Episode #954 - Forza 6, Lego Batman, Subnautica 2

Intro: The Game Store Guy returns

What’s going on with the Gamestore Guy?

Ghostbusters and soft serve outta yer butt / What’s hot?

Voicemail #1:

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This week, win :
• Lego Batman Legacy of the Dark Knight
• 007 First Light

10 sec. spotlight:

Michelle (aka, @CoastalMichelle)

• Michelle’s new Monitor – ROG Swift OLED
• Subnautica 2 – overhyped, but not bad. Swim. Drive. Scan.
• The Adventures of Elliot – The Millennium Tales – zelda-esque
• compare to Octopath
• Black Jacket – knda fun
• Forza / Batman
• Drinking: water

John (aka, @blkdog7)

• John is a helicopter guy
• Cleared Hot – start out in an Apache, play in a sandbox
• Forza / Batman
• Drinking: naragansette fresh catch

Kevin (aka, @CCGamesCEO)

• (PS5) Invincible Vs. – choppy animation. good combat.
• (Switch) Arcade Archives – Mr. Do –  CC’s all-time favorite arcade game
• Forza / Batman
• Drinking: ??

Roundtable: Forza Horizon 6

• On Gamepass / Steam / Xbox
• +$60 for premium version
• Paying more to play early
• First impressions / graphically gorgeous
• John’s theory of good reviews / choose your hearing aid
• Wowed on PC, meh on Xbox
• autotune your cars / decorate your garages
• a million things on the map to do
• pushing the limits with the mech thing
• Burning man 12 yo girl is too far
• destroying every tree / feels a little stale
• overall good game

Roundtable: LEGO Batman Legacy of the Dark Knight

• Lego game history
• Batman’s origin story (again)
• Open world / not just another Lego game
• no multi-player online / only local Co-Op
• Max graphics, 200FPS, look so good
• “Best game I played this week” – Michelle
• Not just a beat-em-up / using Mic on PS5
• Fun, little optional puzzles / collect-a-thon
• Don’t just skip this game because it’s Lego
• Now watch the Nolan trilogy again
• The combat’s not shit / breaking necks
• Child-like fun / Not only for kids
• Check it out – 3x recommended

News:

• Memory shortages continue
• Price hikes may 20 (Playstation)
• Jason Schreier says ” …
• What is Project Helix? / Gamepass will never be on Playstation
• Johnstradomus – Sony needs to do some proprietary type shit on next console
• Gamespot – console pricing games out of their element
• Is price the biggest problem
• Nintendo mobile game – Pictonico!
• Controller skin cheese / Licey headsets
• Playing on vacation
• Pictonico! – wario ware repurposed.
• Pokemon professor status denied!
• Player Voice on Xbox
• Playstation reveals player counts
• Talk about Yoshi / hagglers
• SNES / NES / handles

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