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0:00 THEME OF SLAYER; KOREAN

0:36 Welcome to the castle super wednesday cast~! The day before the game awards. The TGAs, or the the game awards! Can’t be titled the VGAs, and spike owns that

EARLY NEWS

1:29 pat’s idea: pay pat ten million dollars to be tall. If he doesn't deliver, pay him to be on any project you want.

 - 2:31 its a joke about sony and bungie. Destiny has made no money. THe soul crushing environment at bungie, sony execs vs. bungie execs and the layoffs.

 - - 4:22 the IGN article itself. The sheer number of cuts made. “Is leadership getting cuts?” “bungie’s not that kind of company.”

 - - 7:31 the people that got laid off, like lawyers and the head of clubs for women, the impaired, and lgbtq+.

 - - 8:51 pat’s cost cutting measure: just cut QA and outsource it. Good QA needs to work with devs.

 - - 12:33 the best quote: the layoffs are a lever they will pull again. Reading the writing on the wall.

 - - 14:55 on the heels of marathon coming back… except not. Final shape needs to be good, but just do it without wanting to be at work, at all.

 - - 16:31 the post acquisition death spiral continues. Time to make everything more expensive which will cause players to leave. Pat missed it already happened.  

 - - 17:46 increased hostility between leadership and the teams.

 - - 18:25 imagining the state of the board room. Destiny somehow being an example of a successful live service model, despite not being successful. The ship slowly deteriorating.

 - - 21:02 is there anything unannounced they’re working on? And they’re supposed to be overseeing the live service division. And acquisitions just result in things falling apart.

 - - - 22:31 system shock and who owned it. Embracer group having all these IPs that will just languish away in a safe somewhere.

 - - 23:57 listing off layoffs from various companies, the price increase for destiny earlier in the year

 - - 25:32 glassdoor, the review site. Check out bungie’s page. The upper and middle management not listening to anyone below.

 - - - 27:32 bethesda also having similar complaints. “But what if we bring in outside producers.” the board blocking animation changes at bethesda, not todd.

 - - 29:56 the fire is ongoing.

30:40 time to wash it down with 7UP. Too bad it's not mountain dew. So, verification cans are real now. AI can scan twitch streams for product placements. Keep the mountain dew on screen at ALL TIMES.

 - 32:53 all you need to do is have the can on screen. You can say or do anything to the can.you want to use a FULL can.

 - 34:17 mountain dew has been charging their power. Mountain dew always being aggressively marketed. The rumor of mountain dew kills your balls.

 - 37:20 if you want to leave the platform, make sure you keep a can of mountain dew ready to go oout with a bang.

 - 38:25 the vice article on mice drinking mountain dew. Also hold up the ultrasound that you’re still virile. Drink mountain dew, never have to wear rubber.

 - 39:49 pat feels this’ll be over fast once someone takes… advantage.

40:16 Twitch pulling out of south korea. The fees to run in korea are ten times higher. The lack of net neutrality means they can charge twitch whatever they want to run in korea. An explanation on net neutrality.

 - 43:34 there’s an endless history of corruption here too

 - 44:40 pat wishes the secret cabal running korea would allow for better prices

45:29 there’s new vampire survivors DLC coming. Among us joins the roster. Announced via amongus astronauts doing diebuster shit.

WEEK OF THE BEAST LORDS

PAT

47:09 Pat played Alan Wake. Gene park (currently on strike): video games can include all mediums.

 - 48:40 a sequence where pat just stopped and stared with his mouth open for a solid 16ish minutes. Its as much an MGS6 as death stranding was.

 - 49:23 does streaming it change anything? An audience helps catch stuff you missed.

 - 50:08 hitting a point where discussing it is impossible now. Excellent use of sam lake tho. Pat is excited to see the old gods of asgard perform at the TGAs. go check out pat at patstaresat for more of this

 - 51:13 finding the script as you play that tells you future events. Telling you the whole plot of the game up front.

 - 53:39 pat: not as good as baldur’s gate tho. Did the original Alan Wake approach this type of quality?

 - - 56:12 one thing that would not make sense if you didnt play control

57:21 beat like a dragon: gaiden. Has the best ending of any of the yakuza games. It only works if you played 1, 2, 3, and 6. The worst games are 1, 3, and 6.

59:23 finishing alan wake, watching the game awards, and rogue trader later in the week. Also, there’s a SIGNIFICANT patch to baldur’s gate III. it added the equivalent of the citadel DLC to the game. There are so many things they took into account. It’s got everything, even the memes.

 - 1:02:18 woolie isnt sure how open the main story is. Its really open ended.

 - 1:03:17 on minthara, and now an easier way to recruit her. People figuring out how to recruit her without killing before by sheep heisting her.

 - 1:05:48 when you go to camp and go the inventory, the whole party is there. They also changed how the radial wheel works on the controller.

 - 1:07:20 honor mode, iron man mode with fixed the broken stuff, so you can keep broken tech in a normal playthrough but not in this mode. The game is also harder.  

 - - 1:10:38 beating honor mode gives you a gold d20

 - 1:11:23 custom mode, difficulty toggles. This would be a DLC normally. Hiding filed perception rolls, ick physics.  

 - 1:13:12 breaking astarion’s kiss animations, so now redoing all kiss animations.

 - 1:14:22 blowing the citadel DLC out of the water. This is just a patch.

 - 1:16:17 the saves just work. And the massive changelog.

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WOOLIE

1:29:48 birthday stream happened! Happy birthday woolie! Continued armor core VI. Opening up the backseat to talk about builds.

 - 1:32:07 woolie wants to use the gattling guns. What makes that viable? And how about the pile bunker?

 - 1:33:40 they nerfed the pile bunker. Its still the best melee weapon. How to combo with it.  

 - 1:35:00 dad telling you how to work on a car, except its chat.

 - 1:36:11 fighting the worm.

 - - 1:37:13 missing the press X to stare at something.

 - - 1:38:51 keeping an eye on the glowing horizon, managing to catch that moment.  

 - - 1:41:34 pat and alan wake 2 feeling like he missed something but he didn’t.

 - - 1:42:12 video games giving you freedom to look, but some cases it’d be nice to be forced to look. Gears of war 2 and players not looking at things.

 - - 1:44:32 alan wake and it really wanting you to watch a short video, and how they get you to watch it

 - 1:47:11 the worm is way bigger than woolie thought. And then the real raven. What the real pilebunker build is.

 - 1:50:31 woolie going hard on the boost. Not wanting to get hit at all, but that’s not feasible. On what you should and shouldnt pay attention to.

 - 1:53:26 woolie is soon to hit a wall. Although apparently the wall got nerfed.

 - 1:55:30 circle strafing.

 - 1:57:02 the alternate endings. Pat on the game not getting hard enough on subsequent playthroughs.

1:58:21 holocure. Its one of the really good ones. Woolie wishes he could just have an auto lock and not care.

 - 2:00:20 the first level is really easy. Then getting to teh second level and hitting a wall

 - 2:00:57 vampire survivors dropped a content update while they were talking. The adventure mode.

 - - 2:02:05 woolie is excited to see what the amongus characters can do. Meanwhile, back to grinding holocure

2:02:40 killer instinct anniversary patch. Game’s still nuts and still alive.

 - 2:04:19 games still default open mic.

2:04:38 dragonball fighterZ has rollback now. Although pat couldn't get 1 match. Wifi huh?

 - 2:06:48 woolie had a bunch of great matches. It just worked.

2:07:10 wrapping up FFIX. went to distant worlds. Heard some great music.

 - 2:09:04 the pop off for souken was louder than uematsu.

2:09:50 the game awards tomorrow! Go check it out on woolieversus. Look at all these rumors. Did you see that blurry elphelt? Nokia camera leaks arent real anymore.

 - 2:13:27 how about ed?

2:14:55 the virtua fighter 2 japanese cabinet joke. And people don’t get virtua fighter in general.

 - 2:17:28 throw mechanics. And translation foibles. Send that saved shiba inu image to pat.

 - 2:19:58 virtua fighter is the proof that you should focus on visuals. And woolie asks what they should do. Pat: just add 2 new characters, everything’s the same. But the caveat: only 1000 people then you can’t download it

 - 2:21:58 no fireballs, no neutral skips. But if they did make a change: low punch from 8 frames to 12 frames. But then there’s a bar that changes it back to 8 frames.

 - 2:24:04 pat, convince the board for a virtua fighter 6. Its supposed to look boring! What if they added yakuza characters to the roster? Pat says no.

 - 2:26:00 Remember when goh showed up?

2:26:43 have you heard of panera lemonade? Apparently it’s killed 2 people. The charged lemonade with a crazy amount of caffeine in it. A lemonade that equals 3 cans of monster.

NEWS

2:28:58 woolie turned on his big voice too strong. Did you know black people live in florida? Look at all these black people in florida in the GTA VI trailer. Some people are miffed. You can guess which ones.

 - 2:32:05 the trailer being extremely florida

 - 2:32:45 pat: black people can steal your car too. Its equal opportunity. Buying GTA to commit crimes for white people by white people. Where’s my white on white crime?!

 - 2:34:15 its a pretty trailer, but no gameplay so far. On the social media in game. Every joke is going to be 5 to 6 years old. Florida’s evergreen tho.

 - - 2:35:50 what is up with florida? Is florida man the dingo of his ecosystem? Or a local spirit created by the florida event?

 - 2:37:37 the controls will absolutely be the worst. Animation fidelity over control.

 - - 2:42:25 saint’s row as a comparison. And sleeping dogs. Red dead being worse.

 - 2:43:41 on the new GTAs: not to play a game, but instead be an actor in a role where doing anything else will cause you to restart.

 - - 2:45:11 annoyed that you have to play at all, they want a movie.

 - 2:48:38 the bonnie and clyde sort of feel. And go watch the movies they go inspired by instead.

2:50:18 dragonage: dreadwolf trailer. Hey, did you know dragon’s dogma II is coming out next year? thedas calls

 - 2:52:01 dragon’s dogma II is the evil dead 2 of video games. Just do it again but better. A redo.

 - 2:53:47 there are other countries in dreadwolf. Will bioware put out another game after this?

2:54:33 it takes courage to throw something away. Some insight on the coyote vs. acme situation. The courage to release flash.

 - 2:57:33 woolie wants to see the insight into why people believes its fine to do this. Being so out of touch they can’t even see they’re out of touch

2:59:15 casey edwards releasing more official DMC music, so he might be on the anime soundtrack.

EMAILS

3:02:18 emails! Send in your emails to castlesuperbeastmail@gmail.com!

3:02:32 do you prefer the first bit of a game with endless possibilities, or the end where you’ve mastered the game and know the boundaries?

3:14:48 on Katalyka, the game stopped because the sun told the creator to stop, and how the game was actually kinda released at a very low amount of copies.

3:16:40 does canada have any tales of outlaws or gangsters? The maple syrup heist.

3:20:38 pat is watching the game awards at patstaresat, and woolie is watching it at woolieversus!

3:21:23 END OF PODCAST: end of theme of slayer; korean