Game Scoop! 696: So Many Horror Games

[@bradcuster]

Thanks Sam for taking the reins this week! All us viewers appreciate the extra work to keep the only gaming podcast going weekly. Nicely job!

[@mickael486]

Sam did a lot better his 2nd time around. He may have been a little off balance the first time. As we all are when trying new "jobs". Nicely Job indeed. SCOOP!!

[@c1nnabun]

It’s the Matt Kim show! Love this kid, smart knowledgeable and insightful

[@edgarpineda8151]

Sam did a great job hosting! IGN give him his retro games podcast!

[@shayanhassantabar1633]

Good job hosting Sam

[@Ryuko123]

Scoop is my favorite IGN podcast. Hell it’s my favorite podcast in general!

[@Mr_APeezy]

Great show. Just a clarification on Batman: Arkham City. At launch, Catwoman was pre-order DLC and it allowed you to play as her in certain sections (all story related). For instance, if you had the that DLC, you first started the game as Catwoman in a short brawl before you begin the game behind bars as Bruce. And so the game shuffled them both in depending on the story. I’d say it was 80-85% Batman gameplay and 10-15% (if that) of Catwoman gameplay. Once you get out into Arkham City proper, she has things only she can do (like the reddish Riddler trophies Vs the green ones either her or Batman could get). You can play with her in most areas but you can’t progress the story solely with her. After the endgame, you’re able to freeroam around with her and just beat up thugs (and she has some endgame content after the main story wraps up). All other ports / remasters after the PS3/360 versions just included all of the Catwoman DLC, Robin post-game DLC, and all the additional map packs that were added from the PS3/360 Arkham City game.

[@gurthang667]

Thank you. As someone who has also 100% all the Arkham games it hurt to hear the scoop crew get this one wrong

[@CameronMcKee]

I was screaming at my speakers over this lol My wife found it funny not knowing what I was so mad about 😂

[@drumjod]

Sam is actually right about the Opera house in Final Fantasy 6. Ultros is completely nude and slaps the whole party with his tentacles. It's very adult.

[@extreme0812]

Game Scoop! without Daemon Hatfield is just so weird. But good job hosting, Sam!

[@schwing9028]

What happened with the Silent Hill 2+3 hd remaster was that Konami had lost the final build of the game, so all they could provide to Hijinx Studios was a busted up 60% build. In a very short amount of time, Hijinx tried their best to rebuild the game by just playing the retail version. Honestly a tremendous effort but few people look into what happened.

[@theredshadow401]

Small clarification about the Silent Hill HD Collection: it was developed by Hijinx Studios and not Bluepoint. Bluepoint handled MGS 2 and 3 of the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection in late 2011.

[@Woodlouse81]

New rule should be that if a guest doesn’t know how 20 questions works, and has thus never listened to the show, they never get invited back.

[@mickael486]

The Best and Only Video Game Podcast on the Internet! ❤️

[@ilirtanku9722]

Silent hill 2 remake is a dream come true for all Silent Hill fans

[@barrywmusic]

Pretty sure you can't play as catwoman all the way through Arkham City, but I'd still say she is a protagonist

[@travistorline812]

I cracked up Sam’s snap followed by “you should work for Nintendo” 😂 Scoop!

[@wer1your273]

IGN was pretty off with this game. And to point out the points to unlock skill trees carry over. So you can grind with one character and unlock the others skill trees.

[@Erlaxis]

I bet Rocksteady is taking notes to avoid any huge pitfalls in their upcoming game, which seems to have some similarities with Gotham Knights.

[@equest943]

Are the audio versions not downloadable anymore? Can't seem to find a link

[@crispytortilla]

What’s the outro music?

[@drumjod]

I knew I had heard it before, but was actually able to 'Shazam' this one. It's Big Blue from F-Zero. Sounds like it plays on a Super Smash Bros Melee stage as well.

[@leonardoquintero1009]

Always thought Silent Hill "f" was called Silent Hill "forte", considering that particular font is universally used for dynamic notation in music.

[@KamasamaK]

I thought the same thing. The "f" is a similar style to that symbol.

[@megros1322]

Thought the same!

[@galacticbreakdown2804]

Kinda annoying when you're criticizing a game (Gotham Knights) based on assumptions that are inaccurate. You don't have to grind levels for every character....when you level up any character, all characters level too. The only thing you have to unlock individually is certain outfits & the glider/special traversal option.

[@kiwisoup]

It's crazy that out of everyone on the podcast, nobody knew that the biggest reason the Silent Hill HD Collection was so bad in ways was because Konami themselves lost the source code and they had to work off of an incomplete build, full of bugs that the final build would have patched, placeholder assets, missing assets, etc. If it weren't for the stupid way game patches worked back then, we would have probably gotten a lot of fixes that ended up getting cancelled because the reception was so bad they basically just cut their losses at that point.

[@RealSuperTV]

"Feeling like a game and not like an e sport." Sold!

[@ScuzzyBeta]

44:40 gonna be that guy and just point out that Arkham Origins was developed by WB Montreal, not Rocksteady

[@colinstevens8881]

Yes, which is why I mentioned it, because WB Montreal's next game was Gotham Knights.

[@rafalosophy101]

“hello, listeners.” you’re welcome.

[@natashacavata2415]

after seeing justin tweet about marvel snap, i decided to give it a try. (i love card games) im loving it! love to see a card game not based on booster packs

[@Hackrifice]

The only Resident Evil game I've ever played (aside from like an hour each of the demos for 2 + 3 remakes) was 4 VR and it was a blast. I can't imagine having to play it without being able to run and gun though!

[@MomirsLabTech]

Marvel Snap is mostly free to play, however you can indirectly pay to get cards. Buying gold for real world money allows for buying the blue currency, and the blue currency allows you to upgrade cards. Upgrading cards levels up your collectors level, which periodically unlocks a random card around every 2 levels or so. They are just adding an additional layer of randomization to the card acquisition model and hiding it behind upgrading cards with relatively basic visual effects. They do prevent the purchase of the blue currency to only 1 per x hours to help prevent whales from unlocking everything day 1, but people who put money jnto the game will unlock all of the cards much sooner than free to play players. The gameplay is pretty good though. Easy to grab a few games on a lunch break which usually isn't something that can be done with other card games.

[@Eldur0]

Ff7 fanfare victory theme is my ringtone and I thought my phone was ringing and yanked it out of my pocket and nearly dropped it during that break 😂

[@zareht]

Justin, Thank You

[@swizard0922]

Great scoop!!!!

[@thechicagobox]

The horror remakes are some of the best remakes ever. Since the original Nintendo GameCube Resident Evil remake it seems.

[@elpiquetegames787]

Let’s go!! Sam!! 🔥

[@mO-gy8ee]

Do you where a hat in this game ? Does the BatEars count as a hat 😂

[@Kaleb_SMILE]

Dark compared to the road trip boys? I don't think someone played 15 cause that was not a happy game by the end of it. Probably the most fucked up main game since 6.

[@PatchedUpGaming]

The day Sam leaves Gamescoop is the day I leave Gamescoop. Best podcast personality in gaming!

[@stuartbagley2586]

So instead of getting a 5th game that retreads the same gameplay, WB tried something new. I thought we wanted new stuff. . .

[@jermelpurse3018]

I don’t know how to say this so I hope it doesn’t rub someone the wrong way FF is a franchise I know would love I grew up absolutely adoring classic RPG‘s but there’s a difference when you see a Japanese developer make a game and you see a western developer make a game. I was specifically focusing on RPG‘s here. I think FF 15 is a perfect example we had a combat system that was pretty good but where did the game originally come from it was an idea or a fantasy that the Director said this is what I always wanted to do when I was young go on a road trip with my friends and they built a Final Fantasy game around the concept of a road trip. That’s the dilemma we find directors building games around concepts of what they might find entertaining. What some audiences might find entertaining doesn’t spread out well to the overall global population. What story dynamics might’ve been entertaining to this group the Japanese developers might not be entertaining to the more westernized cultures. Once again I hope I’m not saying things incorrectly that’s not my intention but I’m pointing out how there’s a bit of a disconnect. Sometimes these JRPG‘s come off cheesy or cheeky. Have you ever wondered why every JRPG hero carries a sword yeah that’s a big question why is it every time there’s a Jay RPG hero they have to go off save the world carry a sword why hasn’t this theme been broken. I’d argue it’s part of culture. A famed culture a culture I love but it’s part of culture. meanwhile you have the western RPG pushing in brand new directions trying new things doing things differently and the second you see that the second they do that you saw the evolution of the RPG franchise. That was when you started seeing RPG elements added into other types of games. I’ll think about how long the RPG has been around and I think about how long you actually saw RPG elements being implemented and other types of games. Why didn’t they start sooner? so I argued that Square really needs to probably bring in some new talent at the top I know the people they are using now help to make the company what it is and it is a brand company but if they look to grow and compete in today’s world you’re going to have to break away from the roots a little bit just look at FF I know it has a rich story the tradition of using summons but why do we keep saying the same summoned characters. Why haven’t we seen something truly unique regarding a summons something that makes you go wow I never thought they would do that. give that same franchise to a western RPG developer they would do something totally different you would never expect. They might even get rid of summons all together.

[@mekman4]

Great Stuff! I hate grinding too! I was staring at CoD Mobile and Alex Legends Mobile last night and while they live on my machine I can feel the drudgery of the grind without even having to start a match. The more I play on the switch _just for fun_ the less appealing these mobile games become. That and the Switch has gyro support enabled for controllers, and most games use it! Games as a service works if it’s just about skins and playing the game without level grinding. Grinding is dumb. It’s as dumb as a life system. Grinding needs to go. People with disposable income have families and jobs and their kids play on consoles. These grind-y Mobile games are for no one. Make it stop.

[@joshrogers6669]

Arent. you guys forgetting the masterpiece known as metal gear survive!? 🙂 I especially loved being able to pay for extra save slots!

[@woooooooah]

Shinra literally sucks the life force out of the planet, while a planet destroying meteor is about to hit. Also mental illness and giant power ranger monsters running amok. how is 7 not the dark one?

[@colinstevens8881]

I think it's more of a tonal thing for me. Obviously 6, 7, 10, etc are all dark, but they all have pretty goofy stuff as well.

[@SofaKingOverThisIsh]

Nicely Job fellas

[@rasputinafreak]

Will this be the FINAL fantasy??

[@nicmad1784]

Scoop!

[@CameronMcKee]

Great episode but you 100% CANNOT play all of Arkham City as Catwoman! I declare a mistrial!!

[@colinstevens8881]

Here here!

[@th00perman_]

what does the F in Silent Hill F stand for? I MUST KNOW I still see that town...

[@RolandMIA71]

Scoop!!

[@michaelroth6975]

These are the only "bros" I care to watch

[@jzilla1380]

Another great job. But weres the Homie. Mr godzilla. The og

[@joshuaghiroli2513]

I really wish people would stop calling it FF6, it comes off as elitist. I played Final Fantasy 3, I still have the cartridge upstairs and it was III.

[@colinstevens8881]

Well, by the time I started playing Final Fantasy, their Japanese numbering had come to the west - I first played 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 on the GBA. So to me, I'll always use their JP numbers.

[@joshuaghiroli2513]

It came here with Japanese numbering via the PlayStation as well, but it was first released in the US as 3. That's the original making here, whatever the name in subsequent releases is irrelevant

[@colinstevens8881]

@@joshuaghiroli2513 How is it irrelevant though? It's literally the sixth mainline Final Fantasy. I'll never correct someone for saying FF3, because I understand the history, but calling me elitist for calling it by its name is odd to me.

[@joshuaghiroli2513]

@@colinstevens8881 How is it not irrelevant? If your talking about the original game, you aren't talking about it's rerelease. If you are going to say FF6 pixel remaster that's one thing. Like when listing off the Souls games do you different between demon souls and demon souls remake? They literally have the same name the only difference being one is an original release the other isn't. It's almost the inverse of this

[@joshuaghiroli2513]

@@colinstevens8881Dragon Warrior 1, 2 and 3.i test my case. The game exists in the US as final fantasy 3 outside of re-releases of the game. What do you call the Yakuza series?

[@jamesyu5212]

Scoopiti bop bap

[@kylo12345]

제주맛 for Matt

[@provokedamoke804]

Forte

[@nathanlake78]

Sam Scoop!

[@jzilla1380]

I heard the Arkanm was still good but it's just a ps4 game

[@LuisPerez-5]

Played Marvel Snap and it's BORING even for a card game.

[@pkstarstorm8856]

wah wah we wa i love my ps vita

[@Kulj_No1]

SCOOP!

[@redhairshank19]

Scoooooop!

[@sydewyndr]

Overall great show as usual. Four smart people with valid views and opinions. But seriously, can anyone finish a thought before Sam interrupts them? This has become a pet peeve for me in this world of Zoom meetings, but this was especially distracting and annoying.

[@nvc.]

Gamespooook

[@Will_RodU]

They better not mess with that dog! 0 out of 10 if the dog dies!!!

[@davidswick8571]

I am glad you are not reviewing the game.

[@Will_RodU]

@@davidswick8571 alright, so the dog does die then... that sucks... I guess I can at least prepare myself for it now I just hope they can translate some of the other really memorable stuff well into this remake. I very much want to see what they do with the regenerators

[@Jasont44094]

One of the worst round of questions I’ve heard asked. Spent too many questions on what studio and console

[@guillaumeinjjuz1744]

I personnaly hated shattered memories on the wii.

[@thefearmakerlive]

Clarification for the Arkham games. There is no Red Hood in the Arkham universe. The Titular Arkham Knight of the 3rd and Final Rocksteady Arkham game from 2016, Is Jason Todd, the 2nd Robin, who in most DC lore, including Gotham Knights, becomes the Red Hood after being killed by the Joker and resurrected in Rhas A Ghul's Lazarus pit. In the Arkham universe, in Arkham Knight, it's found that the Joker doesn't kill Jason Todd, but instead imprisons him (though Batman thinks Jason is dead) and brain washes him to eventually go against Batman. And he becomes the Arkham Knight, who in the game wears a helmet with similarities to some versions of the Red Hood helmet.

[@zacharywalker1879]

Arkham Knight did have a Red Hood DLC though.

[@kiwisoup]

Jason Todd becomes Red Hood after the events of the main Arkham Knight game, as shown in the Red Hood DLC. Red Hood is also referenced in other Arkham games. Also, in Gotham Knights, it is maintained that Jason Todd is now Red Hood...granted the canon of the game in relation to the Arkham games is up for debate.

[@90sK1dFOr3v3r]

Jason still becomes Red Hood. It was clearly showed in the main ending of the game when he saves Bruce from Scarecrow. Tf you going on about?

[@boardvision11]

🍔🍟🥤🤡💄

[@jonlindquist2731]

Changed RE2 and RE3 for the better? They Left out key areas! If they do that w 4 then I will not give it the pass this panel has

[@fedwyn]

They still play better than the original games, and the areas present in both are more expansive

[@kiwisoup]

I mean that's fine. Everyone else will still buy it. Also, I can see the point about RE2, but what exactly is missing from the RE2 remake that is substantial? They added new areas if anything.

[@traderofbaobab]

Sorry scoop nation. Konami has actually been doing really well doing video games. The fcasino games is only 10% of their revenue and 5% of their profit. Rather unfortunate take dicatated by ignorance.

[@AJ72281]

I’m sorry, but that was the most amateurish 20 questions I’ve ever seen..... so many wasted questions......

[@blackdragon6]

Resident Evil 4 was good gameplay wise. But the story was really weak and underwhelming. If anything I hope they flesh out the plot.

[@kiwisoup]

Didn't realize ANY of the REs were considering good because of their story...

[@chickenwings6172]

Why so many likes? they got the most clueless people to do this, they never played SH the never played FF and they never played resi games. wow!

[@colinstevens1477]

Yes, I’ve never played Final Fantasy and somehow magically knew Cid’s first appearance was in FF2, smdh

[@kiwisoup]

Sometimes I wonder if these people even play video games