Why I Like Classic Games Better Than Modern Games

So I think in my opinion, classic games are better than the modern games. They have much more charm than the modern games, including the ones the original releases released on classic consoles got a remake of on modern consoles and the games' defunct video game companies have a lot more charm than the ones that are still existing. I'll tell you about that later.

I know it's pointless to tell anyone that classics are better than the modern games, but it's just opinion-based. Modern games are usually released on the 8th and 9th generation consoles and they basically lack a lot of charm. I grew up on the old systems and I play video games throughout years. Mostly the ones released on the older Nintendo consoles that I have grew up with.

Then Sony followed suit to develop their first console, the PS1 when the N64 was developed. Then Microsoft followed suit to develop their first console, the original Xbox when the GameCube and PS2 were developed. Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft are the three video game console manufacturers that are responsible of developing their consoles and publishing their first party games.

Nintendo became the first major company to start developing their consoles. Their first one is the NES. It has 8-bit graphics and that is an example of charming. Then their next console is the SNES, which uses 16 bit graphics and most of their games under the Konami umbrella have a sound effect for pausing. That's another charming asset among them. Though I have NES and SNES emulators, I can play them on my Switch thanks to my NSO membership.

Back in the old days, some SNES games have a K-A rating, which I already told you about. When the first Mortal Kombat came out, the ESRB was first created and later SNES games get the ESRB rating. And later, the K-A rating was replaced with the E rating. And with SNES and N64 games being played on the Nintendo Switch, some games that originally get a K-A rating will have a true ESRB rating to replace the K-A rating.

5th generation consoles:

Their games of the era use polygon models that I can embrace again thanks to the PlayStation Plus Premium Tier. The Nintendo 64 games can be played on the Nintendo Switch, but you need is a Nintendo Switch Online membership and a expansion pack to play them, but I have an emulator for it. 3rd party 5th generation console games have a different behavior. The third party N64 games weren't behaving well because of memory limits. But the third party PS1 games behave properly. Take Tarzan for example. The PS1 version uses game over cutscenes while the N64 version doesn't due to memory limits. That's one difference.

Some PS1 games also carry a K-A rating and since they are gonna be played with PS Plus Premium, they will get a true ESRB rating to replace the K-A rating.

6th generation consoles:

Their games bear a charming environment. That's what makes the PS2 my most favorite Sony console of all time. And they have deeper flows of copyright screens and logos than the 5th generation console games. They are the ones I like the most, so I had to restart the console to see the cycle over and over. With the PS Plus Premium Tier, I have the power to finally revisit my favorite PS2 games. I am also recording the flows of copyright screens and logos on my PS4 and PS5 like I did with the modern games' flow. But preferably, the silent and black ones. 

If Nintendo ever adds a GameCube catalog, well, I guess I'll be looking forward to revisiting them as I did with the PS2 games. After all, GameCube games have a lot of charm as the PS2 games. Smash Melee has a lot of charm that I was embracing. Back in my old time, I usually played my favorite games on the GameCube. It is a charming thing that the GameCube has so many awesome games. The charm, the lore and everything.

You know what other GameCube game that had a lot of charm? Amazing Island. It was a great game. You create your own monster and take it on an adventure. Charming stuff there.

I know you can play the original Xbox games on the Xbox One and the Xbox Series X|S through backwards compatibility since the Xbox 360's architecture is more straightforward than the PS3's. I guess that'll make Xbox players proud that they want to play their beloved classics on the new system. Original Xbox games bear a lot of charm as the PS2 and GC games. That's the main point of 6th generation consoles. Their games bear a lot of charm. Even the browser games on PC.

The short version to this is how it goes. PS2 games are played with your PS Plus Premium membership while original Xbox games are backwards compatible with the modern Xbox consoles.

7th generation consoles:

Well, they are classic systems and the earlier stage of their life cycle has games released by defunct video game companies until later in the cycle where they work towards getting to the modern era. They define the generation of gaming and mark the first consoles to use wireless controllers, internal storages, updates and my most favorite part of game development, the submission of builds to console companies. 

When game developers submit builds, it printed three digital certificates and delivers them to the big three console companies for testing. The red one for Nintendo, the blue one for Sony and the green one for Microsoft. Once submitted, they wait for the console companies to give them the green light for release. It takes weeks for them to give the developers the authorization for release dates.

Online stores like Amazon use the same thing. If you submit and place an order, the next thing you can do is to wait until your order is shipped. Once shipped, they give you the exact date to when it will be delivered to your home.

Some developers were able to submit updates before their dissolution and publishers are in charge of releasing updates to the public. When the developer is the IP holder of that game, it is not safe and its publisher had no interest in hiring another developer to pick up where the other left off if the sales have flopped. It's dangerous and I expect it to count as a dangerous thing.

And with that reponsibility, the modern Xbox consoles can play Xbox 360 games through backwards compatibility and can play PS3 games on modern PS consoles through the PS Plus Premium tier, but they are only available for streaming and it requires an internet connection. I recommend investing in an ethernet cord for stable streaming.

Modern games may be less charming, but there are some games in the modern era that have screens that show what elements games are integrated with, like Havok, CriWare, Dolby Digital, Unreal Engine, Quixel Megascans, etc.

When 5th and 6th generation consoles came out, it came with startup screens. Except that the N64 doesn't use a startup screen. It uses No Controller screens to indicate that you turned on an N64 game without a controller plugged in. To play, turn the N64 off and plug in a controller on socket 1. It's intentional for N64 games to have no controller screens and they are my favorite. The one I like the most is the No Controller screen for Super Smash Bros.

What also made classic games more charming is that they were released by defunct video game companies. They include (but not limited to) Hudson Soft, THQ, Midway, Universal Interactive, etc. What so charming about them is their logos. Certain companies like Capcom still exists and their classic games bear a lot of charm. But most notably, their classic fighting games.

Capcom has several ultimate compilations that have fighting games with 2D sprites integrated with QSound Virtual Audio. There is one ultimate compilation they haven't developed yet. A compiliation that has all Marvel vs. Capcom games and we dreamed of wanting that to happen since MvC2 and Origins were removed from digital stores. Capcom Cup is around the corner and I doubt that they are gonna announce it. But if one of the Marvel vs. Capcom games gets their spotlight at EVO 2023, we are in this to convince Capcom to make it happen.

If you are willing to relive Capcom's classic fighting games, the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection and Capcom Fighting Collection are the way to make esports setups easier going forward. Even on 2 Old 2 Furious where they can only play Capcom's fighting game titles with a 2 on it. Hence the name "2 Old 2 Furious". When Marvel vs. Capcom 2 and Capcom vs. SNK 2 came out, I understood they beared a lot of charm when it comes to stages and 3v3 battles knowing I have both of them in my wish list for Sony to add to their PS Plus Premium catalog so that it can make things easier. The original Xbox version of MvC2 will work on the Xbox Series X via backwards compatibility.

You know what other existing company also has the compilation of arcade games? Bandai Namco. While under the Namco name, they developed arcade games, like Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Galaxian, Galaga, Dig Dug, Pole Position, Xevious and Tower of Druaga. All of them are in several compilations. The latest one is Pac-Man Museum+. It has all games across the Pac-Man franchise and I bought it digitally rather than physically to give me a referesher course. There is a live action film adaptation for Pac-Man in the works that's gonna be explosive knowing Pixels became a great movie. But it must use the model from Pac-Mania for Pac-Man and the ghosts.

SEGA is also one of the companies to have several compiliations of their games originally released on the SEGA Genesis that bear charm, but not as much as Bandai Namco's classic games. The compilation of SEGA Genesis games and a collection of Sonic games are available on the 8th and 9th generation consoles and they can be played on the Nintendo Switch. But a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership is required like with the Nintendo 64 games. SEGA started out as a first party publisher to make their consoles and is now a third party publisher after the release of the 6th generation consoles.

Overall, in my opinion, classic games as a whole have a lot of charm modern games lack. The remasters killed most of the charm the original releases have. ZeRoWondering and Mightykeef both have videos about how remasters are killing gaming and people hate them up on YouTube. Go check them out.

Classics are something I can always cherish forever, even the old school sports games with special effects. They are also charming assets that sports games have, but not the modern ones, though. That's one thing as a perfect example. But my brother doesn't even want to relive the classics as much as I do and I don't care about the graphics. What matters the most is experiencing the charm in them.

In closing, being able to experience the charm in classic games is something I can totally do time and time again. Those charming assets are polygon models in the 5th generation games, 2D sprites in Capcom's older fighting games, charming environment in the 6th generation games and defunct video game companies. Not to mention how sometimes our poop smells like onions. That's irrelevant and had nothing to do with classic games.

But don't get me wrong. I like both classic and modern games, but I prefer to play classic games more than modern in terms of their old school charm and it's highly likely to happen thanks to PS Plus Premium. Not realizing that some of them might not function as it should (or even at all).

Why I'm telling you this is because this is opinion-based that classics are more charming than the modern ones. Classic games aren't the only thing because there are classic TV shows that are more charming than the modern ones, like with the video games. They were aired back in the old days. Especially the ones by DiC, but the DiC logo was plastered by the Cookie Jar logo when the cartoons under the DiC umbrella is folded into the Cookie Jar umbrella. That's how rebranding works. When TV companies, like DiC get defunct, they get brought out by existing companies, like Cookie Jar. Same with the Columbia Tristar Television logo plastered by the Sony Pictures Television logo.

Older preschool shows like Maggie and the Ferocious Beast and others like that, use a lot of charm among classic works. And if you know about how adults watch preschool shows, YouTube has some videos about that and you'll see examples of these cases. There is a series on Wrapper Offline about a male adult who wanted to watch some preschool shows and other stuff. That's the example that normally, preschool shows are not for teenagers or adults, but they can watch them for the charm in them.

And there are also classic TV commercials from the 60s to the early 2000s. Like the classic games and TV shows, classic commercials have a ton of charm modern TV commercials lack, like the Pop Tarts commercials from the early 2000s. They are no longer airing on TV as years go by, but they are viewable on YouTube if you search "classic TV commercials" on the search bar. Older food commercials like Tootsie Pop and others like that. Don't even get any more ideas on that because of that boy asking this burning question "How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?". And that's the truth.

In conclusion, classic works in general have a lot of charm modern works lack. If you're willing to relive the classic gaming, playing older Xbox titles on Xbox Series, subscribing to PS Plus Premium to play older PlayStation titles and subscribing to NSO to older Nintendo classics are the way.

That's all I have to say for now. I hope you have a wonderful day. Signing out.

How 2022 Became the Best Year

Well, everyone, this year is starting to be the best and we are nearing the end of 2022 before we get to 2023. So before we get to how 2022 became the best year, we'll talk about the past years.

2020:

It has become a dreadful year because of the pandemic of the virus called COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019). It started this late 2019. We all know that it has an origin to what caused the pandemic. There was an animal being sold at the Wuhan seafood market or whatever the heck that is and it caused the virus to spread across the world. That's when every place closes, we were locked up in the house, had to practice social distancing and wear masks. I was able to watch Sonic the Hedgehog 1 at my local movie theater that makes me think of Skullgirls before the pandemic started. Great video game movie, by the way.

On that year, we went digital and organizers had to start their big fighting game tournaments in an online format to have games with rollback netcode to produce a good and smooth online experience without all that lag. But one good thing has happened that year. The PS5 and Xbox Series X/S came out, but they started out rocky because they were immediately sold out.

2021:

The previous year is when vaccines start to roll out across the globe. They usually take years, but global teamwork is how vaccines get finished in record time. They are an important tool to end the COVID-19 pandemic and create a light at the end of the tunnel. Then all of a sudden, variants pop out of the wazoo to prolong the pandemic. Then there are booster shots that can target the dreaded Omicron variant. Weird, we got Transformers up in this.

While people are getting vaccinated, the virus circulated until enough people get immunized to trigger herd immunity, which couldn't be reached because of the variants. It was an alright year that they announced that they are getting their tournaments back to their offline tournaments in 2022.

It is also the year when Joe Biden became President of the United States and his first order was to get millions of people vaccinated and his goal was reached. I am giving props to him for such remark. While we couldn't hit herd immunity, there has been some developments, like working towards the return to our normal activities, That development turned out well and pandemics usually last two years. We do know that there won't be a permanent pandemic and that's a good thing. All I care about is wanting the pandemic to end.

2022:

Now, this year became the best year. Not only we recovered from the pandemic after two years. But there are a lot of good things that happened below.

The Launch of the New PlayStation Plus:

I'm gonna start with the elephant in the room, the all new PlayStation Plus. Since the PS4 came out, it introduced PSNow, a streaming service that has a limited amount of games across the PlayStation family and no more classic games have not been added. Nine years later, PSNow is retired in favor of the all new PlayStation Plus to have three tiers, Essential, Extra and Premium. The Premium tier is something special. It has access to streaming, trials and playing classic games released on the PS1, PS2, PSP and PS3. That caught mine and other players' eye that we can celebrate the legacy with the PS Plus Premium tier.

The PS3 library is huge and has a lot of games, but they are only available for streaming since the PS3 console is a hurdle. The library of PS1, PS2 and PSP games started out small, but more games are being added monthly. Even the PS3 games. I'm looking for the ones that are on my wish list and so far, more PS3 games have been added this month, though it has a big library.

I got a couple of PS2 games and one PS1 game on my library at the moment and I felt reunited with them after years. What really hit me is when I get ready to play some Jak X: Combat Racing the first time in a while, the Dolby Surround Pro Logic II logo appears and then comes the Science of Sensation and the THX logo. Man, oh, man, it feels good to be reunited with my favorite PS2 and PS1 games and I felt that emotional. December is around the corner and I hope they added more PS2 and PS1 games on that month and not just PS3 games because they are only available for streaming and there are plenty to choose from. Even if they do, it has to be at least the ones in my wish list.

The Return to Offline Events:

Ever since the pandemic has hit, fighting game tournaments have been relegated to their online format to have games with rollback netcode. But this year, it is not the case. Offline tournaments are back and better than ever. But this time, they had to wear masks as a safety precaution.

You know that episode in South Park where the boys watch the Russell Crowe Show for the Terrance and Phillip movie trailer in one of the commercial breaks? Well, it inspired me to do the same, by watching events for reveals, like EVO for example. It's the biggest event that has reveals. That's why they called EVO the "Super Bowl" of the FGC and we are so glad the biggest thrill ride of the year is back in Vegas. So does the Japanese venue of EVO, returning early 2023 with seven games on the lineup.

The lineup reveal show was amazing. It had exhibitions and became a celebration. When they mentioned the word "sharpie", I was like "Sharpie? *gasp* That means... It's officially happening! Skullgirls is making its mainstage debut at this year's EVO!" That's the moment that made me feel so emotional that Skullgirls has finally made its mainstage debut at EVO as the mainstage game after ten years. That's how I feel when I was watching the Hi-Rez Presents keynote. That's how the New Terrance and Phillip Movie Trailer episode inspired me to do the same.

It's too bad Smash couldn't make it at EVO this year because Nintendo has announced that they won't be joining the party to mean that any of their Smash games won't be in the lineup. Since 2007, Smash has been a great starting point for EVO and Nintendo has decided not to continue the tradition after 15 years. For the record, it's Nintendo's fault that Smash couldn't make it, not Sony's fault for purchasing EVO.

Back in 2020, before the pandemic raged, Smash Ultimate was announced to be in that year's lineup. Later, the COVID-19, pandemic came to be and EVO Online was announced to have fewer games, but with rollback netcode to produce a smooth and lag-free netplay and Smash isn't one of them due to its terrible netcode. EVO Online 2020 was cancelled due to the expected controversy that was caused by allegations of sexual misconduct against former CEO.

15 years later, Nintendo has announced that they won't be attending at EVO this year, but they'll continue to assess EVO and other opportunities as they plan future online and offline Smash tournaments. It's okay. I don't blame Nintendo for their decision. Smash is usually limited to tournament legal stages, like Pokemon Coliseum and Final Smashes are banned in official tournaments anyway. If they made the Final Smash meter legal in official tournaments, that would make it feel like they are playing a traditional fighting game because you know, super meters in fighting games.

Smash may not be at EVO since Nintendo made a decision following Sony's purchase, but that didn't stop Smash players from attending. There is one Smash player named Leffen, who attended to sign up for Guilty Gear Strive, which had the most sign ups to be played last at the arena where the top four games with the highest signups are played at. That's what also makes EVO the biggest thrill ride of the year. EVO 2022 had the same moments I experienced on Hi-Expo, which is the Super Bowl of the Hi-Rez community but back in 2018 when the event moved to Dreamhack Atlanta and it deserved the Team Sonic Racing seal of approval. What made it so are Sony's purchase of EVO, A Smash-less EVO after 15 years since 2007, the return to Las Vegas and Skullgirls' main stage debut. These are the four things that made it so.

Keef has an EVO 2022 skit up on YouTube. Go check it out. I do feel bad about Smash not being in EVO this year since Nintendo does not want to work with Sony following their purchase. Just because Sony bought EVO doesn't mean they are restricted to bringing only Sony consoles. Nintendo actually removed their games from the lineup and I don't blame them. That's what the "it's not me, it's you" slang is for. I fear that the future of EVO won't have any of the Smash games ever again. We'll find out as we get closer to the point.

EVO is back and better than ever. Here's to EVO 2023 and EVO Japan 2023 and the possibility of watching more reveals while being inspired by the South Park episode, the New Terrance and Phillip Movie Trailer. I have a couple of things to improve my experience with watching EVO.

• Less frequent commercial breaks
• Lineup announcement shows without exhibitions

The Return of Nevercake:

My favorite YouTuber is back after a hiatus of three and a half years. There is the return of the SMITE Lore series with Yu Huang and the return of the Nevercake Twins with the first OH! So Spooky Show episode. It has been a good moment and we are glad he's back, though I noticed some of his videos were deleted. It is indeed hopeful that Nevercake is back and that's what made this a good thing that happened this year.

Modus Games' Acquisition with MANE6:

This is the second to best thing that happened and it's big too. Before I get to the point, I start with the past.

Back in February 22, 2018, Them's Fightin' Herds was released on Steam. It's developed by MANE6 and was published by Humble Games.

Before the name "Them's Fightin' Herds" was announced, the game was previously named "My Little Pony: Fighting is Magic" and it was developed by a developer that is named after a group in My Little Pony, MANE6. But Hasbro has witnessed that they are infringing their copyright and dropped a cease and desist order on them. So MANE6 started developing their project from scratch and this time, they are renaming it to "Them's Fightin' Herds" and redoing characters from their My Little Pony bodies into their original bodies to avoid copyright infringement. But one pony character is still there but for totally different reasons.

The name "MANE6" applies to a six pony group in My Little Pony, so the game started out with six playable characters that are all female to stay true to their name. Whereas Arizona is inspired by Applejack for example.

Over two and a half years later since release, they cut ties with Humble Games. I know cut ties usually means no longer supporting the individuals after they did bad stuff that aren't excusable, like Kanye West's antisemitism comments that caused department stores to stop seeling Yeezys. But Humble didn't do anything wrong, so it's more like part ways. Since late 2017, MANE6 and Humble worked together to support Them's Fightin' Herds through the Early Access phase into their 1.0 and 2.0 releases. Going forward, they are gonna not only part ways with Humble, but wish them the best of luck. But the game is still up on Humble Bundle.

The game's development turned out well, even without Humble. But several problems have hit, like crowdfund rewards being in limbo for a long time and development on the Astral Heat-style lv. 3 supers turning out well, but going a bit slow.

But over three and a half years later since release, Modus Games, the publisher of Cris Tales and other projects came to be to acquire MANE6 to benefit the significant growth of their team back in January 20th of this year finishing what Humble Games could not. It benefitted a lot of resources MANE6 needs to make their game successful. Them's Fightin' Herds is going into higher acclaim and greater heights as development is speeding up and getting a ton of improvements and resources thanks to Modus.

Modus Games did this because certain crowdfund rewards have been stuck in limbo, they wouldn't develop the 8th character until Chapter 2 starring Velvet is finished and console ports are time-consuming and expensive projects. Their power made everything happen. I'm gonna go over the two things that happened thanks to Modus; the console ports and new characters.

First off, the most requested one, console ports. When Them's Fightin' Herds first released on Steam, we requested console ports and we dreamed of them. In previous updates, MANE6 said that they needed to make the Mac and Linux ports go through in development. The Mac and Linux builds have been finished and they were giving development of console ports a go, but unfortunately, they hit a snag. They are not that simple to work on because they are time-consuming and expensive. That meant that our dream will not become a reality.

But a year later since the development update, they came to Them's Fightin' Herds October 18 with crossplay thanks to the help of Modus, who are a much bigger and much richer publisher than Humble should've been and their power made them possible. It benefitted an ESRB rating of E10+ for Fantasy Violence, Use of Tobacco and Alcohol Reference and localization. And we're getting ingame subtitles that other 2D fighting games like BBTAG and Melty Blood: Type Lumina have so players can understand the smack talking too.

Seeing that has given me the courage to announce that I'll be adding a TFH character to my BBTAG 3.0 Character Pack wish list divided into six waves as a cherry on top in honor of console ports being inevitable thanks to Modus' help and I did.

Annie from Skullgirls is in Wave 5 of my wish list, so I added Tianhuo to Wave 6 of my wish list to have all six waves of four characters and they would be freaking dope in BBTAG. It's like saying Static Shock would be awesome in MultiVersus and I agree because I want him in the game and his live action movie is in the works too. Sound Stage 15 and Huoshan Capital are their stages they'll come with. And I written them a moveset to show how they perform in BBTAG.

You know that Annie will have her Japanese voice at the end of the Season 1 Pass period and it'll sound the same in BBTAG, so while MANE6 has no plans for Japanese voices, Tianuho will have hers in BBTAG.

Before Arc System Works starts adding Annie and Tianhuo to BBTAG with their stages and character themes, they need permission from not Autumn and Modus, but from Hidden Variable and MANE6. You just need to understand the concept of the Canopy Kingdom's brave TV hero and Foenum's fiery dragon teaming up with each other, but they can't escape from crossing fate.

Anyway, console ports wouldn't come to Them's Fightin' Herds without Modus' power and help. If I recall correctly, those players were having trouble setting up their controls when I was watching Combo Breaker. That's because they were playing the Steam version, which became a pain to deal with when it comes with button setups in offline tournaments. But with the console ports, players will no longer play the Steam version, but they will play the PS4 version on offline tournaments without any hassle going forward.

If Them's Fightin' Herds makes their mainstage debut at EVO 2023, I'll be ready for a Keef video about that. And console players, a paid subscription is required to play online.

Now let's go on to the second to the most requested one, the new characters. Since release, the game starts out with six characters and later, Shanty was added as the 7th playable character. The 8th character is coming, but they got to work on Chapter 2 starring Velvet first before developing the next new character and that's a snag there.

Fortunately, Modus' acquisition benefitted more than one combat developer on their team. It means the Story Mode chapters and the new characters are being developed simultaneously, as well as the lv. 3 supers that they had to finish before developing the new characters. However, Story Mode won't be finished this year because working on console ports and localization demanded more time from engineers and writers. And now that they are complete, production on Story Mode can be their top priority again.

At the end of Top 8 at Combo Breaker, they have announced a Season 1 Pass. Like Skullgirls 2nd Encore's Season 1 Pass, Them's Fightin' Herds' Season 1 Pass has four new characters with their stages and a palette pack for those who bought the Season 1 Pass. It comes with exclusive content, like lobby avatars each new character has and exclusive content. It's good enough with Skullgirls 2nd Encore getting four new characters through its Season 1 Pass to expand the roster to 18. Now it's with Them's Fightin' Herds getting four new characters through its Season 1 Pass to expand the roster to 11. That's a good thing because both fighting games with Otter UI deserved a Season Pass to join other fighting games that have them.

After Top 8 at Summer Jam, Texas was revealed as the first Season 1 Pass character and his development turned out well. He was supposed to release in November, but apparently, he is so large that he has hit a bit of a snag there. It's likely that he'll be released in December. Texas' Astral Heat remains a mystery until he is at the final stage of development. The second character, however, is not the case because production on them has made much further progress. It's because they are not large like Texas.

A before and after regarding Modus' acquisition is clear.

Before Modus' acquisition:

• The 8th character is coming, but Chapter 2 starring Velvet must be finished first.
• Since the reveal of the mockups, crowdfunding rewards been in limbo for over a year.
• No plans for console ports because they are time consuming, expensive projects. They aren't that simple, even with Humble. Because of that, our dream will not be a reality.
• Astral Heat-style lv. 3s are developing well, but being a bit slow since Chapter 1 starring Arizona was released.

After Modus' acquisition:

• Story Mode and the new characters are being developed simultaneously and faster than before. Modus' acquisition benefitted more than one combat dev to make things faster and the announcement of a Season 1 Pass is the cherry on top.
• Progression on the crowdfunding rewards are finally being made after being in limbo. Being a part of Modus gave MANE6 the power to get the rest of the crowdfund rewards fulfilled.
• Console ports being inevitable. We requested them and they aren't that simple. But thanks to their new partners Modus, our dream is becoming a reality as console ports have happened and crossplay and adding a Them's Fightin' Herds character to my BBTAG 3.0 Character Pack wish list would be the cherry on top to even out the waves so Annie wouldn't be the only character from a fighting game that uses Otter UI in my wish list. That even benefitted the possibility of shifting from playing the Steam version to the PS4 version on offline tournaments going forward.
• Development on the Astral Heat-style supers getting a boost. Their new talent helped them get to the finish line faster.

With Modus' power, the development of Them's Fightin' Herds can continue well going forward.

10 Years of Skullgirls:

This is the best thing happened this year. The only fighting game that couldn't catch a break despite previous setbacks and my local movie theater makes me think of at night because of its art deco structure. Skullgirls has turned a decade old with its debut to EVO as a mainstage game as a cherry on top. It first came out April 10th, 2012 on the PS3. Ten years later, boom, Skullgirls has stayed alive for ten years and Valentine is getting reworked and a lot of other things are coming and the release of Umbrella was just the beginning and Active Angel would be the cherry on top to fit perfectly with her so that Dolby Surround wouldn't backfire on me and I had to make a Platinum the Trinity palette out of her. With Mike Zaimont and Joey Cuellar not being a part of the party, Skullgirls' mainstage debut at EVO became so big that THX is grand there since Gormiti hadn't got a live action film adaptation yet knowing it deserved the Team Sonic Racing seal of approval.

I had to say that because first comes Joey Cuellar not being at EVO following the pedophilia allegations consisting of paying young boys tokens to take off their clothes and paying the accuser to show his penis while he was 17 years old. And then comes Mike Zaimont not being a part of the Skullgirls development following the part where he sexually harassed his employees and they had to leave Lab Zero and Skullgirls' mainstage debut at EVO 2022 would be the cherry on top. I understand sexually harassing his employees who are adults to make Lab Zero Games unsafe is not a crime and not unlawful, but pedophilia; it is not something to joke about. So long to those guys that got accused right in the palm of my hand.

Look, I know I shouldn't mention the names of those who became despicable after conducting sexual actions, but I just want to inform you on what's going on if you don't know what happened to them and what did they do and it was no different than the situation surrounding Jesse McCree, who was sent to hate city.

Black Dahlia is almost here in Mobile as they give us a first gameplay trailer on Mobile to represent that all of her animations are complete. From what I noticed, she has a special not yet seen on 2nd Encore. I'm gonna keep hoarding my standard relics until 5.3 and that's where Black Dahlia gets fully available in all standard relics because if I open them when 5.2 releases, I won't be getting her variants from standard relics until 5.3.

Mariel Cartwright is working on an illustration of Black Dahlia on stream. Two parts are done, but it's not yet finished. I am hopfeul that part three might be the final part.

Once she is released on Mobile, her stuff will be added to the palette editor and that's where I come in to make changes to her Nine the Phantom palette in one of her final poses under her stuff. And we'll soon get info about her release on 2nd Encore soon. Once she is in Beta, more of her palettes will be added and that's where I come in to find out if Black Dahlia got her Nine the Phantom palette during development or not. If not, then it stays in my palette pack because it is intended to have characters that don't have palettes of BBTAG characters based on BBTAG character themes fitting well with their personality. Then it's off to the wait for Marie where I make an Orie palette out of her since Purity & Strictly is a perfect theme for her. She is a goth, but notably, her maid suit seals the deal. If she doesn't get it during development, it stays.

They are also working on the networking refactors to greatly improve online stability and fix long standing issues that have been a thorn on our side since lobbies came to consoles and add new online features. Some of the issues were fixed, but sometimes new bugs come up and that's why they are in the Beta version on Steam so they can fix many critical bugs as they can. The article has that paragraph that caught my eye.

It said that the codebase upgrades are gonna make console development easier going forward and not just on PS4. It indicated that 2nd Encore and the Season 1 Pass are being actively developed as an update for the Switch to be in parity with the Steam and PS4 versions and as a new release for Xbox. The Switch and the Xbox players are joining the Season 1 Pass period and beyond.

For the Xbox side of things, since Skullgirls 2nd Encore first came out on the PS4 and as a separate pack on Steam, the Xbox One couldn't get it and had to play the outdated Xbox 360 version. It's because they been suffering through headaches trying to release it on it. Then nine years later, Skullgirls is back on the Xbox scene, thanks to the rewrite of the codebase that makes console development much easier. Please understand that the Xbox development of Skullgirls only covers the Xbox One and it won't be the only Microsoft console getting it because the Xbox Series X|S is also getting the 2nd Encore release. The Xbox 360 version will most likely remain left in the dust forever as it will not be updated and will not have lobbies.

For the Switch side of things, since the announcement of Annie and the Season 1 Pass, Hidden Variable and Future Club tried giving developing it for the Switch a go, but there has been some snags that technical issues have been hit. It's not because Skybound is behind the publishing of the Nintendo Switch version of 2nd Encore. Thankfully, with the rewrite of the codebase that makes console development much easier going forward, the update for the Switch is being actively developed without hitting any snags. 

Eighty Sixed has a Skullgirls 10th Anniversary t-shirt and I snagged me one along with the sweet Annie t-shirt. I think I'll pull a Cas from Fextralife by wearing my 10th Anniversary t-shirt while playing Skullgirls on both PC and console either when Black Dahlia is fully released or after I get my new 4K TV or after Marie hits Alpha on PC. We'll see.

A Webtoon comic adaptation for Skullgirls came out and I enjoyed every second of it. That's why I used the "I know the moves. Now I understand the story" tagline. Even Canopolis is up high at the beginning of the chapter released yesterday. New chapters come out every Friday.

A Webtoon adaptation is awesome, but you know what will also be awesome? A Skullgirls anime adaptation. With all of the awesomeness that would be Johnny Test, Bob's Burgers, League of Super Evil, Super Mario Bros. Z, BlazBlue: Alter Memory, Sonic the Hedgehog and Naruto, I think we need a Skullgirls anime. Originally, I wanted a movie adaptation, but I learned that it is not enough filler, so I wanted a TV show adaptation instead.

I really thought that it's gonna be rated TV-14 LSV because the game has a lot of blood and partial nudity consisting of panty shots according to the ESRB rating and there is some swearing. TV-PG rated shows don't have that much blood, use a little sex and use infrequent swearing since the rest of the Futurama episodes are rated TV-14 going forward after Season 6.

So far, besides the release of Black Dahlia, the networking refactors, a Valentine rework, the Season 1 Pass for the Switch, modern Xbox console ports for 2nd Encore and a Webtoon adaptation are happening this year. All of them are great. But the most awesome thing I wanted in Skullgirls are the cinematic lv. 5 Blockbuster Finales. I even thought of one for Black Dahlia as her development marched on too. I'll think of one for Marie once her development rages on.

Two years passed since the Regime fell. Mike Z is behind bars in the graveyard. Mr. Wiz is there with him. But we can't hold on to how they became so despicable after allegations of sexual misconduct against them. We must move on.

Sonic Frontiers:

Probably one of the best Sonic games in ages I ever played did well and couldn't flop. It is the first Sonic game that is open world. Well, open zone. What makes it so special is that it's basically Spyro the Dragon, but with Sonic since it's open zone and bigger. But it's mostly basically Year of the Dragon in terms of the story. I'll do a comparison later on. I enjoyed every second and the plot became so incredible that I felt a lot of Redakai vibes when fighting Guardians and Titans.

I can understand how some of his games had to be crappy. Especially Sonic 06, which had glitches, bad camera angle and unbearable load times. But it has great music, though. If SEGA plans to remake Sonic 06, they must fix the glitches, make load times much shorter and fix the camera angle.

Here's hoping a direct sequel gets announced, but it has to be open zone and I want to play as not just Sonic, but also his friends, like in Rise of Lyric, which I heard it played poorly, the Teen Titans video game, which is in my wish list of PS2 games I want on the PS Plus Premium catalog and Gotham Knights, which I heard bombed real hard because the console version has 30 FPS while the Steam version has 60 FPS. That's just unfair.

Now for the comparison between those two games. In Spyro: Year of the Dragon, while on a Dragon Egg hunt across the four worlds, Spyro has four of his new friends to save, such as Sheila, Sgt. Byrd, Bentley and Agent 9. To do that, he must get enough gems to free his friends trapped in cages by the Sorceress. And then, Bianca McRabbitface came along and was like "Turn back." That is until in the later stage where Bianca was wrong to doubt Spyro. Nice.

It is only a matter of time before Spyro 4 is confirmed. I hope they announce it the Game Awards, which is around the corner or somehow because Crash Bandicoot 4 picked up where Warped left off, so I think Spyro 4 should happen.

In Sonic Frontiers, while on a Chaos Emerald hunt across the five Starfall Islands, Sonic must save three of his friends who are stuck in Cyberspace, such as Tails, Knuckles and Amy. To do that, he must collect memory tokens of his friends to stabilize his friends' memory. Up until Sage came along to undermine him. Geez, passive-aggresive much? But the later stages changed everything and Sage was wrong to doubt Sonic. So far, the friend department has a one friend difference.

SEGA has created a Sonic game that is open zone and basically Spyro: Year of the Dragon in terms of the story. If Nintendo makes a Super Mario game that is a platformer and basically Crash Bandicoot: Warped in terms of the story, it could be named "Super Mario Temporal" and the story could entail Mario gathering Time Stones to restore time to the Mushroom Kingdom.

These are the things that made 2022 the best year ever. This year is not perfect, but this is a good year because a lot of good things have happened. Here's to 2023.

BBTAG Music to SG Update 4.1.1

I wouldn't post another update yet, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to throw out a small update that should hopefully be the last before part two.

In this small update, I'm gonna introduce and talk about the new icon in the legend key. The new marking represents eligibility for the special online casual called Skullgirls X BBTAG and their BBTAG palettes. Both for the palette pack and for the collection. I was gonna use with the asterisk or bring back the checkmark, but the new marking is more ideal.

It goes like this. If -insert character here- is assigned to a BBTAG character theme that doesn't fit perfectly well with their personality, they don't carry the [💠] next to their name. It means that they won't be eligible for their BBTAG palette and they will be banned from my special online casual. But if -insert character here- is assigned to a BBTAG character theme that is a perfect fit with their personality, they carry the [💠] next to their name and they will be eligible for their BBTAG palette and a ticket to the special online casual. It makes it easier to tell who are eligible or not going forward.

Alright, this concludes the introduction. It's time to move on to see how many characters carry the new marking to represent eligibility.

10 out of 15 characters assigned to BlazBlue themes carry the icon with the difference of five characters not carrying the icon.

Five characters may be banned, but the BlazBlue theme department did well with a good number of ten eligible characters out of 15 that carry the new icon.

10 out of 12 characters assigned to Persona 4 Arena themes carry the new icon with the difference of two characters not eligible.

Since my inception of assigning the characters to their BBTAG themes, the section of characters in the Persona 4 Arena theme department did well with a number of ten characters who are eligible for their BBTAG palette and a ticket to Skullgirls X BBTAG after carrying the icon out of twelve, including Mrs. Victoria, who is not on my wish list, but Battle Hymn of the Soul is a perfect fit to indicate that she's eligible for a BBTAG palette and a ticket to a special online casual and that's what matters.

6 out of 12 characters assigned to Under Night In-Birth themes carry the new icon with the difference of six characters not eligible.

Half of the characters assigned to their Under Night In-Birth themes carry the benew icon to  eligible for their BBTAG palette and a ticket to the special online casual. The department does alright. After all, six eligible characters under the UNI department is perfect since Skullgirls has 3v3 battles and now that we're getting Marie as the fourth playable character under the UNI department that is eligible for a BBTAG palette and a ticket to Skullgirls X BBTAG, it is likely to happen more than ever, but only if it's 2v2 in a BBTAG-style tradition.

No characters assigned to the EX Universe themes carry the icon because the palette pack will only have characters who don't have palettes of BlazBlue, Persona 4 Arena and Under Night In-Birth characters in BBTAG in the game.

Here are all of the 43 characters in total and the ones that carry the new icon are eligible for their ticket to my very special online casual and their BBTAG palette. The character section is still cemented for the BBTAG 2.0 period without any theme changes. In total, there are 26 eligible characters out of 43 with the difference of 17 characters that don't have the new marking will be banned from my special online casual and ineligible for their BBTAG palette. It's all the resources I currently have during the BBTAG 2.0 period. Practically speaking, the BBTAG 3.0 period comes with resources I need to make theme changes to get more characters eligible if you look at my wish list of characters I want for the BBTAG 3.0 Character Pack.

Now, for the fun stuff.

All ten characters shown on the PS4 theme carry the new icon and they not only playable, but also eligible for their BBTAG palettes.

These are the ten characters who are all eligible shown on the PS4 theme compiled into this collage below as a treat.

5 out of 6 Cirque des Cartes members carry the new icon with the difference of one Cirque des Cartes member not eligible.

The Cirque des Cartes department did well because it has a good number of characters who are eligible for their BBTAG palettes and a ticket to Skullgirls X BBTAG since their themes fit well with them. One of them isn't eligible because the BBTAG 2.0 period has the resources I have. But five out of six is really good, though. It's highly likely that Cerebella will forever remain the only Cirque des Cartes member assigned to an Under Night In-Birth theme once the BBTAG 3.0 Character Pack is announced since Forceful Step became a perfect fit for her.

2 out of 5 Black Egrets members carry the new icon with the difference of three Black Egrets members not eligible.

3 out of 6 Lab 8 members carry the new icon with the difference of three Lab 8 members not eligible.

11 out of 12 characters under the Hero and Sidekick section carry the new icon with the difference of one ineligible character to be banned.

Here is the list of all 26 eligible characters that carry the new marking next to their name during the BBTAG 2.0 period. The shift to BBTAG music has given me the opportunity to make palettes out of these characters who are assigned to their BBTAG character themes that fit perfectly with them and start my own online casual that restricts to playing as these characters above.

The BlazBlue and Persona 4 Arena theme departments have the same number of characters that carry the new marking that represents eligibility while the Under Night In-Birth theme department has six eligible characters. Not bad, though. The only theme I can still agree with on this list is Forceful Step and that is because of Cerebella's forte of punching and grabbing with her hat with living arms. So here.

MOTOR HEAD = Technology
Alexandrite = Squirrel
Active Angel = Ice cream

Now, let's go over the playable characters.

14 out of 18 playable characters carry the new icon with the difference of four ineligible playable characters that will be banned from my special online casual. It has nine characters assigned to BlazBlue themes, five characters assigned to Persona 4 Arena themes and four characters assigned to Under Night In-Birth themes.

These are the current 14 playable characters that carry the new icon, with five BlazBlue-theme characters, five P4A-themed characters and four UNI-themed characters. Here's a fun fact regarding fighting games with a 14-character roster. Niche anime fighting games, like Aquapazza and Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax have a 14-character roster. They aren't that hype as Arc System Works' anime fighting games. And sales for them aren't that hype either.

Here's another Skullgirls X BBTAG graphic listed in cards from Skullgirls Mobile. Each of their palette has a name and updated Black Dahlia's picture now that her sprites are on the palette editor. I left a temporary blank card for Justice Maid and that's gonna the name of Marie's Orie palette. If she does get one during development, that won't affect my work. The ony interesting thing about this list of cards is that the characters that are assigned to Under Night In-Birth themes are dark elemental fighters. Darkness blankets the sky, hence "night" in Under Night In-Birth.

Soon, Marie's picture in her Orie palette will be mine and be on there once her sprites are added to the Palette Editor. Once she is, I'll be showing everyone how fly the 14 Skullgirls characters look in their BBTAG palettes.

I just wanted to give you some pointers that if a character is assigned to a BBTAG character theme that fits perfectly well with their personality, they get a new marking to represent a ticket to my special online casual and eligibility for a BBTAG palette for the palette pack if it's not in the game. This should definetely be the last small revision before part 2.

Joe's Segues - 10/25/22

Ladies and gentlemen, we are inching close to the end of October to get to November and next Monday is Halloween, so be sure to grab your gear and go trick-or-treating and get your Halloween blockbuster ready as today's Joe's Segues is on your way. So far, 2022 is becoming the best year and a ton of things have happened, but there is one bad thing that recently happened. I'll get to that later on. Now, on to the segues.

To start things off, I have changed my display name to KnockDownJoe. But that's okay. I now have a new name, but the same old me. I'm sure you'll get used to it.

With that out of the way, the ungulate based fighting game Them's Fightin' Herds came out on consoles one week ago and I wanted to get the physical version since it comes with the Season 1 Pass, but I decided to buy the game and the Season 1 Pass digitally. I have a 4 TB game drive that holds up to 100+ PS4 and PS5 games for a reason. Anyway, the game is great. Four legged creatures are cute, but deadly. It has a dynamic music system that adds unique character themes and intense flow to the infight music. The console release became a huge milestone, courtesy of Modus Games, who made console ports of Them's Fightin' Herds possible so that they don't have to play the Steam version on offline tournaments.

The reason why is because the Steam version of Them's Fightin' Herds is a pain to deal with on offline tournaments when it comes to issues with setting up the buttons. That happened at Combo Breaker. But with the console ports being inevitable thanks to Modus Games and once they are complete and released, they will no longer have to play the Steam version on offline tournaments and they are shifting to playing the PS4 version to greatly relieve button setting issues. Frosty Faustings is around the corner and Them's Fightin' Herds are gonna be played there, but this time, players are shifting to the PS4 version. Maybe we'll get a trailer for the next Season 1 Pass character there.

Isn't it wild that Them's Fightin' Herds is able to get console ports thanks to Modus? Even with Humble Games, console ports aren't simple and that's why they currently had no plans. And now that Modus Games acquired MANE6, boom, console ports and localization have happened and released with the Astral Heat-esque lv. 3s. It was worth yelling out "Astral Finish!".

They had to release the console ports and localization with the unfinished Story Mode because they demanded more time. And now that they are complete and released, they can get back to finishing up the Story Mode, which I won't play on until it is finished. In fact, playing Them's Fightin' Herds on console is gonna hold me off until Black Dahlia is fully released. Same with Marie and future characters (preferrably the ones who are eligible for a BBTAG palette and a ticket to my special online casual).

And the Astral Heat-esque lv. 3s; they are savage. I'm even working on a tier list that determines the ranking of the lv. 3 supers, which I'll probably tell you more about it in the next one. I think the dynamic music system needs unique character themes that play during their lv. 3 with a post-KO theme that plays when lv. 3s KOed an opponent while on match point. That's where I come in to yell out "Astral Finish!".

Originally, they wouldn't develop new characters until Chapter 2 starring Velvet is finished, but with Modus' help benefitting more than one combat developer and now that the console ports are completed, Chapter 2 is now continuing production. So is the first new character in the Season 1 Pass, Texas. No, not the Lone Star State. But rather, a bull named after the Lone Star State.

You see, Texas is the father of Arizona. That means his wife is Minnesota. He is first seen on Chapter 1 starring Arizona and he's the first male character to join the roster voiced by the talented fighting game voice actor, Patrick Seitz. You don't want to get ran over by him. Nappy's dream of wanting a true grappler into the game is becoming a reality and Texas is that true grappler.

After all, he is a character in the Prairie area of Foenum where characters named after US States live at, which I know it's interesting. Texas' Astral Heat remains a mystery until sometime in November when he is released. I'm sure other Season 1 Pass characters will have theirs. After Texas is the next character that is probably one of the characters in the Tundra area judging by the winter theme. The first two characters in the Season 1 Pass have a background of their new stages as a hint to make guessing easy. The last two, however, may be characters in the new areas. Great fighting game. I recommend trying it out.

And that brings down to the next topic that entails the declining of the most popular rapper known as Kanye West, a.k.a. Ye. He made and published shoes associated with himself called Yeezys. I know I'm not a big fan of rap music, but it is what it is. He became famous, until the situation that happened recently. Ye is getting cancelled and facing declines as several organizations and star athletes have cut ties with him because of his antisemitic comments. I'll go over the most obvious one, Gap.

Gap, Inc. opened a contract with Ye to sell Yeezys. The brand has surged in demand and going places, until Gap has terminated their contract with Kanye following that antisemitic rant. It means that they will no longer sell Yeezys and the website where it only had them is shut down. Adidas is following suit in light of Ye's antisemitic remarks. A petition to urge Adidas to cut ties with him is created and over 180,000 people have signed.

That is a big L for him as he is facing a big decline after he made antisemitic remarks and he becoming a low, declined rapper because of the situation. That's not good. None of this would have happened if that rapper hadn't said any antisemitic comments. It is even worse than the part where Mike Z said sexual comments to his employees. That's following the part where he falsely claimed the drug killed George Floyd, not the police officer's knee. This is why they said antisemitic remarks have no place in their environment. What made the situation even worse is that he is no longer a billionaire after Adidas has cut ties with him. It hurts so bad. My condolences as this is the end of Kanye West and his popular shoes. I'm sorry it had to end like this because of his antisemitic remarks that caused brands and associations to terminate their contract with him.

It was no different than the situation with Indivisible regarding the guest characters and the two missing characters that are cancelled because of Mike Z's actions that exploded a perfectly good indie studio. Wow. First sexual abuse, then sexual harassment and now antisemitsm? No other scandal from people who make an unsafe environment should happen.

There is more stuff that I want to go over, but I'll have to end this because the situation is getting me down. Now, the moral of the story is, don't make any antisemitic comments because their environment has no place for antisemitism. You guys have a wonderful day.

Joe's Segues - 10/2/22

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to yet another episode of Joe's Segues. It has been a while since my previous episode. What makes it interesting is that I wanted both Annie from Skullgirls and Tianhuo from Them's Fightin' Herds to be in BBTAG, so I written them a moveset in a BBTAG format with an Astral Heat as a cherry on top. Neat stuff. So what's on the docket? Before we get into them, October is here and this is the month when spooky stuff are happening and spooky bone chilling Halloween blockbusters are coming at you.

First off, we'll start with the elephant in the room, a popular hero shooter that is gonna come out soon; Overwatch 2. Now, in case you didn't know, Overwatch 2 is in two days. PC players, have you pre-loaded Overwatch 2? If you have, then you can wait until October 4, and that's when it comes out and when console players can pre-load it. The best part to this is that it's gonna be free-to-play. That means you console players no longer need a PS Plus, Xbox Live Gold or a Nintendo Switch Online membership to play Overwatch 2 as it is gonna be completely free-to-play.

The update cadence for Overwatch 2 is how it goes. Every nine weeks, a new Season launches. Season 1 offers new maps and three new female heroes Sojourn, Junkerqueen and Kiriko. It's kind of crazy for Season 1 to give us three new female heroes, but it's fair. It needs more female characters anyway. For existing Overwatch 1 players, you will automatically earn access to all of the 32 heroes. But for new players, however, they must play 100 matches to unlock the rest of the cast. Good thing I am an existing Overwatch 1 player so I can have access to all 32 original characters. To unlock Kiriko, you must purchase the Battle Pass. If not, you'll have to buy her directly.

As I was saying, Season 1 offers new maps and three new heroes. Season 2 offers a new hero while Season 3 offers a new map. Going forward, after Season 1, even number seasons give us a new hero, starting at Season 2 while odd numbers seaons give us new maps starting at Season 3. Each season has a new battle pass. Oh and by the way, be sure to watch out for that fat bearded piece of crap Torbjorn when Overwatch 2 drops. That's what Torbjorn is. A fat bearded piece of crap, like Barik from Paladins. I find it hilarious like I did when watching the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy for that craziness and experiencing the part in GameSpot where one user trash talked at that moderator real hard.

Be sure to play Overwatch 1 while you can because today is the last day of Overwatch 1's life cycle before the shift to Overwatch 2. The Overwatch servers will be taken down for maintenance that will last all day in preparation of Overwatch 2 tomorrow. And beware. Since Overwatch 2 is gonna be free to play, there will be microtransactions because you can't have a free to play game without microtransactions.

Speaking of microtransactions, a lot of you have known that microtransactions are required to have a free to play game and they aren't that bad if you just keep your purchases small. We've been going through a lot of shenangans about platform fighting games. Super Smash Bros. was the first platform fighting game to be developed in '99. But then, another platform fighter was announced and it has iconic characters from Warner Bros. That free-to-play platform fighter is MultiVersus.

You guys heard of MultiVersus, right? It is a free to play platform fighting game that has your favorite iconic WB characters from Looney Tunes, DC, Scooby-Doo and more. Since the open beta came out, I enjoyed MultiVersus to death. The voice lines are off the chain like in Team Sonic Racing and BBTAG.

Mightykeef has a couple videos dedicated to it. Critics said that MultiVersus is a Smash Bros. clone with WB characters. Nintendo was ticked that Warner Bros. is gonna rise up against them. The characters are off the chain and Arya Stark is freaking legit crazy and dope as heck. I wouldn't want to consider her the Lucina of MultiVersus, yet Black Dahlia is considered the Nine the Phantom of Skullgirls that Walpurgisnacht would be a perfect fit benefitted by her elemental rounds. People cared about this game. I never felt that emotion in years. Even the one and only NBA superstar LeBron James is on there because he is the main character in Space Jam: A New Legacy. Great movie, by the way.

What makes it even crazier is that Rick and Morty are on there. Let's just pretend that it's NOT weird. It IS crazy that Rick and Morty made their debut to MultiVersus. After all, Cartoon Network is under the Warner Bros. umbrella. That's why they had to put Rick and Morty into the game. Now that's the crazy thing that gets the Team Sonic Racing seal of approval. I actually watch Rick and Morty sometimes. So far in Season 1, they added Morty, Gizmo and Rick. Who's next?

Here's to seeing more iconic characters being added. I'm thinking of a character that will make MultiVersus even crazier, like Godzilla, Kong, a Lord of the Rings character, a Dune character, or something even crazier. If Warner Bros. developed a live action Sailor Moon movie that is probably rated PG-13 for sequences of violence, action and suggestive content, a Sailor Moon character would be crazy awesome in MultiVersus.

But you know what else would be great? If they given us some sort of pack that unlocks both current and future characters so we don't have to keep grinding enough gold or spending real money to buy Gleamium and probably make some fixes and improvements to the subtitles, which have an issue for when a character dies, the subtitles display the character's voice line for two seconds.

But I had one problem while playing MultiVersus. The game has rollback netcode, but sometimes, there are some lag spikes that ruin the experience. That's when I was playing with bots and I'm not ready to play with real players yet. Thankfully, the devs are working on mitigating lag spikes so that our experience will be smooth and stable. What are you waiting for? Jump into MultiVersus today. I mean, what else are you gonna do? Travel to a real life Westeros? Yeah, that's what I thought.

Any of you YouTubers out there. The Nevercake twins are back and they have posted a first OH! So Spooky Show episode over on their own YouTube channel. It started when one mysterious man was searching in the woods to the rickety house looking for something. A VHS tape with LED lights, wrapping and a Nevercake icon was found and he picked it up and put it in a small TV with a VHS player built in.

I watched the whole thing and it has one of the parts that given me some PBS vibes because you know, PBS has viewers like you bumpers and that's the only thing I like the most. The twins are back, but that's just the beginning. More Oh! So Spooky Show episodes are coming your way. The future of Nevercake is no doubt bright and the SMITE Lore series is going back strong. Even the 100th episode celebrates the series' 100th episode milestone with a song. Crap's getting crazier and crazier with Nevercake coming back after years of their hiatus since the pandemic.

What I like about the OH! So Spooky Show is that it has a warning message at the beginning read by a deep scary voice. But content for the astute? Lamentable goofs? That's ridiculous.

That about wraps this up. I'll see you next time. Remember, today is the last day of Overwatch 1's life cycle, so enjoy it while you can before tomorrow when the servers enter an all day long maintenance. Remember, try that on my Arya Stark or suffer the consequences.