Sup everybody. This is Karen with a CG and
welcome to a random ramble where I'm just going to talk about
various elements of the industry.
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I'm going to cover a little bit about one particular element
that I want to talk about and then I'm going to answer a ton
of questions because I put up the thread less than shoot half
an hour ago and I've got a a bunch of questions for more than
I can probably answer. So but I want to talk about
something in particular. You know, a lot of people ask me
about VR and my thoughts on VR and I've been percolating this
thought in the background for quite a while.
But one of the things I want to say about VR, is it?
Really does remind me. Personally of the Of the Sega
Genesis Mega CD, the Sega CD which was a system that added a
CD-ROM player to your Sega Genesis.
And this was a time when we really didn't have anything.
Like this, we had everything was cartridge-based and this CD
comes along and it allows for True audio.
For example, it allows for digitalized Voice or sorry.
Compressed voice. Not digitalized voice, but true
voice recorded into an MP3, if you wanted it, allowed for
movies to be shown, what was really Interesting at that time,
was the games that were played. In fact, we just saw some some
new remasters or re-releases of these including Night Trap, but
you had Night Trap. You had sewer shark yet time gal
you had Road Avengers you had you know, Dragon's Lair.
One and two and three. I think there was at least three
of those Space Ace. Those are some great games when
I grew up, but they were really the interactive experiences that
I feel. We're seeing mimicked now in VR,
which I think is one of the reasons why it's not grabbing on
as heftily. And as heartily as I think it
should, in fact, the recent game that I'm looking at right now
and I'll probably have some video.
If I don't in this podcast, I apologize.
It will depend on if I can get some video and time but Voltron
so voltron's less than an hour. It's a game that came out a
couple days ago, the review embargo lifted.
Today, I'm going to cover it in this video and then I'm going to
also talk about it and international podcast, but it's
an interactive experiences. All it's really not in any way,
shape, or form using VR to the utmost now.
Now this is something I have no problem with.
If we were actually getting a good number of normal games as
well. If these for example, this is
actually something I could see released on Netflix where it's
like, hey, if you have a rift or a Vibe jump in here and play an
episode of Voltron, that's awesome.
That's, that's a side note. But instead somehow these have
sort of intrinsically centered in to the main place in which we
experience games. And a lot of them are being
released like this, these interactive experiences which
are just go here and do this. I still For the pr that I got
for a game called Everest and man, they were talking this
thing up there, like climb to the top of Mount Everest, you
can be able to do this. I'm going to be able to do that.
And really, to be honest, it was far closer to Google Maps and
walking around on their like they got one of their little
robot cars to drive to the top. It was actually quite
disappointing. It was stunningly.
Disappointing, to be honest. And it was one of those
situations where I store. I sort of started to draw
parallels between your Sega CD and win something like that.
Came about that didn't really have it.
It didn't, it didn't really change the Paradigm back there,
but what it did do is it allowed for a unique way in which you
could interact with games. It's just, it wasn't very
robust. We're here, we have, I believe
in VR a fairly robust system that isn't really getting and
hasn't really got what it means. You know, you have Eve, you have
or not Eve, but the one for the rift I can't remember the title
but it's based on that world and then you have Elite dangerous.
Of course, we're going to Star Citizen.
We have Star Trek, Star Trek. Is really to me, probably the
closest of the games that I feel that really uses VR.
I actually just had somebody come over a couple days ago and
we sat down and voice commands are working for that game that
you don't have to be exact, with the voice commands, which I've
course, thought, you'd have to be.
So you're able to basically sit back and be all, you know,
engage Target, Engage The Target, engage Target now, and
it knows it can sort of figure out what you're saying and do it
console and PC. There's a level of interaction
there, that's just one step past that Oddity of a Dragon's Lair
game, which is hit left, hit right, which really were in the
end, quick, time events. And that's it and I hope we see
more of those, but I'm very nervous that we won't, you know,
I get that it costs a lot of money, and I get that a Resident
Evil. We saw that we have seen some
big titles, but I'm really worried and really nervous that
a lot of people just won't take that extra step.
And I think with VR, you know, you have various different
games, you have racing games, and So forth but those are good.
Unfortunately the graphics capabilities of video cards
right now. Just can't push it to make it
look amazing. It'll look good but it won't
look amazing. Usually space game, Elite
dangerous doesn't look too bad at all in VR but I'm hoping we
see more things like Star Trek, which to me felt like such a
great extension and it was so fun and it was a communal game
and it did the one thing. And I said this in the review it
did. The one thing that I think we
don't see a lot of times in VR games, it added the social
element back. It made it look fun to watch.
Rec room is fun to play, but if you watch a video of it, you're
like, okay, you might not actually be super into it, but
instead, if you watch a video Star Trek, if you watch, go
watch, don't even watch mine. Go watch.
There's a lot of people who've done videos or watch mine
whichever but a lot of times you're going to see and hear
people just laughing and having a great time and it removes the
social stigma from VR and I think that the closer faster
quicker we can get to that. The better everything will be so
As somebody who's lived through, the Sega Genesis, Mega CD and
lived through those times where everything was a qte.
I really wish I could send an email to all developer and say
please stop. You know, please stop this
Voltron game. There's there's some bits to
like but at 45 minutes to an hour it's just like come on and
really all you're really doing is able to move within the
boundaries that they've set. You really do feel like you're
playing a movie and that you can never really do what you Want
there's not an individual power there which is strangely enough.
The exact, I would think personification that VR is going
for. It's the exact thing VR is
pushing his power, the ability to look around and be affected
and affect your game world and yet the more experienced games
we have the less you're able to do that and it doesn't stop him
from being good. It doesn't stop them from being
enjoyable, only an idiot would pretend like.
That means that they're instantly bad but it certainly
only is disappointing to not see them sandwiched between more
detailed games that really take advantage of VR.
So I just wanted to say that people have asked me about VR
quite often. I've talked about it when I can,
but it's one of those situations where sometimes you just don't
have a chance to identify what you really think of something
until you sit back. And this was one of those times
where it just sort of clicked of how much it felt like the old
times, you know, of turn in that Sega CD on and playing.
Let's see. Time gal was great.
Eight, Dragon's Lair, was great. These are, these are some of
those games that are, like, cartoons that you play around
with, but they, they really didn't do much else.
Other than, you know, add sound and music and voice and true.
True I guess analog sound music and voice and that was sad.
So, hopefully we'll get more. Let's go with questions.
Do geo says, do you find gaming is more in an Innovative now or
less? Do you have a pet peeve that
developers doing games drives you crazy?
More in a bit. No I don't I mean I don't
necessarily find that it is but what I do think happens is that
the ease of development has allowed for some people who
couldn't have had a unique idea, 8, they're able to do it,
whether it be a pub G, whether it be a Minecraft back in the
day, they're able to sort of test things out easier.
And so I think that it's not necessarily like everybody has
suddenly found a Wellspring of Ingenuity like a Mana pool in a
video game. But instead it's more along, the
lines of the ability is there to tap into it, a tiny bit easier
as long as that person takes the time to do so, and takes the
time to show people why it's Unique.
We've seen a lot of times where I think somebody has a unique
idea, but once they once it gets into the game, it's hard to
find. What their idea was though that
does happen as well, but I don't think it's, I don't think we're
seeing more Innovation. I think what we are seeing is
the easier Wellspring the ability to tap into tools.
And so forth and really use them.
And it's something you guys have heard from developers who've
been on the channel that, you know, that whether it be, you
know, my own dislike for Unity for the most part when it comes
to its engine the engine. But the ability to grab an
engine and sort of try things out as great and I think that
that's what we're really seeing. Next question is Box man says,
what's one stupid thing? You did as a young kid, haha one
I used to make I used to make razor blade ninja stars rate box
cutters if you take the razor blades out there flat-backed and
you can put them back and back you put a little Super Glue on
them and use black tape. Well usually black tape was
better than any other tape. Duct tape would work as well,
and you tape it to support it and you have yourself an amazing
ninja star and We're talking about you could buy a ninja star
because it man when I was a kid you know 19 1990s 1980s.
You would have the kind of situation where somebody was
like watching American Ninja on TV, right?
Where that that was the belief that was true.
Those this kind of things really did happen, but you'd go and you
buy something from Bud K or the back of somebody's Warehouse
truck because those I don't know if they even exist anymore.
But there were these trucks that a company ran that would just go
to a town square and park for a day and out.
The back they'd sell ninja swords and ninja stars and just
crazy stuff fireworks. So I used to make these and I
tell you that was that was one of the dumbest things because we
there were times where we played the, let's see who can throw a
closest to somebody else's face game and nobody died and nobody
has a disfiguring injury, which is crazy to me that that it ever
happened. That's one and that's it.
Probably the most legal. One Goldberg says, did you play
the survival mode for Far Cry Primal know?
No. But I've actually got well I'm a
little bit but I've actually got it set up.
We're I don't want to talk about it because it's a little bit of
a, it might have to do with a video in the future, but I do
have some plans for that. As you guys know, I'm actually
one of the few people that sort of enjoyed my time with Primal,
and I'd like to go back to it and the survival mode from
everybody. I've talked to you, they're just
really loving it. Let's see.
Penghu says, do you think dinosaurs make a game,
objectively better? Yes, but it does this apply to
any game? Most likely the thing about
dinosaurs, this is actually discussion that came up a couple
weeks ago because in the past you it would be various things
would be dinosaurs and be ninjas would be, you know, whatever.
And I think one of the things is that you get that idea in your
head of like UFC, you know, Chuck.
Liddell fighting fucking Jon Bones Jones and suddenly trying
to Source Rex's in there kicking people.
Or swinging at their tail at people are biting them and it
just becomes funny becomes jokey.
I actually, I actually would love to see companies mess
around like that with a special character, but that's just me in
real life though, doesn't make them better.
Nope, let's see. Nickelback fan says, what do you
look forward to when reviewing a game?
Um, I just look forward to having that new experience, the
experience of games is very cool, and there's a lot of
cynicism and you can still be very critical and not be just
overwrought with an almost devastating amount of cynicism
that we see. There's you guys have heard me
on the podcast. There's things that really tweak
me. But overall the idea of taking
in a game experience and seeing how that entertainment rolls out
as far more interesting to me than almost any part.
Part of this entire industry. It's sort of seen what people
put together that they put it together, well or poorly and and
what that end product is. So for me, it's just the
experience, the new, what's new, what am I going to see?
Even if it's a sequel to something, what am I going to
see that? They tried to change up because
there are people who are spirited.
There are people who are driven, there are people who are
absolutely on fire, for whatever game that you have in your hand.
And everybody can be cynical and pretend Sucks and pretend they
know everything. Whatever, you know, that's
that's tough children. Do what really should?
I mean at least to me what really should happen is looking
at the product and identifying it as the sum of its parts, you
know how does it all play together because the sum of its
parts. When you look at anything almost
everything I own, there's one or two elements of it.
I don't love whether it be a vehicle, a home, a computer.
I don't love every element of it but it's combined strength and
the way it combines together flushes.
Is that over a little bit and sort of Sands it down you have
this really good experience and to me that's what's great about
games is sort of finding those. Let's see Turtleman says in
let's say RPGs how many side quests are optional content, do
you do for a review? Oh, so as much as I can, when I
play an RPG, I like to play it, very organically.
So I will not, unless I'm playing a character in my mind,
which happens where I'll be like this characters, you know, moral
I like the way the story's going, they Would help this
person. Then I will go help that person.
If it's gather ten flowers, unless my character likes to
gather flowers, then I may not do that kind of quest.
But if it's a quest that seems to me to be connected with sort
of a connective tissue underneath between the story,
The Character, the game world, I will most likely do that.
You know, I've talked about this in behind the scenes for the
reviews. I'll talk about it later.
You don't get rushed that often for reviews as much as I think.
People would have you believe, and I don't even mean people on
purpose. I just mean sometimes even my
own complaints. You don't get rushed as much as
it seems and so you do have time to do those things and you do
have time to experience them. And I think that that's probably
best, but I also do know some people don't like to do side
quests and for example, there's some games I'll give you a good
example of a game that sidequest sort of bother me a little bit.
It's a game. Like Mass Effect where a world
ending alien race is coming and your side quest is to basically
Lee shine up someone else's poop deck, all the time, you're
consistently wanting to fuck everything.
And to me, I find that quite odd because here's a character who's
like gung ho militant. He's all we got to save the
world or if you decide to play female, chef femshep is people
call it. Then the then the same way.
I in that type of game. I'm actually usually very
militant in what I do and everything sort of driven
towards that end goal. If it's a little bit more
Meandering, then my quest work will be the same.
Let's see, Tyler says what's your favorite terrible movie?
Easy easy Hawk. The Slayer this it might yeah
doc the Slayers bats got Jack Palance.
It's got a guy from. ER he was a he was a
psychiatrist and he are for like two or three episodes and he's
the main hero and when you see him he's got to only be 18 looks
about 45 and it's the some of the worst special effects ever,
for example, and I've explained this on a podcast before.
For example, it's a ripoff, a Lord of the Rings but it's prior
to the movies. Lord of the Rings.
And there's an elf that is supposed to be able to shoot
really fast with his bow and arrow, but I didn't have special
effects like they do now. So, no, like they cut the same
frame, so he basically goes like and then they repeat.
It's over. Like, and it's just the same
Arrow. You can even see like the hair
go over and over. It's awesome.
It's just so great and terrible at the same time, but Hawk the
Slayer, if you want a crappy movie, that's a good one to
watch. Mark, says, how do you get
motivated currently in a very unmotivated?
A spot in life and could use some advice.
Yeah, my advice to you. There's there's various
different. There's various different ways
that I think people can get motivated and they're many for
many people, their different. I many times will think along a
certain route and then have to have or seek out sort of data
that correlates with what my thought process is and that sort
of motivates me. So I'll be like oh you know this
and this and this I don't really want to do this but maybe this
part I'll be good. And then I try to find data that
sort of It's with that and pushes me over and goes.
Okay, you know what, this will be, this will be fun or this
will be good or this will be better for my business or this
will be better for my family. This is what I'm going to do
when it comes to how others can get motivated.
Everybody's different, but I really do believe in the power
of people and the power of actions and doing and so you'll
hear me repeat things that even motivational speakers will talk
about Tony Rock. Yeah.
Tony Robbins personal power. He talks about it all the time.
He's so, you know, those type of people, they all sort of They
all sort of retread the same ground, which is, you know,
asking active questions not necessarily why does this happen
to me? But what can I do about it?
And and it's funny because you think that's a stupid change of
wording and it is but the human brain that's how the human brain
works. Really, when you think about it,
if you believe in evolution there, the fact is that humans
brains are there to keep them from dying and, you know, to
keep them safe and we're problem-solving machines.
And if you On a problem that isn't there, you can create a
problem because your brains like, okay obviously there's
something happening. So I'm going to create fixes to
something that doesn't really exist and a lot of times I don't
happen in. When you demotivate, it'll
happen where you start worrying about other things.
I think it's best to sort of sit back and and also I'm a big
goal. I'm a big goal person.
Like, I'm huge in two goals, whether be short term, long
Court term goals? I always have a goal.
I wake up every single morning. I'm like boom, this is my goal
is what I'll do and trust me, there are times.
When I go online and I find a video demonetized to tell you, I
cannot describe to you the wind out of your sails.
It in fact nothing bothers me like that, that I can think of
off the top of my head and it's like a lot of people who are
YouTubers, you know, mr. Maddie, he's on, he does YouTube
with me alone. GB skilled.
All of these guys, that have that and Dreamcast guy, all
these guys that have done different videos.
We all talk about, what bothers us, what motivates us?
You would be Price. How many times the motivation
without understanding? What the problem is is the worst
other people. You know, if commentator or if a
poster doesn't like me, who gives a shit does?
I mean, it could be the entire world.
Doesn't I'd be like, whatever. But when you do something and
you can't figure out why, you can't even say YouTube's an ass,
they just turn something off that you did and you can't
figure out why that's, that's really difficult for me even.
And so I motivate myself with Goals and those goals get
ramrodded, just like yours. They get destroyed, just like
yours. And my personal belief is that.
Well, I mean, it's funny enough. It's actually something you here
in physical martial arts a lot and physical sport, sorry.
But it's something that even one of the last Rocky movie.
I think when he said, you know, it's about how much you can move
forward despite any, any problems that come up and he was
talking, of course, in boxing terms.
I think he said how much you can get hit and keep moving forward,
but that really is what it's about.
And my personal belief is not only that I get stoked by
working with others. And so when I work with other
YouTubers it's to me one of the best things ever what you have
your days, right? But you need to be motivated,
you need to work on it and and and you need to find something
that Stokes you. And usually what you need to do
is find something that really just gets you a firing, get you
excited and then try to recreate that, try to figure out what it
is, try to distill that down. Sorry, that took so long.
But I sort of want to explain myself because I don't really
feel like a self-help Guru. So I want to make sure I explain
myself as well as possible. Johnny most says do twitch.
Yeah, sometimes depends if I'm really tired note, which, you
know, I do or did it's one of those problems where I'm more
into the game than I am into like having a thousand people
want me to say something funny and I don't really like a lot of
the nda's and stuff that go on on Twitch.
I Like some of the weird cliquish shit that goes on
there, so but I will probably do more, to be honest.
I will stream on both twitch and YouTube and and see how that
goes. So you will see me there more,
but I think you also see me, I'll probably make a move to
maybe mixer or something like that.
I have some things in the fire that I don't want to talk about.
That are pretty freaking cool. So stay tuned, I guess.
Let's see. Nate Skinner.
Will you be reviewing more Sports titles?
Will 2. Ever, get the NFL license back.
How in the heck is hob? Not on switch.
I'll answer those in Reverse. How is hob not on switch?
I don't know. Bad idea if it's not I and I
thought, hob was, did I just not mention it?
I thought. Yeah.
Anyway if it's not it's a bad idea will 2K ever get the NFL
license back. I think 2K Man, I can't remember
how the licensing's work, but if you're talking about 2k NFL,
like will it ever get the NFL license back?
I don't know exactly what you mean there.
I thought they have the license. Maybe I'm, maybe I'm completely
spaced there. Will you be reviewing more
Sports titles? Yeah, so with Sports UFC to I
reviewed. UFC 1.
I reviewed, I'll definitely review sports.
What happens is? Those companies have a tradition
of a particular YouTuber that they go for And I think that
they nail those YouTubers and, and do what they can to make
sure that those YouTubers get the, get the videos out on time
and get their their code on time and they don't really worry
about anybody else. So it's a little harder to do
sports but if there's any sports that I can do, I will for sure
cover them. I'll cover pretty much anything.
That's very few games that I don't really want to try out
even if they're terrible though. Dale W.
What's up at Kramer? Guitars?
Do you practice karate in your garage after building bunk beds
inside joke? Yes, I do.
Bad bit game says, how do you deal with a gaming burn out?
How do you review something when you're in a gaming rut?
So, I meant. Okay, this is weird.
I just don't get it. I don't get burn out.
One of the reasons I would say, why is, because my prior
employment before this was was freakishly stressful.
And whether that has prepared me for this or whatever, I just
don't get burned out because to me it's so great to me, it's
we're getting, you know Fridays, we get to do podcast, talk about
games going to be great Tuesday. We're going to do a VR game.
Okay, that's great. Thursday.
I'm going to do you know by myself.
Solo RPG all the way until Sunday.
Okay, that's great. It's difficult for me to sort of
even understand. Sometimes the cynicism that,
that sort of pervades, what the thought process is for somebody
like myself, it's very difficult.
I think, over time it can probably grind on you, but for
me right now, it doesn't only not grind on me.
It just makes me even more excited.
So, to me, I'm just like, okay, you know, people always ask me
like, how did how do you review so many games?
And as I've said before, it's not Not that many games.
But what the real also answer is, is that I'm pretty excited
about game. So, somebody says on a Saturday,
you want to review this game, it's due on Monday and it's a,
you know, six our game or eight, our gamma.
Yeah, whatever. You know I mean what else would
I what else really would I be doing?
I would be building something or I would be, you know, doing you
know, teaching would be boxing. I would be doing those things.
I can still do those things. So to me, it's it's one of the
most perfect. Hobbies a person could have and
luckily people like watching the video.
And so therefore, it can actually be one that works out
for both parties and it's not just one giving and one taking
it actually works. Go Burns.
What's your favorite time of year?
A winner fall is pretty awesome. I'm a big rain and wind fan the
the cooler, you know, 65 degrees windy.
That's me big fan of that. Always have been fall Halloween
that kind of shit. Absolutely.
My favorite time of year corn, mazes, that kind of stuff.
Love it. Christmas love it right after
Christmas. I'm Like damn it.
What is this glowing? Orb in the sky, not a big fan.
So yeah, fall and winter. For sure Brandon says, is it
true? You're reviewing coat or it's
true? That it may be on the classic
list. Yes and if so will Coach or true
get a review as well? If I do one game at means
nothing compared to the next. I mean I could but I might not
as well. Thomas says what's the game you
really enjoyed despite it having some serious flaws.
We've answered that one before. So I don't want to answer it
again and my answer would be The same.
So yeah, often move on. Let's see.
Ethan T says you mentioned that in some of your a some of your
discussions at the AC Origins, preview stuff.
Looks a little rough. What are your thoughts, afar on
the upcoming Assassin's Creed game?
Yes. So the Assassin's Creed game.
I've talked about this before if you don't understand what he's
referencing in that question is the fact that especially with
the animation there is some certain melding of animations
that are going on. That looks a little rough to me
some Collision detection that looks rough.
Of course Collision detection would be something as simple as
A spear against a shield, if it's supposed to bounce off, I
don't want to see it. Go six inches into the shield
and then bounce off, and there are ways around that depending
on how you handle your animation and your Collision detection,
and how you program. So, for me, right now, there's
various elements that look really goofy and you guys know,
I'm not a hater of any game with a long series of titles.
It's just not me. I'm not into that.
I don't have, I don't have time for fake hate.
I have time for real hate, real stuff.
Pisses me off this fake shit, doesn't it means?
Nothing to me. So the fact that we're getting
another, Assassin's Creed that doesn't bother me, but the fact
that like the boat looks like it's fucking out of Miami Vice.
It's going so fast and there's no wind anywhere, but the wind
in the sails of that kind of stuff.
It sounds stupid, but that kind of stuff bothers me when I'm
looking at it going, well, that's sort of weird.
What is that one or two issues never impact overall?
Okay, that that would be idiotic it.
I don't do it that way. I won't be like one issue.
This is terrible. But if those issues Has crop up
together what they do is they push you?
And I've talked about this before they push you out of the
fiction. They push you out of the
experience, and they certainly remove you from the immersion
and if that happens and it impacts your enjoyment, then of
course, that would impact the game score.
And I am worried about that with Assassin's Creed, but I'm
certainly keeping an open mind. I always will Gabriel, says, why
are you called Ingress enter gaming?
You reviews are level-headed concise, balanced, and objective
without any hot-headed outburst. And even when you're swearing,
there's a joke. Well, I'm not anymore, May CGI.
To be that was a role-playing joke or an old like nickname
that I got from Claudio. Hope I wonder if he's watching,
I bet she's not but she doesn't even know that I do this.
South American kid one of the nicest guys in the world.
And so nice, man, he was one of the nicest people you'd ever
meet. I've always believed that
there's something not a spiritual person, really?
But I've always believed that, there's sometimes you'll meet
somebody. And you be like, man, was that
person there? Just for this time because if
they weren't some shit. I'd have gone really poorly and
he was just one of the greatest guys cat.
He was a roommate of mine, but he was dirty.
And I don't mean dirty. I mean this dude leveled up is
dirty score until he was like Master Level dirty and lovey
Claudio if you're watching. So I love this kid man.
I love him and his room it would I would open the door and it was
right out of a comic book or a jokey movie where you close
actually sort of shifted and moved.
And these clothes would be piled.
I mean, just high and crunch together and they look like
somebody had just ring them like, wet them like a towel and
then wring them out and left him, just wrinkles upon
wrinkles, I swear to shit. Somebody probably could have
developed a brand new stealth technology just by looking at
his Levi's. Because there were so many
different fucking angles on there.
And one day I walked into his room and he had Kool-Aid, he
played video games at his computer and he had Kool-Aid and
it had been there so long that the sugary, Sugary Kool-Aid, had
a film on it that almost 100% sure would have tested positive
for various molds. And he knew I role played hero
played with us sometimes and I was in there and I was just, I
was, I was raging. I was like, dude, this is just
impossible. You can't be like us, I was
kicking his clothes around, not in a bad way, you know, more in
a jokey way and he called me that he was like you're like
that horse man because he didn't know how to say.
Centaur here like an angry horse man roommate and I was like an
angry sent our roommate and that sort of became the Look and then
it became a rock band name that we used in Rock Band when we
played it. Sometimes.
We had some dirty names as well, but you know, they seem to
figure that out quite quickly. I noticed that I used to be able
to name characters or name bands, pretty pretty dirty, and
then all of a sudden I was like, trying to name them and it
wouldn't work. So that was the, that was the
fall back and dis this channel was created just randomly
because there was no plan to do it as a career.
So I was just like, boom, you know, this is the way it goes
and then And over time, it just sort of blossomed from there.
So that's that's the Genesis of that named Gareth Evans says,
what game you most looking forward to reviewing playing?
That's still to be released this year.
I usually don't work, like, that just being honest because all
games big or small. It's one of the reasons why, a
lot of people will be like, why did you review hob versus this?
Why did you review this versus this?
And it's because games is a whole interests.
Me, I've said this multiple times I'm fired up by him.
I absolutely love to look at them.
Even shitty ones and there have been some shitty ones.
I mean even like NBA 2K. Where I'm just like this game is
not even good if you removed the microtransactions, there are a
stunning Bro, problems, but I like to engage with them, I like
to see what people's time have created and what they're trying
to sell and I like to do that. And so that that's, I would say,
I would say that it's just the experience and there isn't
really a particular game that I'm really interested in playing
this year. I want Star Citizen and I really
chewed. I don't have any worry that Star
Citizen is coming out. I think it's delayed and not
coming out like we all wanted but I've enjoyed Enjoyed my time
with Star Citizen as well. And I want that to come out
because I've always been a fan of freelancer.
Starlancer free space. There's the one other one.
I can't remember his name but there was a lot of really good
games like that. I've always been a fan of that
but overall, I would say nothing really in particular Let's see.
Jeremy Marquee says, two truths and a lie.
Let's guess which one is which I've met?
So Wester Stallone, in one year, I grew six inches and I cut a
bike in half with my head. Enjoy.
Those will be. Those will be enjoyable to see
who can guess. Which one's those.
Whoa. Okay.
So we got some more here and I will answer these last ones and
then we'll be done with this video.
Let's see. Troy says, we be doing any more
streaming events similar to No Man's Sky 24-hour Marathon?
Yes, I will. That's all I want to say about
that, but I absolutely will it something that it just takes a
while to get these together? I think people forget that to
me, patrons important. So the shirts and the physical
rewards and the Cost there is extraordinary if you don't take
care of it early in the month you know you don't want to ship
somebody. Something in an emergency
because it's going to cost four times the amount to ship that
kind of stuff. So I'm always working on Patron,
rewards, the physical rewards, put them together, put together
the Carrick crate. I somebody sent me a picture of
their carrot cake yesterday. They're like, what the fuck?
Those are awesome. Those are so fun to put together
but to take me a long time. But then you have reviews and
the reviews will always take precedent, they'll always be
super important. But I do want to Do more
streaming events, you will see them happen.
Let's see. Ryu Mendez says vampire, the
Masquerade bloodlines. This is a game that's been
reviewed a lot on YouTube and more.
The game somewhat popular in is exactly new but it's never been
reviewed in your style. Would you consider reviewing it
State? The reasons why, or why not?
No, I wouldn't I'm not, I'm more of a consumer-based reviewer.
What I mean is, I review in the way and I feel like this is what
I got out of the money so by wait for sale rent.
Her touch. It's I get that people like the
videos, but they're not for the entertainment Factor, even
though people are entertained by him to me, they are for getting
information about my experience out there.
It's one of the reasons why whenever anybody gets mad about
one of my reviews, I'm just like, okay, whatever it makes no
sense. You can get as mad as you want,
but it's just one person saying exactly what they experienced in
a game and then moving on putting your head down and doing
another review like so to me, that's that's why those things
are done. I Really go back and Andre
review something the classic reviews that for Patron.
I'm definitely putting together and it's super important to me
to do, you know, one or two of those and a month.
It just really depends on what I can get done in a month but no I
probably wouldn't re-review Bloodlines.
I mean I'm just not it's not really about that.
It's because there are so many games that I would love to
re-review. But in the end, I'm really more
interested in reviewing something that's coming out and
having A consumer be able to say I may not always agree with
Carrick, okay, whatever. But he's telling me what he
experienced and so I can at least look at it go.
Okay, what did he experience? That's a that's an experience
base you can I don't wouldn't even have to put a score on it.
If I don't want to at least that information is out there that to
me is more important. Let's see, a Lucia says, what
board games have you played recently?
What did you think of them? Last one was Last one was
Talisman, right? Yeah, Talisman.
And I love it.
I've always liked Talisman. So, to me, it's enjoyable game.
It's sort of a fallback game, actually, no, I scratch that we
ended up playing tabletop simulator with the patrons eyes.
I'm sorry. I can't believe I forgot that we
had a good number of patrons. I did about six games, each one
with four or five patrons where we did DC collectible card game
is what it's called. And I really liked it and I
never thought I would even when it was bought For me, as a gift.
I looked at it like this, probably not for me and it's
turned out to be absolutely one of my favorite games, very
enjoyable to get into, but the strategies you can put together
our all-encompassing or fairly simple and both can work.
And that's what I love and it's rare in a game.
I would say, let's see. Sophia says, is there a game?
You've reviewed poorly only to read it later.
On the other hand is their game. You rated higher only to change
your mind. No, no.
I mean it's it doesn't work like that for me at all.
It would Would be, I just don't work that way.
I mean, if somebody I'm pretty open about like what I think
about something. And I and my one of the things
that's great about this rating scale is it's not a one through
tense, not even a one through five.
It's really a one through four and even that doesn't work
because when I say don't touch, I mean no one can still say you
might want to do something, you might want to get it at 99 Cents
when I say don't touch and that's what it means.
Like I don't fight, they would need to give me money to
experience this again. So they're a little bit broader
and I can talk about the fun factor and I can talk about
these things and I can and discuss them in a way that
really makes sense to me. And so, there's never ever been
a time where afterwards, I've been all man, I should change
this if that's ever happened to, because of a technical issue
where their technical issues were happened to me, and they
patch it later and I certainly would go back and re review that
if I can rarely can, but if I can, because that only makes
sense. Because if there's, if it's a
new experience, hey, you could say, you know what, this is what
I used to say, this is what I'm saying now, and, and having
people move forward if that rating changed.
But no, I mean, it's just, it's pretty easy.
Just like I would buy this, I would probably wait for a sale
for this. I would wait for a deep sale for
this or I will never touch this. And to me, it just works works
perfect for the other people on the podcast.
You don't review games. Okay.
That was, that was a different style question.
Noah says, what are some of your favorite Co-op titles.
And what would you like to see in couch, Co-op, for me, couch
Co-op Serious. Sam 2.
I think on the original Xbox, I think that was the one we had II
made awards for people and we had all different kinds of
games. We had that we did the Star Wars
at that, what was it called? The Battlefront at that time as
well. I think we played that we had
Awards. We did test drive, which one had
split screen in that? I can't remember which, but we
did that as well. And of course, Halo for me, the
one that really I think solidified my enjoyment and
understanding was Ghost Recon on the Dreamcast because I still
remember the story you guys have heard this.
So I'm repeating myself but the story and the enjoyment I had,
we had a four player game and we were all good at something and
it was, it was Deathmatch. We were all good at something.
We all knew that there was particular weaknesses.
Somebody may had, and it was starting to get to that point to
where it was like rock, paper, scissors, plus another one,
right? And all of a sudden I was
running, I just started. This is what I've done now as
well. This was the first time this
happened and it's how I view most games.
Now I just detached while I was playing, I remember playing and
I'm like, whoa, I just felt detached from, it was like,
what's happening? And I started looking around the
level and I'm like, you know what?
If I set the plant, the plant, the C-4 here, and then wait for
an enemy, and then shoot, let him hit me or come close to me.
And then pretend to run when he comes around the corner, I can
blow him C4 and it worked brilliantly it.
Roger who don't know if he watches these I don't have a lot
of contact with him anymore. He came around the corner and we
were firing at each other and he hit near me and I portray on
purpose because you sit next to me.
I was like, oh God so I want to make it sound like I was I was
selling it haha I was selling it like a mark in in the WWE and I
turned around and I ran into this room.
And I just waited and he came and he even paid the corner.
Like he knew what he was doing but it's C4 right?
And the corner wasn't so big. He came around the corner, I was
like boom. And he's all did you was that a
grenade or C4? And I was like no C4.
And from that point on, we started laying traps for people.
You never knew. And that's what Co-op.
I think allows us for acting in a way that allows for people on
the same. If you're doing coop coop, with
the couch, it allows for people to sort of play with your mind
mentally. Would do it.
Halo from that point on people hated to play against me and
Halo, because in Halo multiplayer, I would
consistently bait them into doing something.
And they would be like, oh, he's hurt and he just made him, I
would do things like test, how long it took a grenade thrown at
a certain Arc, to hit the entrance of a tunnel.
And so I would lead the person to the tunnel and then Arc the
grenade and just wait. And I knew that if they ran at a
certain speed, which they probably would that grenade
would land, right? Right on him.
Sorry, Mike, Because I know Mike Mike watches these sometimes and
I know he probably hates that but there was quite a few times
or somebody would come out that tunnel and a grenade would go
and I would be halfway across the level.
So, though, to me, couch Co-op is great.
And all games I would like to see all games with them.
It won't happen. But Raziel uh says any chance
Peter North of be a guest star on your podcast probably not but
I have dropped his name a couple times.
Samuel says, have you ever been a fan of mountain blade?
Fucking absolutely yeah. There was a There was a mod for
Mountain blade silver. And I've talked about this and I
apologize, I can't remember the name of the mod but it was one
of the major ones and added you know a ton of different foods.
It up the amount of people you could have all this crazy stuff
and I played Mountain blade. I played Mountain blade for a
couple weeks in a row. Pretty much love that game.
Finally, will you be playing reviewing the new Mountain
blade? Yeah.
If it ever comes out and he says
hopefully they'll announce a release date within the next 10
years. Yeah for sure Alex says Hey
Carrick Leeson says you mentioned the past that you're
not so easy to affect emotionally.
Have you ever played a game or watched a movie that brought you
to tears? No.
I mean I feel emotion when I
watch a movie and there's certain things that I like a lot
in movies, loyalty between friends the scene.
If you're older, you remember it from the original.
If you're younger, you remember from the newer movie.
But in Star Trek when Spock was dying and Kirk and Spock were
talking to each other in the original, Spock passes away, and
in the new one Kirk did, and I felt that that was a complete,
it showed a complete lack of understanding from the director.
Of why it actually mattered that Kirk had died or that Spock had
died in the original. And so it even though there's
rumors now that they were saying that he had died on purpose so
that Leonard Nimoy could get a director gig, but it does matter
because it worked, I like loyalty and their loyalty.
I like those friendships. I love movies about friendships
and people who just are really, really close.
Good friends, really loyalty to each other.
I really like those those give me a feeling of something, but I
don't really ever feel choked up about anything really.
Good narrative will catch me smiling or laughing.
But I will say this of all the actors that could possibly get
me to feel something, there's only one actor in the world that
has ever caused me to go. Oh, wow.
And that's John Noble. And he does Walter infringed and
he was Scarecrow and in Batman Arkham Knight and his ability as
Walter in particular, by the way.
Because he's also in Salvation and he was okay and that, but
his particular ability as Walter infringe was, I mean was
heart-wrenching and his in that I can't, I don't want to ruin it
for people, but he played at times, he might have played
multiple versions of himself. Self and you see this, you know,
whether big Jean Claude Van, Damme or some other motherfucker
trying to play a movie where they're twins or something like
that and you're like, it's the same guy with his hair.
Parted on the opposite side. Not John Noble man.
He played two versions of Walter and I'm telling you, it was
crazy. It was crazy talent and that guy
could probably make me choke up. He he has something that I think
very, very few people have Peter O'Toole had it in you.
Hear stories about him. He would have it to have you
done much traveling. If so, what are your favorite
countries? If not top of your list?
No, let's see. Hawaii Puerto Rico, a couple
places not many though. My favorite.
I would like to go to Ireland or Scotland.
I think that would be great. Did you ever play Neverwinter
Nights on roleplay? Only servers?
Yes, I actually played dragonlance server and a
ravenloft server and I played them who were months and
actually helped mod a little bit as well.
Very, very good games. Do any other games actually have
our P servers and a player's stick to staying in character?
Yeah, I mean, there are many RPGs that have come out single
player games with a D&D mode. Those kind of stuff where people
try to put together a true role playing server.
It's rare, I think with Neverwinter Nights, what worked
so well, is it actually wasn't super hard to mod.
It wasn't easy and the level of complexity could rise
dramatically, but you could get something out there, reminds me
of operation Flashpoint. I could get you a Or a level a
custom level will say, in just a couple minutes that would play
differently every single time you entered it, you would start
in a unique place and it was like that.
But then if you saw somebody who knew what they were doing, it
was like a whole other game. And I love that kind of stuff.
And I think that you need that for role-playing server, we
don't see it very much, but Neverwinter Nights will
consistently and probably always be one of those memories that.
I'll just one of those things. I'll just remember forever Jo.
W says, I'm a lifelong gamer but never really played Sonic the
Hedgehog. I'm excited to play Sonic forces
but I'm quickly learning that the internet.
Sonic fanbase is divisive and bitter.
How do you feel about the Sonic franchise and property overall?
So originally you know, Sega the original fucking voices that
happened when Sonic the Hedgehog was turned on.
I love Sonic. The Hedgehog one and two.
I think they started getting a little bit odd to me that I
wasn't a big fan of the 3D ones, like some people were but I
think that it is no different than any other long-standing
franchise. It's had its ups.
It's had its Downs. There are ones that have done
successfully for a longer period of time and ones that have done
poorly for a longer period of time.
So there's really nothing special.
Shelter me about the Sonic fandom.
There's nothing special to me about the Sonic character but I
certainly do or did enjoy those originals and I'm not really
into it anymore. I even passed up the review copy
because I just it's not that I don't like that type of game at
that time, there was another game.
I had to review, I should have made that clear, but I passed it
up because it didn't fire me up. Like I felt it should and I
think that's just because you know, If I want to see a new
Sonic, I wanted to do something different, and these recent ones
haven't. So, let's see, personal
question, but no hard feelings. If you don't answer, I enjoy
certain levels of privacy. So I'd understand what country
do you live in and what profession are you in?
I'm in this profession, YouTube, and I live in the United States.
There's nothing wrong with asking.
That those are, those are totally fine questions.
I'm going to reload this page one last time.
So people feel like they're getting the answers that they
deserve and then we'll move on. Yeah, so that's it.
I do want to say thanks to everybody who watched, I
definitely appreciate it. It's always fun to answer these
and give you guys information, you will be seeing more reviews
for me, of course, you'll probably put some Voltron
footage in this video, maybe, but you're going to see some
coverage of that in particular probably during the podcast as
well. Where we talked about VR, there
will be more podcast. We're doing a patron podcast or
I'm doing a patron podcast tomorrow.
I always say we because I'm talking about patrons half the
time as well, because I do a lot of stuff with the So you should
see some of that doing a lot of reviews about all Chasers, a lot
of reviews that are a little bit farther out to.
So this is given me I think one to two days to sort of do some
more Patron stuff at the end of this month and get it moving
forward. I just want to say as we end
this, you know, I really do appreciate people people
sticking with me whether you agree every time or whether you
disagree every time or whether, you know, we annoy one another,
in a random time, whatever it may be.
I definitely do really appreciate you.
You guys like sticking with me. It's one of the things that it
really does sort of fire me up to go.
Okay, I get it. Somebody feels true worth and
it's hard to describe Unless you really know the feeling, but
it's hard to describe to somebody that what you created,
somebody else found true worth, and when you talk to an artist
when you talk to somebody who paints, when you talk to
somebody who sings and those are purchased people, always are
like anti-money strangely enough but it's funny that, that is one
of the ways. One of the easiest ways, to sort
of, put your money, where your mouth is to show, just like, in
a developer. When you hear somebody say, hey,
I'm supporting these guys where I'm not supporting them, it's a
Feeling of going okay, this is working for them.
It's not going to work for everybody.
A lot of people I think thinks you know, they get upset,
they're like it's not working for me, you know, it's so it
must not be working for, everybody's not the way it is.
There's almost always some contingent out there.
Hell, I could do a video, I could do an entire YouTube
channel just on Flat Earth and I would have a good number of
subscribers. So it's when it comes to video
games is not that crazy. But I just want to say thanks
man. It's been, it's been an amazing
time and I'm hoping for many Years continue.
So I haven't got burned out yet. Hopefully, we'll see if you guys
suddenly notice that I'm all set up, everybody.
This is good or my Graphics art first.
Yeah, pretty good sound music and voice.
Then, you know, there's a problem and you might want to
email me and be like, do we need to put you on a suicide watch,
but that's it for me. I don't have anything else.
I'm looking around to try to remember if there was something
else. I was going to tell you guys, I
wasn't peace out. Enjoy the rest of your week.