Sacred Symbols, Episode 173: Mouse and Runeboard

Hey Colin. Been a Patreon for a bit but haven't really used it so sorry if this isn't how we do things but I just had a question for you. I still haven't gotten a PS5 yet ( Series X and PS4 Pro) I still have some games in my backlog like Last of Us 2, Death Stranding and Ratchet and Clank, still haven't bought Miles Morales. Do you think it's best to wait until I have a PS5 for that sweet sweet 60fps. I haven't played a 30fps game since moving to Series X. Hope you have a great day/night love from Australia

Thel4stSAIYAN

Not to be a conspiracy theorist, but I think the whole Blue Box thing was just an accidental very successful stupid publicity stunt. I think the tweets about death threats and such are probably him getting ready to give an excuse to 'cancel the game'. I put that in quotes because there is no active evidence that this game has ever existed

Paul Andrew

As an avid trophy hunter I have to vehemently disagree with Colin's assertion to play Bioshock as a "1-playthrough" game to get the Platinum for someone who is brand new to the game. Having to constantly save scum to get the Survivor and Vita-chamber trophies would be very immersion-breaking and just add unneeded frustration to the experience. Having to do a second (or more) playthrough is annoying, but ultimately would lead to a much better reception to the game IMO

Greg Bruce

I like the way you think lol

superbadisfunny .

Most of the time I'll do a run as a man where I'm a nice guy and basically role play as myself. And then a run as a woman and I'll be a complete bastard

NuclearProstate

Fair enough.

Colin Moriarty

Interesting.

Colin Moriarty

I think people are misunderstanding my point.

Colin Moriarty

Welcome.

Colin Moriarty

As a guy I play as a woman 99% of the time cause usually their gear looks better and more creative than the guys.

superbadisfunny .

I haven’t read through the comments to see if anyone else has touched on this, but the douchey tone is integrated into the dBrand brand voice. If you look at their Twitter, product pages, and the ad integrations they do with other YouTubers (example, Linus Tech Tips) the language around darkplates makes more sense.

Kingstons Grandma

OH MY GOD THAT FART. Now I know I'm officially part of the Sacred Symbols Family, the free farters

Oistuh

@Christian R I just renewed, and will continue to support the service until it does me dirty. The way I look at it is if I normally buy two full price games a year (I do,) The service provides me with a one-to-one value, and anything after those two full price games are "free" in a sense. This year the two biggies are Halo/Forza, games I intended on purchasing already. I just played through all of Control, and bought the DLC (I never do that,) and obtained all of the achievements. I just did the same for Subnautica, and am now playing Subnautica Below Zero. That's just within the last month. My buddy and I are planning to play Back 4 Blood on Halloween, and I have played and completed a handful of other games this past year. It should be noted I love Indie games, and think that's where you find most of the creativity these days, so the library as of now appeases me completely. The amount of value I have extracted out of game pass within 2 years is staggering. This doesn't really prove anything, but I thought you might appreciate the anecdote from a satisifed user.

Tonys_Always_Write

Kit Harington is 5’8. Tom Holland is 5’7. I’m 5’9, which according to Google is the average Male height in the US. Are you calling me small Colin? You big ogre you.

NeO JD

Why wouldn't a straight man want to play as a straight man, that makes no sense.

Colin Moriarty

=)

Colin Moriarty

We've talked about it a lot on previous episodes. Google around!

Colin Moriarty

Monthly income generated (gross) would be more useful than subscriber numbers, no doubt. It's like when people say a game has "reached" a certain amount of people, or had a certain amount of players... doesn't really matter.

Colin Moriarty

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Colin Moriarty

Good!

Colin Moriarty

LOL.

Colin Moriarty

That's the thing: The die is cast, and now we'll see if it works.

Colin Moriarty

You may not think they're necessary, but that one of the greatest survival horror games of all-time -- widely considered the first modern game in the genre -- has been edited for content is a big story, full stop.

Colin Moriarty

Excellent.

Colin Moriarty

Playing favorites, perhaps.

Colin Moriarty

LOL.

Colin Moriarty

Fair enough.

Colin Moriarty

That would be rad.

Colin Moriarty

True.

Colin Moriarty

There's a lot of potential, but they seem to be starting off with a dud (though, again, not as bad as I thought it'd be).

Colin Moriarty

Even the stinger looks budget.

Colin Moriarty

Wishful thinking. =D

Colin Moriarty

RIP indeed.

Colin Moriarty

They didn't go out; something up with Patreon at the time.

Colin Moriarty

=)

Colin Moriarty

Let's be fair: It was upped in post. =)

Colin Moriarty

That would be ridiculous if they remade that game.

Colin Moriarty

Apparently they didn't go out. Sorry. =\

Colin Moriarty

Prison.

Colin Moriarty

Fair enough.

Colin Moriarty

I think it's possible they go day-and-date one day, but not any time soon.

Colin Moriarty

I am male, and I always make female characters. I don’t understand why a straight male wants to look at a man for several hours.

Dana Anderson

Not this one!

Colin Moriarty

A correction of what? We said it was a major success and it wasn't well-received critically. No correction necessary, because all of that is true.

Colin Moriarty

Of course you did, they truly boosted it.

Colin Moriarty

That would be cool.

Colin Moriarty

Interesting. And lame! Write in the next thread.

Colin Moriarty

LOL. On PSN in 2021.

Colin Moriarty

I think you mean Pubix.

Colin Moriarty

Dustin saying "change it up" gave me D2: Mighty Ducks flashbacks

TheJoe-senOne

Game Pass fosters a jaded mindset in the gaming community. The mindset of not caring about new releases, jumping in and jumping out of things earlier than normal, and no incentive to keep a pulse on the industry as I’ll just look at what’s featured. Microsoft is trying to foster some sort of collectivist position as it relates to playing games. They serve rentals and entice/encourage devs to come on board or get lost in the sea of titles. Plus, their internal teams are seemingly told to take forever with their games…not encouraging crunch, but almost no new projects have dropped yet…still waiting for The Game Awards to get a 60 second trail for Hellblade II and then an early 2024 release.

The Eclectic Gamer

Love this take. Ever since the Uncharted games were announced for PC I realized that was how they were going to bring TLOU to PC, through the remake. And yes, PC players knowing Sony's PC plan makes them (and me) ever more patient. They will wait for the PC versions. I still haven't played GOW :)

Could someone please point me in the right direction to understand the "death threats" topic?

Bhaeron

Trust me he gonna play it maybe one more time then forget about it…the fact that he openly admitted to doing so is all the proof I need considering that he drops many games he claims to enjoy that he isn’t compelled to be part of a spoilercast for. He know his bread and butter is his YouTube channel so when Halo drops, he likely not gonna play anything else.

The Eclectic Gamer

I’m interested in seeing what the Gamepass renewal numbers are. Many subscribers are still under free or discounted memberships.

Cristian R

Dude you're being cringe.

It happened again…Both Colin and Chris were talking about Deathloop and obviously still confused about what is going on and Dustin is just waiting idly by….WHY?!?!? Literally what I want most from this podcast is discourse around playing video games and it feels like they’re actively working to avoid doing so unless they label the episode a Review Discussion/Spoilercast…which usually just involve reader questions/comments guiding the discussion as opposed to their own. Anyway, the issue Chris is saying “how much time do I have in the day” ummm there is no advancement unless you prompt it. Also, you don’t need to worry about “weird materials” it’s literally ONE item that is basically like currency in the game smh. Plus, the loop is present to acquire knowledge and the story plays out regarding the stability of the loop and what happens when visionaries are killed so when the realization comes that all of them have to be killed in a single loop as well as other aspects of the story then becomes the actual act of doing so that is the crux to the game. You can ask for the game to be linear like hitman because then it changes its entire essence and the whole universe of Black Reef.

The Eclectic Gamer

Colon Morearty

gekko

I laughed a lot at the thumbnail

Scott

Thank goodness you didnt have a 47th discussion about bidets, your favorite condiment or whatever else. Been skipping 1/3 of the S.S. podcast quite often.

Douglas Morreale

Why would they do that? That 1 game they're gonna make more money than they're gonna make off of a 1/2 a year of game pass subscriptions. The biggest downside the game pass is the fact that Microsoft is not gonna make any money on sales of video games. The only way that game pass makes them money is by making lots of their games have microtransactions

Wayde

I have both next Gen Consoles and I have probably a dozen games for my PS5 and 0 for my series x. With all the 1st party exclusives coming to gamepass day one there is 0 incentive for me to purchase these games. I bet I spend 5 times as much money on playstation then I do xbox year to year. I just don't know how xbox is going to make any money or as much money with gamepass.

Wayde

One thing that Microsoft absolutely needs to do is prompt potential buyers in the storefront: "You are about to purchase a first party game that is available in Game Pass moving forward; would you instead like to subscribe to for $1 for your first 3 months?"

Tonys_Always_Write

Honestly I would just be rolling my eyes at the weird comments towards Ashley. I thought they were weird and forced in the first place. Not sure it’s honestly that much of a story. To me, this isn’t the west missing out on Japanese games or other true forms of censorship we encounter here.

Robert Graham

Def heard the fart 🤙

lazer_josh

Sega's been really weird lately. VF5 Ultimate Showdown only came to PS4, Phantasy Star Online New Genesis only came to North America for Xbox and the House of the Dead remake has only been announced for Switch. Wonder what all that's about.

Carlos Quintanilla

so Hideo Kojima has to ask Sony to speak to you? Also Sony should just release its own game store on PC like EA and Ubisoft and get all the cut instead of 70%

Hose A Contra Razz

I ALWAYS play as a female when given the option. If I'm going to be looking at a character for 10-80 hours, I'd rather not be stuck watching a meathead.

Daniel

Crazy Taxi battle royal

Travis B

I think it’s important to note that real wages are down this year due to inflation. Worker strikes aren’t exactly a win when inflation blows everything up.

DeucesBruh

TLOU remastered bundled with factions will be the first day and date on PC IMO. Also gonna push back on Colin somewhat, PC gamers that don't own a PS4 will wait, ain't nothing gonna bait those guys.

Craig Mcguire

I'm very excited for the future of PlayStation Productions. It would be a good way to make the people in my life who don't play games be interested in characters/stories I care about. Let's hope that Uncharted, TLOU, Twisted Metal and the rest turn out to be quality products.

Real Radec

i went into the uncharted trailer expecting schlock garbage but what i got was straight up bland. i think that’s the worst possible outcome. uncharted has an instantly recognizable theme and you use led zeppelin? that’s page 1 of the first trailer playbook haha

Jacob

A Halloween Sacred Symbols with costumes would be welcome

Joshua Brown

Me too..! Tbh I’m going try it the way they described it. It makes sense, just never thought of it. But you still gotta put more water on the tooth paste though right? Because the top of toothpaste will still be too dry.

Andrew

Chris playing an anime game? uwu Looking forward to his opinion on the next Atelier game :)

Andrew

RIP Pathmark. The Baldwin location was my parents supermarket of choice and I spent many a Saturday afternoon there with my mom shopping for Sunday dinner

Joe McPartlin

I didn't receive a Patreon email notification letting me know this week's episode of Scared Symbols was available. is this a Patreon issue or was one not sent out? just curious as I never come to the Patreon website. I exclusively view the YouTube video through the email notification. thanks.

Can’t believe no one called out the Austin powers reference!

DB Cooper

Holy shit I'm a mad man. I always put the toothpaste on first, then put water on afterwards.... I never realized I was doing it wrong my whole life!

DarthLemon616

Colin's rectum must be nearly as empty as his soul after that whopper

Harrl

Frickin hilarious.

Joseph smith

In regards to the Irish singer and the game she is talking about , I’m surprised no one has mentioned the PS3 game Folklore

Peter Medema

Did anyone else not get an email notification about this ep?

Terrence Aubrey Harris

Justice for those that put toothpaste on first and then wet the brush!!!

Dylan Paulson

I work at Acme for 20 years and they're overpriced.

Derek Alcott

Congrats on the flatulence, Colin.

Rick the Turnip

Just want to briefly touch on the PC aspect. I have a high end PC where I do +90% of my gaming and I have a PS5 for the 1st party exclusives. If the gap continues to be 2-4 years I will continue to play them on PS. If they are day and date I will sell my PS and never look back. I'm probably not representative of your average PS gamer, HOWEVER I do want to point out that around the PS4 Pro I remember comments from some Sony exec saying that certain hardcore gamers move away during the console generation and the Pro would work to recapture them.

Ealia Staroverov

Gotta be Ken Levine for the developer interview, no?

Rage.Quit_Richard

Quick correction on Warcraft. It was sort of an outlier when it comes to video game movies. Fans of the games actually enjoyed the movie. It has a 76% and 8.2 for the audience score on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic respectively. Not a great movie by any stretch but a surprisingly good flick.

Jared Ketner

I heard the fart lol

Edwin Garcia

Aw man I hope Sega brings back Condemned. That game scared the heck out of me back in the day, and the forensic science tools/gameplay was really cool.

Kenneth Oms

Yeah seems like the typical, overly ambitious expectations mega corporates always have regarding growth.

What up guys! In relation to the RE4 “censorship” and PlayStation doing it. I was going upload a video to Twitter straight from the PS5 the other day and it didn’t let me because the text had the word “shit” in it. The sentence was going to be “Julianna (Deathloop) ain’t got shit on me!” Because I one shot killed the other online player that invaded me and was a hype moment. So best believe if RE4 VR comes to PSVR one day, it will probably be that Oculus version. The RE4 Remake will probably have none of that at all either. Keep it up!

Jeff Caseres

I’m excited to watch the Uncharted movie on FX in 2023.

Stephen Forgione

On the whole game pass thing it’s not like it lost people. It increased only 37% and not 48%.

Sfish616

I’m parked outside a Publix right as I’m listening to your statements and now I’ll never look at the name the same way.

Forrest Hunter