Sacred Symbols, Episode 77: Summer Samurai

Haha, Chris said his PS4 Theme has Halo in the back. My Microsoft profile image is the PlayStation logo.

Robert F Friemering

Yeah, I really dig what I've played.

Colin Moriarty

Michael Woodruff

From each according to his ability; to each according to his need.

Colin Moriarty

17:10 I didn't watch the game awards but when you mentioned Marx I had to go look it up. I guess this means it's cool for me to steal Disco Elysium since the people own the means of production right?

Context Should Matter

Thank you sir. We’ve been using google hangouts and it sounds like shit lol

Owen

😁

Joel Wood

Yeah, and it makes a bit more sense to me now that I've pondered.

Colin Moriarty

That's a really interesting point. Same could be said for movies, TV shows, comics...

Colin Moriarty

As they say, then: Buyer beware! That goes for who you listen to, too!

Colin Moriarty

=D

Colin Moriarty

No, it's definitely not you...

Colin Moriarty

Joel, was I not clear that I didn't want you to answer?!

Colin Moriarty

Zencastr, but we record locally.

Colin Moriarty

Shut it Josh!!!

Colin Moriarty

I think that's probably the right idea.

Colin Moriarty

Yeah, I had a hard time reconciling Prey's gameplay with everything else. I liked the game, but I just didn't want to actually PLAY it.

Colin Moriarty

I don't think I do...

Colin Moriarty

I'm good just streaming.

Colin Moriarty

I actually brought up Apple above to another commenter. I've thought about it a bit and I've come to that same conclusion. Makes a bit more sense to be now (though still not ideal).

Colin Moriarty

No, it's definitely not a Roomba. I own a Roomba. This thing is something quite powerful!

Colin Moriarty

Oh, behave!

Colin Moriarty

He is indeed silly.

Colin Moriarty

I guess iPhone isn't that confusing...

Colin Moriarty

I liked it.

Colin Moriarty

Someone write in with a correction!

Colin Moriarty

We have fun with it. =)

Colin Moriarty

Good!

Colin Moriarty

That one certainly caught us off guard.

Colin Moriarty

Some of them are obviously insane. Glad y'all get a kick out of it like we do.

Colin Moriarty

Thanks! We always have fun. =)

Colin Moriarty

Probably after you recorded this, MS decided that they're just having everyone call the Xbox Series X just "Xbox." I wonder if that sticks if people will just start calling them the Xbox 2001 and Xbox 2020.

Kaz Redclaw

About game innovation: I feel like innovation is lost to the generations. Basically, a younger generation comes along loving all these remakes buying all the stock; not really playing the games that birthed their style. So, they're really experiencing the game like it's the first of their kind, keeping the demand for redundancy alive.

Not Sure

Thanks for answering my question, also as to the response of "Why do you care?", I don't care personally but I know many people look to games journalist outlets for recommendations how they should spend their money and from the reviews I have read it seems like there is an unfair bias against DT. If a reviewer plays 60+ hour game for 2 hours and quits then they aren't doing their job of reviewing the game. Their job is not to like a game, their job is to play a game and give a review as to whether or not it is a good game or not. They should be informing people, not intentionally influencing them.

Chris Garcia

Holy shit the drop this week was hilarious!

I was vacuuming when you guys were talking about it and for a second I was nervous that I was the person above your apartment vacuuming when I realized that this isn’t live and I’m in Augusta Maine. Keep on keeping on!

John Fazio

Hey Guys. Dick is short for Richard the same way Bob is short for Robert. In the middle ages it became popular to give nicknames that were names that rhymed with shortened versions of the original name. Hence, Richard becomes Rick, Dick, or Hick, William becomes Will, Gill, or Bill, etc..

Joel Wood

What program are you and Chris using to communicate if I may ask? I’m always surprised he sounds so clear when you aren’t in the same room.

Owen

Monolith also made FEAR you chuckle fish

jab

I think you have the duty of writing the best description possible for Twin Breaker, then adding at the end something like: "Please feel free to use this write up as an example for your game, looter shooters not welcome".

Lucas Gremista

I'm guilty of favoring story over gameplay sometimes. 2017's Prey is probably the best example of a game I really enjoyed narrative and world exploration-wise despite the clunkiness of the gameplay. Though I maintain if Prey was a movie and not a game, I would love it twice as much.

Carlos Quintanilla

On the capcom conversation I would like to add that it would be cool to see a remake of Darkwatch. I feel like that game was very underrated. Does anyone remember this game?

KoRnTOOL

The Fine Chinacast. 😄 There’s a Redbox at my supermarket and I’ve tried to use it but it’d never accept my card, so I said fuck it and never used it. 🤷🏻‍♂️ GoT looks good. I’m expecting 8.5s at the lowest. I don’t know how hot NFS Heat is doing when it had a sale announced before the game even came out and it already has a permanent price drop. Maybe PS4 players are that desperate for a decent racing game. I’m actually on the opposite end of Chris where I only keep PS4 themes that have good music.

NeO JD

They actually did confirm the new name is just Xbox. But each new xbox is going to be part of a different series. This new one is series X. They have another series they haven't revealed yet that's more budget oriented with less power and judging off their naming conventions I'd venture to guess it'll be the Series S. Then whenever they decide to make new consoles they'll just give em a new series name. The apple naming scheme. I personally don't like it but I guess we'll see how it lands with the public.

Benito

Couple of quick thoughts on this weeks episode: firstly Colin, your upstairs neighbors may have a Roomba vacuum which you can run all you damn well please because you don't have to do anything other than set a schedule and let it work. I do this to keep my cat's hair under control. Secondly, Red Robin offers bottomless steak fries (which is kinda cool I guess) but also offers bottomless floats. Root beer or coke floats or whatever soda you like and they will indeed bring you all the ice cream or soda you can consume during your stay. I'm not a huge fan of Red Robin, but those 2 things are quite the draw when it comes to picking between equivalent price point and dining experiences sometimes that can tip the scales.

How do you get dick from Richard? Well.... you ask nicely

Chris B

Oh Silly Chris. You can disable the background sounds on the XMB. Go to settings, Sound and Screen, System Music and uncheck the box. Any theme with music won't play.

Haydyn

I personally do not understand MS when presenting the Xbox brand. I imagine they are trying to present the new Xbox as one of those home devices like Amazon Echo or Apple's Homepod, but it just looks too big and bulky. There there is the names. How is having all these products like the Xbox One, the Xbox One X, the Xbox One S, the Xbox One S All-Digital, or the Xbox Series X not going to be confusing to say parents or what not?

John Apocalypse

Memories of Celceta is literally horseshit.

There’s No I in LLC

Tell Chris there is a option to turn of the sounds for themes. It’s in the settings.

LE

I love when the drop just totally derails both Colin and Chris and its just devolves into laughter and anger.

FoxHopSmash

I believe it's in the sound and screen settings.

Bogey Zero

Chris, you can absolutely turn off the theme music and sound. In fact you can toggle them on/off independently. (Keep music but turn off menu sounds and vice versa)

Bogey Zero

I laughed like 20 times this episode.

Caleb Greer

This week's drop has to be one of the all time best. I was dying of laughter when Treasure Rangers came up xD Oh btw, that other indie game that referenced Kingdom with a capital K most likely was referring to the long running and lauded historical fiction manga, Kingdom, based loosely on the Warring States period in China.

JD

The drop this week had me in stitches. I love when you guys laugh at all of the absurdity of the write ups for these games.

Billy Wright

Great episode this week guys. Well every episode is a great episode but this one was especially great, seemed like you guys had a lot of fun recording this one. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Anthony Gigi

Yes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pczrASkYGSo

Colin Moriarty

Yeah, it doesn't seem like a huge deal. I won't be getting one, so I'll be putting it nowhere.

Colin Moriarty

I don't know, but we like doing it. LOL.

Colin Moriarty

Well, we discussed this a week or two ago, in regard to Microsoft's once-big push to get JRPGs (like Blue Dragon, etc.), and how it didn't work. But there IS an audience for EVERYTHING on EVERY console!

Colin Moriarty

Outside of games -- which obviously is paramount -- I love the moves Xbox has been making.

Colin Moriarty

See, I knew it.

Colin Moriarty

Maybe it was the roaches pleasuring themselves.

Colin Moriarty

LOL.

Colin Moriarty

It's a wait worth... waiting.

Colin Moriarty

Colin can I get a link to that Civ tutorial?

I don't really get the hang up about the form factor of the new XBox, particularly how some can't wrap their minds around where the Series X will be set on the entertainment center. Like, literally just put it the same place you set your Nintendo Switch dock.

Jack Sibert

I think the lack of outrage over FF7's exclusivity just comes down to genre. Sure there have been Final Fantasy games on Xbox, and with X enhancements players with both consoles will likely want to go with xbox, but I don't think there are many JRPG-specific fans out there who only own an Xbox One, and I'm pretty sure the ratio of sales of games like FF15 and Kingdom Hearts 3 on both platforms speak to that. I wouldn't be surprised if their PS4 versions outsold their Xbox counterparts 10 to 1.

Travis Johnson

It’s also kinda weird cause the name of the new console is kinda what colin has been saying the PlayStation and Xbox should do just call them by their name

Adamthm

I like the look, the name or designation is whatever really, at this point I just look at either box as simply Playstation and Xbox regardless of the number or designation. As far as reveals go it may not have set everyone's world on fire but its certainly a far cry from that disastrous 2013 reveal and it's already at 3 times the views of the Scarlett trailer from E3 so whatever they did, it worked. They just keep going about everything real business like with relatively low drama and fuss, which like you say Colin is probably what they need to do. Really really interested to see the new Playstation design now and yes if it's anything like the dev kit (surely not) may god have mercy on our souls

Craig Mcguire

Isn't it confirmed the new Xbox is just called "Xbox" not Xbox series x

There's actually a burger restaurant in Minneapolis named Red Cow.

Michael Krivo

Sounds like a vibrator

Tbh that shit sounds like a reaper horn from mass effect lol

Adamthm

Was waiting for this to go live. Let’s do this!

Adam Thiry