it's like most of the time you're like, I've done my six things. This turn. Click. Next turn, right?
13:10 --> 13:13 Yeah, that's right. So, yeah, nice.
13:14 --> 13:16 I'm going to have to give those a shot at some point.
13:17 --> 13:25 Yeah, same. I think I bought it because I wanted to play it on the Steam Deck, like, to chill, like, downstairs. And it's. It's very difficult to operate on the Steam Deck.
13:25 --> 13:27 So I. Yeah, I can. I can imagine that.
13:28 --> 13:28 Yeah.
13:28 --> 13:39 I mean, I managed to play rimworld on the Steam Deck, which, by the way, like, to liken it to rimworld. Rimworld stresses me out at the same time that I enjoy it. So that's not a comfort game for me.
13:39 --> 13:49 But I thought about rimworld being a comfort game and I went, no, I'm fucking stressed the entire time I'm playing rimwell. There's nothing comfort about that game at all.
13:50 --> 13:54 In that game, if I'm not stressed, I'm like, something is wrong and I'm missing it.
13:54 --> 13:59 Yeah, yeah. When are the invaders coming? Right.
13:59 --> 14:05 Only stress when you hit which. When to start the game. When you're rolling the dice are going great.
14:08 --> 14:17 Or. Or one of your own people, like, has, you know, has a detriment that all of a sudden they're attacking each other. You're like, yeah, this is great. This is. This is great.
14:18 --> 14:22 Nancy went crazy from psychosis, from the lack of food.
14:22 --> 14:23 That's right.
14:25 --> 14:28 Somebody, she beat up Winston.
14:30 --> 14:34 Carry the body into a. Somebody carry that body into the bed. Let's go.
14:34 --> 14:41 Everybody's sad about the dead body in your camp. Well, I don't know what to do with it. I'm kind of trying to survive. Everybody else here.
14:41 --> 14:44 Just put it in the freezer. Just put it in the freezer.
14:49 --> 14:51 I know. It's not a comfort game.
14:52 --> 14:55 Yeah, I think we just figured that out.
14:55 --> 14:56 Yeah, that's not on the list.
14:56 --> 14:58 We need to rename this episode. Yeah.
15:01 --> 15:03 Char, do you want to give us yours?
15:03 --> 15:22 Yeah, sure. Actually, we kind of. We have mentioned it when we were kind of naming off our Netflix and chill games, but I'm going to go with power Wash Simulator 1. I know they just released the second one, but Power Wash Simulator is like, absolutely, without a doubt, the chillest game that you could possibly play probably at this point.
15:23 --> 15:27 That serotonin hit. That serotonin hit.
15:30 --> 15:56 Yeah. And you're just. And. And it's, you know, you can fluctuate the air, not the water nozzle. So you could do side to side and up. It's the dumbest thing. It's really, really dumb. But I'll tell you what, after a stressful day, there's nothing more relaxing than power washing someone's patio. I don't understand it, but it does. I totally chill playing it. I love all the DLCs. Like, you can watch the DeLorean and.
15:56 --> 15:57 Yep.
15:57 --> 16:16 You know, just like the rent. We go to Mars and you can wash the Mars rover. You're like, cool. I don't know why I'm up here power washing the Mars Rover, but it, you know, they're paying me, so it's, it's just really. I don't have to think about anything. Nothing's going to come and kill me. Nothing's gonna come stress me out. I'm just washing. I'm washing stuff.
16:16 --> 16:23 In space, there is kind of a disturbing understory that you're learning the whole time you're going, that's true.
16:23 --> 16:34 But I've been so, like, relaxed in like, certain areas that I don't even know what's going on in the story other than I'm hired to wash this dude's beat up truck. That's okay. I'm cool. Whatever that, you know, I feel like that's relaxing.
16:34 --> 16:36 Like manual labor, honestly.
16:36 --> 16:42 Yeah, yeah, yeah, right. You know what I want to do after manufacturing all day? Wash the floors. That sounds like a great idea.
16:42 --> 16:42 You know?
16:42 --> 17:07 You know what's funny though is we got a power washer at the thrift store or on Marketplace, I don't remember. But we got a power washer for a really good deal and we intend to power wash the driveway before we move out of this place. And I've offered repeatedly to do it because I'm like, I'll do it. And the wife keeps going like, no, I want to do it.
17:07 --> 17:18 Yeah, yeah. My wife's the same way. She's like, our neighbors let us borrow their power washers so I can clean off the driveway. And she's all, give it to me, I want to do it.
17:19 --> 17:26 Well, I mean, right? It's hilarious playing after playing that game. I just want an unfettered power washer too.
17:26 --> 17:30 Yeah, why not? That just keeps going. I played the game.
17:30 --> 17:33 I just want to actually power wash the driveway.
17:33 --> 17:35 Yeah, hilarious.
17:36 --> 17:37 Well, if you guys are ever up.
17:37 --> 17:42 In my area of the country, feel free to power wash anything you want because I hate doing it.
17:42 --> 17:45 Power wash the snow off your Driveway. That'd be great.
17:45 --> 17:48 So much snow. Crazy.
17:48 --> 17:56 Oh, yeah. So, yeah, I have to mine short brief because it's just. It's just power wash to me. There's not a whole lot to it other than I heard.
17:57 --> 18:20 I heard. Oh, I have to call out as much. As much as there's that serotonin hit when like the ding goes off after you've. And you're doing like rows perfectly and you're. You know, but. But sometimes it decides your ding done enough with an area that you're getting toward that last bit and you're pre. And all of a sudden it just like steals it away from you.
18:20 --> 18:21 Like, no.
18:21 --> 18:22 And you're like.
18:23 --> 18:40 I think it's funny when there's. There's not enough. Like you haven't done it enough. And you gotta. I feel like I'm playing Hogwarts Legacy because I'm like, revelio. Revelio. Where's the dirt? Where's the dirt? I keep pressing space bar so it shines. So I get fires like this entire spotless chart.
18:40 --> 18:41 Wingardium Leviosa.
18:42 --> 18:43 Leviosa.
18:43 --> 18:55 Yeah. Right. Yeah. But, yeah, DeLorean and Mars Rover. Was there any other DLCs that were kind of strange? Like that DLC pack where you're. You're cleaning up blood off crime scenes.
18:56 --> 18:57 That's a different game.
18:58 --> 19:00 That is a fantasy one.
19:01 --> 19:01 Yeah.
19:01 --> 19:03 Like Lord of the Rings or something.
19:04 --> 19:07 Yeah, I don't. I don't remember specifically which one, but there's wacky.
19:08 --> 19:08 Yeah.
19:09 --> 19:13 I'm waiting for the Knight Rider dlc, so I. Power wash kit. That would be a dream come true.
19:13 --> 19:16 That. That'd be pretty rad. If he talks to you. Yeah.
19:19 --> 19:27 There's a Shrek one. There's a Shrek one. There'S a Alice in Alice in Wonderland Warhammer.
19:29 --> 19:34 Is this legit? You're. You're not making up spongebob Pants?
19:35 --> 19:35 Yes.
19:35 --> 19:37 Tomb Raider Midgar.
19:37 --> 19:39 Yeah, there's a ton of them.
19:39 --> 19:45 Okay, hold on. Who are you closing off in Tomb Raiders? Because it was Laura Croft. That's a whole other category on Steam.
19:46 --> 19:50 You said cozy games. You didn't specify it's her house.
19:51 --> 19:55 She's got a whole mansion. Yeah, and it looks like it's the PS1 version of her house.
19:55 --> 19:57 She doesn't power watch her house.
19:57 --> 19:57 She's rich.
19:58 --> 20:02 She has a bugger before to power wash your house. She doesn't.
20:02 --> 20:04 She's hired. She's my friend.
20:06 --> 20:08 Wallace and Grommets outsourced my dude.
20:09 --> 20:11 Yeah, I didn't realize.
20:13 --> 20:14 Yeah. There's a Ton.
20:14 --> 20:17 And a bunch of them are free. A bunch of them are free.
20:18 --> 20:18 Yeah.
20:18 --> 20:28 I had no idea about the Midgar one. You could go around and like, you could do the. Was that the club at the beginning of Final Fantasy 7? The Something Heaven.
20:28 --> 20:29 Yeah.
20:30 --> 20:31 Final Heaven.
20:31 --> 20:31 Yeah.
20:33 --> 20:33 Hold on.
20:33 --> 20:41 Let me special pack. It's free to play. Guess who's going to be doing some comfy tonight. This guy, I guess, is going to go power wash Midgar.
20:42 --> 20:50 Yeah. And you can actually power wash the Midgar model in the. In the Shadow building. That's wild.
20:52 --> 20:56 Someone's got to get that mako off of that. Off that street.
20:56 --> 20:58 There's so many DLCs. What the hell?
21:00 --> 21:03 Yeah, and quite a few of them are free there.
21:03 --> 21:04 Joking or messing around?
21:05 --> 21:08 Yeah, no, I. I was serious. SpongeBob.
21:09 --> 21:10 Yeah, that's happening.
21:10 --> 21:14 Wow, that's crazy. Oh, the Midgar one's free.
21:15 --> 21:15 Yeah, it's.
21:15 --> 21:17 That's exactly. I'm downloading it right now.
21:18 --> 21:19 Maybe I should play this game.
21:19 --> 21:21 I think Most of the DLCs are free.
21:22 --> 21:30 Honestly, I knew this game was popular. I didn't realize it was like popular to get Squaresoft spongebob money.
21:30 --> 21:32 Fantastic. Yeah. This game is.
21:32 --> 21:34 Well, to be fair, Square published it, I believe.
21:36 --> 21:38 Yeah, it is. It's a Square publisher.
21:38 --> 21:39 Oh yeah. Squeenix.
21:41 --> 21:44 Look at me plucking facts out of the ether.
21:44 --> 21:44 Wow.
21:47 --> 21:48 Superstar.
21:49 --> 21:49 Yeah.
21:50 --> 21:50 All right.
21:52 --> 21:53 That's a Great.
21:53 --> 21:57 I've watched YouTube videos of it and Twitch streamers playing it.
21:57 --> 21:58 Yeah, that's fine.
21:58 --> 22:00 I don't even have to be the one playing it.
22:00 --> 22:05 Yeah, it's just one of those, like, I don't know what the hell I'm gonna play. I'll fire this up. And there you go. You're off.
22:05 --> 22:05 And.
22:05 --> 22:12 Yeah. Okay, Jake, after you have your coughing fit, would you like to share with us?
22:12 --> 22:15 Hacking of a lung. I'm always sick, especially this time of year.
22:15 --> 22:17 I was having a big cup of cough.
22:19 --> 22:21 Oh yeah. Okay, get out.
22:21 --> 22:23 It's been a while. Hey, I'm loaded.
22:24 --> 22:39 Done. Okay, so my pick. I actually wasn't gonna go with this originally and. But then they had to go and recent update this week and whenever no Man's sky releases an update, never fails. I have to install it at least. At least see what's there.
22:39 --> 22:40 And.
22:40 --> 23:32 And that's the thing. No man's sky is 10 years old now, which is ridiculous. And they. They continually do these new updates and they're always adding something new. May not the most. Most in depth, sometimes mechanics a little bit shallow, but I give him points for Doing something new every damn time. And the update this week lets you take one of your exocraft the big Colossus and convert it into basically a flatbed truck. And the whole purpose of this, of this update is they've added to scrap. They added scrapyard worlds into the, into the algorithm. And when you land in scrap world there is junk on the planets radioactive explosive corrosive. And you have to drive your truck around using a new gravity gun, pick up the trash, load the trash into your truck and take it to a recycling center. This is no man's sky in 2026. It is now a garbage truck scene.
23:32 --> 23:33 Sounds like Half Life.
23:33 --> 23:36 Isn't there a song Space Trucking?
23:37 --> 23:39 There is a game Space Truck actually.
23:39 --> 23:39 Yeah.
23:39 --> 26:04 But. Yeah, it's the dumbest of things. But I'll tell you what, I got all the updates over the years of no Man's Sky. Every time they do an update they do what they call an expedition, which is like a sandbox version of the game you can play that highlights the main things of the. Of the update and yet cosmetics and stuff. I've never had the patience to actually sit and get through one of those. The first one I have beaten of those expeditions is this garbage truck one. And I did it last night. I spent six hours last night playing this game. And I was. I've never been more relaxed. But it's so. It's so wild to play this though because in the expedition you are stranded on a planet with other players. This is what this is, is stress testing online multiplayer. Because hello Games is working on another game coming out which will take place on one planet. This is. They're kind of like adding things that would be useful for that game. Back to no end. Skies for testing. So you're on a planet with other players walking around. You're all just collecting garbage but the, the truck itself. While the truck itself has like a loose gravity field to keep the trash there. I guess there's no seat belts in space or straps in space because if you as you're driving with your load, if you take a corner too fast, you hit a. I said load. If you hit a bump too hard, you hit an alien rock too hard, the cargo just flies off the back of the truck. It is, it is ridiculous. And it's no man's sky. There's no goddamn roads in space in no man's sky unless you build it. It's. It's just desert and it's a rocky hilly planet with alien hazardous plants fucking everywhere. So like when you have a load full of cargo, you're trying to break the waste plant and they're not. They're not side by side. They've taken a cue from death stranding, which is, again, it's wild. The trips are like 10 to 15 minutes long. To get from the waste plant out to where the dump is and then back again and not lose any of your load is like. It's a good 15 minutes. It's crazy, but it's awesome. It's fun. It's much like death stranding when you're carrying cargo and death stranding, which again, on paper sounds completely frustrating and stupid. Maybe it is, but it's the manual labor of it all, I guess, is why I find it comforting. And it's cozy and I like playing it. And I went through six hours of this last night hauling garbage and nothing else. You can't do anything else until you finish the expedition. I'm hauling garbage for six hours, and it was a blast. So now I've unlocked my garbage truck from the main file and it's.
26:04 --> 26:05 It's.
26:05 --> 26:06 It's just.
26:06 --> 26:11 I don't know, can you. Can you ride on the back, holding onto the, like, you know.
26:11 --> 26:12 Yeah, you gotta jump off.
26:13 --> 26:15 Jump off and get some cans and.
26:15 --> 27:16 Yeah, I didn't. I didn't try it because, like, the multiplayer, no Man's sky is very janky. So, like, half the time I would see other people's trucks, and half the time I would just see a player in midair, him flying through the air because you can't see what he's doing or you'll see, like, the, The. When you're recycling things in the. In the various vats, they. They have a special effect, a graphical effect. So I'm just, like, sitting there in my truck and all of a sudden the. The hazardous waste one has an explosive graphic. I'm like, what the hell happened? And I turn around and I see a player a yards away from it, I guess eventually lagged out, but was throwing trash into it. It's just wild. It's. It is so bizarre. There is a gravity gun much like Half Life 2, but right now it only picks up the garbage waste. So it's. The usefulness of it is very, very limited. But that's like. That's no Man's Sky. Everything they add to no Man's sky is very, very focused on one thing, and it never goes too deep. And. And that's. And that's fine. I don't. I don't really don't Want to dive too deep into it. But. But yeah, it's pretty. Pretty much a blast. But no Man's sky in general. No man's sky.
27:17 --> 27:17 Yeah.
27:17 --> 27:18 Finding planets, exploration.
27:19 --> 27:20 Very chilly.
27:20 --> 27:21 Yeah.
27:21 --> 27:29 That's a great pick because honestly, you don't have to do much fighting if you don't want. You can literally just do the exploration piece of it.
27:29 --> 27:31 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
27:31 --> 28:16 And like you can dive into like building. I did that the last time I played no Man's Sky. I really dove down into building a base and the excavating a cave, building walls. You can unlock various components and decorations. And like, I think was it the last update they added Corvettes. So now you can actually build your own Millennium Falcon if you want and decorate the hell out of it. And it's always with you. Yeah, there's. There's a lot of non combat stuff to that game and it can be very chill and relaxing and if you want to do comment, it's there too. Like, it really is, I think the best sandbox game I've played in forever. Like it just has everything in a sandbox and you literally. While there are main quests, I think there's two main quests. You don't even have to touch them. I. I think I've only beaten one of them in the 10 years I've been playing no Man's Sky. It's pretty wild.
28:16 --> 28:22 I've never even finished a single one of those things. So. Yeah, I just get into space and then I fly the around and just. That's.
28:22 --> 28:25 Yeah. Hunt down bounties and.
28:25 --> 28:25 Yeah.
28:25 --> 28:26 Yeah.
28:26 --> 28:37 I don't do anything of any. It's like playing Red Dead Redemption is just law. I'm just lost in whatever I'm doing. Punching horses and getting lost, shooting people in the face in rivers, you know, like you do.
28:37 --> 28:38 Yeah.
28:38 --> 28:41 I was gonna say without the ability to tree yourself with your horse.
28:41 --> 28:42 Yeah. There's no trees.
28:42 --> 28:43 I'm not.
28:43 --> 28:44 I'm not running Jake into any trees.
28:46 --> 28:52 As you do in Canada. We. So we have so many trees. Can't help but run yourself into them.
28:52 --> 28:54 Just my Canadian Clydesdale.
28:56 --> 29:01 That horse, that game.
29:01 --> 29:03 Oh, man, that could be a.
29:03 --> 29:04 Now I want to play Red Dead Redemption too.
29:04 --> 29:07 Yeah, same. Run around to waterfalls.
29:07 --> 29:08 I gotta play both of those.
29:09 --> 29:09 Yeah.
29:12 --> 29:12 All right.
29:12 --> 29:13 Hey.
29:13 --> 29:13 Yay.
29:13 --> 29:14 All right.
29:18 --> 29:23 My first pick is Castlevania. Symphony of the night.
29:23 --> 29:24 Heck yeah.
29:25 --> 29:27 Nothing says cozy like fighting the undead.
29:28 --> 29:33 Yeah, it's not cozy, it's comfort. I know that game inside out. Like.
29:33 --> 29:37 Yeah. That game causes me nothing but stress.
29:38 --> 29:39 I love that Game, really?
29:40 --> 29:47 I have never beaten that game. And every time I try, I'm like, why is this so hard?
29:47 --> 29:50 Oh, man, I beat it like 25 times.
29:50 --> 30:22 Yeah, yeah. I got the badge for it, which everybody knows, but, like, I played it so much within that span of time. Like, I knew it so fucking well. Like, we be. I beat it with. On one run without saving. That's like. We played that game religiously and. And everybody, you know, everybody was like, oh, you're gonna do something that I. As your first badge. That's a real big game, and it is a real big game, but it's so like, to Wolf's point, it's very. It's so chill that it's. For me and probably Wolf, it's easy to play and we got it done. So it's. It's really cool. I love something that's a great game.
30:23 --> 30:33 And I think it used to. I used to play it so much that sometimes my friends would be going through it and they'd call me and be like, I'm stuck here. What do I do?
30:33 --> 30:34 Yeah.
30:34 --> 30:35 Yep.
30:36 --> 30:41 Like, okay, you got this. You got this. No. Okay, you need to go back here to get that. And then you'll be golden.
30:42 --> 30:45 You gotta go fight that boss. Find the. Find the crow boss and get him.
30:46 --> 31:00 It's awesome because, like, the loot is randomized. So, like, you could have completely different weapons every time you play. And a lot of those weapons feel very different and distinct. And it's fun, like, it's. It's a blast to play. It's the gold standard Metroid game or Castlevania game for me, honestly.
31:01 --> 31:40 Yeah, it's. It's aged very well. I absolutely adore that game. Like I said, I've played through it like 25 times. I think it's very rare that I play through it and don't break the 200% barrier. But that's because most of the times I've played through it are the Saturn version. And I think that one lets you get to 210. In fact, no, I got it the first time I played through it on the Saturn. I actually got it to like 211.4% and I couldn't load the file anymore. It told me I wasn't allowed. Like, wow, you did too much. And it was like, no, this one can't open anymore.
31:40 --> 31:42 You've let us dry.
31:42 --> 31:49 I hit the button and just go, eh. I wish it would pop up. Like, I'm loading it, but nothing's happening.
31:49 --> 31:53 I wish it would pop up and Say, listen, you beat this, okay?
31:53 --> 31:55 It's done. There's nothing else to find.
31:55 --> 31:56 Yeah.
31:57 --> 32:00 I guess I'll just start a new file and do it again.
32:00 --> 32:03 I'll do it again. The game erases itself.
32:04 --> 32:07 Listen, like, that's all it has to say.
32:07 --> 32:09 Come on, man, you need a new.
32:09 --> 32:10 Hobby for a little while.
32:10 --> 32:14 Dude, give me a break. There's nothing more to show.
32:14 --> 32:15 You don't play.
32:15 --> 32:24 That's crazy too, because, like, there hasn't been a Castlevania like it really. Like, I know there's ones in the GBA and DS and. And they're in the same idea, but the original SY is great.
32:25 --> 32:34 I mean, there's. And as close as you're going to get to that. But I just. It doesn't. To me, this is my personal opinion. I don't think it holds a candle to Simpson.
32:34 --> 32:35 Okay.
32:35 --> 32:36 Yeah.
32:36 --> 32:41 And that's me personally. I just, I. I mean, we played through them. I just. Yeah, it's got a nostalgia.
32:41 --> 32:44 They're a fair bit different. They, like, there's. They have a lot in common.
32:46 --> 32:46 In.
32:46 --> 33:05 You know, in their DNA, but they. They feel quite a bit different. Like the. What kept me going back to Symphony of the Night was a very different thing than what kept me going back to Bloodstained, because. Bloodstained. Well, bloodstained. What. What pulled me back was the randomizer mode.
33:05 --> 33:06 Okay.
33:06 --> 33:30 And I played through that like five times in a row. And then I was like, all right, I. I'll play something else now. But Symphony of the Night, like that one, I can just burn through the whole thing. And sometimes I'll be like, all right, this time I'm going to take this path because I've not done that before. I've not done that much. Or sometimes I'll go this way first because I want to go for this weapon. And so that's the quickest way to beelight it, you know?
33:30 --> 33:30 Right.
33:31 --> 33:37 I sort of like, I set different goals for myself every time I play, so it changes up the experience I have.
33:38 --> 34:07 There is a randomizer for something the night as well. So if you're into that. Yeah, the randomizer I have not tried. Yeah, it's a blast. So like, like, honestly, a randomizers for ROMs has always been great for me. Like, I loved Link to the Past and the Metroid one. But yeah, Something Night is great for it as well too because you already have the loot being randomized. So if you could add other things to it with the items and progression and then it forces you to explore and if you're so familiar with the map, you're. You're 200 the map, you'd probably dig it because you know where I'll find all the different secrets and stuff. Where stuff could be.
34:07 --> 34:07 Right?
34:07 --> 34:08 Yeah.
34:08 --> 34:08 Yeah.
34:09 --> 34:10 That could be fun.
34:10 --> 34:17 I gotta give that game as a chunk of change. I fucking. That's a great game. Yeah. Civilianite. Fantastic. That's a fantastic pick.
34:17 --> 34:17 Yes.
34:17 --> 34:21 That's cool. I'm cool with that one. That's funny. It's funny what we think.
34:22 --> 34:24 I may have to go back to it.
34:24 --> 34:29 What stresses Sinistar out is what calms Wolf down. It's. It's like a funny software.
34:29 --> 34:37 Well, it's like. It's like when I was. When I was in high school and my parents would piss me off, I'd throw on like the heaviest metal and it would just like chill me out, you know?
34:37 --> 34:38 Right.
34:38 --> 34:38 Yeah.
34:39 --> 34:50 But I just imagine. I imagine Sinister is like, God damn it, why is this game so hard? And Wolf's just like, yeah, yeah. For those of you who are listening, I'm playing with a controller. Very chill.
34:52 --> 35:19 I used to. I used to actually have gaming sessions with this game because I had it on PlayStation and the import version for Saturn, I would have sessions where I'd play it with somebody. They'd play the PlayStation 1, I'd play the Japanese Saturn 1. And I'd play. Because I had multiple TVs in my room, so a buddy would stay over for the night and we would play them side by side and I'd leave them in the dust. Poor people. But.
35:21 --> 35:23 To be expected, I'd be getting.
35:23 --> 35:28 To the second castle and they're like still in Marble Gallery, you know.
35:28 --> 35:44 Where were you on my first badge, dude, I needed you. You should have been there. You. You could have walked me through that entire nonsense. I wouldn't have been there for nine hours fighting the stupid three bosses. I probably would have got it done a lot quicker had you been able to support me.
35:45 --> 35:53 I'm sure everything that is to that there is a badge to. For that game. I have done on the PlayStation in the past.
35:53 --> 35:54 Yeah.
35:55 --> 36:01 Navigate the spike cave blindly without. Without a light or using Echo. Guarantee you've done that.
36:02 --> 36:02 Yeah.
36:02 --> 36:08 Yeah. Yep. If it can be done. It can be done. Wolf can do it. It can be done. Wolf's done it.
36:09 --> 36:18 Well, the only thing I have heard of a weird thing where somebody actually like, I think they speed ran the game using the DDR pad.
36:19 --> 36:22 Oh, I've seen that before. Yeah. Which is wild.
36:22 --> 36:32 Like. Yeah, that's. That's a bit out of my scope. I think there's also people who've done speedruns blindfolded in that game. That's out of my scope. But.
36:33 --> 36:37 Well, if you've seen some people. If you've seen some people.
36:37 --> 36:38 Challenges I've not done.
36:39 --> 36:40 Yeah, right.
36:40 --> 36:41 Yeah.
36:42 --> 36:44 Guitar Hero drum pad. Let's go.
36:45 --> 36:48 Yeah, I'm sorry. Donkey Kong bongos. Let's go.
36:50 --> 36:53 That's the real one. Yeah, that's for the real ones.
36:53 --> 37:03 Yeah. That's a good pick. Yeah, There you go. I need to. I need to try that one again.
37:03 --> 37:05 Yeah, you should. It's. I.
37:05 --> 37:07 If you get stuck, I can help you.
37:07 --> 37:11 Yeah, you have. You have a friend in the Castlevania business.
37:12 --> 37:15 Expect hours and hours of mps coming at you.
37:15 --> 37:18 Yeah, you got. I'm for it.
37:18 --> 37:20 Don't rage, quit. All right. Going.
37:20 --> 37:21 Yeah.
37:21 --> 37:21 Don't rage, quit.
37:22 --> 37:26 All right. You want to give me Sinistar, your second comfort game?
37:27 --> 38:15 Yeah. Now, I think this one probably. I think that this one, people will agree, is a comfort game to a point, and it's kind of the same for me as well. So. Tetris, in particular, is a comfort game. And as of late, I've been playing the Tetris effect Kinect game, which is a very good Tetris game, a modern Tetris game. It has some really cool multiplayer aspects where, like, you actually can join forces, your boards get combined. But. But for me, Tetris is one of those games where it's like, I'm gonna sit down. I've got 10 minutes. I'm just gonna relax, play some Tetris. And then after, you know, 80 lines, you're like, ah, fuck this, I'm out. Yeah.
38:15 --> 38:18 So have you played the Tetris collection from Digital Eclipse?
38:18 --> 38:19 I haven't. I haven't.
38:19 --> 38:58 You got. You gotta. You gotta pick that up because you get to play in that one. You get to play the original. It's emulated, of course, but a version of the. The original Russian ASCII version of Tetris, and it's just to play the original and versus what it is, in effect, is awesome. To compare the two, Tetris effect is awesome. That game is. I played it. That's one of my favorite VR games, actually. I have it on. On the Oculus. To play that in VR is just a trip because you look around and you just see all the pretty colors. The music is in sync with the pieces, just massively put together. Game. And I. I mean, Tetris is a great pick. Honestly, I could have Picked Tetris, too. Like, that's, that's one of my favorite go, go to games. So.
38:58 --> 39:00 Yeah, yeah, the Game Boy version for me.
39:01 --> 39:02 Yeah.
39:02 --> 39:19 Well, I was going to say the, the, the NES version is classic. And in fact, I love the combined version on the SNES. That's the Tetris and Dr. Mario combined version that was on the SNES. That one's great. Plus, I can play Dr. Mario, which I love that as well.
39:19 --> 39:20 Dr. Mario stresses me out.
39:21 --> 39:22 Not a comfort.
39:23 --> 39:36 It's not a comfort game. It's a shift in your brain. And once that shift happens, it can become a comfort game. But I'm with you. It's not as intuitive as the Tetrominos lining up the Tetraminos.
39:37 --> 40:08 I, I, to that, to that point, I prefer Dr. Mario because there's a target to, like, with, with, with Tetris. You know, you just line up the blocks and you try and do. It speeds up and all that stuff. And I love Tetris, don't get me wrong. But I like the Dr. Mario because there's targets because you're, you're getting the germs or the viruses or whatever, so you got to figure out how to do that. So it adds that little extra layer of skill to it or whatever. But I like the targeted thing rather than just stacking blocks, because I always felt really unlucky when I played Tetris because I'm like, I don't need that block. Give me the block I need.
40:09 --> 40:37 Well, and so when I think it, I think we've discussed this before. The Tetris that was on the N64 introduced the ability to hold a piece, and that ability has continued in every Tetris after. And honestly, that is the biggest benefit to, like, I don't need that piece. Click, hold, you know, hold it, pull out something else or whatever. And then of course, you get to the point where you're like, like, I don't need that piece. Click. And it's the same.
40:37 --> 40:38 Drop it. Right.
40:38 --> 40:38 God damn it.
40:38 --> 40:41 You know, you're like, yeah.
40:41 --> 40:47 So it wouldn't be Tetris if you didn't get the piece. You don't need five times in a row just, just to show you, like the Tetris.
40:47 --> 40:52 I can't tell you how many times I've, I've said my kingdom for a line.
40:53 --> 40:54 Just give me a straight line.
40:54 --> 40:59 Just give me a line. I've got three Tetris built. I just need the lines.
40:59 --> 41:01 Yep. Yeah, I'm with it.
41:01 --> 41:31 Yeah. No, but once it Gets. There is definitely a point where, you know, it. The. The speed gets high enough, it is no longer a comfort game, for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But up until that point, it's one of those where you can. It's. For me, it's another game like, Punch out on the nes. I can go do, I don't know, the first five fights, like, in, you know, in my sleep. And so I just. Hey, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go beat Glass Joe, and I'm gonna go beat, you know, Tiger.
41:31 --> 41:32 And I'm King Hippo.
41:32 --> 41:34 King Hippo. Yeah. Yeah.
41:35 --> 41:49 So, yeah, well, yeah, Tetris is one of those games where it's like you spin up the Mr. And you just. Yeah, 10 minutes. It's great. And it just. But. Or you can spend hours playing Tetris. Like, it really. It really is both types of games if you. It's whatever you want to be. And it's just such a classic.
41:49 --> 41:49 Like.
41:49 --> 42:05 And I honestly, yeah, I can't speak highly enough of. You know, on Sundays, I do video games with some friends most Sundays, and oftentimes, if it's only three of us, we'll spin up Tetris effect. And it does that.
42:05 --> 42:05 Cool.
42:05 --> 42:19 Like, everybody does their own level until a certain number of pieces have been destroyed and you're competing against a computer. And then you all combine, and it's like, who can place pieces on everybody else's board? It's really cool.
42:19 --> 42:20 That's cool.
42:21 --> 42:22 That's interesting.
42:23 --> 42:27 Yeah. Plus, the. The music and effects on the Tetris effect connect are so good.
42:28 --> 42:29 Oh, yeah.
42:32 --> 43:08 I don't think I've played that one, but I've literally used Tetris for actual emotional comfort. I think I've told this story before on the podcast, but I'll tell it again here because it fits. When my stepdad passed away when I was a teenager, it was just. It was kind of out of the blue, and for the next week, like, I just didn't want to do shit. Like, I didn't. Didn't go to school. I took the week off just being in my own head, and I basically did nothing but play Tetris on the Game Boy all week.
43:11 --> 43:20 I can see it. I can see it. I think I actually saw. I think I saw a something. They said that, like, they actually do use Tetris for.
43:22 --> 43:23 Coping with trauma.
43:23 --> 43:25 Coping. Trauma coping. Yeah.
43:25 --> 43:26 I believe that. Yeah.
43:26 --> 43:27 Yeah.
43:27 --> 43:28 That's crazy. It's.
43:28 --> 43:43 It's. It's. I think, to an extent. Yeah. Right. It drags away enough of your you know, your. Your. The thoughts that are, like, distracting. Right? Yeah. I think that's what it does is it's like, I've got to focus on dropping these tetrominos.
43:44 --> 43:45 It distracts the distractions.
43:45 --> 43:47 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
43:48 --> 43:48 Nice.
43:49 --> 43:54 Yep. That's a. Yeah. I love that story. I'm glad that you use Tetris for that.
43:55 --> 44:10 Yeah. I. When my. When I got my first Game Boy, that was the game that I played pretty religiously on. There was. That was that Tetris game. And I always loved this. I love the music on there. That. That soundtrack's a banger. And I remember always picking type what it was A type B music or whatever. And it's.
44:13 --> 44:15 The national anthem from Russ.
44:15 --> 44:19 Yeah. I just didn't listen to it for forever. I love it. Gosh.
44:19 --> 44:25 I'm gonna say it again, too. Is like, if anybody has not seen the Tetris movie. Taryn Egerton.
44:25 --> 44:26 Yes.
44:26 --> 44:29 Really good. Because it is not what. It's not what it sounds like.
44:29 --> 44:31 It's a really good, fantastic movie.
44:32 --> 44:37 Yeah. Yeah. That and the BlackBerry movie both are like, what the hell did I want?
44:37 --> 44:38 In the same vein.
44:38 --> 44:41 Yeah. These were so much better than they should have been.
44:41 --> 44:42 Right?
44:44 --> 44:46 Yeah. All right.
44:46 --> 44:51 That's a great pick, Chard. What's your next run? What's your next up?
44:52 --> 45:32 I'm gonna be honest with you guys. This. And actually, I. I found comfort in this game a couple. Couple weekends ago. I was. I mean, I've got a black backlog of stuff to play. I've got horror games galore that I want to jump into, but I just found myself kind of fumbling around, and I. I remembered that I had this on Steam, and I'd never played the Steam version of this before. So I fired up Chrono Trigger and ended up playing all the way through it again for, like, the umpteenth million time. And I. I was like, this really is like my. One of my comfort games. And I know we talk about this game religiously. We all love this game. You know, Sinister played it for his first time a couple, like, a year or two ago, and.
45:32 --> 45:33 And we.
45:33 --> 45:59 And we just. But it's just so. It's so chill to me. And it was so fun to go through it. And I. You know, with that one, you try different characters, right? You. You know, I always go with the frog and the. And the Marley and the Chrono team up. At this time, I was like, I'm gonna try Ayla and Robo and. And Mages or whatever and just do Some crazy that I've never thought to do before and just kind of play through it all. You can shake your head all you want. I'm just saying, playing it wrong, but that's okay.
45:59 --> 46:01 You want comfort, you don't pick Robo.
46:01 --> 46:04 I still beat it just fine, no problems. But I love Robo.
46:04 --> 46:05 I do.
46:05 --> 46:05 I love Robo.
46:06 --> 47:04 Yeah. I love. I love the side quests in that game. I love how everything just comes together and they don't even feel like side quests. And to the point. Yeah, this is a game that I'll never forget where it's like you get to the end of time and the side quests kind of fire up, right. And when you talk to the. The Guru of Time at the end there, and he gives you the list of the things that you go accomplish before you can go to the Black Omen or just take on Lovos, whatever you want to do. I always am, like, looking through the fine print to make sure I don't miss anything. And I've played this game thousands of freaking times, and I still, like. I'm trying to parse together, like, to make sure I didn't miss any of the missions. And I go back there, even when I finish them all, I go back and I make sure, you know, I didn't miss anything. And I. The Steam version is like the DS version, so it has the new. The new talking over it that you were talking about Jake when. When I played the DS version and like, Frog had different. Yeah, he had different languages.
47:04 --> 47:05 Oh, the translation is different.
47:05 --> 47:06 Translation was different. Exactly.
47:06 --> 47:07 Yeah.
47:10 --> 47:50 There was more information that made sense. Like when you talk to. To him at the end and he goes, you know, a friend needs this and they're trying to grow trees in the forest, blah, blah, blah. And you do all this stuff. I was like, oh, that's what all that is. They was very not clear the last time I played it on the Super Nintendo version, so. And it ran well, ran fantastic on Steam. I'd always heard that it was kind of like the PlayStation 1 version where it takes, you know, 30 minutes and a year to load the screens. So if you ever need to go into your menu for anything, you might as well have a birthday in between there because it literally takes a lifetime for it to load on that on the older version.
47:50 --> 47:50 So.
47:51 --> 48:18 But I have to say, Chrono Trigger. I never thought of it until I played it again on my Steam deck the other day going, this game totally calms me down and relaxes me. Like, I know, okay, so I Know, football is a stressful thing for me when you're going to the super bowl, blah, blah. It's been a very stressful couple of weeks. Just sports related, whatever, you know. And I was playing that and it totally even killed me, like during this whole run. So it's been really cool. So very much a comfort game for me to play for. Sure.
48:19 --> 48:31 I can totally see it. Although, I'll be honest with you. The toad story or the frog story, I. I would. I would probably start crying again and, you know. Yeah, yeah.
48:31 --> 48:35 Does that version have the extra stuff? Is it extra dungeons? I think in that version?
48:36 --> 48:37 Yes, yes, it does.
48:37 --> 48:38 It does. Was that.
48:38 --> 48:53 Yeah. When you beat it, actually it unlocks a bunch of stuff. I, you know, I didn't fuck around with it, so I don't know, I just. It. I was like, oh, there's a bunch of new stuff on here. And I wasn't sure how to, like how to get to it if you had to replay it again and do all the other stuff again. And I was like, yeah, I'll get to it later. And I put it down and I never went back to it.
48:54 --> 49:03 So, yeah, there's. I played it on the ds. So that stuff, I don't remember how you access it. I think it's an extra portal. At the end of time, they popped.
49:03 --> 49:07 Up over on the world map and you can go and check it out or whatever.
49:07 --> 49:08 Is that what it was?
49:08 --> 49:09 I guess that's what it looked like.
49:09 --> 49:16 I really don't remember where it was, but it, it served multiple purposes on the ds and I think the steam left out the multiplayer aspect.
49:16 --> 49:17 Okay.
49:17 --> 49:20 But. Because I think there was a Versus.
49:20 --> 49:25 Mode which I know there's like a Coliseum type type mode that they added or something.
49:26 --> 49:29 Yeah. And then. So. But there's. Yeah, there's the Coliseum and I think there's the mountain.
49:31 --> 49:33 Yeah, the mountain. Yeah, the. The mountain. Not in the mountain.
49:33 --> 49:33 Woe.
49:33 --> 50:16 The Crying Mountain or Singing Mountain I think is what it's called. But yeah, I went through like a whole new area that had like, you had to defeat all these monsters in this. You know, this area that looked like, kind of reminded me of Secret of Mana, where you go through the, the different seasons in that. In the game and that one, that whatever world that was, it kind of reminded me a little bit of that. And then you go forward in time and everything's gone. And then all these people like, oh, you saved us. Like 18 million years ago. The heroes came and saved us. And I was like, I've never Been in here, I played this game hundreds of times. Never been in this place. What the hell is this? And it's the DS edition that they added that. I didn't know that was kind of cool. So. Yeah. So, yeah, I know we talked about it, we preach about it, but Chrono Trigger, absolute comfort game in my house.
50:18 --> 50:19 That's a good one.
50:19 --> 50:20 It's a great one.
50:21 --> 50:21 Thank you.
50:24 --> 50:27 All right, Jake, you want to give us your next pick?
50:29 --> 50:40 Yeah, you know what? Okay. Well, I'm a roll with, I guess, indie games. My other one will be Valheim. Yeah, I'm totally. My homework. I'm gonna do Valheim.
50:41 --> 50:55 I think I know you for a little kibbusing behind the scene here. You kind of mentioned Valheim as a potential. And when you said that I was with you, I was with you. I mean, other than when you're taking down the giant freaking trolls.
50:55 --> 50:56 Listen.
50:56 --> 50:59 Yeah, they're stressful. Or like the mosquitoes and the planes.
50:59 --> 51:13 The mosquitoes are even done giving his explanation on this. I got a story about Valheim. Involves pretty much everybody in this podcast, so you know about it. But I do agree with you. And this totally being a comfort game. Absolutely.
51:13 --> 51:18 Watching my big build stuff, Jake, watching you build stuff, I totally get it. Yeah.
51:18 --> 51:48 And the building is. Is one. Is one half of it. Right? Like, the combat. The combat exploration is great. I like that too. But the number one thing is the building. Right. What you can build in Valheim is. Is amazing. Right? Like, and you have to pay attention to the pieces that you do. The structure supports, the whole nine yards. And you can do, like, pagodas and statues. Yeah, whatever you want. And, like, the way you can build is very powerful. And I. I try to get my kids to play this over Minecraft and they won't take to it. But I love the building. But I also just like the sailing. It's the stupidest stuff.
51:48 --> 51:48 Yeah.
51:48 --> 52:27 But building a car, a carve. Is that what you call it? A long ship in Valheim, and you're just sailing. And half the time you're doing it because you want to move ore. There's portals in Valheim, but you can't move ore through portals, so you have to use the boats. But, like, once you've, like, explored the map, found where the ore is, you've done all the work to mine it, which can be stressful. But then you have to load on a boat and then casually bring the boat back home. That's my favorite part of the game, is the sailing. And there's not one Other game that does the combination of procedural map. So it's different every time along with the dungeons, exploration and building and all that stuff with the sailing. No other game is like Valheim. It really is one of kind of.
52:28 --> 52:38 I was gonna say you can. You can get that from Ark as well, but you said procedural. And so we were lost then because, yes, ARC is. Ark is a built map. Right? I mean, yeah.
52:38 --> 52:47 Like anytime there's a new survival game, none of them have all the pieces. Like, I want procedural, I want sailing, I want solid building, and nobody does it like Valheim. It's. It's really unique.
52:47 --> 52:48 Is.
52:48 --> 52:52 Is Sea of Thieves procedural? I don't think it's the procedural, but I thought maybe it might be.
52:52 --> 52:56 No, Sea of Thieves is. Is. I think Sea of Thieves is a built map.
52:57 --> 53:04 Oh, it was Bill, man. Yeah, I thought it was too, but I. You know, sometimes you get back into it, you're like, I don't remember this being here. So I don't know if it's just because it's changing.
53:05 --> 53:06 I think they add things.
53:06 --> 53:08 Yeah, that's probably more accurate. Honestly.
53:08 --> 53:17 The sailing in that one is pretty solid though too. Like, Sea of Thieves is fun to play with friends, but it doesn't have the building component to it and that. And that's. It's just the whole package. Right. So.
53:17 --> 54:02 And I did love sailing in ark, but I'm with you that the procedural is. Is. Is icing on top of Arkansas that you get in Valheim. That said, really quick, I do have to call out. When we got. When we got automatic guns in Ark, we built what we called Murder Boat or Murder House. And we would just float down the river and the automatic guns would just be murdering everything. It was great. Fish, dinosaurs. It was just murder. We also, we sang it as Murder Boat. Murder Boat. Anyway, sorry, Jake, I'm with you on the Valheim. I'm with you on the Valhea.
54:02 --> 54:35 It's great because Valheim is five years old now and they announced the PS5 version coming out this year. So I'm hoping that they're close to the 1.0 release because I don't want to get too, too invested in Valheim again until it reaches that 1.0. But the game has been very successful sales wise, and they kept the team purposely very tiny still. So I'm waiting for them to finish it because there's every. Every year they usually add a new biome. So there's like three different biomes I have not even touched. And I'm kind of Saving it for the 1.0 release, and then hopefully that is soon. But Valheim is such a great game. It really is great.
54:36 --> 54:56 I will say that the progression from, like, one biome to the next is definitely a lot of work to get, you know, to get your. Your equipment and your levels and stuff all the way. Yeah. Because it is literally this new biome requires better, faster, stronger.
54:56 --> 56:14 Yeah. Yeah. Yep. There was. There was a time a couple of years back where I had lost my dog Seamus over the Christmas break, and my. My work shuts down for about two weeks at the time, and he. We had just lost him, and we were going into Christmas break and I was as distraught as a human could be. It's like Wolf and I have similar stories in a sense, and the wife and I was really, really tore up about it. You know, we've had him for 10, 11 years. We. He was basically our child. And. And I didn't. I wanted. I would. Nothing to do with anybody. I was very, like, reclusive at the time. It's Christmas, which is my favorite time of year, and we just shut everything down. My wife and I were watching all these depressing shows and Jake and Sistar and Wolf and. And Sin Star's brother. And everybody came in and they're like, you should play. You should just come hang out with us. Yeah. Was in there. He's like, you should come and jump in and try this. Valheim with us. And I was like, whatever. Okay. And I'll tell you what, I jumped in there and, like, all my woes, like, went to the wayside playing with you guys. I had so much fun just running around and picking dirt and grass and knocking down trees and getting trees falling on me because we're not chopping them down.
56:14 --> 56:14 Yeah.
56:14 --> 56:18 Jake blaming me for leaving the door open. So somebody.
56:21 --> 56:31 I love. I love the realism that, like, you could be chopping a tree and it falls on you. I love that realism. Yeah.
56:31 --> 56:32 And it was awesome.
56:33 --> 56:37 I remember. I remember you didn't have voice either. You were doing it.
56:37 --> 56:38 Yeah, I was talking. I was playing.
56:38 --> 56:39 And all of a sudden it'd be.
56:39 --> 56:43 Like, he'd stop moving because you see me talking. Yeah.
56:44 --> 56:46 Like, message would pop up.
56:46 --> 57:39 Yeah. I didn't want to talk to anybody first. And then later we moved it into the computer room and I just kept the camera off and use the mic. But we. We had so much fun, like, just running around and floating from island to island and getting our asses handed to us by trolls and. And then just like, trying to figure out where all the good stuff is and, and you know, the sins and, and Jake and everybody, they really, they pulled me out of a pretty dark funk playing that game. So I 100 would totally agree that Valheim is a very comfort game. I, I never felt as stressed as I do playing some of the stuff that I play. Playing that because it just kind of goes hand in hand. You expect that like when we fought the boss, you know, we all went to the altar and dropped all this stuff. It was like. It's exciting because it reminded me of like playing Final Fantasy 14 or playing you know, Star wars galaxies and everybody gathering to take on this one creature or something. It's. It's a really cool, really chill game. You can make it super, super chill if you want to.
57:39 --> 57:41 Hiding the trolls.
57:41 --> 57:50 Yeah, this stuff is badass. So Valheim is definitely holds a very high standard in my heart for a very difficult time.
57:50 --> 57:53 What were the multi legged in the.
57:53 --> 58:05 Other biome that were like in the swamp biome? I think the. Weren't there mosquitoes or something too? That biome was awful.
58:05 --> 59:36 Well the plains was like a great biome because like all the cool stuff there, that's where you start growing wheat and things and, and there's lots of great stuff and you can get cloaks and things. It's great. But when you're there it was better after. At launch the mosquitoes would basically one shot you and they were so small and if you didn't know what to look for or listen for, they would knock you out. And I remember the first few times I was exploring in the boat and the motherfuckers the range used to be very large. So I would be like skirting the edge of an island that happened to be plains and the mosquito will come after you and just take you out. It was infuriating. But once you know what to look for it's a lot easier and they nerfed in a little bit. Their aggregate range is not quite so bad and you get used to a bow. But the learning curve on Valheim is high. For the later biomes it's very satisfying to actually learn what you need to do for each biome because they are quite different. Finding the, the parts of the boss, getting your geared up and like that whole loop is very satisfying. But you can also just sit at home and build a giant wooden if you want to. Just, just for memes. Or you can farm or you can raise pigs or whatever. Like yeah a very much a sandbox if you wanted to be. And they added sliders for. For the difficulty. So when I play now, I. I usually turn off dropping items on death because I hate that and I up the resources to double. So because I don't want to. I don't want to spend 7 to 10 hours farming copper or something. But I always keep combat extra hard. So it's like I still have a challenge. But I like how you can customize the difficulty. Now in Valheim, it's. It's. It's a real good time. I can't wait for the 1.0 release. I'm really looking forward to it.
59:36 --> 59:36 Yeah.
59:40 --> 59:42 Jake likes challenging logistics.
59:42 --> 59:43 Yes.
59:43 --> 59:43 Yeah.
59:43 --> 59:44 Yes, that's right.
59:44 --> 59:56 I. I would love to. I would love to. To go back and. And do some more press B plus plus Valheim and yeah, it was a good time.
59:58 --> 59:59 Now that'd be great.
59:59 --> 01:00:01 Challenging logistics.
01:00:04 --> 01:00:08 Well, because he gushed about sailing and transporting the ore. Yeah.
01:00:08 --> 01:00:15 It's the main. How funny is it the manual labor? Whether it's power washing or it's transporting or over the oceans.
01:00:15 --> 01:00:19 Well, funny enough being a garbage truck driver.
01:00:19 --> 01:00:20 Yeah, funny enough.
01:00:20 --> 01:00:26 One of my. One of my honorable mentions is Truck Simulator. You know, whether it's European or American. Right.
01:00:26 --> 01:00:27 Tracks.
01:00:27 --> 01:00:29 Yeah, Trucks.
01:00:29 --> 01:00:30 Anyway. Trucks.
01:00:30 --> 01:00:33 Manufacturing simulators. Really chill too.
01:00:33 --> 01:00:34 Space trucking.
01:00:36 --> 01:00:42 Well, there. There is a game called Factorio and it's literally just making a machine, a factory machine. And I've not played it, but I've heard a of Good.
01:00:42 --> 01:00:46 Reminds me way too much of work. I can't. I can't bring work home.
01:00:47 --> 01:00:49 Charts like process this.
01:00:49 --> 01:00:56 Yeah, I'm good. I don't need to figure out. Figure out my job, let alone I'm factorio.
01:00:58 --> 01:01:01 I can't play Animal Crossing anymore. It's all chores. Yeah.
01:01:02 --> 01:01:02 Yeah.
01:01:02 --> 01:01:03 It's too real.
01:01:04 --> 01:01:16 Animal Crossing got me through the pandemic. I don't. That is so not my game ever. And I played it through the pandemic. And then the pandemic was. Once we all started going back out again, it was like, well, this sucks.
01:01:17 --> 01:01:17 Yeah.
01:01:18 --> 01:01:24 It was very much a pandemic game for sure. That was how I socialized crazy.
01:01:26 --> 01:01:27 I agree. I love it.
01:01:29 --> 01:01:41 Okay, my next pick is also not cozy at all. Jake is gonna hate this one. It is the binding of Isaac. Yes.
01:01:41 --> 01:01:42 That's not.
01:01:42 --> 01:01:47 Yes, that is an honorable mention for me. I. I fired it up.
01:01:47 --> 01:01:49 A very comfort game for me.
01:01:49 --> 01:01:51 I love that game. No, that game is about firing it.
01:01:51 --> 01:01:54 Up yesterday and today at one point.
01:01:54 --> 01:01:55 Hell yeah.
01:01:55 --> 01:02:01 On my honorable mention list, I have a couple roguelikes that are similar. I get It.
01:02:01 --> 01:02:01 Yeah.
01:02:01 --> 01:02:07 I love Binding of Isaac. I love that Gungeon and Binding of Isaac. Those two are definitely comfort games.
01:02:07 --> 01:02:09 I love, I love, I know Isaac.
01:02:09 --> 01:02:16 Well enough to where I can just pick it up and play it. Yeah, I don't know it well enough to where I'm not going to run into something new.
01:02:16 --> 01:02:17 Right.
01:02:17 --> 01:02:17 Right.
01:02:17 --> 01:02:20 And plus I love crying on poop.
01:02:20 --> 01:02:23 Who doesn't love crying on poop? Yeah, I love it.
01:02:24 --> 01:02:25 That art style.
01:02:25 --> 01:02:27 Piss eyes. Who loves that?
01:02:28 --> 01:02:51 Me. I hate this blood and shit everywhere. Sorry. I hate it because like the gameplay itself is awesome. Like, like Mullen makes fantastic fun games from Meat Boy. Eugenics just came out and people are raving about Mugenics. But I won't buy it because I can't stand the art style. It grosses me out. I don't.
01:02:52 --> 01:02:54 You don't like Mom's Bigfoot?
01:02:54 --> 01:03:01 Yeah, you know like mom's big. Why is this have a cleft chin and a weepy eye and why is it on me? Like I just, I just can't.
01:03:01 --> 01:03:05 Well, you just gotta go get a couple upgrades and it takes care of that.
01:03:05 --> 01:03:09 Yeah. You can bypass the farting monsters if you just deal with it.
01:03:09 --> 01:03:12 Then you can have flies floating around your head.
01:03:12 --> 01:03:32 Such a gross game. But it, but I. The gameplay wise, it's awesome. It is one of the best roguelikes. Right. Like it's is probably the game that kind of like in set the standard for Rog likes I think for indie games for the longest time because I get so much in there. There's so much in Isaac like from hidden characters and secrets. Like it's a massive amount of stuff in that game.
01:03:33 --> 01:03:37 Yeah, it is definitely the Rog Light gold standard at this point.
01:03:37 --> 01:04:04 Yeah, sure. That said, I, I, I have, I have Roguelite. Roguelites. Roguelite, whatever that I prefer to Binding of Isaac but I totally can get on board with Binding of Isaac. Even though some of those, you know, those rooms you're, you're stressing and click, you know, button mashing. But, but you know, it's like hey, I've got, I've got 10 minutes to an hour for a run. Let's just sit down and go, you know.
01:04:05 --> 01:04:33 Right. Yeah. I, I, I will find myself for a long time. When I first got my Steam deck, I would just sit down and do a few runs of Isaac and and then I'd fall asleep. It's, it just completely like it chills me out. It's so weird that it does that, but it does because it's simple. It's just you use the direction pads to shoot. You move around, you get some cool stuff, you see how far you could get, and then you either die or you beat it. And then you move on and then you unlock another character or.
01:04:33 --> 01:04:48 And when you hit. When you hit the perfect run, like you get the perfect upgrades and all of a sudden you're 10 minute runs. An hour later, you're still going. It's like still awake. Yeah. You just get that, that. It feels great to have that kind of run.
01:04:48 --> 01:04:49 Yeah.
01:04:49 --> 01:04:50 That's cool.
01:04:50 --> 01:05:01 It's one of those games though, that I'm. I'm not allowed to play when we're just like watching tv and it's a show that I'm kind of checked out on like Love is Blind because it's. Click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click click.
01:05:03 --> 01:05:04 Button mash.
01:05:04 --> 01:05:15 Yep, yep. I've been called out for playing that and. And Spider man on. On my Steam deck when people are trying to sleep around me because it's very loud. Click, click, click, click, click, click, click.
01:05:15 --> 01:05:16 Yeah.
01:05:17 --> 01:05:19 Charge swinging from the rafters.
01:05:19 --> 01:05:19 Yeah.
01:05:20 --> 01:05:20 Spider Man.
01:05:21 --> 01:05:34 I've had. I was like, I'll put my earbuds on so you don't have to listen to me play Isaac. And all you hear is. She's like, that's not helping. I'm like, can you hear it? I'm sorry if it's so loud.
01:05:34 --> 01:05:37 She's like, are you eating pistachios in bed?
01:05:37 --> 01:05:37 Yeah.
01:05:38 --> 01:05:46 You chewing on wood? Click, click, click, click, click, click, click. It's a great game. I love biting of Isaac. I absolutely adore the game.
01:05:47 --> 01:05:51 Binding of Isaac's great. It's a good pick.
01:05:51 --> 01:05:53 Jake just doesn't like good games. It's fine.
01:05:54 --> 01:06:01 You know, what can I say? I just don't like good games. We don't have in Canada, you know, only allowed one a year.
01:06:01 --> 01:06:03 They. They got Circus Charlie.
01:06:04 --> 01:06:05 Just like you're only allowed one outlet.
01:06:06 --> 01:06:11 They got Circus Charlie in 1984 and it's. And they've never gotten a game since Downhill.
01:06:11 --> 01:06:11 Ever since.
01:06:13 --> 01:06:21 Charlie. That was a Jeff Japan. Only released actually, as they found it recently. I played it on a bootleg cart. But anyway.
01:06:22 --> 01:06:22 Nice.
01:06:22 --> 01:06:24 Yeah. That's not a cozy game.
01:06:26 --> 01:06:26 Nice.
01:06:26 --> 01:06:26 All right.
01:06:27 --> 01:06:27 All righty.
01:06:28 --> 01:06:28 Perfect.
01:06:28 --> 01:06:33 Well, does anybody have any honorable mentions that they would like to mention?
01:06:33 --> 01:06:36 Yeah, I. I don't. I don't want to run through.
01:06:36 --> 01:06:37 I've got one also.
01:06:37 --> 01:06:55 I'm just gonna. I'm just gonna throw down here, so. Ember Knights. Speaking of Roguelite tmnt. Splintered Fate. Another Roguelite. Slay the Spire. I love Slay the spire. Sorry.
01:06:56 --> 01:06:57 One of my arms.
01:06:58 --> 01:07:02 Vampire Survivors. Truck Simulator X. Whichever one.
01:07:02 --> 01:07:29 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Balatro has been still in constant repeat. You know, when I can't. When I literally can't think of anything to play, I just fire up Belacho, do a couple rounds of that. Love the hell out of it. Gungeon. Gungeon. Another one. That's a roguelite. That's. That's like. That's like, you know, binding him Isaac style. You just find cooler guns as you progress through and further and further. I've still never beaten it. I challenge myself to one of these days finish that goddamn game because it is very difficult, but it's.
01:07:29 --> 01:07:31 But you beat the Amaconda.
01:07:31 --> 01:07:53 I did beat the Amaconda. That son of a. I did. That was a very early clip. I'm trying to think if there was any more that I. But I can't think of off the top of my head. The link to the past. Big time. Not linked to the past. Sorry. Yes. Link to the past. Link to the past. Pretty big comfort game for me. And. And like Super Metroid Chippendales, Rescue Rangers, the originals.
01:07:55 --> 01:07:55 That's.
01:07:55 --> 01:07:56 Those are.
01:07:56 --> 01:08:22 For me. It's the Mario games. The classic Mario games. Like, I like my. What I've been doing the last month or so is Mario too. A shuffler of all the Mario games. So it flips between Mario 1, 2, 3, 64, all them. And let me do that with every two minutes. Yeah. But it's just. I love all those games and flipping between the games. And it's the same. Like the platforming in Mario is second to none. And I love playing it. And it's a game where I can just chill it and play with it. Even if I don't. I don't get very far in a Mario game. It's just fun to play.
01:08:23 --> 01:08:28 I'll agree with you up through. Up through World four, but I mean.
01:08:28 --> 01:08:31 Like, you know, second time you be the same.
01:08:32 --> 01:08:34 Three gets stressful as hell, is the problem.
01:08:34 --> 01:08:35 Yeah, it does.
01:08:35 --> 01:08:35 Yeah.
01:08:36 --> 01:08:39 The Auto Scrollers can go to hell. Those levels suck.
01:08:39 --> 01:08:40 Well, they just slow you down.
01:08:40 --> 01:08:44 There's nothing relaxing about the Auto. Scoreless. Just. Just fly. Just get the P wing and you're fine.
01:08:45 --> 01:08:45 Yeah.
01:08:49 --> 01:08:54 Is a comfort game for Mega Man X. Huge. Mega Man 2. That one's good too.
01:08:55 --> 01:08:58 Act Razor. ActRaiser is one of mine.
01:08:59 --> 01:08:59 It's a good one.
01:08:59 --> 01:09:00 Yeah.
01:09:01 --> 01:09:02 Good stuff, guys.
01:09:03 --> 01:09:15 Similar to. I guess not similar to Actraiser but kind of, I guess the. The dungeon games. The Barstow. Yeah. No, the one where you're. Where you're the boss controlling the dungeons.
01:09:16 --> 01:09:17 Dungeon Keeper. I think it's.
01:09:17 --> 01:09:18 Yeah. Dungeon Keeper.
01:09:18 --> 01:09:19 Dungeon Keeper.
01:09:19 --> 01:09:25 Yeah. Dungeon keepers. Totally. Comfort game. Yeah. Especially when it's been a while since.
01:09:25 --> 01:09:27 I played one of those. But yeah.
01:09:27 --> 01:09:32 Yeah. And slapping around. I mean, there's nothing like slapping around the peons.
01:09:35 --> 01:09:38 Black and white was kind of a comfort game for a while.
01:09:38 --> 01:09:38 Was great.
01:09:39 --> 01:09:40 Oh, the God games, right?
01:09:40 --> 01:09:43 All those throwing the peasants around trying to get.
01:09:43 --> 01:09:45 I loved that game, but it's not.
01:09:45 --> 01:09:55 Eat things. Yeah. I mean, I can see you're like, why does everybody. Probably because I've been setting people's houses on fire. My bad. I'm just gone. Leave me alone.
01:09:56 --> 01:09:56 It is.
01:09:56 --> 01:10:18 It's impossible for me to play that game and not accidentally reward the wrong behavior. And then my pet just leans into it, like, that's all he wants to do now. He peed on somebody's house. I didn't see that when he peed on him, but he did something else I liked, so I rewarded him and he's like, oh, yeah, we're gonna pee on everybody's house. Like, that's not what I wanted you to do.
01:10:20 --> 01:10:21 Black and white.
01:10:21 --> 01:10:22 God, about that.
01:10:23 --> 01:10:29 That game needs a sequel or at least a remaster. I love black.
01:10:29 --> 01:10:36 Well, it did get a black and white too, but I would love to see that franchise get revisited. It's just for sure, the rights issues are a nightmare.
01:10:37 --> 01:10:42 Yeah. I just thought of one that I think most of us will agree on. SimCity.
01:10:43 --> 01:10:43 Oh, yeah.
01:10:44 --> 01:10:46 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:10:46 --> 01:10:48 Back to logistics. I do like my logistics.
01:10:48 --> 01:10:49 He loves his logistics.
01:10:49 --> 01:10:50 Yeah.
01:10:50 --> 01:10:55 Logistics simulator. How do we get this trucking company running? Jake, let's go.
01:10:55 --> 01:10:56 Yeah.
01:10:56 --> 01:11:11 I got a city full of garbage and I got to have an island to dump it on. I love Sim City. Soot. Twisted. You make the rich area of everybody's happy up here and you make the peasantville down here in an island. You ship all your pollution and garbage down there. It's sick and twisted, but it's a fun game.
01:11:13 --> 01:11:15 The hierarchy of Jake's town.
01:11:15 --> 01:11:16 Yeah.
01:11:16 --> 01:11:18 I don't make a class system in my society.
01:11:18 --> 01:11:21 In Sim City, you're the garbage.
01:11:21 --> 01:11:22 Live.
01:11:22 --> 01:11:23 Fuck it.
01:11:24 --> 01:11:24 Fight.
01:11:25 --> 01:11:27 Fight amongst yourself. Garbage eaters.
01:11:27 --> 01:11:32 You guys want jobs? We got jobs for you. Power wash my driveway.
01:11:32 --> 01:11:35 Two Sims enter, one sim leaves you.
01:11:36 --> 01:11:36 That's how I do it.
01:11:36 --> 01:11:39 Give me the Wall Street Journal. You too. Fight to the death.
01:11:43 --> 01:11:45 I think we have issues. We have problems. We do.
01:11:45 --> 01:11:46 I think we do.
01:11:48 --> 01:11:51 Maybe you should call us outlet Games. Games. You take out your ear.
01:11:51 --> 01:11:58 That's actually probably more accurate than comfort venting my rage somewhere else.
01:11:58 --> 01:11:58 Yeah.
01:12:03 --> 01:12:03 Beautiful.
01:12:03 --> 01:12:04 Excellent.
01:12:04 --> 01:12:06 Oh, one more. Super dodgeball.
01:12:06 --> 01:12:08 Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah.
01:12:08 --> 01:12:17 Is that relaxing for the nes? Yeah, dude, I just. Okay, I'll whip that up in hard mode and beat it in a half hour. Like, that's one of my favorites.
01:12:17 --> 01:12:19 Just like Jake playing Marble Madness.
01:12:20 --> 01:12:22 Yeah, it's my Marble Madness.
01:12:23 --> 01:12:29 You know, you could beat that game in like five minutes. It's. It's easy peasy. Just, you know, I'll get around to it someday when I have some time.
01:12:29 --> 01:12:30 Official speed run.
01:12:32 --> 01:12:35 Jake has five minutes. He'll get around five minutes.
01:12:35 --> 01:12:37 You know, it's so hard to pull myself away from Circus Charlie Mario to.
01:12:37 --> 01:12:41 I could beat any of these games. Five minutes if I just had the time.
01:12:41 --> 01:12:47 I mean, to be honest with you, if we're going to talk the sports games on the. On the nest. Mario Golf.
01:12:47 --> 01:12:48 Hey, golf's good.
01:12:48 --> 01:12:49 Golf is great on that.
01:12:50 --> 01:13:11 Honestly, I was a. I like earlier Maddens until they all just became the same goddamn thing every. Every year with better graphics, you know, But I used to play the hell out of, like earlier Maddens. That was fun. And you just. I just turn it down to like rookie and just blow everybody out of the water. I just don't care. It was like 56. I'm winning Super Bowls. I'm going 16 0. No one's stopping me. This guy's unstoppable.
01:13:14 --> 01:13:14 Gotcha.
01:13:20 --> 01:13:50 Yeah, I think there's a lot of interesting games in there. Not all of us agree on all of them, but I think they were all good games regardless. Maybe not all comfort for everybody, but all good. That said, thank you guys for listening. This has been another episode of press B to cancel. We have some shout outs to give. We got a shout out. Oh, my goodness. Confusiast Jeff and Von Beardley for subscribing to our Patreon. Thank you so much. We appreciate it.
01:13:51 --> 01:13:53 Other Circus Charlie, if you're.
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01:14:21 --> 01:14:21 Yep.
01:14:21 --> 01:14:22 Did I miss anything?
01:14:23 --> 01:14:24 Don't think so.
01:14:24 --> 01:14:24 Sounds good.
01:14:24 --> 01:14:25 Pretty good.
01:14:25 --> 01:14:26 Wow. All righty.
01:14:26 --> 01:14:28 I know we're almost professional here.
01:14:29 --> 01:14:29 Yeah.
01:14:30 --> 01:14:34 Okey dokey. Well, thank you guys for listening. This has been another episode of Press Pita Cancel. Have a good one.
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