Jeff saying saying the Venice area is okay makes more sense to me. My brother lives in that area so I’ve visited him a lot and it seems great to me. So anytime they would talk shit about LA it would always confuse me as modern SF sounds like an infinitely worse place to me BUT outside of the Venice area LA is definitely... a mixed bag to say the least. Jeff’s comments on this podcast at least made more sense to me.
I genuinely wish I liked Dead Cells. I love it’s style but the gameplay and structure of the game just isn’t my thing. I love games like Super Metroid and SOTN and Metroid-vanias but Dead Cells is not that at all.
I really hate being this person but calling Rondo a 90 minute bog standard Castlevania game is selling Rondo criminally short. Yes, that game got hyped way up due to it originally not releasing in the west and I don't think it's unfair to view it as a game that was overhyped by fans but to essentially say that Rondo isn't anything special is really underselling that game. For one, Rondo is incredibly substantial as far as old school 2D platformers go with just tons of secrets, branching paths, hidden levels, etc. I remember playing it on the PSP collection and it took me damn near a month and a half of regular play to get through every stage in Rondo. Not necessarily because there's a ton of stages but because the stages are substantial and the game is damn hard. If you are VERY good at 2D platformers then perhaps you can get through all of Rondo with 1 character in 90 minutes (worth noting that the average 100% speedrun time is about 40 minutes). While the remake of Rondo didn't do much for me (it's kind of ugly, doesn't feel great, but is also a bit easier), but the original game totally blew me away. At least for me that game alone is almost worth $20 but the fact that it's packed in with SOTN... unless there's something fucked up about the versions of these games featured in the Requiem collection I personally find it hard not to recommend that collection especially if you've never played either game (though I would definitely make sure to wait for reviews just to make sure there isn't something messed up about the versions of these games featured in this collection).
I am with Brad though in that I think it's a shame that the Requiem collection is basically just those two games and zero special features. I guess that's expecting a lot from Konami in 2018 but if there was ever a collection of two games they could get away with just releasing bare bones versions of it would be a collection with Rondo & SOTN. It's definitely a "no frills" collection but it's a not frills collection of two all time classics.
Also, COD BLOPS 4 might be the first COD I really dig into for the first time in forever. It's a shame it doesn't have a campaign but Blackout mode sounds great as someone who loves the Battle Royal concept but who hasn't been a big fan of how most Battle Royal games play.
Their comments on the Sonic movie are funny. I’m not even a huge Sonic fan but I can tell you right now that Sonic is huge with kids even today. Sonic has a shitload of free-to-play mobile games that apparently make fucking bank and the alarming number of parents I know who have said to me when referring to their kid “yeah, they love Sonic and I’m not sure how it happened because we don’t even have any game systems” is crazy. I realize that’s just anecdotal but I’ve been hearing that kind of shit about Sonic for YEARS.
It's funny Ben went back to MM7 and didn't like it. I've dug into the collections on Switch and I have to say, Mega Man 7 has been the only game from the classic series to click with me at all. I would actually say I kind of enjoy it
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