Zealots of Nerd Entertainment
Zealots of Nerd Entertainment
First Descendant: A Quick Impression on Game Design and Free-to-Play Models
Remember the electric thrill of gaming rivalries and the rush of childhood game announcements? We do, and on this episode of the ZONE Podcast, we're getting nostalgic with our exploration of "First Descendant". It's like a fusion of Warframe, Destiny, and Apex Legends, sparking memories of Sonic X Shadow Generations. With our guest, Playboi, we share personal stories that have shaped our gaming adventures. From the intricate dynamics of gameplay mechanics to the debate on hyper-sexualized female characters, like Bunny from First Descendant and Ivy from Soul Calibur, we leave no stone unturned in this passionate discussion.
Our conversation takes a deeper look at game design and player expectations, comparing the mechanics of fan favorites like Brawlhalla, Multiverses, and Super Smash Brothers. There's a critical eye cast on the development strategies for sequels and how First Descendant holds potential, despite its repetitive nature. We emphasize the importance of developers stepping into the players' shoes to ensure their games remain engaging and evolve beyond being just another title on the shelf. It's a call for innovation and creativity to keep the gaming community alive and thriving.
In our final act, we explore what truly makes a game appealing with the return of castmate Mad King Joseph! From captivating characters to intense boss battles, we highlight the importance of games embracing their unique identity. The conversation includes a nod to the free-to-play model and how it impacts the gaming experience, referencing hardware limitations and personal preferences that shape our journey as gamers. We also focus on expanding our online presence, inviting you to join us on Instagram, Twitch, and in the future, YouTube, as we continue to grow and nurture our community. Stay nerdy, stay connected, and keep gaming in your own unique way!
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welcome back to the zone podcast, the show where we like to talk about things that remind us of other things. I'm jeff blackestream, but feel free to call me jb if you wish, and joining me now is playboy. We might get more guests on later on, at different times, but for now I'm gonna work with who I got. So, without further ado, let's go ahead and zone in on it First Descendant. Honestly, I'm going to be real with you.
Speaker 1:It feels like playing Warframe combined with Destiny, combined with fucking Apex Legends the way this looks. But I'm not going to lie, I'm not going to even complain because it seems fun. But at the same time, between all this other shit coming out, like Sonic and Shadow Generations, we're getting hyped up for fucking Sparky Zero, like I was telling Koki Gatsu and other folks like, hey, man, look here. Like when that shit got announced, like that just brought us some old feelings where we gotta reinstate some house rule. You know our boy Doggy Dog, how he used to fucking curse our asses and think, oh yeah we're coming back for you, boy, remember all that shit you said.
Speaker 3:He don't even know it. He's been on my mind for the longest, since this game's been announced, and he's just innocently living his life Like I'm gonna beat his fucking ass.
Speaker 1:I don't know, don't run back that work. It was funny how we were just talking about scryde, how the main thing with scryde, how they have this rivalry going on, where oh no, you didn't beat my ass hard enough like, uh, I may have lost this round, but I'm gonna come back for you. And it was just kind of beefing like that. I'm uh, like I'm gonna come back for you right 10 years later. I didn't fucking, I didn't forget yeah, I still got the hard feelings for you two years later.
Speaker 3:Hell yeah, and that's I was having. I was having the same conversation um, you're not to get off top. I ain't trying to get off top.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna say that for another company yeah, like uh, I'm not trying to be real too much, but with first descendant, yeah, like you play this game, you're essentially a descendant and you go to this planet ingress, where humanity thrives, um, there's dimensional gates open up to other worlds, alien invasion type shit. You go against the bogus and the colossi and you have these advanced weaponry and all that shit. And not gonna lie um with the gameplay, whatnot, like at first with the screen and shit, like, oh my god, like I had to get used to it. Kind of like with apex, where, like all the buttons and shit and whatnot okay, I need to uh pay attention to all my shit all over the screen. But once you get used to it it's like it's kind of fun.
Speaker 1:But it does get repetitive, like depending on what you're doing like uh, otherwise, I would say, at least with the characters like they're kind of interesting to play as, like with uh, ajax is my main right now the tank, to where, at least with him it's, it's easy to understand him. To where you deploy your shields and you pretty much uh draw aggro um away from your teammates and whatnot, so he's like easier to uh comprehend. But then you do have some fun characters like bunny. Like bunny is like the main girl at this point where. Look here, like I remember when I was going back to the home base uh, you know that the main um spawn point, right and there was like a whole bunch of people with as Bunny and I was like look at all these bakeries here. I'm like all these asses got me acting up bro.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they knew what they was doing, man Making a walk like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like. And then there was like some folks online talking about really, this is where we at in game development All these hyper-sexualized women. I'm like, look here, man, like y'all want a whole bunch of women that look like built like zarya in your games, like that. That's where we come in. I'm nothing against zarya, but I'm like like, can we have like some feminine women like I? I man, I'm going to get into trouble. I'm like for real, though, like I'm not going to lie, I'm like I would play still a play just to see girls like Eve, like with these skin tight suits and whatnot. I'm like I don't see a problem here. You know, girls with thick thighs and very feminine features.
Speaker 3:I'm like what's the problem, you know, like my opinion when it comes to female character games, like because I've been playing games my whole life, bro, so when it comes to that topic, that aspect in in general, I can only think of ivy from soul caliber. She's been naked since you know what I'm saying. She's been literally in lingerie the thinnest thing you can wear in a fighting game like she literally have on fucking nothing and be getting slashed up.
Speaker 1:But it's like she's. It's like she got a fight to go to at 8, but then she's gotta do some BDSM at 9.
Speaker 3:Like right after, yeah, like literally, like. So it's like when it comes to characters and people make complaints like that, it's like okay, we kinda we've been doing this for a while, but at what point do we? Laura Craw at what point do we really start? You know what I'm saying, pointing this stuff out, like I mean, it's kind of cultural at this point.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like it is what it is, like you can say sex sells, and like you can complain about all you want. But hey, it works.
Speaker 3:Hey what he say is it gets people going Provocative.
Speaker 1:I might think about it like if they didn't have characters built like bunny in the game, first, descendant would have been irrelevant, real quick, like it would have been done dirty like concord, oh yeah so but hey, it is kind of fun to play when you like got nothing else going on, like say, for instance, me like I like to cycle out between zenless zone, zero, overwatch, maybe first ascended or whatever games, but you know one sparking zero and other games come out.
Speaker 3:I'm like, oh man, my gaming schedule gonna get weird like first ascended was good on like release, like the first couple of three days, four days of planning, but then it got a little repetitive, like once I started flying through the stages and I was on the third, I'm like all right, okay, I'm on a different, I'm on a different map fighting different enemies, but I'm doing the same exact thing I did two maps ago. It's just longer to do now, so you know what I mean. And it's kind of like there's no real reward other than trying to get the new, getting a new character maybe.
Speaker 3:But then it's like am I really just for their ultimate form yeah, but then it's like, once I get the characters, what is there to do with it? There's no pvp section, there's no rank, there's like nothing to grind for exactly hey, you know what?
Speaker 1:you know what my first impression was when I found out about ultimate forms. Why the hell am I thinking of Ben 10, ultimate alien OP?
Speaker 3:because, no, I'm like thinking like okay, like I said, ajax is my name right now, and then you telling me there's a ultimate Ajax and I'm sitting here thinking like, oh, so, like you're gonna have like oh, you know what I just thought about, that that does kind of like make it a little bit more close to the warframe, because warframe have the same thing they have, uh, they have their warframes and then they have their warframe prime. Like they're basically like the warframe, like I have a trinity and then I have trinity prime. I'm saying trinity prime getting able, she can hold more mods, her hp is higher. She's the same character, it's just you can upgrade her more thus making her stronger
Speaker 1:hold on. It's been a while since I played warframe, but do they have it to where it's kind of like with apex or in first descendant, to where they have like this um skill set, this toolkit that they have, where you press certain buttons when I just turn the fetch, you know like kind of like overwatch, how they have like those skills and what not?
Speaker 3:yeah, yeah, yeah, like yeah if they do.
Speaker 1:okay, I was just wondering because I'm like that's probably the one thing, that kind of Mm-hmm bring anything, but it's like that's why I'm saying that um, first descendant just reminds me of warframe and uh, apex legends and what was the destiny 2 with the way how, like you uh go to this base and uh, I mean, I think warframes also like that, but it doesn't have like this hub where you can just chill out with all these different uh, you know it, it just feels like a destiny uh clone in a way yeah, don't get me wrong, warframe, a lot of games do have that like public lobby, but what like soon as first descendant comes on?
Speaker 3:this? Is this like a universal thing. It looks like destiny. Yeah, this looks like you know what I'm saying. So it's kind of like maybe they, because monster hunter, have a lobby like that, they have a world public lobby, but it doesn't look like destiny it's because that's the funny thing.
Speaker 1:That's the funny thing because we're thinking like okay, uh, destiny. Well, you can either look at, warframe feels like destiny or Destiny feels like Warframe. But if you're talking about First Ascendant being like Warframe, you might as well say it also feels like Destiny 2. And then if we're talking about that, then I might as well say, okay, so it's not exactly like Apex Legends, because you know Warframe also have a whole bunch of units that you can collect and shit. But I guess the main reason I was thinking it was kind of like Apex is because the fucking grappling hook. I think all players in Apex Legends use grappling hooks to get from place to place, but I don't think Warframe or Destiny 2 have that, at least I don't remember.
Speaker 3:Like I remember you gotta do like a whole bunch of jumping and shit yeah, Octane, not Warframe Legends. On Apex he uses the Grappling Hook like a little type shit but on the map definitely does look like you, you know like the maps how big and wide and mountain they are, like mountainous they are.
Speaker 1:They definitely do Apex scene like I could see playing Apex on First Descent maps yeah, like it just feels like that, but we're not trying to say that it's like it's a rip-off. I just, you know, I just can't help but feel like the similarities are there you can't help.
Speaker 3:It's like if you play brawlhalla, you play multiverses. You're gonna be like, okay, you're not directly comparing it to smash, but come on now, all right, I mean you mean to tell me I'm not supposed to say that it doesn't remind me of Smash at all? You're going to. So when it looks and plays like it, it looks like a duck, walks like a duck yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm like call a spade a spade man.
Speaker 3:So when I get on Brawlhalla or Multiverses, guess what I'm going to do? Super Smash Brothers, shit. I'm going to try to do the every little mechanic that I know from this game. I'm going every little mechanic that I know from this game. I'm gonna see if it works on this game because I mean it looks like it plays like it. But aside from that, first descendant is a good game. It was.
Speaker 3:It's just it does get like repetitive and in a sense of it's kind of like warframe. But warframe been doing this for years. They dropped so much like dlc and stories. That is is is not repetitive, like it has a story. It has rewards for grinding. It's just a very long process, but it's a grinding game.
Speaker 3:If you love to grind, it's all warframe, it's straight grinding. Now it's like with first descendant they kind of ran out of materials to grind or things to do, because when you, when you complete all the maps and all the bosses you unlock, you basically have to go through it again, but they're much, much, much harder. Now warframe does the same thing. When you complete all the missions on all the planets and all the moons, it kind of like unlocks it all again. But now that all now that you completed everything.
Speaker 3:All of these monsters are like five, ten times harder, like they're not even close, like they're literally not the same monsters, but that's just their way of making it challenging. But it's kind of like, okay, there's nothing else other than doing what I just did. It's just gonna take longer because it's harder. But warframe has dlc, that story, that a bunch of stuff. So maybe first descendant can probably you know pick up on. It is a new game. Yeah, in the gaming community it is considered a baby. Still it is in its baby stages. Warframe has been around for a while.
Speaker 1:Destiny is on its like third franchise maybe, I think I mean that's so funny because they keep coming out with expansions to a point where I'm just waiting for them to announce Destiny 3. I'm like, oh great, Now we're going to have a whole bunch of DLC for that.
Speaker 3:And then they're going to make number two for you or they're going to make the last one for you.
Speaker 1:It also kind of pissed me off about Xenoverse, to where they're going to add all these different stories from the dragon ball world and then, next thing you know they have a xenoverse 2 and they're gonna add everything from um the saiyan saga up into the superhero saga and dragon ball super. But by the time you add that shit you're talking about, oh, we're gonna make a xenoverse 3 this year. I'm like what the fuck I? First of all, why? Because that's gonna get overshadowed by sparking zero anyways.
Speaker 3:Second of all, like you could have just add more dlc along with xenoverse 2 and just leave it alone I don't understand, because I'm pretty sure wouldn't that save them time and money from making a whole new fucking game bro?
Speaker 1:unless you're adding like a whole new mechanics or like you're just trying to make the game bigger than it actually is, then okay, I can understand if you're like trying to really like expand on it from a gameplay point of view. But if you're just saying like, okay, let's make universe 3, well, we're pretty much Adding a whole bunch of shit that was Like DLC and Xenoverse 2, but that's like base game Now, but we're gonna add all the new Shit later on and on DLC. But I'm like, bro, that's like saying, okay, by the time we get all the shit from the Saiyan Saga and Dragon Ball Z to Fucking Super Hero Saga and Dragon Ball Super we fuckin' Super Hero Saga and Dragon Ball Super we get Xenoverse 3 and now we're getting PLC from Dragon Ball Diamond. I'm like, bro, you might as well add that shit to Xenoverse 2 and let it be what it is.
Speaker 2:That's all. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Like you were saying, with First descendant, it is fairly new, so we're just hoping for more. I'm really hoping it just doesn't get irrelevant too soon, because it just feels like bro, like it's just kind of disheartening when you're putting out a game that you thought was going to be fire and then next thing you know it's getting overshadowed by games that was more highly anticipated, so like because what get me wrong?
Speaker 3:I do like to make like investments in games, like I see, and I call it like okay, now there's gonna be a game or there's gonna be, and I've been doing good like wukong, I've done great, like I called that was gonna get a good game two years ago and I was seeing people earlier this year always add blah, blah, blah and then, you know, turn around and now I'm seeing possibly game news. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:But, like I said first and second, it's not a bad game, it's just I feel like you know, I don't know exactly what the devs was going for.
Speaker 3:I don't know what their motive was and if the inspiration I'm pretty sure the inspiration does come from other games, like most do, and if the inspiration does come from, uh, apex, warframe, destiny, that's totally fine. But it's like you have to add more content as a gamer yourself. You have to play this game and I'm talking to developers like you have to play this game and be like all right, there's what is gonna like keep the players here once they've done everything. Like you have to understand the, the day and age of today of gamers.
Speaker 3:These gamers are like I don't know what they feed some of them, but they're like knocking these games down. It don't matter if they're a souls game or mario party. They're finding every little ins and outs and they're completing the games. And you know what I'm saying. First of all, it's one of those games where you probably hop on and play with your friends. So if you don't really have much content to run around and do outside of missions, then you know, I mean, the game community will kind of die down in a bit because there's a lot of other games to choose from.
Speaker 1:You know, I'm saying I mean, at least don't go down like anthem to where, like it just felt like the only gimmick it had going for is that you had these iron man suits and you can fly around and shit, but outside of that, it wasn't that much different from playing warframe or destiny 2, just like a whole bunch of missions. Kill this monster. Uh, go back to your base. Repeat all right.
Speaker 1:All I'm saying is um, like you said, it's like eventually you're gonna have to add more, otherwise it's just gonna feel like we're just gonna get bored of it um, sooner than you would expect. That's why I'm kind of glad with zenith zone zero, to where they're talking about adding multiplayer, and with 1.2 coming and with some of the uh details and hints that's coming about. Uh, I think I'm just speculating, but I think there's gonna be a multiplayer racing mode in there to where you can play as these different characters and you ride around motorcycles or whatever, riding around doing the wasteland section of the game and I'm like, oh, hell, yeah, like that way you know, like that yeah like, uh, we have like a uh competitor to uh mario kart and shit, especially being on playstation, because you know, uh, playstation don't really have that many games where you can like race on there and like a whole bunch of people gonna be playing it.
Speaker 1:Like I mean, they had like I don't know, games like disney speed storm, but that kind of fell off a little bit. So, uh, I'm hoping that with zenland zone zero, with the general appeal that they already have, if you add a multiplayer racing mode to it, oh yeah, you're going to have people crawling Because, just like with First Descendants, zenless Zone Zero is free to play, it's free to download. I mean, I won't say there's going to be microtransactions, you're going to have to pay to, you know, get some of the good shit, but yeah, you can at least download for free and enjoy it as it is. So, yeah, like I'm hoping for more with uh first descendant, but, uh, other than that, I'm pretty much spent on talking about it.
Speaker 1:For now uh, playboy, you got.
Speaker 3:Anything you want to add on before we close this segment out well, I kind of felt like we did a decent as far as a review of the game goes, like for somebody who probably didn't play it. I don't feel like we deterred anybody, I've heard anybody. I feel like you know, we gave honors of you like it's not a bad game, death, it's a good game. It's just like, as we said, it just kind of get repetitive. So once you beat it you'll probably move on. But you know, I'm pretty sure you're having great experience. I did. It's a fun game, very appealing.
Speaker 1:It's just I feel that. All right, man, I do thank you for being on the show and Alrighty Doing extension on the first to send the review, and this time joining me Making a return Is the warmonger himself, mad King Joseph. How you doing today, man?
Speaker 4:I'm doing good. How are you guys doing?
Speaker 1:everyone listening, yeah now with first descendant. I was telling playboy in the first segment how like this game kind of reminds me of warframe and destiny a little bit of apex, but, um, not the whole.
Speaker 1:uh, battle royale part. It's more like you get your missions, you roll around in space and whatnot. You have these different characters and whatnot. But honestly I would say, out of all those games, at least these characters like the way they designed them. I'm like bro, like I'm kind of into it, especially Bunny, the way I was playing Boy High Iboy how like bro listen, listen.
Speaker 1:I spawned in the main camp, you know like the main spawning point, and I saw a whole bunch of people um playing as bunny and I saw all those um ass cheeks and I was like, oh, y'all got me acting up oh, of course.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I mean like it doesn't help that she's like the first character. They knew what they were doing by, uh, her the first unlock.
Speaker 1:So yeah, and outside of that I thought it was pretty fun for the most part, but I'm kind of afraid that it's going to get repetitive in a way, to where that's how games like Concord and Anthem kind of fell off. But how are you feeling about First Decent?
Speaker 4:Let's just get it out of the way. It's just, uh, let's just get it out of the way. It's just a game about butt cheeks, which is I'm all. I'm all for it, I'm all for it. You know, that's the one thing that lured me to it when I first saw it. I'm like, oh, cool butt cheeks, like hot ass people, you get to fucking do fun abilities and sign me up. But like I, I knew what I was like getting into because it's literally just that like the story that's. It's a free to play. The story's kind of there.
Speaker 1:Honestly, I always thought the story was kind of like with some of these games where it just builds a whole bunch of blah, blah, blah. I mean it sounds like a whole bunch of word cells where you have these factions and you have to fight them. All that sounds great and all, but I'm like eh.
Speaker 4:It's been the same story that every fucking game has had like the past couple years. Like I mean, like I get it, you know, but um, that, and like the english is kind of shitty. Like I think you're better off listening to the whole lore and campaign in korean that was meant to be, um, like I said, like for me, like I just, I just I just skipped it, like I'm not, I'm not here for the story. No one really hears for the story, like as intriguing as it might be, it's, we're here for the fucking boss battles and for the horniness. That's literally what this game is and it was. It was fun. It was fun for like, uh, I think like the first two weeks I was playing I was like super into it and stuff like that. Right now I kind of uh fell off because you know there's like a bunch of other games that I'm that are on my radar, but I still come back to it, even though it's uh fucking grind fest, because I'm trying to go for ultimate buddy right now.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, that reminds me how I made a joke about how, when I found there was like ultimate, like okay, first of all, it's not exactly a new thing, because warframe have prime versions but and first descend that they have ultimate, and I'm thinking like bro, why does this immediately make me think of ben 10, ultimate Alien, to where I'm like okay, I'm an Ajax main right now. So if I get Ultimate Ajax, I'm like okay, so where's the army training? Right, right, I'm like what's the ultimate about it? That's what.
Speaker 4:I'm trying to figure out I mean for the chicks.
Speaker 4:It's just like less clothing. You know which I'm again, that's what I signed up for. Like like all all the characters are hot, like I mean it is, it is what it is and it knows what it is. That's, that's what, that's what that's why I can appreciate for it. It's like you have, like other games, like concord, they try to, like you know, bend to the fucking, uh, whole other political side of things and like the fucking east, they're like let's just put tits and guns, man, and I'm like, yeah, 100, I'm all about it.
Speaker 4:You got giant boss battles like four player, six player, fucking boss battle, shit, like, and you're all a bunch of hot people just taking down this giant cool looking bosses too. Because the bosses are pretty awesome too, I will say, like their designs for like all their enemies and boss battles and the main roster, like you know it's good, it's a solid 10 out of 10. They know what we want and they give it to us and they're not ashamed to admit it. And like the new character, like that sniper chick that I want to play with, like literally, the first thing you see is just butt cheeks and, and you know, people can be like, oh, whatever, you know, it's like, it's gross, you know, just peels the male fantasy. I'm like, yeah and I don't care, give me all the fucking guns, hot chicks and hot beats, fucking running around killing motherfuckers, I'm all about it what I don't like about that.
Speaker 1:I mean, I agree with you what I don't like about that concept is how like okay, so what if we made a game that appeals to the female? Fantasy. Are you gonna buy the game?
Speaker 4:I mean it's like a good, a good reference is my girlfriend. She's like she loves Dragon Ball Z and her logic is that she wishes more women were into Dragon Ball Z because it appeals to the female fantasy. It's literally a bunch of muscly ass men fucking beating the shit out of each other and she fucking loves that shit. And for the guys, they're like oh dude, I want to fucking be like them. You know like I want. It motivates them to fucking hit the gym and do all that. So like it's like they need to realize, like you know, at least with the first incentive, they do have male characters and they're all fucking hot. So it's like, of course it's. It's like leaning towards more of the male side, but at least there's freedom. And like you know, if you're a chick or a dude, that's into dudes or whatever, whatever you want to be, it's like, hey, you know, I got, I got options, so at least it's got it also has that going. Going on for it. Like, maybe, maybe the next uh descendant they drop is going to be like a fucking super rip-dude again, you know so. But uh, we'll, we'll, we'll see.
Speaker 4:I mean, it's not the best game in the world, it's fun. You know, like I'll, I'll put on a podcast or something and, uh, mindlessly grind for like three hours, which is a pain in the ass when your drops are a three percent, six percent drop for shit you need. But again, it's a free-to-play game. It doesn't have to be, it doesn't really have to go this hard. But I mean, I appreciate it for what it is. I didn't drop $70 for this game, so I'm not expecting much. And the fact that, like you know, I can still jump in from time to time and play the game and grind when and grind when I got time and play those cool intercept battles and all the abilities that all these different characters have, it's fine. The one thing I wish it would be is a little bit more easier and shorter time to get the sentence. I don't want to grind the whole fucking day for one dude.
Speaker 2:And then for the ultimate version. Yeah, I get it, but like 30 drop rate, you're breaking my balls too, yeah. Another thing is when I heard about versus and I was like wait, I thought like read it down a little bit. You're talking about buying the game for. But yeah, I'm glad I didn't have to pay money for it.
Speaker 1:But you know like it's fun for what it is, but I just don't know if I'm fully committed to unless I got nothing better.
Speaker 2:You know like, okay, I'm pretty much up to speed, and then we're going zero.
Speaker 1:Uh, overwatch doesn't really appeal to me right now, like what else can I?
Speaker 4:play? I guess, yeah, it's. It's literally like the tail end of destiny right now. It's like it's there, it's free. Do I want to play it? Probably not. Uh, if I'm bored I'll play it. I'll have a good time because, like, at least the abilities and stuff are cool, just like the first descendant.
Speaker 1:So it's like I I put it in the same realm as end game destiny 2 in terms of, uh, how I feel about it gotcha, because I honestly did feel like with destiny 2 is like it was popping off for a while, but then at some point it's like, okay, yeah, I know y'all got Lightfall and whatnot coming out now, but I'm like, eh, at this point I'm just so used to y'all that I just don't. Maybe I'll get back into the game. I don't know, but like right now, yeah, it's like one of those games where, if you're in the mood for it, I'm not going to blame you for playing it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, literally the only reason I'm not playing it is because my PC has to have it on super low settings. So that's literally what's stopping me. Like I think one of my friends said he saw it on the Xbox One, the Series X or whatever. He said there were details that he didn't even know existed in the game because he was playing it on a shitty PC.
Speaker 1:Jesus Christ. Was there anything else you want to add on about?
Speaker 4:First Ascendant. Was that rumored true that the developer was like a chick, or was that something that they said on Reddit or some shit?
Speaker 1:I don't know about that. Like, honestly, the close thing that, uh, I know about and it's about a completely different game which is wild, but you reminded me of how I still want to play stellar blade to where it's like, yeah, it's a hack and slash and like, yeah, yeah, and you have these girls that's like these skin tight suits, and I'm like, look here, like between bayonetta, uh laura, krav, uh samus around and her zero suit, I'm like are y'all honestly surprised that these games are as popular as they are? I'm like it's visually appealing. Like you don't want to, um, play a game that's hard to look at.
Speaker 4:So I'm like you know yeah, then I'm in the camp that. Uh, every time I play like any rpgs or anything like that, I always pick a chick like I don't know what that says about me. Maybe I'm a degen, but whatever I mean a lot of dudes does that.
Speaker 1:Like I don't mind playing as a chick in games, it's just more like there's just some characters where, okay, if they're a male but their play style fits me better, then I'll play as that male. If they have a female that have a play style that fits me better, then I'll play as that female, but like I'm not trying to be biased towards specific genders, more like what fits me better. You know, that's like saying, if I talked about Apex Legends, I'd rather play Lifeline than anyone else, because at least we'll fit Lifeline. She's useful, you know, like she's like one of the main healers in that game and I know how to heal.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So I'm like, doesn't matter what their gender is like, can you play as them comfortably, that's what it matters. And, like I said, like you don't want to look, you want to play a game.
Speaker 4:That's ugly looking, you know, like something that I don't know what kind of audience they thought that was going to rank, but definitely not the majority. But did you guys do a review on that or not?
Speaker 1:Nah, I'm passing on that one. I didn't even get a chance to play it, so that's funny.
Speaker 4:I mean like at least Versus End is still going strong. Conchords died like two weeks in, so Jesus.
Speaker 2:Christ. Oh God, you were so interesting.
Speaker 1:Was there anything else that we're missing?
Speaker 4:Forgetting about Nah, nah, I think I said what I needed to say Hot chicks and guns Solid. I'm okay with it.
Speaker 1:Well, I do appreciate you being on the show. Y'all follow MKJoseph On Instagram and Twitch and also follow the girlfriend KawaiiSamCraftph on Instagram and Twitch and also follow the girlfriend KawaiiSimCraft also on Instagram. We're going to try to do better as far as like being more present on Instagram, twitter, facebook, and we're launching a YouTube channel next year, in 2025. We already got a website up, zonealliancecom, so we're building up, but until then, until we get some more development, um, in fruition, just stay nerdy and you know we'll just make things happen one way or another. Uh, with that being said, let's go ahead and close this one out. Y'all have yourself a good morning, good afternoon and good evening. Take it easy, y'all bye.
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