The Jeff Gerstmann Show 108: OOPS! All Aesthetics

Capcom makes more zombie games, Nintendo intends to make more Switch 2s, and Xbox wants to make more cloud users. More Crazy Taxi reboot details! Also a discussion of Street Uni X, NeoSprint, Cosmic Smash VRS, FragPunk, that WCW documentary that Vice just ran, and more!
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[@AlexFurry]

_Time Stamps_ 🦄 0:33 *Starts* 9:00 Perfect World layoffs 11:10 Neo Sprint 23:20 Ad Manscaped 26:50 Street Uni X 36:52 Fragpunk 57:08 VR 1:07:47 *The News* 💜 1:07:54 Nintendo supply 1:11:14 Xboxless 1:16:53 Capcom announcements 1:33:34 CDPR stuff 1:46:35 Beyond Good and Evil remake 1:53:11 Dr Disrespect 2:00:36 *Emails* ✋️😌👌 2:01:09 Victor - Minecraft 2:08:39 Activist - WCW 2:36:06 Michael - Kids and Video Games 2:50:56 Steve - Awesome Possum 2:52:03 Brock - Streamer Skins

[@ThePeppermintGeezer]

The GOAT, thank you!

[@mattwu64]

Danke schön!

[@TheFizzjunior]

Sleeping Dogs is my this game was in development hell, the studio shut down, all that stuff. Let me tell you, I liked Sleeping Dogs quite a bit. That's a quality game.

[@GreatistheWorld]

Skibidi isn’t dignified as the videos* I grew up with!! *half-life parody of the Budweiser Wassup commercials in 144p that took 2 hours to download and seemed 100% worth the wait

[@steve43ful]

THEY WANT JEFF TO DISAPPEAR,,, YEAH FUCKIN RIGHT.

[@calibrono]

boom

[@langa77777]

Don’t jynx it for fucks sake. A Jeff cancelling would end me.

[@Blaszj]

My policy is to memorize at least 2 numbers in case I go to jail. I'm not planning on it but I think about it more than I should.

[@travismcnasty4239]

Already have my parents' and siblings numbers memorized.

[@knightdehumidifier]

My numbers are 4 and 9. I feel those two numbers are great choices to win myself over with the other jailbirds.

[@AntiSocialHero]

@@dorian6021I see what you did there. Stealth dad joke is the best joke.

[@DanielRoemer-d5m]

I hope the new Crazy Taxi just has the same two Offspring songs playing over and over lmao

[@shydre]

YAA YAA YAA YAA YA

[@eggzaki]

I hope they add a third, Bad Habit is such a good driving song

[@JazGalaxy]

I mean.. the soundtrack was Offspring and also Bad Religion, among others. It had suitable breadth for an arcade game. But yeah, I hope they add in a lot more Offspring tracks as well as other bands. Sum 41s final album is ripe for being on a Crazy Taxi soundtrack.

[@steve43ful]

@@JazGalaxyI don’t think they got the original music for the crazy taxi rereleases so this game will probably also only feature garbage you’ve never heard of

[@possiblyben]

Killing 1 million zombies for that 360 achievement was a fun chase.

[@MooChooAdoo]

Jeff Gerstmann has been such a great steward of this show.

[@tomp2449]

I agree with you Jeff. Homework sucks!

[@RalphClassic]

Between that take and the skibidi toilet praise, Jeff's channel is about to be all the rage on KZbin Kids

[@knightdehumidifier]

If you're exciting for the Dead Rising remaster, you're at an age where you're a Dad Rising.

[@Renoistic]

I'm pretty excited since I didn't own the console when i was released, and I never bought the rereleases due to the shopping list of issues the game has. This seems like the perfect opportunity to give it a go, even if the VAs are changed.

[@billhell7143]

Dood a crazy taxi mmo sounds wild and I'm amped for dead rising being back because it's been too long

[@Vub.]

Jeff timestamps for each topic would be great

[@IainJChrist]

Got a Super Sprint cab at my local Barcade (the peerless Arcade Club in Bury). Always a go to when I visit, the feeling when you nail spinning the wheel to pull through the loop is dynamite.

[@neauxway]

Nude barbecuing? Meat's back on the menu, gamers.

[@MEDUSAvsSHOE]

My issue with cosmic smash is that you can shift yourself to the left and right via the controllers, which is a no-no in VR games like this since you can falsely place your body in the room you are playing in. Your brain thinks you are one place, but the game has shifted you artificially. I nearly punched my wall thinking i was a foot further to the right than i actually was. Make sure you are in a REALLY large room. Even then, you might end up pulling your system over.

[@seafooddotcom]

Video games have come a long way since pac-man... it's about time somebody said it

[@shoopusdawhoopus]

look at the graphics of the zombie

[@meppers]

Hear me out: "Crazy Taxi 99"

[@mabutler1782]

That is a great idea!

[@CielBlanche]

Aside from the writing being weird linguistically, 2077 is also weirdly written "cyberpunk" in general (spoilers); In his mountains of dialogue, Johnny has one single line about watching corporations 'take land and water from the people', but that's not even the reason he opposes them. He's mad at one particular corporation that's got a 'Ubik'-type product, because he thinks it's crossing the line to own human souls, and he targets that corporation exclusively. Okay, he's not the usual subaltern kind of punk protagonist, that's fine. But then there's a lot of dialogue about how even this limited resistance on his part is just the product of his own silly teenage rebellion and ego. In the conclusion of his story, he 'grows up' from opposing unbridled capitalism and corporate power. He drives through the sunlit city at the end, commenting on how beautiful it is, if only he'd stopped being angry long enough to notice. Meanwhile, every evil corporation remains standing around him, carrying out the most profane shit imaginable... but, on other people, not him. He goes and buys an expensive designer guitar at a boutique shop -- hey kids, just be rich enough to ignore systemic oppression! Then there's that whole quest ridiculing communist and anarchist theorists as deranged crackpots -- ideologies about worker democracy and decentralized power respectively -- while ostensibly being a game about how bad corporate oligarchy is. The entire story almost shockingly has nothing to say... about anything. 2077: The cyberpunk genre, brought to you by neoliberals!

[@GravedSanctuary]

While I agree that it is written weirdly, by your description, it sounds like Johnny is an accidental reflection on a Silicon Valley bro culture that existed a decade or so ago, with their "unicorn startups" and Google buying up robotic startups by literal hundreds.

[@JazGalaxy]

I'm so happy you wrote this because I didn't get very far into the story and ultimately bounced off the game because I felt like it wasn't ABOUT anything. I'm a big fan of cyberpunk and games like Shadowrun, Rise of The Dragon, Snatcher, etc. but those games always felt like they had a point of view. Cyberpunk felt like it had NOTHING to say about anything it was depicting. I feel like they need to watch a lot more anime like Cowboy Bebop, Gunslinger Girls or Violence Action. Art where the point of a bleak situation is to highlight the beauty or humanity that exists even in the depths. A plant growing in the cracks of a burned out building. It felt like CDPR was actually in LOVE with the smut and didn't actually have any opinion on humanity at all.

[@Atrahasis7]

I agree, at least the Christ crucification sidequest was kinda neat, everything else felt very tame.

[@3Dant]

I feel a similar way, but about SF6's aesthetic. Weird corporate hip hop vibes, like hello fellow kids, I, too, am "street"

[@treatORtrick]

Jeff, I love it when you go digress into these industry stories. It reminds me of how Alice Cooper hosted his radio show. Moments filled with personal stories.

[@shoopusdawhoopus]

are you familiar with podcasts

[@moasto02]

I always would have preffered an 8 hr school day over having any homework. Homework is bs. Why are we trained to destroy the work/life barrier from a young age?

[@hughjass6086]

Do you also want to abolish bedtime

[@moasto02]

@hughjass6086 completely irrelevant, but sure. Fuck bedtime.

[@Renoistic]

That's actually an interesting point, but keeping kids cooped up in one place and expecting them to get anything done for i hours a day might be a tall order. I'm not against homework but it should be relevant and not just work for work's sake. It's extremely important use new languages as often as possible to actually learn anything for example - two classes a week isn't enough.

[@JazGalaxy]

The only two reasonable homework assignments are "practice these math problems because you need to straight grind it" and "read this book". Everything else is BS.

[@Silphage]

Never knew "gank" didn't originate from MMOs, wild.

[@BABA-is8kv]

Jeff, love you bro!

[@stayinthepocket]

If it doesn't have Gone Guru I ain't buying that shit

[@bonemaplegaming9324]

Thank god. Always wanted a louder version of Dead Rising with crisper highs.

[@dumpc]

Come to Brazil🇧🇷

[@bdre5555]

"It's nice being dumb. You don't have to think about stuff so much." Proof that Jeff is genius level.

[@AntiSocialHero]

But Stuff Arcades is making a home wheel specifically for games like Super Sprint, using new old hardware.

[@mr.selfimprovement3241]

On my pantheon of Most innvolvative titles in history (Top 5): Pac-Man, Super Mario Bros, Doom, Ocarina of Time and Minecraft.

[@mabutler1782]

These bards with all these shards bring the cards to the yards.

[@foreignuser_]

getting on here and listening to this fresh gerstmann drop

[@cikame]

Making cool characters is hard and i feel like non of these hero shooter games are doing it, at least for me, so when they're throwing wild and wacky colourful cosmetics at them and expecting me to be floored by the content i'm not on board i'm just bored, you need to make cool characters first. Remember when Street Fighter 3 came out and everyone was put off by the weird new cast of characters? That's how i feel about almost all modern games, except with SF3 decades later people would start to appreciate the cast for how different they are in the franchise, whereas we're not playing most of these hero shooters decades later so we're not building up to any nostalgia or novelty, it just looks crap then the servers get shut down.

[@TechMetalRules]

Cards... shards... I can't take it anymore!

[@stealfromwork]

Dead Rising was a run-based game before run-based games were super popular.

[@Jagerbomber]

I have a feeling we're going to get some stories of how the story of BG&E2 got F'd up similar to the story of Destiny

[@sleepwalkusa135]

trigger warning: somebody emailed about wrestling

[@patch9050]

I want a successor to Herzog Zwei game, but I don't know what genre I want that game to be

[@LouerTube]

The Guy Evans book Nitro kicks ass, he reveals new shit by interviewing a lot of corporate people and goes into a shit load of detail. Feels definitive in a way which makes me not want to bother engaging with any other takes on the aforementioned podcasts

[@misslethal2355]

Taking a drag from my cyber cigarette while the world descends into a corporate hell world that capitalism made seems pretty cyberpunk of us, really

[@RobMillersTube]

6:41 I just had a conversation with a Gen Z kid who didn't know THEIR OWN phone number 😬

[@JazGalaxy]

That's both fascinating and also completely reasonable. What was it, IRC where you had numbers backing your screen name but you never actually knew the numbers because it rarely surfaced? It may not have been IRC but it was SOMEthing like that. Meanwhile, I had a conversation with my 15 year old niece the other day where I asked her if she had ever actually had a phone conversation with anyone and she said no. Unless it was asking where someone was, it's strictly text. The idea of having an actual back and forth conversation where you go from topic to topic has never happened for her.

[@gnarledfork]

i picked up a quest 3 just the other week after trying the pico 4. the pancake lenses make it a big step up. i'm coming from the index for context

[@gnarledfork]

a lot of VR titles are looking more mature to me lately

[@JazGalaxy]

Quest 3 is phenomenal. I had a 2 and bought a 3 just to stay "current" and I was blown away by how necessary it is. It's not just an upgrade, it's a new bottom level in terms of quality of the experience. I kept seeing people saying they would buy a Quest 2 because it was on sale, but I was like, "NO. Save the extra money if you have to. It makes NO sense to buy a Quest 2 now when Quest 3 is the new bottom level of acceptable experience for VR." It really takes it to the next level.

[@uncertainultradian]

Re. the local/online multiplayer thing, I think that would be a good use of (modern) AI. It could learn from online players, complete with mistakes, letting you play Quake 3 or Rocket League against non-ninja opponents ever again. Maybe training/running an AI would require too much preparation & real-time processing for the idea to be practical though. I also feel like without a human witnessing what I do in a PVP game, none of it'd matter to me. Maybe it could have a persona consistent between games, and the player could make parasocial friends with it and feel socially invested in games against it as they might against random humans.

[@BigDrKoke]

There was a lot of Demon's Souls in the first Dead Rising.

[@RiskyFriskyHandle]

Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster talk 1:20:00 🧟‍♂️ 🧟‍♀️ 🧟

[@robdebone]

I watched a bunch of skibidi toilet w my kids we thought it was hilarious. It exploded like a week later. Im in my 30s been gaming all my life including PC and i have zero affinity for half life games. Why would a child today give a shit about It?

[@Phished123]

"someone could do it on a unicycle" OH WORD?!

[@BenGoodsonModular]

Dynowarz Disrespect

[@Jagerbomber]

Everyone should watch Meaning/Definition of the F Word when learning English.

[@olliemakesthree]

jeff gerstmann pax west?

[@Jagerbomber]

Following the 2000s becoming Retro comes piss video filters again and then drinking our own piss and selling it on the internet again

[@MuradBeybalaev]

Come on, man, you're way too bitter on voice-chatting strangers up. The jerks are out there for sure, but you also find so many nice people by engaging. Don't give up on humanity, old man. You've thrown the towel in prematurely. I'm no young bird either, but still find joy communicating online. You can too.

[@CielBlanche]

A lot of TNG/DS9 Star Trek is pretty explicitly anti-imperialist in a way that felt like the writers knew Chomsky and Gramsci and those kind of guys. There are actually episodes that I feel are meant to contrast the Federation's behavior against, say, the United States'. Like this one time, they've been in talks with a planet about membership for mutual benefit. It seems this planet has a very egalitarian society, useful technology, all around a great addition to the ol' Fed. Picard finds out they actually have this one demographic of people that they basically treat as subhuman. That group begins to threaten organized civil revolution. The prime minister presiding over this inequity asks his prospective new ally Picard for help in crushing the dissidents. At this point the USA would already be sending in machine guns and cocaine. Instead, Picard tells the prime minster that maybe they'll talk again when they learn how to respect human rights. Then he turns the Enterprise around right there and bails, leaving all the advantages the planet offered to the Federation on the table. It's true that Starfleet is organized like a military, but I think the two GOOD shows are thoughtful in depicting how they conduct themselves ethically. If anything, I think with the prime directive the Federation might even be overcorrecting against imperialist motives, because there are situations where it seems like it'd be an unambiguous good to interfere with another society, but they refuse to on principle. Wow, I miss Star Trek!

[@xBINARYGODx]

Yup, the federation doesn't really expand unless its to places no one lives - otherwise, people are asked if they want to join, and if they don't want to, they are basically left alone and permitted to cross Federation space as much as they want. interstellar setup doesn't need to be imperialist - they have access to basically unlimited energy to do what they want without taking over anyone's sh!t.

[@shoopusdawhoopus]

Federation has a military command structure because it's incredibly efficient and gets stuff done, which is attainable because no one has pride or ego to get in the way. jeff probably thinks it's imperialist because of the uniforms, lol.

[@shoopusdawhoopus]

If you want to see some REAL cognitive dissonance among trek detractors, however, you talk about Dear Doctor in ENT

[@JazGalaxy]

@@shoopusdawhoopus Well, no, it's Imperialist because it's imperialist. It's not real, so one can't discuss the issues realistically, but the Federation only works because the show is written for the Federation to always be right. As soon as the one guy who votes not to join the Federation gets overruled, his personal point of view is going to eb that they have been taken over by an Empire. Everything is just a point of view.

[@glmrgloam]

the actual standout problem of cyberpunk's 'american' verisimilitude was the way the characters speak. they constantly drop pronouns which is common in polish but is absolutely not common in american english. it's a continuation of the same kind of dialogue writing that was present in the witcher but didn't stick out so terribly in that fantasy setting. i personally can't stand the dialogue in cyberpunk for a few reasons, but that is a large one. it's stilted and everyone talks like fucking yoda.