[00:00:00] Start the shit up. Rev that engine. We're doing it. Okay, there we go. It's a good hard rev. Oh, the pull cord busted. Now what are you doing? I don't know. I guess we're push starting it. Do you know how hotwire? No, we'll just buy a new car. I'm not getting this shit fixed. We don't have the money. What? How are we gonna get the money? We'll have Cheryl and HR hit you up with the best auto insurance that SuperPod Saga can buy. Have you been sitting at that kitchen nook again? Because...

[00:00:30] Your mind seems to be fading. Cheryl's been dead for three years, dude. Yeah, yeah. The kitchen nook got to me again. There's still that gigantic hole where I fought Super Mario, Mario Lopez, or whatever. Oh man. And Liam Neeson. Oh shit, these are some... That episode's not even out yet. I remember. What it do, everybody? My name's Aaron. My AIDS is acting up. And my name's Jerry. And I have mouth kissed my dad.

[00:01:04] And you're listening to SuperPod Saga. We'll put a song in there like... There'll be like a Justin Timberlake song. I've kissed my dad. Oh my god. That's ya. Yep, this is the show, everybody. This is SuperPod Saga. It's the greatest... That's what you signed up for. Yep. Greatest collaboration of all time. Better wars. Yep. Sickness and health. Watch it. Oh, yep. For any first time listeners, Jerry and I. Old Jerry and I.

[00:01:49] Bear Bear and I are on a quest to discuss every... Oh, bright. So bright. So bright. Did you open the notes again? Yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah, just... Blistering white Google Docs. Just like when we're on our quest to discuss every video game topic in existence week by week. This week, Jerry, what are we talking about? Fuck. I don't know. Hang on. I'm gonna do it for ya. I'm blinded. Yes. Tell them. Because I'm trying to adjust some stuff. This week. Can't fucking see.

[00:02:18] This week, we're talking about remakes. We're talking about some good ones, some bad ones, some butt ugly ones, and really, whether or not games, really need them. They're divisive. We're gonna talk about them. It's gonna be fun. First, listeners, do us a solid. Go check out SuperPodSaga.com for more episodes, socials, links to your favorite players, all that stuff. Patreon, two or four dollars a month. Give us money. Support the show.

[00:02:43] Feed picks. Feed picks. I almost said pet feeks. Pet picks. Those two. And rate and review the show. Wherever you listen to us. Please do that. Enough about us, though. We have a guest. A first-timey guest. Hello, Joe. Yes, we do. You're on the air. Greetings. Glad to be here. My name's Joe, or Joe Decahedron. I am just a dude, honestly. I'm a stay-at-home dad. Whenever I can,

[00:03:12] I'm playing video games in one way or another. And you can find me occasionally on an actual play D&D podcast called Dice Training, where sometimes I play, sometimes I run, but we have a good time nonetheless. Hell yeah. I feel that stay-at-home dad vibe, too. I've been doing that, I think, since my son was born. He's three now. It's been three years staying home, dad. Nice.

[00:03:41] Hell yeah. I respect it. Well, Joe, for all of our guests, we like to get to know them a little bit better. Ask them a good old age-old question. What's your favorite video game memory?

[00:03:54] So I had to think about this for a little while, and a couple come to mind, but one that stuck out that I thought would be appropriate for this podcast was one that probably happened in the early 2000s when rock band was pretty popular.

[00:04:14] There were a bunch of barcades that were doing fundraising rock band tournaments. And me and my friends, I would say we were probably mediocre to slightly good at best, but we really enjoyed playing. So we got the band together and went over to the barcade in Brooklyn, New York, and we signed up for the tournament under the moniker Mega Boobs.

[00:04:43] Yeah. And somehow won the tournament. Next up on the stage, give it away for Mega Boobs. The cheer for Encore. And then did you just hear... No, the moment specifically, I had already... we had already assumed we had lost. It was the final, it was the best of three. I was just downing gimlets and playing like a Death Star run arcade game that they made for Star Wars.

[00:05:12] Oh, hell yeah. And the other bands, I don't even remember where they are. They started playing and five seconds in because the key here is we understood our mediocrity and they thought that they could outdo us. So they played on a much harder difficulty and like five seconds into the last song, they failed, which automatically made us the winner. Hell yeah.

[00:05:36] So we started losing it, going crazy, and hearing the MC have to go, and the winner of the tournament is... Mega Boobs. And then have the whole bar be rough. There's just one drunk person. Fuck yeah, Mega Boobs! Fuck yeah! Like a fucking South Park character. Yeah, a good friend of mine, Matt, a.k.a. Stormageddon.

[00:06:05] Oh, hell yeah. Also a member of Mega Boobs. No, he was... Yes, indeed. No way. No way. Matt, the Matt Storm played in Mega Boobs. He did. Mega Boobs fame. X Mega Boobs! Oh my... Oh my god. That needs to go on his... On the profile of Matt Storm. That needs to be put up. Matt, if you're listening to this... Yeah, that's my memory.

[00:06:35] Former member of Mega Boobs. Mm-hmm. We love you, Matt. That didn't... We love you, Matt. I'm so hurt that you kept this from us, but... How dare you? Mega Boobs. You know how much I fucking love things with Mega and Boobs? They're the two fucking coolest things. Matt? Fuck. Almost seems on purpose. Oh, man.

[00:07:04] Well, to take our minds off of the pain and anguish that we're feeling right now, Jerry, hit us with some... Take my mind off them titties. Jerry, hit us with some news. What's happening in the world? Oh, you haven't heard? I might have. You haven't heard? We now have a fully 3D rendered Princess Peach's ass in jean shorts. Oh, yeah.

[00:07:34] Thanks to Mario Kart World. Yeah. Hell yeah. Yeah, they're... Thank the Lord. Nintendo's, like, doing a thing. They're like, did you guys see the Mario movie? Because, like... Mm-hmm. But she's riding on that bike. She's got that, like, white track suit on. Rule 34 went crazy that day. They were like, holy shit. We can't handle the traffic. Yeah.

[00:08:03] Fucking everything went down. And now... They were on fire. Yeah, now it's like, oh, shit. They done did it again. Pootie done did it again. Pootie. God damn it. Oh, no. Pootie. That's what Shigeru Miyamoto calls himself. Anything to do with Peach. Pootie Shigeru. Shigeru. Pootie Miyamoto. Yeah. And you feel that's a bigger Rule 34 moment for Bowsette.

[00:08:32] But, like, Bowsette doesn't exist. Or it's just people being like, check this shit out. I'll show you the power of my horniness. Or, like, Wild Sella. Like, that was... That was pretty huge for a little bit. Yeah. That became a thing. Yeah. That definitely became a thing. I did. So, another piece of news that just came to mind to take our minds off of. Yet another thing that's causing us pain and anguish.

[00:08:59] It went from tits to tits to ass. How could you possibly... If this doesn't have something to do with dick, tits, or ass... I mean, it doesn't. But, can I talk about it anyway? Oh, man. You might like it. The streak. You might like it. All right. So, earlier today, we were told that Nintendo is keeping the Switch 2 at, what, 450? Despite the tariffs?

[00:09:26] Like, it's still just staying where it is. They're going to eat the tariffs, pretty much. Thrak and Will and Andre. We were talking about it in the Super Pod server. And, yeah. Seems like they're just eating the cost of the tariffs. Thank goodness. I mean, fuck. They probably have buku cash reserves from the Switch and everything and the 3DS. But, yeah. Thank God. Don't have to pay 500. What's the consensus here?

[00:09:55] Are we all launch day guys? Are we don't care? Are we see how it goes? I am probably going to wait a little while because I suspect an OLED won't be too far. And I'd like to get that and not have two Switch 2s. But we'll see what happens. I did see that the president of Sony made a comment about Nintendo and said that with the Switch 2,

[00:10:23] Nintendo is now starting to show that they're losing that, like, luster of their uniqueness. Because, like, when you think about each of their consoles with maybe the GameCube being the odd one out. Oh. Like, each console has always been, like, something different, right? Like, the N64 had that whack-ass controller. I like it, but it had a whack-ass controller.

[00:10:51] And then, you know, GameCube, it didn't really... It was a cube with a handle. Yeah, it was a small... It did have a handle. It had, like, those little discs. That controller was really different because it had, like, the... The old nib, the C-stick. Yeah. So, there was, you know, there was a couple things there. And then the Wii was, like, its own thing. Totally, totally different.

[00:11:16] Wii U, even though that console didn't do as well, like, that was still quite different. It was basically, like, having a... Like, a DS in your, like, living room. Yeah. Essentially. It was like a... It's like a gap, a bridge gap between the Wii and the Switch. Yeah. And then, with the Switch, like, that was, you know, that was a home run for them again where it was, like, you know, super cool, innovative. Like, the controllers snap on and off.

[00:11:46] Like, it's dockable. It's a handheld and a home console thing. But now, with the Switch 2, it's just kind of like, yeah, it's that thing from last time, but we just made it really better. Yeah. It's shiny. You can use the Joy-Con as a mouse now. That is... Yeah, that's an interesting thing that they've added, but I don't know how. I did see that there's been, like, hands-on impressions, and people are like, okay, I'm sold. This is the generation when we start seeing Wii virtual console stuff, because I guess the

[00:12:15] motion controls with the new Joy-Cons are really, really, really good. That's good. So, people are like, yeah, we could definitely get some Wii Nintendo Online stuff going. Especially with that integrated voice chat and such. Yeah. I can see that being the way they go. It's cool, too, that they're doing, like, the GameCube stuff online. Like, being able to play, like, F-Zero online. Fuck, yeah.

[00:12:43] Smash Melee is going to be crazy to finally bring that back out. Dude, if they do Double Dash and it's online, I'm going to fucking cry. The harder that I did when Breaking Bad, when Skylar took the kids and laughed at it. That hurt me. I'm going to cry harder than I did when we found out that Matt Storm was mega boob, and he kept that from us. Sorry, go. Speaking of being emotional over TV, did you watch all of Shrinking?

[00:13:11] I think we finished season one, and then our trial ran out, and we didn't get to season... Well, maybe we did get to season two. I'm not sure, man. It's getting, like, insanely deep. And, like, last night we watched an episode, and I was like, come on, man. What the fuck? Like, I was getting all, like, upset-y spaghetti. Like, it was super emotional. I mean, that show has the tendency to do that. Go watch Shrinking. Dude! Listeners?

[00:13:41] So... It's so funny. It's so charming. Yeah, go ahead. We were halfway through season two of White Lotus, and by the way, I love that Uncle Rico is in this fucking show. Like, he hasn't been in anything since Napoleon Dynamite, but here he is in White fucking Lotus, and he's going to town on Jennifer Coolidge. That's cool. Yep. But, yeah, season two is... Man, I don't know. I don't know about season two. Season one was pretty cool.

[00:14:08] The way everything started real casual and, like, lighthearted, and then spiraled real fucking hard right at the end. Season two is, like, we're halfway through, and it's still pretty, like... What the fuck is her name? From Parks and Rec. Aubrey Plaza. Yeah. She's still, like, a moody bitch. And then everybody else kind of sucks, but, yeah. It's... White Lotus is pretty cool. I'm digging it for the most part.

[00:14:36] Season three is really good, too, but it's a slow burn. I just finished season two of Severance. Oh! That was wild. Dude, that season finale of Severance season two might be one of the best episodes of television I've ever seen. Yeah. I'm not even fucking kidding. Like, that... The build-up to that episode was insane. Aaron, have you watched it? Oh, yeah. We talked about this. Did we? Yeah.

[00:15:03] I watched all the way through it, and, like, the ending really made me angry. I was, like, screaming on my TV. No! It is one of those situations where you just find yourself yelling at your screen as if it will change things. It might. It might yell hard enough. Like, family guy, go, dad!

[00:15:44] I think that's it for news, huh? No more news? No. No more news. No more news. That brings us right into our topic. We're diving in headfirst with our topic today. Do games need remakes? Are they really necessary? Who's to say? I don't know. We'll talk about it. So, first off, let's clear the air about, like, remakes versus remasters versus, like, re-releases and ports and all that shit.

[00:16:12] So, we're only talking about remakes, like... And demakes. Yeah, like... Don't fucking at me. Yeah. Like, we're specifically talking about games that have been remade from the ground up with the idea of the original game in mind and making it prettier, more excel. We're not talking about remasters, which is slapping a new coat of paint on it, bringing it up to, like, 1080p or whatever. We're not talking about, like, a re-release or ports or anything like that.

[00:16:42] Or, yeah, I'm not a demake. God damn it. We're just talking about... Hey, man. There's a time and place for a demake. Let me tell you what. Name one good one. Right now. The Mummy Demastered. Was there a regular The Mummy game? No. The Mummy is just called The Mummy Demastered. Oh, actually, you know what? You know what? Bloodborne Demake is fantastic. Oh. Okay. Yep, you fucking got me with that. Okay, that is good. Yep. Suck a dick.

[00:17:12] Anyway, go on. A lot of, like, Mario games that were moved to handheld consoles earlier on are considered demakes, too. I didn't realize the spectrum of this effort. Even, like, just an hour before we got together, I was thinking about Super Mario World 2. And I was like, that's something, right? Because it was originally a different game. And no, it's a reskin.

[00:17:41] There's yet another one. Oh, you mean, like, Super Mario Brothers 2? Yeah, it was originally, like, a Puyo Puyo game. And they were just like, the U.S. audiences have no idea what this is. Rip that off. Slap Mario on there. Kick it out the door. Put the hopping man in there. Put the jumpy guy in. Yeah. Put the Italian plumber. They understand him. But yeah, there's just so many different types. And it is absolutely wild. I can't stop burping to save my life. It's all the pizza I ate.

[00:18:10] I'm sorry. Sorry. Don't worry. Yeah. So right away, I want to just kick things off with just our initial thoughts on remakes. Who, do you guys want me to start it off? Or do one of you guys want to kick things off and set the mood? Pace car this shit? I'll go and say that, you know, with, this is like, I'm torn on this whole thing. Because sometimes shit's good. Sometimes it's real good.

[00:18:39] And it's real well done. Sometimes it's well done. And it's like, didn't need it. But sure. If you look at, just in the last, I don't know, like eight years, two games that I like hold very, very dear to my heart, which are Secret of Mana 2 or Second Nsensu 3, which then became Trials of Mana.

[00:19:05] Not only did that finally get released with an English translation officially, but then they remade that game as like the Trials of Mana remake. And it was truly a remake from the ground up of a retro game on the Super Nintendo. And it was, they did a fantastic job at it. Like that game is really good. They did the same thing with Super Mario RPG. Another game that I like, love. I, it's like one of my most beloved games.

[00:19:36] And they remade that. Like they essentially copied it one to one. Like there's not, there's no new things in that game other than like there's game mechanics that they've changed a little bit. And they've added like, I don't know. Well, it's got a fresh coat of paint, obviously. And then like they remastered the, or actually completely redid the soundtrack. So there's, there's instances where it's, it can be good.

[00:20:02] But even with both of those, I'm like, did we need them though? I don't know if we needed them. I feel like they're both so close to the source. Like I think there's probably a stronger argument for Trials of Mana than there is Super Mario RPG. Because Super Mario RPG, like I would have just told somebody, just play, play the Super Nintendo game. It's still so good and holds up so well.

[00:20:28] You know, there's like little flourishes and stuff on the, on the remake, but I don't know. Sometimes I don't think they do. I feel that, man. I think having just recently beaten the Super Mario RPG remake. Yeah. The only things that I can, other than maybe how expressive the characters are, like how they're more expressive and how cool the cut scenes are.

[00:20:53] That's like the only, I guess, real big selling point I would give to somebody who's played the original and really loves the original. Like, Hey man, it's in 3D. Like, it looks cool. You might like this more. But the Dragon Quest 3 HD 2D remake though, like, I've been thinking about that one a lot. Because, I mean, I haven't played a whole lot of the original Dragon Quest 3. And I guess we're going to rope in the other two. Dragon Quest 1 and 2 HD remakes as well too.

[00:21:22] I haven't played a lot of the original 3 games. So I don't have any kind of nostalgia or anything to them. So to me, these HD 2D remakes kind of feel like they're the best way to play. I mean, with my favorite game of all time, Final Fantasy IX, and that rumored remake that's coming out, I keep thinking to myself, like, there's no need. It's fine the way it is. But I guess, yeah, if somebody else hasn't already played it and maybe they don't like the PS1 aesthetics for some reason.

[00:21:50] Like, maybe for, like, younger kids nowadays. Well, I mean, even the, like, if you think about this too, like, the biggest retro remake of all time, arguably, is Final Fantasy VII Remake. Yeah. Like, that is the thing. Like, when they announced that shit, people lost their fucking minds, man. Like, it was insane. I was there. I was watching that IGN.

[00:22:19] Like, I was watching that feed live. I watched those dudes from, I think it was Game Informer, get up on their desks and shit and be like, this can't be fucking real. Like, they were losing their shit along with me. I was on my knees in front of the TV like this, going, no, don't. Don't tease. And it was real.

[00:22:43] So that to me is like, but again, that along with, like, those Resident Evil remakes, again, retro games. Yeah. They are like the, when somebody's like, are they necessary? That's the, like, use case where I'm like, this is how you do it. This right here. Look at those Resident Evil games. Absolutely.

[00:23:05] Even if you go back and look at that GameCube remake of one, that was like the first time they did that shit. And that game fucking kicked ass. So much so that now they're talking, like, there's rumors that there's a Resident Evil one remake in the same style. A re-remake. Re-remake. A remake. Remake squared. And I don't know if it's necessary. No. But I'm cautious. But hang on.

[00:23:33] I'm cautious of saying that because I said the same goddamn thing about Resident Evil 4. I was like, no. This game's too, like, this is too young to have a remake. Too young. God damn it. I was wrong. That game fucking kicked so much ass. Yeah. Because they totally pulled a rug underneath you. Like, if you're a big fan of those games and you go into that, guess what? They're going to fuck with your head. They're going to be like, oh, hey, remember how this thing does this and there's a thing up there? Yeah.

[00:24:03] Get fucked. We're going to totally collapse this thing. Like, it's so wild how they mess with, like, the fans that are familiar with the source material. That's how you do that shit. Hell yeah. That is the way. Hell yeah. And we'll talk a whole lot more about that. No, we won't. That's the end all be all. That's it. That's the end of the show. God damn it. I've spoken. Joe, what's your stance on remakes? Do you think they're necessary? Do you think they're kind of a waste? Yeah.

[00:24:33] What's your stance? Your style? So, for me, I honestly feel that we're getting to a point where they are relatively necessary. And I feel that from a hardware standpoint. One of my favorite flight sims of all time is a game called Descent Free Space. It was one of the first flight sims that were sci-fi and had a good story and controls are great.

[00:25:02] You know, the visuals were as good as they could be at the time. And I played it to death, put it away, thought to myself after a bunch of years and I had a new setup. I only popped back in, reinstalled and play it. Unfortunately, times have changed. And my computer is looking at this obsolete piece of technology thinking, how the hell do you want me to play this? That's not possible. That's not possible. That's not possible.

[00:25:28] And there's even an article coming out, an article that came out talking about the new 50 series of NVIDIA chips and how they're struggling to run older games. So there's a point where we're going to technologically, unless you have an older computer to run it on, there's going to be a whole chunk of PC games that people just won't be able to play anymore. Unless remakes are done.

[00:25:54] Now, at least on the PC side, regular people can get involved and remake whatever the heck they want. And unfortunately for me, when I was a kid, I didn't truly understand the value of holding on to my video games. And my family didn't have a huge amount of extra cash. So I tended to trade in my games at EV to get a new one. Same. So I lack the robust library that a lot of people do.

[00:26:20] So it is nice having these remakes because I remember playing Super Mario RPG, absolutely loving it, finding all the secrets, running into every single corner and jumping to try to find hidden boxes, spending hours and hours and hours in front of my cathode ray tube just playing away at it. and now I can do it again on my Switch and not have to worry about going out and tracking down whoever knows how much expensive a copy of the original. I can tell you.

[00:26:48] I can tell you right now, Joe. I'm glad that you asked. We like to play a game here. Aaron, hit the music. Time to play the game. So, Super Mario RPG. All right, both of you guys, let's see some hands up. Hands up, no Google machine for you. No sirreebop. Okay, so what are we looking at

[00:27:15] for a loose copy of Super Mario RPG for the Super NES? Loose copy, no box. Loose copy, no box. 75. 7-5. You guys are both wrong. It is 53-50. Okay. Damn it, that's a new. Sealed copy of Super Mario RPG. What do you think a sealed copy goes for?

[00:27:45] No, no, no, no. I'm reading the wrong thing. A graded. So that's like, you know, the top one. That's not real. I know, I know, but that's the point of this game. It's just to be like, guess what? This is fucking stupid. Nobody fucking makes up these goddamn numbers. There's no reason that it should cost $3,200. What? Is that really how much the graded copy costs? Yes! No! There's no fucking reason! It's so stupid! I don't care how it's going to... So goddamn stupid, stop it! Stop grading these things! Whoever does this shit, stop!

[00:28:16] Yeah, that's probably why they're selling it for that much. Goddamn it! It costs way more to get that shit graded than it does to just sell it as it is. It was probably... How much is it? Look at Joe right now! Look at that! Joe's hurt. You think that happens to a man that comprehends how the fuck someone gets to $3,200 for a graded copy of Super Mario RPG? Are you fucking insane? So fucking dumb. What makes it graded? I don't get it! Fucking explain it to me like I'm five or ten! Jerry... Seven years old even!

[00:28:45] I'll break it down for you. Dude, please. It's not fucking real. It's all a scam. It's just artificial inflation. It fucking... It's the stupidest shit, man. Here's what I don't understand. So a graded, gated version of this game is that much. But they're carbon dating it like a fucking fossil. They're like, this was manufactured exactly. I don't know. Fucking, yeah. The box itself is worth a hundred bucks for the box. Complete.

[00:29:15] So, I mean, that's like a decent shape. Box instructions. All the stupid like Nintendo warranty bullshit. $226.44. Again, it's pretty fucking expensive. What? Where's that extra $3,000 coming from? I don't understand. I don't know, dude. The plastic. The plastic and the number. Oh, yeah. And the little plaque that goes with it or whatever. This is official. Super Mario RPG. Legend of the Seven Stars.

[00:29:45] Sealed. New. The WADA 9.0A+. Like, who does this? And why? Oh, God. I don't want to talk about this anymore. What a load of horse shit. Oh, man. There you go. There's our game pricing rant. Stop grading anything. No one gives a shit. This is part of the reason

[00:30:15] why I think remakes are beneficial to an extent. There's two kind of argument camps that I'm in for this entire thing. That one... Perfect segue. That's our next segment. Arguments for Remakes, Jerry. You have the floor. Get on your soapbox. So... I feel like when people want to just play... Like, and I get it. Like, people get upset when you say this kind of shit sometimes. I'm sorry to interrupt you one more time, but I just realized your Mega Man is pointing at me and my Mega Man's pointing at you.

[00:30:46] Sorry, go ahead. Dicks are touching. So... I think that if you just genuinely want to play these games, like, if you were like, hey, man, I would really like to play Super Mario RPG, but I don't have a Super Nintendo. I don't have a way to play Super Nintendo on a modern TV without spending $1,000 and it look like shit and play like shit. Plus, I don't have... Like, if you're gonna play

[00:31:16] this game, like, decently, like, the way that you remember it and not super laggy or, like, looking muddy muddy and fuzzy, like, you're gonna need to get an SNES. You're gonna need to get the game. Hopefully not graded. Yeah. And then you're gonna need to get some sort of an upscaler or, like, an HDMI mod or something that actually makes it look like not shit. So it's a bit of an investment, just even just for that one game.

[00:31:45] So, like, I can understand then when people are like, I would just be thrilled if it was just a $60 game that was on the Switch that I could just download and play right away. And I get that. I get that argument. And I'm for it. I'm also for fuck em. Emulate this shit the same way that I do. I have my mister. I load that shit up. I can go play Mario RPG right now the way

[00:32:14] the Lord intended. And it looks and plays and sounds fantastic. Exactly like it's supposed to. Now, I have more of a enthusiast setup than most. I have an LG OLED TV which helps because of the blacks and the contrast with the scan lines and stuff. Like, it helps a lot with older gen and with the scan lines. It just makes it look sharp and the mister

[00:32:44] has, like, no input lag whatsoever. I'm using a real Super Nintendo controller because I'm using the SNES mini controllers with it. Hell yeah. So, it's a very authentic feel to playing these old games. So, I'm also in that camp as well where it's like, just play the original if you have access to it. But again, that's why I also understand the argument for, I don't have access to it. I don't have the money to go out and spend, you know, $500 on a mister setup or

[00:33:14] I don't have $500 to spend on getting an SNES with an HDMI mod or, like, a retro tank or any of this other shit. So, I get both sides. I'm in both camps. Yeah. I'm in it. I think, yeah, accessibility and preservation is probably the two biggest reasons for a remake because there's a lot of games, like, a lot of games that aren't being re-released on modern platforms, whether, like, like, Gog is out there doing the Lord's work,

[00:33:43] bringing out, like, Dino Crisis and all sorts of other games. Bless them! And then, Nintendo used Fucking Silent Hill 4? Yeah, dude, on Gog. God damn it. And it's a fucking remaster of the game, too, which is awesome. On God. On Gog, dude. Nintendo kind of used to do a good job with that, with, like, the Wii and Wii U virtual console because there was all sorts of shit. You could just pick and choose which ones you wanted to buy. Like, I own Earthbound

[00:34:13] on my 3DS, on my Wii U. I beat Earthbound on Wii U. That's when I first beat that game. Like, I played that game a bunch. I used to rent that game, and then I eventually bought that game and used to own that game with the big box and everything, and then I fucking sold it to some stupid person who didn't know what they were getting, but I really wanted that N64. My parents wouldn't buy it. All right, I had to sell my Super Nintendo in every single game I had to some girl

[00:34:42] who didn't have a clue what Mega Man X was or Earthbound. She had no idea, and I had Chrono Trigger, I had Secret of Mana, I had Castlevania 4, I had all the bangers, dude, and she was just like, you got that Mario? You got that jumping guy? You got that jumping guy? I wept. When they left, I wept, my mom was like, oh, cut that shit out, you know you're getting an N64 tomorrow, I was like, yeah, but you don't understand, there's so many good games,

[00:35:11] she doesn't care. My mom would have killed me. She was the reason I got into RPGs in the first place. So those were, at the time, enshrined in the house, they were not leaving. Dude, and Earthbound is such a good fucking example of this, like, nowadays, I'm never gonna have enough money to buy a copy of that game. Loose, complete in box, new, God forbid, but since it came to the virtual console,

[00:35:41] I bought two copies of that shit, because, I mean, if they want me to pay money for Earthbound, I'll fucking do it, but I'm not paying 500 plus dollars for, well, I guess, I wouldn't even pay above 50 bucks for it, but, yeah, yeah, accessibility, like, please make these old games accessible. That Wii U virtual console, how much were those games again? Were they like 10 bucks? It depends on the system, like, NES games were a lot cheaper, TurboGrafx 16. They were like $5.99, I think, right? Yeah, yeah,

[00:36:11] $5.99. There's some of that were like $4.99, like, Mighty Final Fight. I think, and I, but I do think that, like, some Super Nintendo games were like $10.99, and then I think some of them were like $14.99. Yeah, like, Super, I think Earthbound and shit like that was all like the $15 ones. Yeah, Super Mario RPG was, yeah, like 15, 14 bucks or something, which was fucking perfect. Paper Mario, like, the first Paper Mario on Wii U virtual console. Oh, yeah, yeah. That shit was like

[00:36:41] fantastic. 15, 20 bucks, like, all day. Yeah, absolutely. I'll pay money for it, but, I mean, there's still so many games that like, that haven't gotten remasters or remakes or anything that I would love to have on Xbox or something, but nope, they certainly won't. Like, Shadow Hearts, fuck me, man. Shadow Hearts, yeah. Shadow Farts, more like. That goes back to my, the whole point of me doing my ultimate setup that I did

[00:37:11] when I sat down and literally had to map out, like, what is the best way to play this without, like, what is the best basically bang for your buck in how to play all of these games? And it was like, well, obviously it's emulation, but what's the best way to do it? And then I just realized, oh, I'll just get a PS2, a fat PS2, and I'll mod it and I'll throw a hard drive in there and then I just

[00:37:41] loaded that bitch up to the gills and I have a, I have an upscale on that as well so that it upscales and also does de-interlacing because the PS2, man, PS2 is strange. Like, it does, it's like interlaced and shit. It's like, some stuff is 4ADI, like, you gotta, you gotta upscale it properly or else it just looks god-awful. God-awful. Another good

[00:38:10] couple of reasons or another good couple of arguments I wrote down for remakes were improvements to gameplay and visuals as well as expanding story and lore a little bit and a lot of that I think could probably, I guess, probably properly conveyed with like Final Fantasy 7 remake or like Silent Hill 2 remake, kind of, because I mean, like Silent Hill horror games, I guess in general, those kind of like, they had like, they had this aesthetic

[00:38:40] that you could only get on their home systems. Like, I was telling Jerry this like, fucking a month ago or whatever, and I was playing Silent Hill 1 on PS1, I was like, dude, like, no wonder they haven't remade this shit. Like, it's janky and weird and like spooky as shit just on PS1, like a remake, I feel like would kind of ruin that. They don't really need to, but I think they did say that Bloober is working on a remake of it. Did you see the, I probably should have mentioned this in super important breaking news,

[00:39:10] but did you see the new trailer for Bloober's new game, Kronos? I released a new trailer yesterday and it looks fucking crazy. Yeah, it does. It looks like Dead Space. like time, like Dead Space with time travel and shit. Looks awesome. Sort of, like the monsters and shit look fucked. Yeah. It's like a weird combination of like Dead Space meets like Silent Hill because you're like in like towns and shit, but like there's like zero gravity stuff going on. Dude, it looks crazy.

[00:39:40] Like I am, I'm in. I'm loving this whole thing that Bloober all of a sudden was given some money and it's like, oh, you guys figured out how to make good games. Like, I mean, I was a fan of layers of fear, but I feel like they just really stepped their game up with Silent Hill 2. Like that, I was not expecting Silent Hill 2 to be good. I'll be honest. I was like, yeah, the track record for the later

[00:40:09] Silent Hills and remakes aren't the best. No, but that Silent Hill 2 remake was a masterpiece. Like it was so fucking good. They did such a good job with it. So it only makes sense. Yep. It only makes sense. Yeah. Any other any other arguments or like points for remakes? I would just like to say that I was handed this Chinese liquor yesterday out of nowhere. I don't know what it is. That was like Friday, wasn't it?

[00:40:39] Or like the other day? Oh yeah, that was the last time that we recorded, right? Yeah, we did the berserk episode. You were like, who goes there? Chinese liquor that I still have not opened. What it smells like. Oh, here we go. Smell test. Ooh. This is interesting. Oh, does it smell like a mouthwash? Yeah. You have a face of astringence. Oh my God. Nail me a sip. Oof. Holy shit. It smells like fucking tires burning.

[00:41:09] Okay. So this is funny that this is coming up. I was born in Osmic. I have no sense of smell. So this is interesting. Oh shit. I get to learn. So you don't know what burnt tires smell like? I have no idea what burnt tires smell like. So there's like a... Okay. Close your eyes. Okay. I don't think you can describe a smell to him if he can't smell. You've removed another sense. This is interesting. Shut up, Aaron. Let's sense your deprivation. Let me cook. Cook those tires. Closed. Mm-hmm.

[00:41:39] Picture a vehicle. Mm-hmm. Picture going real fast. Mm-hmm. But picture it not moving. That doesn't make sense. But you're going real fast in place. Standing still really fast. Sonic the Hedgehog. Now picture like a sauna. You're in a sauna. Jesus Christ doing a T-pose. So car going real fast but not moving anywhere. You're in a sauna. Okay. It's hot.

[00:42:10] And now, just for the hell of it, put a marshmallow in your mouth that's just been freshly burned. Mm-hmm. And chew it up a little bit. Spit it out. Onto the coals. There you go. That's burnt tires. All right. You know, that was complex enough that it gave me a decent extent. Wait, does that mean that you can't taste either? So I have a I appreciate it. Usually,

[00:42:40] I get people going to me, so what, can you not breathe or something? So I appreciate it. At least you, yeah. That would not be my first question. That has been the first thing someone has said. When you said, I can't taste, my next question was going to be like, can you see me right now? Do you understand what I'm saying? How many of Helen Keller's ailments do you have? Oh, geez. I got to say, I am as far from Helen Keller.

[00:43:09] No, so, to bring this back, around. At least she can smell. Yeah. Oh, she's got one up on me there. Reel it in, Jerry. Holy shit. So, I have a stunted sense of taste where lots of things taste similar. So, like, especially, I didn't eat a lot of candy growing up as a kid because all of it tasted the same to me. There wasn't a big difference. So, like, chocolate bars?

[00:43:39] Yeah, not really much of a difference unless there's a texture thing. Texture thing. That makes sense. Yeah. So, like, oh, you only got... Can you taste of Reese's Peanut Butter Cup? Of course I can. But if you were to give me several different types that are similar, they'd all taste the same to me. Like, Snickers in a Milky Way are almost exactly identical. Yeah. But if somebody gave you, like, a Charleston Chew and then immediately followed up with, like, oh, I love fucking Butterfinger.

[00:44:08] Like a Butterfinger? Yeah, Butterfinger. I hated those because of how weird the texture is. Yeah. Mr. Big. They also have... What the fuck is a Mr. Big? I don't know. I just kind of... I was going with it. That's kind of a thing. Hold on, Mr. Big bar. I don't know many candies. You just say them, I'm gonna agree that they're candies. Mr. Big literally looks like shit. That's all the candy. It does look like a piece of shit. Vanilla away from biscuit coated in caramel peanuts and rice crisps.

[00:44:38] Crisp? It's a good bar. It sounds intense. It sounds very complex. Do you guys have Big Turks? What the fuck? I mean, not as a candy. Maybe as a friend. As a friend? That's my friend, John. He's a big Turk. This is my big Turk. This is my big Turk friend. Stelius! So that's also probably a Canadian thing. I love a Turk.

[00:45:08] I love when you bring up Canadian stuff. What's... Half of it's probably not even real. He's just making... No, man. A Big Turk is a real thing. Believe that. What's inside of this? It looks like jelly. What is that? It's Turkish Delight. Oh, the Narnia shit. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. It's a chocolate card. I'm sorry. Oh, don't you worry. Oh, good. Okay.

[00:45:38] We fully endorse swearing on this show. Yeah, dude. Swear as much as you want. Piss. Fuck. Come. Narnia shit. Sorry, go ahead. I don't know whose turn it was to talk anymore. I don't even know anymore. I love it when my cousins emerge out of that closet that goes into that place and they bring me back some of that Turkish, sweet Turkish Delight. Some of that Turkish Delight. Anyway. Turkish Delight. Sweet Turkish Delight.

[00:46:08] Sweet Jesus. It's so sweet. I'm going to bring it over here with that muscly arm. So sweet. What? So. Get your sexy ass back over here with that Turkish Delight. I have one more pro, I think. Yeah, go ahead, Joe. Let's try to read this back in. Here's your soapbox. Scoot. Scoot on over, Joe. Shut up. Trying to drink my Red Bull. Shut up, Jerry. I might need a hand getting up on top of the soapbox. It's so tall

[00:46:38] and my knees just can't handle it. Scoot the sweet ass the rest of the podcast. The rest of it like this. Mr. Mr. Sherman or whatever the fuck. Sweet Jesus. Jerry. Let's go. Sorry. Go ahead. So. The other nice thing about remakes.

[00:47:08] it brings it to a newer and wider audience. Like, I was able to get one of the mini SNESs and my son got to experience hell yeah. My son got to experience all these wonderful games from my youth and he immediately was like, dad, these look like crap. What's going on? Like, excuse me. Oh, calm it down. You get the adoption papers up immediately.

[00:47:38] so it was a good run for you, I guess, but you go ahead and insulting, insulting my remakes. I'm, I'm, I'm on the phone with the hospital. We're going to send you back. Oh, he's not up. The DNS test came back from Maury. But no, then he sat with me. We, we played a bunch of games on it and he was able to experience it the way I did and learn how hard all those games are and how you could have a really in-depth and deep experience,

[00:48:08] even though it's visually not as, not as complex or as high fidelity as things are nowadays. It's not about the graphics necessarily. If you have a good story and tight gameplay, you can still have an amazing experience. much more willing now to, he plays anything and everything now. So he'll, he'll, he'll break out Mega Man 2 just as quickly as he'll hop onto Fortnite with his friends. So I'm happy with that.

[00:48:38] So, and I don't think that would have happened if we didn't have access to that stuff and I didn't really have access to it, to disseminate to him until I got the SNES mini. So it's, it's nice being able to share that with my son, being able to make, bond over something that I got to experience when I was his age. Hell yeah. Jerry hit me with a, with a old man quote. One, one, one final one. Son of a bitch. Well,

[00:49:07] I think it's time to sum it up and shiver it down. No, it's not. We haven't done the arguments against remakes. Have you read the document? I'm talking about secret my ass. You know what, I think it's time to get all the sillies out. Let's take an ad break. Do you guys want to take an ad break? Yeah. Yeah, sure. Yeah, this will really get the sillies out of us. No, it won't. We'll be right back.

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[00:50:14] shut up, and then it'll shut up. It'll stop talking because your AI microwave can talk. You can carry on a conversation with it. You'll ask it how its day is, and it'll be like, oh, I'm good. AI microwave here, beep, boop, I'm good. The microwave and burritos, yada, yada, yada. The problem is, though, the reason why we're being sponsored is because they're in their test phase right now, so when these microwaves are making things... It'll be our third co-host because it can carry on a conversation so well.

[00:50:45] Hell yeah. Sorry, go ahead. What I was going to say is that these microwaves, they, you, Aaron, you forgot a very important part of these microwaves. You don't have to put anything in them. They make the food. You just tell it, hey, I want you to reheat a bean burrito, and it's like, you got it, and then something that resembles a bean burrito, but like, it has like a couple fingers, maybe, like,

[00:51:14] holding it already, and you're like, well, that seems a little strange. The big sandwich. There's maybe like a straw in there somewhere, because like, you remember when AI at first was like still kind of dumb, and it was, you would be like, hey, show me a picture of Luigi eating a bean burrito, and it would just be like a burrito eating like a green hat, and like, it didn't make any sense whatsoever. Well, that's kind of like what these microwaves are doing. You'd be like, hey, Mr. microwave AI,

[00:51:44] I want you to make me some spaghetti and meatballs, and then you go open the door. You might get spaghetti and meatballs. You might. Awesome. You also might just get a big bowl of AIDS, just water filled with AIDS, and you'll just have to drink it, and you, you know, it'll be fine. It's fine. It's fine. Just try it out, you know? Like, how can we advance, how are we supposed to

[00:52:14] advance as a civilization when we don't give our fucking AI microwaves a chance? Exactly. if you act now, and you get the DLC with these microwaves, okay, you're also going to get the AI rice cooker. It does exactly the same thing, but it's shaped like a rice cooker, and it's not built into the wall. You have this army of AI microwaves and AI rice cookers in your house. Oh, cool, cool, fun fact, too. These AI microwaves and rice cookers, they all have little

[00:52:44] telescopic arms and legs and shit. Damn, dude, I'm pitting out like a motherfucker. They have a... The AI microwave can take care of that. You can be like, AI microwave, give me... basically, you ask the things of the AI microwave the same way that you... Do you remember that meme of that really high guy that would say really stupid shit? Instead of saying a feather, it's like, what's a bird leaf? What's the bird leaf thing that goes in?

[00:53:13] You ask the microwaves the same way. Aaron, for your sweaty pits, you'd be like, hey, microwave AI, can you do tampons for my armpits, please? And then it'll come out and be like, ding, and there you go, Old Spice. But it's like, it's Old Spice, but it's literally a guy, and half of his body is the top of the Old Spice thing, and it's like the guy on the horse, but you gotta pull it off. So you're kind of dismembering the little guy. You have to dismember him, and then you can put

[00:53:43] on the pit stick. But you also kind of have to ask for it as, hey, can I get some armpit tampons? It's, it's, it's, just try it out. Just try the promo code AI tampon underwear brutal combo Christ Alive 64. So the AI microwave has the power to actually create solid matter inside of it. Well, it doesn't have to be solid. It can be a gas or liquid. But the AI microwave has the ability to piece together matter

[00:54:12] inside of itself just out of nothing. Is that you tell me you're the one that got the sponsor? I mean, yes, it does. Joe, what's your favorite feature of the AI microwave? Sorry, the the Michael wave brand AI microwave go AI wave I got mine and I gotta tell you I've been testing it and using it at this point though whenever I ask to do anything it just screams clean me goddammit clean me at me I don't know I think

[00:54:42] maybe I just a little bit too rough with it now Joe much spaghetti I want to make sure that you're getting the what do you call the nose of a dog like a nuzzle or whatever the

[00:55:12] fuck it's got an attachable dog nose snout it's a hoof there you go it's got an attachable snout so it can lick itself I was wondering what that was in the box now I know that that glass tray that spins inside you think that's a plate for putting your plates on no I just put spaghetti right on the plate mm-hmm then I eat it and I put it back in I figured the microwave cleans it

[00:55:41] with microwaves I just keep using it yeah this is so oh my god these AI microwaves like I said we're gonna get our own once the once the tariff situation finally goes through when Shining can send us our AI microwave we'll train our AI microwave to be our third co-host for the show and if you're really curious to know what these things are like in action remember the guy that married a car was super in love with his car Stephanie so he's he's actually now

[00:56:11] engaged and I believe he's eloping with a cheese grater an AI cheese grater so it's part this is skynet they're no they're sex toys oh but they they can't it's it's it's it's of cruel and inhumane because they

[00:57:01] and like see-through skeleton and for some reason when a Mike A. Ile wave gets electrocuted and has a human skull as its transparency I don't know why can't explain it oh my god Mike A. Ile wave I can't thanks for sponsoring this episode Mar from Home Alone

[00:57:33] we're back yeah oh shit okay yeah so homestretch baby glad to be back we pretty much covered the arguments against remakes you know if it ain't broke don't fix it disappointment all that shit anyway what's uh so what we're still talking about Michael A. I or Mike A. Ile wave that's the dumbest thing I've

[00:58:06] last two points I had to jot down some good remakes talk about why they're good and jot down some bad remakes talk about why they aren't so good the first ones that come

[00:58:36] very similar to the original game but so you still get like the whole feel and aesthetic of the original game but it looks and plays way better and yeah what I just can't stop thinking about how

[00:59:07] the Resident Evil remakes also those are yep they're all good yeah all of them except for three yeah about to say what was it about that one that didn't make a good cut it just didn't it didn't do anything like it was just like oh okay you made you remade this but you only did like half of it like it's super short and like it just felt like

[00:59:37] it was I still believe that there's I don't know if was just a DLC and they were like hey we could probably make this a full game right because Resident Evil 2 was the first one that they did in that style right so I feel like they were already

[01:00:08] there with that engine they're like oh yeah we could bolt on three as a DLC and then they were like hold up what if we sold it as a full game and I feel like they polished it up just enough but like it didn't represent the original very

[01:00:41] good remake like what are there any other qualities we haven't talked about that you think makes a good remake other than improved visuals and gameplay and all that shit I

[01:01:11] the original enjoyers in mind you there has to be something there for both that's why I think those Resident Evil games worked so well and that's why I think Resident Evil 4 worked so well as

[01:01:41] a fan and somebody that knows that game like the back of my hand there was things that they did in that game that were kind of like you're expecting this to happen or you're expecting this or it just subverted expectations in a lot of different ways that it was really well done in that sense and then you got stuff like Resident Evil 2 I mean Jesus Christ you look at Resident Evil

[01:02:11] Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 4 Remake aren't as wildly different because they're in that same realm of like that 3D space of like over the shoulder yeah whereas Resident Evil 2 Remake is like that's a different game from the ground up that is a totally different game because it doesn't have the like fixed camera angles or anything like that yeah and I like that and I like tank controls people might find that hard to get into

[01:02:41] these days I still prefer it like yeah if the option is there to use tank controls especially with fixed perspective I always want to have it because when shit like Devil May Cry has fixed camera angles but does not have tank controls it fucks with my head I hate it but that being said I still stand by if you've never played Resident Evil 1 2 we're not going to talk about 3 4

[01:03:12] I would say just play the remakes at this point same thing with Silent Hill 2 I really goes for Metroid Zero Mission and Pokemon Fire Red and Leaf Green like regular

[01:03:42] flavor Metroid on the NES it's really hard to play and Pokemon Red and Blue they're really fucking slow they're brutal they're broken as shit if you're going to play any version of those games you're going to want to play the remakes what about you Joe what do you think I would say one of the standout at least visually as far as a nice remake is the 2018 Shadow of the Colossus remake they

[01:04:11] that's one where you don't need to go back and play the 2005 release good luck finding it but the remake just it takes the vision of what they had with that original game the scope of the creatures that you interact with and with the fidelity we have now it really shines the controls themselves were pretty good back then and all they did was tweak them to make them slightly better so all in all it's

[01:04:41] an improved experience it's just that game was mind blowing when it came out oh yeah it was mind blowing Aaron did you play that game yeah I played the original PS2 version not the remake I haven't played the remake either but the PS2 version is a masterpiece as far as I'm oh yeah if you look up a side by side of the way they look you get the feeling of awe from these massive creatures but it's done it's just

[01:05:11] an added to experience for me it's just bigger overall and absolutely beautiful stunning game hell yeah hell yeah but there's a lot to be said about a remake that pretty much well not necessarily like not obsoletes the original game but like I don't know it's the preferred way to go but yeah I wrote down a couple of remakes that aren't as good as the original games for one the Secret of Mana remake from like

[01:05:41] 2016 or the SNES original is still good it's still awesome I still love it the remake does fucking nothing it literally just it's just a pretty coat of paint on top of the original game it takes it from the 16 bit

[01:06:10] awesomeness that it didn't add any new cut scenes it didn't like really yeah that's I always thought that yeah the remake of Secret of Mana was really stupid like oh it just looked like a fucking mobile game and the Trials of Mana remake that's another really good one to slap up into the good remakes section because

[01:06:40] yeah if you haven't played original Trials of Mana or Second Setsu 2 whatever 3 whatever I also didn't care for the Ocarina of Time of Majora's Mask on 3DS because like again you just kind of lose that aesthetic like Majora's Mask for sure it has a real fucking creepy and spooky aesthetic that

[01:07:09] you don't get on the 3DS remake and that kind of sucks ass what about you guys what are some shitty remakes other than Resident 3 just to kind of talk on what you were saying about losing that aesthetic since I've been assembling my ultimate setup I have noticed that I have become a purist and I don't like it but at the same time I

[01:07:47] that that that that's how those games look I don't need like when I see people emulating these games on YouTube and stuff and they have that fucking that stupid filter on that makes everything all blobby looking and it just makes everything look smooth get out of here with that it looks like a mobile game I hate that shit but I want to see it in the way that it was so when I play Aaron I I've been on your fucking case

[01:08:17] for so long like I I've been asking you dude are you playing with shaders like are you putting scan lines on you weren't though but I do now when I was playing Silent Hill mister you just go in and you just enable whichever one essentially you just pick like

[01:08:47] here's the TV that I want it to look like you just pick a Sony Trinitron and it creates that mask for that but yeah like I feel like sometimes there's nothing worse and I can't think of CRT filter but it like looks like

[01:09:16] shit like absolute dog shit is just like that really glowy bent looking picture and the scan lines don't even look that good the best scan lines I've seen in a long time in of the window

[01:09:46] but yeah I feel like when you lose that aesthetic I don't know like that's why like I wouldn't want to see them just remake Resident Evil 2 as like a cleaner looking version of like the same way that they did those Tomb Raider remakes recently who fucking cares like just play the originals like embrace those jaggies man embrace your jaggy this this really goes

[01:10:16] in well to the game that I had picked for my remake that doesn't really fit the bill one of the remakes that absolutely misses the vibe check is got to be Conker's Bad Fur Day good point yeah that it just it just removed the soul of what was Conker which was the raunchy behavior but also the emotive expression

[01:10:46] of all of the characters most of the remade character designs their faces barely moved like they were so blocky and like paper dolly it was it was bad and you just honestly you can't get away with the stuff that they put in that game nowadays it feels like there's a lot more restrictions and regulations put in place so it just it lost everything that made Conker conquer

[01:11:16] really yeah there um we we did that one for our game club oh i think back in like october or something and yeah there was a lot of like a lot of like you had to beat the game in order to turn off the sensors which was really stupid because i feel like that's why you played conquer was to hear them swearing and talking about like piss and shit but also i just played it i downloaded there was a rom hack that just had it uncensored hell yeah which is great yeah

[01:11:45] sum it up simmer it down yeah remakes let it sit on the stove put the lid on turn the heat down put in that microwave the nice hamburger helper on the microwave um put a pot in the microwave oh oh the the the mario superstar saga and bowser's inside story remakes those did not need to be made maybe superstar saga but bowser's inside story there was no reason it looked fine

[01:12:15] like it looked good as it is with the with like the gba and like the pixels on the ds get your sorry remake and ass out of here with those yeah there were there's no need for those they didn't they added extra shit and they made it look pretty sure but like it kind of again lost the original versions aesthetic which was like like in the in bba version watching mario where luigi toss a mushroom in the air and then catch it and then you see like the mushroom going down their throat and then they're like

[01:12:45] woohoo and you just you don't get that same kind of thing in the in the remakes man it sucks ass but anyway yeah back to the hamburger helper so remakes yeah they for sure they're good when they're done right they're good like you preserve the original game but you also just make it better like don't be lazy like the fucking secret of mana remake or strip it like resident evil 3 or

[01:13:14] just fucking kill it like you did majora's mask on 3ds there's no reason to play the 3ds version unless you don't have an n64 or a way to play n64 games i don't know man what do you guys think what's your summation on this whole thing i don't care either way i'm just gonna play the originals on yeah i feel like that as long as the people that are doing the remake are willing to put in the time and

[01:13:44] care about it as much as the original creators did then the remakes will be good hell yeah that sums it up pretty good

[01:14:14] simmering the fuck down we're simmering it the fuck down and we're wrapping it up we're wrapping it up in tin foil throwing it in the microwave turn it on to fucking 99 99 and then we get we're gonna wrap this shit up with a little cool segment we like to call random recommended games tell them what it's about jerry it's about games man it's about video games what's we like

[01:14:43] yeah we gotta recommend this shit man we gotta fucking wipe the fucking the snow off our noses here for second and be like alright man I get a fucking recommendation for you and you grab somebody by the face and you put it right onto your own face no yeah you just I'm gonna grab somebody's face I'm gonna bring it into mine and I rub nose for a second kiss you on the lips push your face away from me and then go you better fucking play this game I'm about to tell

[01:15:13] you about because it's super good it's called avowed this is the third time we brought this game up really games it's good though let's go tell it's a good game yeah I uh I haven't really been playing much other than avowed um that's why I'm kind of like I like I I don't have anything off the top of my head to recommend because avowed has just been consuming my life exactly

[01:15:42] like it's all I've been playing for like the last two or three weeks now if you want like a deep cut or something I can get you a deep cut like oh it's fine no I can I can figure out some super nintendo rom translation you know what you know what no go ahead it's not even a translation go ahead and play pocket rocky with a friend go throw that on one time I would love to we should parse Joe what's

[01:16:12] what's your game I'll let you go all right I'd like to recommend to you blueprints I've only heard good things I have been absolutely obsessed with this game over the past week it is everything that you get out of like a mist style open world ish mystery game but you also have the roguelike slay the spire aspect whenever you go to

[01:16:41] explore this mansion that has been left to you by your deceased uncle and in order to acquire your full inheritance this mansion has 45 rooms and it's your job to find the 46th and all the secrets about why he passed about the state of the country that this game exists in there's so many mysteries steeped on top of other mysteries it's the type

[01:17:11] of game where you need to have a notebook to keep your own notes because if you don't keep track of what this one thing says in one room and why there's a chess piece in this room later on when you get to the chess board puzzle you'll have no idea what you're doing and I don't have it in front of me but I have like 13 14 pages of what looked like the notes of a madman because whenever you find something 12 hours later you flip back five pages and scratch it out and write lies and big letters

[01:17:41] across it it's such a wild and interesting experience I haven't had a game that scratched that itch like this in a very long time so it's it's it's a really nice breath of fresh air it's on game pass too it is on game pass too I'm still going through a vow I know yeah if you don't pick up blue prints unless you have time to invest yeah I've heard that this game totally sucks you a lot the other day I was like oh god

[01:18:11] it's 3.30 I need to get my son up for school at 6 I better get my game that I'm recommending today man I kind of don't want to recommend it a little bit because it's like it's too long so Mario and Luigi Brothership I really love the Mario and Luigi series but Brothership is just kind of too long it's kind of like the 15 20 hours too long it's like

[01:18:40] but it's really 15 to 20 hours too long yeah it's like that's a lot too long it is I know fucking I'm about like 35 hours in or something and yeah it's just there's a lot that doesn't need to be in the game but enough complaining so like everything looks pretty the whole story behind the game is kind of fun and cool like the world of Concordia is like

[01:19:09] it's just a bunch of islands that were one continent but they're split up and you go to each island you connect them all again and then you have this little cool hub world that's this like ship island and you unlock more pieces of that that you can explore the bros moves are really fun and you know what this game is missing though what that charm I didn't get the charm yeah for sure it doesn't really have it like it's got like characters

[01:19:38] but it doesn't have the charm that the originals had and I feel like only the first like two or three had that charm and then after that I was just like yeah all right like dream team I played that through the whole way and at the end I was like god damn it that was a waste of my time yeah one thing like it's it's cool that they can make all the characters way more expressive and cartoony and fun

[01:20:08] to look at and like like stimulate your brain give you those good vibes and shit but yeah it doesn't have like what it doesn't have what I love about Superstar Saga so much and that's just like the cool animations they did like like when they fucking leveled up in Superstar Saga and they did their cooler dance like I mean the music in Brother Ship is really good I don't know but yeah it's a good game it's just really long I wouldn't I wouldn't say I like it more than Brother Ship or fucking Superstar Saga

[01:20:38] about an inside story but yeah it's good play it maybe yeah yeah yeah all right all right get us out of here let's go I got some avowed to play shoot all right let's do it hey so Joe once more for the listeners go ahead and plug anything you want any socials shows even if you do a blog I don't care what you do tell people about it where they can find it sure yeah you can find me most places blue sky and other things at Joe Decahedron and you can find

[01:21:09] me taking part in epic adventures in the Dice Training Podcast which can be found on most podcast platforms give a listen hail yeah listeners thanks for hanging out with us today go check out superpodsoga.com again all of our stuff is there if you want more of us you can find us there if you want more Joe we'll have all his stuff there as well too but be sure to tune in next time to the next episode of Super Pod Saga where Jerry you know what

[01:21:38] he's just gonna drink paint he's gonna drink paint he'll earn five bucks from doing so and it's gonna rock it's gonna be awesome yep and then I'm going to regurgitate that paint and then I'm gonna make you paint your fucking ceiling because it drives me crazy that you have lattice on your ceiling I didn't put it there it was my father-in-law that did it so next time Aaron's gonna take the fucking lattice off his roof put it outside where it belongs okay I sure will bye Joe say bye bye bye

[01:22:08] Joe say bye bye I said goodbye