WE'RE PLAYING INVINCIBLE VS. - Early Preview đź”´Full Streamđź”´ (4-25)

Maximilian Dood| 05:48:13|Apr 26, 2026
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Hosts introduce the pre release context and tease early access impressions for Invincible Versus and related event plans.

Maximilian Dood dives into Invincible: Versus, early build impressions, roster talk, and the game’s bold tag/defense systems that could reshape fighting game pacing at events like EVO.

Summary

Maximilian Dood and crew preview Invincible Versus in a late-beta/early-access session, leaning into the versus mode, roster chaos, and the game’s clash-heavy mechanics. Maxim mentions Skybound’s involvement and notes the preview is offline-only and not a sponsor, with a clear plan to test balance and characters before EVO showdowns. The crew riffs on potential DLC fighters (Vega, Haggar, Bulma jokes included) and debates how leaks and marketing twists affect anticipation. They dive into core mechanics like breakers, tag system timing, push blocks, and the unique two-branch tag options that shape offense and defense. The chat chimes in on stage design, color schemes, and the balance between smash-friendly chaos and thoughtful neutral play. Across long takes and multiple matchups, the group weighs Donkey Kong-level mid-points vs. high-skill execution, with comparisons to MK, KI, and Street Fighter 6-isms. They also brainstorm how Invincible’s world could translate to live action or broader adaptations, while staying focused on how the game's mechanics feel in practice. By the end, they acknowledge Invincible Versus looks polished but still evolving, with a strong emphasis on practicing the new mechanics and customizing controls. The stream closes with surefire hype for the game’s launch and a nod to the ongoing conversation about balance, pacing, and what fans want from a modern fighting game built on a licensed property.

Key Takeaways

  • Breaker mechanics exist as a meaningful defense option that punishes unsafe offense and can swing momentum when used on incoming attacks.
  • Tag-in timing has two modes (normal and delayed) and can be countered with careful timing; you can punish or extend combos using assists in new ways.
  • Push blocks and armor moves are powerful tools that require thoughtful use; not every armored move is invincible, so timing matters in neutral and offense.
  • Level-3s scale more realistically now, making raw ultra-damage rarer but situationally devastating; this shifts post-3-bar decisions and end-of-round planning.
  • Character experimentation matters: the roster in early access favors bold picks (Adam Eve, Battle Beast, Titan) and the meta rewards learning specific character routes and assist interactions.
  • The game’s pace seems designed to favor engagement with the tag system, potentially extending matches unless players optimize quick, decisive sequences.
  • Overall polish is strong, but the beta shows notable balancing opportunities (matchmaking, rage-quitting fixes, stage variety, and more unlocks) before launch.

Who Is This For?

Essential viewing for fighting-game enthusiasts curious about Invincible Versus, players who want a practical sense of the mechanics and roster viability before EVO, and fans of Maximilian Dood who value his take on new licenses, balance, and live testing.

Notable Quotes

""There is literally a stipulation when they sent it to me… you cannot join or participate in any tournament… until May 8th.""
—Max explains the early access tournament ban as part of the preview constraints.
""The thing is we're going to use this information and go to EVO and win it.""
—Hoisted team hype about turning the test build into real tournament success.
""This game is great. It's amazing. But it would be 10 times more better if it was co-op.""
—Max advocates co-op potential and collaborative hacking/gunplay concepts.
""Push blocks and armor moves are powerful tools that require thoughtful use; not every armored move is invincible, so timing matters in neutral and offense.""
—A practical takeaway on how defense interacts with offense in Invincible Versus.
""The pace feels like it’s designed to reward engagement with the tag system… matches might get longer if players don’t optimize.""
—Comment on pacing and the meta influence of tagging within the match flow.

Questions This Video Answers

  • How does the Invincible Versus tag system work in practice and what makes it different from traditional tag mechanics?
  • What are the standout roster picks in Invincible Versus early access and why might they define the meta at EVO?
  • Will Invincible Versus include co-op modes or story-focused co-op beyond competitive 1v1?
  • When does Invincible Versus launch and what balance patches are expected post-launch?
  • How does Invincible Versus compare to KI, MK, and Street Fighter 6 in terms of defense mechanisms and pacing?
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Full Transcript
Transcending history and the world. A tale of dudes and souls eternally retold. We all need to shine to see how far we come on our journey. Ever to go searching for deep in the night. I pray in my heart for that special light to show me with love. Show me with power. I got to get the edge of car to carry. Yo, there we go. Hi. Hey. Hi. Hello. Hi, chat. Hello. Hi. Hi. Voice of godding or anything, right? My whole set projector. There we go. Wrong one. There we go. Scoot over. Let me move in here. Um, we're back. We did it. We lived. Uh, and yeah, thanks to uh the very kind people that are making Invincible Versus at Skybound, we got the chance to play the game a little early. Um, just the offline versus just like versus mode. So, we don't get to like divulge into literally anything. Is it sponsored? It's not. It's just a preview. So, I mean, they were kind enough just to give us access to the game to stream a little bit um in a very limited capacity, but we have the versus mode. It has like update stuff. It has uh the full roster, so we'll just uh you know, be cranking on all the characters. We're going to be cranking on each other. The thing is we're going to use this information and go to EVO and win it. Yes. You suckers. We all four of us are going to go to EVO and play and beat everybody. There is literally Hold on a second. That's funny you mentioned that because look at this. There is literally a stipulation when they sent it to me where it's like Hold on a second. Let me see. Let me see. Uh you suckers. Yeah. For full disclosure, you cannot join or participate in any tournament or online tournament until May 8th. God damn it. What the heck? So if you have the game early, we are banned from tournaments. We're so close. My fight money. We're going to drain everybody of their cash. Damn it. Easy money. Yeah, right. Easy money. So, Steve, how do you feel about uh what do you do you like? Street Fighter 6 as a video game. Oh, me too. I'm looking forward to the I'm looking forward to the next season. So am I. There's there's a character in that that is on every single leak list. Oh, that's crazy, isn't it? Oh, yeah. That's true. Vega is on every leak list. Yeah, it's Vega. So, I can't wait. He better be the first character in that trailer. Yeah, he's going to be amazing. Better be it. He's going to have to go or some [ __ ] you know? Or who the [ __ ] Hagar. Yeah, who cares? Yeah, they better be in it. Those are lame. They better be in it. But I want you to be excited. I'm going to be excited for Vega. Me, too. I'm going to be excited for Haggar. I want to see Hagar and Zang spin at each Maybe the first game where they're both together. The first game where they're both Actually, right. Yeah, I think that would be cool. Be the first game they were together. Like if it was the, you know, the the prophecy is true. Like them kind of being in the same game would be kind of neat. They're basically almost the same. Zang is literally the pallet swap of Haggar from Final Fight. I'm very curious to see might have pipe when when we eventually get a trailer cuz every time we get a trailer for a season pass of Street Fighter, they show all the characters. Like here's everybody. So, it's like it's like an animation or something. It's like it's just like a tease. Yeah. So, whatever that trailer is, I better see Vega. I better see. I couple other characters. I heard it was Jeep. I heard G. Here's the thing there. You're not wrong. There's another leak list that has that character on it. Really? But is it from the same source? Uh, it's from a different source that was right before. Yeah. If just like the same person that said the [ __ ] that happened this week, I'm going to be real y'all. Like uh if everyone if all these sources are coming out with their own like their own list, I'm like y'all are getting played. I I think Let me get my source. I I think it's I think they are getting information, but it's purposely wrong. Absolutely. That's what I'm saying. You're all getting played. You're you're all like your list is basically ousting you. I've known people in the past that had given me info and when it eventually came down to uh where that info was coming from cuz I I would not report on it and I was like okay that's cool and then found out a couple of weeks like later uh their source got fired. They found out that they found out who leaked who leaked it. Right. Right. Right. it it you know like I don't know who's watching Daredevil but that happened in the show like hey this drop this and if we hear that this leaked we know who the mole is this goes all the way back to Empire Strikes Back literally all goes all the way back I don't know if that was the first time you're dope as [ __ ] get they told stupid yeah yeah for for old movie lore George went over to uh Mark Hamill and said right before they were to film the scene with his hand getting tapped. You're dope. They're like, "Hey, David, the guy in the suit, is going to say this." But James is going to say this in ADR. We need you to react to what James is going to say. David doesn't know that the line what the line is. And so Mark Mark reacts to in his head, I'm your father. But he says like I killed your father. So and and George said only me. Amazon. Only me. I think me and maybe the writer Lawrence hasn't. Only me, Lawrence, and James know this. Wow. So, wow. If this gets out, Mark, we're going to know it's you. No, he looked him in the eyes and didn't blink and said, "We'll [ __ ] kill you." I like his impression. Damn, kid. Why didn't you tell me that? Harrison. Harrison Ford didn't know. He looked at him in the theater. Hey. Hey, kid. Wait. I didn't know that. Why didn't you tell me that? That was uation. I think that's a great uh tool. Like if you're a producer, you start telling everybody all these fake stuff in the uh in the studio and see, okay, I'm going to tell director this. I'm going to tell the main uh you know uh art director this and see if the information gets Well, the only the only people that need to know is is literally uh the the person reacting to it. Mark needs to know cuz it's his job to react to it. No, I'm talking about the Street Fighter. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like the producer needs to to tell the art director, they need to tell the director 20 different things. Well, yeah. In the case of like what a future DLC would be, right, dude, this would have been known for like a year and a half to two years. The thing is the people working on the game are not the people leaking the stuff on the game. It's like other people other people getting the information because they work at the company. Yeah. So, it's like it's not even at the company. It's also like all the stu there's so many different involved studios now where it's like somebody that works in some audio studio like hey we got this this person came in and did voice lines for this voice lines for something and you're like wait for what they they start filtering out specific false information to people who are not yeah not in that circle working on like you're not going to tell the guy who's designing the characters the 3D modeler hey the season 4 characters are this now go make the other the other go make the real season 4 characters I know he's going to know the truth truth. They're going to tell people who don't work on the game every day. Somebody mentioned something that's a bit different than like malicious leaks. Like, you know how PlayStation just leaks stuff constantly? Like they'll just leak release dates and trailers early and be like, "Oops, we're stupid." Like, "Our fault, our bad." Amazon does the same thing. That is like literally somebody working messed up and information got out, right? Like it wasn't like a malicious like internal he said she said like sort of this is this is it is a lot different when like information is oopsies let out by people that are actually working on it and it's their job to let the information out and they do it at the wrong time frame and it's like well it's just out there like can't do anything about it now like there was like this trailer that like got le released in like England or something like that and it wasn't supposed to come out and then all of a sudden everyone's like oh it's a leak and they were like whoops our fault you know and it's just like this the studio just not um you communicating correctly or something like that. I can understand those type of leaks. Me and Simmons were just talking about it. A perfect example of that, the new Star Wars racer. We were like, "Oh, the new Star Wars racer looks sick. I hope it's I hope it's going to be at Summer Games Fest." And he's like, Simmons is like, "Yeah, it's going to be out soon." I'm like, "What do you mean it's going to be out soon?" And go on. So, they updated their Steam page today for the pre-orders. The Steam page says coming soon. However, they oopsied because on the Steam page, they put the pre-order bonus items. You know how pre-order bonus items all have these images? you know, get the deluxe, get the deluxe version, you know, was going to have this pod racer coming October 6th. They're like, "Oops, oops. Oopsies." So, they they accidentally oopsie the people in charge of the information, right? But now a lot of leaks happen. And you you wonder at this point, what do we know as leaks and what do we know as like, you know, uh, marketing information being Well, you sometimes don't know if things are like marketing leaked, right? Yeah. That's That's a bit different where it's like Yeah. Sometimes like the Deadpool movie, you know, like the original Deadpool CG that we all saw way before the Deadpool movie came out that blew up on the internet. Yeah. Ryan Reynolds leaked that onto the internet so that it could get popular, right? And then convince higherups that look how look how popular this got on the internet. Like he did that purposely. Well, then uh what about uh freaking Star Fox and Mario Galaxy? No, I think No, no, that was a marketing. That was a marketing plan. I think like like that's so ridiculous. Well, I think they to be honest, I think like they're like, "Ah, you know what? This this it's not trending enough to like I think we need to get some more tickets, pre-sale tickets because that was announced very like like a week like within days." Within like Yeah. within a week. You got to wonder if that was was that the plan to really do it a week before. Yeah. I literally think they're like, "Shit, you know what? This this is not this this I don't know though. It wasn't ever like not trending like No, but like like not the pre-t sales were never looking bad for it. So, it's kind of like I guess this was just the plan. The plan. Yeah. Malicious leak like the Mortal Kombat 11 roster like early on that stuff was malicious. What just happened with the damn Avatar movie? Like all that kind of super malicious like people like are using this opportunity to like literally harm what the developers are planning. Someone got arrested in Singapore for it. They found the dude. Yeah. It wasn't like accidentally emailed. No, no, it was it was it was stolen. He accessed Was he a ex employee? No, he fished he fished somebody with their password and Right. And he got it and he was like, "Hey, it's probably a teenager." And he was like, "Hey, look at what I can do." Dude, it was like uh when GTA 6 Oh, yeah. All the GTA leaks and [ __ ] Yeah. Yeah. The hot coffee and all stuff like that. No, no, no. The GTA 6 [ __ ] Oh, yeah. Like two years ago, we saw the game being played. Right. Right. Yeah. Uh again, these these people either really hate the companies or they just want notoriety for themselves. They just want notoriety. That's what that's what leakers are. They just they want to be someone. They want to like, hey, I was the one. I was the guy. You know what that reminds me of? You remember? Stream snipers. They want to be the one. I want to be someone. They want to be the guy that, you know, that pisses off Ninja so much that he leaves uh, you know, streaming. You can imagine the guy that was the last person that stream sniped him is going around telling everybody, "Yeah, I was that guy. I got him to stop him from playing. And then you're like, "Okay, I literally played online Dragon Ball for like the first time." I checked my [ __ ] record, dude. It's like the last time you played ranked was 2019. And I was like, "Holy shit." So, let's play some ranked. First [ __ ] guy I run into, his name is like stream sniper. Sniper 21. Stream sniper. And he's like he's super smurfed. He's he's incredibly high ranked, but he like has a character that's no games played. like [ __ ] great and we both and we both know the one guy Max and Tekken [ __ ] Ender [ __ ] Ander [ __ ] Ander just he's always there he never plays in he never ranks up either he never ranks up he always plays in like you know uh uh tournaments he never plays in any of my tournaments he never plays in you know regular only when you're only when only when you're playing around crazy right he knows everything you do so it's wild it's wild so we get it's beautiful I always say this I'll always say this it is a lot tougher offer to stream snipe a a streamer if you're playing fighting games. If you're playing a first-person shooter or third person shooter, yeah, you can creep around a corner, wait for them to walk by, and then shoot them in the back. But when you're fighting somebody one-on-one, it doesn't matter if you're a sniper or not, you better be like Justin Wong in order to be like, "Yeah, I'm going to get him." Because we know what the [ __ ] we're doing. And if you're trying to stream snipe us and you're trash, you're going to get wrecked every single time. You're not going to snipe anybody. So, it's a lot different that it it it is different. And also, you know, you you literally jump into a game for the first time and this person probably has 10,000 games played and you're like, "This is going to be fun." And here's the stream sniper, right? It's different. It's not just stream sniping. It's also smurfing. Like that's the thing. They're doing they're doing whatever they can to get on your stream to purpose to find you and it's they come and get you. Yes. And they know how you play. They've been watching you do this forever. They have a big leg up. That's for sure. They know. They know. And you know what? Uh uh it comes with the territory, Yeah. Stream snipers have plenty of time on their hands. Exactly. They're not doing anything productive. No, they're not. You know, so uh before we get into it, uh yeah, I told Kenny he shouldn't play Pragmata and Simmons beat Pragmata. Um somehow the the best controlling third person Capcom action I say best the best playing third person shooter Capcom has ever made. playing like just controlling the character, jumping around, shooting, doing things. Plays better than all the Resident Evils. I don't I don't get it. It's air dashing, man. Come on. I I It's just a mega It's a 3D Mega Man game. Like, if you literally think about it, like so much of that game is just Mega Man. Like, the hacking thing is close to Mega Man 11 as well, I guess. I don't know. It's really It's not really structured like a Mega Man. No, no, it's not structured like one, but if you look at like what the character is doing in a 3D space, like what if this was Mega Man X? Just think about it. I I could definitely see them taking this game and and how it functions and like applying it to a 3D Mega Man game. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, you wouldn't have the hacking, especially in like responsiveness. Like you can make it a bit faster, I guess, or you couldn't, but like dude, so much of it is like this is very Mega Man Legends like in a way, but it doesn't control like [ __ ] Sorry, Legends fans. I beat that game. Um, it's kind of like if Legend Yeah. Legend if Legends controlled really well. And it it also has like really good visuals that could line up with what Mega Man visuals could be. If they wanted it to be that way. So anyway, I'm just like And there's also the Mega Man isms all over the game, too. There's like references and Yeah. With like with cabin. I'm going to say it. He's saying something. You drank first. This game is great. I love it. It's amazing. But it would be 10 times more better if it was co-op. I'm telling you right now, ladies and gentlemen, my case for that game being co-op would be amazing. If you could, Max, you and Ripley, Ripley could play the part of the little girl and she could be doing the hacking and you could be using the gun and she does the hacking. Nintendo co-op, ladies and [ __ ] gentlemen. That would be [ __ ] godlike. And let's say so you got all the guns that are all around you run up and you have to pick them up. That's that's not a great mechanic. That's not a great mechanic. Let's say that Ripley can do some hacking stuff while you're shooting. She can do different hacks to give you certain types of guns so that when you're running around, she can actually do the hack. She upgrades your guns and then you can use the guns on the [ __ ] game. Ladies and gentlemen, that game would be [ __ ] solid. But ladies and gentlemen, they have not done it. Steve doesn't like the gun part because he doesn't like the guns running out of ammo. Right. I guarantee you, right? It's a little weird, but like you're supposed to use them and it's [ __ ] dumb, bro. Yeah, but it's designed around. It's designed like a boomer shooter. It's dude, if your character if the hacking character like characters, too. Like, that's also a thing. That's stupid. Get rid of the dropping guns thing. That's like so 2000 late. Like, bro, just get the the character to give get the characters to [ __ ] make the guns for you. Like, the hacker girl could actually upgrade your gun or she can give you ammo or she could like, you know, give you some sort of armor or something like that. How do you not How do you not make that completely [ __ ] broken, though? Uh, giving you always come with some Oh, well, that would [ __ ] How How do you not make that cool down system? Cool down system. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. All right. A cool down system. Yes, a cool down system. Then you're sitting there like, "Okay, I have to like wait for your cool down to give myself ammo." Guess what? Guess what? When you run out of ammo and you don't reload with the the handgun, you have to sit there and wait. So yeah, you're going to do that anyway. Then then hit your shots. Oh, well, guess what? If you miss your shots and you have a cool down system, you're in the same scenario anyway. So did you did you end up getting the uh the mod that makes it after you do a perfect dodge, you get the auto hack. Oh, yeah. I didn't use it, though. [ __ ] It's amazing. Like so you'd be like and then aim at the guy. It does all this [ __ ] in slow motion. I didn't use it cuz I felt insulted. I was like, "Oh, easy motion." Autoacky I did not buy the the R3 auto hack one. The the the one This one only works if you dodge and then aim at right after. Okay. I know what you're talking about. And it gives you an opportunity to go boom and then boom. There is two different ones. I never used it. I got something similar like that in Crimson Desert where I have infinite arrows because I have those abyss cores and now I have a thing where I dodge while I shoot arrows and I shoot multi- arrows super fast. So I'm shooting multiple infinite exploding arrows and just staggering bosses like crazy. So it's kind of similar. I know what you guys are talking about and it's because like in Crimson Desert Crimson Desert mentioned this. Yeah. I don't know. I I like game a whole lot though. Oh, also me too. Best level design in a Capcom game in a long time. Yeah, cuz people have said it and it's I I I didn't think about it, but I guess it's kind of true where it's like, yeah, Capcom's not great at level design. Like RE9 is it and like some re like the Baker Mansion and stuff like that. A little back a little bit and say like Monster Hunter has some pretty good maps in some of the games. Yeah, I would go back to World specifically. World has some pretty great level design. Not wilds, but world. And honestly, some of Rise. Rise is pretty good. Pretty good, too. But those are good level designs. But yeah, like Devil May Cry never had good level design. Maybe the first one. There's so much exploration that is like really satisfying where they like put something in in noticeable view and you're like, "How the hell do I get to that?" And as soon as you start looking around a little bit, you The thing is there's an upgrade that kind of [ __ ] with your brain. Yeah. Cuz you know where you know it's there. You ping it and then like and then it accidentally makes you go in like in in the wrong ways. Wrong ways. You're like, "What am I doing?" It actually makes it worse almost. Uh, what does Kenny want to say? Don't. You better not curse me with that. They're going to take that infinite arrow stuff. It's in the game. It's too They're going to take it away like the air dash into space. Yeah. No, that it's abyss cores. You say that they're not taking those abyss cores away. Hey, you know, it's it's in the game. Hey, that was that was like that in Tears of Infinite Arrows. Took it away. No, no, no. This it's it's it's it's a I have a 60% and a 40% but infinite arrows that can't be me. I was you put that on me. I was shocked by how earnest the whole game was. Shocked. There was like I mean without like my moderate spoilers. There was never like any moment where like Hugh turns into like I can't take this anymore or something. I got to get back to Earth. Like he just breaks down. That never happens. Right. Like it's it's so crazy how the game is just straight shot the whole time because no games do that like ever. Like even in God of War and stuff like that is the part where the boy goes crazy. My boy is crazy like like oh my god. But there is there is a part where your your There's a part where your me your your mechanics are removed from you for a little bit. Yeah. You know what I'm talking about. But yeah, it's not because she it's not it's not they don't they don't pull some like story shenanigans like that. But there is there is a part in the game where like yeah you don't have access to your full range emotional states and things like that change things. Yeah. Yeah. There is but they do they do pull the whole like okay navigate this part without this Yeah. you know this ability or something. So I did beat the game. I don't want to talk about it. That's it. Okay. talk about it. All right. Uh one of my favorite main characters in a Capcom game ever. Hugh ends up being one of my favorite [ __ ] main characters in a c in like a game. Like it's it blows my mind like how they were able to keep it the whole way the [ __ ] ending sequence. I was like this is really cool. Like this is really [ __ ] cool. There's there seems to be a lot of like fatherdaughter games like or father son games. Father son games father son games. It's not a sad game. Last of Us. Last of Us. Uh God of War. Uh Pragmata. This is the exact opposite of a sad sad dad game. Yeah. Well, it's not sad dad. I'm just saying there's a lot about it. It's all the parent child games that you're talking about are all sad dad It's not a sad dad game. It's a glad dad game. If you think about it, they're all about the dad dealing with something and the the burden of what they're dealing with is being put onto either their surrogate child or their child. So, the child is going through some [ __ ] because my dad is [ __ ] up. Right. Right. Right. Yeah. It's it's glad dad. It's glad dad. It's no longer sad dad space. Ah, okay. So, it's not it's not dead space. It's dad's space. Okay. I don't know why you guys are going nuts about Donkey Kong doesn't even talk and that's for what bugged me about Donkey Kong is that they don't do [ __ ] anything with it. It dude and even It's not I did nothing with it. It's not a [ __ ] Donkey Kong is not a glad dad. That's [ __ ] Like does nothing with it. He doesn't talk. It's Wreck-It Ralph. Yes, it's Friends. Well, no, it's not Wreck-It Ralph because that has some crazy because it's a movie and that has dialogue. Like my problem with Donkey Kong is they don't do anything like interesting with that the relationship Donkey Kong Jr. right? Uh no no the the latest Donkey Kong smashy girl on the back. Oh okay. They don't do anything like interesting. He's not a dad at all. He's just like he's just like a he's like Ralph. He's like a friend. Who's the girl? Pauline. Pauline. Okay. So yeah. Well, yeah. She has no relation to him. No, it's not a glad that that's not that's not dad sim at all. It's just okay. Like she she little girl. He big gorilla. He smashes things. She's just a friend. Yeah, she's just But don't But they're not friends in like a really endearing way. Well, I'll do whatever it takes so you can fulfill your dream type of [ __ ] Like Wreckit Ralph [ __ ] Like, no. No, they don't do any of that. They try to. You know what's crazy? They try to, but not effectively. You know what's crazy? That game came out and it was like the it game for about a week and then it fell off because it was [ __ ] mid. I I'll bring it to you. I had a lot of fun with it. It is the most solid like eight. It's an eight. It's great, but it's like there there's there's about 1/4 of the game that's [ __ ] awesome and three4s that are just like, eh, you're right. You're just [ __ ] We're just doing similar stuff for a lot of it. The beginning is really cool and the ending is [ __ ] amazing. But there's like this chunk of like six hours and that really loses itself in the middle. It drags. Like my harsh thing is Max is being maybe a little more harsh than No, mid mid is a B. A is a B. Mid is a B. No, no, no. But mine's on a grade scale. I would say this. I would say like the the the mechanic doesn't hold out for as long as the game is. No, they don't. It doesn't like escalate to a point where it keeps you engaged the whole time. Unlike Pragmata where it literally escalates all the way into the last shorter too cuz this is where pacing is like important. Yeah. Or like it's a sweet tent. The core mechanic is cool. And again, it's not like they don't give you new things. They do give you new things, but they're they're not mid is a six, [ __ ] What the [ __ ] A five or a six chat is a D minus or an F. So here's my thing. There's mid, good, excellent. Mid C, good, B, excellent. A I think mid should be. No, no, no, no, no, no. Wait, wait, wait. C is average. It's is lit legit in the middle. Huh. But no, but average in a grade scale, right? In a grade scale, there are six levels of failing, right? Five to six failing, right? But you're talking about educational grade, right? And that's what I that's I use the grade scale. So, if we want to do like one to five, then it would be like a two and a half. You would say DK is a two and a half or a three. I would say it's a three. I would say it's a four. If it's if it's a if it's a grade scale, I think it was like a C plus. Are you saying average isn't mid? Cuz average is mid. Average is the exact equivalent of mid. Yeah, that's what that's what I'm saying. So then that's So I'm right. So that'd be a 75%. C is mid. I said C is mid. Uh B is excellent. Oh, no. B is um B is above average. However, B is above average. The last two hours of the game are like a nine or a 10. Like they're extremely good. So he's right. Chad's confusing. I use the grade scale. And a grade scale isn't one to five. No. No. No. So I'm right in in a grade scale. six levels of failure, dude. It's like just under six. So, so you're right to me. Like, yeah, you can have a game that is like failing, but that does some things right because Yeah. And I've got you take a test, you get a lot of things right, but you're not right enough. So, there's the six levels of failure or five five to six levels of failure. The game isn't me. No, it's better than mid. It fell off in a week. Dude, you don't play it. You wouldn't know. I watched people play. It's It's like to me it's a high seven. Well, what would you give the whole thing in the end? Like like on a grade scale be like saying Donkey Kong like 80 like if a percentage wise like scale like 88%. 88 88% 88 it's pretty high. A little more than 85. I think it is good. Like the fact that the game does it doesn't [ __ ] itself. Um like there it's not like a buggy glitchy mess. You know it's welldesigned. The mechanic is is implemented well. The ending is really nice. The first few the first few levels are really nice. I think the definition of what people are getting. People People say the connotation behind what mid is different than what I think. Mid is something that doesn't necessarily stand out very much. It's just completely fine. I mean, if you've seen what the crazy insane [ __ ] you can do mobilitywise in the game that you don't think you you could do. Oh, no. It's got potential, you know? It's it's really cool. I just don't I think the middle kind of loses a little bit. Like the the levels aren't Yeah. I think what's happened now is people see like mid as being like a five and I'm like no no no like a mid is a game that's just completely average which to me is like a seven to an eight like when it gets to an eight is is a C average grade score 70 to to 79. Yeah. If this was if this was a a test at school, you know, and you got a C, C is considered average. Yeah. And I I would literally give Donkey Kong a C plus, Where it's like high7s, the chat just said you're mid. Damn. Yeah, that's crazy. Damn. Damn. That's right. Wait. This is good. It's a good thing because it's a 70 to like 90 to 100. So, that's actually really good. So, it's it's a good scale. To me, the more the thing that pisses me off more than anything really was the fact that they launched the [ __ ] postgame mode as DLC 2 months. Pretty scummy. And it was two months after the game and they charged you $20 and it was barely anything. $20 people. I watched what that was so I could download it and play it with Ripley and I'm like, "Oh, it's like nothing. It's like nothing." I mean, people people swear by it because it's, "Oh, it's really addicting. It's really addicting. It's really deep." And I'm like, "This is 2 months post game and you're charging 20. You turn the $70 game into a $90 game within two months. [ __ ] you." Damn. It was pretty bad. It was already mad expensive. Fair enough. Like 2 months. Is 2 months really that much time? Like for a game? That [ __ ] was [ __ ] done. That [ __ ] was [ __ ] done and ready to go at launch. They are they are [ __ ] scamming you with that. My My biggest issue is that the the tech the cool tech aspect of the game went away in the first 3 hours. I wasn't even thinking about like cool smash tech. It was incredible in the first few hours. Like this is so [ __ ] cool. And then it kind of vanished and never came back in a way that was like, oh, the tech is really evolving and not really. Yeah. At its beginning. Yeah. And it was just sort of a thing getting in the way of me like sometimes having fun like extra keep doing Smashy. And I was like, "Okay, okay, keep smashing." But the idea is kind of like uh what was it like Red Planet? I think it was old Red Faction. Red Faction, right? Where you could destroy everything. And the gimmick is cool up until up until like it's not until it's not. I mean, imagine being on Mars and you can blow up everything. After a while, you're like, I don't want to do this anymore. Like, okay. I had a good time with it. I had a good time with it. I do think the game is It was kind of forgettable in the end. I mean, the game is good unless and and to be real, it's a way better launch game than like New Super Mario Bros. U was like that was a terrible launch game and and it's [ __ ] y'all. It's a better launch game shows off hardware. It's a better launch game than Luigi's Mansion. I think I talked about it. Sorry. It is. Didn't we start Launch Legacy or have we done it? We've done it for We've done several of them. Some Okay. Yeah. Like it's a better launch game than Luigi's Mansion. Eat my ass. like it is, especially Luigi's Mansion one. Bonanza's better than Odyssey? No, I don't think that's not for me. Simmons. I think I I think as an example, Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze is is a much more enjoyable overall experience than Bonanza was. Bonanza was interesting. It's cool tech, but like Tropical Freeze played really [ __ ] good the whole time. You know, Tropical Freeze is one of the greatest 2D platformers ever. The only thing that world beats that in is is all the secrets of the overworld map. Sure. But as as far as as like leveltole like [ __ ] goes, Tropical Freeze is a masterpiece. Like straight up. Yeah. I liked I I just had more fun playing that one. Like And I think it's because it kept my attention the whole Like the whole game. It was never like, "Ah, okay. We're doing this now." Like it never it never did that. So yeah, it's always introducing new mechanics and visuals and things and hell I just No. I mean like Bonanza's Bonanza is great. It's It's Bonanza. I don't remember the music in Bonanza at all. No, the lagoon layer is great and then and then it's like who gives a [ __ ] The only thing that that people remember is Pauline songs which to me sound like kids bop versions of Star Wars Cantina music. The moment he gets a power up, right? Like it just sounds like if you go to Ogus Cantina or you listen to Jabba's, you know, Jedi Rocks, you know? Yeah. It's just Pauline doing the kids bot version of those of that [ __ ] and people like that. But like and like the ending music is really good when they bring back all the the classic DK music. Yeah. But like no to me that's where I really there was no like vibes music. That's where I really kind of like was really disappointed with Bonanza cuz I'm like Odyssey has great music and you know a lot of the 3D Marios tend to have fantastic music and Bonanza's music is just like they just they do not know what to do. like uh like the the 3D Mario team, they do not know how to do Donkey Kong music. Like Jungle Beat didn't have great music, not necessarily. Bonanza doesn't have great music either. So, got to bring in David. Yeah, they did. You got to bring in David. You got to bring in Grant. Like, they they understood the Donkey Kong assignment better. I'm just I'm sorry. It's true. Hold on. Oh god. Oh jeez. Oh god. Let me hook this [ __ ] up, chat. Hold on a second. Two sticks. Sticks. I I I want to try one cuz I asked like for a I'll just get Simmons and Steve to start playing and then I'll hook your [ __ ] up. Can I Well, Steve plays on that. Steve plays on stick. No, he doesn't. He just said he plays on stick. I literally pointed at that. You said stick. Are you playing on that piece of [ __ ] Yes, dude. You're out of your mind. Two sticks. Let's go. Come on. Sticks. I mean, I play on sticks. But I'm curious. Steve, just start playing on a hit box already then. Okay. Come on, dude. Just Just [ __ ] stab me in the heart, why don't you? What's wrong with it? plugs in the exact same way. It It doesn't read the same way. Steve forgot his [ __ ] roots. What are you talking about? Forgot his roots, bro. Please. Both of them are roots. See, what about your heritage? Yes. Yes. Our heritage. The sticks are great when they're on an arcade board. Max, they wobble on my legs. Wobble. And it [ __ ] It's slanted. [ __ ] slamming it so hard. That's what I did in the arcades. I'm about to roll that [ __ ] out. Yeah, roll it out. Roll that [ __ ] out. I had fun on that [ __ ] What are you asking for this? No, it's fine because I got used to it cuz that was the only thing I could do. I'm nerfed on that [ __ ] Not wrong. He's not wrong. [ __ ] nerfed. He's not wrong. I don't know how you [ __ ] guys play on your lap. Wobbles. I can barely do [ __ ] Shit's all over the place. God damn. How are they doing it? So disappointed. Cable hops on a stick on your lap. It's crazy. Please. It's wobbling. Most disappointed day of my life. It's terrible. Cable hops on a stick on your lap. Cable hops. You got to put some I know my roots. If we played MVC 2 or NVC 1 or CVS 2. Yeah, bring out the stick. Sure, I'll play it. I'll just be nerfed to [ __ ] but that's the only way I know how to play them. So, yeah, I'll do that. You disappointed me, Steve. But yeah, because of that [ __ ] Yeah, the controller. You don't know. Be real. You don't know the controller because about the wobble. The controller. Yeah, about the wobble. The [ __ ] wobble. It's got to be on a big cabinet and it's got to like you got your hands have to be in a good location because it's a lot of muscle memory. If I'm sitting like like I'm playing on an arcade, my hands are like and elbows are right here. I'm playing on my thing now. My hands and elbows are here. It's way different. Feels so It feels so much different. Your wrists have to contour a little but I'm playing so bad on an arcade cabinet and I'm standing. It's literally my hands and elbows are like this. It's a lot easier to do like cable hops and all this [ __ ] I stand on my computer desk. You see? So, people have found ways. We saw a guy we saw a guy at [ __ ] EVO bring out a [ __ ] a garbage can. He brought a garbage can and he fashioned it to an arcade cabinet. It was the craziest [ __ ] thing. He was dressed like uh Johnny Cage, too. he was dressed like Johnny Cage. I mean, if I was like JK and I could project the video games on my forehead, I I could play on a fight stick easy because I would just project the games on a for on my forehead and look in a mirror. You know what I'm saying? But I'm not JK. You said [ __ ] [ __ ] JK. You earned this. You earned this. Okay. JK who's in the chat said wah wah wah. So, you know what? You earned it. JKid, what what did he do? JKid said wah wah wah. That's what he did. I didn't have to do this, Jid. All right. Wobb wobb wob. I I I saw that. I didn't have to do this. You made me do it. You can get used to anything. You can get You can. Yeah. Stop being a bit. But the thing is getting used to it. I can get used to leverless. You think I'm going to learn? I'm old. Hell no. You ever heard of that saying, "A old dog can't learn new tricks?" That was made for me. That was made for me. Woof woof. I'm a golden retriever. Woof woof. Park Bark. Woof woof. So, hold on a second. Let's go. Uh, let me show you guys a couple of old can't learn new tricks that are cool. Um, but I can learn to do flips and stuff. I will learn that. Oh, you know what? We can only do verses. I don't know if I can go into training room. Um, well, it's not. Well, it's not. Well, maybe training with the characters that were in the No. Okay. No, we were only given okay for uh versus mode. So, uh here you go. You weird [ __ ] I can link my level. You want to see right now? Simmons, you might want to rebind your controls for this. I will. So, what more do you have to do? So, I'm I'm just curious. Why is it so bad? Like, why is Maxwell afraid to plug that in? I'm just curious. What is wrong with the controller? Cuz you don't play anything on stick. This is very sad. Dang, he's calling you out. Very sad only and a very And again, I can play all the old school games on stick. I But what about you know what about your roots? Yes, they're they're they're implanted in the roots games. That's what they are. That's like saying, why don't you play Tekken on a stick? Guess what? I've always played Tekken on a controller. Well, the arcades they had controller ports. Yes, they did. Exactly. So that's okay. So there you go. Imagine if the arcades had controller ports. I'd probably be doing that. A new set or duplicate. All right. So, I did change my controller. So, let me see if I can figure this out. Nissa or duplicate. So, yes, I did play on standard. So, Chad, this is pre-release. There is some updates. There is some gameplay changes. Uh, but it is not like the final version. You can expect things could change. We're going to go to a tournament now. That is Oh, uh, it's it's it's the go to a tournament and win. There you go. Just press it once and you'll save it. Dude, it's like stuck. Push it. Push it harder. There you go. Don't forget chat, the music is [ __ ] slamming, man. Some of the tracks are mad cool. It comes out in like five days. Yeah, there could be like, you know, uh day one patches and things like that. I think they've even talked about that. So, yeah, they fixed rage quitting. Uh they talked about them making a ton of changes to the way like matchmaking and rage quitting works recently in in uh podcasts and interviews and stuff. So that was a new experience to me. I guess uh I guess MK players are not like very I you know I ran into all about it. I don't know man. I ran into just as much rage quitting in this game as I would for a traditional Mortal Kombat and Tekken. Well, Tekken is not that much. Oh, Tekken will rage quit if you are going to rank up and like you're the person they're going to rank up on. It's happened to me a couple of times. There was a point where I was going to like finally rank up to blue and I was like going at it and the guy I was I just beat and he he rage quit. But I mean I don't know. I've asked this on Twitter. I'll ask the chat. I I think the game of the most one and done is I mean it's literally baked in. Well, it wasn't one and doneers wasn't the issue. It was rage quitting. Rage quitting. Yeah. Yeah. And I ran into quite a bit of rage quitting on the way up. Mortal Kombat literally made a thing out of it. Made a quitity out of it. And that's why like I don't mind. I don't mind about um quality was a very good idea. I do take Eddie's low tier or just have or just have um a punishment for somebody that rage quits. Like Oh, yeah. There will be uh I think I think they were talking about like locking you out of even being able to go into matchmaking. I know. to be to like for real though like I don't mind getting um a rage quit in Mortal Kombat because of the qualities. I remember where I was when they announced qualities. I was like on my way to work. I was like um you know working at Universal at the time and walking through CityWalk watching the combat cast just walking and they're like oh here's this quintality. I was like, "What?" I literally fatalities were in X or 11. 11. It was 11. Yeah. It's It's in one, too. Yeah, I know. It is in one. Like, it started in 11. Oh, gotcha. And I'm like, I I was blown away. I'm like, "Oh, it's an X." Steve, are you on uh Are you on motion controls? Uh, no. Yeah, X was having me a second to remember. A minute. Wow, it was actually all the way an X catch. I forgot. You like the Universal? Cool. Yes, I did. I forgot my [ __ ] Give me a second. Y started on X. Wow. I You know what's so funny? I I don't remember anybody having a quitality in X. Yeah, my head popped and they just dropped to the ground. It said brutality. Oh, you know why I remember it more? Well, no, I remember it a lot in um in one because it like I try to get a brutality on both Halloween Horror Nights. Yes. Also like worked day offs. Nice is going to have such a leg up. Watch me play is going to be boring. What? Where? You think I'm just going to train this off? Do you think I just have nothing to do in the day? I play my games. I play video games, bro, on stream. Then I can't stream this [ __ ] This is why this is why Max doesn't put out reviews uh beforehand. Usually I get to like check something out. Not even that. Like you literally wait cuz like Max goes, I want to play this with the chat. I don't want to play this. Most of the time I just wait till the game comes out. Yeah. You get early copies of games. You're like, I just don't play them. I I rather play this with Chad. I know how [ __ ] painful it was to have like Final Fantasy 7 remake and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth a month before it came out and I just cannot turn it on. Pretty [ __ ] tough. And I was like, well, there we go, chat. You He wants to experience it with you. You know, you know what that's like, Chad? You know what that's like? When you guys have a favorite show with your um with your significant other and all of a sudden, like imagine like your significant other watches a couple of shows ahead of you. You would feel like oh my god, how could you do that? Feeling betrayed. Oh [ __ ] But Max doesn't want to betray you. He wants to play with you guys. Yeah. Like I'm really looking forward to playing like the story mode on hardest difficulty in this and I'm just going to wait till we get to I think he's going to be Oh, Characters are leveling up and stuff. That's cool. We're going to this guy up. Uhoh, things are unlocking. Oh wow. Uhoh. Jesus. Oh. Oh, you get some stuff for match. Yeah. Pick some of the new stages and [ __ ] You guys pick like a lot of lock stages. I don't I don't know. All the other ones are new. You know what else was terrible? That comparison I just did. Got him. Random. Shame you go on there. I again I just turned it on to see if it was working. Yeah. Thank you. 789654123654789. You know what's great? He didn't do the forbidden number. He did. Yeah. So, thank you. Neither would I. I would never do the Yeah. You would never. I would never use that as a joke. No. Never. I think it's disgusting. Yep. Dave Jones, thank you. Hey, so that's push block. Yeah. Steve, are you on motion controls? Are you doing the manual inputs? I Max, you've already asked that question, bro. Bro, you're you're doing specials. What are you doing for your special? What are you doing? Are you pressing the special? Let me relearn. I have to relearn. I'm literally only asking you if you're doing fireball. I'm doing standard. There's no motion controls. I have no emotion controls. All right. All right. All right. Then you need to press the medium. I know what the [ __ ] to press. God damn it. Press the medium cuz you're getting beat right now. I'm not actually the [ __ ] you troll. I don't know. Oh, I'm not even paying attention. I'm reading the chat. I'm seeing you, Chad. I'm reading the chat while drinking. Yeah. I'm drinking water. Highly toned water. Vegan water, you [ __ ] Very potent water. Vegan water. Oh god, I forgot. Hey, for sure guys. Wow. Okay. All right. See, I like dude I like I try to do Adam Eve uh with like motion controls, but doing a dragon punch the best assist in the whole game. No kidding. Like her backile insane. Her projectile. it's insane. We have the roster. Yes. Wow. Good stuff. Oh yeah. How's the DP like? Yeah. I I don't like doing DP motions in a versus combo like versus game like really fast. Okay, I got I got the okay for us to go into training and stuff. Hey, that's awesome. So, if I'm going to show you guys like some little mechanical changes we can damn it too for now. Oh, nice. Oh, cuz she has a dive kick. What's that? You do her uh her flight cancel. Oh, wow. Uh uh. No. Cuz you did. Yeah. Like kick into capture card. Sorry. All right. Oh, I thought I was walking. Never mind. You were the ship. I'm going to kill you. Count on it. Count on it. Yeah, I like that. I like that. Yeah. No, Adam, that's my same team. Uh, I mean, it's literally it's literally the starting team. It's literally if you just mash the buttons at the start and you're the first three characters. It's the first three characters. So, yeah, it's the starting team. I don't know. I I want to mess with Cecil. So, uh, training. Let's go to practice. I'll show off some of the, uh, like mechanical stuff that they talked about. you did say you want to try duplicates. cuz you want to try to do some massive stuff with like sis character and her duplicates. I'm like, why can't I be your character? Hold on to that [ __ ] Jesus. Okay. We'll wait till the characters come out and then I can really mess around with different stuff. You look cool. Got him. Slim Shady. Get wrecked. Get wrecked. Look at that. Uh, let me change my button really fast. Uh, controls rewind. They should put um what's um and then practice settings for me. I really do hope they have like really like interesting different outfits for the characters. All the viltroites are wearing the same [ __ ] That's vramite stuff. I get it. I get it. But they need to have some alternate costumes. Oh [ __ ] What's um so uh Mark's kind of used shoot me now. Shoot me now please. You wrote me press these buttons before. So heroic strike. How does how has this changed? It has changed. Interesting. I want changed a little bit. So that's the big difference. Yeah. Yeah. What what what you kind of save regular breakers for kind of save them for moments where it's like, oh, I don't want to enter the tag miniame. I want to save my breaker for that. You know, like my big breaker. I don't want to deal with this [ __ ] Right. I'm not going to lie. Like Paul's kind of awesome. He's a great character. Anyway, look at this spaghetti. Um, so this turned into a little bit more expensive. Nice. You did it back to me. So here here's the thing. Uh, block down back and try to you know what heroic strike is? I have it set up. Okay. Just do it. Okay. So there's an issue with that. Um, because I have it set on yours. It should be medium and heavy at the same time. Yeah, medium and heavy. Okay. Go. Go. Go. Oops. Oh, I have to get it. Be blocking. Uh, it's something else. Maybe you're on the wrong controls. I see. So, hold on. Medium on my Okay. No. Okay. Go, go, go, go, dude. Do it. My fault. Sorry. So, in in this situation, let's do it again. If I don't commit to the big the big attacks after, I can sort of like bait this So, you'll have to like wait for Oh my god. You can respond. Um I think I can even respond with Oh boy. Oops. Ready. There's a reaction window of you to get around the armor. Guess what? Wait. So, okay. Do it. Let me see if I will get it. I'm old. I can't break it. So, how do I bring in the other character though? Uh, so you can um when when you heroic strike me on the hit tag. That's what it is. Okay. I could block there. Hold on. Hold on. Tag. Hold it. Hold it. Yeah. Oh, I also could under it. What the [ __ ] Not every heroic strike is the same. What? That actually hurt. Hold down tag. did. Yeah, I guess the timing. Oh, it's time. Okay, go. Oh, interesting. Uh, which which button you pressing? So, I'm doing this and then as soon as um I'm coming in, I'm holding the assist. So, do it to me. Oh, my bad. On hit. Try. That's so weird. So, just these two on hit and then hit an assist right when it's happening. Attack me. Maybe it could it could be a glitch. Oh, let's just just tag. Oh, you're right. Wait, wait, wait. Is this Bro, this isn't doing anything over here. Yeah, those are not tag. These aren't your tag buttons, bro. These are up. They're up here. Your tag your assists are up here. That's what I was looking at. I'm like, that button is not doing anything. You've been playing wrong the whole Oh, because because you it's the the it's the actual I switched my controllers when I was fighting Simmons. I switched my controls while I was fighting Simmons and then when we got in here, my controllers are switched. So, what the [ __ ] is going on? It makes sense. Jesus Christ. What the [ __ ] My brain hurts. All right, here we go. All right, go. Andrew Dragon, thank you for 110 months. Okay, so you're doing the assist call. Hold down the tag button. Hold down the assist button. Okay, there's your tag. Oh, and then he comes in. So, but you noticed something pretty special because when you do that here, uh strike me again. Yeah, I can counter attack. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, here's here's the crazy part. Don't block or uh actually block. Um you can see these boxes. Hit hit me. Hit hit me. My bad. Wrong button. Okay. See that? So you can bring in I can bring in an assist. Oh my god. If I if I knew what to do. Maybe you have to walk up. there you go. Uh-oh. Suddenly not a tag opportunity, you know. Suddenly not a tag opportunity. I'm using my assist to continue the combo Yeah, I you can also do the back assist as well. all the time in the world. Yeah, that's another thing. So, I don't need to engage the tag system off heroic strike if you have assists, which is why saving saving the big combo like didn't hit me. Saving this assist breaker is good, right? Cuz it it no matter it's coming out like that shit's coming out, you know? Speaking out. I didn't want to say it, but I was thinking rock. Let's go ahead and wrap this up. I think level threes still do a lot. Yes, they should. Raw level threes do a lot. I think they scale a bit more. Yeah, that's enough of that. That was level. That was level one. My bad. Yeah, it's not his blood. That's why this is what I'm here for. He's just a man. I want to hear him whisper in your ear. I'm so lonely. It's a headbutt. That's funny. Ah, yeah. Conquest is neat. This projectile is maybe the best projectile in the game. Oh, it like beats nearly everything. It looks like a Sonic SNK. Exactly. It looks like a sonic boom. SNK [ __ ] This is This is cheap. Call assist down here. These are should be dead. He's using armor. He's using tech. Use your imagination. Radio game. He's got um archive shield. Oh, I almost countered it, too. The timing stuff is going to be nuts in this game, man. You got to time everything and and different attacks have different timing. So, it's going to be kind of nuts how this works. So, as an example, also um there was a frequent combo that we saw a lot of people doing in the beta. You're doing the hyper dash down. Oh, no. Right. They got rid of it. It pops out. They got rid of it. It also did very little do it. He just does very little damage. There was also Yeah, people were exploiting that [ __ ] Kingdom. I want to say it was Doula that had one that was just like I saw it a lot. That also goes back a little further now. So you can't just do it willy-nilly, With battle beast. Wow. Did I just relaunch you? Is that so relaunchers? Of course, dude. Why not? Debbie all cool character. Paul it. It's kind of wild. Like actually Paul really grew on me on that in that show. Level three still do a bit, but if you see what level three damage is now, it actually scales. that would be close to killing actually kill back in the beta. Yeah. So now there's like really good reason to start putting a missile down. How you like this? You know, there's not really good reason to start sticking in a whole bunch of like other ways to get good damage other than just doing the one normal boosted thing, right? Let me see your thing. What are your buttons? Like it's the original. I need to change it because it's it's on uh default. It's on default. So I did want to play with this, but I was playing on PlayStation, so I couldn't play with this pad. Okay. So this is dash. Oh, so this is heavy. Okay. What do you mean? You were playing on PlayStation. You couldn't play with the pad with this one. I couldn't play with this. Why? PS4. It No, you need you need uh the converter. Yeah. Yeah. Converter. Yeah. You got to get one. Come on, man. Literally like what, 30 bucks or something? on Amazon. You can pick up this right now. Look at this. Look at this micro hover I can do. Hold up. Omnic guy, please. Short hop. [ __ ] What What is the input for short hopping rather? Uh, tap up. Just tap up. Just tap. Tap a port. Tap. It's a SNK. So, it's not like a weird thing. SNK has up down back up forward. Down, back, up, forward. Like for SNK, you do like this arch motion. Oh, really? I don't remember that. Yeah, I just do like light hops. Well, because SNK has short hops, long hops, regular hops. They have like three. They have like they have more hops than a brewery. Damn. Um where I was like I remember doing that in training with like K King of Fighters 15, I think, and I was like, "Oh yeah, that's like I I did that for, you know, um uh City of the Wolves, and it was just off. It was just like a quick little, you know, tap up really fast and anything can blow up. And then same for like the SNK stuff, you know, like I'll use an SNK group and if I want to short off, I just tap it really fast. I mean, that's that's how I mean, hey, that's that's why SNK has so much [ __ ] depth. That's why like even their old games are still kind of I I feel like crazy mobility. I feel I feel there is a thing called too many mechanics and they can ruin a Oh, absolutely. I mean, I I it's Oh, my rocks. It is both what what's kept the old games like like people still playing the old ones and also what preventing them from ever hitting mainstream. Yeah. Yeah. Too much [ __ ] going on. It's a little bit of a double-edged sword honestly. There's a there's like a Mark staircase combos the devs are always doing where he can like without slamming down he can like like jab you here. Oh, I see. Yeah. And it builds like a little bit less combo gauge. Um, so like there'll be some optimization there. Anyway, let's play. Let's play. Let's go. Let's play. I don't know. I'm It's going to be weird. I Let's play. Yeah, cuz I'm just seeing what I like more cuz I haven't got to play this. What are you going to learn now? No, I'm just saying cuz I might like the horad more than I like the stick. Okay, try it out. You going to learn today? Uh, why triangle? All right. Uh, what do you do yours? Light, medium, heavy? That's the same. That's the same. No, no. What do you like doing on here? That's the same. So, this look at this squad of [ __ ] Yeah. So, the the front I keep default. My assist on here and then I do like uh the dash is uh the dash is this one. Uh the super is here. And then boost and something else is these two. Oh, jeez Louise. Yeah. My assist on the front just like just like I had a controller. Yeah, everybody's comparing that character to Steve Hardy, but look look at the three of them. Isn't that [ __ ] bland? Am I crazy? It is also the way they are. I get that. But but that there there's other skins. There's other colors. That's what I'm saying is there has to be there has to be like different [ __ ] uh skins and outfits that they can wear. I mean, you literally unlock them. I I play the characters and you get more. I I said this before, I'll say it again. You didn't see Pink Omniman? Oh god. On Twitter? Yeah, that he's has a cape and he has different colors on his stuff. These characters all have [ __ ] gray and and white. So [ __ ] boring. I mean, until you unlock the other colors, right? Where are the other colors? You have to play the game to unlock them. Okay, I'm glad. I'm glad. Well, for example, like just if you hate it so much. Yes. Yes. This is the first one. Yeah. And so they Oh, see he's still covering it. Cool. [ __ ] dope. Give it like blue and orange and black and I'm so happy will be there. Yes. I'm just like [ __ ] I'm sure there will be like it's it's just bland as [ __ ] It is. It is also how they are. But maybe they should have given them more colors off the rip. Maybe. Yeah. You only get two. Yeah. So I I mean we just unlocked a couple colors as we were playing. Yeah. May maybe get maybe give the the the Ultrammites or whatever. Maybe give them a little more Even on the shore, it's it's bland and boring. Like, I would like them to see little like cool different stuff. And I've said it before, I'll say it again. Everyone complains about Superman being boring, but these [ __ ] just punch. Like, they're just strong. Like, that's the Viltromites. It's boring. You know who's [ __ ] cool? Adam Eve or just Eve. She has so many cool [ __ ] things about her. These things look like the Matrix things. But it is me. The what are they called? Like the squids or whatever. Yeah. Sentinels. Thank you, bro. You know what I saw on IMAX, chat? I saw the show. You know what they did the whole show? Punch each other really hard. Saw a Speed Racer on IMAX. Oh, snap. Pretty good. Religious experience. So good. That movie was better than I so you have like one of those special um uh special uh movie cards that let you see like some of the old school uh shows on I just that just showed up on um Oh, it just came out. Yeah, they did a re-release. This is like one inch punch. This is what I'm here for. I'm going to enjoy this. Bonk. Oh, is streamer mode on? She didn't die. Well, I mean, just in case. Trying to help you out, Max. I left it on. Hey, we're showing off the game. Got to show it off. I don't make money. I don't make money. go fly into a sun. Would I be okay if they got the civilian act? Yes. They only showed the civilian outfit for like half a second in the show, so we're getting ready. an A-list member. Yes, I stand up every time they mention A-list members. Absolutely. And if you don't have a if you don't have a [ __ ] A-list, do not stand up when they when they [ __ ] mention you. That's stolen. That's like That's like taking communion Catholic church and you're not Catholic. Stolen valor. All right. So, when they mention the A-list A-listers, you stand up. But if you don't have that [ __ ] do not [ __ ] stand up. Like, stolen. So, they they get to watch four times a week. That's a lot of [ __ ] movies, man. It sounds great, but I mean the problem is not that many movies come out anymore. Well, no, they they release a lot of old ones. That's what I've mostly been doing in theaters. Yeah. Yeah. They're watch they're re-releasing old ones and they're putting in an IMAX and so all the A-listers get to watch like the old school movies like So, it's basically for movie buffs and I'm like, "Okay, cool." Or sometimes you're just like, "Hey, you might figure out like really cool movies that you know like you that you want to see an IMAX or not even nice." See, like first time you might not been like, "Damn, this movie is actually kind of cool." Like, "Hey, I I got I got a day." No. But yeah, Chad, you're not Yeah, it pays for except you watch two to three movies a week. I don't know. I don't have time for that. Your little toys were nothing to me. You are nothing to me. I love the Killer Instinct outros, man. Oh, damn. Thanks. Thanks. Great. It's a vibe. Why are you bothering me? You should know how pointless this is. You know what's kind of wild? In the comic book, he's actually buff. He's not like uh chubby. Wait, what did he say? He said, "You send you did something to my father. Where did I get?" He's like, "Yeah, he's bare fat." Yeah, but like in the in the comic, he's ripped. I'm sure everyite in the comic is ripped as [ __ ] It makes sense cuz they're nonsensical culture. Like it's a comic book, Freaking weird to use. Yeah. Like I saw a video like quote strongest man in the world right now and it's like Yeah. He he he doesn't he's not he's not doesn't look like like a Rob Lifel drawing. No, he doesn't look like Arnold. he he he looks like a bear. He looks like a [ __ ] bear with like he's a thick ass boy. Epic B. Furious. Nice. Oh my god. Birthday with that. It's time. Too fast for you. Don't break her. Come on. Yep. You're throwing a low. What the [ __ ] did Speed Racer look like? A lot of things just like moving, you know, like this is supposed to be this, this is supposed to be that. I was like, is it just like an image like kind of like 64? Part of me is like, man, I would love to see they were trying to get the story figured out, which is funny cuz that's like that movie hit so hard like it nails the story. Oh, he doesn't have any air ashes. Yeah, he does. Oh, okay. Little floor. Okay, we're not listening. I don't trust you. I love the enthusiasm of of this actor's uh voice over. Well, you know, he has, you know, for the show. Well, he doesn't have to. I mean, he could he could easily be uh Megan Fox. Megan Fox. He could easily be Megan Fox. So, whatever. All right. So, he doesn't have to. The best one of the best voiceovers. I'm going to be real. Ronda Rousey kind of sucked, too. Uh I've always compared the two. You could do the trilogy. I've always compared the two. I will give uh the DJ. He he tried, you know, he put some he put some a little stink in it. She's going back in the She's going back in the UFC, too. I say I say good luck. Actually tried. I She definitely tried way more than Megan Fox did. Like she wasn't good, but she also like All right. She's definitely not used to voicing. I You cannot defeat El. All right. So, did you actually really change? Did you change any of the So, you didn't change any of the face buttons, right? No. Yeah, just just go to default and what did you change? Just change it back. Do whatever you do. I don't know. Okay. Okay. All right. All We are doing Peter Dinklage in Destiny was really bad. I didn't hear that. He got replaced too. I forget cuz he was so bad. Yeah, they replaced his and it wasn't even a sound alike. It was like you know what just didn't happen. That's just happen. He must have like Fast and Furious ride that like with Diesel might ride. Hey guys, you could be a part of our family anytime. You have my family anytime plays with Nolan North. Oh, okay. Somebody that likes what they do. Invincible. Panic. Game of Thrones. The short the little person. Oh, Game of Thrones. Oh, okay. Okay. I guess that was just like a paycheck cuz he's fantastic in Game of Thrones, but it was just like he sounded bored. every every little little person actor that I hear from just shits on that guy. Well, yeah, because well because like you know he was like well because he took a lot of lot of jobs. He didn't take jobs from them like personally. He was like oh this is terrible and this is not the right representation and all this stuff and it's it's it's offensive. But then they look at all of his stuff before and he was doing all this offensive stuff and everything like that. Yeah. A ladder puller. Absolutely. That's what it is. A ladder puller. A ladder puller. Yeah, 100%. Yeah, great great uh analogy from what I've heard. A ladder puller. I've heard some friends who were at got into channel. For Game of Thrones. Like he he always looked the most bored and annoyed to me to be there and I was like, man, that that sucks. No, I don't want the followup. Still the goat. Yeah, absolutely. Uh yeah, he killed jobs for little people when he was trying to like, you know, be, you know, the guy from not every actor, you know, is into the [ __ ] that the that they have to promote, you know. Uh I remember the guy that um plays the crazy [ __ ] in GTA 6 or GTA 5, Trevor. Yeah. He doesn't give a [ __ ] about video games. different people ask him like, "Hey, uh, so you played I saw this clip." I think I saw this. He doesn't give a [ __ ] dude. He doesn't even play. And then which almost feels Trevor like, "Well, yeah." Yeah. And and then they they were like, "Well, why don't you like you? How come you're not interested in the game?" And he's like, "Look, um, I read books. I like reading books." And then he mentions some [ __ ] book that no one's ever heard of, and it's really insightful. It's like the uh No, it's like a um War in Peace uh book or some [ __ ] like it. No, it's like a War in Peace book. It's a [ __ ] book I can't even mention cuz I don't remember the [ __ ] name. But he mentions it and he was like, "Yeah, it's really insightful. It's really deep and know it has like all this stuff about the the history of the war and everything like that. Why don't you read that?" And you're like, "Yeah, it's true." So that's what I'm into. I I'm into written books. Well, it's it's funny cuz like, oh, I hate that character. It's the literally the character he plays in almost all of his movies, right? And all the shows and he's just playing a character. He's just playing basic almost himself. Like he was like Trevor. He was Trevor in uh Better Call Saul. He was Trevor in He's typ cast. Yeah, he was uh what is it in the um The Walking Dead. Yeah, The Walking Dead. He was Trevor. Better saw he was Trevor. Kind of reminds me a little bit of how like every idiot interviews Harrison Ford. They're like Harrison Ford when especially when it comes to Star Wars does not care. He does not know. like he he you know that that is not not his favorite role and I'm like man what the [ __ ] is my super for the love of God I'm losing my mind if I was on a press junket and I was like you got to interview I'd be like all right you know I'm supposed to [ __ ] that tell me about like tell me what's going on in aviation cuz you're a pilot like let's talk about something you want to talk about you know what I'm not here to you're going to answer the same question for everyone else tell me tell me something you want to talk about I don't want to talk about here's what I would ask like hey you know like you've got big into aviation Did Star Wars play any part of that? Like when you were, you know, pilot of the Millennium Falcon, which would be good except he has answered that already. Okay, then there you go. Then I don't know. But that's what I would ask him cuz I know he's really over the Star Wars stuff. He does not care. But and I will be like, look, I'll be like Harrison Harrison, keep it real with me, bro. Keep it real with me. You do you hate the Star Wars, but Indiana Jones is basically Han Solo in space. Come on, bro. Zapper, thank you. No, Han and Indie are not the same character. They're kind of They're talking and Greo is sudden death. They're talking and Greo is like, "Hey man, I'm going to bring you in." What does he do? He pulls out his gun and shoots him. And in Indiana Jones, a guy comes with a sword. He's like, "Ha ching ching ching ching ha." And then and then Indie just goes, I get Yeah, I get what you're doing. It's also like they're not the same character. Oh, they would they would shoot a person. Yeah, they would shoot a person. Yeah, they're like They're not They're not the same character. Exactly. They're both scoundrels. [ __ ] dude. They're both kind of scoundrels. All Not a bad take. Give me a second to like figure out. Bad take. You're a You're a good take. How about that? Derf, huh? Got him. Get wrecked. I just need to build a level. Figure it out. Like Indy's like educated and [ __ ] and stuff like Han Solo would never read a [ __ ] book, you know? He would never like learn the history. Did they say they figured out? Oh, cut those intros. Well, I need a level, so let's just fight. And he's not lonely. He's got short brown. You know who's going to sidekick? Han Solo. You know who's got a sidekick? Indiana Jones that psychic disappear from his life like immediately after that movie though. Chewy stayed with him for was Ryan or die for life. Be to be honest. Yeah. You know short round should have stayed because he he kind of stayed short round but I dude I thought short. I don't know dude. You're on standard. I don't get No. No. Reset to default. I don't know. Super boosted something else. It's uh super is just heavy and special. You don't do a short round. Oh, no. It's not boost. It's um It's not boost is it own button on stand on temple is the worst of the three. Well, guess what? That's my favorite. And you have an opinion, right? I have and it's boost and and whatever. You're allowed to have it. No. No. Super is heavy and special. It's right there. What's What's special? Yeah. Special is it own? Steve, your your leg is talking to you. Why is it talking to me? And why do you give me directions to Steve's house? It's [ __ ] like lock. Like you're locked. Why are you talking? Um, it's [ __ ] listening to everything you guys are saying, too. Steve cell phone. Venmo me. $50, please. Talk about diapers. Your AI is going to have a weird conversation about Indiana Jones and Han Solo later. Uh, uh, I don't [ __ ] I turned off all my AI [ __ ] Okay. So, what what the [ __ ] is boost? Isn't it like dash? Boost? No, no, no. Boost is a unique button in in standard. Yeah, it that that it makes your it makes your dashes when you press it with dash, it makes it bigger. With specials, it makes them more special. Come to me. You don't do motions in Zander controls. No, I I you have more buttons, right? Good. It's fine. Hey, what's up, Sapper? Thanks for that. Love you guys. Cruz. Thank you, Sapper. That's a real move. I'll go play the blade there. Yes, Steve plays modern Shout out to David. Yes, shout out to David. Steve's a modern guy. He's a modern man for the ages. What am I playing this? I still don't know. I really like um Adam Eve. I had I like Battle Beast. I'm kind of searching around for my throat. I like what I'm seeing on this Titan guy. So, I'm like maybe I like the way I like his animations and like his moves. Time to crack some skull. Yeah, I'm going to use AI since popular. I I kind of want to do like I power flex kind of I don't know. Give me characters with dive kicks and fly cancels. Get these tunes. I want to play season. It looks cool. Let's go ahead and wrap this up. Very KI like Oh, it's a S. That's right. Say goodbye. Titan reminds Yeah, that's what Yeah, exactly. That said earlier, the nurse definitely give me some uh Dev Jam vibes. I like C because I just like the idea of him being in the game. I'm I'm like that's kind of sick. It's like Professor X. Yeah, a little bit. Or it's just to me it's something that Dragon Ball would be afraid to do. They'd be like, "Well, this character could never stand up with any of these." Yeah. They don't have like Roie or Hercule in Mr. Well, they have like Yeah, Mr. Satan. I You know what? I guarantee you if um I got you um if uh they quarter up or Roshi. Oh, did they add Roshi to I did stop following fighters after cuz it was just like we're going to put this Goku and that Goku in this. I'm like all right whatever. Isn't there like new DLC character another [ __ ] Goku? I was like seriously guys? Like they don't give a [ __ ] at this point. It's wild. You could have a tournament with just all Goku. 30 [ __ ] Gokus. Like, it's kind of sick, man. To be to be honest, I I I think if this company, they made uh fighters, they would have armor with a shotgun. Farmer shotgun. Farmer. I honestly would be sick. You know why? Cuz they could just do like shotgun like double jumps, like you know, like mobility with a shotgun. And I'm like, why the [ __ ] not? And I think people would go nuts if they had farmer with a shotgun and like he does an air combo like boom boom does like, you know, like shotgun blast. I wanted to see the double shot to do like mobility to do like imagine he can wave dash with like a shotgun. Why not do I I don't I don't care. I don't care if farmer with a shotgun is going against like you know Uub or Beerus. Don't care. Hercule with a jetpack. That was you. Let's have it. Oh, you wanted Okay. You wanted this one. Okay. Who's the not Trunks sword user? Uh Tapion. Tapion. So, can we skip this? Tapion. Tap was more of a woopy character. Might be a setting. But Tapion is the one who gave Trunks the um Is that what you mean by the godlike? Yeah, that's cuz it pops behind her, dude. Yeah. And it um and it gives you full combo. Yeah. Completely knocks you down. Yep. You give him a sword. See, I used to be a very big MK Dragon Ball weeb. Yeah, Tapion was sick. Tapion has a very big following, I think. Oh, Dragon Ball had a very big following countries, but like Tapion was very popular. You know, I would love to see him in another Dragon Ball like in a fighters. So when I do that breaker, is there isn't there a way I can bring in the breaker and character after and I bring in the breaker with the character and then keep the character in? Nope. Once you do assist breaker, you actually cannot tag at all. Because it's it's it's a guarantee breaker. Gotcha. It uses upon and it locks out your Yeah. I want farmer with a shotgun. I want Hercule. And I want Bulma. And Bulma's in a capsule p like me. And I do not care about power levels. I don't care. You know what game didn't care about power levels? Marvel vs. Capcom. So Bulma in a capsule corpse mech play almost like uh could play like Sentinel farmer with a shotgun with shotgun double jumps and like mobility. Nice gauntlet. His belly's got jiggle physics. That's amazing. That is amazing. Yeah, I'm liking what I'm thinking Titan. I may want to try him or something. got you covered. The peel off machine. Yeah, the emperor peeloff machine. That'd be sick. And to be like And to be honest, chat, fighters needs it. Fighters needs like, you know, like an emperor peel off, dude. Yeah, chat. I would put Emperor Peel off and the Bulma and have two different kind of big mechs in the game. Who do you use the most in the game so far? Oh, Mark. Mark. Yeah, for sure. And look, I I you know, like I said, I Fighter…

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