Holiday Special

Game and Grub. Happy Holidays and welcome to Game and Grub where we play with our food. It's our holiday special. Yeah, there's a nice roaring fire going. We're going to roast chestnuts. Have you ever had a chestnut? I have never had a roasted chestnut. Have you ever had a chestnut, you know, even just a regular chestnut? I'm not 100% sure what a chestnut is. Like, I know what it looks like because I see them sold in stores around this time of year. We were at a store. There was a huge bin of chestnuts. There must have been, like, 3,000 chestnuts in that bin. I was like, oh, that's a chestnut? Like, I like snacking around the time of year. I crave things like Chex Mix. I crave things like artichoke dip. Can't say I crave chestnuts. I've never had a chestnut. Can't say I crave any nuts, for that matter, around this time of year. Um, walnuts, maybe. Those are, see, oh, you know which ones are good. Have you ever had the spice nuts? The ones that are, like, in, like, a spicy sweet glaze? Uh, yes. Those are delicious. um one of my like you know you're you hang out at your relatives for the holidays a lot sometimes and there's a lot of downtime so during the downtime kids are bored uh and you're not allowed to play your Game Boy because you're supposed to be spending time with family but they're all talking about like taxes so you take out the nutcracker and you start just cracking walnuts sure that's that was our fun yeah i like how that sounds really awful um i mean it's No, you're not allowed to have fun with your game. We're going to put you to work. We're eating them. We weren't cracking walnuts for everybody. Oh, so you just were eating them for yourself. Yeah. Okay, okay, okay. That's not too bad then. And you know, this kind of touches on what we're going to do for this episode. Instead of going to a fast food restaurant and then reviewing a game, we're going to instead talk about some holiday memories. A lot of people nowadays have... Gaming is such a big part of our lives now, for pretty much anybody. it's uh more and more people are doing it for fun even if it's just on their phone yeah i mean mobile gaming has uh opened the world of gaming to a lot more people and in some cases it's i mean there's even definite research that you know a game like Pokemon Go actually boosted sales of the 3DS Pokemon games so it probably brought in more people than it did before so we're going to talk about kind of our holiday gaming memories and uh our plans for this year because i think we both have some serious plans but i why don't you go first with your with your holiday gaming memories um so around the holidays i remember when i was really little and before like when there were a game would come out like a video game system like the N64 or the GameCube sure and we wouldn't get it our parents were like no you don't need that uh but our cousins would so around christmas time we'd always like be up visiting they live like an hour away so we'd be up visiting and i remember watching uh vividly like i can vividly remember how to beat Ganondorf in Ocarina of Time because i watched them do it like a hundred times that's a fun battle to watch yeah it's fun to play but i'd i would not mind watching that it's a lot of fun uh Banjo-Kazooie was another one we watched that's a good one too because these are single player games just put your little cousins behind you and you get to play the video game did you ever when you when you have a little kid with you i did this with my nieces and they want to play but you don't want to let them play because you want to play so you give them a controller that's not plugged in i know i've had that done to me okay uh but i was the youngest so i don't like i don't have the i've i was always being shared with i don't have sure the uh the experience of sharing the game with they were so savvy they never fell for it like they knew like immediately like plug my controller but uh so anyway eventually yeah your whole family gets together uh so you've got finally you've got players three and four sure uh it's time for some Smash Brothers time for some Mario Kart uh Mario Party and to that end i think Mario Kart and Smash Brothers are kind of the universal ones that pretty much anyone can get in and start playing yeah and enjoy themselves yeah i remember uh my aunt playing mario kart she flipped the controller around backwards because she couldn't handle like the the way and this is the n64 or the i think this is a gamecube controller okay but like you you move right to go right and move left to go left, and that was too much. So she flipped it around so she could go the other way. That's so funny. It was just very odd. Did she end up doing okay? Playing that way? No. No, I can't imagine. Because, like, a GameCube controller is already pretty daunting, like, if you've never, if you're not used to using those controllers. I mean, it's got a big green button. Yeah. And in Mario Kart, you press the big green button and you use the stick, like, that's it. Yeah. But, oh, that's so funny. I can't even, like, picture in my head. Adult, do you have a story about adults failing at video games? I, I would My first time that my sister and I tried to get my mom to play Mario Kart, she played as Yoshi in Mario Kart 64, and she was driving like a drunk person, but she won! She got first place out of anywhere, and it was so funny. She hasn't been able to replicate that again, because she actually does enjoy playing. If the family's playing Mario Kart, she's like, I definitely want to try, so she'll get in and she'll play, and she'll do pretty good. I mean, better than, like, any probably 60-year-old lady should be doing a Mario Kart. But she does pretty good. And so it's cool to just kind of see her, like, enjoy herself. It's fun to see, you know, someone that normally you wouldn't think enjoys themselves playing Mario Kart enjoy themselves playing Mario Kart. Yeah, I think I got my granddaughter to play Pokemon Snap once. Oh, that's a weird game. Yeah. That's a weird game to get them to play. Well, because, you know, it's got the Z trigger. Yeah. That's not a concept that they can handle. and this is weird but do you have any games that you normally play this time of year more than like do you have a tradition of playing a game that i gotta play this time of year it's christmas time i gotta play this usually around christmas time it's like a new game okay right so i have a vivid memory of staying up way too late after christmas playing Assassin's Creed 2 i don't know why that sticks in my head probably because i was disobeying the rules sure by playing it with a very low sound staying up all night but now because i i'm i come from a mexican household we do kind of all of our partying on christmas eve and then we stay up late till midnight and then we unwrap our presents and then we play those uh play with our gifts until you know we're tired out and then christmas day is pretty much as nap day we all nap so a lot of times like you said i would get a new game and then i would play it all night and probably play most of the next day and then because you know you get you get all those days off from school do you have a game that you're playing uh that you plan on playing for the holidays um so i recently resubscribed to World of Warcraft uh-oh uh with some new people who have like never played before and a couple of them are you know still in school so they have like this uh month off so and around when i when i was first started playing that way back in 2004 what kind of character are you maining uh i know very little about World of Warcraft currently like i'm concurrently maining several characters oh several just because none of them have played before so we're all leveling up one to uh one to one hundred and ten one to 100 one to 110 however far we get they might quit because you know it's a that's a lot of levels but i did a recruiter friend with them so we get like a bonus experience thing so i can play multiple characters uh pretty effectively where normally you get like really burnt out if you go one to 60 on a single single character but i i mean i i tanked i don't know if you know what that means yeah like a heavy character that can take a lot of damage they can deal it out in a group you want to you're the person who the enemy is supposed to attack sure everybody else does the damage around you and the healer heals you and you just sit there and you take it yeah in this in Splatoon terms it's a roller yeah yeah it's the one who like goes first and paves the way yes yes the snipers sit in the back but yeah as far as when i was littler uh way back when when because this game's been out for a really long time oh yeah it's been out forever it's over 10 years i would i would resubscribe at about this time of year school is about to get out short break you get a month uh and maybe keep it going for a little while until school kicks back in like difficulty or your parents say no but yeah so i don't know uh what i mean i don't what do you do i find myself playing going back to the gamecube um i'll either play walkthrough of Wind Waker but more often than not I run through Metroid Prime you could easily do that if you're playing all day you could beat Metroid Prime in like two days not 100% I've heard the record is a little short of a minute oh I'm sure it is but I like to enjoy myself I'm not a speedrun guy but I do like to you know you get to enjoy Metroid Prime this year I have not touched Metroid yet because I have a new thing that I do too is typically where where i've been working i would get like a week off for the whole um you know the kind of interim between christmas and new year's yeah so i have a lot of time so what i do is there's tons of sales on steam yeah and on at this point on the e-shop as well and uh you you know you buy you know a good 20 30 40 dollars worth of games and then you can just play them throughout the holiday so i've got a yeah my email just came in today yeah uh six items on your steam wish list are on sale yeah I'm like, uh-oh. Yeah, that's... I hope this doesn't awaken something in me. Oh, and that's what always happens because... I mean, it'd be crazy not to buy it. Yeah. I think I'm probably going to play through the Lord of the Rings game. Those things, too. Okay, yeah, that was... the Mordor and that other one I think that one's new. This is the second Tomb Raider that I never played through. I really like the first one, Rise of the... Yeah, the Crystal Dynamics Tomb Raider. The one they're making a movie about. I did not know they were making a Tomb Raider movie. are they bringing back Angelina Jolie or are they getting somebody else they have it's Alicia Vikander I'm not sure who that is did you ever see Ex Machina no I don't know I'll do a Google search later I got like I love I know people are like tired of the glut of Metroidvanias when indie games I am not I cannot get enough of them especially if they're they're cute I like a cute Metroidvania like Momodora I don't know if you ever played that that's very cute but I got one called skelemania you play as a skeleton okay like a cute skeleton and i'm looking forward to that uh there's another one i think with a nint like a cute ninja in it so like i'm playing like four different i'm gonna i haven't even installed them yet i just bought them and i'm gonna probably do that when i get home later uh play a bunch of metroidvanias and oh and i'm gonna be reviewing a game called Enter the Gungeon for Nintendo or Pure Nintendo Magazine and it's like a top-down action shooter and it's a lot of fun really hard it reminds me of like really hard super Nintendo games okay um like the phrase Nintendo hard yes yes but not in a way that like because anytime someone describes a game as Nintendo hard i usually don't want to play it um i don't want to play Contra i don't want to play uh you know Mega Man 3 i don't want to play a lot of there have been times in my life where i'll come to a game i'll hit a point i'll try it like 100 times i'll put the game down for two weeks i'll pick it up pick it back up do it on my first try hey that's pretty good like i don't know what it is but like maybe you let it you let it wait nah if i suck now i'm probably gonna suck tomorrow that's the thing i don't know that was the thing about sucking i was probably just getting it with like fresh eyes or uh getting into too many bad habits of like uh i don't know you play a action adventure game you can use like certain combos with your weapons usually like i got a God of War like a Legend of Zelda um you get into like a habit and then you know that doesn't work for like whatever part you're on so you gotta switch it up or maybe it was just a puzzle so those are our holiday plans when we come back we're gonna talk about all the great stuff we ate this year mostly not on this podcast when the grinding gets you down hop a griffin to my town in the land of ice and snow it's always It's Christmastime in Dunmore. And we're back. And a lot of holiday episodes, usually with review shows, go over what the best, sometimes the worst, things of the year were. We started this as like, this would be like our halfway season break, because we started in the fall. But we can still look back at what we ate this year. Sure, because we ate a lot this year, and I think it's what led us to make this podcast. A little bit. Because we found ourselves eating a lot. and we it's so funny because we normally have good experiences eating out um and i'm sorry that we weren't able to capture like half of them yeah well we don't always try new things no no we usually stick what did you eat today what did you bring in to the before we recorded i polished off i i'm gonna say i inhaled it i inhaled the beef and cheddar and how many beef and cheddars would you say this year that you've eaten oh geez you know what i keep it i don't need Arby's that much because i don't have one near me i have to i have to i have to schlep for us for an Arby's and i don't always like doing that so probably a good at least five i've had at least five beef and cheddar probably had like 20 oh my gosh well you live you live down you could you could feasibly walk to your i could walk to that Arby's yeah i don't know why there's no need to do that yeah well i'm usually hanging out with people who enjoy Arby's it's on the way home so yes i can pop there for a beef and cheddar and it just reminded me like how perfect the sandwiches and how bad everything else is like or at least their Thanksgiving offerings um i mean i know i used to eat the Reuben there we're not we don't you're not going to use the word Reuben anymore in my presence it felt dirty in my mouth and i think you immediately regretted it just brought back memories yeah we're gonna get we're gonna get PTSD so what's some of the great food that you had this year great food that i've had this year i really like that Del Taco burrito from episode one you got the good one i got the kind of flaccid one yeah those Wiener Central tamales were also amazing very amazing and earth-shattering because they taste just like homemade i i'll stick to that and i'd be willing to die on that hill yeah because it's such a great tamale i think if you're used to really great tamales give it a shot and you'll find yourself surprised i think i've eaten a fair bit of uh you ever been to like a Pyology or a Blast or a Blaze Pizza sure like a brick oven pizza place yeah like you get like it's a it's like a chipotle for pizza yeah uh you kind of like make your own um those are always good yes i'm thinking back over the year i have a brick oven i couldn't have those anytime i want those i think i don't know if it's blaze or blast that has like the jones soda in their fountains okay so or like it's like fancy soda yeah fancy soda uh so did you have any new fancy sodas that you like this year um i mean i usually go for the the cream soda but anything new that you tried i did i did like the uh pepsi the those are pretty tasty brad's drink wait oh yeah brad's drink yeah the 1876 uh yeah 1776 yes you know just the other day or yesterday actually at our at our friendship christmas that we had with our friend emily i had a dr pepper that uh you know they comes bottled you know with pure sugar okay and that was delicious and i'm gonna go back and stock up for the holidays there was like a pellegrino grapefruit uh beverage that yes was that good That was very good. And I don't know, beverages. I don't really stray too much in beverages. Neither do I, especially because this year, around late fall, Coke Zero was retooled and I think improved even more so. I thought Coke Zero was already a perfect diet beverage. Coke Zero Sugar, even better, and I slurp it down like a fish. I probably, at this point for the last month, I've had at least two a day, which is probably melting my bones. um probably not advisable and it's probably only gonna get worse around the holidays but i love it i love it i love it easily the best beverage i've had this year uh you and uh our friend emily took us took me to uh try my first chick-fil-a oh that was that this year i think that was this year yeah this was early this year it was right after we went to go see the power rangers movie okay yeah chick-fil-a is a good sandwich and i was i didn't know what to expect i heard a lot of talk about it you know they say it's good but i remember this the first time i tried it i was like you guys need to stop talking for a second because i need to like i need to like make peace with the sandwich because it was so amazing and then we had you try the sauce and then the sauce was even better the chick-fil-a sauce and the french fries uh fantastic and then we eat i mean that's kind of our one of our go-to places when we do go if it's nearby if it's nearby usually after a movie uh we'll go we'll go get chick-fil-a because it's so good um i've had it i've you know this year i've probably had close to i probably have at least 10 chick-fil-a sandwiches i was working i was doing sound for a play up in uh like it was like 45 minutes away in like a mountain mountain-ish area of auburn okay uh that there was a chick-fil-a nearby like on the way and we would get out like late enough to where uh like if i were to go all the way home like it wouldn't be anywhere else to stop so i would have Chick-fil-A uh how late is Chick-fil-A open um i think they're up until nine or ten but like uh it's 45 minutes home by the time i got everything's closed uh and it would be you know time to not eat you know what closes pretty late uh In-N-Out, In-N-Out Burger closes like around one i think on the on the weekends too yeah Carl's Jr. have been pretty late too which is although it depends In-N-Out's regional and any of these places like i've seen 24-hour Carl's Jr. yeah i've seen 24-hour like Taco Bells and i've seen Taco Bells that close at like 8 p.m. sure and uh there i don't know about you but to me there's something about eating a hamburger like at 3 a.m. yeah that makes it taste amazing i don't know what it is if i'm up that late for whatever reason uh it's amazing i love a late night hamburger uh so the queso from Del Taco also a win i would say the queso from Del Taco was because especially if you eat it right after i mean it was like a week or two after i had the chipotle queso which was bad the queso from Del Taco was great i find myself getting the Carl's Jr. five dollar box a lot this year me too we should probably do that for a future episode but um yeah because it's it's it's fairly new it's come out in the last yeah it's on the like the list and i gotta tell you it's a big hit because i see it advertised everywhere um so i assume that's a big hit i don't know if that's i assume and everyone that i know that eats carl's jr can't stop raving about it what do you normally get uh i usually get the first one uh because it comes in that one comes with the cheese double cheeseburger the cookie uh fries a drink and a hot dog yeah uh the hot dog you know you can't rave too much about it's not the first time carl's jr has had a hot dog at the restaurant no they've always had that all-american picnic burger they cycle it in every once in a while oh that thing was a monstrosity that was a monstrosity yeah but look at it i didn't eat mustard yeah looking at it gave me diarrhea yeah did you ever have it no my friend anthony did though and he has nothing kind to say about it i don't think he's been inside of carl's junior since oh wow yeah i i ordered it once didn't like wasn't crazy about it i got the next time with no pickles or mustard and it was better i don't know it's just it's like it's a cheeseburger with a hot dog on top of it it's it's unnecessary is what it is um uh but the bun the bun was like a little dry on the hot dog in the in the five dollar box but usually when i'm getting it it's like right before work and i work like uh it's a night shift we'll see so yeah like you you want like usually when you're like you're starting work like it's it's like it's like i should have eaten and then halfway through work is like i should also be eating yeah uh because it's just at that weird time of day where you like should just two meals should be split sure so i'll take the hot dog throw in like the fridge and then heat it up in the microwave with a cup of water the bun to be a little less dry and effectively steaming it it's a hot dog there's not much to rave about I think a hot dog cookie's good, cookie's great you can't go wrong with a cookie unless it's mother's cookies which are awful they taste like sadness the only thing they're good for is please take this dollar away from me, I have too many dollar bills it's good as building material or like oh if you have like a home intruder you can throw those like oatmeal iced ones at them they're as hard as rocks what do you get the five dollar box i get the one that has the least amount of food which is just it comes with fries and onion rings and a double cheeseburger and a cookie anything and um i like the onion rings a lot i kind of rediscovered onion rings because of it i tried to get that one once and they were like we don't understand what you're talking about onion rings in a five dollar box well because they have the numbers now so i i just ordered my number uh but i guess you might have been at a particularly difficult Carl's Jr yeah and they ended up like i'll give you a side onion rings and then i don't know what here's what i do here's what i do to hack it it's my this is my cool hack because i love the Famous Star with cheese that's a pretty perfect burger as far as i'm concerned but the double cheeseburger you can approximate the famous star if you ask them to add lettuce and tomato and they're more than happy to do that sometimes they charge you sometimes they don't okay i guess it just depends on who's you know running the the cashier uh and and that and that'll give you a pretty close approximation to a Famous Star it's a little bit smaller than a Famous Star yeah no pickles uh no oh i forgot about the pickles doesn't it come with pickles i don't think it does come with pickles i want to say carl's carl's junior is like the only place that'll use sweet pickles right i don't know what kind of pickle it is i know it's a pickle but i don't know what kind of pickle it is or at least they used to i don't know i haven't got i usually get the famous uh the western bacon cheeseburger or the big carl because i've become big carl's great i like the Big Carl almost as much as I like the Big Mac which I think is what they're the answer to it I remember the commercial for the Big Carl was just like double meat double cheese la la la la la because they're making fun of the Big Mac song ah okay because like I guess yeah I think it might have started with To all the fatties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, and a bunch of seed bun, yeah. Yeah, the Big Mac has its own song. Yeah. And they're like, we don't have a song. But it's infectious, too. They're like, we have a song to double the meat, double the cheese, la la la, la la la. That's not always a selling point, as far as I'm concerned. No, but if you're wanting a lot of food, the Big Carl's like, it depends, if I'm really hungry, I go for a Big Carl. If I'm not really hungry, I go for a Western Bacon. Cool, cool, cool. and then this was a crazy good year for video games oh yeah especially if you a Nintendo fan if you're a Nintendo fan you it was so great I mean we're not going to touch too much on it but Breath of the Wild yeah Mario Odyssey Metroid's back those are probably our number one games yeah number one and two probably Breath of the Wild and Mario Odyssey and you know what depending on what time of day you ask me it would switch like yeah it really Metroid was fantastic Samus yeah oh my gosh yeah Samus Returns she did return, and she wasn't in a dumb Federation Force game. It was a solid, what we wanted for like ten years now. I think yeah, they could have remade a different game. I think they picked the weirdest Metroid to remake. Yeah, but it was good. It was still really good. Like, it probably opened that game up to a lot more people. And did you ever play that game? No. The original one? No. I played like part of it. It's unplayable. I tried playing the first Metroid too. Completely unplayable. I played the first Metroid when it came free on my 3DS. I don't think I beat it. No, it's... Well, I played Zero Mission. It stings the eye. Well, Zero Mission, of course. It's perfect. That's a perfect game. Because they took the best Metroid game, Fusion, and they used its engine to make Zero Mission. Of course. Those are probably my two favorite. Even still. I think Fusion was the first Metroid game that I really experienced as I came to it late. And it's also, like, the last one in the timeline. That's a good one to, like, start with. Yeah. It was very scary. Yeah. And it kind of... Metroid... Stardew Valley? was released on the Switch and we kind of fell in love with that again. That was a lot of fun. Sonic, a lot of renaissances here. Sonic Mania came back and it was good and then I feel that Sega might have squandered all their loyalty with Sonic Forces because apparently that was hot garbage. Played a lot of Splatoon. Splatoon 2 is fantastic, yes. Oh, here's another thing that we forgot to touch on. What are you excited to play next year? I can think of one thing right now immediately that's what I had in my head too and I cannot wait to play that I cannot wait to play that local multiplayer I think we should probably take a weekend like a Saturday and just zip through it I think that would be a lot of fun get some snacks, get some food and just zip through that game I think it would be a lot of fun I love Kirby and the Kirby co-op games like Kirby Superstar the one on the Wii I believe was a co-op game as well maybe we'll do it as a live episode hey we could do like a stream yeah yeah we could do a you have a twitch stream that you use right yeah yeah we could either stream it on yours or start using a little more we can stream it on youtube if we uh we're probably gonna yeah we can we might see this episode is up on youtube now if you're watching it on youtube but these episodes are gonna go up if they're not already yeah eventually just because i i've i've realized a lot of people watch podcasts on yeah around march you'll you'll see the episodes by the time i get around to it no they'll go up soon they'll go up soon um and i think we'll probably stream from uh hammy cooks i think that'd be a great place to do it and um you know maybe do a kirby themed uh start the start the thing off like a whole thing with like a with like a strawberry shortcake and then eat the cake while we're playing a kirby it'll be a lot of fun we'll have a little slumber party with all you guys um chick-fil-a i'm trying to see if i want to take all the boxes is there any other game that you want to play uh next oh uh well tentatively we're gonna get that switch pokemon game yeah maybe maybe but at least we'll know what it is yeah we'll definitely know a lot more about it i would i would totally be excited for that i can't wait to see that what that's gonna be i think that whatever we have in our heads it's not gonna be it i think it's gonna be completely out of left field i know we're not a nintendo gaming podcast so I'm going to step out of the Nintendo I'm really excited for that Spider-Man game that's coming to consoles it looks as good as the last good Spider-Man game that I played with Spider-Man 2 people talk about it some of the swinging mechanics and stuff that they're doing in the new Spider-Man game just of what we've seen early on looks as good as Spider-Man 2 and so I'm really stoked about that I'm still like a dumb idiot crossing my fingers for Mother 3. I don't think it's ever going to happen, but I'm still hoping for it. I'm still wishing upon a million stars. Did the ARMS guys super troll you with that? The ARMS guys? Yeah. Remember when ARMS came out and they were doing the E3 tournament? And the announcer was like... Oh yeah, that was horrible! He was going... Mother! he got you this could you know what it might be a long con it might be like they're just waiting you came to me and you were like mother three confirmed he said it yeah go to this point in the video you were like yeah what's the kubrick thing the conspiracy yeah it was like room 222 you were like giving me your pins and strings on yeah and uh why would he say it why would he say if it's not real yeah because he because we're we're the easiest we're the biggest we're the biggest cat's paws in the world just you have recipes saved up for it i do they're on my hard drive and i'm i'm i don't want to i here's the here's the whole thing i i want to upload them but i i know that you know like Earthbound Zero was called Earthbound Beginnings right okay so i don't think Mother Three is going to be called Mother Three if it ever comes out um so like i I want the branding to be right on the video. So it's purely capricious. I got a fancy new controller called the Super NES Pro, although I got the Super Famicom Pro because it's got the rainbow buttons on it. And it works on the Switch. It works on PCs and Mac. It works on your iPhone. It works on your Super NES Classic. And it's got future functionality for pretty much any, you know, So this company, 8-Bit Do, they make these controllers and they're, you know, these kind of universal controllers for every system. I love it. It's basically if a Super Nintendo controller and a Pro controller had a baby. Okay. Because it almost has, it's got those two, like, directional buttons. Are those, no, what are they called? Control sticks. Control sticks. And left sticks. That are in the same place that, like, they would be, like, on a PlayStation controller. Okay. But it's like a regular Super Nintendo controller. Like one of these. like one of those like one of those fancy super just in our in our fancy gaming group studio I happen to have this playstation controller playstation controller I cannot wait to play that Kirby game Yoshi looks okay I think Yoshi I don't know if I wanna I don't think I'm gonna I might borrow it like if somebody gets that that's what I was thinking I'll borrow it because it seems like mostly single player if I had like a like a little cousin or a nephew who I could like share that game with yeah that would probably be better because it seems like a very child-oriented game now there's anything wrong with that no no it's just definitely a place for those games it's still pretty low-key and not that not that interesting it looks very minimalist if i was a huge yoshi fan i'd probably get it but i'm more of a kirby fan than yoshi fan oh yeah way more um is there anything you're expecting is there anything you're hoping for because i don't think we're gonna see zelda no we don't we don't need to see zelda um we just had zelda then it's you know we have all this dlc coming out yeah that's coming that's come out um and mario again probably not going to see mario no 2017 was so satisfying i don't like 28 i'm i'm i will ride 2017 yeah got a huge wave on my because we know that kirby's coming and we know Pokemon's coming so that's kind of yeah well and i don't know was it confirmed 2018 holiday what pokemon oh no no we don't know if it's coming out in 2018 but we are they did say they're going to tell us about it okay yeah but it could they said that it might be coming out in 2018 i'd like them to take their time with it yeah they're gonna make a good game definitely definitely um i want to see a follow-up to Stardew Valley well i would the multiplayer patch oh that's right we're gonna see that i think they're they're making that for the Switch and that'll like we'll we'll be playing that again because uh yeah i think it works that uh you can create it's kind of like a Minecraft local local Minecraft server that people can connect to your game and then they can only like access like your farm they can build stuff on your farm that's cool uh but like all the stuff and you're like yeah they can't go mess up your town or uh mr i'm gonna steal your girl Metroid Metroid Prime four we're probably gonna see that we did i mean we uh they they won everybody yeah with just that yeah oh with the number four background and number four and i would love it love it love it if uh Beyond Good and Evil 2 came to uh the Switch yeah i don't know if it will uh i know that uh what's his name Michel, the guy who develops it who also develops Rayman, I know he's a big Nintendo fan, I know that he you know if there is and that's the cool thing too, I think we're gonna see we saw an a huge increase near the end of the year for Switch uh support, like people just pouring their games, you know what I think they're gonna be also Smash Brothers, oh I forgot about Smash Brothers, how could you forget about Smash Brothers, well I mean we are about due for it yeah If you're going through the regular timeline... I think they're going to find a way to make GameCube controllers work on the Switch. Or they're going to find a way to use the same thing they used for the Wii U, the little GameCube controller adapter. Well, let me ask you this. Do you think it's going to be a new Smash Bros., or do you think it's going to be a port of Smash 4? I think if they were going to make a Smash Bros. DX, like they did with Mario Kart 8 and Pokemon Tournament, I think that we would already have it. Okay. I think if that was the case, we'd already have all the DLC. Because that game coming out, all the DLC is a deluxe version. People would buy all that. That'd be crazy. But I think they're going to make a Smash 5. Okay. Because they made Smash 4, which is what I've been calling it. What year did that come out in? I want to say 2013. Yeah, I want to say that too. 2013. But also, they came out concurrently on the 3DS. Yes. and the Wii U Nintendo's been consolidating uh their handheld games and their their uh their console games they made a console we'll see a follow-up to the 3DS because the 3DS is eight years going uh we already saw a follow-up to the 3DS it's called the New 3DS I'm talking like new system though i don't think so i think they're gonna move everything over to the Switch okay like that's i'm not i'm not an industry expert i know but do you think they're going like one console yeah i wouldn't hate that i wouldn't hate that at all i think remember when Sony tried to make a portable console yeah and Nintendo was like well people you know people bought the portable console though so that they could port Nintendo games onto it they turned it into like a walking emulation system yeah um i think yeah i think because the Switch is a handheld system i think they're gonna consolidate all their resources and game development i wouldn't hate that neither So would I, because I already own a Switch. Yes. Do you think, because we just got Animal Crossing, do you think we're going to get a new Animal Crossing in the next year for a console Animal Crossing? Maybe, but I wouldn't buy it. I like Pocket Camp. I stopped playing Pocket Camp. I noticed. I'm probably going to get back into it eventually, but it's just not doing it for me anymore. I've definitely slowed down playing it. I haven't tried the new update. The new update looks pretty cool. Yeah, if I log in once a day... Have you been doing the Christmas stuff? Yeah, I've been doing the Christmas stuff. So I got the Christmas outfit, and I'm trying to get the, uh... I want to deck my camp out in Christmas stuff. Okay. I just, uh... I want a console game. I want an old... I want to capture that magic from the GameCube days. Well, the GameCube, like, I don't know, that game stole your life. Yeah, it did. And the Animal Crossing games are in real time, so there's an infinite, like, you can't stop playing them. You have to constantly play them. I like the mobile game. I like Animal Crossing as a mobile game. I think it was always going for that, and it always should have been that. It's fine. I was logging in for about 10 minutes, going to the shovel, doing all the fun stuff. I want to play it for hours. I want to stay up all night playing it for hours, and I don't think I'm ever going to get that again. Out of Pocket Camp, you definitely won't get that. Not out of Pocket Camp, but definitely out of a future Animal Crossing. Any other last-minute predictions that we're going to make for 2018? oh i don't know it's gonna be hard to top 2017 as a year for gaming they might not top it i think i think there's gonna be some great games on the horizon though i there's a there's a there's like a good handful of indie games that i'm following that i can't wait to come out um and then just like i said the big i think pokemon's gonna blow our minds i think pokemon might be i hope it does i'm like i'm not getting my hopes up or looking too much into it because i want i want it to smack me right in the face. Yeah. But we're probably going to get a direct. In January. We'll get a Pokemon Direct. In January. Well, I mean like a general, just a general direct in January. You're right, they haven't done one in a while. They said that, I think they did say we're going to touch base in January. Sweet. Again, I'm, hey, Mother 3, I'm putting that on my bingo card. Don't put it in the middle. No, no, no, no, no. It's going to go off to one of the corners. But other than that, I'm looking forward to next year. I'm looking forward to continuing this podcast. I enjoy it. It's kind of this weekly thing that we do, and I'm starting to get into the pattern of it. I like going out to eat. I like rating food. It's a lot of fun. We haven't gotten a lot of fan mail. No, but we'll... Maybe we should drop the email again. I mean, it's always in the description of the episode. If you want to reach out, if you want to share some of your holiday memories, if you want to share your top delicious treats that you ate this year and games that you played, uh give us a shout out uh at our email gameandgrubpod at gmail.com and we'd be happy to read it and share it and we don't have pages for this uh podcast except there will be the YouTube eventually i am gonna i'm tentatively in the new year look forward to a game and grubs website uh and i'm going to start hosting the podcast episodes on Hammy Cooks because this is like the unofficial podcast of Hammy Cooks yeah and uh and we're gonna probably and we we do want to do other stuff adjacent to this podcast the original name of this podcast was Hammy doesn't feel like cooking today there you go, Hammy's eating out today Hammy's ordering in, Hammy's using Grubhub and so if you want to find us specifically or if you follow us on Twitter I always tweet out or the SoundCloud what's your Twitter handle? my Twitter handle is JellySound J-E-L-L-Y-S-O-U-N-D and my Twitter handle is HammyCooks89 J-A-M-M-Y-C-O-O-O-K-S 89 So yeah, Happy New Year! 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