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0:00 THEME OF SLAYER; KOREAN

0:36 Welcome to the castle super double game of the year cast~! There are two contenders this year for game of the year! Or three, because balatro is really addictive! It even replaced dicey dungeons for Woolie! Second monitor games.

 - 3:00 the idea of ‘I wish this game wasn’t so long’ from reviewers that people decried. And now people are in an era of really long games dropping all at once.

 - 5:25 using media as filler for the ‘other thing.’ replacing or turning off sounds.

 - 8:23 man look at all these RPGs! Luckily yoshi P is delaying the next expansion for FFXIV so you can play the elden ring DLC! You have 7 days!

 - - 9:36 even pat is going to push off dawntrail for the elden ring DLC. his entire decision is in the future will be based on the job trailer

12:10 so what's the deal with clive in FFXIV? A reminder NOT to modify the game files. Its against TOS. but tons of people do it all the time. So theres a FFXVI crossover event, and the drama is that people are already datamining the outfits and putting out mods for them before the event.

 - 15:28 they can and will find your account and ban it. Do NOT stream with that sort of thing on

 - 18:04 the FFXVI DLC, the rising tide. Will it tie in?

WEEK OF THE BEAST LORDS

WOOLIE

18:50 so, more DD2. Not darkest dungeon 2, but dragon’s dogma 2.  

 - 19:29 so, apparently woolie might have accidentally killed 2 NPCs. and on if pawns are dead or not. Pawns teleporting

 - 22:00 on pawn behavior. Learned behavior from players.

 - 23:35 hey look, a ladder! And shield bounces being useful for things but also proc’ing at inopportune times

 - 26:14 getting to the nameless village. The difference in time between pat and woolie. The golem fighting the griffin. Going to camp and suddenly the griffin.

 - - 29:00 the plan for dragons dogma is to trick NA into liking monster hunter! And a sudden minotaur.

 - - 31:01 the quintessential dragon’s dogma experience. And a segway into the DLC discourse. The fast travel items and the purpose of things dropping out of the sky being part of the experience. Fairy stones and port crystals.

 - - 34:21 the purchases seem like a necessary evil to keep them out of the real game. These dont feel like a decision by the dev team

 - - - 35:44 the ability to save anywhere, this game not being dark souls.  

 - 37:00 the biggest crime of the DLC: it causes doubt in the average consumer that they changed numbers to make you pay for it, and the new game bug in DD1.

 - 40:00 the load from last save or load from last inn. How DD2 save games actually work. Pawn rentals only save at an inn. Loading the inn save deletes the autosave.

 - - 44:40 pat with a quest as an example. speedbumps are the point, the friction is where sparks fly.

 - - - 46:43 remember dark souls? A game for people that want it to spit in your face more.

 - 47:40 how about that dragon’s ligma?

 - - 50:49 pat’s favorite part: you get a big pop-up about it. And you can see it on them when it happens.  

 - 51:41 okay, but the optimization for PC sucks.E3 trailer framerate

 - 52:29 Woolie thought the exclamation marks were side quests. On how to get side quests.  

 - - 54:15 95% of people not having much to say. NPCs are for giving presents to and getting things in return. And pat on how to tell if someone has a side quest.

 - 57:13 the nature of it being an outing based game. Gathering supplies for an outing

 - 59:17 the bits that are held together with duct tape and string. Most of it is itsuno wanting it to be a game for freaks.

 - 1:00:56 DD1 is pats favorite 7/10 ever. DD2 is pat’s favorite 10/10 7/10 ever. Pat cant get enough of the jank

 - 1:02:20 comparing it to how smooth DMC5 is. And how big DD2 is compared to DD1

 - - 1:03:44 theres a quest in DD1 that the entirety of DD2 is based off of

 - 1:05:50 Pat explains the game extremely quickly. And meat.mp4.

 - 1:08:08 woolie will keep poking it with a stick, see where it takes him.

1:08:51 Helldivers 2. Those bugs HATE democracy!

 - 1:10:12 wandering around trying to find what the objectives are

 - 1:12:05 this can absolutely be a second monitor game, and learning about the redeploy system

 - - 1:13:37 joel dropping people APCs.

 - 1:14:00 are the missions randomly generated? Yes. and on bosses.

 - 1:15:24 there any interesting lore on the things you collect?

 - 1:16:02 playing like MGSV

 - 1:17:02 works pretty well on steam deck, but the battery life is awful.  The alternative is the playstation portal

1:18:20 woolie beat half life 2! The ending was very abrupt. And some stomach issues from motion sickness.  

 - 1:21:00 having lots of fun with physics and various systems, some strange design decisions, and comparing it to black mesa. Liking black mesa more than half-life 2. And liking half life 1 more than 2.  

 - 1:23:58 stumbling on a few bugs, a few moments on ‘where do I go?’ Pat on half life 2’s commentary track and trying to guide the eye.

 - 1:26:22 running in loops increased drastically in the last 3rd of the game.

 - 1:27:53 the rebar crossbow.

 - - 1:28:45 infamous second sun, the power of concrete

 - - 1:29:25 the six shooter with the zoom is a sniper rifle

 - 1:29:54 play episode 1, 2 and alyx. And did black mesa make you sick, woolie?

 - 1:31:54 the half-life storyline. What the fuck is G-man?

 - - 1:34:33 just go watch skibidy toilet. Or freemans mind

1:35:08 watched the first episode of x-men 97. Its great. Making cyclops cool. Doing marvel vs capcom shit. And storm stans eating good.

 - 1:36:42 it made pat start to doubt his own memories and the outfits.

 - 1:38:37 getting all the VAs back except for the ones that passed away. And hearing them try to do the voices but they’re a lot older. Except Jennifer hale. Her voice is timeless. Sometimes people just are built different.

1:41:28 saltburn. It's a fun watch. it's deliberately shot in 4:3. Making the location a character. Evil bisexuals rejoice.

 - 1:43:42 pat on it creating a reviled trend of rich people running through the halls of their mansions on tiktok

1:45:36. Go check out woolie over on woolieversus! He’s getting through yakuza 0. He’ll defeat the cabaret club at some point.

PAT

1:47:30 pat played dragons dogma. He’s playing offline and recording in case cool stuff happens.

1:48:12 the sand land demo. Its cool but very basic. Its very short as a demo.

 - 1:49:36 on sand land and it being a toriyama work from a long time ago.

1:50:30 morph coming back to life for x men. Lots of fun bits.

 - 1:51:28 morph is ridiculous. And apparently he has been around…?

1:52:30 go check out pat over at patstaresat! He’ll be playing dragons dogma and helldivers

1:52:56 SPONSOR: SHOPIFY

NEWS

1:55:36 EA cutting 5% of their workforce. about 670 people gone

 - 1:56:19 pat quotes larian’s CEO. Greed has been screwing things up for so long. But what about infinite growth?!

 - - 1:59:20 Like a dragon: infinite wealths themes

2:00:16 larian came out and announced they are not working with wizards of the coast again. So no baldurs gate 3 DLC or baldurs gate 4. Because everyone they personally worked with got fired.

2:01:49 overwatch 2 axing all PvE plans. So now its completely pointless to label it 2. It was bobby kotick’s last move before he left.

 - 2:04:03 so all characters are now free like overwatch 1. What even is the difference between the two now…?

 - 2:04:43 its the tenth anniversary of the 3 Bs email. Every patch made the game worse, and it continued even now.

2:06:20 th yoshi P news was talked about already. And the FFXVI DLC, rising tide.

 - 2:07:40 pat wonders how much of the game you’ll be able to use the new powers

2:08:22 the dragons dogma 2 patch announcement. Framerate can now be locked to 30.

2:09:28 A.B.A added to guilty gear strive. Shes always been yandere.

 - 2:10:59 her VA is great. And just how much the key doesnt want to be there. And her playing a lot more basic than other characters on the cast.  

 - 2:15:43 another season of strive characters coming. A bat is there… so slayer is finally showing up. Pat questions where leopaldon is

 - 2:16:55 pat notes she definitely seems very normal in terms of moveset.

 - 2:17:48 she reminds pat of hisako from killer instinct. Pat wishes killer instinct came out now so it was new.  

2:20:34 city of the wolves breakdown. The rev system. Free EX moves until you burn out, then level 3 to reset it.

 - 2:22:46 it is an extremely pure, simple fighting game aside from that system. Bork 1, BARF

2:25:14 uganda soft ground wrestling. LORD WHITE. Pure backyard wrestling.

 - 2:26:54 lord white the greatest heel angle

EMAILS

2:28:55 Emails! Send your emails to castlesuperbeastmail@gmail.com! The way the hard R rolls off hogan’s tongue is the same way he says brother

2:30:20 What the point of the many weapon scrolling was in half-life 2

2:31:56 any miracle changes that one fix changed something you disliked to something you loved?

2:38:15 any words or acronym where you go straight from seeing letters to concepts without parsing it?

2:47:52 thats a podcast!

2:47:56 END OF PODCAST: end of theme of slayer; korean