826 – Switch VRR Firmware, Nintendo’s 137th Birthday, and Xbox/Halo Studio Merges

Hello everybody and welcome to Infendo Radio eight hundred and twenty six.

~ this is the mustache edition of Infendo Radio.

Justin, what w tell me about your stash.

~ I mean yeah.

up with it.

I stunlocked you.

I got got Got

kids.

~ Brandon, how are you doing today?

been ~ taking taking better care of it lately than than I was before, so it might be a little bit more luxurious.

My beard is coming in

badly still.

I I I have to make sure

that it's that's that

it looks good for retro game con in a week and a half.

Heck yeah, it's comin'.

it sounds like there's gonna be some cool people there too.

I'm extra jealous this time.

~ but maybe we'll talk about that next week.

Well, actually not next week, the week following.

~ because

I haven't even told you guys this.

I'm not gonna be here next week.

I'm going on vacation.

So we're gonna take little

break after this one, ~ Justin, Brandon, and everybody.

But before then, we've got some news to talk about.

There was a firmware update.

~ please tell me about it.

a pretty decent firmware update came to the Switch 2.

Lesser to the Switch 1, but weirdly they go to the same version, which is interesting.

~

23.

~ this added ~ full variable refresh rate support to the dock.

~ which it did not have previously, which basically means it doesn't do screen tearing in the event that

your game lowers or

changes its ~ refresh rate or its frame speeds.

~ the other thing is a variety of ~ features have been added to game chat.

~ game chats can now sort of stay permanently open.

~ like you can create a group and just jump into that group.

~

~ when when I played online last week, you can change the ~ screen layout without having to go into the settings menu.

It's like right there in the main menu.

That is that is fantastic.

You just hit the game chat button and now it's an option.

It's just

there.

That's smart.

That is smart.

that is it about fucking time.

Jesus, everyone hated that.

Default.

option to leave the camera on when you have it at full screen, but ~ it seems as though every

time I set the the game at full screen my camera shuts off.

It must have something to do with a ~ bottleneck or something.

~ Can't quite do both the things at the same time.

~ Who knows?

Maybe they'll update that, but

I think it works

for like when we play I don't know.

I'll have to play with it some more, but hey, speaking of which those cameras are on sale if either of you want to get one so we can video game

chat.

The official Nintendo camera is on sale as part of the ~ appreciation.

Yeah.

one of the cameras.

It's not the official one but I've

~ I I just never use it.

I ja

yeah, I don't feel like I have an advantageous position to put a camera in my entertainment center.

See w all I did

was I just put it at the top of the T V and taped it to the back.

So it's ~ where the camera is on a on a laptop.

It's just right at the top and center.

It's i i

th my concern is because it's so far away, that means it's going to crop my face, which'll just make for really bad video.

I don't like it.

It's

Sure.

What is this bit about the system transfer between switch one and switch two?

I thought that was already a thing.

So I guess they added now you could actually do a transfer tweet switch to it switch to.

I guess that wasn't really a thing.

yeah, now that the Zelda one's coming out, they know people like Steve are going to be buying another one and transferring

their stuff.

Also ~ an interesting way to you can manage who which c of your consoles on your plan has access to what virtual game cards, apparently.

There's

more in depth management in regards to that.

~ so yeah,

actually surprisingly substantial for a Switch update.

through this this list.

~ it seems pretty beefy actually, updates to the me editor even, ~ some some stuff

there's

there was something about music which I wasn't clear on.

Can you set a theme for

change or stop the music using the

music settings in the upper corner of the screen

when editing a me.

Okay, so you just turn off the the meme the music of the meme maker.

nice Pointless, but nice.

I wanted it forever.

~

that's that's that's like

~ turning off the eShop not not the eShop music, the WeShop music.

~ I don't wanna

turn that off.

That's

half the reason I boot up the Yeah.

Yeah, there there needs to be more music actually.

That that should be the next update.

Every section should have music that you can turn off if you want to, but I never will.

Yeah, it's I I get

by Kotaka.

And I guess now you can

share Mis again with ~ QR codes.

~ I g i n

it was gone.

I mean like this this after the fact making ~ adding Mis to Switch 2 kinda still a little

weird.

meh well it whatever makes it slightly easier i for Tamodachi Life, I guess.

I want more bees back anyway.

I don't know why they ever took that out.

That should have never been a feature that went anywhere.

everyone should have kept their avatars forever.

In fact I love what they have I

I I love that they have like through ~ you know the more recent games they have expanded the features of the me and now you can add ears and you have like different,

you know, new facial features.

It's like yeah, I like that I'm glad that they're bringing it back.

It's it was very

missed.

Yeah, definitely.

I like this one only for like the three people that why this would matter.

But this I've run into this before.

~ it says you can now use other controllers while handheld boost with handheld boost mode while JoyCon two controllers are attached to the system.

'Cause I tried to like play a game in ~

a a game that y has to be in handheld mode, with another controller before, and it just doesn't let you do that, So yeah, that's

neat.

~ I I don't know I can't rem recall which game that was now at the top of my head.

It was maybe it was like maybe it was Metroid trying to use like the the mouse controls.

I don't know.

I can't remember.

~ anyways, ~ what else?

Anything else that's jumping out to you on this system update?

that seems to be most of the major points here.

~

Well then let's move into the next bit.

We are going to be talking about a birthday.

Happy, happy birthday.

I don't know the song.

But ~ N Nintendo's birthday was Yeah, exactly.

N Nintendo's birthday is tomorrow if you're listening to us live on September

Actually it's a day ahead in Japan, so it's right now.

So have a Wow.

137 years.

~ founded in eighteen eighty nine.

~

they were like a toy company first, right?

They did like hand like cards and yeah, yeah.

Yeah, they

did cards for a few for a few decades and then they got into toys and then of course there were the love hotels and all those other weird weird things they did in the

early twentieth century.

But yeah, I've actually getting

two games and the games thing, that's seventies, so Congratulations, Nintendo.

You're still here.

A hundred and thirty seven

years young.

It's ~ very telling that a company that, you know, st started in the eighties as far as in the video game industry.

No earlier, I guess, if you count arcade, but ~ you know, they've been around for a long time and there's just not a lot of companies like that that have been around that long

anymore.

It not in this space, you know.

with pog consoles, so

Yeah.

that's they they were there for a while.

~ good good on that.

I

just figured I'd throw that in because it's slow no day.

But anyway,

Yeah, that's that's big news for a Nintendo podcast,

I would say.

relevant to our podcast.

Even I mean like 137's like a weird milestone, but

Mm-hmm.

you know,

~ good good on you, man.

seven.

A hundred thirty seven

~ okay, well

then there is one last news article on the ~ docket, but I want to bring one other news ~ article that I found just now.

did you guys know about this little game called Eternal Darkness?

~

apparently it might be coming back.

~ I'm just posting it in the chat.

~ I I'm reading this IGN article.

It's not definitive, yeah.

IGN is like at least

Studio is doing it, then I am even more excited than I was when you when I just heard you say Eternal Darkness.

Because Night Dive does

some pretty awesome remasters.

They did the Shadow Man one, the Turok ones.

~ yeah, if Night Dive's if this is real, then I am excited.

The only issue I have is

How many of the fourth wall breaking insanity effects will still

be relevant?

Right.

some like the input changed

or something like that, you know?

And then you're like, what the fuck?

Why did it change the HDMI one or something like that?

You know, and they they it can do some cool stuff.

They can do some little things like that, just updates.

That's have

the audio level go up.

what

would be really neat actually is if somehow they were able to ~ determine well this person is on the switch or like on the Xbox and then it like this like you I didn't push the home

button, I'm on like the Switch home menu.

It's like, no, actually I'm still in the game.

You know, things like that.

They're they're if they if this is real,

I wanna be on the pro the creative team.

Yeah.

Night Dive is they also add ~ save states to ~ to

the games.

So I've never beaten Eternal Darkness.

So it would because I got to a certain point where I just I was dying before I was finishing the level and then I just put it down and never touched it for years, so

difficult that game,

Yeah.

Yeah, it definitely is hard.

I I I picked it up on the Thor.

That was actually one of the first things I played.

And then I realized pretty early on that I was like, damn, like I'm either gonna need to use cheats or just like grunt my way through this because it's pretty brutal.

It's it's a tough game.

~

okay.

Well, I'm glad we got to talk about that a little bit because I love me some internal darkness and I hope that it comes back.

Boy, do I hope it comes back.

~

But let's get on to a little bit more shitty news, I guess.

Fuck.

what the hell is with this game industry?

~ more layoffs.

~ Xbox is laying off.

It looks like a bunch of studios.

~ rumor has it that ~

that like the Halo studio, I can't remember their name.

there a lot of people there are getting laid off and that like apparently Halo's gonna be

developed thank you, three four, three.

Halo's probably gonna be developed by Activision now.

Like what I don't know.

What do you guys make of this?

This is crazy.

I I

really followed the Halo series since the original trilogy ended, so that you know, I don't know whether that's a good thing or a bad thing that that it's changing hands.

I've heard

like the old the old school Halo fans do not like the three four three Studios games, but I can't imagine Activision's Halo will be any better.

Yeah, I ~ it's it's one of those things at the same time, all I can really imagine is some guy who's had to work on Modern Warfare games for ~ eight years of his life being handed

Halo and how

happy he would be about that

Well but that

just reminds me of the ~ the Goldeneye remake that, you know, was basically

Call of Duty with with James Bond in it.

The other thing that I really didn't like was Rare has been folded into Activision as well.

~ wow.

That's not cool.

kind of a

ki kind of a a shell of its former self anyway, so

love how IGN refers to them as the Sea of Thieves developer.

Rare.

And

it's like, ~ yeah, it's been like that, hasn't it?

be because then ~ the same headline on Nintendo Life is Banjo Kazooie Developer.

So like yeah, it's I guess placating to different audiences maybe there.

But ~ yeah.

Yeah,

I it's shitty.

The it it seems really tough to be a vili video game developer these days, you know?

So

for Xbox Microsoft or Sony people apparently.

Mm-hmm.

~

I I hate to I hate to fanboy, but hey.

~ Nintendo's really good about keeping the people who are working for it.

They deserve a little

Yeah, Nintendo has really high employee retention and satisfaction.

Yeah, definitely.

I don't I I don't know if that's changed in the past few years, but

I I

I can only imagine that it's probably remained the same, but yeah.

They're they're a very traditional company, and actually it seems to be working to their benefit at this point.

So.

Well, did you

I guess while we're still talking about news stuff and we're running a l probably gonna run a little short today anyways, I'm gonna I I this reminded me of this news article that

I read the other day.

Somebody some active ~ analyst basically said that, hey, yeah, no, Nintendo actually saved

the video game industry in Japan, if it wasn't for the Nintendo Switch that, you know, mobile phones and perhaps like PC gaming would have overtaken.

But like because of the Nintendo Switch, mm-hmm.

was not selling well in Japan 'cause everybody's gone portable over there.

Yeah.

yeah, exactly.

And yeah, with the advent of the Switch, you know, being, you know, that hybrid handheld system, I think it really just made sense for that market specifically.

You know, the people that are riding the train, you know, going to work, you know, have that commute type of thing.

So

limited space,

Yeah,

Nintendo has done a really

good job in the past, I don't know, ten ~ maybe even twenty years of kind of merging the Japanese and I guess non-Japanese markets.

~ so that so that

their products kind of aligned with with everybody's tastes.

Cause it used to be that, you know, Japan just got very different shit.

And now it's like

everything is

perfectly balanced.

Yeah, totally.

gonna I I'd give Sony a lot of credit for that 'cause it basically showed, Yeah, w these weird games in Japan can come to America as

well.

And Nintendo was like, maybe we should do some more of those weird games that we have.

And it's funny because now Sony is doing the exact opposite, right?

I feel like Sony is only placating to Western gamers these days.

You know, they'd shut down a bunch

of Japanese studios and everything.

So it's just funny how the how the turns have tabled.

before we ~ switch gears, I just want to read this quote from Dr.

Serkin Tato, I think is how you pronounce that, the CEO of the analytics firm Cantan Games.

Another thing I probably butchered the pronunciation on.

he said, I would say that if Nintendo produced another flop like the Wii U and if the Switch wasn't a super hit it turned out to be, the Japanese console market would have

completely would have been completely eliminated.

I think that even more people would have turned to smartphones, maybe even PC.

Nintendo not only completely dominates the console segment here in Japan with 70% market share.

I didn't know that,

for all gaming content, but also they saved it.

Well, as long Yeah.

I ~ I hate to admit it, but yeah, PlayStation has had a pretty major influence.

That's i I feel like the one and two generation.

That's something it all got weird when things went H D.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, definitely.

would we be without Katamari Domasi?

I know, it's wonderful.

Still brings me joy.

I I I still I I I miss ~ like the pub rapper or the rapper.

Give me some games like that again.

never played that.

That's another game I need to

man, you should play that

on your Thor.

It's perfect

for that.

Mm, good point.

Well, I've got the Superstation One too that I have to

get set up and playing Playstation games, so what?

wait, you don't need a copy.

You can just sort of give it the ISO.

Yeah.

he means yes, he does have a copy that he's gonna emulate legally.

~

okay, well, boys and girls, let's talk about the games that we've been playing.

~ it's another week where I failed to prepare Nintendo's and I'm a shittier human being because of it.

So we are just gonna talk about what we've been playing and you know what?

I'm gonna go fucking first this week.

~ I've only been playing a few games.

~ I I I

Brandon, I'm sorry, I haven't played as much denson attack, dench attack, whatever however you're gonna pronounce it, as I would have liked.

Yeah, I

I need to it I need to be in a safe space when I'm playing a game like that.

~

so instead I've been playing my safe game, ~ Sectory, a lot, like just a fucking lot.

~ mostly because I felt like I was abandoning my Thor ever since my Steam Machine came.

Back.

So I I've been busting that out and the the Switch.

~ nothing notable on the Switch, just playing a lot of Mario Kart with the wife.

~ Justin would be happy though, because we've been playing a lot of Mario Kart World.

But yeah, no, mostly Sectori for me.

A lot of that game.

~ outside of Sectori, which has become my new ~ obsession again, typing of the dead is a really fucking good game, fam.

~

I have the DLC

for it too, because it was like a bundle that I bought a long time ago on a Steam sale or something.

So that I just have a lot of game there.

my Steam keyboard so that I can boot that up for the Halloween season because I have that on my Steam library too.

what uh-huh.

finally learn how to touch type, 'cause I still don't touch type.

I'm amazing.

to hook up my Wii U so I can finally play Zombie U because I bought it at Retro GameCon last year.

yeah, there you go.

Yeah, no, I was I was like, well, this is a zombies.

It's zombie season just about.

And yeah, no, it's really good one of those.

~ this

game.

Yeah.

The story is ~ interesting too, actually.

Like it was ~ I I I wasn't sure what to expect going in.

And it's I would say it's on par with like what ~ like Left for Dead was doing, you know?

Like I don't know if you guys ever played like Left For Dead games, but you know, it's it's got the

yeah, those games are good.

but it obviously a completely different game.

~ the

I thought

the typing of the dead was just House of the Dead one or two, maybe both.

is, yeah.

I was gonna say it's completely different game.

It's it's like a light gun shooter, but instead of a light gun you have a keyboard.

and yeah

~

edit the they edit the sprites so the guys have keyboards on the front of them who are running through or the

I'm sorry, the models.

Which is hilarious.

I love that little backpack they got going on for their keyboards.

~

another ~ another spin off from that series where you basically play ~ play the game in a different way.

I can't remember what it was though.

~ I don't know.

I've I've played I played the House of the Dead games.

House of the Dead Overkill is ~ the most s yeah I

of the Dead

had another spin-off that there was typing of the dead and then there was another one and I can't remember what the gimmick was, but I could be wrong.

But I love that they do that.

Again,

Sega when when Sega wants to do something ~ different, they go all out.

Yeah, definitely.

Justin, I'm I just did a quick Google search and I don't think this is what you're talking about, but there's something that's called Zombie Revenge that came out in nineteen ninety

nine and it's an a beat up game that shifts the franchise traditional on rail shooting style to third person hand to hand combat and shooting.

Never heard of it before.

I might have to check this out.

Seems interesting.

is so many more House of the Dead games than I knew there was.

Yeah.

god, there's

I'm What?

How is there like 20?

What the fuck?

Darts

Darts of the Dead?

that's the one I was trying to remember.

They also have Darts of the Dead.

But that's

English of

the dead?

A Japan exclusive

for Nintendo DS

What the fuck?

Okay.

Alright, that's a that

is a rabbit hole I'm not ready for right now.

Well, I I wouldn't at least recommend playing House of the Dead.

If I remember right, I'm I might I'm gonna have to go play House of the Dead Overkill again.

But I think that some of the characters

Yeah, I think some of the characters like cross between typing and ~ House of the Dead, which is fun.

but yeah, it's just it's just stupid fun, you know?

Like my

is.

actually was watching and she's like, God, that's an ugly ass zombie.

It was like this big fat, obese girl with ~ you know, like tits that were shooting out zombies.

Like it was you know, it's zombie.

overkill?

That sounds like overkill.

~ Timing of the Dead has

that too?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I I I'm sure that the again, I haven't played the House of the Dead traditional games ~ in a hot minute, but I'm sure that the character models and like the stories like kind of

intertwine because like why wouldn't it?

It just makes sense to save, you know, on assets and stuff like that.

~ through and through.

That's what it is.

It's

Yeah.

Yeah.

But it's but it is absolutely fun as hell.

If I was, I remember doing like keyboarding class when I was like 11, 12 years old.

If I had this when I was doing like keyboarding, my god, I would be like typing at 300 words per minute today.

I swear to God.

~ but that's

it.

~ been playing a lot of the a lot of retro games too.

You guys don't care about that, but like a lot of retro games too.

have you been getting into it?

Yeah, the the retro achievements has really helped with that, ~ I have to say.

~ there was a unique one in ~ what was it?

In DuckTales, I think.

I had to like beat ~ one of the levels without not pogoing.

So like I had to pogo like the whole fucking level, you know what I mean?

So it

Yeah.

So there's just some cool stuff, you know, that like you wouldn't do otherwise.

So yeah.

That's fun.

like I unlocked

the achievement in Grand Theft Auto Four for riding from ~ taxi from one end of the map to the other without skipping.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, exactly.

So okay, I'm gonna pass up the ton though ~ to whoever wants to take it.

~ Justin, you're closest because ~ well you're closest to the camera.

So why don't you take it?

Alright, ~ now that I actually have good ~ internet, I might actually be able to talk about the experience I had ~ the previous week with Grand Theft Auto 4.

~ so y'all if first of all, this is why in spite of the fact that, you know, I can do all these cool fancy mods and hacks and stuff like that, I still hate PC gaming.

~ so I

I brought my Steam Deck to bed and I've got the Ray Neo glasses so that I can play games in bed.

And I plugged them into my Steam Deck and all of a sudden the resolution of Grand Theft Auto 4 dropped down to the lowest it can possibly be, and the frame rate dropped down into

the single digits.

Oof.

And I spent

Two days troubleshooting it, finally figured out that I basically had to go into the desktop mode, find the textures cache folder, and delete it.

Mm-hmm.

Now, why is it that this is a problem on PC games, but you never have this sort of problem with with console games?

Consoles are practically computers anyway.

Why is it this only happens when you're playing on a PC?

Or Steam Deck

as the case may be.

But ~ anyway, thank thank

games designed to work on any hardware anytime.

So

the second you change the hardware it becomes befuddled.

And

Yeah, so for a

couple of days I couldn't play GTA four because ~ even at the lowest possible resolution, I was still only getting a frame rate somewhere in the teens.

And then finally figured it out.

I'm back to playing it in twenty five sixty by ten eighty and ~

I'm getting about forty five frames per second, give or take.

three sixty era, that's fine.

hell, it looks it looks better than three sixty.

~ this

the Steam version.

~ I've gone back and played the three sixty version a few times and is very like first of all it only renders at like five forty P, I think.

And then it's

like everything's kinda it does that ~ thing that Skyward Sword did where things in the distance kinda look splotchy to so that they don't you know just

detail.

I know that one.

So what's nice is on the on on the Steam Deck, when it's working, ~ like I can have I can see like clear across the place.

So like when when I'm driving down the highway, I can see the full Liberty City skyline.

It's such a it's such a cool experience, especially playing it ~ like ~ I I said I have this resolution set to twenty five sixty by ten eighty.

So it's a

1440 ~ screen with 120 hertz refresh rate, but it's in like ~ ultra widescreen.

So it's letterboxed on my TV, but I get like extra ~ I can see more on the sides like you would with a widescreen

movie.

So it's so it's really cool because you know I can sit close to the TV and it really is kind of like I'm immersed.

I want to try it on the ~

VR headset one of these nights.

But

Does your ~

are are your glasses are those OLED screens?

Yes.

But the so the way the Ray Neo glasses work is the the screens themselves are OLED and and HDR compatible.

But what they do is that like the screens are this is this is really good for the people listening to the podcast, but the screens are like up right up here in the like top part

of the glasses, and then they reflect

Yeah, and then they reflect off

of the lenses like Pepper's Ghost style.

So you still get incredibly good ~ you know, color saturation and contrasts and all that, but it isn't like the blacks aren't quite completely black because you've got the extra

you know y you

got the extra like reflection issue, but it's still like once you know, you get in the right

position the right situation and it's amazing.

But the problem is I can't play it in bed.

I can't remember whether I said this on the podcast.

I know I've told it to to a few people in person.

But what ends up happening is because it's you know attached to my face, if I go to look at something in the corner of the screen, I instinctually move my head.

So I'm laying on my back

in bed

and turning my head and my neck is killing me and it's not giving me a better view, but my brain cannot process the the difference

between having a screen attached to my face and having it in front of my face.

So I've kind of

~ given up on playing at least Grand Theft Auto in bed.

~ basically anything worth where any 3D game

is ~ a problem because once I have to deal with depth and looking around things, then my brain gets all mixed up.

~ but

since I got GTA4 working, I have been playing through it pretty steadily.

~ I found out that the save editor that I use actually has a God mode, but it only works on the initial save.

So you import the save, activate God mode

Booted up on the system, but if you save the game again, it turns off the god mode.

So

Mm, mm.

that's annoying because I'm one of those people who saves like at a safe house after every mission rather than just bouncing

from mission to mission and letting autosave do do its job.

But

It's it's

a like a way to mod in like save states somehow into that game?

I don't even know if that would be a thing.

~ I've added a bunch of mods to it.

I've got the the weapon wheel like GTA five has.

Actually, it's a weapon wheel and

a radio wheel.

So whereas in

GTA four you had to, you know, change your weapon with the shoulder buttons.

Now I can just hold right on the D-pad and it brings up the weapon wheel and I just select the one that I want.

~ also I have a mod that re adds all of the songs that were

Deleted because of licensing.

Yeah, you mentioned that.

That's pretty rad.

Kid have you added your own custom songs in too, or do you do you care about that?

decided what songs I'm going to add yet.

~ I want to get a bunch of songs from

old GTA soundtracks and throw them in there.

But

~ but yeah, ~ so ~ GTA 4 on the Steam Deck has been has been convenient and hopefully I will have finished all three.

I'm playing them in chronological order, so I'm bouncing between the the

right now between two different stories and then eventually I'll have all three stories and I'm gonna play them through in

chronological like GTA five does, but you have to

load up a different game in order to change characters instead of just, you know, bringing up a menu.

But but I'm hoping to have that done before

~

I was I was just gonna make a joke, go ahead.

I was just gonna say I'm hoping to have GTA four done before GTA six comes out, but

That's happening ~ you got

yeah, you got weeks now at this point, buddy.

Better get get going.

~

my favorite GTA game is still LA Noir, ~ is the joke I was

about to make.

~ and my real answer is actually

Chinatown Wars.

Yeah, Chinatown

Wars is is amazing and I should I I've been playing that on my ~ on my Thor, but ~ I might have to look up, you know, what sort of mods and stuff I can add to it.

I

I don't know if there was a PC version, but I know there was like an iPad and a PSP version, so there's gotta be a version that I can mod.

But yeah, Chinatown Wars was

on the DS version.

Yeah, Chinatown Wars

was easily one of the best GTA games.

Chi I would say Chinatown Wars might be the only GTA game I've beaten.

~ so

It ~ until this past year when I've been going through the definitive editions on Switch, that probably would have been true for me, 'cause I don't think I ever beat No, I had

beaten GTA four and five previously, but

one mission that ~ really pisses me off and then I just sorta fall off.

~ for most

play one or two?

yeah.

I

I got into GTA on the original PlayStation game.

One I used to play that in college all the time on my Macint

w my Macintosh with Veeam.

I'd plug in my PlayStation controller and just play it.

the original game w the with the ~ London expansion on my

PlayStation.

I blade learned it a little bit.

Not bad, but

a whole lot more other than Grand Theft Auto 4.

I have, I boot up Splatoon Raiders occasionally.

That's a fun little ~ hey, I wanna play a game, but I don't want to get sucked into anything, because I can play it for an hour if I want, or I can play it for five minutes

if I want.

it's a really flexible game like that.

~ and

I tried applying what I have

~ learned in Splatoon Raiders to Splatoon 3 and I still suck at it.

So I ended up switching

back to the

roller and now I back to just not even bothering fighting anybody.

I just find a place that needs inking and ink it.

Let everybody else deal with the Yeah.

have to necessarily

be a killer, you can be a cover.

~

That's ~ and so I still play Splatoon three like that.

~ I've cashed in some ~ some of those gold tickets so I can get a high level roller and so I'll boot that up occasionally.

you you should probably get these zappers.

Anytime there's a zapper, they're always overpowered.

They're they're great.

~

I have the zappers.

I know I bought the zappers in Splatoon one and two.

I don't know if I've bought them yet in three.

a good balance between ~ between coverage and also being deadly.

So it's

Yeah.

But again, I'm just not that good at shooters.

Splatoon

Splatoon three meta pff ~

~ and Brandon's gonna be excited.

Guess what game I've started playing again?

my favorite.

No Man's Sky had a a major

update a week or two ago.

so I booted it back up and

~ I f I

finally

Never had to

pay for anything for this game.

It's you just got it and shit.

it's it's like ~ for

how disappointing it may have been when it first came out, there's a lot to do in it now.

~ I final

that they're disappointed with the state of No Man's Sky at this point,

I finally ~ made it to the galactic core, which then like transports you to another galaxy.

So I've reached another galaxy for the first time in my 200 and I don't know 50 hours or whatever it is I've been playing it for.

Probably got a nice ship.

~ and

I made the mistake of traveling through the galactic core with all of my, you know, standard level up equipment and didn't realize that just like when

you first start No Man's Sky, you ~ basically crash land in a new galaxy with all of your ship broken.

So I had to figure out luckily

bitch.

luckily

When you go to another galaxy, as long as you can build or reach another portal, you can still warp back to any of the previous places you've gone

in the other galaxy.

So yeah,

I had to backtrack through various different places and get the stuff that I needed to repair my ship and repair my ~ multi-tools so that I could actually do stuff.

~ but there's like I can't bring my freighter

to the new galaxy because I don't have the right kind of hyperdrive.

So that's my next goal is to is to get a new hyperdrive for the freighter so that that can travel with me.

~ my ships I don't know if I ever shared what I named my ships.

My my regular starship is

named the Imodium Falcon.

Of course.

And then my freighter is ~ the incontinent starfish destroyer.

So a lot of poop based stuff, huh?

Yeah.

We keep going with the

poop theme.

I I like it.

~

y ~ a I like that.

I like that.

I can't remember what made me think of a Modium Falcon, but I'm like, this is brilliant and I am doing it.

Yeah.

Ha ha ha.

~ so ~ as that's pretty much those are pretty much the like games I've really been playing, but I do want to talk about a couple of tangentially game related things.

One I actually forgot to mention last week, and that is the Nitro deck 2 from I can never remember what the what did it C RKD.

~ and I had the Nitro deck for my original Switch.

And

and I liked it, but I had gotten the one Steve had recommended it to me.

There was one where the joysticks were aligned like

they are on the Wii U.

And I just could not

like as much as I loved that layout, it my my hand like the shape of the thing wasn't right, and so it kind of cramped my hands.

Luckily with the Nitro deck 2, because the Switch 2 is larger, the Nitro deck.

is larger so it fits incredibly comfortably in my hands.

Ooh.

So this is my and the other thing I don't know if you guys have noticed, I didn't even realize this when I bought it, but it's in Dreamcast colors.

So ~

I had pre ordered this Yeah, I pre

ordered this ~ quite a while ago so when it arrived in the mail I had completely forgotten about it, but ~

Yeah, I'm definitely ~ pleased with the Nitro deck two.

~ if you're

does that have additional battery power or ~ no?

the Nitro deck I had for the Switch One not only had power, but it also had like a dock built into it.

This doesn't have that.

In fact, it's like I can completely disconnect this.

What's really cool is this can be used for the Switch 2 or the original Switch or the OLED switch.

So like

you pop this out and basically

like a it's like a phone thing.

one of the phone

then you just ~ twist this and it tightens it.

And so you tighten it until it's gripping.

And then there's a little thing you can stick on the bottom if you're playing a switch one that kind of fills in the empty space.

~

or maybe goes on the top.

I can't remember.

I've never tried it.

But ~ yeah, ~ Nitro Deck Two by

C R K D thus far has my recommendation.

I pretty much have not gone back to Joy-Con since I got this thing.

~ it's got you know, it's got the the motion controls, it's got vibration.

Hmm.

like that or do you have to take it out to dock it?

Damn it So close So

close.

it's and honestly, if it didn't if this thing was shaped exactly for switch two instead of having this thing for switch one or two, it probably would be less inconvenient for taking

it out to dock it.

But since I have to like

unlock this thing and twist it in order to get it out, it is a little bit of a pain.

But not enough of

a pain for me to not recommend it.

Like I said, ~ ever since I got it, I've pretty

much played on this exclusively.

Th this is probably a big ask and I doubt it has it, but does it have the Switch Pro controller like back buttons or does it have like programmable back buttons?

It does.

It has programmable back buttons.

I

it work with

the switch two like menu?

Like does it think it's a pro controller?

I have not tried it.

So I don't know.

I'm going to say probably not.

There is a CRKD app that you can install that I

know the Nitro deck I had before, you could like sync it up and and make adjustments there.

I haven't tried that with this one yet.

~ like I said, I've mostly been playing Grand Theft Auto 4 anyway, so I haven't gotten much use out of this, but ~ if you're looking for something

imagine that it worked that way.

Yeah.

If if

you're looking for something that's a little bit more comfortable, and especially if you're used to using a Steam Deck or something like that, ~ I would recommend checking

this out because it definitely makes the switch two much more ~ comfortable.

~ yeah, so it has ~ two back buttons on both stems, and then I almost forgot it has extra shoulder buttons.

So you've got

your regular triggers, you've got your regular bumpers,

and then you've got these additional bumpers.

~ like the ~ the new 3DS had.

Holofact conjo Holofact joysticks, right?

I'm sure they are.

I don't know if I yeah, I like I don't

~ I I don't have that information right in front of me, but I would be surprised if they weren't.

be.

I I assume it would be.

And I just dropped my switch.

premium ones anymore are s Hall Effect, so yeah.

Yeah.

The only the only other thing that I wanted to talk about, and I actually I I can't really talk about it.

I can only show it.

sorry podcast listeners.

but ~ I have

been working on this.

This was a

You got that

Yeah, this was actually a Christmas present from my wife, ~ that has just kind of been sitting waiting for me to have the ambition to put it together.

I started it

last weekend I still have to build Mario obviously but but you can see ~ yeah I was gonna say it's the Mario and Luigi yeah

it's the Mario and Luigi Lego set the one where like it's it's like the pixel art and standing

up and when you turn the crank ~ Yoshi's legs and arms

move and I think ~ and his head moves too and I think Mario moves as well but like I said I haven't gotten around to building him yet.

Mm-hmm.

That's pretty rad, actually.

That's really cool.

And it's pretty sick.

like Yeah, ~ I if

it do the tongue?

Yes!

Now that's what I needed.

God damn it.

Sorry podcast listeners, you gotta come to the YouTube to watch this.

you twist

it the tongue comes out and the mouth opens and I haven't I have since I haven't built Mario, I had don't know whether he punch

I was like my god does it do

Yeah Yeah, sin since I haven't built Mario yet, I don't know whether Mario punches them in the back of the head, but ~ I'm eager to find out.

mm.

But so that's my

he did ~ that's funny.

that's my change

to the system.

Right.

~ before I toss it to Brandon, j I this is one thing I didn't put in the news.

But did you guys see the rumor of like I think there was like a patent that came out of a updated Switch two Joy-Con that is like supposed to have like a wider grip or something

like that?

Hmm.

I maybe I should have put that in the news.

I usu

link that.

I I hadn't seen anything about this so but

it.

I'll link it.

the pro controller is so good that if I'm not playing it handheld, I'm playing it with a pro controller.

So so yeah,

it like bigger Joy-Con doesn't do much for me unless I'm playing it in bed.

It's i interesting.

Mm-hmm.

And without knowing what this looks

like, I have no idea.

~

Brandon, what have you been playing?

Aww me.

~ I've been playing ~ geez, god, let me get the notes up because I forgot.

~ Human Fall I the first thing I played was with some friends was Human Fall Flat, 'cause I guess it turned 10th anniversary.

It is a jank ass fucking game, but it's fun.

~ yeah, yeah, no,

like the way that everything works is ~ your left and right trigger are like your arms and

you look at you look at things and you lift things and you manipulate things by looking at which way you're going.

It's very janky and weird, but it does have good physics and that's kinda where it shines.

~ it's

It was fun.

It was fun.

We did the tenth anniversary, which basically it's kinda nice.

They added a free tenth anniversary ~ update that the new level added is basically a greatest hits with a documentary built into it, ~ about the making of the game.

So that was pretty cool.

It was kinda fun to go through that.

~ The other thing that I've been doing, ~ and doing more than any other game, ~ is Alan Wake.

~

Yeah, I know.

Alan Wake won the first one.

I can't even i y Eugene's so shocked he doesn't even have audio anymore.

~ he's

I was gonna say that's a game I haven't heard of in a long time.

Alan Wake w wow.

Wow.

a couple people who are like you should try Alan Wake, you should try Alan Wake, and it was five dollars.

It was five

dollars on Steam.

~ and it came with all the DLC, and I was like, Alright, I'll give it a try, just because I heard such good things about Alan Wake 2, and I do want to play Alan Wake 2 at some

point.

~ It's weird, it's

Some people say Lynchian.

I think it's more like a like a a more pretentious Stephen King sort of thing.

Self-insert situation, just sort of author who's a horror writer who goes off to a weird town where weird stuff is happening.

And ~ honestly it's it feels like a three sixty ass game.

It is very three sixty ass.

if it wasn't for the fact I put in the mods to make it do

~ ultra widescreen, so it does take up the whole monitor.

I had some upgraded textures and ~ and shaders added on there and it looks pretty decent once I got everything tweaked right.

And just by playing through it, it's it's something that's somewhere between we are not taking ourselves seriously and we are so far up our ass.

~ it's it it's a little

This is very remedy.

I don't know if anybody's played Control or any other stuff, but ~ Yeah, it's got this sort

of weird sorta The story takes priority.

The gameplay's admittedly pretty weak.

~ it's for the most part you're running through the woods ~ hitting weird guys with ~ a flashlight until you can shoot them with a gun.

~ and

It's been pretty entertaining.

the storyline's still pretty fun, stupid, it's it season appropriate hard stuff.

I've I've been pretty entertained.

I'm about I think maybe halfway through it after playing through one weekend.

~ So it it it's at least short.

at the part where ~ you've I don't want to spoil anything, but like have you done any

I'm in

chapter four and ~ the

So you

I just got over to ~ where the Rockstars ha place is and done everything in the Rockstars place.

you you've already done some of the time jumpy stuff then.

There was a little bit of a time jumpy thing going on, but it's if you consider the fact you start out going, What's going on?

Then all of a sudden it's a week later and then all of a sudden you're playing in his house in his apartment for a little bit.

I'm not gonna spoil anything.

You're getting to the part where like I ~ where it really sucked me in for some reason.

I remember when I was playing it back on the Fuck, was this an Xbox three sixty game?

I think it was.

a very hyped Xbox three sixty game.

I think it was a launch

or at least ~ launch year three sixty game.

launch.

I think it was like a three years, but

it was extremely hyped and reportedly have been in like worked on for like ten years at that point.

~

so they got but I mean like it's it's it plays okay.

It plays alright, but it feels very three sixty of its era where it's a lot of this is just walking from point A to point B, but

It li

and showing off how much facial animation you can do, which does not look great by today's standards, but

yeah.

Back when facial animations were were a big thing.

it's a couple snotches below LA Noire as far as that's concerned.

~ they try and I

actually a a a later Xbox game now that I'm looking at it, two thousand ten.

Yeah, I

thought it was like it was one of those things it was hyped for years, and it does still

have ~ some pretty funny product placement going on.

~ all the batteries are, at least I can tell, are still energizers.

Energizers lithium specifically.

~ you you pick up a

lot of thermoses.

~ there was one time it's like there's a thing in the game where you can just like, you know, they have audio logs.

Very 360 era.

~ but this time they have also TV video logs, which are oftentimes live action.

~ little sketches

they do, which is ~ has been pretty entertaining.

And one day I time I was like walking through, I was like, good, a TV.

Let me see what this one does.

And I

turn it on, and it's a fucking car commercial.

It's just a car commercial.

And yes.

I yeah, I remember f ~ the Ford was

pretty pr there's a scene where you're like driving in a car and I remember there was like Yeah.

cool

in gaming when ~ actual brand names were getting advertised in games.

there is a lot of Ford vehicles in this game.

~ it is it it

I

think I think cell phone too, wasn't isn't like the cell phone thing at the like

He's just got an OKA he pulls out.

~ Sw Sprint or T Mobile or some brand or something that's called out.

maybe that put the a lot of the stuff has also it's one of those things where updates have removed some of the things apparently.

So like there's a par I'm a

I'm apparently yeah, there's a there's a point where the David Bowie song plays that apparently I'm never gonna get to hear, and that's okay, I guess.

It's it's alright.

The music's been fine.

Yeah, d it's only Bowie.

Yeah, it's it's i I I assume ~

you?

knowing the exact track that they have there, I I kind of already have an idea of where we're going with this.

So I'll probably know

where it i it was supposed to fit as I play.

~

but it's ~ yeah, no, it's been a fun Halloween game.

I'll say it's it it feels like a New Englandy Stephen King shenanigan thing.

~ which

it's very pretentiousy ~ the power of creativity thing going on here.

~ Yes.

No no I am playing the original PC release.

damn,

ha.

God bless you.

~

playing, it's playing, it's playing alright.

I'm going through it.

I'm not hating it.

It's just some of the stuff is a little like, my god, these fights are so repetitive.

~

I should go back and play this now that I've watched Twin Peaks.

I heard that it's got pull some Twin Peaks bullshit.

~ and now that I know what that bullshit is, maybe I would pick up on that on this game.

It's been years since I played this fucking game.

my god, you're like the batter just like the batteries and like having to use your flashlight as a weapon.

It my god, like yeah.

and bigger flashlights as I go.

~ but of course the part

the thing I really, really hate is the constant reset of everything you collected.

You'll be armed to the teeth and then the chapter ends and pfft, it's all gone.

It's all gone.

You're starting from zero

again.

th

Sure.

Maybe that was a way to keep it so that there's ample gameplay that they can jam in there as they start the newest run.

Cause I guess you would be insanely overpowered if you just kept everything rolling through.

~

I found that as a good way for me 'cause I remember that ac specifically actually, 'cause I'm I'm the type of person who will keep ~ every special ammo and I'll probably have that

special ammo after I beat the game.

You know what I mean?

So

no, and I had the same realization like if I get the flare gun, I should just use the flare gun.

The flare gun's the most powerful weapon, ~ and I for some reason always sleep on it.

I I prioritized

the biggest weapons with the most ammo I've collected, and geez.

It was a

It was a good one.

But yeah, and that goes into I'm being more Halloweeny.

I put up the graveyard stones.

I put up ~ the skeleton

in the back garage door garage window that's extra spooky.

And ~ yeah, no, I've just been decorating make my place look a little spookier every day.

Next up is gonna be all of the weird spiders.

I have a lot of those like

Ball spiders with the long, stretchy, poseable legs which are eventually going to take out take

over everything.

Huh?

I was going to ask what is a weird spider?

You'll f if you go over to any Walmart, you'll see ~ It's basically a fuzzy body in two segments with ~ with like felt covered ~ or fuzz covered like metal sort of bendable rods

for all the legs, and then like and then ~ two

reflective eyes.

~ so

those are fun.

Those are fun because they can you can wrap those ~ those legs around something so that they look like they're

And

I

saw some similar not at Walmart, but when I was at the dollar store.

I'm sure it's the same thing.

Yeah, it's gotta be the same thing, but yeah, and d I think and yeah, no.

I just ~ I've got a lot of strobe lights, black lights, ~ and ~ timed lighting going on right now.

So ~

can see behind you.

yeah.

Nice.

Well that is rather exciting.

~ it is 'tis the season, not quite October yet, but you know, you gotta gotta get prepped a little bit beforehand.

I have been celebrating ~ Halloween throughout September.

I figure if Christmas can take over two months of the year, so can Halloween.

Yeah, I kinda taken the taken

the also there's the thing where you wanna start doing it in mid September because if you pull out those decorations and once broken and it's mid Octo and it's

mid October, you got two choices Spirit of Halloween or Spirit of Halloween, 'cause everything else is Christmas stuff now.

So it's it

That is

so true.

~ my wife is excited to go watch ~ practical magic to this Halloween season.

So we're gonna go do that probably.

The I had never seen the first one before we got together, so I'm kinda excited.

Kinda kinda excited.

the first one and my wife doesn't understand why it's so popular, so I might never see it.

It's on it's on the plex.

It's on my plex if you want to watch it.

It's n it's not bad.

to the craft two?

Come on, that's I want more of that silly trash.

Man, that one that that one has ~ the

dude from the boys, the deep, as like a young child.

But he's he's like it's like 19

or 20.

I think it was ~ god, I forget her name.

There's someone I had a huge crush on in that movie who's the prominent villain.

Hmm.

Well, ~ okay.

Let's do this

get out of here thing.

We didn't have a Nintendo.

~ we had a lot not a lot of news, but here we are, still making it to the hour mark folks.

That means that we should probably say fuck ice.

Also means ~ register vote.

Like it's really coming up to time, folks.

~ I I I don't know when yeah.

I don't know when election day is for everybody, but it's typically ~ first Tuesday of November.

So that's coming up fucking quick.

~ yeah.

but I know New York's got a governor election coming up.

Yep, that's gonna be important.

there's all sorts of stuff going on everywhere, but if people turn up and people are pissed, ~ I I think it could end up pretty good, fingers crossed.

~ but, you know, it you

gotta show up, you gotta vote.

Come on, people.

Yeah, definitely.

~ okay, well, let's get out of here.

Justin Brandon, thank you for another week of Infendo Radio.

We will see you not next week, but the week following, ~ for another show.

So get excited.

Talk to y'all later.

Bye bye.

Peace out, protest, and vote.

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