Episode 258 - Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth And The Nominees For The D.I.C.E. Awards

[00:00:00] I want to welcome everybody to Crashing Game Night.

[00:00:17] My name is Matt De Urio, your host.

[00:00:20] As always, I am joined by the Beanied One.

[00:00:25] What is a driver bar? in Sunday, no Monday after it snowed, right? When we got our really deep cold, my eyes hurt from the wind chill. It was like goggles or nothing? Whoa. I don't have goggles. And if I wore my sunglasses, they just fog up and I could see things just like whatever. So, and then ladies and gentlemen,

[00:01:41] the matriety services, the man with the couch,

[00:01:44] the man with the legend, meant to be built, Jason, but not not. It's just a box. You know, it's like it's like a collector's items, you know, like, dude, you take it out of the box. It's the best. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[00:03:00] Oh, yeah.

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[00:03:02] You got to build it.

[00:03:03] It's therapeutic.

[00:03:04] Oh, it's a huge man.

[00:03:05] If you missed that one piece, I'll say a word game or something? Oh, God. It's literally a brand like. Oh, really? Yeah.

[00:04:22] Oh, they have a lot of unicorns. Yeah.

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[00:05:48] I'm missing. I need to do four more chairs, one more tea cup and one more tea set. And then I have that done. Oh, sweet. I even have a queen of hearts dress out there. I've got a white rabbit. I've got the mad hatters hat. I've got Alice's dress. We times he's changed his back. I mean, like we've even this is said on here. It's like I've done. Done. Well, how long two weeks later? Sure. Are you sure? Yeah. I mean, it's always like, well, I won't be around with this one idea. Like, there's nothing wrong with creativity.

[00:08:21] No, but I mean, like, don't say you're done because you know you ain't done.

[00:08:26] But I'm going to say, boy with a 13 year old, I think the second one is in college right now. So I assume he's under like 25 under like he's at MIT. And then the third one is 16 to 18 somewhere on there. So it's like, like, to beat Tetris. No, his name is dog playing Tetris. But I mean, like, I wouldn't. See that. I want to see a dog playing Tetris. Yeah. That'd be bad ass. Amazing. That won't beat it. That's funny. Yeah. So I saw the clip of him playing it, dude. That's insane. Like, I think the highest I've ever gotten is the 40.

[00:11:04] 40 or 40. I'm just like Tetris. I think the highest I've ever got was level. drops at like one eighth of a second. And that is a old kills old kill screen. It's unbelievable. You have to say that now, but the true kill screen is the NES version, right? Or Game Boy version and yes. Yeah. And yes, I don't know.

[00:12:21] Level 29. That's when it gets too quick for.

[00:12:24] Right. Yeah. It goes into an exit decimal. He rolled it was D62, D63. Nope, he got up beyond, so he got up to level BD. Like he rolled over the levels. Yeah, I mean, OK, so I was thinking other Tetris. So any yes Tetris at level 20, it rolls over to CA

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[00:14:44] about 38 to 40 minutes each. I'm playing one game of Tetris,

[00:14:45] one game of Nintendo Tetris.

[00:14:50] Wow.

[00:14:50] That's crazy.

[00:14:51] I mean, that's why it's,

[00:14:55] it's, I'm the first man.

[00:14:56] It's, that's crazy.

[00:14:57] Worldwide news, man.

[00:14:58] It's crazy.

[00:14:59] Oh yeah.

[00:14:59] It definitely is.

[00:15:00] And you know what though,

[00:15:01] there was some news anchor that was down in Texas

[00:15:04] that basically said what the heck is this kid doing?

[00:15:06] He should be out playing like and this isn't like the Tetris, you know where I've gotten a level 40 and 50 where you can bank

[00:16:22] Pieces. Yeah, no, this is old school and Tetris. It's you one

[00:16:27] One-piece head and that's it. I mean, like any one of these, I think is well deserving of the time on whoever wins it. Like when we looked at like the Steam Awards and even, you know, some are, you know, the video game awards, like you could tell none of those,

[00:17:42] some of those didn't deserve to be in Want it to be I want it you're I want it to be final fantasy But I think it might go to high-fives rush That's what those are my two I

[00:19:01] Wanted to go to MK wonder spider-man and mine is 16 or wonder

[00:20:05] agree with MK1. I think I think I've got a lot of shows that are stronger.

[00:20:09] All right. Well, we will keep track. All right. A lot of boys. Let's just go. We want to talk about fantasy to talk about tonight too.

[00:20:14] Achievement art direction. I don't. I don't.

[00:20:17] Starfield is the only one on this list that doesn't completely for me make the cut,

[00:20:24] but I can see the rest of those. Absolutely. Yeah.

[00:21:26] Planet of Lana and Star Wars Jedi survivor. I am surprised FF 16 is not on this list. Yeah

[00:21:34] From a musical composition Stanford. I mean obviously they always have some sort of orchestra like yeah There's soundtracks are always being so command so can yeah

[00:21:37] And in this case

[00:21:40] Cora was great

[00:21:42] For me Jedi survivor

[00:21:45] Yeah, great score. Oh, yeah

[00:22:41] That's awesome. So I want to first, I want to, I would say just, you know,

[00:22:45] congrats to men rocket, our loop and the side games,

[00:22:48] like to have three indie titles going for

[00:22:51] Outstanding Achievement in Story in a year

[00:22:54] where we had a AAA titles.

[00:22:55] Yeah.

[00:22:56] It's big.

[00:22:57] I'm kind of to those.

[00:22:58] I can't feel like they had the upper hand

[00:23:00] because they're original stories.

[00:23:02] Whereas like we may have triple games,

[00:23:04] but I mean, they weren't original stories to be honest.

[00:23:08] Very true. Armored core is the action version of front mission from missions more of attack RPG What's the same thing just the Met games in general they go back a long way so? Adventure game of the year Alan Wig to cocoon Dave the diver survivor and tears the kingdom I'll probably say Alan Yeah, I would but but adventure I would say I mean for me it would be Jedi

[00:25:23] game is he goes, yeah, I play Hello Kitty Island adventure. And it's just like, here's a game. Hello Kitty Island adventure. So it's just, it's funny. Honestly, I think it's

[00:25:31] gonna probably gonna go to wonder. No fighting game of the year. Graham blue, MK1, including

[00:25:39] all star brawl two pocket bravery, very shoot fighterza. Yeah. I've played forza. I played up 0 99. I feel like obviously only real racing. Listed there.

[00:27:01] The other two.

[00:27:03] Novelty.

[00:27:05] Five. No, what? F 0 99's already been deleted off my switch.

[00:27:08] What? 16 and Starfield for me. I think it's going to be either. I think it's going to be Baldur's Gate. Honestly, World is Baldur's Gate. Oh, Diablo. Oh, Diablo for me. I think it's not a bad. No, it lost weight. It lost weight too much. I mean, muster. Yeah. Yeah, it felt it fell real quick. It's for sure Baldur's Gate. Yeah. As much as I want to see a BFF 16, I think it's going to be Baldur's Gate.

[00:28:24] Yeah, it's going to be Baldur's Gate.

[00:28:26] That's for sure. title. The last spell, indie title, war tales, indie title. I've never even played any of these, but first two look really interesting games. I guess the storm and cobalt core, like I like the animations on both. I'm kind of curious on them now.

[00:29:42] But congrats to every single one of those studios.

[00:29:45] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No joke. Awesome. Right.

[00:32:20] All right. Immersive reality technical achievement. I'm really curious about this. I've heard really good things about cooking. I'm curious about that too. You still have a number of choices, whereas like tiers, you have unlimited choices on what you can do.

[00:32:21] These are about game design.

[00:32:22] That's true.

[00:32:23] That's a strong argument.

[00:32:24] And then you've got a it's like heavy story. Heavy story, dude. Heavy story, yeah. Really good, yeah. Controls were similar to like Resident Evil in some ways, like a tank control almost. Even when they did the remastered version that came out

[00:33:42] earlier in the year,

[00:33:44] you didn't really update the controls.

[00:33:45] So it felt a little off playing a game. going to be on Shinra 8, which is a cruise ship now. It goes from Port June in to Costa del Sol. Character-wise, you're getting Kate, Sith, and Mughal. That's cute. We're getting Elena from the Turks.

[00:35:02] Nice.

[00:35:03] Thank goodness.

[00:35:03] Finally.

[00:35:04] Who is, let's see, does it And then you've got synergy abilities as well, so you're going to have Yufean, Kate Sith are going to be able to team up. We've already seen in the, in one of the trailers, Cloud and Eryth teaming up for an attack as well. So they also did come out with some of the,

[00:36:21] what you'll call it, pre-order stuff. And then the digital deluxe edition is only coming with the, it's the Midgar Bangalore accessory. And then the digital deluxe edition is coming with a bunch more, it's coming with the Magic Pot summoning materia or Kid Bracelet, the Reclamation Choker accessory, and of course the the Mughal Trio summoning

[00:37:40] materia. And then if you get the physical collector's edition, that one It's too disc. So I mean, we're gonna get a lot of open world a lot of open world a lot of story to Which if everybody remembers like we didn't get true really get much open world until after we left Midgar anyways Exactly, I mean this is so be just open world This I feel like there's gonna be like a red dead redemption kind of like

[00:39:02] Apparently it's big like

[00:39:04] like pretty big or even like a

[00:39:07] GTA I don't want to be tickled with it like I watched it once and that was enough I I don't want to go back and be one of those people that are psycho analyzing If you're gonna buy it you're gonna buy it. Yeah, I'm already excited for it Yeah, and I'm also gonna preface this to our listeners and stuff Everybody knows that we're fans were part of the cast. Yeah, we know nothing

[00:40:23] You know tell his shit. Yeah. In this, in this, because you look at what friendships and, and everything have been built

[00:41:42] because people met at a con or at a game convention, right? You know the second that this drops, we're gonna have these guys on. We're gonna talk about it. Oh yeah. And we'll full on and talk about it. And we'll try and, we will try and get some of the other actors that are now part of this cast and part of the Final Fantasy family on as well. It's been an honor having those guys on this podcast.

[00:43:02] I'm squaring this as in come after I see it.

[00:43:04] Okay.

[00:43:05] Okay.

[00:43:06] And Jason, they're love is not real. That's, uh, yeah. Let's see. Right now, oh, by the way, finally finished a big bang, you know, this, this. No, no, it was, it was touching. It was, it was nice.

[00:44:23] It was like, it was a good way to end it, you know.

[00:45:24] we're planning on actually just picking up a random like, you know, go through straight because, you know, it's not that long. So my just straight run.

[00:45:29] Real quick, this just drops on Twitter or X or whatever you want to call it.

[00:45:36] Keith David, who is now joining the Destiny family.

[00:45:42] Okay.

[00:45:44] He will be at fan Expo Denver.

[00:46:47] I was playing that store finishing that off. You know, been cleaning a lot.

[00:46:51] So try to make the colorado.

[00:46:54] Yeah, no.

[00:46:56] No.

[00:46:58] No.

[00:46:59] It's a big old name.

[00:47:00] It's not good.

[00:47:01] It's not because he knows what he has and he doesn't have a jacket.

[00:47:04] So he can't go colorado.

[00:47:06] Right. Yeah, trying for that. I don't know how well I'll do at solo flawless, but it's going to take some practice. And be noise, the least. I mean, because like, I don't know if you guys know, but Dungeons is like the bridge between doing a full on raid, which definitely requires you to have communication.

[00:48:22] But Dungeons is kind of like the same kind of mechanics, but if you know the mechanics, you don't actually have to communicate.

[00:49:27] what have I been playing? Oh, I've dusted off wonder, been playing, got played a few more levels of that slowly going um, uh, hitting that. Um, I actually restarted, I started a new run of Ragnarok. So yeah, so I'm just I'm just playing just playing for the story.

[00:49:39] Just just kind of, yeah, new game plus just kind of going through it. Just want to kind of wanted to replay it? You got everything approved? Everything go. Have you ever gotten to the point? Because I know there are items in the game. Have you ever

[00:51:02] gotten to the point where you clear out a section and you put construction things for and stuff, but no. So that's been, I've been hitting it hard the last week. So all of my houses are done, like the entire neighborhood is completely done, stacked up. I put up walls kind of around my house, it actually looks kind of like,

[00:52:20] I it's up on a hill, but it looks like it's a two story

[00:52:22] kind of house in a way.

[00:52:24] Oh, that's right.

[00:52:25] My double, my two story farm is done.

[00:53:22] kind of thing with the wonders of the world. So I've got Stone Hedge and the Sphinx

[00:53:24] and all those are gonna go around Zibbitz and whatnot.

[00:53:28] And yeah.

[00:53:31] As we talked about,

[00:53:34] my rose garden is done.

[00:53:35] My tribute to Alice in Wonderland.

[00:53:37] So I've got two playing cards,

[00:53:40] standies that are basically with paint cans below them,

[00:53:44] based on the whole painting of the rose is red.

[00:53:46] So there's white roses mixed in with red roses. whatever they want to call it. I've got three of the entrances found already on that one. And some of those levels completed already. So yeah, that's coming along. And then this coming week, I've talked about this, but Final Fantasy VII is going to get fired up.

[00:55:01] Essentially, however, that being said, eight, gaming. So one of the final fantasies is going to get fired up this week. Nice. I haven't done an eight run in ages nine the same way. Ten is a great title. Last time I beat ten. Ten. Ten's been coming up on my feet a lot too. Yep. Does it see anniversary recently? Oh, okay. That makes sense.

[00:56:21] So people, that's one of the anniversaries.

[00:56:24] Got you. I didn't know that.

[00:57:24] And like I said, there's going to be more to come as far as those guys. Especially we know a lot of people within the Final Fantasy Committee as well.

[00:57:28] So we'll be back at it when the game comes out.

[00:57:32] But guys with everything that's going on in the world right now,

[00:57:36] especially this past week where we got hit with an Arctic blast

[00:57:40] for a good portion of this country dangerously low temperatures

[00:57:44] to the point where schools were canceled and stuff like that. Let's just try and slow down and calm down. Take a breath. Try and be a little bit more patient. Have a little bit more kindness and let's just try and do and be a little bit better.

[00:59:03] Just try and lend out a hand, a lot of us have been saying. You're like, January sounds so different in California than anywhere else. Oh, bro, it is very different in California because everyone just does not know what the heck to do. You would assume that people would just get ready for tax season. They, you know,

[01:00:23] they want to plan so far, but they just canba down now. What? Boy? No. Yeah. So be nice out there, you know, enjoy. We're coming out with so many good games in the pipeline, you know, I'm excited for

[01:01:44] 2024.

[01:01:45] And please, please developers out there. Because he's watching it now. He's like yo man. He's waiting He's feeling it. He had it one time. He's got a taste. Oh, can I ever have it again? But my back she was key Like you do

[01:03:00] That's right. All right. So thank you for watching. Thanks for listening till next time TTFN. It's a fun man

[01:03:07] Get out everybody