Sacred Symbols, Episode 271 | Great Artists Steal

Very good, but Nintendo is not known for quality but nostalgia. The games run and look about the same as GameCube with not much content outside of Zelda.

Robbie Cooper

I’m not sure if we can fully blame Colin yet for Aaron Rodgers. It is the most Jets thing ever.

Antonio C.

Colin, my bro. I struggle each week to decide which topic to bless the comments with my take on. You already know your prediction of Aaron Rodgers’ season ending injury take the prize. I’m sorry you will be inexorably linked to this tragic event, but hey, maybe some Tebow-esque second string magic is headed your way. My condolences for the more likely scenario.

Greg Hommel

Colin, what did you do? You jinxed our boy. Literally watched Aaron Rodgers go down the minute you said he would be out in week 4.

Josh Walker

Also, to help people out who get hung up on "gender neutral bathrooms," they're just "bathrooms."

Ray

Regarding 2:25:50, astrological signs actually very much exist in ES Morrowind and Oblivion as birth signs; and Skyrim in the form of standing stones. So that's a very funny argument for someone to make regarding pronouns.

With Baldur’s Gate 3 and encumbrance, I just send items and camp supplies I pick up back to camp. Love that feature

Ignorant Primate

Jesus I’m listening to this Monday night and heard the Rodgers comment and immediately was like “Colin noooo 😂”

Draven E.

Colin really cursed the Jets and Aaron Rodgers

Feel bad for jets fans but screw AR. Go spend another week at a darkness retreat hippie

Chris Adams

Well Colin, Aaron Rodgers didn’t tear his acl, but probably his Achilles smh. I feel bad for Jets Fans

Raymond keys

The starfield clip going around was taken out of context and painted specifically about the pronouns when in reality the rant wasn't even at the pronoun selection. It was a culmination of all the things adding up. The outrage was meant to garner clicks, which it did, and now people like Chris painting it as "no big deal" is the exact point. Chris also acting like he was in good faith on social media is completely disingenuous. Colin has an incorrect picture of the situation and will not know the actual discourse because of a clip, how about watching and sharing the entire video and gleam the actual points. I personally found starfield boring and can't invest 50 hours to let it "get going"

Ryan Wargo

Colin, thank you for talking about AI like you did. I work back office customer service for a major corporation and the push to AI has been big focus. I even find that most of my co-workers don’t understand how AI works or what it is. This push is clearly to replace a major portion of our front line entry level staff but it’s not considered appropriate to talk about it. Also, creatives absolutely take a financial risk in creative media, but this doesn’t have to do with quality but profit. Making a movie that underperforms absolutely makes it harder to get work. Big names will get more chances and those are the people the media covers, but a nobody director or actor that make a bomb may lose their career.

Xemphanis

I don’t like Starfield, but that’s because I’m just not a fan of huge open world RPGs. But to say it’s “not good”, is kinda crazy. It may not be to one’s tastes, but it’s still a good game. However, my biggest gripe is that it’s just entirely unoptimized for PC and runs like dogshit. Even for high end hardware, it struggles. Hopefully that gets fixed, but it’s a good game, despite not being aligned with my tastes.

Brandon Garvin

I’m glad Chris gave me something to look forward to in Starfield. The opening hours are so deeply off putting that it’s been hard to find the motivation to play it.

Oliver Johnson

When I read the GTA rumor, I didn’t think of it as the base sku. I figured it’d be some special edition with early access for $150 which I could see. If anybody’s gonna push that play early version to the max, it’ll be them. Col, I think you’d dig Starfield. It’s Fallout in space, and not like The Outer Worlds. I’ve mostly been doing missions and it’s dope. Probably going to end up being my favorite Bethesda game.

NeO JD

Chris hits the nail on the head. Looking for something "woke" so you can complain and make content out of it. "Pillar of Garbage" a small YouTuber (85k) has a video about this. He calls it "wokespotting".

Dennis

I don't get why Colin thinks that 70% on MC for Immortals of Aveum is crazy. It totally looks like it's a 7/10 game (7 means it's alright! Not total crap) and with that kind of marvel-type bad writing for some people it deserves even a lower score. 🤷‍♂️ You just need to watch a few cutscenes from this game for a headache from rolling your eyes and facepalming

Danio

I strongly disagree

Zeke the Plumber

I've been loving immortals of aveum it reminds me of Doom meets kingdom of amular. It's a shame it's not selling better. It's easily an 8-8.5 out of 10 game

Wayde

My grandpa on my mothers side is bald and my brother and I have absolute lion manes in our 30s with no signs of it leaving.

Tanner Denso

Amen. Everyone saying it's not a big deal or that it takes 2 seconds to move on to the next screen or that "I didn't even notice it", yeah that's the point. These things don't start in your face. They creep in slowly and you slowly tolerate them more and more until they are considered "normal".

Shadi Haddad

You have completely missed the point of the outrage about the pronoun thing. The game isn't simply asking "male or female"... It's asking about PRONOUNS which are in itself a ridiculous and novel thing that deranged people have latched onto. You could be unmistakably a female but DEMAND that others call you "Him/Them" It's an absolutely asinine phenomenon that has been forced onto everybody in real life in the last 5 years or so... So when we see shit like this in all of our media (videogames, movies, shows, sports) it tends to speak volumes. I'm all about freedom and choice and fantasy in RPG's and videogames... But this is so obviously a super specific political/social sign of the times right now that it isn't ignorable. I agree the guy shouldn't scream and holler about it online but honestly I get why he did. Go ahead - call me "noninclusive" or a "bigot" or a "right wing maga" all you want. I'm not... I don't care anymore. I'm just sick and tired of society telling me I'm wrong and hateful because I don't want to acknowledge someone's fucking "Xe/Xir" pronouns.

Jason

Immortals of Aveum looks like the most bland, cookie cutter game design possible, in every way. It might well be a competently made game but it has absolutely no ‘hook’ to bring people in. Far Cry games have the brand history, Fenyx Rising had Greek Mythology, Ghostwire Tokyo had the Japanese urban aesthetic etc. It just looks completely meh.

Rich Price

Interested to hear Colin’s thoughts on starfields soft critical reception

Big titty drinker

Just to say I wonder why it was a few uk outlets who never got a copy do we give lower scores we are more cynical in general .

Garry

Can we please get jaffe to cohost SS next week in place of Dustin that would be awesome!!!!

Chris C.

Many people in Hollywood resent and look down upon the average person, so I can understand why they'd be bitter. I still understand the principle of the matter, though. They should get a better deal.

Max Stahl

Oof, “ham & egger” might still get flagged by the AI as-is…

FrenchFryFiasco

You want to start Gundam with no prior knowledge and just wanna watch something awesome? 08th MS Team dude. The rest will butterfly out from there. Or Iron Blooded Orphans if you want something totally self contained and modern.

Noah Friscopp

Talking about mech anime, I watched Escafloné as a kid and remember it being dope as fuck

Jay Bayles

Got to drive all day for work. Been clicking refresh on my feed till SS showed. I'm ready lol.

nicholas

Trepang 2 is great Colin. Its only 6 hours at the most and a easy game to 100% . A very fun turn your brain off game.

Jack Doheny