All right.
So Conan, this is very exciting.
The fine folks at Sega have come
to us and they wanted to get you, Sona and Gorley.
Your take on their new game, Phantasy Star Online Two.
New Genesis.
First of all, the title is way too long.
Do you know what I mean?
Do you have to say all of that?
Or what are the kids calling it?
New gen new gen two.
What do you?
(laughter)
I mean, you could call it like PSO two colon NGS.
I guess if you wanted to.
Ahh
Always good to wear colon into your title.
(laughter)
Sonya you're cool.
What do people call this, do you think?
Do they use that whole title?
Yeah, I'd say so. Especially the colon part.
Okay. So New Genesis Phantasy Star Online.
That's right!
Two, colon new beginnings, the resurrection.
Hmm Hmm
Is that something like that?
Yeah.
Okay. I think I just fixed the tittle.
So a Phantasy Star Online Two New Genesis.
Jesus!
It's an upcoming.
Yeah I know, I'm so sorry.
Felt long.
He got it.
It's an online action RPG game,
with a Sci-Fi anime setting.
It's the latest in the Phantasy Star game series
and the successor to Phantasy Star Online Two.
Wow. Okay.
I was going to stop you and ask what RPG is, but I won't
because that would have meant that you repeated the title,
(laugther)
and then I'd have a long gray beard.
So Phantasy Star Online Two New Genesis
is set a thousand years after the events
of Phantasy Star Online Two.
And the battle of Oracle.
And so Phantasy Star Online Two New Genesis takes place
on Alpha, a planet in which orcs, where the soldiers
of the Oracle colony fleet and the Phantasy Star
Online Two series are locked in a battle for
dominance against the mysterious D.O.L.L.S. Dolls.
I thought we could just show maybe, you know
you Sona and Gorley kind of the opening cinematic here.
And you guys can kind of, you know
kind of give us your thoughts as we're watching it,
if that's okay.
I like these parts the best, because I don't do anything
At any point, is there a frog that tries to dodge traffic?
(laughter)
I don't want to spoil anything, but...
(laughter)
Now that's a game. Okay. Now here we go.
(epic music)
We see a...
That seems like a, a Hawk, a white hawk with a long tail.
Wow that's a harfang avian.
Yeah. Yeah.
(laughter)
We see a man standing on a rock.
Oh, it's a woman.
You can't tell these days
with the long hair on the rock and roll
(laughter)
Birds and...
Those are Pokemons
Robots and Pokemons lift together.
I like her hair.
I think those are the mysterious dolls
The dolls!
So, oh!
Oh!
Oh So that is a guy.
Yeah. That's our hero.
Right? And he's wearing some kind of armor
Some kind of an iron man,
Storm trooper
sort of thing.
Yeah
And he's got a lightsaber.
Well, I'm sure they have a different name
for it than lightsaber. That would be litigious.
Yeah, they have weapons and they can use the photon arts,
which are kind of using cosmic energies,
that's focusing cosmic energy.
We all know what photon arts are.
Yeah
We are all familiar.
Okay this is a battle that's happening.
And it looks like they're defeating.
Oh, he just ran his, he ran his sword right
through the doll and it blew up.
That's cool.
Yeah he got it.
Here comes another one.
Once you defeat one giant robot.
Oh there's more.
There's always another one.
Yeah, oh my God! Look at this guy.
He's like a Shogun warrior.
Do you remember those?
Oh my God!
I do, yeah.
(epic music)
Yep
There you go!
You know that had a anime, kind of animation,
which I found a kind of groovy,
and it looked like it was good action.
What do you guys think?
What stuck out for me, when I watched it was my new crush
actually, I would say he was in the mecha suit.
He did a super sick backflip off that cliff.
Oh, the guy in the beginning.
Yeah. The suit was the coolest thing for me.
So you're saying that your ideal guy right now
is someone wearing that suit who can do a
back flip off some rocks.
(laughter)
Is that what you're saying?
Nailed it.
Okay.
I get it.
What's cool about this game is you can
really change your avatar.
You can pick every little different aspect to
make it look exactly how you want.
Things like you could change your hair color, your eyes size
the size of your hands, your thigh thickness.
Yes I want thick thighs.
(laughter)
I want needle thin thighs.
I never had thick thighs and I want them.
Yeah
Thick thighs.
(laughter)
Yes. I want tiny hands and just,
just massive sausage thighs.
(laughter)
I'm just realizing that I had
the original Sega master system. I chose that over Nintendo,
and they had a fantasy
Aahh
Phantasy Star game for that was the first one, I think.
Did you play it?
Wow.
I don't remember if I played that, but I used to play my
Sega all the time.
There we go.
Did you have? You had friends, right?
No. No, not a one.
(laughter)
This is early on, what year we talking about here?
Mid to late to eighties, I think.
I can't remember what year, yeah but I loved it!
That's cool! So you were an original fan,
and now you can return
with this much better version of the game.
Everyone in this game kind of have these robot suits.
What about a real life?
If you guys could have a robot suit,
Yeah!
What would you want as part of, in your robot suit?
I would just want a lot of snacks.
Yeah
(laughter)
I would want too. Like a candy dispenser.
Yes I would want like, oh, this, you know,
there's candy here. There's hard candies here.
There's sort of candies with a shell,
Yeah
but like an M and M
or a peanut M and M over here.
There's like a Starburst over in this section.
And then there's like a soda fountain.
Yeah
And a straw.
You would Have just like a mechanized version
of bib overalls.
Yeah, exactly.
Gourley what would you have in your mech suit?
And would you have in your robot suit?
Hmmm I guess, you know, I think I would
Loot strings.
I knew it, I knew it, you son of a bitch.
You son of a bitch.
(laughter)
I spare vintage dime novel, a futile read ironically
(laughter)
I would just have a ear muffs,
so I wouldn't have to hear this abuse from others.
(laughter)
We would all die so fast.
I think as a team, you guys would crush it.
We would get crushed.
We would kill each other.
No three people work worse together,
doing anything,
I know.
Just talking the three of us,
it doesn't go well, it often leads to whiplash,
and harsh feelings all around.
We are rock, scissor, paper personified.
Yeah.
If you guys were going to team up to fight a giant enemy.
What would your strategy be?
What's your battle strategy going in?
Sacrifice Conan.
Yeah.
Instantly.
Yeah, I think yes Sona and Matt would pick me up,
and throw me at the giant,
robot.
Yeah
And then they would keep giving me new life
so they could throw me into something else.
He's got all the snacks.
Yeah
They'll just feel like a pinata.
Exactly. I would explain you're right, Sonya is right.
I would explode and Doritos and Starbursts would fly
everywhere and the robots would just be delightfully
eating the orange broken pinata.
And you guys would have plenty of time to leave
and build a house. And suddenly it would be Minecraft.
I am suddenly into this game, I'd like to play this.
That would totally be our strategy, I think it'd be good.
One of the things that is very exciting about this game
is it's cross platform.
So you can play.
Oh god
If you have PC and you have X-Box One
you guys can play with each other.
Blair I want you to have an operation
where we remove the jargon from you.
Because when you start saying this is cross-platform
you can play with an RPG and a flip-flop and a chip chop.
I don't know if I'm coming or going.
If it's north, south east or west.
You know this game as you guys probably
have already guessed has new multi weapon systems
and abilities where you can combine two types of weapons
for smooth, smoother weapons, switching, you know.
I don't understand what you mean.
Oh God!
You can take a spear and combine it with a machine gun,
and then it's a spear machine gun. Is that what you mean?
Well let's say you've just respond in this role
playing game and you need to swap out
your phasor blaster with let's say a photon ionizer.
It's just that simple.
See!
It's that easy.
So it's cool, you're constantly upgrading.
That's the problem with the American dream,
constantly not satisfied with what we have.
Huh.
Yeah. I mean you could, you know, you can make your player
better and better and better.
I mean, the other thing I wanted to say is
Hmmm I have a question,
have they ever thought about making a game called Zen?
Where you don't get any better,
but you accept yourself for what you are.
Oh!
Wow!
You don't level up because you're already there.
Sounds real boring.
You know.
(laughter)
If they're cross platform
And the numbers are in for Zen
Is it RPG? Is there a colon
between the Z and the EN?
Yes
Okay
Z.E. colon N ZEN!
So to wrap up, what do you guys think?
Would you play this together?
What do you guys think about them?
I think it would be good for us.
A good team building exercise because Matt, Sona and I,
we need to get more in sync. We, we work together.
We, a lot of people listen to us,
and there's a lot of squabbling,
there's a lot of butting of heads.
A lot of people not listening to who's clearly
the alpha male.
(sigh)
I think what we should do.
I think people listen to me a lot,
I don't know what you are talking about.
(laughter)
(hands clapping)
I don't know.
I think it couldn't hurt us to play this game.
Maybe get together.
Sona, we can all get together at your house
and play this game.
I mean I think the point is you could all,
we could all be at our own house.
Oh, I forgot how computers work.
I thought that we were all going to play, you know
some board game together
(laughter)
like trouble and, or hungry, hungry hippos.
I had to drive over to your house
and Gorley was going to drive
over and we're going to have dip
and chips and then play together.
I forgot the very essence of this technology.
Yeah I mean, you can come over.
You still can.
I don't want to go over there.
Well, so Phantasy Star Online Two New Genesis.
It comes out PC. I comes out on PC and Xbox One in June.
I think you guys will play it. Maybe this will help
We are going to play it!
and you know what, we are going to get together
and play at the same room.
Are we?
I'm going to rent us a nice hotel room.
We're all going to go there.
And we're going to order up some lobster.
Okay I'm cool with that.
And yeah. And some champagne.
And we're going to play together.
Fancy!
Beautiful!
Yeah. Sounds excessive.
I'm going to use someone else's credit card.
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