FPS Trivia Showdown: Who’s the Ultimate Gamer?

Dive into the thrilling world of first-person shooters (FPS) with our latest episode, where we unravel the captivating history of these iconic games that have shaped the gaming landscape. From the groundbreaking releases of **Doom** and **Wolfenstein**, we explore how these early titles not only defined a genre but also laid the foundational stones for multiplayer gaming. Through our enlightening discussion, we examine how FPS games evolved to include intricate storytelling elements, innovative gameplay mechanics, and community-driven multiplayer experiences, with key milestones highlighted by beloved classics like **Counter-Strike** and **Halo**. 

As we journey through the evolution of the FPS genre, we also spotlight the rise of looter shooters—games that masterfully blend FPS mechanics with RPG elements, captivating players with their expansive worlds and character progression systems. Titles such as **Borderlands** and **Destiny** illustrate the growing complexity of FPS games, engaging players in immersive narratives that invite deeper connection and long-term play. 

To enhance listener engagement, we present an entertaining trivia segment, challenging you to test your knowledge on FPS games. Reflect on your favorite titles and moments while joining us in this lively conversation that keeps the spirit of gaming alive, inviting you to share your own FPS experiences. 

Don’t forget, exciting discussions on upcoming game releases and industry trends await, ensuring that you’re always on the pulse of the gaming world. Join us for a fun-filled episode that combines nostalgia, community interaction, and a glimpse into the gaming industry's future—subscribe now and immerse yourself in the world of FPS gaming!

Transcript

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All right, shall we do news and reviews, or trivia, let's do your trivia first Trivia.

Speaker 2 2:01

Yeah.

Speaker 3 2:02

This trivia is brought to you by Gameopediacom. Great All right. That was Mitch's buzzer and Tom All right. This is on the history of first-person shooters.

Speaker 2 2:22

Okay, all right.

Speaker 3 2:24

So, tom, what do you want to watch next time? I will ask the question. If you can give me the name of the title or sometimes there's some more specific questions I'll let you know when it happens. Name of the title and the year the game came out. All games start in the 90s, all right.

Speaker 2 2:41

Okay, all right.

Speaker 3 2:43

The first FPS to take off and put the genre goldeneye no counter-strike no, how about I finish the questions before you guys start answer quickly? Fine let me. Let me go ahead and preface this one more time. This is the history, so if you're an interested audience member, I would like to read the questions because it gives the history before you answer.

Speaker 2 3:08

Sorry.

Speaker 3 3:09

Okay, all right, stick around.

Speaker 1 3:14

I couldn't help it. Go ahead, go ahead, all right.

Speaker 3 3:18

The first FPS to take off and put the genre on the map was this 90s shooter. I'll give you a hint it was a DOS game. Stick around.

Speaker 2 3:28

Doom.

Speaker 3 3:29

No.

Speaker 2 3:30

Oh, that was a good guess.

Speaker 3 3:32

I just remember playing it on the computer first you guys were this dumb when it came to video games.

Speaker 1 3:37

I play a game once a month when I got time.

Speaker 3 3:39

I know right.

Speaker 2 3:40

Yeah, but your kids won't Time Splitters. No, I don't know.

Speaker 3 3:47

Like it came out in the GameCube era.

Speaker 1 3:48

I don't remember a first-person shooter other than Doom from that far back. Yeah, all right.

Speaker 3 3:53

Off to a great start. It was Wolfenstein 3D, oh 1993.

Speaker 2 3:58

I thought that was Nintendo first. I forgot about Wolfenstein.

Speaker 3 4:00

No, dos is computers. Well, that's what I'm saying. I thought it was on Nintendo, first DOS, that game I'm sure it came out eventually for Nintendo Next question, but all of them started on computers. Question number two id Software, which made Wolfenstein 3D, made a follow-up game that was even more popular.

Speaker 1 4:16

No, that wouldn't, that was even more popular I was going to say Castlevania, but that's not first-person shooter.

Speaker 2 4:24

Doom.

Speaker 3 4:24

Yes, what year did Doom come out?

Speaker 2 4:30

I didn't know, they made the same game 1995., no 94., no 96., no 93.

Speaker 3 4:38

Oh yes, Mitch you got it last second. I was about to cut you off. That's right, wolfenstein came out in 93, and so did Doom. What was the name of the engine Doom ran on?

Speaker 2 4:51

In line six no.

Speaker 1 4:54

Windows 95.

Speaker 3 4:56

That's an operating system.

Trivia Segment Begins

Speaker 2 4:57

I don't know, I don't know.

Speaker 1 5:01

This is like what we were talking about. Yeah.

Speaker 3 5:02

No shots in the dark. Who's the executive producer?

Speaker 1 5:05

Three ninjas.

Speaker 3 5:06

Well, the answer is the Doom engine.

Speaker 2 5:09

Good job, guys All right, we're off to a thunderous start.

Speaker 3 5:14

Doom was revolutionary for FPS, as it used new technologies for light and surface rendering. The market strategy was also revolutionary, with the first episode being free to download, while people who wanted more of the game had to purchase mail-in discs for the next two episodes. What happened? That was the first time for video games in the history of video games for the purchase of Doom. Remember what I just said.

Speaker 2 5:41

DLC Like downloadable content.

Speaker 3 5:43

No, but I like where you're going. They had to purchase by downloading online.

Speaker 2 5:58

Imagine what that must have been like back in the day. I'm not sure.

Speaker 3 6:00

I'm getting the question. I don't either. Okay, this was the first time that this has happened. It's happened numerous times since then, even to this day, when a game comes out. This was the first time that this has happened. It's happened numerous times since then, even to this day. When a game comes out, this unfortunate situation happens. An external hard drive. All right.

Speaker 3 6:15

He's like never mind it was so anticipated that too many people were queued to download the game on the server and had to be kicked off the servers. Then over 10,000 people attended a download, causing the server to crash.

Speaker 1 6:28

Okay, Okay, you ever try to download a game. You get private servers.

Speaker 2 6:33

What I don't know, I don't know, we don't get really what you're trying to ask us.

Speaker 3 6:36

The question was have you ever tried to download a game, but too many people are downloading it and you can't because the game crashed? You've never had that happen before.

Speaker 2 6:45

Maybe once yeah.

Speaker 3 6:45

Okay, that was the first time it ever happened.

Speaker 1 6:48

What was the answer?

Speaker 2 6:49

The servers crashed. The servers crashed.

Speaker 1 6:51

Oh, I thought you said there was something you had to purchase.

Speaker 3 6:53

No Mitch what happened.

Speaker 1 6:55

That's what it sounded like. All right, move on.

Speaker 3 6:57

Number five. Number five, All right.

Speaker 1 7:06

the name of the innovative player versus player concept first coined in Doom PvP.

Speaker 3 7:10

That is what player versus player is you said terms Team Deathmatch. Yes, deathmatch All right. As far as an immersive sim is, this game was way ahead of its time. All right. This is a new game, with its revolutionary physics to boot. Hint, this is the predecessor to Bioshock. I'm sure you guys have heard of this game at some point in our ramblings on this podcast.

Speaker 2 7:40

I'm sure we probably have Aiden. So this is a shooter as to what prefaced Bioshock it was Still a 90s game. All right, late 90s, I'm guessing.

Speaker 3 7:53

Nope.

Speaker 1 7:54

The Oregon Trail.

Speaker 3 7:57

You have a weird memory of video games, Mitch.

Speaker 2 7:59

It's not Goldeneye, is it no Okay?

Speaker 1 8:02

I'll be honest, other than Ninja Turtles, I don't know Nintendo, the game is called.

Speaker 3 8:06

System Shock. It came out in 1994.

Speaker 1 8:10

Bioshock, System Shock. Look at that. I wasn't a big video game person until online stuff on 360.

Speaker 3 8:14

Number seven. This game, also made from id Software, revolutionized the genre again by having full three-dimensional level designs and included the first concept of power-ups in multiplayer.

Speaker 1 8:32

Hmm.

Speaker 2 8:33

Hmm, like what kind of power-ups?

Speaker 3 8:41

Like abilities and things like shields and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 8:44

You're not going to like my answer my answer.

Speaker 2 8:47

I want to say Halo. That's what I was going to say Before.

Speaker 1 8:52

Halo, I knew that was too far.

Speaker 2 8:53

I was like no, yeah, we're jumping too far from 94 to 2001.

Speaker 3 8:58

Going twice. It's called Quake. Oh, okay, I've heard of that game.

Speaker 2 9:03

Never played it. I've heard of it, heard of it, yeah.

Speaker 3 9:05

This convention was made to facilitate Quake gamers who would travel to challenge others in LAN parties.

Speaker 2 9:12

Quake Fest.

Speaker 1 9:13

I know what LAN parties are.

Speaker 3 9:15

Close Tom, Not quite.

Speaker 1 9:17

Quake Revolution.

Speaker 2 9:20

Quake-a-pades.

Speaker 3 9:20

This convention was made Convention Quake-apades.

Speaker 2 9:23

This convention was made Convention Quake-vention.

Speaker 1 9:27

Quake-con.

Speaker 2 9:31

Technically, I'm right.

Speaker 3 9:32

No, not in the slightest bit.

Speaker 2 9:34

It's the abbreviated version, number nine Mitch, we might as well just put the buzzers down.

Speaker 1 9:38

Number nine wants to score.

Speaker 3 9:40

It's. Mitch won top two at number nine. I thought I dumbed these questions down a lot. Well, I don't.

Speaker 1 9:46

We didn't know what the thing was, All right all right.

Speaker 3 9:49

This game claimed fame with its interactive environment features and witty protagonists that wouldn't hold up in today's culture.

Speaker 2 9:59

Duke Nukem.

Speaker 3 10:00

Yes, I'll even give it to you. It's Duke Nukem 3D Okay, Duke. Nukem 3D you want?

Speaker 2 10:07

to take a shot in the dark at the year 1998.

Speaker 3 10:12

No 97. Yes, damn Mitch will always get the follow-up point Keep it in club.

Speaker 2 10:18

I should have said no.

The History of FPS Games

Speaker 3 10:19

I don't want to guess. Keep it in club Number 10. Although this FPS wasn't the first console game to try the genre, it was the first to be popular. Goldeneye, yes.

Speaker 2 10:31

Mitch, I was about to say it's Goldeneye.

Speaker 3 10:32

Yes, Mitch. Would you like to take a shot at the year?

Speaker 2 10:35

98. No 1996.

Speaker 3 10:38

No 97. Yes, I'm caught up.

Speaker 1 10:41

Mitch is now winning.

Speaker 3 10:42

Oh, I'm winning.

Speaker 1 10:43

Okay.

Speaker 3 10:45

Going back to Quick, what famous 90s band Frontman was hired to compose the music for Quick?

Speaker 2 10:53

Hmm, rob Thomas.

Speaker 3 10:59

No, who the heck is that?

Speaker 2 11:00

From Matchbox 20.

Speaker 3 11:02

It's definitely not his.

Speaker 1 11:04

Hey, I don't know, Can I guess a band yeah?

Speaker 3 11:10

Give it to you if you give me the band or the front man.

Speaker 1 11:13

Let's go with Metallica.

Speaker 2 11:15

No Pearl Jam.

Speaker 1 11:16

No. Acdc no.

Speaker 2 11:18

Nirvana.

Speaker 3 11:19

Nirvana. One more guess each.

Speaker 2 11:24

Is there a hint?

Speaker 3 11:26

I mean, if you knew the guy you'd be like that tracks can I get like a genre of this band?

Speaker 2 11:39

rock rock, huh yeah, aerosmith.

Speaker 1 11:43

I already said, aerosmith didn't I? I was thinking it Rock, huh, yeah, aerosmith. I already said Aerosmith, didn't I? No, oh, I was thinking it. I was thinking it Going once.

Speaker 2 11:52

Smash Mouth.

Speaker 3 11:53

Going twice. I don't know. Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails, yeah, I wouldn't get that that was a 90s band.

Speaker 1 11:59

I thought they were 2000s.

Speaker 3 12:00

They were 80s, they started in the 80s, they started in the 80s. Oh Number 12.

Speaker 2 12:12

What explosive mechanic was first developed in Quake that allowed players to propel themselves? Jetpacks.

Speaker 1 12:15

Rocket launchers, rocket Propelled grenades, rpgs.

Speaker 3 12:21

Rocket jump. I'll give you a pity point, Mitch.

Speaker 2 12:24

Rocket jump. Yeah, he needs it, rocket jump.

Speaker 3 12:26

You'll give you a pity point, mitch. Rocket Jump. Yeah, he needs it. Rocket Jump, you know the old thing? Well, I thought they shot the ground and launched them. Yeah, that's called a Rocket Jump.

Speaker 1 12:31

Well, I thought they used a rocket launcher for it.

Speaker 3 12:33

Yeah, but the thing is called a rocket. All right, number 13. With Deathmatch being a crown jewel feature in first-person shooters, what game was the first to integrate online gaming?

Speaker 1 12:46

Socom.

Speaker 2 12:47

No, damn, that was going to be my guess.

Speaker 1 12:50

Because I remember my cousin playing that on PS2.

Speaker 2 12:52

Yeah, that was like one of the first ones.

Speaker 3 12:54

We're still not there yet.

Speaker 2 12:55

We're not in the 2000s.

Speaker 1 12:58

Online gaming. I guess you can come on computers yeah.

Speaker 2 13:02

This is online gaming that's also a first person shooter.

Speaker 3 13:04

All of these are first-person shooters, hence the history of the first-person shooter Doom no.

Speaker 2 13:09

Wolfenstein no, quake no.

Speaker 3 13:18

Going. Once I'll give you another hint. We played a game that uses an engine based off of Unreal Tournament. Yes, mitch, all right. Care to guess the year 99. Yes, mitch, damn it, all right. What was the game company that made Unreal Tournament Hint? They make one of the most lucrative shooters today.

Speaker 2 13:47

Activision.

Speaker 3 13:48

Push the button.

Speaker 2 13:50

Activision.

Speaker 1 13:51

No, bungie no.

Speaker 2 13:54

Treyarch.

Speaker 1 13:54

No.

Speaker 3 14:01

Gone once.

Speaker 2 14:02

Infinity Ward I don't know Gone twice. Dice I don't know Go on twice.

Speaker 1 14:07

Dice Drops off.

Speaker 2 14:09

CD Projekt Red Epic, epic, epic.

Speaker 1 14:11

Games. Oh okay, I didn't know they'd been around that long, yep.

Speaker 3 14:16

All right. This 1998 shooter was noticeable for its grounded realism in use of SWAT and military tactics.

Speaker 2 14:25

Counter-Strike no.

Speaker 3 14:27

Nope, I'll give you another hint it was based on a book.

Speaker 1 14:36

Mitch, rainbow Six. Yes, damn it.

Speaker 2 14:39

I was like Mitch doesn't read, Mitch doesn't read. I was trying to think I was like Rainbow Six.

Speaker 1 14:43

I guess it did start out on PlayStation.

Speaker 3 14:46

Yeah, 64 era, okay All right. This first-person shooter was one of the first that prioritized story with distinguished Call of. Duty no. With distinguishable characters and immersive dialogue. It was known for its cutscenes, physics and Lovecraftian horror. Oh Give you a hint 1998. Pc Not quite into the console era for game releases yet.

Speaker 1 15:27

No for PC.

Speaker 2 15:29

Is it Doom?

Speaker 3 15:30

Nope, we already talked about Doom.

Speaker 1 15:31

Oh, okay 1998., I'm not real familiar with PC. I don't know Going once.

Speaker 2 15:42

I don't want to say Resident Evil.

Speaker 3 15:43

Nope, that's not a first-person shooter either. Going once, I don't want to say Resident.

Speaker 2 15:49

Evil. Nope, that's not a first-person shooter either. Going twice Castlevania, I don't know, mitch said it earlier, I'm just guessing.

Speaker 3 15:54

I'm just guessing.

Speaker 1 15:54

I don't know.

Speaker 3 15:55

Half-Life.

Speaker 1 15:57

I didn't know that was Lovecraft. I never played Half-Life so I don't know that's pretty good.

Speaker 3 16:01

All right, number 17. This mod of Half-.

Speaker 2 16:08

Half-Life 2.

Speaker 3 16:11

It's a mod of Half-Life. People still play to this day. I'll give you a hint. One of you have already Counter-Strike.

Speaker 1 16:22

Yes, Just take a guess.

Speaker 3 16:28

Would you like to guess the year 2000. No 1999., yes.

Speaker 1 16:33

That's going to be my next guess. I was hoping you'd go up. Go up one more year.

Speaker 3 16:37

All right, number 18. This war-related shooter was no, sorry, wait, what are you saying? Medal of Honor yes.

Speaker 2 16:45

Damn it.

Speaker 1 16:46

I was like you can read the whole question though, so people know.

Speaker 3 16:48

This war-related shooter was created by an Oscar-winning film director at Medal of Honor. Can you guess the year 99. Yes, can you guess the director?

Speaker 1 16:59

I forgot his name, the one who did Saving Private Ryan. That's right.

Speaker 2 17:03

Spielberg.

Speaker 1 17:04

Yes, Tom.

Speaker 3 17:05

I couldn't remember who. We are currently at question 19. Mitch is 10 to Tom's 5. Woo Shut up Number 19. Number 19. I'm good guessing. This game made console FPS mainstream and used control schemes that games use to this day Halo. Yes, mitch, would you care to guess the year 2000.

Speaker 1 17:31

Nope 2001.

Speaker 2 17:32

Yes, 2001.

Speaker 1 17:34

I knew it was going up.

Speaker 2 17:36

I knew Combat Evolved was a one.

Speaker 1 17:37

Well, the one before was 1999, so I was just trying.

Speaker 3 17:41

Number 20. This first-person shooter not only focused on single-player campaign, which was complete with realism historical wartime battles but also pushed great emphasis on multiplayer.

Speaker 2 17:54

Call of Duty.

Speaker 3 17:54

Yes.

Speaker 2 17:56

Guess the year 2002. No 2001.

Speaker 1 18:00

No 2003. Yes, we're jumping years too fast now, trying to go down.

Speaker 3 18:07

Number 21. This shooter was strictly a puzzle FPS that was part of a bundle of other FPS.

Speaker 1 18:14

Portal. Yes, mitch, wow, I just remember puzzle and first-person shooter as a portal.

Speaker 3 18:19

It was made of a bundle of other FPS games created by the same developer, which was Valve. What year 2004. No 2003. No 2005. No 2002. No 2006.

Speaker 2 18:27

No 2001. No 2003?, no 2005?, no 2002?, no 2006?, no 2001?.

Speaker 3 18:33

No 2007?

Speaker 1 18:34

Yes, If he's going to keep going down, I'll just keep going up.

Speaker 3 18:40

Oh wait, I gave Tom that point.

Speaker 2 18:42

It's all right.

Speaker 3 18:44

All right, number 22. This game was one of the first strictly co-op Modern Warfare. This game was one of the first strictly co-op shooters that left a huge impression generating future variations in the genre Time splitters no, no. Strictly co-op. Strictly co-op 2008 game.

Speaker 1 19:12

Because what I'm thinking of it was third person, I think, but Army of Two.

Speaker 3 19:16

No, that's what I was thinking too 2008 game and I'll give you a hint it was also made by Valve.

Speaker 2 19:24

Valve ruled the 2000s era strictly co-op, like you could only play with another person Strictly co-op.

Speaker 3 19:38

Like you could only play with another person. It was marketed as a game that you play with your friends to get through the story. I don't remember if you could play single player or not, but I never played it single player. I always played with friends.

Speaker 1 19:50

I have no idea.

Speaker 3 19:51

Going once, going twice, left 4 Dead.

Speaker 2 19:57

Oh.

Speaker 3 19:57

No no.

Speaker 2 19:59

It's a zombie game. Yeah, it's a shooter.

Speaker 1 20:02

I completely forgot about it.

Speaker 2 20:04

I don't associate it to what I think of a first-person shooter.

Speaker 1 20:08

For some reason I was thinking co-op as two.

Discussion of Iconic Games: Doom, Wolfenstein, and More

Speaker 3 20:10

You're thinking of first-person shooters as PvP. This is all about the history of first-person shooters, like Portal and stuff.

Speaker 1 20:16

I played Left 4 Dead all the time.

Speaker 3 20:19

All right, number 23. This shooter was coined as a role-based shooter, where players select a pre-designed hero that possesses unique abilities and weapons to fight against other players with their own special abilities. Give you a hint, it was also a Valve game, 2007.

Speaker 2 20:45

A turn-based first-person shooter.

Speaker 3 20:48

Roll-based first-person shooter.

Speaker 1 20:50

So each one had its own specific tank or sniper or support kind of thing. Hmm, Hmm.

Speaker 3 21:00

Give you one more hint. It was part of that bundle, the orange box bundle Going once.

Speaker 1 21:12

Borderland? No, I don't know Going twice.

Speaker 3 21:13

I'm trying to make a guess here Teamland no, I don't know, going twice. I'm trying to make a guess here Team Fortress 2.

Speaker 2 21:19

Oh, oh okay.

Speaker 1 21:20

I'd never played this. I would have never played it.

Speaker 3 21:23

Number 23. The kill for the sake of killing was becoming a stale feature in a shooter franchise. Thus the concept of looter shooters were born, where successful accomplishments in the game granted the player better tiered weapons and awards. The first looter shooter was known as Hellgate London by Flagship Studios, but this game threw the genre into a whole new form of popularity Looter shooters 2009.

Speaker 2 21:58

Ghost Recon.

Speaker 3 22:00

No 2009.

Speaker 1 22:13

Modern Warfare.

Speaker 2 22:14

Do you?

Speaker 1 22:15

know what a looter shooter is Mitch? Yes, I do, but I can't picture one from back.

Speaker 3 22:18

Then you just said it. You did Go on once Borderlands yes, mitch, borderlands.

Speaker 2 22:27

I was like what did.

Speaker 1 22:28

Mitch just say I wasn't listening. I was thinking that was later.

Speaker 3 22:30

No 2009,. Borderlands All right. This shooter took on the staples of RPG elements and built them entirely into the first-person model. It would be too hard to discern which game was the first RPG first-person shooter, based on how difficult it would be to pin down exactly what an RPG is, but this game is definitely the most identifiable RPG FPS that became the most popular in the genre and helped push the FPS narrative into a viable storytelling RPG FPS. What's the game that pops in your mind when you hear that? A role-playing game, Nothing from back then.

Speaker 1 23:12

I'm looking for modern.

Speaker 3 23:14

This is a 2008 game Going twice.

Speaker 2 23:27

And you make your character in this and go off shooting people Sure do Shooting around the world. I have no idea, I don't know.

Speaker 3 23:36

Fallout 3.

Speaker 1 23:38

Oh.

Speaker 2 23:38

No.

Speaker 1 23:39

No, I didn't think about that. No, I just don't think of it as a first person.

Speaker 2 23:42

I think of it as an RPG. Yeah, like pretty much exclusive.

Speaker 3 23:47

First person mechanics, number 25. Games as a service is considered a negative feature nowadays, but this game originally played the service well and made successful platformer in the industry by constant release of content and tight community involvement. This game was made by a company called Digital Extremes. All right, before I said Digital Extremes extremes, what were you guys thinking?

Speaker 2 24:15

no idea, no idea.

Speaker 3 24:17

Time splitters games as a service online games right, which is like it's free, but you buy crap oh okay, we just complained about it in a whole podcast episode so this is a free first person shooter free first person, but you buy bundles and crap like that 2013.

Speaker 1 24:39

2013. I was thinking about 2008 or something 2013 would be.

Speaker 2 24:46

Fortnite.

Speaker 3 24:47

No, that's like 2018 or something that's yeah. No, that's like 2018 or something.

Speaker 1 24:57

That's yeah, no. Modern Warfare Advanced.

Speaker 3 24:59

Warfighter. No, we all played a variant of this from another game developer that would be classified today as a games of service game. And the people who didn't play this game but wanted to play something like it, they played the knockoff version, which is what we thought, but that game actually came out first.

Speaker 1 25:18

Until you said that I was about to say the original Destiny.

Speaker 3 25:20

but If it's not Destiny, it's, I don't know, going once.

Speaker 2 25:25

If it's not Destiny.

Speaker 3 25:27

Going twice.

Speaker 2 25:28

Halo.

Speaker 3 25:29

Nope Warframe.

Speaker 2 25:31

Oh, oh.

Speaker 3 25:32

I forgot about Warframe.

Speaker 1 25:34

Exactly. Sometimes I'm playing that in third person, so that's why it kind of threw me off, because I'll run around with a sword or something like that Gamepedia.

Speaker 3 25:42

I'm getting all my notes from them. All right, number 26. Battle Royale video game started, as most multiplayer variants did, as a mod Stick around, go ahead and finish, but let me answer first what?

Speaker 2 25:57

I mean I reserve it. You can't reserve it. Get out of here.

Speaker 1 25:59

Look, I'll write down my answer, and if it's not, it you get to guess All right.

Speaker 3 26:06

I'm just letting him read the thing Battle Royale video game started, as the most multiplayer variants did, as a mod. What video game that is, a first-person video game, but not necessarily a shooter was modded to create the Battle Royale turn?

Speaker 1 26:22

I wrote down PUBG because you can play it in first person.

Speaker 2 26:28

Go ahead. So this is just a first-person shooter that didn't have this mechanic.

Speaker 3 26:32

This was a first-person game, not necessarily a shooter. People modded it and made it into a first-person shooter that didn't have this mechanic. This was a first-person game, not necessarily a shooter. People modded it and made it into a first-person shooter. That started the Battle Royale craze. I'll give you a hint the base game people play still to this day Massive game. I can't remember when the base game came out. The mod came out in 2012. The base game is doing so successful they're actually making a movie out of it.

Speaker 2 27:04

Fallout.

Speaker 3 27:05

No, that's a TV show that's already been coming out. Gone once, gone twice. Minecraft Minecraft oh, minecraft, minecraft. I was about to say.

Speaker 1 27:16

Bioshock, because there's rumors of that it's a first-person game.

Speaker 3 27:19

It's not a shooter. They modded it and made it into a shooter. That's right. We all love Battle Royale. It started in Minecraft. As does everything 2012 is when that mod came out.

Speaker 1 27:32

Number 27.

Speaker 3 27:33

This was a first-person shooter that trademarked itself as a MMO MMORPG, but after much scrutiny upon release it re-termed itself as a share world shooter and also is now a games as a service.

Speaker 1 27:50

Destiny yes.

Speaker 2 27:54

Just ignoring the buzzers now.

Speaker 3 27:56

Year you didn't. Does anybody remember the year that Destiny 1 came out?

Speaker 1 28:02

2013. No 2014.

Speaker 2 28:03

Yes, Tom. I knew it was 2014 because I was a junior when it came out in college.

Speaker 3 28:09

Four, all right, number 28, with Mitch's 15 to tom's 14. Uh sorry, nine tom's nine to mitch's 15. All right, this shooter took the role-based shooter and advanced it to the term hero shooter where players pick a specific hero, that applies only for that team.

Speaker 2 28:34

Rainbow Star Wars Battlefront no.

Speaker 3 28:43

And that game is a successor to an already mentioned shooter that we talked about in one of these questions, rainbow Six Siege. Yes, mitch, all right, year 2018. No 2015. Yes, tom, alright year 2018.

Speaker 2 28:54

No 2015.

Speaker 3 28:56

Yes, tom, good job. It's been out that long.

Speaker 1 28:58

Yeah, oh yeah, I remember them saying there was a 10-year anniversary.

Speaker 3 29:02

Alright, number 29. This hero shooter set the bar high for cultural impact, so much so that many people learned what Rule 34 means from it.

Speaker 1 29:15

That sounds familiar.

Speaker 3 29:18

You don't know what Rule 34 means. No, both of you. Really Sounds familiar though, if it exists, there must be of it.

Speaker 2 29:30

Okay.

Speaker 3 29:31

Alright, well, anyways, I thought for sure, you guys knew what that was. Yeah, this was a hero shooter 2016.

Speaker 1 29:40

Blizzard made it well, I don't think they made it, but it's almost like Gears of War no that's not.

Speaker 2 29:49

That's not first person third person. Oh yeah, that's awesome.

Speaker 3 29:51

Blizzard Blizzard yeah, lots of. No, that's not first person. Third person oh yeah, it's also not from Blizzard Blizzard. Yeah, Lots of identifiable characters that people made fan art and movies and a lot of it was risque and adult.

Speaker 2 30:05

Overwatch yes, I just remembered that, being a problem.

Speaker 3 30:11

It's like please stop you, sick people yeah yeah, all right, I got two more questions and I have bonus questions. Number 30. This game was the first Battle Royale released as a Battle Royale for its sole purpose. It was nothing else just a Battle Royale, PUBG. Yes.

Speaker 2 30:33

Tom Royale for its sole purpose. It was nothing else, just a Battle Royale PUBG.

Speaker 1 30:35

Yes, tom, I was like well, I guess yeah.

Speaker 2 30:40

And what was the year 2017.

Speaker 3 30:42

Yes, tom, all right, Number 31. What was the year 2000 Japanese film that PUBG was based on Battle Royale? Yes, mitch, okay, we are at the end of our main questions. Satan, mandarin, da-ding-ka-dong, okay, all right Mitch.

Speaker 3 31:05

We're at the end of our main questions with Mitch's 18 to Tom's 12. Bonus points Worth 15 points. These bonus points questions are brought to you by data40.com. These are the most unit-selling first-person shooters of all time. Before you start smashing buttons, I've got down the top five. If you can guess what the game is and how much it sold, you're in the top five. I you can guess what the game is and how much it sold, and you're in the top five. I'll give you a point.

Speaker 1 31:38

I didn't know we were ready.

Speaker 2 31:41

Battlefield 4. No.

Speaker 1 31:43

Modern Warfare 2.

Speaker 3 31:43

No, wait, wait, wait, wait. Yes, mitch, alright, do you remember? Can you tell me how many units you think it sold?

Speaker 1 31:59

Maybe like 125 million.

Speaker 2 32:01

No, can I guess. Yes, 35 million.

Speaker 3 32:05

Close enough. Good job, Tom 30 million. Hey, you're within 10 million. I give it to you Okay. All right, I got four more.

Speaker 1 32:13

Can we just guess, whenever, mm-hmm, hey, you're within 10 million, I give it to you. Okay, all right, I got four more.

Speaker 2 32:21

We just guessed one ever Stick around Black Ops 2. No, the original Modern Warfare, modern Warfare 1.

Speaker 3 32:26

Nope, we're done with the Modern Warfare.

Speaker 1 32:28

Halo 3. Nope.

Speaker 3 32:31

Halo 2. No, is there a?

Speaker 2 32:31

Halo, no Okay.

Speaker 3 32:33

Halo 2. No.

Speaker 2 32:34

Is there a Halo?

Speaker 3 32:35

No. Okay, all right Think of games that are multi-console. All right yeah, and had the most significant impact.

Speaker 1 32:44

Counter-Strike.

Speaker 3 32:45

No.

Speaker 1 32:45

So Destiny 2.

Speaker 3 32:46

No.

Speaker 2 32:50

There's got to be a Battlefield in there.

Speaker 3 32:52

Nope, really Yep.

Speaker 2 32:55

Nope.

Speaker 1 32:58

Really Yep, hmm.

Speaker 2 33:00

Doom Eternal.

Speaker 3 33:01

No, I'll give you a hint on one, though. One game is from the 80s, oh, from the 80s. Everything else is from the past. Yeah, 10 years.

Speaker 1 33:14

One of them is from the 80s. Not to have Destiny into either one of them Makes me kind of want to think I don't know.

Speaker 3 33:20

Destiny is not that big of a game, not compared to these games All right Fortnite. No.

Speaker 1 33:26

Believe it or not, Fortnite is the one. Well, because technically it's free.

Speaker 2 33:29

Yeah, that's true. That's why I was thinking Warzone, but I was like it's free.

Speaker 1 33:31

So yeah, that's true, that's true that's why I was thinking Warzone, but I was like it's free, so yeah, um you said, there's no more Modern Warfare there's no Call of Duty titles.

Speaker 3 33:40

No, there's no Battlefield titles which is wild suck didn't do as good as these other games hmm, we've already got Rainbow Six Siege is Rainbow.

Speaker 2 33:53

Six Siege Is Rainbow.

Speaker 1 33:54

Six, one of them, nope Huh.

Speaker 3 33:58

All right, I'll give you a hint. Gearbox did one, I don't know. All right, nintendo did one Goldeneye Nope, 1980s, mitch don't forget. And Blizzard did one 1980s, mitch don't forget. And Blizzard did one, and the last one was made by Krafton. And Number one was made by Krafton, I don't even know who that is, I don't know who the hell they are. You do once you hear the title of the game.

Speaker 1 34:29

Oh yeah, but I'm going to jump to this company. I don't know who the point? Is.

Speaker 2 34:35

Ghost Recon.

Speaker 1 34:36

No Metroid, no Number one sold 75 million units.

Speaker 3 34:42

Number two sold 50 million units. Number three, which was Modern Warfare 2, sold 30 million units. Number four sold 28.3. Number five sold 28.

Speaker 1 34:56

Hmm.

Speaker 2 34:59

Wolfenstein Nope Doom. I already said Doom.

Speaker 1 35:05

Oh.

Speaker 2 35:07

All right, I'm not going to be like. What other first-person shooters were out there that wasn't called Medal of Honor.

Speaker 3 35:14

All right, number one. I'll start from the bottom, okay, number five Borderlands 2. 28 million units.

Speaker 2 35:21

Really, can I take a guess for another Sure Far?

Speaker 3 35:24

Cry no, Damn. Number four With 28.3 million units sold. Duck Hunt.

Speaker 1 35:30

Oh my.

Speaker 3 35:31

God.

Speaker 2 35:31

Cabela's Hunter.

Speaker 1 35:34

Duck Hunt counts as a first person shooter.

Speaker 2 35:36

Oh, my God.

Evolution of Multiplayer FPS

Speaker 3 35:40

Houses of the Living Dead. 3. All right. Number three was Modern Warfare. 2. Number two Overwatch. 50 million units. I thought it was a freefare. 2. Number two Overwatch 50 million units.

Speaker 1 35:49

I thought, it was free-to-play.

Speaker 3 35:50

No, you guys are tripped up by this free-to-play because number one was PUBG 75 million units.

Speaker 2 35:57

I said PUBG.

Speaker 3 35:58

Not with this. Yeah, I didn't hear what you said.

Speaker 2 36:01

I said PUBG like two minutes ago and you were like nope.

Speaker 3 36:04

I heard you say Modern. Warfare a bunch of times like two minutes ago, and you were like nope, I heard you say Modern Warfare a bunch of times. All right, Tom, I'll give you a point.

Speaker 2 36:10

Like it mattered.

Speaker 3 36:12

All right, last questions. Oh, there's another one.

Speaker 2 36:16

I'm not even using my buzzer, we're just going to.

Speaker 3 36:18

According to GameSite, these top three battle royales have the most hours viewed on Twitch.

Speaker 2 36:27

All right Warzone.

Speaker 3 36:29

Okay, number three is Warzone Fortnite. Hold on, let me start with Warzone. I'll give you the point, though, for Fortnite Mitch, because that is number one. Number three is Call of Duty.

Speaker 2 36:39

PUBG.

Speaker 3 36:41

No. So Call of Duty. Can you guess how many millions of hours do you think has been viewed of Call of Duty Warzone? If you can get within 10, I'll give it to you 1.2 billion 1.2 million. Yeah, 4.8 million. So Mitch point, all right, fortnite number one 5 million Nope.

Speaker 2 37:07

10 million 18 right Fortnite number one Five million Nope.

Speaker 3 37:10

Ten million, eighteen million I'll give it to you, Tom. All right, and then can anybody take a shot in the dark at what number two is and how many hours viewed?

Speaker 2 37:18

Is it Overwatch?

Speaker 3 37:19

No.

Speaker 1 37:20

Rainbow Six no.

Speaker 2 37:21

Valorant no.

Speaker 1 37:23

PUBG.

Speaker 2 37:24

No, oh wait, we already said that not Overwatch, not Valor, not PUBG, it's not Fortnite going once, going twice where are the BRs? Are they?

Speaker 3 37:39

I don't know, oh, apex Legends yes, tom, good job, take a shot in the dark this is number two.

Speaker 2 37:46

Number two 13 million.

Speaker 3 37:47

No two, two 13 million, no Two 5.9 million.

Speaker 1 37:51

I figured it'd be less than the other.

Speaker 2 37:53

I went less than the other. You know what?

Speaker 3 37:55

Somehow you guys have tied so you get to pick whatever.

Speaker 1 37:59

Seriously, we died Did we.

Speaker 3 38:01

I'm saying it. I don't know if I was accidentally giving Tom points the entire time.

Speaker 1 38:07

Not that it matters.

Speaker 3 38:08

Anyways, you guys, we didn't, you didn't, did you win?

Speaker 1 38:12

Not, unless you count that. That doesn't count, that doesn't count.

Speaker 2 38:15

That was Hayden's attempt to take points away.

Speaker 3 38:17

Oh yeah, so you totally won All right, go ahead. Pick what you want us to review next.

Speaker 1 38:23

Batman 89.

Speaker 3 38:25

Oh, okay, go ahead, pick what you want us to review next. Batman 89.

Speaker 1 38:27

All right, okay, you're like oh it's not as bad as I thought it would be, I'm going to write that down, batman 89.

Speaker 3 38:31

I'm going to write it down and not take the paper with me. You, batman. All right, that was fun.

Speaker 1 38:38

I was going to say Ninja Turtles, but I figured I'd spare you. It's up there a little more.

Speaker 3 38:42

We've done episodes on Ninja Turtles. All right, that was fun. A little bit of history. Video game Trivia that you guys suck. Speaking of video games. You guys not ever read stuff.

Speaker 2 38:55

No, not about that. I played a new game that came out, the 2025 action role-playing game Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. Do let's see. Developed by War Horse Studios, published by Deep Silver Director, daniel Vara, it's got the thing over it Using the cry engine and cry you will while you play this, with its beauty and its difficulty. Wow, it's a fun historical game, and someone said like this because I guess there's like you know, you can marry people. It's kind of when I was like in skyrim or something okay as like you can marry like a dude and like.

Speaker 2 39:37

People were like no, you need to take that out of the game. And they're like oh why. Like are you against? Like you know gay rights? And they're like no, this game takes place in 1403. That's not happening. That's called. You're going to get decapitated or burned at the stake for doing that.

Speaker 3 39:53

It is a pretty historically accurate game.

Speaker 2 39:55

Which takes place in the year of 1403 in the kingdom of Bohemia then part of the lands of the Bohemian crown, and the Holy Roman Empire, in what is now the Czech Republic. Visually stunning, beautiful, it looks amazing, especially when you finally get to go F off and do open quest stuff and you're just walking through the woods and you see deer and a wild boar runs by and little rabbits doing rabbit stuff, and then there's two bandits. One of them has a shield and you can't kill him, and then you get killed. And then you gotta restart and go all the way back but you're buck naked. So you got to remember to re-equip all your stuff and then run back and not show up naked with just a sword and get killed so you die, but your body gets carried off back naked and you just end up where you were last saved but you, oh.

Speaker 3 40:40

So why are you naked?

Speaker 2 40:41

so your character gets robbed and they take all your stuff and then you end up in the stockade because of some drunken bar fight Cause the dude you're with is a dick.

Speaker 3 40:49

Oh, this is a story. This is a story.

Speaker 2 40:51

Okay, cause you, you can't, you don't customize your character at all. Yeah, I mean you can get you know different weapons, armors, et cetera, playing the game or buying. I don't know what he was doing. He talks like this a lot. He's like I like drinking ale. Thank you, god be praised. And everybody else has like normal voices and my guy's just like Sounds like Rollo from Vikings.

Speaker 3 41:19

Yeah, it's a little wild Rollo's in a video game recently.

Speaker 2 41:27

I've played several hours and I'm finally at open world. Wow, like the, because there's so much talking, big game, big old games. There's so much talking. And the inventory, like learn the combat stuff I want to talk about because I really like it, because when you go to engage somebody, you have your sword or whatever and there's like a star and if and if they're going to attack you.

Speaker 2 41:43

A little shield will appear in the middle of it and if you hit the parry button or the block, you can block parry. And then there's another one. If you're fast enough, you can do a counter and counter strike them. But you can choose where you're going to hit them. If you're going to hit them in the head, in the arms, in the legs, if you're going to come low, or whatever, Once you kind of get to like pick your guy and like motion to keep it going, haha

Speaker 3 42:18

of s you scurvy dog, so it is fun when you get to do it and is it like other games where you can like dual, wield great swords and crap like that?

Speaker 2 42:27

no, I don't think you can. So far I have, like this, crappy sword that I have to sharpen yeah, I've seen that.

Speaker 3 42:33

I watched the play through the first game and like, if you want to make a potion, you have to literally like read the instructions and make sure yes, you do have to do all that.

Speaker 2 42:41

The game is very serious about doing that kind of stuff, yeah. Or like you can be covered in blood. Be covered in blood and like how your appearance, like people like won't give you anything or talk to you because it's like you look like a beggar.

Speaker 3 42:52

You have to wash and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 42:53

Yeah, and there's like troughs and you got to like wipe all the blood and stuff off of you and dirt and look presentable, yeah.

Speaker 2 43:02

And then there's I don't have money for it, so I don't know if it really works. Please, madam, I'm so sorry. I have but five groschen, the monetary coin, so I haven't gotten too far in the story. The opening is awesome, yeah, because you actually have like full armor. You have a crossbow, you're taking out soldiers at like a castle siege, you have a real sword and a shield and you're just going nuts fighting dudes. And then it's like and long cut scene, a lot of talking. You're this guy, yeah, but a lot of stuff you do affects the game. Like there's like three answers and like you can choose like how it's going to affect. Like if you can intimidate, if you can, like you know, schmooze your way through, if you want to people out of fights or into being allies or something along those lines, as you go through and play.

Speaker 3 43:53

You don't want to do this.

Speaker 1 43:54

It's like yeah yeah

Speaker 2 43:55

yeah, Trust me this is not in your. I tried doing it and the guy's like no, I do and I'm like. One dude. He was running like Forrest Gump but I killed his fat friend who couldn't keep up. I'm just running behind him, just swinging a sword, hitting him in the top of his shoulder and just hacking him down. He's on the ground trying to go and I'm just like God. And then I ran after the other guy. He was already across the field. I was like I'll get you eventually.

Speaker 2 44:23

And then I had to find the dude I killed because I wanted his stuff so I could loot him. I'll get you eventually. And then I had to find the dude I killed because I wanted his stuff so I could loot him.

Speaker 3 44:30

Right, but you can like, pick up. You can kill dudes.

Speaker 2 44:33

Pick them up If you have a shovel, you can dig a grave and bury them and just get them out of there so you can be like a menace. Oh yeah, Like I can start killing the entire town. I'm in Nice and you know, obviously, you open up your inventory, your quest logs and everything is brutally in-depth. Yeah, it is rough.

Speaker 2 44:50

I was watching it from the first game and I was like this is way too much and I'm like you rack up stat points like every second, like you're doing, if you're like having to creep away from something it's, like you know, plus stealth.

Speaker 3 45:02

Yeah, it's an experience game based off of you using the skills to gain experience, like Skyrim.

Speaker 2 45:08

Yes, which is like the more you do stuff, the better you will be at it, right, like you will get more skill points dedicated to it. Like I guess if I fight everybody, it's like you are the best fighter ever. You can't sneak around anybody or intimidate, or you probably intimidate people because you can kill them and just take heads off.

Speaker 3 45:24

Yeah, it seems like a really fun game and it does seem really pretty, and they plan on doing a third one. What shocks me is the first one came out. What two, three years ago? Oh, there must have been like a trial to see if they could, you know, get the concept.

Speaker 2 45:44

Yeah, it came out in 2018.

Speaker 3 45:46

To see if they could get an audience interested into this franchise and then put everything into this game, because it is big. It is pretty conventional too as far as RPGs are concerned, so pretty cool.

Speaker 2 46:01

I'm definitely enjoying playing the hour at a time. If I get home from work after four and then Rachel doesn't get home from work, you know, after four, and then Rachel doesn't get home until after five, I'll come home, clean up and then I'll play like 45 minutes and a lot of it's just cut scenes and dialogue and answering, and then I get to kill one person and then it's just more cut scenes and dialogue and traveling and picturesque cut scenes and then, all right, yeah, I, I gotta talk to that guy. All right, let me go do this. And then somebody does something and totally interrupts it in the game and then I can't go back and do it right, because the one dude you're with is just a douche and a tool the entire time and I want to kill him and I'm tempted to just see what happens if I try to just cut his head off. You want to do it?

Speaker 2 46:41

I will unplug your xbox, fire mine back up and show you, but we both got put in the stockade for his drunken nonsense and it was just like you know, apologize and make amends or call him all these curse words and an idiot. And I was like, nope, he deserves it. And I just started lighting the dude up and he's just like you know what. You do it yourself and he's just like screw you guys, I'm going home.

Speaker 3 47:10

You guys do a little song and dance in the stockades.

Speaker 2 47:13

No, as I'm like waving my hands in the wrist holder.

Speaker 3 47:20

Cool.

Speaker 2 47:21

With the amount of it I've gotten to play, it's graphics-wise it's like 9 out of 10. It's very, very, very good If I had a good chance to just sit and play it all day and just give it a solid rate. But from what I've played, it's a 7.5 out of 10. Okay.

Speaker 3 47:36

Well, I too played a game. I played a game called Avowed. I didn't know that was out yet it is out. I've played a couple hours. Essentially it is Obsidian, the best Fallout developer with New Vegas and stuff like that. And they've made other games like what's that weird space game? It was like Wild Planets or Outer Planets or something like that.

Speaker 1 48:06

Outer Worlds yeah, Outer Worlds is what it was.

Speaker 3 48:11

But this game takes place in the universe called Pillars of Eternity, which is apparently already a game series that Obsidian has made. That I've never heard of, sure, and it's very much akin to Skyrim in the sense of like the questing and role play and stuff like that. In some cases, obsidian has always valued role play over more than gameplay, but the gameplay, like combat's really crisp right and you can do everything. You can dual wield weapons and spells and whatnot, and then you have a hotkey button where you can switch. So if you want to be a spellcaster, which is what I have, then switch to daggers and stab. I can do that too.

Speaker 2 48:49

Stabby stab, stabby stab.

Speaker 3 48:51

So it feels the combat is really fluid. In fact it's pretty fast. When you have a lot of enemies, it's a lot to keep up with. Visually it's great. The graphics look really good. The NPCs kind of have flappy mouth syndrome where they're just like but uh other than that, like, the graphics look really good, the waters, like. I don't know what this world is, but it's kind of like a coral beach era and you know, like.

Looter Shooters and the RPG Influence

Speaker 3 49:16

So the water physics are really good the only thing I don't like is like their choice of like what they choose to uh build in the aesthetics Cause it. It's kind of gross, like you know, and it's it's a totally creative thing, but like you, you're this. You're called a God, a Godling, which is means you've been touched by a God, and your options when you customize your character or to press charges, or is to uh have these weird growths like, like, like sea coral and like nastiness grow out of your face so you just look like one of the like uh, davy jones's crew you do you look like one of them or like one of the things from the last of us the clickers and whatnot yeah, and you're just like this is yeah, you know.

Speaker 3 50:05

And then people do react to you. They're like oh.

Speaker 2 50:07

Yeah.

Speaker 3 50:08

And then there's a disease going around, like land that you're in where people are dying from this smoke or whatever that makes people have these symptoms. But people can automatically differentiate you from them, I guess because you're talking normal or something like that. But I haven't gotten too far into the game where I don't think it's a problem, but I do see people attacking you because they think you're infected. Yeah, the story is, and from what I've heard from other reviewers, the story is okay, it's not great, it's kind of cookie-cutter RPG. Just go here, do this kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 50:44

Okay, it's not great, it's kind of cookie cutter RPG, just go here do this kind of stuff, you know that aside, I do think that, like the quest what do they call it the time you spent moving to get to something that grabs your attention. You know that ratio or whatever that is, it's a lot Like I can barely make it two steps before I see something that grabs my interest, and then I'm just, you know, like it's a lot, I can barely make it two steps before I see something that grabs my interest. The first thing I did when I got to the mainland was walk out into the dock and I saw a lighthouse and I was like I'm going to see if I can go in that lighthouse and it was like a two-hour long puzzle to get to the top of it.

Speaker 3 51:17

It wasn't that long, but it was a lot of fun to get to the top. Then you get rare loot and stuff like that that you can use, an intricate crafting system and money. And then there's people that you meet along the way that have their own little problems.

Speaker 2 51:32

Adventure my sheep have run amok.

Speaker 3 51:34

Exactly, but I do like the combat. The combat doesn't feel grindy. It feels like you're still kind of figuring stuff out and as they trickle in the ability points, you feel like you have a renewed sense of adventure with the combat to make you want to keep fighting. So there, there isn't a grind feel yet, but like, kind of like you, I'm still pretty much in the early phases of this game, uh, but yeah, I give it an 8 out of 10. Some people rated it lower because the story. I don't think that the story necessarily matters as much as the gameplay, but I'd be interested to see where it goes, also as the voice actor from Garrus from Mass Effect. So I'm happy. All right, that's the game I played.

Speaker 1 52:17

Well, I saw two different shows over the time that this was last recorded. One was another Taylor Sheridan show with the Landman. Yeah, I saw that.

Speaker 2 52:27

All I saw was commercials of just what's-his-face.

Speaker 1 52:31

Billy Bob.

Speaker 2 52:31

Thornton, billy Bob Thornton, just being a dick, yeah, he pretty much is.

Speaker 1 52:35

It's an interesting show. It's not as good as the others that he's made. Yeah, it's kind of. It's all about this guy that he runs the oil company for this big billionaire, which is played by.

Speaker 2 52:48

What's the guy? Matt Harmon Not.

Speaker 1 52:50

Matt Harmon, john Hamm, john Hamm.

Speaker 2 52:52

I knew the last term with H.

Speaker 1 52:55

But he plays the billionaire that owns the company. Billy Bob Thornton basically runs it for him and they're out somewhere in Texas and you have the cartel running drugs on the land and they kind of have an agreement to where you stay out of our business, we'll stay out of yours, kind of thing, until that kind of goes awry. Of course it doesn't go that way. You got his ex-wife.

Speaker 3 53:20

Most annoying character, I think, in TV history.

Speaker 1 53:22

She's the lady from Varsity Blues that comes out with the whipped cream bikini. Oh, yeah, she's the lady from Varsity Blues that comes out with the whipped cream bikini oh yeah, she plays his ex-wife, who actually comes back. Drops the new husband that she has to come back. Yeah, the daughter's there, who is also Really annoying, and then his son, which is the most sensible of all of them.

Speaker 3 53:40

Yeah.

Speaker 1 53:41

He decides to drop out of college because he wants to run his own oil company and so he thinks he knows better. So he's there, he wants to learn each position. So he starts out at the bottom in the first episode. He kind of works his way around.

Speaker 3 53:53

They bring in Michael Pena in the first episode and they kill him off. Yeah, really yeah, you're like what?

Speaker 1 53:58

You don't know where he died, you just know he died. You just know he ain. Yeah, he's not coming back. I was like, oh cool, Michael Penney's in there. I was kind of surprised and he's gone. It was him. And then the guy from the Mayans show that was like the spinoff of Sons of Anarchy. Those two. They both died. You'll never see them again. Dead.

Speaker 3 54:19

A lot of the character stories were pretty like no reasonable person would react this way. The way he hooks up with that girl, the widow. Yeah, he's like sleeping with her like a month later and he was the survivor.

Speaker 1 54:35

I don't even know if it was a month later. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 54:40

You know, you're just like I don't know what's going on here, but it's definitely like some dude just was like, whatever we're going to make romance happen, now blink it Some dude just was like whatever we're going to make romance happen.

Speaker 1 54:48

Now blink, it's okay. I mean, you know it's not as good as his other shows. It's entertaining if you like his other shows, but it's all right.

Speaker 3 54:57

Some of the witty character dialogue like doesn't land the way Billy Bob Thornton and his daughter interact with each other and she just tells him about all of her sexual escapades and he's just taking it.

Speaker 1 55:08

I'm like, well, look there's a lot of times he's just standing there staring at her and he's like I'm going to go get a hot dog and she just leaves.

Speaker 3 55:15

No rightful father would just sit there and listen to that.

Speaker 2 55:18

Nope.

Speaker 3 55:19

Strangled.

Speaker 1 55:22

There is one part that's really funny, but I can't say it on here because it wouldn't be appropriate.

Speaker 3 55:26

But it was really funny. And she's like 16 too, which is awesome. No, she's a senior. Is she a senior? Still not right.

Speaker 1 55:32

It ain't right. It ain't right. I guess it's like summer before she becomes a senior or something like that. But yeah still.

Speaker 2 55:39

But it ain't right, it's wrong, it's wrong.

Speaker 1 55:42

The other show that I watched is I finished the last bit of Cobra Kai that finally came out. Oh wow, Season six. I gave up on that forever. It was pretty fun. Never watch an episode. It was pretty fun. I mean, if you've watched the first couple seasons I was like I've got to just finish it now, but it was really good. I like how they always integrate stuff from the past coming back, other characters and stuff like that from the past coming back, you know, other characters and stuff like that.

Speaker 3 56:06

How are these kids not in prison? They're just like like assaulting each other in high school, Not like.

Speaker 2 56:11

Doesn't the school have like a zero tolerance policy?

Speaker 3 56:14

They whip out ninja stars and claws and scratch each other and use like swords and crap like that to beat the crap out of each other.

Speaker 1 56:19

Well, part one of this last season. Somebody does, he gets stabbed in the tournament Like a whole brawl breaks out when they're supposed to be having this tournament Is that the karate kid you remember. Tom, no, no. There's like eight or nine different teams in this tournament and they just break out into a brawl and one kid actually does get stabbed to die.

Speaker 2 56:38

That escalated really quickly.

Speaker 3 56:40

Security guards, just some fat guy like all right, bring it on everybody oh crap, they got swords.

Speaker 1 56:44

Well then they immediately shut down the tournament. And then part two is where the Silver is trying to talk the guy into restarting this tournament. He wants his legacy to live on, because you find out he's dying from cancer, and he wants his legacy to live on as the winner, like the one that hosts this new group of bad guys, the Iron Claw or the Iron Dragon, the Universal Tournament To make the Universal Soldier.

Speaker 2 57:12

It was pretty interesting.

Speaker 1 57:13

It was fun. I felt like the. It lives up to the moniker of being called Cobra Kai instead of Mr Miyagi. It pays homage to the original season, does it? It does.

Speaker 2 57:25

Does it though? Mitch it does, Does it though.

Speaker 1 57:29

To the original first season. It's about Johnny and the Cobra Cop.

Speaker 3 57:32

We were suspending oceans of disbelief, I think by the end of it, because kids killing each other that are still in high school six years later.

Speaker 2 57:41

With swords.

Speaker 1 57:42

It was part of the tournament. It was a freak accident.

Speaker 2 57:45

Right, that kid did not mean to go. Remember when people freaked out?

Speaker 3 57:48

that it was part of the tournament. It was a freak accident, Right. That kid did not mean to go shh.

Speaker 1 57:51

Remember when people freaked out that? Well, actually, I'm glad to say, in this the bad guy, he's the one that dies, he pulls out a knife to try and stab somebody. Well, he gets kicked in the face and falls on the knife.

Speaker 3 58:00

Okay, I remember when the first karate kid, when Ralph Macchio kicked Johnny in the head.

Speaker 2 58:06

With an illegal move.

Speaker 3 58:07

Yeah, and that was a controversial thing. Now kids are just murdering each other and people are like it's drama.

Speaker 1 58:13

This is a world tournament kind of thing, where they actually reveal that Mr Miyagi competed in it and someone died when he competed.

Speaker 2 58:20

He did the move. He taught Patrick Swayze later that he would use in Roadhouse. I used to guys like you in prison.

Speaker 1 58:27

It brings up a storyline where you know, maybe Mr Miyagi is not the person that uh, what's his name?

Speaker 3 58:33

You're tarnishing his name.

Speaker 1 58:34

That Daniel thought he was all along.

Speaker 2 58:35

Danielson.

Speaker 1 58:36

So it kind of has like a little mystery to it. You got to figure out what happened, because they give you just little clues. It's pretty good. I liked it.

Speaker 2 58:44

Okay, they need to do. Roadhouse needs a crossover in a universe that has no business being in, like Harry Potter.

Speaker 1 58:53

Let's see. Do y'all have any news?

Speaker 2 58:55

Yeah, suits.

Speaker 3 58:57

Go ahead.

Speaker 2 58:58

Suits the show, me and Hayden both enjoy.

Speaker 3 59:01

I watched the first five seasons. Yeah, I watched the first five or six seasons.

Speaker 2 59:05

Just couldn't get enough of that Harvey Specter guy and his nonsense. Harvey Specter and that one guy keep coming back to ruin everything.

Speaker 3 59:13

Who Hardman the nerd? Yeah, the nerdy guy.

Speaker 2 59:18

He was like the name partner.

Speaker 3 59:20

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 59:21

So Suits LA premieres tonight at 9 pm.

Speaker 3 59:27

Well, not for listeners, not for listeners.

Speaker 2 59:28

but today is what the 23rd LA premieres tonight at 9 pm.

Speaker 1 59:30

Well, not for listeners, not for listeners but today is what the 23rd.

Speaker 2 59:34

Yeah, February 23rd.

Speaker 1 59:35

Premiered a week or two ago.

Speaker 2 59:36

Starring Stephen Amil. Yeah, which is wild that I didn't know he was going to do this show. Stephen Amil known for being the main character in the movie.

Speaker 3 59:50

The Spirit. The Spirit, no, that's Gabriel Macht. Oh, the guy from the first show. Yeah, okay, who's Stephen Amil in this one?

Speaker 2 59:56

The.

Speaker 3 59:56

Era. Ah yeah, his face Go ahead.

Speaker 2 1:00:02

So it's going to be on an NBC show and it says Ted Black, which is Stephen Amil's character, a former federal prosecutor from New York, has reinvented himself representing the most powerful clients in Los Angeles. But his firm is at a crisis point and in order to survive, he must embrace a role he held in contempt his entire career. Ted is surrounded by a stellar group of attorneys who test their loyalties to both Ted and each other, while they can't help but mix their personal and professional lives. On top of it all, Ted must come to terms with the events that years ago led him to leave behind everything and everyone he loved. I like the better version of Suits with Gabriel Mott, where he was just basically a douchebag and did it for money.

Speaker 3 1:00:47

Yeah, I like that too.

Speaker 2 1:00:48

And he was arrogant and was just like yeah, Harvey Specter, it's like the name commands respect.

Speaker 3 1:00:52

It does. It's a sweet name.

Speaker 2 1:00:56

He gave dignity back to the name Harvey.

Speaker 3 1:00:58

That's right, that's right. Well, here's my news. Guess how much money they're expecting Grand Theft Auto 6 to make on its first year $1 billion.

Speaker 2 1:01:07

Guess how much money they're expecting Grand Theft Auto 6 to make on its first year $1 billion, $2 billion, $5 billion $3.2 billion its first year and it could be the first game to ever break a billion dollars in pre-orders.

Speaker 3 1:01:22

Huh, yeah.

Speaker 1 1:01:23

I mean what's?

Speaker 3 1:01:24

Just because of the hype man. You know like GTA was the most costly, like most money-raking, in intellectual property in human history, and so like Six is probably going to even outdo that.

Speaker 1 1:01:37

I definitely think we should get in on the ground floor and play this online when it comes out.

Speaker 2 1:01:41

Yes.

Speaker 3 1:01:42

But guess how much it cost to make it. I don't know A billion dollars.

Speaker 1 1:01:45

They did a lot of live action kind of filming to make over the CGI Two billion dollars?

Speaker 3 1:01:51

Jeez, could you imagine investing two billion dollars In a video game Before it even comes out?

Speaker 2 1:01:56

In a video game.

Speaker 3 1:01:57

That is wild. What kind of movie would that look like? Yeah, oh my God.

Speaker 2 1:02:02

That's double the budget for the Rings of Power. Yeah, that is insane, so I don't know, oh my God, $2 billion for a video game.

Speaker 3 1:02:11

Yeah but we're all going to play it.

Speaker 2 1:02:14

They are banking on this being a smash hit.

Speaker 1 1:02:16

Yeah, if it was anything like 5, but with better story or graphics or something like that. 5 was great and they've been going along with it for a long time.

Speaker 2 1:02:25

Because I know they're bringing back Vice City as somewhere you can go.

Speaker 3 1:02:28

Yeah, I guess it's like Miami, because.

Speaker 2 1:02:30

I think there's three locations.

Speaker 1 1:02:31

I mean, I heard that there's like you can go to several different places from the old city, it's basically Florida.

Speaker 3 1:02:38

Man the video game yeah.

Speaker 2 1:02:39

Florida man he who pulls the kitchen knife from the crocodile skull becomes the king of Florida.

Speaker 1 1:02:48

The little bit of news I had was this is actually a rumor, but supposedly Rocksteady Studios is working on another Batman title. It's going to be a Batman Beyond game and it'll probably be a PlayStation exclusive. Of course it will, because PlayStation doesn't care about anyone else but themselves.

Speaker 2 1:03:02

Well, nope, you know, sony doesn't care about anybody but themselves.

Speaker 1 1:03:06

The owner of Xbox was like I'm not really going to make exclusive games anymore because it's like I want the gaming community to enjoy it together.

Speaker 2 1:03:12

And.

Speaker 1 1:03:12

PlayStation's like screw you, this is our game.

Speaker 2 1:03:14

Buy our PlayStation.

Speaker 1 1:03:15

Well, to be fair, playstation has been pretty successful with their you know standalones Well, so the next bit I had was here was that Hasbro has signed a new partnership with game developer Saber Interactive, responsible for the Warhammer 40,000, space Marine 2 and the 2019 remaster of Ghostbusters. It's currently working on a AAA video game based on Power Rangers. We'll see how that goes. Let's see. Verdansk will support Resurgence mode when Call of Duty comes back. There'll be a Resurgence version of Verdansk will support resurgence mode when Call of Duty comes back, so there will be a resurgence version of Verdansk. So Tom, I'm sure will be excited.

Speaker 2 1:03:53

Yeah, tom's Call of Duty. Excitement is waning as of late.

Speaker 1 1:03:58

Alan Richardson and Amazon confirms there's going to be a.

Speaker 2 1:04:01

Blue Mountain State Season 4.

Speaker 1 1:04:04

Let it go, he says. I think it's going to be the best season of BMS we've ever had.

Speaker 2 1:04:09

It's so wild because it's like everybody sees him now as Reacher but, those of us who, if you know, you know when he was Get out Get out of my house Ultra high pitch, sad castle. I thought you were just supposed to wipe your butt ten times and just have an itchy butt all day, isn't he like 40 now or something like that.

Speaker 3 1:04:28

He's going to be a coach.

Speaker 1 1:04:29

I'm sure he'll be a coach. They should get Alex Moran to be the quarterback coach and still have the same head coach, ed Marinaro. Yeah.

Speaker 2 1:04:38

Ed Marinaro coming back.

Speaker 1 1:04:39

That'd be funny. The next bit of news I have is Lord of the Rings. The Rings of Power is renewed for a season three.

Speaker 2 1:04:45

Cancel it.

Speaker 1 1:04:47

Yeah, with a massive time jump coming up.

Speaker 2 1:04:50

Oh To what? The end of the world.

Speaker 3 1:04:53

Yeah, it's after they throw the ring into the fire.

Speaker 1 1:04:57

There's another live action D&D called the Forgotten Realms, which will be a series on Netflix. Okay, coming up.

Speaker 3 1:05:04

I hope it has the kind of humor that the last one had I enjoyed that.

Speaker 2 1:05:07

I hope it has the kind of humor that the last one had. I enjoyed that. I did like that movie.

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Speaker 1 1:05:09

There's a rumor that Kit Harington may be reportedly playing Hush in the new Batman 2. The one that has a, but he's so tiny Arpads yeah Well, I mean, arpads ain't that big either.

Speaker 3 1:05:22

So you just make him look bigger with cinematography. It's the power of magic with cameras.

Speaker 2 1:05:26

I didn't realize how small Kit Harington is.

Speaker 1 1:05:30

It's just like what do you mean he's 5'6"? Let's see. It says a live-action Gundam film has been officially announced.

Speaker 3 1:05:35

Live action.

Speaker 1 1:05:38

Bandai, namco and Legendary are co-financing the Mobile Suit Gundam adaptation. Sorry, it's a small word I'm trying to read. Let's see. Magic the Gathering has a live action movie and TV universe in the works from Legendary Entertainment.

Speaker 3 1:05:53

Yeah, so everybody plays Magic. The Gathering for its plot.

Speaker 1 1:05:58

I put this on our social media. But Transformers there's a rumor that they're going to bring back Megan Fox and Shia LaBeouf as the original characters.

Speaker 3 1:06:06

I would not want to be working on that set.

Speaker 1 1:06:08

In this GI Joe Transformers crossover.

Speaker 2 1:06:11

Oh my God, Just stop. Transformers the.

Speaker 3 1:06:14

Rise of Unicron Shia LaBeouf's probably paying to be in that movie.

Speaker 1 1:06:17

He seems like a lot different person than what he was years ago. Just saying.

Speaker 2 1:06:23

I don't know.

Speaker 1 1:06:25

Let's see. Rob Layfield is calling out the MCU and Kevin Feige saying he does not treat comic book creators well. Rob Layfield thinks that he and other comic book creators should be on the main marquee for the creators of the movies and stuff like that, just because they use their characters, and he actually is no longer working with Marvel because of of that and he's encouraging other writers not to as well hey, I'm not gonna do this.

Speaker 2 1:06:53

None of you should be happy either.

Speaker 1 1:06:54

Making money I mean, yeah, he's still making tons of money yeah, if you're making money on it, I don't know uh, let's see. Uh will forte on wb shelving Coyote vs Acme for $30 million tax write-off. So there was going to be an Acme live-action cartoon, kind of like the Brendan Fraser Looney Tunes one.

Speaker 3 1:07:16

Is he shelving it Like he's not going to do it?

Speaker 1 1:07:18

Well, they've already made the movie up, apparently, or made most of the movie, and then WB is writing it off, just like they did Batgirl, for a tax write-off, even though the movie's mostly done.

Speaker 3 1:07:26

I don't know why people go to Warner Brothers for movies anymore.

Speaker 1 1:07:30

Well, I mean, at the point when the movie's almost completely done, why would you shelve it? Just make the money off of it that you can? I mean, I don't know, I'm not in charge I'm sure a streaming service would take it and pay you lots of money for it, or at least comparable money. Let's see. Kevin Feige says he hopes Sam Wilson earns full acceptance as Captain America. After Captain America, brave New World Feels like the audience knows the shield was passed to the right person and think this movie will solidify that more.

Speaker 3 1:08:01

Yeah, I mean, it's not like they recasted Captain America, it's a new character so. I'm down for it.

Speaker 1 1:08:07

Marvel Studios is reportedly considering Javier Bardem for the role of Mr Sinister. Whenever the X-Men fire up.

Speaker 3 1:08:13

He's getting pretty old too.

Speaker 1 1:08:15

They want that to be the main villain, sinister, in the comics. He's kind of like an old English person that's been around for a while, so that would fit with his kind of presence that he brings. I would think there's a Zac Efron and Will Ferrell comedy movie that's going to be brought by MGM Studios. It doesn't really give much information other than they're working together on a comedy movie.

Speaker 3 1:08:36

Might be all right. I don't know Will Ferrell's been striking out lately.

Speaker 1 1:08:40

It says Havoc is the name of this new movie from Netflix. It'll be starring Tom Hardy. It comes out this spring. It says it's going to be a fast-paced action thriller where he plays a cop directed by Gareth Evans Cop on the edge From the Raid and it's about an hour 45-minute movie. It says let's see, we've got Midnight Society. The game studio co-founded by streamer Dr Disrespect, has announced it will shut down and cancel its first person game, dead Drop.

Speaker 3 1:09:08

I don't think anybody was really excited for that.

Speaker 2 1:09:11

No, I didn't care.

Speaker 1 1:09:13

They said Den of Thieves has done well enough for the second movie that they're officially announcing. A third one's in the works with Gerard Butler and O'Shea Jackson.

Speaker 3 1:09:21

I don't know how Gerard Butler is still getting movies made, because some of them are terrible. They're making Greenland 2, from what I heard.

Speaker 2 1:09:29

Greener Land, greenlander.

Speaker 3 1:09:31

Blueland.

Speaker 1 1:09:33

Redland the first look at Ben Affleck and Matt Damon and Joe Canahan's RIP. The film follows a group of Miami cops who discover millions in cash in a derelict stash house. Miami cops on the edge.

Speaker 2 1:09:46

It'll release later Cocaine the 80s.

Speaker 1 1:09:48

It'll release later this year on Netflix.

Speaker 2 1:09:50

Don't you.

Speaker 1 1:09:53

There's a picture here. It's the first look at Oscar Isaac and Frankenstein starring Jacob Ellardy, mia Goth and Christoph Waltz. It'll release on Netflix in November.

Speaker 3 1:10:04

Right after Halloween.

Speaker 1 1:10:05

Squid Game 3 is coming to Netflix in June of this year. Okay, so right after Halloween, squid Game 3 is coming to Netflix in June of this year. Nice, and then the Old Guard 2 will release on Netflix on July 7th. Yeah, I've been waiting for that movie for so long.

Speaker 2 1:10:17

Oh my God, Finally I can sleep.

Speaker 3 1:10:19

Did you guys see where they released some like on-set shots of Christopher Nolan's movie?

Speaker 1 1:10:27

Odyssey.

Speaker 3 1:10:28

The Odyssey and people were like ripping it apart. It's historically inaugurated which you know a lot of it is like they were wearing like Roman garb and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 1:10:36

But it's make-believe anyway.

Speaker 3 1:10:37

It is.

Speaker 2 1:10:39

This movie is make-believe, really, a book that's older than, like almost everything we have these days.

Speaker 3 1:10:45

It's a. It's an interesting push for Christopher Nolan, considering I don't think he's ever done.

Speaker 1 1:10:51

Most of his stuff is psychological thriller.

Speaker 3 1:10:53

Sci-fi and stuff.

Speaker 2 1:10:55

Didn't he do Dunkirk?

Speaker 3 1:10:57

Yeah.

Speaker 2 1:10:57

And didn't he do, oppenheimer?

Speaker 3 1:10:59

Well, you could still apply a little bit of science fiction not science fiction, but hard science into Oppenheimer. Dunkirk was not his greatest movie. No, so it'd be interesting to see what happens with a fantasy, you know.

Speaker 1 1:11:15

From what I can tell, I think Matt Damon and Tom Holland are playing the same character, because I had mentioned John Bernthal might be, but I think it's him and Matt Damon of the younger and the older version of Odysseus. Oh, I think I'm going.

Speaker 3 1:11:26

Matt Damon of the younger and the older version of Odysseus. Oh, I think I'm going to get behind that, okay. Well, that was fun. Did you guys have fun?

Speaker 1 1:11:34

Yeah, that last 30 minutes.

Speaker 3 1:11:37

What about you listeners? Did you have fun?

Speaker 1 1:11:40

Yeah.

Speaker 3 1:11:40

Good job.

Speaker 1 1:11:40

Good job, mitch, I'm glad we both had the same idea All right?

Speaker 2 1:11:43

Well, that was it for this episode of entertain this. I'm Tom, I'm Hayden, I'm Mitch, and we'll see you on the next one. Bye, bye, bye you're home.