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0:00 THEME OF SLAYER; KOREAN

0:36 Welcome to the castle super beast news network cast! Your best source for news about  Combo Breaker! On calling woolie a games journalist and Gene Parks opinion on it.  

 - 1:52 Woolie’s platonic ideal of news. Woolie believing himself more a fan magazine

 - 4:00 pat’s own standard. Working off feelings. Remember forbes going “when will we be done with boss fights?”

 - 6:00 The two ways to deal with imposter syndrome. Positive reinforcement vs. “news is trash now, you are part of the trash, woolie.” Woolie al Gaib.

 - 8:00 woolie’s insane expectations for himself. “Pat, you're doing art.” in reverse. Woolie clarifying he wants more than doing the bare minimum on research

 - 10:29 on it being vibes based. Not caring about certain news stories

 - - 11:57 stuff like cod blops 6 coming to gamepass. And 9/11 in the game.

 - 12:42 the bare minimum of research and what that really means. “What do you mean, dude? It's your job.”  

 - 14:50 gamespot and there being one person for each genre, woolie taking on multiple genres of news. Woolie wants to be in the pocket of BIG KITE.

WEEK OF THE BEAST LORDS

WOOLIE

15:43 Woolie has acquired the legendary AT field boxers. Virginity protected. They are official!

17:43 Woolie is back from Chicago after attending combo breaker! The two tournaments a year to go to: EVO and combo breaker. Being told if you can only attend one of them, go to combo breaker. It is old EVO.

 - 20:28 Combo breaker is known for running everything. There was a 70 person samsho tourney. It runs super smoothly too.

 - 22:53 thoughtful consideration to the artists and vendors. The arcade room

 - 24:35 the art and styling.  

 - 25:09 going from montreal to chicago is a trip

 - 26:25 Spending the entire weekend running into people he knows or twitch chat viewers. There are some real secret killers there.

 - - 29:15 pat’s get out of fighting game streams: the real lesson was pat should get out of fighting games

30:29 before getting to the event itself, let's talk Chicago first. Checking out the food. Going to Portillo’s. And reggie having good pronunciation as a localization tester.

 - 32:00 they have hot dogs. The default was extremely vinegary and super acidic. Reggie taking heartburn damage.

 - 35:38 the next place: italian beef. It's a philly cheesesteak without the cheese with a different type of meat and more spicy. Get it half and half and dipped. It is delicious, but there is no structural integrity  

 - - 38:28 there is a burn warning because it is super hot

 - - 39:47 where do you lie on texture vs. taste, pat?

 - 41:40 Kuma’s corner, a death metal burger place.

 - 42:33 trying a real deep dish pizza. On ‘deep dish pizzas’ they tried before.

 - - 43:57 going to Pequod's pizza. It taking a while before it arrives. The recommended max amount of toppings was ten.

 - - 45:54 it is incredible. 1 slice is enough to make you feel full. It demands your full attention. A pizza flavored casserole.

 - - 47:48 the ratio of cheese to dough. 75/25. Pat looks it up. Looks like the inside of a mortal kombat character.

 - - 49:39 being the most hesitant on it, but it delivered. Waking up still full.

 - - - 51:10 do not have a date with deep dish

 - 52:00 pat has his own food story: baby tries a pickle. His first tantrum. The mustard gene has been unlocked.

 - 55:17 getting Italian ice. Reggie getting constant brain freezes.

57:43 so, at the actual venue for combo breaker, entering samsho, DNF duel. Checking out monk. And getting invited to the DNF discord.

 - 59:21 getting back to samsho, pulling out his darli dagger txt file for someone.

 - 1:00:00 played some tekken too. Victor being victor. Losing to zafina by being completely outplayed.  

 - - 1:01:18 having a match where his opponent didnt plug in his controller properly.

 - - 1:03:24 the tekken finals. Someone pulling out a PS1 controller

 - 1:04:12 the DNF duel bracket. He had to drop out. Reason being he got some time on 2XKO. Pat confirming the league experience is preserved.

 - - 1:05:22 have a nice experience with the community managers there

 - - 1:06:34 woolie did not ask about the PC bricking anti-cheat

 - - 1:07:25 the game is really good. What marvel infinite could have been. And being able to actually see the gameplay.

 - - 1:10:47 woolie played yasuo and Illaoi. There’s a lot of interplay between both team members.

 - - - 1:12:30 4 grooves of team mechanics. 40% or lower gets a damage boost and a free 1 time cancel, the ability to use two assists back to back, a double handshake tag. A team hypercombo

 - - - 1:15:29 your partner has to burst for you. And they chose when to jump in. You have to handshake to let them in too.

 - - - 1:17:27 this being a primary mode is crazy. And needing to read each other

 - - - 1:19:07 pat: it should do a mic check to make sure the mic is on

 - - - 1:19:50 the game supports 2 vs 1

 - - - 1:21:30 the possibility of having a mixed tourney where you can sign up as two people or go solo

 - - - 1:24:21 pat doesnt feel it’ll work for a major tournament as even if it's even then a team would mean splitting the money. But what if the winning team fought each other for first and second?

 - - - 1:26:27 woolie can imagine the team pop offs. Pat and woolie imagine a scenario where they both go to a 2XKO tourney. Stink tech.

 - 1:28:10 the auction tourney. Buy your main.

 - - 1:29:43 for games like marvel, they hid the names and instead put up team names. Do you buy team swords or not?

 - 1:31:03 back to 2XKO, on the actual gameplay. On Illaoi’s gameplay.

 - - 1:32:44 Ekko and pat cannot wait for moba terminology to infect fighting game terminology.

 - - 1:35:18 so far there’s 6 revealed characters. There will no doubt be so many more. Teemo and small characters in fighting games

 - 1:39:07 SF6. getting to the end of pools and drowning. Meanwhile reggie getting out of pools. Reggie playing chun li

 - - 1:40:33 The SF6 patch. Every character pat plays got buffed. Zangief is incredible now. Destroys akuma.

 - - 1:44:27 A.K.I’s buffs and Marisa’s buffs and nerfs.

 - - 1:46:52 jamie got something, and lily. The stats on launch character victory.

 - - 1:48:27 these adjustments are for micro exchanges. It's for high level play.

 - - 1:50:25 Dee jay got screwed

 - - 1:51:26 Fixing Ed’s jabs, and akuma can do anything as long as you play perfectly. The call for the akuma mirror with the double riceball for shin akuma.

 - - 1:53:15 what street fighter soundtrack do you want to play?

 - - 1:54:16 pat asks if sf4 and 5 were bad. SF4 is burnt into woolie’s brain.

 - - 1:56:02 they are happy with the patch. Maybe a few micro patches coming. Also they had to put out some hot fixes because the patch was broken.

 - 1:58:44 how do you feel about popcorn, pat? Combo breaker popcorn. A crazy amount of flavors of popcorn.

 - - 2:02:50 the line for popcorn baron was longer than 2XKO. The best popcorn he’s ever had. The flavor of the thing in popcorn shape. The root beer flavor fizzes in your mouth!

 - - 2:06:21 a lot sound disgusting but of the ones he tried, none were bad. Do not shove every flavor in your mouth.

 - 2:07:27 rivals of aether 2. Woolie’s current favorite platform fighter

 - 2:09:05 tough love tag.

 - 2:09:57 heavenly parasite

 - 2:10:55 talking with Keets. And there being an overhaul patch for killer instinct.  

 - - 2:12:30 better not have a tourney with it because we don't want people thinking we’re making a sequel! Microsoft being microsoft

 - 2:15:10 them's fighting herds tourney playing on a patch that was never released and was broken.

 - 2:19:40 once again not claiming drake. And angrybird’s photo. Meeting people tangentially at random

 - 2:21:30 combo breaker is a vibe. He’s going to try to attend combo breaker in the future.

2:22:16 Go check out woolie over at woolieversus! Streaming yakuza and looking at megaton musashi! And checking out akuma

PAT

2:22:42 Aside from the baby, playing street fighter and playing Ghost of Tsushima again. It's just a nice game to vibe with and go at a slow pace.

2:23:53 and continuing to plug away at FFVII rebirth. It's so huge. It has practically jumped the shark on how expanded stuff is. On gongaga. Navigating Gongaga’s open area traversal is so confusing.

 - 2:27:33 comparing to monster hunter world’s jungle, except it's way more confusing. A weird black mark.

 - 2:29:19 he did everything in it. He had to look up guides to find stuff.

 - 2:29:51 can you mainline to the objective marker? And the devs seemed to know gongaga was annoying with how its structured with the chocobo

 - 2:32:27 hitting a point where they are remixing events of the original game. He’s happy with the changes so far.

2:33:21 over on patstaresat, he’ll be playing street fighter, FFVII rebirth, and crow country!

2:34:23 pat finally finished getting his save file ready for shadow of the erdtree

 - 2:35:31 playing elden ring beelining to the upgrade materials is bizarre

 - 2:36:57 have you seen the leaks for shadow of the erdtree?

2:39:17 SPONSOR: SHOPIFY

NEWS

2:42:00 jacob navok, a former exec and square enix, on how sales did not meet expectations for FFVII rebirth.

 - 2:42:12 Being thankful for the insight on the thought process here.

 - 2:48:14 getting into the thread in question. Needing to beat the stock market.

 - - 2:50:40 the marketing and platform fees, taking into account team size.

 - - 2:52:37 needing to hit the mainstream casual market.

 - - 2:54:30 how it used to be vs. what they are trying to target in a post-fortnite market.

 - - - 2:57:32 cliffy B on “there can only be 1 or 2 things in a particular genre”  

 - - 2:59:27 putting it all together, getting an impossible hurdle to cross

 - 3:01:04 Pat with 4 takeaways as a non-business person. Square enix’s takeaway: the exclusivity hurting sales

 - - 3:02:41 maybe don't make the most expensive thing ever every single time…?

 - - 3:04:52 there is something permanently fucked with the concept of a publicly traded triple A games publisher.

 - - - 3:09:01 on private companies.

 - - 3:11:30 square enix wants to have the next big viral hit.

 - - 3:15:05 on how bad the industry is. The growth was built on a house of cards.

 - - 3:18:14 heading towards a triple A video game crash. How much would they have to sell to match the worst mario party?

 - - 3:20:24 the mistake that got made in 1996. Its core being big money. FFX kicking into the money dimension.

 - - - 3:23:44 multiplat and raising the price are just band aid fixes

 - - - 3:25:06 maybe we’ll return to the years of getting yakuza to kidnap family members. And on investing time into something and recognizability

 - - 3:27:16 time has hurt final fantasy

 - - 3:30:38 Like a dragon comes out more than once a year

 - - 3:31:41 how many people only know these games from them talking about it?

 - - - 3:33:04 furiosa is doing bad. The audio mixing continues to be terrible

 - - 3:33:40 summarizing the scenario here. There is no path forward.

 - - - 3:35:17 pat bets if they just invested in FF14 and only FF14 they’d make more money. Put all the debt on enix after splitting into 4 companies

 - - - 3:36:55 square enix business decisions. And you are no longer safe in this industry.

3:39:37 call of duty is coming to gamepass. And netflix CEO says barbie and oppenheimer would have done just as well on netflix. Because he watched his son watch Lawrence of Arabia on his phone.

 - 3:43:25 there was a half argument here, but he chose the dumbest angle to argue from

3:44:57 rumors of RE0 and code Veronica getting remakes. And moments where they 100% know something is happening but cant say it and dance around the subject

3:47:29 slayer in Strive. Look at how dandy he is.  

3:49:21 trailer for prime minister Lidia Sobieska in tekken. And harada was at combo breaker. He is short.

 - 3:50:26 if you want your character adjusted or fixed in tekken, do the following

3:51:30 shoutouts to some indie games: nightmare operator . and a mention of hollowbody

3:53:18 beatrix in fantasy rising

3:53:32 parking garage rally circuit

3:54:16 zenless zone zero will release july 4th. Wurthing waves is on fire and falling apart. It can doxx you, apparently.

3:56:16 the nier automata wine. It was aged while forced to listen to the ost. And these sorts of products go between ‘it was pretty good’ and ‘it was god awful’ with no in between

EMAILS

3:58:36 emails! Send your emails to castlesuperbeastmail@gmail.com! And on why having genshin open makes wuthering waves run better

3:59:48 is there a specific scene from media that is too niche to search up?

4:02:12 meeting reggie and woolie at combo breaker. Ever have a spaghetti spill incident?

4:05:36 ever been a recast that was not bad but still made you feel disappointed?

4:09:17 fuck destiny

4:09:37 END OF PODCAST: end of theme of slayer; korean