VAMPIRE CRAWLERS & Mortal Kombat story look back đź”´Full Streamđź”´ (4-26)
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Hosts kick off with casual banter, tease upcoming plans and set the tone for a wide ranging gaming discussion.
Maximilian Dood dives into vampire-themed chaos with Vampire Crawlers gameplay and then digs into MK1’s story and mechanics, sharing passion, lore rumors, and hot takes on MK11 and past titles.
Summary
Maximilian Dood and Simmons spend hours reacting to Vampire Crawlers’ demo vibes, then pivot to a deep, opinionated walk-through of the Mortal Kombat franchise’s recent and classic iterations. They highlight Saka’s three variations, the boomerang-with-rope gimmick, and avatar-like “install” mechanics that affect combos in new ways. The crew contrasts the feel and tempo of MK11 with MK1, MK9, and MKX, praising visuals and audio where due but calling MK11’s pace and some design choices a mixed bag. They reminisce about old-school arcade vibes, the brutality and humor of character interactions, and the era of guest characters (Ronaldo, Spawn, etc.), while debating the viability of new engines versus in-house tech. Discussion veers into the state of the industry, dev culture, and how live-service trends shape a studio’s output, intercut with memories of MK’s story arcs, favorite matches, and classic character moments. The stream also riffs on related gaming topics—from Spirit Halloween props to Pokemon card hysteria—tying pop culture chatter to a lively game-night mood. Throughout, Maximilian and crew appreciate MK’s spectacle and MK1’s cinematic storytelling, even when they critique pacing, balance, and the occasional design misstep. By the end, they’re ready to revisit MKX, MK11, and MK1, while teasing future MK and Avatar-related chatter on stream.
Key Takeaways
- Saka’s three variations radically alter his playstyle, from space-sword build to a controlled boomerang with rope dynamics and an invisible stance.
- The boomerang can be cut free from its rope tether, creating a risk/reward loop where the return trajectory becomes a tactical bet.
- Avatar/Install-like mechanics in MK feel akin to classic install systems from Soul Calibur/SNK titles, offering long-term payoff on damage windows.
- MK11 looks stunning and modern, but the crew argues MK1’s visuals and stage work out as arguably more striking in mood and artistry.
- MK games live on a spectrum: spectacle, pace, and memorable character banter often outweigh raw balance for fans in long streams.
- The conversation touches on industry trends (live-service reliance, licensing, and engine choices) and why studios might pivot away from bespoke engines.
- Die-hard MK fans reminisce about the roster’s best moments, with particular love for Ninjas, Scorpion/Sub-Zero dynamics, and iconic fatalities.
Who Is This For?
Essential viewing for MK fans who want candid, opinionated reflections on MK1, MK11, and the franchise’s storytelling, plus nostalgia-driven chatter about Avatar, vampire themes, and classic arcade vibes.
Notable Quotes
"'This boomerang on the rope thing is sick — it can literally vanish into a setup and come back in a crazy way.'"
—Describes Saka’s unique projectile mechanic and its potential for emergent gameplay.
"'If you want chaos and spectacle, MK11 is a feast; if you want mood and painterly visuals, MK1 hits different.'"
—Comparison of MK11 and MK1 visual/atmospheric strengths.
"'The three variations on Saka are like old-school guest character designs—they change the whole approach to how you play him.'"
—Notes on Saka's variations reshaping his gameplay.
"'The arcana/install vibe in these MK titles reminds me of old Soul Calibur timing windows—it's about cashing out at the right moment.'"
—Connects MK mechanics to classic install/arcana-style systems.
"'MK’s roster and stagecraft are as much a show as a fight; sometimes the spectacle matters more than perfect balance.'"
—General takeaway about MK’s design philosophy and audience appeal.
Questions This Video Answers
- How does Saka’s variation system actually change when you pick different builds in MK1 beta footage?
- Why does MK11 look better on a technical level, and where does MK1 beat it in mood or atmosphere?
- What are the major differences between Vampire Crawlers and Vampire Survivors, and why would fans cross between them?
- Which MK games are most recommended for revisiting nostalgia and why is the pacing so controversial among veterans?
- Is there any real signal behind live-service trends in Mortal Kombat's recent releases and how does that affect future titles?
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Full Transcript
Transcending history and the world. A tale of dudes and souls eternally retold. We don't need to shine to see how far we come on our journey. Get to go searching for our star deep in the night. Pray in my heart for that special light to show me with love. Show me with power to sh I can't imagine. Yo, what's up, dudes? All right, [ __ ] Hey. Hi. We're back. Oh god, everything's missing. Uh, let's fixing stuff. There we go. Uh, we're back. Simmons already played this. I did. You did? Oh my god. Why is it so tiny?
Uh, you did. And I'm like, "Yeah, this came out." And it's like people are playing it. They're They're talking about it. Mhm. They're They're talking the good [ __ ] about it. I'm like, "Maybe, just maybe. We'll see how it is." It's good. My wife's been uploading her playthrough on YouTube. Like, we're all like, it's it's the addiction's back. Hey, where the hell are you? Hey, one's just missing. Suck it bomb. Where are Kitty and Steve? That's a great question. That's a good question. Where did they Where did they go? Steve got lost. Kenny spilled something again, most likely.
Wait, are you going to bring anything to get signed? Uh, where to the premiere? What premiere of uh the MJ movie? Oh yeah, the Michael Jackson movie. Yeah, the MJ movie for sure. Yeah. Yeah, I saw someone wearing Steve's exact [ __ ] shirt today. Oh yeah, there's a lot of shirts. Is that like a thing now? Is that like the shirt? Yeah, that was sending like Saragi. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. No. No, I'm not. No. Uh no. I'm going to bring something. Uh, so yeah, we we should do uh vamp. It's not vampire survivors. It's vampire card caps.
Crawler. Card captures. Yes, let's go with that. Vampire Card Captors. Card Captor. Vampires. Vamp crawlers. Vampire crawler. It is. Which is a controller game, right? You can use either controller or key arcade stick keyboard. Yeah, you can use either. Did you see that uh freaking spirit Halloween decoration? Yeah. Is that legit? It's real. That's the New Spirit Halloween uh animatronic. How much does it cost? Uh I'm not sure. Like Ious looks expensive as [ __ ] Yeah. Let me see. Yeah, there's like a giant ass xenomorph. Where the hell am I going to put that? I got rid of the other alien.
Yeah, but like he fell apart. You could, you know, you could replace him. I got rid of it cuz my daughter didn't like it. Really doesn't like the alien. She doesn't like Makes sense. Luke the foxening. Thank you. Uh it costs like a car. $333. That sounds Alien Isolation 2 got teased. What's What's the price? Xenomorph Clinton. Thank you. Hi. Thanks for the 10. Appreciate it. Buy 12 and put it on your 449. It's as much as a switch to Yeah. And the mouth moves. And it's like life size. Yeah. Life size. It moves around.
What's this? What's this? Actually, not a bad in 68. It's not bad. It's actually for that price. is actually not bad. That's kind of That's That's kind of cool. So, we're talking about at Spirit Halloween, they have like a 6'8 xenomorph that has animatronic mouth and uh and tongue and like wiggles around a little bit. It's more alien. Alien one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cuz Alien one alien is like really tall compared to the other ones. And that happens literally in the same day that Alien Isolation 2 got teased. That's kind of weird. I woke up.
I'm like, "Spirit Halloween? What?" And that was definitely a tease. All right. I tell you what, Xeno what? Uh Isolation 2. A Xenomorph. Um anyway, thank you very much. How do we get out of this chicken [ __ ] out there? Um yeah, I don't know what to expect out of isolation too. Uh looking like looking like isolated. Wait a minute. Alien Isolation 2 is looking like a games as a service when they showed a door and like a phone and had sound. That was literally it. How did How How do we pull that conclusion? How? Let me know.
Write it up. Write up the report right now. Write up See what it happen. They have a career listing that says an ambitious multi-year release plan for the project. You mean like with DLC? I mean, yeah. That's how DLC work. That's how DLC works. Like, huh? Anyway, new avatar footage. There was that. Yeah. Um, Saka playable. Saka was shown. Oh, really? Yeah. Do you want to see it? Have you seen it? No, I have not. Let's pull it up. He rzes up all the all the the female characters. Hees. He's like, he protect Hez. He's the Rizzer.
Saka footage. of history. He has the moon install. I was I was out having a lovely day with my wife today, Chad. I'm not terminally online, believe it or not. Yo, it's Avatar Ya backage. Do we have any like raw footage? Yeah. Is there any raw footage? Want it raw chat? There it is. Girlfriend turned into the moon. I think I think I found it. Oh, nice. Balance must be restored. Begin. Fight. A second. Found her. You good? Way there. Oh, wait. Oh, you got tech. I tried to back B right there. It doesn't work.
No, I'm on two piece. Two-piece side. Yeah, I heard he has an interesting projectile. Okay. He's a run character. He's got Suki as his background. messed up. He He know what he feels like? He feels like an odd mixture of like Dan and Robert. Yeah, he's definitely going to be their quote unquote joke character. But in what way? You know, where's where's the goof? The only combo. That's the only combo, you know. Time for what combo? Man, his variation three is crazy. He looks good. Game looks good. Game always look good. Oh, wow. Yeah, he's got to run which is crazy.
Both doing Suki. Oh, the throw loop. What? Oh, nice. Oh, that was cheap. Wait a second. Okay. You see the setup? The vision. You saw the vision? Yeah, that was cute. Oh, that was good. All right, let's They gave him a pizza cutter. What? Wait, wait, wait. They probably hit a reset. Oh no. Okay, we're good. All right. I was like, wait, is this an ability? Wait, you got tech? No, I don't got tech. I tried to do back B right there. It doesn't work. No, seems funny. Oh, back up. Back up. Oh my god, I crossed up.
Is he literally a chorus character or Warhouse Bard? Thank you. Warhouse. Oh, he's with the gifties. What other non-bender character would you want to see, Simmons? I can like catch the boomerang and then I got the sick cancel. Oh, nice. Kyoshi Warriors. Oh my god. That's the only combo. You know, I only had time for one combo, man. I try to unlock. Have Julie be his like birdie. The flow cancel is the hard part. Did the the girl that ruled the badger, was she a bender? I forgot. She's a background character for Zuko. Oh, June.
Yeah, she's in the game already. Not playable. Was she a vendor? I just can't remember. It's been a long time since I've seen the show. Just remember she was June. He's only She's only in one episode. Oh, wow. Really? Two. She's a bounty hunter. One or two. Like two maybe. Okay. I wouldn't see her then. Yeah. I would expect to be a character like Lane from uh from Grandlau. Lil Wayne. Yeah. Lane. Yeah. Yeah. The the trolly guy. the trolley dude with like his two friends. Oh my dude, I remember that guy. Oh no. Jeez Louise.
In that super where they carried him. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Man, that character was funny. Little Wayne. He This This character is very Yeah. He He's like Robert and Dan and Dan is Robert and Robert is Dan and Dan and Robert makes like Saka. Like that's that's the weird kind of vibe I get from this guy. Dude, what the hell? The boomerang makes no goddamn sense. It's got a mind of it own. Like it literally has a mind of its own. Yeah. So, is it like it's it's done a different trajectory every single time it's been played.
I'm like, is this a different button press or what? There's only like three buttons. man. You always give me the spikes. uh outfit. That'd be like these weird slides and and stuff. Oh my god. Fantastic. Oh my god. So much. He [ __ ] hits you with a book like he hits the bird. Oh my god. So why is he invisible? What? He was invisible. Huh? How's the red [ __ ] Yes. His his super was like when he smacked one tong with a bunch of books to get out of the library. The boomerang was up there. And it just came down.
Oh, that's good. Oh [ __ ] Oh, hold on. Hold on. He also has the space sword. Is that what the red thing is? Yeah. Well, when he does that, he pulls the sword out. Otherwise, he's mostly using his club. Oh, I forgot. He has like a back stagger grab. I do a lot of the sword. A space sword. Yeah, I think I think the space's like, dude. Okay. I I think the boomerang is some [ __ ] Did you see that thing? I think it's some Omen [ __ ] where it has like a bunch of trajectories that it can go and it just randomized.
That's literally what Omen did in KO. It almost seemed like he's also avoiding it returning so it would bounce and become like last be be a weird projectile that's just kind of hovering out there being, you know, being annoying. What I like about it is that it's an emergent gameplay thing where it's like, yeah, some crazy thing is going to happen where it comes back at the perfect time and you take advantage of it. You know, like that'll be neat. All right, do it. it's almost like uh Jade's or not Jade, but um Oh, wait.
Wrong. This is the He gets a power up her kissing him. Does that only happen if he has her as the uh the assist character? That's in real life. Just like in real life. Girlfriend install. Does he kiss the other in the other assist characters? Yeah. Who who are his other assists? Is it UA? Does that happen? I'm curious. I keep seeing this weapon he has. I keep thinking that's my boomerang, but it's not actually So if it's out and he doesn't have it, he can't use it. Yeah. If if it drops and he doesn't pick it up, he's ass Yeah.
It's like inventory based. It's a little bit like um Yeah. Look, it just it's not highlighted. Yeah. Uh uh what's her name in in KI? She throws her daggers out and Maya. Maya. Yeah. If she doesn't pick them up. I guess. I guess the crazy part like we don't we're not even really trying to use stand C. I feel like it's good especially like stance cancel. But yeah. Where is this at? Oh my god. Uh is this the level up expo? I think it was a Vegas Vegas. Yeah, Vegas tournament thing. Yeah, they had some FGC stuff.
I'd want to go cuz then it'd be nice. It wouldn't be like probably I mean Evo's nut. Nice. Cancel level. Wait. Oh yeah. Got to get used to that. Oh my god. You didn't You got two already. Wait, how did I get two? How did you get two? Skill issue. It's kind of weird how he has he has the space sword now because his assist changed. Oh, it's P and Dao. Oh, okay. Yeah. Does he kiss him? I doubt it. That's the guy that show shows him how to use the space. Yeah. Yeah. The T1000 voices him.
Oh, that's Robert Patrick. Yeah, it's his voice. So, wait a minute. So, wait. So, space does have a unique mechanic. It's building. Does it happen only on hit? It's four and two. Yeah. What does that mean? It's building. What does that mean? Bunch of mechanics, dude. That's what this [ __ ] is. Like, dude, remember remember Kora? How you had to like build all of this stuff and then cash it out at the perfect time to extend combos and [ __ ] Like, it was a lot. That's the character I ended up having the most fun with was Ka because she was just spiritually soul bad guy.
Like, it was very fun. Gave her an install and everything. Old school soul bad guy, not really the new one. Nice. Good challenge. Damn. Boomerang. It's coming behind me. I know it's coming. I just don't know. One thing I don't get about this, I get I guess it's just cuz it's an exhibition thing. They're like not fighting each other a lot. I'm like, what? What do we got? Guys, show off the game. I'm going to be real. This is what happens when you get FGC heads without like a coordinated match. Like, I'm sorry. Like, I'm going to be real here.
Like, I'm very excited for this game. Show me what he can do. Quit quit like, you know, backing off cuz no one wants to get hit. What is this [ __ ] Nice. Look at the damage on that. Jesus Christ. This ain't Evo. Doing some combos. It does a [ __ ] ton. He also seems like he's a little like Well, maybe it's just cuz you and I both play Kora so much. Like he's not like as fastpaced. No, Kora is [ __ ] crazy fast. Yeah. Like even his combos are more like uh uh uh uh like 1 2 3 4 5 6 kind of thing.
And most of the big combos are in the corner. It it very much has the old school uh old school guilty gear aspect where like in the majority of the old games Yeah. You you there's somewhat small combos midcreen and then you get them to the corner and then the party time. Going to the corner. Go to your corner. I should be doing that. Take that. Oh, I tried to do your tech. He looks like he's going to have a lot of really good crossups covered in time. You were talking about that. Yeah, it he looks like he makes a lot of sense for for for Saka.
You have a weird random boomerang element. You have a lot of these like slow like heavy hitting things with the club and the sword dashes. I don't know what the invisibility thing and I can't even tell why he's turning invisible. Yeah, I don't I I can't give you any canon reason for it. You do chat canon reason of invisibility. Is it pocket sand or some [ __ ] that's unsafe. Wait, you just you just dive better that way. He does it after Oh, opponent is blind hidden with space or in the corner. Wait. Oh, the opponent is blind.
Yes. Interesting. He's a He's a dust bender. Bucket sand. Well, they did have sand benders. Ah no. So good. That's so good. Tony blinded out with Yeah. the base or whatever. You got to turn the reaction. I want that so bad. I see. So rather than like it [ __ ] up the vision of the game, it puts him in like a state that you can do something with it. See, that's what that's the nice thing where it's like I got to get you get creative with what what does the character do in the show? How do we translate that into a fighting game mechanic?
How do you merge the two? Dude, where the [ __ ] did the boomerang go? It is It's gone. Gone. He threw it a little while ago and that [ __ ] is gone. There it is. It finally came back. That was a off screen for like seven in-game seconds. Come back. Oh. Oh, that's so good. I love that. That's funny. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's super sick. I mean, it always comes back eventually, but that was gone for a long time. He threw it again and it still hasn't come back. He won the match and it still hasn't returned to him.
Like, uh uh there it is. He literally grabbed it. He was like excited that it came back. I kind of dig it. I didn't. Nice. Okay, that's a smart way to punish that actually. Oh, that's smart. Hey, lethal hit. Yeah, cuz of the sand and the sword. Same literally as the lethal hit system from like MK11 and Soulcalibur 6. God damn, that was a lot of damage. And then you just threw a boomerang on the ground one. Yeah, I like ending the combo to put that. At first I was like, how am I supposed to use the invisible stance, but that actually works out pretty good.
Did they show all the variations, chat, or just two? I heard they said they they show all three in this mode. Got to be UA then or his dad or a Oh, that's sick. Here we go. I'm getting more confident. Getting more confident. Ow, never mind. My bad. Air throw. Air grab. I like that throw. He seems fun. I wouldn't I to Kim. He told me that. Oh my god. Shout out. He told me that. He told me information. That's crazy. Dude, this is the old man. This is the old man variation. I like this old man variation right here.
But you said the third one is kind of like your favorite, right? Cuz like what's happening? And to me it looks confus. Yeah. Look at this. Oh, this [ __ ] looks nice. The first in Avatar. Yo, where's it coming from? Whoa. So now the boomerang can't leave. Did I just cut it? So now it doesn't escape you. It doesn't Whoa. This [ __ ] looks crazy, dude. I wonder why you wave. This Did he cut the rope? This [ __ ] looks crazy, bro. Oh, that's actually kind of crazy. That's kind of crazy. And you do invisible, too. Oh, that's hard.
Yeah, that's what I think about it, man. It's MKX variations. You know, you get three different versions of the character completely. Every character's three characters. That's neat. Is one going to be better than the rest? Sure. But it doesn't mean it's not fun playing with the other ones. Yeah. It doesn't mean like, you know, you don't play around with the other stuff, you know, when you get bored. Exactly. Cut my rope, but now I don't have it. That's why it's a better boomerang. He did cut it. You don't have to go get it. Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, that seems like an idea he would have. Ah, so the boomerang can still escape. Oh, wait. Yeah, I forgot. I never seen this before. Oh. Oh, wait. Oh, they have a similar thing that Invincible has. It drains. So, you can cut the boomerang. There's a riskreward to having a controlled boomerang. Yeah, cuz if you cut the the rope, then then he has to the person has to go get it. Yeah. Instead of it eventually coming back. Kardan tire didn't work out. Hey, this looks wild, dude. Definitely a better projectile. Yeah, imagine like the the the improv you got to do here to like pick up off these moments and there's going to be some nutty stuff with this.
You cut it. Oh, right. Oh my god, I'm dead. Dang. Whoa. Trying to do some crazy thing. Yeah, I know. Oh yeah. You see? Yeah, but like I cancel B+. No, that's not great. No, that one's very tricky to use. Game always looked good. You know, I I'm always going to be in the defender. I never thought it looked bad. I was always like, "Dude, this [ __ ] always looks good." Okay, some things have gotten like way better looking. Like invincible, for example, has gotten way better looking. But this I thought looked really good. And then it just looked even better and better.
I'm going to cut that rope again. Go for the space sword. Is this unblockable? Oh, you can do the It looks like it is. He's using space sword looks unblockable. Almost got almost got the follow. Yeah, the red move is unblockable. It is. Wow. So, what you have to like high flow out of it? That was sick. Where did that hit me from? You have to high flow dash or whatever that is. Where is it? Where you flying? Where is it? It was flying away. He seems mad cool. Oh, you don't get two, right? No, I honestly think I like him even more than to look at beating up this rope.
Dude, you're going to be able to do some weird stuff with this, like pulling them in with it. I like that. Yeah, big damage. Yo, Cycl, thank you. Might do that. off. Oh, tiger. Look at that face. I guess I guess you could do tiger knee into it. Actually, it might be better. I I feel like that is a funny ass mechanic, bro. Chad, who are you going to main in the game? Uh, yeah. I like I like the tiger. If you base it off your favorite character, we're going to have to see how Zahir plays, but definitely I'm definitely going to be a Kora main.
Where's my boomerang at? boomerang is off screen and it ain't coming back. Hold on, hold on, hold on. I'm cooking right now. Oh, you cut my rope. Steve is 100% going to main Zuko. There's no way he plays any other character in that game but Zuko, Probably. There's no way. He's 100% maning Zuko. Oh, Steve hasn't even played enough of the character to know anything. But I'm telling you, he's maning Zuko. Oh, that that's scary. Right behind you. I'm going to if there's Aman, I'm going to play Aman. He's not in the base roster. Not in the base.
Yeah, not in the base. Probably shocks me to still. I'm like, what? Aman. I'd play, you know. Um, what about Uncle Ro? Iro is not in the base. Well, the thing is there's three [ __ ] fire benders. I like it would if I was in there. I'm like, "Yeah, there's three fire benders. I know why I is not there right now." Like one. Oh my god. Hold on. Hold on. Can't have Ozai, Aula, and and Zuko. And then be like, "Hey, sure. Throw a fourth in there. Just call it Firebenders versus Avatar." Hey, Dragon Ball doesn't Goku.
Yeah, let's not do that. Bolin. Bolan. Yeah. Bowl in. We should have air bender a and water bender a and earth bender a and fire bender a no and full bending a and then evil full bending ang like that cuz it was on like the uh they're like yeah every character is on that screen and so I guess avatar state avatar state a and avatar say kora are also so we we already have we already have teenage earth I'm sorry airbending as the default and then it's going to be like like full unlocked which I think is fine.
That's a little boring. What is the uh what the hell does Kora do when she's in Avatar State that's going to be unique? See, I think it's going to be b I'm guessing is all I guess it's going to be based on season 3 where she was chained up and she was using chains and stuff. So, she's going to be like Teada with Avatar states like turns into a mid-range character instead of like, you know, a close-range look. Yes. Okay, that's what I think my guess that is going to be my guess for what they do with Avatar State Cora.
Yeah, I have seen shots of her like with chains around her arms and stuff. Yeah, here's trying to kill her. Look at that. So, I'm like, all right, that's probably how you could do it. A I don't know. I mean, other than the fact that A as he is now is like strictly airbending. So, Avatar State A will probably be A doing everything. A bunch of different He could have a completely different move set if he's Avatar State A. Damn. Was this early in the morning? Uhhuh. Nice. Oh, I can see your mother beverage and get something with a lid.
this is a big demonstration. You know, a lot of time to ruminate on all this. That bad. Hold up. Boomerang. Oh, you're Damn, that was loud as [ __ ] But doink. Game doesn't have DP motions. No, it doesn't. It's got like pretty much fireball forward, fireball back, but did it have downs, chat? I don't remember. I don't think it did. My combo right there. Oh, yeah. I can see that. I can see that. Like some characters did have like motions that other characters didn't, but none of them were like very hard. There was no DP inputs in this.
Yeah, there was no like insane motion. To maybe had a down something. Oh, wait. That was cheap. That was really cool. Oh, wait. Oh, that works too. Dead. No, that's cheap. Hard hard knockdown right there. Get Oi after. I haven't seen one other time them do the install super with the kiss. And I'm starting to wonder if you can't do it right. If it doesn't work unless she's on the team. Which would be kind of cool but also like interesting. Chad, do you know if girlfriend install only works if girlfriend is the assist character? That is the same character, I mean, she's like a part of a crew that looks kind of similar.
Can use it with any There you go. I didn't mean to. They do it again without Okay, there you go. Well, poor you. E [ __ ] I got I got a secret for you. Uhoh. Oh, wait. No, that was not. Yep. There. You just need to I just had to [ __ ] a little. You just had to [ __ ] a little. Wow. Did you see how fast he covered? Fast as [ __ ] boy. [ __ ] is fast as [ __ ] [ __ ] After he felt like he needed to get carried. That was crazy. I I don't know what I did, but literal Xactor speed.
Yeah. This is the power of love. Second, I lost my invisibility. Good. Game's going to be fun. not cutting the rope. You have to hit him while the thing is out. Yeah, that might be it. I think it's like you sever the connection by hitting him, not just anywhere on the rope. Probably because the rope would just be cut all the time if it was like that. I find it funny that he literally has the Hakan slide, He literally has the running and the sweep where he like runs forward like this and it's a sweeping.
He's done it a lot, but yeah, he has a little literally looks like the goddamn Hakan slide. It's addicting. I bet the farm. Wait, that did not go nearly as far as I thought it would. Oh, that's such a Oh, wow. Okay, convert from that dive kick out of the the tornado. Oh, I I did I I pulled it just Oh, no. And now you do so much damage. I did a lot. Yeah, the life bar was like chunked away. I got 13. You understand how much damage that damage is about to be insane. Yeah.
I don't I don't 13 swords. Whatever the hell. Oh my god. Yeah. So, he built it up like crazy. There's no limit. Supposedly, there's no limit. not a lot of hits for a lot of damage. Am I dead? What? It like sh No. Am I dead? Book. 18. Take a look. It's in a book. I don't know how I feel about that. Hold on. Hold on. All right. I got lame. I got to play lame and abuse my strength which is the boomerang. I got 19 stack. Kyh, thank you. As people start requesting older blank versions of these characters as their own additions they get in but suddenly start getting I mean sure it will.
Season two maybe. I mean sure it will. I don't know if it's a good idea considering how many characters you have to cover from both. And you have to assume that this game was even being made in tandem with like the idea that okay this that's also a cross promotional for movie [ __ ] you know? That's literally what's happening with Invincible right now. Wait, what? These are burnout combos. Yeah, that's like a lame one, but when you're burned out, you have different frame data, just like Street Fighter. Yo, watch this. This is what makes being burned out scary.
Yep. Because you get bigger combos. They call it exhaust in this game. Nice. I don't even know if it would be adult versions of the characters. It probably just be like the villain from the new movie or something, you know? Maybe that dang nice combo is insane. It feels like Saka has like really different variations cuz like okay, you have this sword buildup thing with Panda which makes your hits super hard or you could have this controlled boomerang that can come back. So it's like that's that could really change up his game plan. I wasn't entirely sure what the hell Suki was even doing at the beginning now that we've seen all this other [ __ ] I don't know what what does Suki do.
Cheaper flow flow cheaper flow cancels. So you only see it so much. First variation is cheaper flow cancels. Beautiful. I did I just realized have we not we haven't seen a trailer for this guy? I don't think No. Did we see like a full soccer game trailer? No. No. We saw the We saw the launch day trailer. Yeah. I'm like, I just realized it was just a blog, right? We saw an Did we see an Azula trailer? No. They were in like a quick snippet. Yeah. Of something. And the blog showed like said like, "Hey, Zula's going to have two stances." Yeah.
I think it's kind of crazy that uh we actually are seeing fullon hands-on gameplay of him before our trailer's even out because seeing this Yeah. This boomerang on like a rope [ __ ] was like, "What? I haven't seen this before." I'm going to steal your combo. Wait. Oh, whoa. Hey. Oh, I don't have I don't have flow. I'm a great magician. Wait, that was like kind of safe. Oh, nah. You're dirty. You're dirty. That's crazy. Like chip. You're getting You're getting a little freaked out. That is a big ass cross up. I love that emote. Nice try, Ventriloquist.
Very punishable. Your character is red. If you block the dive, the slide is very punishable. This game where people are trying to do a video game. Thank you. Hey, sounds familiar. Close our blows. Get the boomerang out. And if you hit me, I think the the go. Yeah, the ghost range. Yeah, I like that actually. Oh. we don't want to lose any more toes. Oh, what do that antire is really strong. All characters run this fast. No, Saka is the only one with a run. People have like like big dashes or whatever, but run state is like just Saka.
Yeah. And I don't know if he's doing forward dashes, so it's like a command run. Like a flow state run. Well, like a guy. Oh, that destroys. Yeah, that that's a command run. I wonder if his is attached to flow meter or if it's an actual special. Oh, he just ran. Oh, wait. Oh, I got a pack. I could have done something. Yeah, cuz he's got the dashes if the meter went away. Yeah, it looks like it's flow. I turn the run stop. I turn the run stop. Yeah, keep it easy. Yeah, keep it easy.
That's a funny special. We have not we have not seen his level three yet, right? I don't know. Unless that was, but unless that was it. I think maybe the kiss was level three. Was the was his install legit the level three. Crouching C. Yeah, we got the new tech. This is the level three. Mayday. Oh, nice for me. Oh my god. That used up his whole [ __ ] thing. Yep. Then it's a level three. Oh my god. Not like this. Not like that. Not like this. He probably couldn't connect it. LeBron's not the only one doing it at 40.
You know what I mean? Like that's it. That be it. That be it. Yeah. It looks pretty cool. You know, I think Saka is probably one of the more interesting characters I've seen. Especially the boomerang on the rope [ __ ] That was uh that was kind of neat. They should have boomerang. Damn, Kenny. What? How what is it like to be so bold? It like great. That's right. It's great. Boomer. Thank you, Chad. Thank you. Thank you, Chad. What the hell is this game about? Huh? This Vampire Crawlers game. Oh, Chad, thank you. What's it about?
Demo. Yeah, it's a demo. Oh, did I demo? Ah, I don't want no demo. I bought the game underdeveloped. Chad, are you saying Boo or Boo Earns? What are you saying, Chad? Thank you. Oh, okay. Says Boo Earns. Okay. Library. I bought it though. But I bought it though in library five vampire crawlers. It's going to take It's going to take forever to download. Maybe it didn't install and it gave me the demo on accident. Yeah, that's exactly what happened. It's a whole gig. Disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. It'll take forever. Then it's sold pretty quick. All right, let's see.
Will addiction set in again? Card Captor Sakura. Uh, Vampire Vampire Survivors is one of the few games that I played off stream a little bit. I did a little bit of offstream playing. You had so many other things like unlocked. Yeah, cuz I'm like I want to get some stuff so we can play it again. So the title theme is done by Yoko Shimamura. Yeah, they got they got people. Yeah, I recognize it, right? Steve, what should this crack creator? You can play it on your phone. Uhoh. Let's do this. Well, this seems cool. Wait, which one's Where's my selection at?
There we go. Motion blur and bloom. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Things are happening. Hopefully that comes back, chat. Hold on. Uh, exclusive full screen. Chill. One more time. Last one. Wow, this is a song. That's about to go away. No. Uh, new game. We're not waiting for Steve anymore. Where's Where's the garlic man? Bet. Uh, damn. I'm good. That's crazy how good I am. Go right. Oh, the map is down there. Three bent. I have no idea how this works on control, but there is a way to like turn your head. Ah, Shoulder buttons, I guess. No, it's the stick.
Literally the stick. Is that pancakes? Combo stack. Play cards in ascending mana order for a combo multiplier. Uh one, two, three. Okay. So, zero one. Yeah. So, that it's just like the multiplayer of it. Yeah. Uh there we go. Uh 01 eat [ __ ] bats. They going to hit me now. So, you just like level up axe this guy. So, it's the same guy then, huh? He's like, "Yeah, I want to make another couple million." how much did the How much are vampire survivors? A lot. I didn't have the axe. So, just like, you know what?
I could I could do some more millions. Oh, the axe cost and I need more like MP or something like that. Gotcha. Yeah, gotcha. There's it right there. It's about six or seven. K. Hey. Weirdly interactive. Okay, now I have three. Uh, spinach into a Bible into a knife. Ah, but you didn't do as much cuz you need to do the 012. Sound effects are pretty great. Character. Yeah. So, the two just wasn't available. Yeah. Like the deck on the left is just sort of RNG. What your hand? Santa water card won't consume any model when played.
That seems good. 84 damage. So I have Oh, so wait a minute. This does this into Ahmed. Okay. to unlock whip lord njiaro. Thank you. So, new playable characters. Okay. Or old playable characters that are new. Wow, that's cool. I like the presentation. Town hall. Prescuit Antonio reach level 10. Aha. Okay. These give you anything? No, you just get the the thing. Yeah, this is your trophy list basically. Graveyard seems the most appropriate place for a settings menu. Got it. Wow. This definitely has more budget. That's They're trying more than like maybe one guy made this, right, chat?
I'm assuming that maybe uh two guys made this. Two armor cost zero. I'll just do it. That cost zero. Spinach. Oh, that was stupid. Spinach has to go first. Uh, add three armor. It costs zero. To your aid. Dang. Okay. All right. And now we need to start figuring out what we want to go for. Now we have to start making our build. Um, armor spinach behind. got it on Switch two. Oh, this would be a badass switch two game. Be great for the Switch. Yes. Oh, you can smack the torches. Torch chicken. Um, kill this guy first.
Damn it. Uh, the knife. Wait, add two armor. Yeah. Prioritize attackers. Take this, you stupid bat. Right. Spinage whip. my strength is your shield. There's no reason not to use everything, Yeah, if you can use it, do it. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Like mana sometimes like affects you, but as you get further in, you'll see there'll be like cards that like give you mana for using them. So it's like play the mana cards which then gives you more mana so you play like the bigger cards. What a weird gameplay jump from the first game, right? It certainly is.
to your spinach whip wand. This thing is living forever. Any more uh deal 40 damage crit. I don't know if that was the same as before. Uh, let's finish. I am going. What? Gem hammer. Unlock the ability to add gems to cards. Uh-oh. Wow. It's expanding. Double damage. Uh, so I have to choose to buy it or not? No, no, you get it. Oh, you left it in there. I left it in there. Yeah, you didn't want it. You click on it with the mouse and Oh. Uh. Oh, it's just a on this. Okay. And I have to swap it for like you put it into a card.
Cool. This a rogike. No. Yes. You're welcome. Well, that worked. You have to actually manage your health pool pretty cautiously, too. I'm realizing I'm taking damage. I can't just get this [ __ ] back. Yeah, the spinach is weird cuz like it honestly feels like better just to use the spinach first. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Uh yeah, 40%. See, spinach is at 40 bit buff whip. Works for me. Uh king Bible. Is that different? I like the whip, dude. Whip is mega damaging. Excuse me. Oh, when you play it, it doesn't it doesn't stack it up. It just goes.
Gotcha. It's all right. Beep beep. Um. Uh-oh. Yeah, I would use him first and then finish it just just for the 01. Doesn't really matter. armor spinach battle. Excuse me. Not dead yet. Christmas. Taking damage. Um, 00. Ah, damn it. I wanted the 001 armor, right? Yeah. Son of a [ __ ] Stronger. Okay, that was good. stop. I would honestly do spinach first. like cuz after you've used the move, it's like it doesn't do Oh, see it run like every hand is like a different play. So, that's why it's hard. Yeah. So, that just goes in for magic wand seems kind of [ __ ] It's good once you level it up or once you evolve it, I should say.
I don't remember what evolves with magic wand. Well, it's pretty good cuz like the evolver version is amazing cuz they're going to like attack you so you kind of want to try to stop them. It uses the same evolution system as the first game. So, you have to get the fire rod for this move. My strength is your Got to find a way to recover health. Yeah. Well, there's chicken and then you'll there's other cards which I don't even know if they're in the game yet. The Pumrollas. Which are like useful now. Whip. Whip the nigh neigh.
Works for me. Is that something I can get? Son of a [ __ ] Thought it was cake. There is a treasure chest in here. Bye-bye, [ __ ] what's this? Oh, hi. Wasn't expected to be a dude. Let me get some Aqua so I don't jump. Uhoh. to your This is a lot of guys. I say yes. Welcome. Going to live. That's a big ass bat. Damn it. Hit me for five. Christ. So, I thought this too, but after every attack, your armor just goes back to zero. It's like you're just building up the armor for that one.
The protection for the one thing. doesn't matter. One, I lived. Uh, let's do some knives. That was hella good. Twice as hard. So, we're just doing that in general. Yeah. Like it just goes in. It goes into any whatever card you pick. Any card you pick. Gotcha. So every time that card come will come up in the deck, you know, it'll it'll just be attached to that one. 20 goddamn life. We need to find Give me Chimkin. Uh, armor study whip. Chance of health. Yeah, you can kind of try to look around the map for for that [ __ ] We in there now.
Oh god. Spin knife whip. finish. Yeah, cuz that way like it'll boost the strength. Well, you're doing Yeah. boost the spinach to 20%. Then the then the one after that will like hit really hard. Bibles spinach whip. I would say whip spinach Bible or spinach whip Bible. Well, the spinach will go and then the whip will be still at zero. Well, yeah, I see. I see what you're saying. Yeah. And then because it gets us the bonus. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We get the 10% off and Yeah. I see the strategy. Ow. It still [ __ ] hurt.
Farewell. Ow. Stop it, sir. Oh [ __ ] But it's early going, so like it's kind of the game is how it is. Yeah. Get moderately better. Uh, find the gem hammer relic. So unlocks. Reach level 20. Reach level 10. Play a rune tracer card 10 times. Complete the mad forest. Oh, we got to complete the forest. Yeah. Well, you'll you'll It's very much like the first game. It's an iceberg. And you just slowly you start just everything starts coming unlocked as you just as you play it. Oh, yeah. Brawlers see here. Oh, god. He's replaced Kenny.
Uh, add 15 XP when Alda is played. Hey. Hey. Yeah. So if you play her card, you know, it'll do like, oh, it'll give you a boost to play her of XP boost to play, right? So this is a vampire savior update or survivor. Survivor. It's a new game. Oh, the different game. Oh, wow. So, okay, just so we didn't unlock. You actually can get through the forest. It isn't infinitely deep. No, no, no. So, when you see the map, you'll see this thing that'll say like uh uh how many layers it is. One of four, one of five.
So, there's like five bosses or whatever. One boss per per That's why we cleared this one out. Yeah. Let's see. Bendorian, thank you. We got to you got to like prioritize health regen in some way, dude. Yeah. So, one four right there. So, there's four layers levels. To this. you you kind of want to kill the things because you want to get the levels. Every time you get the level, you get a card. So, becomes this like, well, I want I want levels. Mhm. It's the same thing in the other one where it's just like that consistency.
Need buffs, not like a wand. How do you The only way you can buff out the wand is to eventually get it's like a single strike. Um, yeah. Well, it's it's a single it it attacks whoever's going to attack next. You would attack unit. So if there's So if there's a whole line of people about to attack you at once, the wand's cool in that sense. Add 25 coins destroy. Yeah. You play it and then when at the end of that turn you just get 25 coins. I like how it punches you and it just smacks your face like three attack.
Yeah. Look, that's my attack. It's It is good for bosses. Yeah, like the wand is like the evolved form is really good too. Face smashing is a great attack. Byebye. Yeah, it sucked. Um, not good now. Is there Vio? he's saying [ __ ] They're saying [ __ ] Die. To you, I say. Okay. Um, whip. I want to get more unique things, right? I was thinking like a lot of stuff we we've normally seen there. Yeah. I don't know what it is that starts causing things to just be the same. Yeah. Or and when when when does the other cards just start showing up feels weapon cards and and stat cards will just start showing I got you a cup.
Oh yeah. See Jim Ken. Merry Christmas. Happy birthday, Kenny. You have now your own cup with a lid. there you go. Mermaid. Thank you. Play this. No, no, it's fine. Brand new cup. I got you. I take care of you. I'm thinking about you, man. I got you. But that's cool. She found the cup. Now the question is, are you losing? Who did? I don't know. All these goddamn fire. I'm thinking of him. Beat my ass. Bats. Batman. Well, that's new. You have to find one that was attached. Card won't consume any mono. Yeah. The first time you get it, it's a free.
This will come back, right? Or is it a one time use? It'll come back. And now it's in the rotation. Now, here's the cool thing about it. You know, it's it does four stainless steel. If you do 01, it'll do eight. Very nice. Very nice. Well, it'll it'll fit in the cup holder. Well, that's good. Oh, that's right. This will fit in the cup holder. Yeah. You got to put it like on the ground or something. My strength is your strength. die you piece of [ __ ] bat. You piece of [ __ ] bat. Base draws a Whoa.
draws a card. Adds armor. Increases amount stat. Yeah, that means like so it just adds another couple knives being thrown. You know, if you put it on the knife, it'll add more knives to it or more whips to it. Whatever you choose to put it in. Make buff knife. Cool. So, Koke Bear says this game lacks varity. Is it variety? Variety. Varity. Virality. This game lacks virality. I've I've seen I've seen what other people do and it's just like what? So it gets like the thing the things you don't think you can, but then when you see what people have come up with and and and stuff, you're like, "Oh my god." Cuz you when you unlock the arcana cards and and like all the different crawlers thing in the old game, too.
Yeah. You start realizing, "Oh, oh, die bitches." M. It's nice to see the devs trying something new outside of the um vampire survivor. Useless. no you won't. Tiffany, go back to Final Fantasy. It's a good book. I also like how the encounters are usually like one or two moves. They're not mega long. Yeah. You're not sitting here like [ __ ] playing Yu-Gi-Oh with every skeleton you find. [ __ ] Yu-Gi-Oh. Are there boss battles? There are. Beep. My strength is your shield. I'm being nice, Tiff. Don't make me be mean. H. So, does this have um streamer mode like the other one too where the the chat can like decide on how you get your your stuff?
I don't think. Now, what did chat do? They like chose what we what buffs we got. And depending on what kind of chat you have, they either troll you or they uh they buff you. My chat was only ever help. My chat was Yeah, my chat was super helpful. They never they never helping you to make the victory. Yeah, right. Damn, those levels are taking a while. No more chimpkin. We have a question mark. Farewell. Then you start getting you pretty quick in you start getting items permanent upgrades where it'll it'll like oh you will permanently see where there's something on the map like it'll be little dots so you're like okay you're not like going to be like looking around for it.
Okay, boss time. He's glowing. So that makes that means he's a boss. 18 knives up each ass standing there. They're not going to attack or head attacking. Literally attacking. Oh, what do you want? You need to animate it. You're right. Can I headbutt you? Oh, watch this. Kiss my ass, sir. More golden armor. Yeah, seems like 60 health. Ah, got double damage twice as hard. Increase the might stat adds armor. Uh, do a double damage. We can't add it to an already existing thing, right? Not yet. Ah, so you can like multiply multiplier on top of [ __ ] Yes.
So eventually you get what? You get the blacksmith unlocked and you pay money to have him put more gem slots in cards. That's neat. So then you have like Yeah. You can put multiple gems on one card. Speaking of Yu-Gi-Oh, I went to Py the other day and I saw people waiting in line for Pokemon cards. What? You don't know about that? Pokemon is still popping like that, brother. You should not You should not look up videos of Costco Pokemon. Don't look up videos. Costco. It'll make you lose faith in humanity. Really? Wait, I thought the I thought the the uh what was it?
The the stupid Was it the Bingleberry stupid thing? I forget what it's called. the Laboo. I think the Laboo You got to realize this is people's jobs to to to buy this [ __ ] and to sell it. All right. I get that. I get that. But I I I figured the hype was over. It's been so many [ __ ] Those are good cuz they give you a lot of XP. Oh, you sweet summer child, Steve. What? I don't know anything about Pokemon. I figured it was like the shows haven't been really, you know, big lately. Like I haven't heard a big rave over Pokemon.
After Laboo's hit, people just sort of it just sort of disappeared. Punk mode engaged. Laboo. Stop saying Laboo. Okay. Damn. So I I figured that was the it thing until it disappeared. It like a couple months ago. Really? Yeah. I I literally just saw a Laboo about six, seven hours ago. Where? Good answer. It was a six It was six, seven hours ago. It was over at the Laboo store, Max. They They're popping out now. Lab Bubu Store. Yeah. Yeah. They're They're as big as Starbucks now. The Laboo Store. Yes, I believe you. It was, bro.
Are you kidding me? Go to the mall. Go to the mall in the Labu district. And the Labu. It was on Labu Street. Down Lubu Avenue. I get it. People grew up on Pokemon. Now they have disposable income, so now they're just going crazy. But I figured that, you know, it's there's so much competition out there that, you know, the resell market cooked or it's just people it's like a mini boss trying to resell. No, it's just people buy the decks and they sell it for like three times the price only. So then then answer me this because it's not that people like like it.
It's that it's it's a money-making scheme. It's a hustle. Right. I get you. I get you. Um God, you know, when we went to Frankenste, right, we were talking to I think it was like me and JJ. We were talking to the guy that was selling the booles and he was like, "Yeah, no, this happens all the time. This stuff is bad. It'll go it'll be gone by like a couple months. Just give it time." But he's like, "You he he hates the market, but he has to sell it, right?" So, I'm thinking, "Oh, that's probably already happened to Pokemon.
Come on." Well, his point was that and then I agreed with him was that the problem with a lot of um super popular things in the beginning is they they start introducing premium versions of things and they start charging too much and they're like they need to stick to things that are cheap because even you know scalpers are always going to scalp. You'll never get rid of scalpers but if your base product is cheap it's always you know it has so much of a better chance of always being around. Don't try [ __ ] Pokemon was a map for us and the first ever anime in the map for the cartoon.
Well, yeah, I know that. I know Pokemon was a map for a lot of people. It was, you know, Cartoon Network and you know, no. Where's my chicken, you piece of [ __ ] right? This is why I always say uh uh you guys don't know real anime or fake fans cuz you you got it to you. It was given to you. Easily accessed. Yeah. Super easy anime. It's 10. Yeah. fight for our [ __ ] brother. You got to go to Chinatown, dude. Once you start getting the pummer, adult heart at the end of every turn or at the end of every battle actually, you just start stack just play as many throughout the battle as you can.
You'll get like 10 HP, 20 HP, you'll get a ton of HP back as long as you have like a play a bunch of It's like this life recovery thing is a big issue now. Just like in the regular game, it's like an issue now. Later on, it's not nearly as much. Yeah. And then you then you you figure out like the strats for like getting life back. $450 card last. I get it. There's still no rare ones. Yeah, my kid got like a $50 one. $200 Pokemon card one deck. I get it. It's random.
It's like It's literally like a gamble. It's basically gamble. I used to collect baseball cards. Hold that. Baseball cards have never crashed. Damn. I haven't paid attention. You're gonna hurt. The market decides what's important though or what's I used to collect garbage. Yeah. You saw the Meowth Pool Fire Streak. Can't do anything. Just went and they had like a pack. So many knives. They got a Meowth. Uh magic wand. Knife spinach. Prioritize attackers. Sure. Let's get one. Yeah. Bis hunted. If you just have like an old old school very old school Pokemon deck uh pack and hasn't been open, it's a card.
So another card. Yeah, another card just quick gets put into your hand. I put on like a whip personally. Yeah, whip or a knife. Okay, I just haven't seen it yet. I'm going to try to do it. Max, please. I'm begging you in ascending numerical order. The [ __ ] are you talking about? Well, cuz Okay, so you had a you had a hand where it was like two golden armors and then a whip and you went armor armor whip, right? You should have done whip first armor armor because then it would have been 0 one. So you got the armor wasn't zero.
No, it was the golden armor. It was one. So you got eight armor for using two of them, right? But you could have gotten 12 if you went whip first armor. Oh, I thought it was the other way. Double the armor and then one more. So for example, right here, I would play 0 01. Yes, correct. Right. The [ __ ] is that? The um salesman. These are all ones. This don't this don't matter at all. Order order at this point is like it was like it's like eh Max, you can't you you use the whip first and then na na.
If you use the nigh neigh first, then you can't whip. Chad, how about you shut the hell up? What? That I'm helping. I said check. Oh, damn. Stop trying to be offended. Damn. I'm offended for the chat. Damn ass kicked. That candle armor was doing some work. armor is nice, too, cuz like you play the card and you just get two armor. this disco music all of a sudden. It's a celebration. Damn. Celebrate good times. I'm going to see you wear your bell bottom pants. Put diamonds on it. My middle name is chat. Chat, shut up.
Oh, I got to put the armor at the end. Yeah, then it would have been eight instead of four or whatever. Okay, so that is final boss of the of this this area of the forest. Now a bunch of [ __ ] armor and I just get hit. Yeah. Well, actually, she only had two mana, so the better thing to do. Church, what's up? It actually would have been better just to play the two armor cards instead of armor spinach since you would have got then you would have gotten like eight spinach doesn't means nothing if there's no attack cards out here.
Damn, good ways to kill. I leveled up. Um I guess I'll take armor. cooked. God damn it. God damn it. When you get the shop, you'll be like, you'll be like, "Fuck, I need money." That's the boss over there. What's over here? One guy. What is that? Is that something I can smashy? Smashy. Smashy. knife. Doesn't matter. Let's go gambling. Don't hurt me. This I can't eat that. Damn it. What about that skull? Nothing. That didn't stupid. this finish is weird since it's a one card. You have to use it on the one before. Yeah, it has to go first.
Thank you. Chance to draw another card. Hey, god damn it. Chad, send us from free chimkin. You stupid [ __ ] Send us from Oh, dude. 12 shirt. Still losing life on every single one of these goddamn encounters. Not good. With hopes of chimkin. Hey, wait. dink dink. Yeah, I would do armor spinach knife. Yeah, probably. Level up needs to give me health or some Oh god. Thank you Christ. Okay, that's pretty much it. Here we go. That helps. Uh [ __ ] Knife, armor, wand. more books. He just uses it. Forget it. Nice. Oh, Christ. Um, armor, spinach, knife.
The armor gold armor whip armor whip gold armor armor whip nigh neigh we're living chat not dying live today eat this you stupid lizard Um ah you should have done zero armor. All right, but look at the damage. he's walking fast now. Yeah, just do knife armor by all right progress. Cash out. Why? Uh cuz it's a cool name. I might cash out just because you're at the end of the level. It's because you're at the end of the level, Max. Uh-huh. So, you should bring in the Kenny. Yeah, you got to you got to cash out cuz unless you want to go fight the other things on this level.
Is this the end of the whole forest? Yeah, I believe you're on 44. That mean Mantis is the last one. Oh, damn. Steve was right. I'm going to catch up. I I some talent. I'm trying to help you, bro. Oh. Oh, [ __ ] until that death comes for you. But stage completed. That's good. That's good. Oh, we Oh, so we unlock hearts, fire, ball sacks, duplicate, daro. That is legit a ball sack, dude. What am I looking at? That's the That's the garlic. That is some fat ball sacks right there. That's the garlic. That is a serious ball sack.
Simmons, I have a question. Why do humans have the ball sacks dangling down at the body? I just found out that elephants have the ball sacks inside of them. Their testes are inside of their body. Your testes were inside of your body until they till they dropped. What the [ __ ] I mean, maybe yours have. Hey, here's what's crazy. Why don't we have ours in our It is such a burden to have them just dangling outside. So, I have an answer and let's see if it's your answer. My My answer is cuz elephants have been around a lot longer than us.
Okay. So they evolved to the point where they [ __ ] just sucked. [ __ ] changed. Like holy [ __ ] We haven't been around that long. Wait, elephants are dinosaurs? Elephants are not I didn't say they were dinosaurs, but humans have only been around for like hundreds of thousands of years. like not that much. Pacoderms have been around for a while. They're like ice age. But [ __ ] dude. When are we going to evolve to win our sacks right in our body? A few million years. Your body, Steve, your body temperature would roast your balls. I get that. But then you would be and then we we So that is the reason why ours is because we're we're such high body temperature animals that it would literally roast the sperm in sperm, right?
And then we [ __ ] they're not designed to exist. That's why they're out instead of I mean I got pretty strong sperm, so I think it would survive. I would I should probably just suck it up in there. Go ahead, Steve. You can you can do it right now. I'm going to do it right now. You want to do it right now? Steve, you don't know about You don't know about tucking. You can tuck. That's true. Hold on. Hold on. I learned about this years ago from cross players. Wait a second. You can tuck. You can you can do it.
Yeah, you're killing your bunch of ice. I don't want to put ice in there. I want it inside of me. I want it inside. That way if somebody kicks me in the balls, I'm like, yeah, whatever. You kick an elephant in the balls. He's like, "Yo, who cares? It's inside of me." So these are permanently evolving to have vaginas. That's what Steve's trying to say. It's the smartest thing you could ever have. It's a waste of [ __ ] that just [ __ ] out dangling. It's [ __ ] up. Increase duration. Crawler stay by one per rank. 20% more XP per rank.
By rank is like level, right? I'm assuming that mean that means I think so. Toss them over your dick like a [ __ ] scarf. There you go. You know, one HP per rank after each encounter. Yeah. Per rank. So like if you get level seven. This is good because like every battle you get at least one HP back. That's what I saw. It was like a skit. where girlfriends were able to just get their their minced testicles every time they go out. So they would just grab that [ __ ] like, "Okay, yeah, you can go out and have fun with your friends.
Not just about you ain't doing anything. Enjoy." The guys would just be like, "All right, fine." Your own choices. No. Grab them. They ripped them out, put them on the table, and then kept them and said, "Yeah, okay. Now you can go out and have fun. I'm good." And the guys were like, "That'd be Is that all right? I'll keep I'll keep the chat engaged. I'll engage these guys in conversation. All right. I'm going to try to I'm going to try to do some We got Library. We're trying to evolve humanity, guys. we got Forest 2 and we got Library.
Oh, we could do library for a variety. Liar. I like it. It's the same levels as Vampire Survivors from a different perspective. Okay. What is the turn your head? Uh, it's right stick. Oh, okay. This also triggers 60 frames per second. Um, Doom, right? Doom wasn't 60. Well, that's what I'm saying. It is a 60 frames per second. Yes. So, since the Mortal Kombat movie is coming out, what should we play tonight after this? Cute. Damn. You excited for Mortal Kombat movie? Should we visit? I mean, Kenny is wearing three articles of Mortal Kombat clothing.
Three. The hat as well. No, the hat. Oh, the underwear. The underwear. The thong. It is a uh reptile thong. How many articles of Mortal Kombat loving are you wearing, Stephen? Um, it's my it's on my balls. I tattooed a a Damn, I tattooed a a dragon logo on my nose. That's hardcore. Hey man, I'm trying to evolve, bro. I'm I'm getting close. That [ __ ] If we were to play some MK thing tonight, if we wanted to play even like a single player MK, like a story thing to just to try it to see what it's like or cuz this shit's coming out soon.
It's like in a week. Or maybe we just like can go through um like some of the story of MK9. We could I can download it, you know, because that's like that's still probably one of the best. We can uh touch each other. We could touch each other in a X or visit revisit one. You know, every time I check in the video games, Stephen is explaining a solution to a problem that he literally is the only person to ever conceive of. Every single one is breaking ground in ways I never thought nor want to.
Yes, you're a pioneer. I'm evolving the chat and me. Steve is chat. Chat is Steve. Speaking of pioneer, I love Pioneer Chicken. Pioneer what? Pioneer fried fried chicken. Pioneer fried chicken. Yeah. Old school place. The [ __ ] is that? Yeah, they have it that way. Like KFC? Yeah, it's like KFC, dude. The one where um the one by Hi-Tech Game Center. I used to be a pioneer before Popeyes. My dad told me that. What comes to your brains when you hear the term high-tech game center, I think Yeah, I think of the place that we went to that had all the games all over the place.
You remember that spot where it had um Game Dude? That's what I think when I see I think of old compute predated electronics boutique and GameStop way before it. Like they were the OG. The only place you can get video games is like Toys R Us. Oh man. Kmart. I used to go to like uh uh mom and pop places. It is literally the mom and pop place. It was the mom and pop in in the valley. It was the only one. Yeah. No, I never I never went to it. 15. I can almost drive a car.
Especially Oh, yeah. Cuz the NK9 really goes through a bunch of, you know, it's got Johnny Cage. I'm going to take you. I'm going to take you. I'm going to take you out. Fries, Best Buy, Electronic Boost, GameStop, um, Kmart. Well, now I have my life to 66 max. All those places were like big game centers. I don't know more. I swear the whole digital era kind of hurt the game industry if I really think about it. Sure, the gaming um uh companies, the direct devs. Yeah. They they'll make all the money, but the gaming industry where people actually like went to the stores and bought [ __ ] and Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. You mean like the retail industry? Oh, there's a good job. See, there's get you get crazy [ __ ] like this. It's like return returns to hand after playing. So you just like play it again. Oh, cool. Damn, that that one's [ __ ] That needs to go on a zero though because I don't have the mana right now This is kind of like Vampire Survivors Answer to Bellatro. Yeah, in a way. Yeah, kind of is. Boom. Boom. Oh, they're dead. Was that what slay the spire is like? I shame. That's co-op, too. I like Damn, you said go up and see his ears hurt.
He was a gold retriever. Want to go for a walk? I know. Say the magic word. We're going to dang dangle the uh the uh the leash. I'm about to A quizit says spire co-op is widely fun. Interesting, but it looks like this. All right. Don't look anything like this. Eat your nuts. I'm good, man. I [ __ ] you up. No, I'm I'm He's fasting. I'm not fasting. I actually am. No, you're not. You're chewing gum? This is gum that suppresses hunger. A specific type of sugar. It's certain type of gum that suppresses hunger. But it's sugar.
I got it off of Amazon. It shows breakable light sources on the mini map. Thank you. So now you have all those little dots. Excuse you. Must try Dark Souls seamless co-op. I already did that. I did that with um Jetream Dan. No, you didn't. Bloodborne. That's a different thing. Oh, [ __ ] Same [ __ ] Give me a [ __ ] break. You got a [ __ ] old guy in a sword and he's in a hammer. He's running around. He's slashing [ __ ] [ __ ] go. The same [ __ ] I got to try Dark Souls. It's suppressing your hunger. It's like, "Hey, Steve, you got to play Street Fighter." It's like that game Skylight Subzero Scorpion.
They do. I play it right. Yep. See? See how See how that works? Yeah, the same [ __ ] My strength park two pragmata. Oh, soon. I just have to render it. It's done. I just got to render it. I have to take out the end where I cry. Max for what? Invincible. I'm feeding. You're feeding. that game is fun as [ __ ] Oh, but it costs [ __ ] three. I don't have three. And I don't have a way to get three. How do you get three flaming skulls, brother? Oh, man. It's hellfire. It's good, but I don't have Soon, CJ.
Soon. I don't have to card, so I I can't do it. So, it really doesn't put armor on your nuts. Evolve. Evolve. Evolve was nuts, man. I can't do it. I can't I can't I literally can't use it. I don't have the mana to use it natively, and I don't have to in my deck, so I can't get more mana like during a turn. Shut up, GM. Uh, you know, let's fight it. [ __ ] it. Let's go. John cries at the end. Terrible name. Thanks. Speaking of crying at the end. [ __ ] man. JJ's so smart. To get me to get me to stay downstairs to like avoid work and procrastinate.
She'll put put a good movie on the TV. So, I was like trying to get some editing and [ __ ] done today. So, I go downstairs and like 50% through the movie in the living room and a League of Their Own is on. Oh. stayed and watched the whole [ __ ] He didn't mean to. Couldn't help it. It's one of those movies that was like, "Oh, it's on. I'll watch it." You know, there is like a really really great quote from Tom Hanks in that movie when Doie is about to quit and she's like, he's like getting on her case about it and and and she's like, "It just became too hard.
And he he looks her in the face and says, "It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, then everybody everybody would do it." And I'm like, "Damn, this is a fighting game quote." God damn. This is a fighting game quote. Going for it. Damage. Crying. Crying in baseball. Like double double damage. on this bad boy. Fight that giant booger. Oh no, they're they're faces. Are they? booger faces. I should have used that cuz I don't Yeah, Madonna's in that movie and she's mad good. Oh yeah, she's really good in that film. Rosie O'Donnell is also mad good in that movie.
It's got a great cast. Yeah. Yeah, that movie. And then it was like, "Would you like to watch The Sandlot?" And I'm like, "Get away from me. Stop. I have to get stuff done. Not the Sandlot. No." From beginning to end or you started like from like a little bit? No. I I watched like half a League of Their Own. I couldn't stop. I was like, "Geez, this movie is so good." And then it was recommending Sandlot after and I'm like this is how Netflix does it. This is what they do. They're going to YouTube shorts method.
Are you still there? That's what they'll do. I'm blocking it. Everything is algorithm now. YouTube's algorithm algorithm. Everything. Everything is trying to tell you what you want. Yeah. Which I hate. I hate that [ __ ] bro. Don't tell me what I want. I'll tell you what I want. That's why I just stopped with Instagram. There's way too much algorithm. Yeah, eBay and Amazon do the same stuff to get you to buy [ __ ] Yeah, that's true. That's true. Well, they just probably, you know, like what one of It's annoying because I'll buy something and they'll keep recommending me the same [ __ ] I just like Another picture.
I already bought you stupid you stupid machine. What the [ __ ] man? Which one started that? I think it was MySpace. I think we can probably play think like Mark Zuckerberg or some [ __ ] like that. YouTube recommendations was probably the big one that I recall. Now it's just like now I can evolve. Oh, twice as hard. [ __ ] zero. Zero card that does 80. Yes. Thank you. How's Kiki doing? She was biting the [ __ ] out of me today. I was playing with her and she was mauling my arm. Like, how can you put my whole arm in your mouth?
All scratched up. It's like a king. To your aid. Attack with me. Little little tiny teeth. Yes. I say yes. Oh, I say chicken stand. He's 30 HP back if you want to give up a card. Huh? I'll do it. Not the card. I Ripley wanted really wanted to watch Speaking of like digital pixel chicken. Ripley wanted to watch the Minecraft so I watched it with her like a chunk of it and uh it has some funny parts. That movie is insane. The pacing in that movie, it's all over the place. It's [ __ ] insane. And it's funny, the chicken jockeying moment wasn't even anything special.
Yeah. Like it literally wasn't. I thought it was going to be a big buildup and it wasn't. Just like a little kid sang it. It was his little song. He was Jack like Jack. No, he had a chicken song but it's different than the chicken jockey. He had like the roasted chicken song. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Which was funny. Pacing is insanely Jack Black was just Jack Black. That's why they are like literally just be yourself. Yeah. Just like just be Jack Black. Do do the thing that you do because kids love it. Jack Black. It was like it was shockingly like high quality.
I thought it was really ugly though, like the way [ __ ] Minecraft. I mean, Minecraft is naturally kind of charming because it's just pixel art, but it was like everything's hyper realistic. Like the unsettling looking guy that's like talking to the lady looking at her and I was like I'm like this like I was watching that I'm like this is weird. But this is the problem with Hollywood is that they're afraid to invest in like new actors. Like how old is Jack Black? Like how is he representing Steve? Like Steve is way younger and way more different than what the [ __ ] Jack problem is.
No one's no one's as charismatic, right? So it's like, okay, they don't like they're afraid of any new actor that could probably fill the role and makes more sense than Jack Black. Like Jack Black's the only one who actually plays video games. I guess they couldn't find a young bunk that Not at all. There is one. He's in the movie. Oh [ __ ] There is like There is the young protagonist kid. the whole point of the film. Right. Right. You forgot you. No, you just you need somebody to represent Steve a little bit more accurate. Oh, you just want a different You don't give a [ __ ] Steve.
You don't know who the [ __ ] that is. I [ __ ] I I know it's not Jack Black. That's what I know. You wanted um It was just It was such a a weird You want the kido play Spider-Man. Oh, Tom Holland. Tom's like 30. Damn. And he looks like he's 12. He'll fit the bill. He played young Drake. He could do He could do Steve. No reason for him to be Drake. Yeah, Drake. I think it was worth worse for Mark Wahberg to be uh Sully. It was even worse. I still haven't seen the movie. I'm never going to see him.
You know, you don't have to. Well, apparently Mark Wahberg was like he was supposed to be Drake. He want Yeah, he went for the role because he thought he was going for Drake, which makes does make a hell of a lot more sense. No, he was actually He was cast as Drake. The movie was in production hell for like [ __ ] years. He aged out of the part and they still had him on contract. So they're like he didn't age out of the part as Tom Horn was way too under. You know who was always the perfect Nathan Drake and he played him in like a short film was Nathan Fillian.
He was you always there was a guy who actually really looked like Nathan. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like what the [ __ ] It was and he was in like a short movie that was like, "Wow, this is just uncharted." That is literally my argument. That is literally my argument. Like Jack Black and uh you know, Mark Wahlberg, oh, cool. They got star power. They'll get seats in the the thing. But if you want a more accurate representation of these characters, you need to get uh characters that look like them. And I guess the guy that played him in the short film just didn't have enough star power.
Kind of sucks. Is that a sticker or something? What are you doing? No, it's tattoo. Uh, do it. I'm bothering Simmons, Kenny. What is [ __ ] are you bored? Wow, my friend got a tattoo. Cool. Never mind. Told you this like weeks ago. You didn't tell me anything. You don't listen. You know you got a tattoo, Steve. I don't care. See, there you go. Man, this [ __ ] The wizard. Lizard. If he tattooed his balls inside of his body, then I'd be interested. Yeah, you can tattoo that. What's that thing supposed to be? [ __ ] him. Still hits.
I had 11. He still hit. He'll live. But it kind of hurt. Chat, please. Nobody remembers Mark and Mark and the funky bunch. Come on, man. Chad, you're old. You pirate [ __ ] lord. He gives you like he gives you like another character if you beat him. I think we got a lot of stuff. Hey, we got Po. We got him. Oh, we finally got to Okay, games are good. Toss give you give you SP or mana. So now the game starts really opening. Oh, so even in one turn you turn you can get more [ __ ] Yeah, you start getting more mana.
So like you can start playing higher level cards. So you can do like zero one two threes or whatever. I see. Po is add 20 area when Po is played. Draw one card when a blue card. Draw one card when a blue card is played. We can try it. Service voice acting for every character. I like Jaro. Taro's like damage man. Primary is knives. Judy, why would you want to go negative numbers? What does that do for you in this one? Yeah, you can go negative numbers as well. I'm like, why? I think so you can play more cards.
it's for the combo meter. The hell did the time of day change? Yeah, we're in the uh area of the forest. It gives you mana. Yeah, mana is just like how many times you can play a card. Like it's the two, the one, and each card costs like, you know, zero, one, zero. When does the MK movie come out? Is it next week? Three days. The eth. The eth. Oh, okay. So, it's a little bit over a week. And chat, when the hell is Evo Japan? Is it like right after the MK movie May 8th for it?
And then isn't Japan like the 9th or some [ __ ] or is it before it? Anyone get any of the buckets yet? The said they're just they're going to sell it in a couple more days. I really hope the Mortal Kombat movie is really good cuz I want MK to have a win. Yeah. Like the MK collection was like okay to an extent, but obviously had issues and then they had to like resolve those issues over time. I want like I want there to be like an emphatic reason. Damn, this was sick. You know, that's also going to open up the game a whole awful lot.
So now you get Arcana cards. So at the start of a run, you'll have these cards that are permanent or like for the whole run. Modify the whole run. Modify the whole run. Like keep armor after a battle. Like that's like one of them. I like I recently I'm like, "Oh [ __ ] this changes the whole goddamn game, man. I still haven't seen top eight of um of Capcom Cup yet. Neither were I cuz we had we couldn't [ __ ] watch it. Watch it." So it's out now, but it's like damn. When it's actually late, it's too a little too late.
So here's this boxing match that happened uh two weeks ago, and you know who wins. You can watch it on two speed. You I think watching in Battlehub was a good idea, but I mean you couldn't stream it, so matter probably. I mean, Capcom Cup happened. Capcom cup happened. Mental storm. Thank you. So add one mana. So he tried something. Hey, let's see how this works. And I'm like, it probably didn't work like um they wanted it to. Not in the sense of, hey, let's see how this works. More like hey, how do we make more money?
Yeah. No, let's see if this works. Yeah. That was the problem with like that. And they even admitted it that, you know, the esports side of Capcom is going to be working directly with the actual developers moving forward, which was not the case before, No communication. No, literally none. They're two different two completely different apartments. This is what I was like trying to tell people based on how they worked in Street Fighter 4 era. It's like, yeah, they're different things. They do not like talk to each other. The the development of the game has no impact on like esportsification or anything like It's like a marketing team working with development, you know.
Yes. Yeah. It's like cuz that's what esport that's all esports is, dude. Esports is like the whole reason of it to be there is to give people the idea that hey, I can make a million dollars if I start playing this. Somebody better buy this game, right? But it's literally it like there is nothing else behind it. Like a healthy community, this that yes, that is true. But also, the goal is for you to eventually sit down and be like, "I should buy this game so I can become that good and earn that money." there's different strategies on how to get people to buy your game, you know?
Um, you know, uh, what is it? Um, make it free to play. Uh, put some celebrity behind it or make a tournament around it or do all three. Dink. or add a crazy DLC character, stuff like Yeah. Yeah. That's all like DLC characters aren't part of like, you know, this the core roster, Chad. That's just marketing. This goes all the way back to like Soulcalibur 2, which worked where, you know, the whole point of including wildass guest characters and [ __ ] in games is so that Whoa, the glove is so that you can bring audiences from other games to try that game.
Yeah, that's it. It's the glove makes just makes your hand huge. And then you can add Ronaldo and it has the reverse effect. You know what's funny? That is a certain type of algorithm if you really think about it because they know what you like and they're putting your character into another game that they say, "Oh, you might like this." So, they're getting you. Does it work all the time? No, it doesn't work. No, but that's it. takes an artistic intent of like, is this something that's actually desirable? And for an example, like Jerry and Soulcalibur 6, wasn't it?
Jerry. Yeah. When they added Geralt. Oh, Geralt. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, that's He was not it. I mean, it's the same thing with um you know, Negan in um you know, Tekken. Yeah. And that actually worked. It's But it's like it was crazy. But how many Walking Dead fans are like, "Oh, I grew up Tekken." You know? Well, at that point, everybody was watching Walking Dead, right? But it's like it's like, okay, you got that chunk of audience. How in the hell are they even going to be remotely interested in a fighting game? They're watching a dramatized horror To be real, the the Negan poll was the normie poll, Completely different than the Noctis, completely different than the Geese.
I said I said it before, I said it again. They they looked at numbers. The same thing that Hollywood does with video games. They look at numbers like, "Oh, this is popular. Let's put them in." That's it. They don't have much effort. That situation wasn't a numbers thing. I think Herata knew somebody. Of course, in the same way that like many of these things are like they're not made in like a financial decision table like or from a committee. No, it's just like this seems crazy. Let's do it. You know, and it's like Yeah. He was right because like suddenly Tekken 7 is in copies of Vanity Fair and [ __ ] Yeah.
It's trending all over. Trending all over. Every everyone's talking about how crazy this [ __ ] is. And they were the first one to do it. They were the first one to add like a a truly crazy guest character to a fighting game. Like that was like the first really crazy guest character. Actually, I would say it's the the only one. I don't I don't remember anything outside of that. Maybe Ronaldo, but I mean, even Ronaldo happened, but had the reverse effect. Exactly. I'm I don't even think that's like super crazy like a movie character. Talking about movie character, television character.
If you get Ted Cruz in in in Tekken, like when the other player comes out, he'll just take a trip to Mexico and put his daughter in front of him. What is like the weirdest other guest characters? You went through this, didn't you, Max? Like, weren't there like some other games that had like just like weird We go off to Cancun. Oddball like uh Earthworm Gym is in is in Battle Arena to Shendon, Which…
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