WEBVTT - X-Ray Video Game Recommendations 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.920 Today's episode will contain light spoilers for a number of 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:06.920 games we all played in twenty twenty four, so be careful, 0:00:06.960 --> 0:00:26.720 but also go play these games. Hello, my name is 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:30.400 a Boo and I'm Aaron, and welcome to X ray 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:32.760 Vision Extras and Next ray Vision series, where we dive 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:35.320 deep to even more of your favorite shows, movies, comics, 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:38.960 and pop culture. Every superhero team needs side quests, and 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:42.040 our rotating panel of producers and guest hosts we'll be 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:43.800 suiting up to help Jason and Rosie cover all of 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:46.280 the amazing nerd content out there. 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:50.960 Today it's our Video Game Superlatives episode for twenty twenty four. 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:53.840 First up, in the previously on, Jason, Rosie, and Joel 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:56.920 will talk Superman, Craven, the Hunter, and Lord of the 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:59.800 Rings War of the Row here. Then in the roundup, 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:01.880 the X ray crew will share a few of their 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:06.000 favorite game recommendations to add to your backlog. And first 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:07.080 previously on. 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:12.880 First Up, the Superman trailer will come out this week Thursday, 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:17.679 but ahead of that we get a the official poster 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:21.000 for the new Superman Man movie, revealed by James Gunn. 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:23.600 It is a nod to. 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:31.840 The classic Christopher Reeves era Superman and listen, not stuff here, 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:34.800 but but I'm excited and I'm excited to see the trailer. 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:38.600 Yeah, and he said it to this kind of like 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:43.560 slowed down, almost interpolated version of the John Williams classic 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:46.480 Superman theme, So I think that's interesting. 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:50.200 The tagline is look up, which I like. 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:53.400 It feels kind of hopeful, but yeah, this is a classic. 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:56.760 It's just it's a poster and that's telling you when 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:57.920 the trailer is going to come out. 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:00.000 I'm excited to see the trailer. I want to know 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:01.480 what's going on with this movie. 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:03.680 They've kept it pretty under wraps, so it's going to 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:06.280 be exciting to check it out. 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:13.040 Next up, Craven The Hunter Boo Craven the Hunter spider 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:18.800 Man spin off starring the ab laden Aaron Taylor Johnson. 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:20.760 He was cop, he was a mister. 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:25.639 He's looking very vascular in this role where he plays 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:33.560 Spiderman's notorious hunter loving foe. Craven is Bad and it 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:38.000 is currently bombing to an insane degree in the box 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:44.960 office eleven dollars over its opening weekend in three thousand 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:49.560 over three thousand theaters. This folks is setting a new 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:54.720 record for spider Bombs. Coming quite below this year is 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:57.880 Madam Webb, which came in at fifteen point three million 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:02.440 over a weekend. It has a unbelievably bad fifteen percent 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:07.880 Rotten Tomatoes score Rush Tomatos see grade on Cinema score, 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:11.080 which makes you feel like the Sony marketing department is 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:16.080 working hard. Pump that thing up, folks, Uh, Rosie and Joelle. 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:22.240 You've seen mister Johnson and his craven unbelievable, you know, 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:27.720 like cheese greater abs in this film, tell us your thoughts. 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:29.640 Not enough abs, no. 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:32.440 More abs, beats more abs. 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:34.840 He had plenty, they did not show them off enough. 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:36.960 You would actually be. 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:41.000 Surprised at how little he is in this movie. He 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:43.360 is actually like they tried to beat ole juice him. 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:45.320 I think he's probably only in like an hour of 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:49.480 this two hour movie. There's like a thirty minute flashback. 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:51.760 The whole thing is a mess. 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:51.640 But. 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:57.280 It was funny because like one, there's so many random 0:03:57.440 --> 0:03:58.160 Spider Man. 0:03:58.040 --> 0:03:59.160 References in this movie that. 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:02.760 Like, oh my god, the doctor in New York Miles Warren. 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:05.200 I'm like, oh yeah, well, the Jackal fans out there 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:08.680 going crazy for that one. And then there is also 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:14.440 just like the dialogue is so impossibly bad there there 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:16.960 really is a line where one character says. 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:19.240 My grandma died and I never saw her again. 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:21.599 After that, it's like, babe, of course you didn't. She 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:24.480 was dead, Like what what did you think was gonna happen? 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:29.440 And yeah, I mean it was hilarious because also like 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:34.479 the guy from Gladiator to Fred Heshinger, he plays the 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:39.159 in this Craven's brother who becomes the chameleon. Sure, but 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.040 the who way through the movie he just keeps being like, 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:42.000 I'm a chameleon. 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:43.160 Everyone always. 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:47.760 Everyone always say like I'm a cameleo because and you 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:49.880 want to know, you want to know. They basically make 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:52.520 him like he's like an He's like an Ariana Grande 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:56.680 style like song impersonator. Like they just have him like 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:59.280 singing different types of songs. They'll be like any here 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:02.120 he is singing Tony Bennett, Harry Is. I was like, 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:03.760 is this while you're going with this? 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.279 I don't know. It was a hot mess. It actually dragged. 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:07.800 It's almost two and a half hours long. 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:08.599 There's a night a. 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:14.520 Minute, but probably yes, Jason's two and a half hours and. 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:15.960 You feel it. 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:18.960 It is bad And also like if you are a 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:22.680 fan of Calypso, very interesting complex character in the comics. 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:27.479 They absolutely just flob her hair with Oscar winner Arianna 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:32.679 de bos. Also, they do actually see gi her mouth 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:33.279 at one. 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:38.440 Point there is in this film is insane. Not only 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:41.479 do they ai her mouth at one point with a 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.000 character she has no One of the characters power sets 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:46.760 is that he counts and maybe shifts time, maybe is 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:49.400 moving through it quickly. You're very confused. All the power 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:52.640 sets are confusing. Is craven doctor Doolittle too, You're not 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:57.040 really sure. They always may show up when he needs them, 0:05:57.040 --> 0:06:00.880 but he's never actually having a conversation or making noises. 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:04.320 It's so no bizarre, but are like Calypso is like 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:07.359 winds up counting with a character she's never met and 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:10.360 gives her best Aamuel L. Jackson impression of three motherfuckers, 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:13.280 and I was like, this iscist, what are we doing? 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:18.440 It does have some very questionable kind of like law 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:21.560 that they inserted, like with voodoo magic and they go 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:24.560 to Ghana and they don't know what they're doing. And 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:26.920 also the thing that made me laugh the most that 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.280 by the end I was like dying every time they 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:31.880 did it. These people could not commit to a like 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:35.000 specific location to save their life. So every single time 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:38.680 it changes location, they're just like northern Russia, somewhere in 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:39.560 upstate New York. 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:42.480 It's like around England, and. 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:44.400 You're just like, guys, could you just say one city 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:46.320 that they're actually in? Like I beg you, this is 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:49.400 like it was so funny, but I will say enjoyable 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:52.480 cinema experience if you like to laugh at a bad movie. 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:54.799 Which animal maulings both shot pretty decently. 0:06:55.160 --> 0:07:00.359 I am just confused. I'm confused because like Sony makes 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:04.600 good animated Spider Man movies clearly right, like very good, beautiful. 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:06.880 I think at some point they'd be like, hey, guys, 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:10.960 anybody that's worked on those films, why don't you come 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.560 over and help us with our live actions imagine stuff, 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:19.520 because we've now made what like five six really really terrible, uh, 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:25.080 some legendarily terrible like live action movies, including Madam Webb, 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:31.320 The Utterly Horrific and Forgettable Let There Be Carnage morebius, 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:35.920 like how can this keep happening? And this movie is 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:40.320 directed by J. C. Chandor, who, as we've stated in 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:44.800 past the past episodes, is like a is good. It's 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.840 like a really good director and really good actually. 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.000 Like a law of really serious movies. 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:51.160 So I'm just confusing. 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:53.080 It has to be a producer problem from the top 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:58.040 because there's not a talent. There's no attention to detail, 0:07:58.040 --> 0:07:59.960 and I think what's most disappointing is like you don't 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.840 understand these characters at all. So people took away like, oh, 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.280 you can't have a Craven movie if there's no Spider Man, 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:07.280 like he must be a mirror to Spider Man, And well, 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:09.200 I hear that, and maybe that is the lesson we 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:11.000 should be taking away. I don't necessarily, but I think 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:14.360 every character could have there, Like the story is good, 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:17.040 I agree, And they tried to make all these characters 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:20.720 Spider Man and be Quippi like we all have seen, Like, 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:23.160 does Craven seem like a Quipper to you? It's weird? 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:23.560 No. 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:27.400 Also as well, I will say, there is a glimpse 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:29.880 when the movie opens. It's like an eight minute scene 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:33.160 where he breaks into a prison in Siberia or in 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:36.560 Russia somewhere because you never know, I don't know that 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:39.920 to like kill a guy, right, and you're like, Okay, 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:44.839 this is actually like interesting and the action is good, 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:47.920 and then they cut to this thirty minute you know, 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:51.520 flashback scene, and the just whole moviees derailed. So I 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:53.240 think there's a version where if they'd have just like 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:56.640 trusted in making it a really gory, brute or action 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:58.560 movie and it was like a ninety minute movie of 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:01.400 just Craven killing a bun for people, that would have 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:04.120 actually been like kind of cool and maybe a bit 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:05.920 more of like a cult kind of hit. 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:09.400 I don't write the A Punisher kind of take on it, 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:13.320 you know exactly. I will just let's put the call 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:16.480 out to anybody. If you have played any of these movies, 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:21.040 if you work at Sony, reach out to us and 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:24.120 honestly and just gossip with us about how this. 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.600 We want to know, did you make Craven's Jacket. 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:33.200 I understand making like a couple bad movies, but making 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:36.600 basically only. 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:37.959 Bad live action. 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:42.679 Spider Man movies is crazy, and I don't understand how 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.600 it happens. So please reach out to us and give 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:47.480 us give us. We need to love to hear. 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:51.440 It, especially especially because the current reporting is saying at 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:53.599 any point Sony could have made Tom Holden be in 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:56.320 these movies like FIGI didn't even ban him from being 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:58.960 in them. So there's many questions and we want you 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:01.120 to answer them to loss. 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.880 Next up, Lord of the Rings, War of the Roha 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:08.040 Reem is also bombing. It's a double bomb weekend at 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:09.319 the theater, Double bom weekend. 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:09.679 Baby. 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:14.040 You know, this is a cheap, fast tracked movie by 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:19.360 New Line and really was only put onto a production 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:23.280 track because New Line needed to keep the rights to 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:26.079 Lord of the Rings. Like so, I mean, if you 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:27.960 want to know why this movie is not doing well 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:31.480 and is kind of bad with uneven animation and it 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:33.920 doesn't make any sense that it's out it's because the 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:37.120 only reason it exists is because Newline wanted to keep 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:39.280 the rights to Lord of the to Lord of the 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:40.800 Rings so they could continue to make Lord of the 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.040 Rings movies. That's the only reason in this movie is 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:45.840 out there, and it's it's bombing. 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:48.160 Four point six million. 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:52.280 That's crazy, that's like, that's an unbelievably low amount of 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:55.080 money for an ip that is, you know, one of 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.600 the I think one of the biggest hockey's out there. 0:10:58.520 --> 0:10:59.959 Just put it straight to stream. 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:02.760 I have to say that. I think I think because 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:06.440 get totally because they don't keep the rights. 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:08.080 I didn't think it was like I watch a lot 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:09.840 of anime. I felt like it was on par with 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:11.960 a lot of kind of mid anime. But I did 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:14.640 think that the world was interesting. But yeah, I mean, 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.199 this is unbelievable. They should have at least been able 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:19.440 to open this to twenty mil if they'd just put 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:22.000 a little bit into the marketing or kind of found 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:25.720 its space, especially in a world where big anime movies 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:28.360 like you know, Jiu Jitsu Kais and Dragon ball Z, 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:31.160 like those kind of franchises can open to like a 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:32.880 lot of money. Now, I think this was a miss 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:36.319 for Warner Brothers, both content wise but also marketing wise, 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:38.560 because you can market a movie that's not great and 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:39.560 make people go see it. 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:41.880 But yeah, four point six million, that's an ouch. 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:44.120 But you know what, guys, don't worry because it's still 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:46.920 a very big box office weekend thanks to Moana and Wicked, 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:49.320 who I think made it almost one hundred million dollar 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:52.040 weekend just from those two movies this weekend. 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:52.680 So good for them. 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.640 Go girls, girl power, girls, get it done, all that 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:56.280 kind of stuff. 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:58.479 All right, up next, we stepping out of the airline. 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:20.079 Without further Ado. Let's jump right in. Let's start with 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:20.560 the latro. 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:23.760 Okay, guys, can you tell me what makes this game sensational? 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.240 Because I was looking. I haven't played Platro full disclosure, 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:29.640 but I did see it's a single developer, it's a 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:32.440 card game. They've got a cute little jester mask scot. 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:33.760 Why should I play this game? 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.560 So, Rosie, you and I have both played this, How 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:39.320 would you respond to you out with that? 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:42.080 I would say, if you used to like playing like 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:46.280 Solitaire on your computers, that you're like nowadays there's five 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:49.760 million games. Why would I play a card game on 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:52.880 a console like a Steam deck or a switch or 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:55.600 PC or whatever, or your phone? Well, this is like 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:58.800 the most addicting game. I would also say, it's basically 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:01.800 Aaron put it best in our script, which is like 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:07.280 poker with deck building, and it's just incredibly easy to play. 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:09.680 I was worried I wouldn't understand it or there would 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:11.959 be stuff that I didn't know because I'm not very 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:15.400 good at Like the most extensive deck building game I 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:18.520 ever played was like an adventure time deck building game 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:22.280 that they used to have years ago on the phone. 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:24.960 But you really just need to like understand poker. I 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.480 will also say something I think is really interesting is 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.880 I was on a plane yesterday from Copenhagen to la 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:34.880 and there were multiple people on the plane who true. 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:37.400 There was a guy sitting next to me playing it, 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.880 there was someone playing on their phone. I think that 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:42.760 shows that it has really grown out. I was rooting 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:44.280 for this for Game of the Year because I do 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:48.200 think that mobile gaming should be more recognized. This is 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:51.600 not an endorsement of you know, Kim Kardashian's mobile game, 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:54.200 but for a long time that mobile game was the 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:57.600 biggest selling game on Earth, like selling more than Call 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:00.160 of Duty, making more money than Call of Duty. So 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:02.440 I think that we are in a space where those 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:03.800 games are often overlooked. 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:04.719 And yeah, I just it. 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:07.880 But it is so addictive, Joel, and I specifically think 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:11.920 someone like you, someone who is like me and kind 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:14.640 of gets really hyper fixated on things, I think it 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:15.720 will be dangerous for you. 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:16.599 Okay, good to know. 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.360 I'm gonna I'm gonna push back against you a little 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:20.040 bit here, Rosie. 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:21.080 So the game. 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:25.440 The game is available on console and recently became available 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:28.280 on iOS, so it is a mobile game technically. 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:29.720 Now I hate it. 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:34.120 I hate it's the mobile game is not the best 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:35.000 version of the game. 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:38.760 But this game will consume your life. This game is addictive. 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:41.480 That's what I'm saying. 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:45.320 Do not load this game onto your phone. Okay, all right, 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:48.720 this game. This game is fast paced, but it's relaxing. 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:54.200 It hits incredibly well because it has big numbers that 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:56.640 get bigger and bigger and bigger. It is not a 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:00.960 It's not fast paced in terms of you quick reflexes. 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:05.280 You can sit and contemplate your moves. Every run feels 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:08.680 legitimately different. This is like a roguelike as well as 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:11.000 a deck building as well as poker. This game is 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:13.840 not to be trusted. You will play too much. Again 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:16.840 these do not download this game onto your phone. 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:18.520 I have this team on the switch. 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:21.760 Potentially could ruin your life on the phone under there. 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:24.760 Will be it is amazing this game. 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.560 Like yeah, you basically all you need to know going 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:29.480 into this is have the basic rules of poker, and 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:31.320 if you don't have them, the game will provide that 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:31.720 for you. 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:33.440 Yeah, I know, so you can just google it. 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:37.520 You just acquire a couple joker cards which make macro 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:40.280 rule changes to the game itself. So basically you can 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:42.640 have a joker that's like anytime you play an even card, 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:46.120 double your points, or one that says a straight now 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:50.640 only takes four cards instead of five, or anytime you 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:54.360 play a face card you you get a gold coin, and. 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:58.520 Makes it feel like there are like infinite options. 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:01.000 Okay, it makes it feel like you don't get bored 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:01.240 of it. 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:03.960 As somebody who wait too much time in the Yachtzi 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:08.840 mobile game, and I. 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:11.400 Was gonna say, if you're somebody who got addicted to 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:14.640 Monopoly go and spent too much time playing that, do 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:15.600 not download. 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.120 This to your friend because you'll probably lose your job. 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:21.320 Yes, as someone I know many people do not like 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:24.920 card games. They don't like deck building, they don't like roguelikes. 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:27.600 Don't let those things scare you off. There's it's a 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:32.320 very easy to learn and impossible to put down game. 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:35.680 So okay, as a fan of Slay the Spire, as 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:38.160 a fan of any of these sorts of games, it 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:43.760 is amazing. Next up, we've got the game that if 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:46.960 you want to live out your superhero dream, you should 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:51.440 play Marvel Rivals. And Jason, you've you've played a little 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:52.520 bit of Rivals, right. 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:53.400 I have. 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:59.960 Currently sitting as a silver two rank on Competitive Feel 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:02.800 good about the climb? Did I move up the ladder? 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.760 Are you have you upgraded any skins to have a 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:10.520 different look for any of your characters yet I have? 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:13.320 I know you, I know you bought those quints. 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:18.800 Yeah I did. I got two Manta skins, including the 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:21.200 Guardians of the Galaxy Galaxy skin. 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:23.600 I got. 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:28.800 I bought a I bought the Rocket Raccoon Guardian skin. 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:34.800 I bought the Thor like young Thor skin. This is 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:37.320 I'm trying to remember if I bought anymore, because I 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:38.880 say I surely considered it. 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:41.760 I'm like, no Wolverine skin. 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:45.200 Oh, I bought the Luna Snow like cocktail gown, a 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:51.879 really cool like long gown skin, and who else? I 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:54.240 think that's it for now, But those are who? So 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:58.040 that's like who I'm really rocking with. 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:00.840 For anyone who has not, he says somehow been under 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:03.280 a rock and not seen anything about Marvel Rivals on 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:07.480 your social feeds, which seems pretty unlikely. Marvel Rivals is 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:11.159 a six v six hero shooter featuring currently featuring thirty 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:14.000 three different characters from the Marvel comics, as well as 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:17.000 Luna Snow, who's a brand new character created for the game. 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:19.040 You can be everyone. 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:22.360 She was created for a Korean mobile game, Oh oh 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:26.000 for this the cross those yeah, for a Korean mobile 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:28.960 game like in twenty eighteen, and then has appeared in 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:31.280 a couple comics and those yeah in this game. 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:32.399 Oh that's rad. 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:34.080 Jason didn't realize that. 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:37.120 Yeah, we're at the end of the year, obviously. This 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:39.879 is our like recap of all the games, how we 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:43.000 feel about them. What is it for you that has 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:48.040 made Marvel Rivals kind of such a special, instantly addicting game. 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:49.960 That's kind of putting it up there with some of 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:51.919 with this crazy year we've had with gaming. 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:55.920 I think, you know, for me, I was an Overwatch person, 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:57.960 so it makes sense. I like that kind of team 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:02.879 based game with roles and the powers. You know that 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:07.080 the character models are awesome, the powers are fun. The 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:09.840 way the powers interact with each other are really fun, 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:14.480 and it's like there are just moments where you get 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:18.879 into a big fight and you really feel like, I 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:21.679 think this is what it would be like if you 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:24.359 were in the thing, you know, and Hulk is jumping 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:28.200 around and throwing Wolverine at Iron Man's like out there 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:33.119 and Wanda's going into a fugue state and melting like 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:37.639 five people. It's really fun. And again, as someone who 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:43.320 had lost their fast twitch nerve endings like several years ago, 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:47.600 I'm able to play roles that I feel like I 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:53.600 can be effective in Healer and Tank and I don't 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:56.000 have to be like the biggest killer out there, but 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:58.919 I can kind of manage the fight in ways that 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:01.159 feel strategic and I and I enjoy that. And then 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:03.320 there's you know, with the different power sets, there's really 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:09.520 interesting gameplays counters to powers. There's there's a level of 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:12.280 strategic play that's still developing because the game is so new, 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:12.880 and I find that. 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:15.239 Really fun and I thought it was interesting too. You 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:18.880 just mentioned of the skins that you bought three different 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:21.919 at least three different support characters. You mentioned Mantis, you 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:25.520 mentioned Rocket, and you mentioned Luna. So do you find 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:31.120 the characters within a certain role played drastically differently enough 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:35.240 that you, as someone who's played Overwatch, can enjoy Hey, 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:37.720 my games is Rocket, even though I'm a healer, feels 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:40.160 significantly different than my games as Mantis. 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:42.199 Oh, for sure, you have to. 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:45.680 You have to alter your gameplay depending on the kit 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:49.240 that each character is Mantis for instance. You know, I've 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:52.960 been looking at the various like character ranking videos that 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:55.000 have come out since the game has been out from 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:59.280 different streamers, and I'm heartened to see that the eye 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:01.399 test for me, which says that Mantis is one of 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:04.560 the best, very best players in the game is has 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:06.240 been confirmed by a lot of the stream is. She's 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:11.080 just great as a support character. She has good offensive capabilities. 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:16.199 She has this sleep bomb that gives her good es capability. 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:17.919 If you get Dove in the back line by like, 0:21:18.520 --> 0:21:21.120