An Extraordinary Week of Games! w/

[@dudethatsunreal]

missed opportunity to name the video: "A MARVELous Week Of Games!"

[@synthiandrakon]

Gaming is like hard to do when you're super tired and unfortunately when you have a job that can be a lot of the times, so yeah I end up watching game stuff more often than I have the energy to play

[@tuffc00kie]

Excellent show. Always enjoy a Max visit.

[@GassyMexican]

Hey thanks!

[@James-u1y]

Hey JP when Cohh is out for January could we have some cool guests on? Maybe get a Vtuber to chat about stuff, hell maybe even talk to PirateSoftware as well? If you'd rather take it easy that month its all good just wanted to suggest some stuff since you and Zeke hit it off really well with Thor last time.

[@lillewilleman]

If they could get mouse that'd be sick. I don't really watch vtubers, but she is the exception. She's really inspiring, with how far she has come not only as a streamer but fighting her disease as well.

[@James-u1y]

@ I agree, I don't watch vtubers either but I do know of a handful that work hard on events or try to do something unique for their viewers and Mouse is one of those. I do watch CdawgVa a lot because I enjoy his final fantasy and irl vods and when she's there as well you can tell some days she's going through it but she stays regardless.

[@minutmed33]

Marvel Heroes (later renamed Marvel Heroes Omega) on Steam was a fantastic Marvel game for fans. It's still my most played game ever with 5250 hours. The roster was huge with each character having different skins, the villains were cool and the environments were numerous. It died too soon due to mismanagement in 2017. Still have a big place in my gamer heart.

[@FlexxibleFree]

Such an underrated game, Total Biscuit brought it to light a bit too late I think, I managed to play like 200 hours, was fun AF.

[@SlCKNESS_]

It died for Marvel's Avengers. I'm one of the few who liked Marvel's Avengers, but it was nowhere near as good as Marvel Heroes.

[@Xodiac78]

Mismanagement a bit. But it was mostly an absurd amount of Marvel meddling that did the game in. I miss that game a lot but the fan resurrection of it is coming along nicely.

[@SlCKNESS_]

@@Xodiac78 What fan resurrection?

[@esaedvik]

The final hit was so damn sad.

[@JohannLudwigEdel]

Poe2 talk 2:13:00

[@Mekerakesh]

"your streamers favorite streamer" is a pretty cool award

[@FireEatingNinja]

I never thought an ARPG would feel good on controller and never gave it a chance in the recent years. It's truly a game changer. I assume some skills are going to function poorly and there's some bad interactions where my character targets something I didn't intend to, but I feel like I can execute my combos on my monk better with controller than I could on mouse & keyboard now. It also feels more natural during boss fights since dodge rolling is required and it essentially feels like a top down Dark Souls boss fight. Premium game. Good job GGG.

[@deepak-ui5li]

There is an option in the skillbinds menu which lets you change from default targeting to focused where the target will be locked to the one you want unless you change it manually using right stick…it was a game changer when playing mercenary

[@impotenceaura]

It's because they made it a twin stick shooter

[@MatthewSchellGaming]

Diablo 3 had good controller support. I played on PS4 and it played well.

[@PotatoRankEX]

@@deepak-ui5li You dont say...

[@ELVIStheDotA]

Last Epoch on 1.0 also was good on controller though there were a few bugs at times that needed a mouse to fix.

[@deadlyeye666]

on the topic of merged streams i do see a difference between a format of dropped frames, where all viewers of Cohh/Zek/JP watch the same stream regardless of the chanel you watch vs a teamup like in a shooter where you watch one play with shared chat/audio/conversation. while i would say DF earns a COMBINED Viewcount (like 5+2+2=9k) id AVERAGE it for the audiomerged ones (like 5+2+2=9/3=3k) maybe corrected for the above average so they have an incentive to join up.

[@Crashh965]

If Rivals gives me all my favorite X-Men then I'll be all in.

[@sirbobulous]

Overwatch *could* have built stronger connections to the characters if they'd committed to sharing their stories, maybe some kind of story focused single player mode would have helped? While the Marvel characters have stories written about them, movies about them. Even the minor cast show up as supporting cast in other more popular people's stories and so build affinity by proxy. I know who Luna Snow is because I read Agents of Atlas. And I read Agents of Atlas because I read Silk. And I read Silk because I read Spiderman.

[@Huckleberry42]

I highly disagree with that the streamer award means more. That's just all streamers backing each other up and vote just for their friends.

[@Razzying]

Personally, loot in POE 2 is too scarce, I'm still rocking a few pieces of gear that is like 5-10 levels below me since I don't get enough crafting currency or just gear in general as drops that are an upgrade. Also melee needs a bit of help in some areas like for slams, too slow on bosses or mobs that attack/move too quick for it.

[@jcat96]

34:00 I didn't know about the OTK Expo at all, but every one of those hosts were on that new G4 at least once, so now I'm going back to watch that. They all had great chemistry back then and I love every time they get back together

[@Hesperus84]

Lovely episode with JP, Zeke and Max!

[@mckinleyostvig7135]

1:38:00 that's funny because I think this is the best Hawkeye has ever looked in any Marvel property since he was created

[@B3rnb0t]

I was in the top .1 percent of Jp viewers this year according to KZbin lol

[@Juhz0r]

The Indiana Jones game looks great and MachineGames seems like the perfect match for that IP. In 2025, I'll finally get around to upgrading my PC from the GTX 1070 I'm still using, and that game might just be one of the first I'll play with that new rig.

[@andrewkish9847]

The streamer awards does actually include a panel like the game awards, I think they account more for the fan vote but it's not exclusively determined by it.

[@gandi8959]

the tweet about kingdom come was completly fine. even if its on sale, its an old ass game the tweet from the overwatch guy about marvel. that was stupid af. imagine thinking black widow is named after widowmaker

[@Dopesaur]

I'd like to think that the KCD tweet was posted with pure intentions, but I can definitely see the way some people could interpret it as being mean-spirited. A direct comparison, worded in a way to pit them against each other, and the rest is in the reader's imagination. I can practically hear the schoolyard "naa na na naa naa" While holding an 'L' with your fingers up on your forehead. I don't want to accuse the writer of being intentionally oblivious to this, but I don't find Zeke's admonition entirely misplaced. Even if I really wouldn't use such accusatory phrasing. But also, It is quite impressive that KCD has that many people playing this late into it's life, but there are a couple of reasons why. It's on sale, and they've advertised the sequel coming up next year, so it's a fantastic time to replay the game for a refresher. Or play it for the first time, or even just finish it if you never completed the main story.

[@SilesianusMaximus]

@@Dopesaur The KCD was not posted with pure intentions. Daniel Vávra is very self-centered person. He believes he does everything better than the others. It started at the video games (I still remember his critique of Skyrim), but then he expanded his horizons. He's now expert on politics, sociology, history etc. Fighter against wokeness. Everyone who disagree with him is an idiot. Complete douche.

[@ThresherMaw]

30hrs deep into Rivals and this is the first time I hear that the game has a story

[@MrJEM13]

I cant believe how much im enjoying marvel rivals. I wrote off multiplayer games for a while but damn im having fun with that game.

[@StefanRindom]

Best sleepy-time podcast 😊

[@The1neo34]

Gassys audio is out of sync and it drives me nuts all the way through. PS - if you didn't notice and read this and now cant unsee it, I am deeply sorry.

[@GassyMexican]

Yeah I don’t know why that happened. Something on JP’s end made it desync cuz it definitely is synced on mine. Weird

[@Dracobyte]

It's Mahvel Rivals babyyy!

[@esaedvik]

What I don't get about the Twitch directory is that "bigger number better" mentality. For me, it's reverse. I very rarely watch anything over 1k or even a few hundred.

[@Dopesaur]

I'd say the same, but I think analytics wise, they're thinking something like: If you're in the directory, and start scrolling from the top, the streams at the top have an early advantage to grab your attention. Also, I can imagine some people do just hop into larger streams. I'm with you on watching smaller streams. If the viewership becomes too big, chat is nigh unusable for even a single back and forth. It becomes a shouting contest to get the streamer's attention. P.S small non sequitur, I was a big fan of Jerma985, but his audience becoming larger made a large and vocal portion of his community become insufferable. I still think it's largely just the effect of having a really large stream. And frankly, Jerma encouraged that behaviour too much, in my opinion.

[@VanityOfViolet]

I think it would be pretty sick to see if QT would come on this podcast. She's very busy but I'd love to have her discuss streaming and the streamer awards in general.

[@TwistdTrip]

Most wanted game, PoE 2 launch you kidding me haha :D

[@MrTheSmoon]

Im sure publishers will be able to make money directly of gamestreaming its not like its technically difficult and expensive and creators are incentvized to stick where their audience is.

[@gilney.mathias]

that tweet was a perfect way to show that bad games wont sell, u guys have to come back to reality and accept it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@Huckleberry42]

Yeah I don't get why they are tripping. So you can't say anything just because twitter nerds will be upset

[@teambrooky]

@@Huckleberry42 when you're still susceptible to being cancelled you toe the line\bend the knee\pay tribute\virtue signal

[@vincesergi7339]

​@@Huckleberry42 They just want their free games and sponsored streams so they'll never admit the game is bad.

[@jepeman]

Isn't the tweet just about how certain people gave so much shit over Kingdom Come Deliverance for supposedly being racist etc and trying to cancel it/devs, now they're just giving a little bit of shit talk back to those people.

[@whatlmao]

"bad games wont sell" while dav was a success lmao, one day you goypers will die off or join everyone else in the real world

[@LinkinParkConnoisseur]

lets gooo

[@yuranashi]

i would love multiple man, but it will never happen since Loki main thing is creating copies.

[@ley-ic]

someone pleeease link me the dr gluon x gassymexican collab

[@Gnurkstudios]

Friday december 6th is the day blizzard wish never happend. Poe 2 takes over Diablo 4 and Marvel Rivals shits on overwatch. Actually insane haha.

[@thedude7319]

52:00 L take but great to know what the nitwits are thinking

[@bucket3073]

deez nutz

[@shadow12k]

We get it Jp you’re from Texas. You keep on beating how important the streamer vote was you might be called an otk fan. Sheesh. You had more passion for that than your own game award shows lol

[@swedishZ0mBi3]

Eeey ooo.

[@apartmentpuppy]

No Cohh! I get to watch.

[@ElyonDominus]

All the best DF episodes are Cohh-less.

[@gabrieldarkwind5866]

@@ElyonDominus So what happened, everybody loved Cohh sometime ago and now I see comments that he is annoying?

[@walshmobile37]

@@gabrieldarkwind5866 I know for me personally, he was way too excited about the johnny depp verdict, then has clearly shown to be taking culture war grifter opinions seriously, finally big main character energy on the show. Like yes we all know you have the most viewers of the 3 ppl, but we would like to hear their opinions too

[@PapaTootie]

@@walshmobile37so you’ve been hate watching for two years!? Sad

[@walshmobile37]

@@PapaTootie Good job on jumping to completely incorrect conclusions

[@RyguyRB]

Hot take: PoE2 is actually easier than PoE, and probably too easy currently. As JP mentioned, there aren't as many guides out to carry people through it, and we don't have the experience in the game unlike PoE where people have thousands of hours. Add to that new players who are used to face rolling their way through games on easy difficulty. Minion builds are rolling through the content. I'm playing a sorc, which is perfectly fine without an optimized build at all. Been watching Lirik 1/2 shot act bosses as a monk when he hasn't even played that much PoE. I do love the combat and hope they don't cave to vocal players whining, as dodge roll + making it challenging can really open up what they can do.

[@KruxSmash]

49:50 Another L take, becoming more frequent on this show.

[@MuuMiFin]

I think it was pretty good take. That guy is a moron.

[@andrej177]

imagine naming urself gassymexican

[@GassyMexican]

old Xbox live tag that stuck 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@NexusNoxCS]

Personally, I really wasn't wanting an Indiana Jones game and still have no urge to play this one. Simply because Uncharted exists. Any itch for Indi-style adventure has been completely satisfied for me with that trilogy.

[@AzureFides]

I love when a "big guy" doesn’t afraid to talk shit first but when they face a backlash from the community they retreat back to "it’s just a joke guys, chilllllll". Come on man, if you want to be a man, then act like a man.

bro spending more time denouncing kcd2 comparing player numbers over actual racist tweet from avowed dev promoting actual racism and illegal hiring practices

[@house1406]

what do you expect from woke people?

[@MrJEM13]

Is the woke in your room right now ​@@house1406

[@michaelmiller6817]

Is woke in the room with you? Show us on the doll where woke touched you.

[@Matcapoeira86]

I mean they addressed that last show so maybe stop trying to add culture wars to everything.

[@seppoonmelkonen]

@@Matcapoeira86 you mean Cohh addressed it (in a very centrist way). I do find it interesting that Vavra is a "piece of shit" for making a relatively harmless tweet but nobody on the show truly called out Obsidian art director for his legitimately vile tweets.

[@AlbertoMartinez765]

So The Ai Cat..why Pay someone when you can have the Ai do it for free with no contract or hassel's of dealing with a hooman? Normal people do not care.

no time stamps to skip the atrocious twitch crap ?

[@moneda]

Glad that dev tweet was highlighted. Wouldn't want to support a game made by assholes. I'll continue to be uninterested. ^_^

[@michaelmiller6817]

They said a bunch of dumb shit that turned me off of their first game. Seems they haven't gotten any better and I can ignore this one too.