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Roger’s Back: Surgery Stories, Steam Deck Praise, and Gaming Nostalgia | The Gamerheads Podcast
Welcome to another episode of The Gamerheads Podcast! This week, Roger makes his triumphant return after a brief hiatus, sharing tales of surgery, recovery, and his newfound love for the Steam Deck. Meanwhile, Mike and Phil hold nothing back as they dive into the world of gaming with their usual wit and banter.
Highlights from the episode:
Roger's Return and Icebreaker Fun
Roger is back and shares his "hypothetical" surgery experience, complete with some hilarious insights about post-surgery gaming. The crew answers this week’s icebreaker: What game would you play if you were laid up for months?
Gaming News Breakdown
The hosts discuss major headlines, including Warner Bros.' significant losses with Multiversus and Harry Potter Quidditch, the future of DC games, and the rumored Hogwarts Legacy sequel. Plus, what’s the deal with Game of Thrones gaming?
What We’re Playing
- Roger: Reviews Slayaway Camp 2 and reflects on Brutal Legend.
- Mike: Tackles the nostalgia of Fortnite’s throwback season and gets creative with Halloween on Retro Realms.
- Phil: Explores quirky fun in House of Golf 2 and revisits the spooky platformer Pumpkin Jack.
Extra Life and Community Highlights
Roger shares exciting updates on The Gamerheads Podcast’s Extra Life streaming schedule and the amazing prizes up for grabs, including an NES bundle with Tetris and Super Mario Bros.
Wrap-Up and Announcements
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Speaker 3:hold on what's going Wait who is this? Hold on Mike who is this other boy's talking?
Speaker 2:I don't know, but he's messing up our mojo.
Speaker 3:I thought this was just you and I that did this show together. Who's? This other guy that's talking.
Speaker 1:Did you guys want to say it one last time? No, who the hell are you?
Speaker 3:Yeah, what are you doing?
Speaker 1:here, you guys want to say it when one last time I mean, I'm back, I'm back.
Speaker 3:Third guy is retro game frankenstein. You don't sound anything like him why?
Speaker 2:what the hell?
Speaker 1:that was your replacement oh, wow, actually he was, wasn't he kind of? Uh, welcome back to another episode of the gamer heads podcast, my name is roger anymore who? And I am back back in the seat. I'm happy to be back, obviously, quite a few adventures while we were gone.
Speaker 2:That's why here I.
Speaker 1:I heard that I was uh looking for ghosts. Uh, I went to prison apparently for some hot air balloon festival hot air balloon festival. Yeah, that that was a thing. Yeah, I didn't know, I did all that stuff, that's a man of many talents. Yeah, I'm glad to be back. Thank you both for running the show while I was out running it into the ground.
Speaker 3:It only made it four feet under. It can come back.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's true it's true, I mean halloween's kind of over, but we can come back from the dead, that's fine, um it's not easter yet yeah and then three, never, okay, uh, yeah. So I'm back. I'm back, um, I can see that you're both, and then three, never mind, okay, yeah, so I'm back. I'm back. I can see that you're both super excited about me being back.
Speaker 3:Hey, Mike, you know what Sure this is going to be the easiest episode we've done in like two months.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I don't doubt that in the slightest this is going to be great.
Speaker 1:I'm going to put my feet up. Well, welcome everybody to the show uh taking my pants off oh my god. Uh, before we begin, I just wanted to say, first of all, thanks to all our listeners as well, thanks to our patrons, jill, matt and sarah, and listeners. If you'd like to support the gamer heads podcast, you can as well by going out to our Patreon at GamerHeadsPodcastcom and wait, patreoncom slash GamerHeadsPodcast.
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Speaker 3:We've made our way into some of those, not all of them, but a small handful. Wow, uh, we just got him with von hansen's meat market pretty well, pretty recently as well, which is there's 20 25 of them around the minneapolis st paul area. So I mean, like things are starting to move, it's good cool, that's awesome, um.
Speaker 1:So yeah and uh, and the other thing I'm just gonna plug here too, before we get into the show is we are doing extra life this year, uh, and our extra life will be on every tuesday in the month of november, starting at 8 30 pm central time, going to about 10 30 uh pm central time, and we actually have quite a bit for incentives, uh, prizes, uh, to give away, to raise money for extra life. Um, I got a lot of games, including games like slay the princess, yards, rising toys, taxic tactics, ghost runner 2, uh, and then on the 26th of November, I have the big grand prize, if you will, and that is an NES with Tetris and Super Mario Brothers and Duck Hunt as well. So, yeah, so thank you to. I'd like to thank Stride PR, uber Strategist, uber Strategist PR and Gaming Generations for providing all those game codes, and there's there's a bunch of other games too.
Speaker 1:I didn't list all the games. There's a lot of games and and I have quite a few codes of each game. So it's like if you're gonna donate, you're probably gonna win. Like I'm just, there's a good chance you're gonna win something. Um, so that's every tuesday and that's at twitchcom slash gamer heads podcast.
Speaker 3:Uh, so yeah, that's all exciting stuff that's going on uh, hey, roger yeah I have a nice breaker question for you yeah sure uh theoretically yeah, if I was to have a major surgery done and I was laid up for a couple of months. Uh-huh. What game should I be playing during my downtime?
Speaker 1:uh. So I will say, theoretically, theoretically, if that were to happen, the first thing you should do is buy a steam deck. Like that is the very first thing you should do. Uh, because, uh, I did for no reason whatsoever and, um, I will say I wish I would have bought one earlier.
Speaker 3:Phil, I think I've, I think I'm a convert to the steam deck well, it's better than the cell phone that you currently were playing games on uh, so so, yeah, so I've been playing a lot of games.
Speaker 1:Um, if you were to get a steam deck, you could play games like dragon age, the veil guard on it you can also do that on the xbox but that's true. But you can't do that in bed. Well, I guess you could. If you have, you can streaming I've got an xbox in my bedroom. Well, okay, yeah, I don't have a, I don't have a tv in my bedroom, so uh what what kind of a life do you?
Speaker 3:well, I do have yourself an american, yeah I do.
Speaker 1:I actually do have a. I do have a tv, it's just not hooked up to any kind of system. So I should say that. So, uh, but, uh, that is really fun. Uh, slay away camp to comply down. Uh, steam and deck, I can play that. Uh, let's see, there's a lot of games you could play on the steam deck and, and there's a lot of sales going on on the steam deck and and there's a lot of sales going on on the steam deck. I wouldn't tell you, steam deck's amazing. I I wish I would have bought one earlier, because there's a lot of games. There's a game I'm playing right now. I'll talk more about all the games I'm playing, but I'm playing, uh, brutal legends, because I've been asked to talk about that on a, on a podcast. And guess what can play that on the steam deck, even though I do own it for, like, playstation is that the one with jack black on it?
Speaker 3:yeah, it's also on game pass, just throwing that one out there oh, is it really?
Speaker 1:well? Yeah, but I can't again. I couldn't play that game on game pass in my bed, so uh, doesn't steam deck, didn't they did?
Speaker 2:they say they incorporated game pass into it, or no?
Speaker 1:Uh, so you can like. There's a couple of ways you can play game pass on your Steam deck. Uh, you should either do it through, like what does that mean I hit the wrong button and it worked and now I feel like an asshole.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's okay. Uh, you can play, uh like. There's different apps you can download or you can stream it like, just like, using it as like a streaming device like your phone or something like that. So, um, yeah, there's different ways you can play, uh, and then and then, and then there's ways that you can play, uh like your amazon games that you can get right and all your like, all these, like there's tons of games you can get through, epic and all those other things like those require you to like, do a little bit of like, get the down list, download this app and do this.
Speaker 1:Um, I really delve into that yet, but, uh, there's lots. I mean, I have tons of games on steam anyway. Um, I think the one thing is that not every game is steam deck certified, uh, so sometimes they work just fine and sometimes you're like, oh, that game. I think the one thing is that not every game is Steam Deck certified, so sometimes they work just fine, and sometimes you're like, oh, that game doesn't work at all Because it really does require mouse, although even on the Steam Deck, it does have like two pads on it that you can move around and it works like a mouse pad. Yeah, that's cool. It was good timing, like right when I got out of surgery whoa.
Speaker 3:Nobody said you had surgery. What are you talking about? What are you talking about?
Speaker 1:this was all theoretically, I mean hypothetically when you were, when man when I possibly, I mean if I were to get out of surgery, it was on sale right after. If I were to get out of surgery, it would have on sale right after if I were to get out of surgery.
Speaker 2:It would have been on sale. It would have been on sale.
Speaker 1:That's true, it would have been on sale, and you know so. Then I bought, I mean I bought it, but yeah. So anyway, can I just, can I? Can I say one thing about the surgery, though, because I did have surgery? You could say hypothetical things, hypoth. Can I just, can I? Can I say one thing about the surgery, though, because I did have surgery?
Speaker 2:You could. You could say hypothetical things, hypothetical Potential surgery.
Speaker 1:Ok, if I, if I hypothetically had a hip replacement surgery, hypothetically speaking, Nobody even said hip replacement, so you got here.
Speaker 1:When, when I hypothetically get out of surgery, boy, I think I would think things are really funny and I would probably laugh my head off. And I mean hypothetically speaking, if that were to happen, but who knows. I mean I guess if that happens I would find it funny, but I did laugh, I couldn't help. I laughed so hard. After I don't know why, I don't know happens. I would find it funny, but I did laugh, I couldn't help. I laughed so hard. After I don't know why, I don't know if it was the drugs or what.
Speaker 2:It was the drugs.
Speaker 1:Yeah, probably.
Speaker 3:I didn't laugh when I'm on drugs.
Speaker 2:It was all the drugs you had. And anesthesia probably played something into it too.
Speaker 1:I think so. Yeah, probably. Yeah, they did say hypothetically when they are giving my anesthesia, they said it's kind of like having a really good cocktail and uh, and then they said it said at one point hypothetically they said do you still feel your legs? And I said yeah, and they said, well, give them another cocktail. At least that's how I remembered it. I don't know, maybe that didn't happen that way, but and then also I don't remember anything after that. Like it was hypothetically speaking. Again, I didn't remember anything. It was a weird. I mean, if that were to happen, it's a anything. Um, it's a weird, it's a. I mean, if that were to happen, it's a weird. It's a weird procedure. It's a trip. It's an hour, it's an hour long trip, but two months of healing. So that's that's that. So, but if I were to have my hip replaced, I can walk better now, if that were to happen sounds like it hypothetically did what it was supposed to hypothetically speaking, it did what it's supposed to do potentially potentially.
Speaker 1:Uh, so, yeah, so I don't know. I mean, I, I would, I would suggest anybody that's getting any kind of major surgery done probably, probably to go get a steam deck, cause you'll be laid up for quite some time and there's usually some really good sales on steam, so, yeah, all right, that's what about you guys that question? What would you guys play If, hypothetically speaking, you both had to have major surgery?
Speaker 2:anything on the xbox mike I'm taking it a different direction. I'm thinking like one thing if there's one game that I had to play yeah during my uh, downtime. Uh, it would have to be a game that I've never played before and a game that I could spend a month in, and I'm thinking probably Skyrim might be the one to do that for me.
Speaker 1:Have you never played Skyrim?
Speaker 2:no, I've never played Skyrim, it's too overwhelming, it's like it's micromanaging, and then it just starts to feel like work.
Speaker 1:I will say I started Skyrim like five times probably and I have not finished any of any of them.
Speaker 3:I was actually thinking I would get into like a DC universe online and build myself a superhero and play that if I had that much time that's a good idea. Skyrim. I put 250 hours into Skyrim and did everything there was to be done in that damn game yeah, I know you love Skyrim, I knew that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I, I didn't, I made it, I wouldn't say made it far, I made it probably like 20 hours in on one run. And then I what happens when you put those games down and you go back to what was I doing, what happened, what's going on? So then I started what happens when you put those games down? And then you go back to you Like what, what was I doing, what happened, what's going on? So then I started over and then same thing happened. I was like, oh, I'll come back to it. And then I come back to it. I'm like what's going on in this game, what's happening?
Speaker 3:So, unfortunately. That's why I played the show in Overwatch.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah. I played a lot of Star Wars Hunters. I unlocked the latest pass way before the season ended.
Speaker 3:Roger, we're not at that point yet.
Speaker 1:We're not talking about games we're playing. Okay, sorry, you're rusty as hell, I am rusty.
Speaker 2:Give him a little leeway, he's going to get back into the swing of things.
Speaker 3:It's been two months, man, if I give him enough leeway, he's going to hang himself.
Speaker 1:Wow, wow. I guess so yeah, so, yeah so I guess those are our answers to that hypothetical question around the icebreaker.
Speaker 2:Allegedly.
Speaker 1:Allegedly I do have some news. Do you guys still do that? Do you guys talk about news on this show at all?
Speaker 3:no, we stopped oh, it's a totally different format now we would have been done by now if it was just mike and I, yeah, that's true uh, I do have some news, um.
Speaker 1:This uh comes from game developer that Multiverses and Harry Potter deliver 100 million loss for Warner Brothers games. And what they're talking about is that Multiverses and Harry Potter Quidditch were both underperforming and added another 100 million dollars loss to already a $200 million loss from February's Suicide Squad. And then the article goes on to say that then WB says they're going to focus on three or four main properties going forward Harry Potter, which is kind of funny. I mean, yes, harry Potter Quidditch made them a lot of money, but I mean Legacy August Legacy made a lot of money, but I mean, I mean legacy, august legacy made a lot of money but the quidditch game didn't. Um, so they're focused on harry potter, water combat, game of thrones, game of thrones and then dc comics who wanted a quidditch game is my question well, I would want a good quidditch game that you could play online and like be like overwatch, kind of.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Like yeah, that, yeah, something like that would have to be one of those seasonal things.
Speaker 1:It had to be a seasonal thing, not not what they came out with. Uh, I think they thought, boy, people are gonna, because, like, obviously, hogwarts legacy didn't have quidditch in it and I know a lot of people were upset about that. So they probably thought, well, this is an easy latch on and and I think if you had hogwarts legacy you get like special robes or something like that or something. I don't know what you got, but you got something special in the quidditch game. But yeah, it didn't sell. It didn't sell very well. So, uh, the batman vr game came out on the meta quest 3. Mike, have you played it?
Speaker 1:oh no, I wouldn't even like I'd get too dizzy yeah, like getting punched in first person uh, but I heard that's really really, really, really good and it's in the arkham series, um, and they're apparently they're going to focus on that. Yet that's where the DC games come into. Play Game of Thrones kind of confused. I was surprised by that. I didn't know that they had Game of Thrones property for.
Speaker 2:I think there was only one. Game of Thrones game that ever came out too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I don't know why they're like well, we're going to focus on that because it's not like.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that is kind of out of the left field. Out of all the properties Warner Brothers could have chosen.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and that kind of aggravates me because, once again, ignoring the looney tunes, and looney tunes there's a looney tunes sports game that just recently came out yeah, but that's like that's, that's game mill.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that was game mill and it wasn't good and I heard yeah um, but like um, did they halfway sideways announce a hogwarts legacy 2?
Speaker 3:or was that a weird fever dream that I had? No, I think they did.
Speaker 2:I think they talked about like because it like exceeded expectations, they could sell.
Speaker 1:Like because it like exceeded expectations, they could sell like 30 million copies or something which is huge uh, so I heard was that the sequel has been confirmed and they're gonna tie it into the new harry potter tv series that's coming out on hb, that's right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what it was that I saw and it's the I mean, harry potter series is just the remake of the movies or the books, rather, I guess, but as a tv series and I I don't know if I like that idea, I mean it's. I mean that's one thing I liked about hogwarts legacy is just it was a standalone outside of the harry potter universe and it was cool like it didn't have anything. It was just like more of the Harry Potter universe and it was cool Like it didn't have anything. It was just like more exploring, like a magical world. That was neat. I don't know if I liked the idea of it's like oh, now we're going to tie into the Harry Potter, you know storyline, like you know what I'm going to go on a rant now.
Speaker 2:Now, you pissed me off, jeez You're. You didn't. I'm just. I just makes me so angry, like, if you're gonna explore the harry potter universe, don't tie into that story.
Speaker 3:That story's done same thing with stupid, stupid, dumbass star wars yeah, I saw they were talking about doing a 10 through 12 they're doing another, supposedly they're doing another trilogy and supposedly it's uh, continuing the whole sky Skywalker thing.
Speaker 2:Just put it to rest. Put the whole Skywalker and Darth Vader thing to rest. You could tell so many other stories. Same thing with the Harry Potter universe. Tell other stories in the Harry Potter universe. Or if you're going to include Harry Potter, at least do the whatever, the I don't know Harry Potter and the girl with the dragon tattoo or whatever that where he's older and he works at the ministry of magic oh yeah, that, that, that that was terrible though was it
Speaker 2:yeah, well, just if you're gonna do it, don't like do it when they're older or don't, don't use them at all yeah, don't use them at all.
Speaker 1:Right, like, if you want to yeah, it's some variety, I agree, I agree. Uh, you know, immortal combat has what uh new dlc right? Ghost face just came out recently yep or did it come out tank?
Speaker 2:clan. Oh he doesn't.
Speaker 3:No, no, um from scream from scream, not the ghost face killer well, he is a killer, but yeah, no, that's not.
Speaker 2:So.
Speaker 1:That's like, I think that's like next week that he comes out okay, it's next, but yeah, okay, but, but it so, yeah, so they're still working on that stuff, um, but you know, I that the the other thing that I thought was interesting about this was the, uh, the multiverses, because that game was just weird because it came out and then it then it was, then it was gone and they're like no, it's back. I mean, I guess it didn't really come out, was like in early access or something like that. Yeah, or in beta, I guess, but, um, but it was doing well in beta. Now it's like nobody's like playing it because it's like, yeah, it's just not it's, it's.
Speaker 1:It's kind of bland yeah, well, it's also free to play as well.
Speaker 2:It's free to play, but it's, and it's also very grindy, very grindy hmm, so I mean, but they're coming out with, like new characters.
Speaker 1:I just saw that they came out with uh, jason borges was recent, really right that was.
Speaker 3:That was about two months ago well but if you're talking recently, then we're talking that was when you had one good hit bat one bad.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly hypothetically I think raven, they just announced oh, raven, that's right, I did see that too, yeah oh, that's so.
Speaker 3:Raven gotcha, I got, that's so raven like.
Speaker 2:I was like no, no From the Edgar Allen Poe, yeah.
Speaker 1:I would actually really love to see like a triple pack of Raven. It would be that so Raven, raven, the crow, and then and then the actual Raven from Teen Titans. That'd be really fun let's not about the wrestler.
Speaker 2:Greatest wrestler.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah, let's make it a four pack, let's make it just make it.
Speaker 2:Just make it different skins yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Just, they all have the same power. They just sit in the corner and yell nevermore um, so yeah, I don't know. Mike, did you have other information on this stuff too?
Speaker 2:that was the only information I had oh, okay, yeah I just said, they're focusing on mortal combat, which makes me happy and makes me not happy at the same time, because mortal combat used to be good until warner brothers got a hold of it and forced them to make micro transactions galore. I haven't used that term in a long time. Galore, do people still use the word galore anyway?
Speaker 1:microtransactions, like crazy yeah and it's, and it's not fun as it used to be yeah, uh, the other thing that I thought was kind of interesting was that a director's cut of the first game of the hogwarts legacy is said to be in the works, with rock study reportedly pitching in as co-development. Just kind of interesting. Avalanche studios, which I totally forgot Avalanche software, did the first game and I've, I'm not mistaken, they did the Disney infinity Game as well. Anyway, I thought that was pretty interesting. So that's the only news that I thought was of any interest to me. Anyway, else, have anything that you saw, like anything that I missed, no, okay yeah, I got, okay, I got nothing uh, should we move on to games we're playing?
Speaker 1:sure, do you guys want to go first, because I have a long list? Sure, okay mike, do you want to go first?
Speaker 2:sure played some more of uh, halloween on retro realms. Last week I kind of complained about the, the input lag, and I still agree that yes, it is inputty and laggy, um, but I'm getting better at it. I'm avoiding the downward strikes which take a pretty big wind-up time and and I found I can kind of cheese my way through the levels if I speedrun it A and B, if I do Michael Myers' dash attack, where you just hold the button down Because he's invincible when he does the dash attack. So I'm just cheesing that the whole time. Dash attack, dash attack, dash attack, dash attack. So I'm doing that and it's getting better, it's getting a little more enjoyable. I'm having fun with it again. The the achievements are very creative and some of them are easy. Like, I got 49 points just by watching the credits for 30 seconds. So it's like that. So, um, I still my my hang-ups are still valid, but I'm I'm, I'm warming up to it a little bit more did you?
Speaker 1:did you get both games, or did you just get?
Speaker 2:I got the physical, so it comes with both oh, it did come with both.
Speaker 1:Yeah, does the physical because, like, aren't they're coming, aren't they gonna be coming up with more games underneath that retro arcade like?
Speaker 2:they've.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they've said they've wanted to, but nothing's been announced okay, so, but if you buy the physical, then and what? Those rest of it, dlc or do you get? Or how does harder no?
Speaker 1:I'm assuming they're either going to offer it as dlc or offer it as a stand, as a separate package, because that's that's the only options they got yeah, well, I mean, I mean just yeah, I agreed, but I mean it was, it's just interesting because, like they, they package it as like oh, you get this arcade, like it's kind of like that capcom arcade stuff right, like the capcom cabinet stuff that they did, and it's like you can get that one app but then you can play a bunch of games, but you have to buy the game separately. And I just think that's an interesting thing is, when you buy the physical thing, it's like okay, I have the physical, but it's just these two games, but then I would have to buy the physical game for anything else that comes out separate.
Speaker 2:Like I don't know, it's just interesting, sorry uh well, when you go into the arcade, in it there's six arcade cabinets, and four of them are covered.
Speaker 3:Oh, really, and you can download the arcade portion for free as well, even on the Xbox.
Speaker 2:Oh, so you can just walk around the arcade and just look at the videos or something.
Speaker 3:I haven't booted it up yet, but it's there.
Speaker 2:I'd be curious to see if you don't buy the games, what do you do?
Speaker 1:I'll check it out and let you know, next week yeah you just walk around an empty arcade, which is actually pretty appropriate probably. It's like going to the mall yeah, I was just gonna say it's like going to ladin's castle you know, what's interesting is that when you brought that up, that just made me reminisce about something.
Speaker 2:While you're talking about empty malls and stuff, have either of you ever played dead rising the first?
Speaker 1:one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely yeah beginning to end yes, not, not no that's, I gotta make sure, because you got to play through that game a few times to get the true ending and there was always something I found so fascinating about that game. And it's on your way to get the true ending. And a spoiler alert for a 25 year or 15 year old game. What, no, what is it?
Speaker 1:7 30, almost 20, yeah, I think it's almost 20.
Speaker 2:It's getting old. Um, there's a point in the game towards the end and you only get this again by going through the uh, the true ending, where you go through the mall and it is completely empty, like there are no zombies whatsoever, and there's something so creepy but, at the same time, calm. Calming about it, because you've spent probably 10 to 15 hours in total chaos, running through all these zombie hordes, but then now to be able to like slow down and take your time as you're going through it, it's a really, really cool. I don't know if it, if you felt that same way, phil, but when, when I went into the mall and it was like it was emptied and there was no zombies running around and everything like that, I'm like this is a weird feeling. It almost felt like being in, like you know know, an abandoned mall.
Speaker 3:It's a. It's very similar to going to the grocery store a little stoned at three o'clock in the morning. Well all you hear is like the shitty eighties and nineties. Music played in the background, the overhead, and you're the only person walking around the entire place.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know exactly what it's like. How bizarre, how bizarre, how bizarre.
Speaker 3:How bizarre, exactly.
Speaker 1:It's like yep, refried beans, rice-a-roni. Am I wrong to think that Santa Claus is in that game? Isn't there a zombie zombie, he was in one of them. He was one of the bosses. It was a Santa Claus-looking dude, I don't remember which one of the three or four that it was, though. Okay, you know, and I never beat it, but I actually really liked that game a lot.
Speaker 2:And the physical edition of the. It's hard at first.
Speaker 3:Yeah, once you get souped up, it's a different story.
Speaker 2:You gotta get game over probably a good three or four times before, and it's a battle against time more than anything else.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's the time A lot stressful about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I thought it was a cool game, though I mean I thought it was. I mean I think the clever part was you could use all the different things in the mall, like shopping carts and fun things that you can use. The rem came out too. Yeah, so yeah, when it goes on sale, I'm grabbing it. Yeah, it will. It's capcom, yep, uh, anything else?
Speaker 2:oh, what I've been playing, oh shit um, I started up the uh next season of fortnite, which I am very excited about because it's a throwback season and they brought back my favorite island, which was the island from season two, so I get to see all my favorites. Uh, that's when I started getting into fortnite, that's how old this island is when I just started getting into it, and so that's, like you know, like I don't know, like one of those catty corner and the rig or not the rig um, maybe is it the rig.
Speaker 2:I think the rig is in there Agency, which is a whole bunch of stuff that I'm like reminiscing, like, oh, I remember when I first used to play this. It was a lot of fun. So it holds a special place because me, that's when the boy finally got me into playing Fortnite and he and I, over Christmas break, just played it non-stop. That's how I really got into the game. It sucks that it's a short season and only lasts like a month. So that's it. Those are the only games that I've played.
Speaker 1:I've been busy, very, very busy can I just do a shout out here quick? Your son did a really great job announcing football games. That was fun to watch oh, thank you he did really, you know, and I'll tell you, I think that's really hard to do, especially high school games three hours by yourself calling play by playing football, and that one game. Did it go into like double or double overtime double sudden death, some kind of overtime, yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 2:Secret probation yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean it was, I was just like, oh my gosh, and and then they lost.
Speaker 2:Oh, they lost. Oh, that was so heartbreaking, it was so heartbreaking to watch that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you could tell he was so bummed out. Yeah, he was, uh, but he did a really great job doing that.
Speaker 3:So cool uh, thank you let him know.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, I don't think I don't know if you let him listen to this show or not, because you know why?
Speaker 3:why roger? Why? What is your reason for why he shouldn't be able to listen to this show?
Speaker 1:Because, it's so good that it might just you know ruin him for all of them. Yeah yeah, he can't listen to any other podcast because it'd be like nothing else compares to the Gamer Heads podcast.
Speaker 3:He's got dozens of listeners.
Speaker 1:That's right, that's right, but yeah, let him know that he did a fantastic job. Agreed, thank you, will do.
Speaker 2:What that he did a fantastic job Agreed. Thank you, will do?
Speaker 1:What about you, Phil? What have you been playing?
Speaker 3:Well, listeners, sit back, crack open a cold one, cause I got some stories to tell.
Speaker 1:Oh wow, I like stories.
Speaker 3:I have been playing some house of golf too. Okay, what is house of golf too, you might ask, yeah, what is house of golf 2?
Speaker 1:you might ask, yeah, what is house of golf 1?
Speaker 3:I never even heard the first game, don't know never played the first one, but about the second one because it was on sale. It is a miniature golf game with, they claim, 400 courses. Don't know how accurate that is, but they are all based around, so far from what I've seen, objects that are all around the house and courses are all set up around the house. There are hidden balls or hidden icons that you can collect to unlock different secret balls and stuff like that.
Speaker 3:Uh, it's not great, it's not bad, it's better than golf with friends, because golf with friends sucked that's gonna say that's not a very uh high bar, though no, it's not, but it's a game that I plan to put in more time into. I don't think there is online multiplayer in it, which is the one facet of it that sucks. Controls are pretty rudimentary. It's pretty self-explanatory. It's a miniature golf game. You play from directly behind the ball, though, so you're not seeing your own character or whatever. You're controlling just the ball itself and bouncing that off of everything. Not terrible.
Speaker 3:It's currently on sale. I think it's 50% off. It's like 10 bucks or $15, something like that, and I said what the hell? I like mini golf, I like golf games. I'll check it out, I'll give it a go. It's all right. Outside of that, I'm playing a game that Mike has recommended, probably a couple of years ago, that also went on sale pretty recently for, I believe, the low, low price of $6. And I'm currently working my way through a I'm going to call it an early 2000s style retro platformer collect-a-thon called Pumpkin Jack.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah that game's great. Pumpkin Jack is fantastic. The controls are pretty spot on. You're playing as a pumpkin that has been brought back. Nope, you're playing as a guy named Jack that was brought back inside of a pumpkin head to go defeat an evil wizard. If I remember correctly, I'm like four or five levels deep into this story. I don't really pay attention to it, it's just kind of there and you have a crow companion that you can use to go and kill creatures, ghosts, zombies, all that kind of stuff. That's right To work your way up to fight this, this magical wizard. That has made the world me too happy. So you're there to take it all down.
Speaker 3:Uh, one of my favorite parts about this game and I know I say it a lot is the soundtrack. It's just a very haunting, spooky type of a soundtrack that just really hits all the right vibes of what you would expect a game like pumpkin jack to have for a soundtrack. Controls are absolutely spot on. The level design is pretty creative. You also can play as just your head sometimes to go and can to go and unlock puzzles and open up doorways and things like that. I've also reached a point well, points where you can. You're chasing a horse and or you're riding on a horse to uh hurdle over obstacles and fight your way through there to battle a witch and her husband, I believe, is what it is. Um, but yeah, if you like that early 2000 style platformer, action, adventure type of game, like a ratchet and clank, uh, sly cooper, any of those types of things this game is definitely well worth putting your eyes on and putting some time into with it.
Speaker 1:Just having been october slash, halloween season, I thought it was the absolute perfect time to jump into this game, and it doesn't suck yeah, and you can usually find it pretty cheap too, I think, like I usually see it around, like the five or six dollar mark on sale, I think I got it for six on the xbox yeah, so I mean, it goes on sale pretty regularly too.
Speaker 2:So oh yeah, and they just released a physical edition on oh limited run games, I think that's right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think you're right wait, do we like limited run games or we hate them?
Speaker 1:uh, you, you wait a long time for those games, right, don't you?
Speaker 2:yeah, you do wait a long time for those but eventually you get them eventually.
Speaker 1:Eventually it ends up at your house. I don't know, oh the, or you can go to like conventions and buy games straight from them and then you don't have to. That's true worry about ordering stuff, but phil.
Speaker 2:There was going back to golf. Real quick I saw there was a video that came up in my feed of this guy streaming a golf game. Now, it was a first person golf game, so and he's he's golfing at night and when he's golfing, I guess this is not just a golf game, it's also a survival horror game oh, no shit, this sounds awesome he goes to take a swing and turns and looks and like in the trees there's this, like there's this creepy dude just like standing there smiling.
Speaker 2:So every time he turns around and puts the golf ball down and takes a swing, the guy gets a little bit closer, like every time you look away. So you got to like keep looking at him and run towards the ball and hit it again, and so it looked pretty funny.
Speaker 3:Wow, that sounds fun.
Speaker 2:I didn't know the name of it, but I can look it up.
Speaker 1:I'll see what I can find that's what they should have done with that Mario golf game that they came out with.
Speaker 1:What Bad Rush or something like that Superstar Rush or something oh yeah where it would be like hordes of zombies coming after him or something like that. Not that that's Mario, but that would be fun. I will say that's my biggest disappointment game ever, because I was really looking forward to that game, that Mario Golf game, because Mario Golf is pretty good. The original Mario Golf and the one on 3DS is very good, but that one on the Switch was not very good.
Speaker 3:Whoa, you watch your mouth. Everything on the switch was not very good. Uh, oh, you watch your. You watch your mouth. Everything on the switch is great. Also, mike, please tell me it's called surviving the golf I have no idea, I don't know the damn it it's fine.
Speaker 1:Uh, do you have other games?
Speaker 3:phil uh, yeah, there's this little game that involves, uh, 18 people in the field at the same time and one person's throwing a ball and the other person's trying to hit the ball. It's called m will be the show.
Speaker 3:I played a lot of that, uh, there's also this other game where you've got two teams of five that are trying to take over objectives, and everybody's kind of got these different powers and different abilities and you have to work together as a team, otherwise you're royally screwed. And uh, there's three different roles that you can play, as one is a tank, one is a dps, one's a healer, slash support. It's called overwatch it might catch on at some point. I don't know.
Speaker 1:It's a smaller yeah, I mean look at concord concord the airplane like the game the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 1:man, what the? The game that was coming out on playstation was playstation. It was in the works for like seven years and it was like an overwatch type game where you it was like a player versus player I don't know squad of five, and it came out. I think it came out, maybe right before, in less than a week. Yeah, it came out. I think it came out maybe right before, less than a week yeah, it was basically.
Speaker 2:It was an Overwatch ripoff that they were charging $30 for.
Speaker 1:Nobody played it, so they canned it and it cost Sony at least $200 million yeah but then they didn't bring it and then when I was out hypothetically for a hip replacement surgery, they closed down the studio. It was crazy, it was a crazy. There was a crazy, crazy, crazy. I don't know it's. It's weird, I don't know. I think if that game came out, went over to watch, first released, I think that game would have done fine. Or paladins, or paladins, or Paladins, which I like to call Overwatch 64. Or, as my nephew calls it.
Speaker 1:Oh Knockout. Don't mention Knockout City. That breaks my heart. That game was so good. Knockout City was.
Speaker 3:If it was good, it'd still be here.
Speaker 1:No, it would, it should still be here. My nephew calls paladins. Well, the first time I, the first time I ever heard of paladins was from my nephew and he said no, he's from poland, okay. So he said you ever hear this game called paladins? And I was like what what, what, what game? I mean paladins. Yeah, I heard that game. Yeah, I heard of that game. Yeah, that game still exists, though, right, people still play that game, don't they?
Speaker 3:I'm going to say yes. With no facts.
Speaker 2:When you say people, that means at least two, at least.
Speaker 1:At least two People do play that.
Speaker 1:One on each team. Okay, so here's my games and I'm not gonna list everything because I'm just not, um, but so some of the games I'm playing. I mentioned brutal legends, so I'm gonna be talking about that game on a podcast, uh, coming up here in a couple weeks. Um, this is my first time playing it. Even though I had it, I think it was on like playstation, like plus. I think it was one of the games you could get on like playstation 3 or something like that at one point, um, but I never played it, so I'm playing it now. Uh, have either of you played that? This is a jack Jack Black game.
Speaker 2:I beat it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you beat it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's okay, it's okay.
Speaker 2:Some RTS in there too. Right, yeah, there are.
Speaker 1:Cause the head bangers. Yeah, you send those out, yeah.
Speaker 3:Back when it first came out. It was a pretty rad game. It was also brought to us by Schaefer, uh, yeah shaffer from double fine double fine yeah yeah uh, it's funny because I must have, because I was looking at like what?
Speaker 1:because I I don't remember this game. I mean, I kind of remember the game when it first released, but I don't remember what the reviews were when it first came out. So I was looking it up and uh, and then all of send him a google feed. It's like, oh, schaefer's talking about doing, uh, possibly going back into that world of brutal legends 2, doing a brutal legends 2, maybe, possibly. And I was like, yeah, maybe, I don't know. Uh, yeah, I don't know, it'd be interesting to see. I haven't finished it yet, but it's okay, it just I don't know. I think I, I think when it, when it released. I wish I'd have played it when it released. I guess that's what I'm just saying so it was good back then.
Speaker 1:It was good back then. Yeah, um, a good game that I am playing, that I'm super excited about and I'm writing a review or reviewing it, um, is sleighway camp 2. Uh, by blue wizard. They did obviously sleighway camp one and then they did the friday 13th killer puzzle and now they came out with unfortunately lost the license to that um, and now they're coming out with, uh, or they just came out with sleighway camp 2 and then this one is really, uh, pretty funny. So you remember that you guys both played the first one, right, sleighway camp.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, I don't know if I played sleighway camp, but I know I played the friday. 13th version okay.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I played one of the two as well. Don't remember which version.
Speaker 1:I think I played the friday 13th version so in sleighway camp it was all the different levels were movies and it was like at a movie rental place. It was all these old cassettes, so like you'd pick the different cassettes and there was like the different worlds. In slyway camp 2 it starts off with uh, this kid's, this kid saying and this is in the trailer, so it's not spoiler or anything but he says hey, hey guys, do you guys wanna, do you guys want, to bring skull face back? And they're like I don't know if that's a great idea, let's summon him. And then he starts saying this scary poem and skull face comes and he starts killing all the kids. And then the kid oh, the kid said well, if he comes here we can just read the poem backwards, and then he'll be trapped. And he starts reading the poem backwards and skull face cracks his neck and he's laying there dying.
Speaker 1:But he finishes the poem and skull face gets trapped in his phone. He's like, cause the kid was reading it from his phone. And now he's in this thing called terror tube, which is supposed to be like YouTube by all terror movies, and it's in its rows of movies, of different movies, like you would see on like YouTube or Netflix, and I think it's in its rows of movies, of different movies. Uh, like you would see, on like youtube or netflix, and I think it's actually on netflix. I think, um, netflix did put this game on there, although apparently that's not longer a thing anymore. I don't think netflix is doing games anymore either I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think they stopped that um, but it's cool.
Speaker 1:And so in the first one and also the Jason the Friday the 13th, it was more like voxel artwork. This one is more like cartoony. It still has that same kind of boxy look to it, but it's more cartoony. And in this one there's different character types you can play now. So there's monsters, there's ghosts, there's sorcerers, so not just slashers, not just the skull face and all the characters in the skull face slasher types. And then, of course, then having the different puzzles were required to do different things, like as a monster. Uh, is it a monster? Yeah, I think it's.
Speaker 1:Monsters like you have the ability to to scare and terrorize people and they get frozen in place. Well, sometimes you have to do that so that way they don't run away. So you can, you know, do your killing and do all the things you need to do. Um, unlike the other game, though, it's not slidey. So in the skulf, uh, the first sleighway camp, like skull face would slide, like when you move him he'd go all the way across, right, and he'd go down and up and across until he hits it whatever until he hits something.
Speaker 1:and this one, you move around. Now the, the, the, the camp characters or all the other characters that you're slaying, do slide. They do run away from you and they'll run until they hit something, but the Skull Face character doesn't slide anywhere. He can move one space at a time, which is neat. The one thing that I wish that they would have done. I mean I get that they didn't because they have the different characters now. But do you remember?
Speaker 1:Uh, I don't, maybe it wasn't the jason one too, maybe I don't know, but you could have different weapons to kill the camp kids with, with like plungers or toilet brush. They, they didn't do that in this one. Uh, they just. They have a machete that you can find in the in the game and that gives you like star, and then you need so many stars to unlock the next role of movies, right, but they, but they just have. They don't have the all the different weapons, which is too. I mean I understand why, because a lot of those characters, it doesn't make sense, because they're not slasher characters, so it wouldn't make sense for them to have all these different weapons. But that was one of my favorite things in the in that first game was the fact that you had all these different plungers and I don't remember all the like baseball bat obviously.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, there's. So like, yeah, and this one is, there's still there. I mean, they're very cartoony and there're still like a lot of blood, um, and you can turn that all off if you're like, oh, I don't want to play with that, but I mean, like it's cartoony stuff, it's just, it's um, but it's. They did a fantastic. I mean, the presentation in this is fantastic and the the uh callbacks to like 80 classics. There was like one I forget what it's called, but it was harry and the hendersons and you play as a sasquatch, uh, and in like in each movie has a subtitle of like a sasquatch that moves to the suburban area, finds out that nobody really likes him and he goes on a killing spree like it's just, it's just funny, stuff like that. That I just, I love that they tied into the uh, like those 80. And there's a Teen Wolf one where you're a werewolf and it's like a teen turns into a werewolf and tries to join the sports team but is never welcomed and then goes on a killing spree Like it's always that kind of stuff, like it's just, it's just funny. So that's Sleigh Way, camp 2.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, I have lots of games. I don't mind. I try to go through these a little quickly. I'm playing the plucky squire uh as well. Uh, playing that to talk about that on a podcast.
Speaker 1:Um, this is one of the games that I was really, really, really looking forward to in the beginning of the year. Uh, because it just looks so cool, because this is a game that you jump in and out of out of, uh, a storybook, and it just seemed really cool. I will say this the storybook parts are really cool. The jumping out of the storybook parts are just like I don't need this. This is kind of boring and it's having and it's not just on a Switch, phil, but it has some performance issues across the board. Boo, too many things happening at the screen and, and if I'm, if I'm one to say, uh, performance issues, uh, you know it's a problem. You're pretty forgiving. I am pretty forgiving when it comes to that because, yeah, I grew up playing atari games and like, okay, well, yeah, that's gonna happen, but, boy, you're in the middle of a combat and there's all the stuff going on and your character is just jumping and slugging and lagging it's, it's, it's not not great. So, um, I'll just mention a couple other games. I'm also playing, uh, mirthwood. So this game is absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 1:I could spend a whole hour talking about this game and I probably will at some point. Um, so this game is an rpg game where you can make your character and the character creation is pretty deep. You can have different backgrounds, like you can be a noble person, you can be a peasant, you can be a bunch of other different backgrounds, and then there's different uh careers you can have. So I picked actor, which is pretty funny, and it's like stardew valley meets. Uh, you know, the last thing on the sky is like skyrim like, because and it's all top down, it's all hand-drawn. But this game is so huge. There's so many weird things that could happen in just random events and just weird stuff that happens in this game. It's so amazing. I played this at pax west last year and, uh, I loved it so much and uh, and now I'm playing it for the review and I'll just tell you like a little bit about this game, one of the weird adventures that just happened.
Speaker 1:So the the story is and this doesn't this isn't spoiler but you're, you're like in this town and you're kind of, I think you're, your father is like the mayor of this town. It's it's a medieval game and they're getting attacked by these Raiders and your family's like you got to get out of here. You got to get on the boat. We'll meet you at this other land. You have to leave right now, get out of here. So then you leave and you have nothing and some, some stranger gives you this land with with this house and it's like you can do whatever you want with this, this land in this house. You can fix it up. It's yours. And then there's's you start going to town. You realize there's a bunch of quests and there's some other weird stuff happening in this new land that you went to and you start uncovering all these secrets. But it's like but then there'll be dungeons and you go down in the dungeons and you go fight in these dungeons and sent to do different things and it's it's very like midi, like medieval it's. It's really cool, it's so good. But so this is a funny story.
Speaker 1:So I was just, I was just exploring because I was like, oh, let's go this way. And then there was this I found this little camp and there's a thief in there and he started chasing me and I was there's no way I was gonna take him on, because I was like really underpowered and I was like I'm out of here and I ran away. And then the next day I was like, well, I'm gonna go back over there and see if I can sneak around. And as I got there, just some random guardsman was walking through the woods and started attacking the guy, attacking the thief, and I was like, well, I'm jumping in on this. So we both killed the thief and then I looted the thief and it was so cool. I was like that just randomly happened, that they just happened to be in the same place. You can romance anybody in the game.
Speaker 2:Each character has you. There's romance the thief.
Speaker 1:Well, no, that I couldn't. You said anybody. Okay, okay, I take that back. You can romance anybody. That's guard.
Speaker 2:Yes, you could romance the guard the guard that killed the thief, you can romance them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, nice, yep. Um, yeah, it's, it's I don't know. I'm really enjoying the game because there's just so much and there's a morality thing too, so I mean you can do yeah good things various. Yeah, I accidentally stole something and then they're like oh, your morality went down. I was like, no, I was just looking, I didn't mean to steal that's what you always say yeah, that's that's. That's what I always. That's how it's gotten me out of trouble in the past.
Speaker 3:Um I accidentally stole something from target once. I got banned for life really yeah oh I, I accidentally stole something from walmart, but I don't think they cared oh, I accidentally stole like ten thousand dollars worth of shit from walmart when I worked there, but that's neither here nor there okay, okay, uh, okay, uh and uh, so, yeah.
Speaker 1:So that's uh, that's mirthwood. Um, another game that's rpg is dark age. Uh, I'm sorry, dragon age, the, the, the veil guard. The game is so good. Oh my god, that game is so good.
Speaker 1:I did the first three or four. I played the first one. I did not play the. I did not play acquisition. I wish I would have. I didn't play the second one either, um, but I'm really enjoying this one a lot. It's really good, um, so yeah, there are callbacks to other characters. I did find out that apparently I have a thing for redhead dwarves that are, uh, that are uh, possessed by ancient magic. I guess that's the thing that I I have a thing for like you or your character?
Speaker 1:you gotta like discern roger I think both, because you can, we can romance. We're not here to kinkshame, because you can romance anybody in that game too.
Speaker 2:Can you romance the thief from the other game?
Speaker 3:Sounds like, with your eight weeks off, you spent a lot of time romancing things, right? Yeah, I know, I don't know what's going on. I don't know. Is there more? Stuff that's going on here you want to talk about yeah.
Speaker 2:I also played Leisure Suit Larry, but that's besides the point, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then the last game I'll talk about is I'm really enjoying this game a lot and it's kind of fun because my son is playing it too Leisure. Suit.
Speaker 1:Larry, no God, no Pokemon. Tcg Pocket. Oh yeah, the card collecting game for the phone yeah, it's pretty fun and now you can battle and they have a badge, their first badge. If you get 45 wins, you get a badge within a certain amount of time. They're like between now and like the 28th or something like that. So I was just like hey, oliver, you want to take me on 45 times?
Speaker 3:damn dude, that's just straight up bullying.
Speaker 1:No, I, I, I did not do that to him. Um, no, but he's really liking it. I mean, you know, he's gotten really into uh, pokemon cards. In fact, this past weekend we went to a card shop and, uh, he bought a bunch of cards. They were like 10 cents a piece and he's like, whoa, dad, they have this card, they have this card. I'm like, yeah, they're 10 cents, just pick a bunch of cards that you want, I don't care. Um, so then, but now he's got this and he's super like the other day he pulled, uh, he got, uh, what's the? The charmander big?
Speaker 1:charizard yeah, he got charizard and he was so excited and it's all. It's all sparkly too. It's the ex version of it, so he was like all excited and he was just so happy and that's cool. I mean, I'm glad that he's happy with that, but yeah, it's cool. I mean, apparently within its first week it made more money than pokemon go, which is crazy which would make sense because it's the card game and that's huge yeah, I mean, and I didn't I haven't spent a dime on this game yet, so I don't know how it made all that money.
Speaker 1:I mean, I guess you can buy. You can buy a bunch of packs, you can, you know, but you get like a pack every 24. Guess you can buy a bunch of packs, but you get a pack every 24 hours. You can unlock a new pack, yeah, but sometimes one pack just isn't enough, I know. So, yeah, those are the games that I've been playing. Oh, actually, can I just mention one other game? You can actually go to our website. It should be posted by the time you hear this episode. Gamerheadspodcastcom.
Speaker 2:You didn't say it right. Gamerheadspodcastcom.
Speaker 1:There you go. That's better and it has. So it's a preview, it's a mobile game, so I will say this it's a Switch game.
Speaker 1:It's a GPS game, but it's a card deck builder slash RPG GPS game and it's called World Seekers and so the idea is that they want you to get out and walk around and take on different there's different zones and if you walk around and go into different zones and there's different enemies and stuff like that. And I'm going to preface this because I know it's like in early I don't want to say access because they're not really calling it early access, but it's like a. They're calling it like a demo, but it is not polished at all, like there's they have. They starts off by saying it is not polished at all, like there's they have. They starts off by saying please forgive us for our art, but none of the art matches at all. There'll be like an art of, like a cartoonish drawing of like an enemy. Your character that you're playing is an emoji, just an emoji face, and it just that's I don't know. And then some of the some of the characters are painted, so it's like looks like an oil painting and then the next time it's pixelated. That's just weird and the balancing is all off, like. So like I live like 15 minutes out of town, so I went to go pick up my wife and I went into town to get her from work and I was like, well, since I'm waiting, I might as well just play this game and like everyone around me, like all the characters, all the enemies around me were way too high level like I can't. There were like 10 levels ahead of me. I was like, well, what's? I can't even play this game. Like this is weird. And you know there's one.
Speaker 1:The one thing that I will say with gps games is you know, like pokemon go, for instance, one of the things that people really like about the game is that it's tied into like landmarks of the area around you and like those are poke stops. And I know like that's easy and I don't want to say easy, but I mean like like they're special, but they're not, like you, so uniquely special. But it made it unique, right. Like, oh, look at, like this fountain is a pokestop, cool. There's nothing like that in this game. It's just a bunch of streets.
Speaker 1:And it's like, well, why even make this a gps game? Because there's nothing unique, like there's no unique dungeons, there's no unique characters or story or anything that's happening in my area. And I know that's asking a lot, but if you're going to make a gps game and people are going to, whether you like it or not, going to compare it to games like pokemon go, you got to have something like that. Otherwise what's the point of even making a gps game? So, um, you can read more of my thoughts on the game at GamerHeadPodcastcom.
Speaker 1:Now you got it.
Speaker 2:See, I just had to shake that rust off a little bit.
Speaker 1:That's right. So I think that's all I have. I think that's the end of the show. Before we go, I guess we can tell people how they can find us on social media. Mike, how can people find you on social media?
Speaker 2:If you want to find me. I don't know why you would, but you can go on, find me at PezGuyMike.
Speaker 1:And Phil. How can people find you?
Speaker 3:Mike, I would follow you anywhere, but you can find me on. Twitter at BNO23. Bno23.com. Bno23.com. I don't know where that com is coming from? Yeah, I do, but that's not here.
Speaker 1:So GamerHeads is no longer on Twitter. I'll say that I deactivated the account. You can go to BlueSky, though, and go to GamerHeadsPodcastcom on Blue Sky. It's kind of cool. It actually has a domain name tied to it. Twitter just became too toxic and I didn't see anything about games anymore. It just became just a lot of weird shit, and I was done with it. So, yeah, I mean, follow us on blue sky, or go to our youtube channel at uh, youtubecom slash gamer heads, uh, or you can go to our website at gamerheadspodcastcom, oh, and also follow us on on twitch at twitchtv slash gamerheadspodcast, because I'll be streaming more often now, now that I'm back and we're doing our extra life events, so you want to check that out, but then every tuesday is between 8 30 and 10 30 I'll be streaming uh on a regular basis, so check that out, yeah, uh, okay, well, mike, thank you so much for joining us this week.
Speaker 2:No problem, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1:And Phil, thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 3:Always.
Speaker 1:And listeners. Thank you so much for giving us a listen. If you like what you hear, we'd love to have your support. Support us at patrioncom, slash gamer heads and leave us a review While you're at it as well. We'd love to hear what you have to say about the show. Until next week, everyone, stay safe and game on. Bye.
Speaker 2:So long.
Speaker 1:Take care.
