Garnt and Connor: "Kirby is just cute pink thing." Joey: "Fuck this." Kirby Fans: "So let me tell you about that one time Kirby killed a god because of a piece of cake."

I love how Connor is periodically making sure Grant doesn't forget to play Elden Ring. If he does decide to stream it though, I'll definitely be there.

The PS2 is KING they had such a large library of games both from established brands, hidden gems and the birth of franchises. Not before or since has a console had the legacy the PS2 had

The thing about the cafe is that you're not meeting average fans of Bocchi there, you're meeting the kind of fan who goes to a maid cafe.

Joey’s right about Pokémon. It can be hit or miss but its world and Pokemon just make it so that you want to revisit it over and over again.

Kirby is the GOAT, I find Kirby Super Star Ultra to be oddly replayable, I always come back to it

You know, I feel like Garnt would enjoy Xenoblade Chronicles, more specifically XC2. It has a ton of sci-fi elements, it has a great story with banger music, it has a gacha system, and of course, a ton of waifus. It's one of those games that I only ever see getting shit on, but I feel like most people just never gave it a shot. I get it, I never did either when it was new, but since then I have actually given it a fair chance and I think it's one of my favorite games of all time now.

Conner is def spot on with PS2 games. I used to go to the local red cross down the road to raid the used bins for the mountain of PS2 games they had. They used to do a 3 for $5 deal.

I grew up dead ass poor from immigrant parents. And they got me a SNES in 2003 when it was cheap as fuck because it was already close to end of lifespan and I loved it. Got a game boy and game boy colour and everything

It's clear none of these guys are aware of the Kirby lore rabbit hole.

It's me. I'm the biggest console gamer. I bet none of these guys have even played Little King's Story.

Nintendo fans need to play more Metroid games...

5:30 I seriously thought you guys were saying the “Kobe” cafe for a hot minute. My brain was telling me that either; “that sounds utterly unremarkable in Japan” or “that’s is poor taste”.

Xbox is literally that meme with the guy on the podium with the medal and the champagne celebrating over being like….50th place and PlayStation and Nintendo watching from 1st and 2nd place

Joey’s drip is always on point.

The way Connor called out Garnt at the end of the video was priceless

I like how he calls out Tony Hawk, which is definitely a nostalgia trigger for me... from when I played it on my N64...

Shrek 2 for the ps2 is goated, just wanna get that out there.

Sprinting across the ocean to the berserk cafe rn

As an eastern european kid in late 90's and ealy 2000's my only console was bootleg NES/Famicom aka Famiclone. It was a bit modiffied N64 controller. It was a console and a controller at the same time. I don't remember all buttons but i think - It had Arrow pad, A B buttons, C buttons, Start/Reset button, but no joystick, but small red light next to Start/Reset Button. Although maybe there were no C buttons but two extra A B buttons. Didn't had L R buttons or some triggers or extra buttons on the side, back or under. On the back had 3 slots for cables - 2 tv and 1 power, on/off switch, and a slot for extra remote or light gun. Under it it had a slot for that battery pack (never used it, only used it pluged to the power), and a slot for game cartridges. I think side handlers were a bit longer and middle one was a bit shorter than N64 one. And it had 20 or 50 or 100 games on itself, although a lot of them probably were just repeats. My favorite game that we bought in the market was *Mario* *10* aka *Kung* *Fu* *Mario*. It was a rom hack. In reality it was "Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu", except Jackie was replaced with gigantic Mario in white clothes. Everything else were almost the same, except there were few character changes in first cutscene and one and two enemies had different skin. My mom liked different version of Tetris and one other game. But later i was just a PC gamer and still am.

Hearing that the weathering with you café had no-one attend it made me die a little on the inside ngl

You know what Kirby does he actually face a god of darkness a space looking eye thing a king that wants to destroy the world and I'm not talking about Dedede

Mario party with your homies never disappoints.

grew up on ps/c ...nostalgia quite💪💪

As a Nintendo fan. I have never simped so hard for Joey's opinion in my entire life.😂

I genunily want to know if garnt has played a xenoblade game, it seems like a nintendo series he would enjoy sci-fi story focused sudo interrconnected, especially cause he is getting into trials and the games are just trials but streamlined.

Garnt is never gonna play Elden Ring

I think the Nintendo loyalty is in large part due to how many iconic IPs they have and continue to produce exclusives for their hardware. Growing up the Nintendo games I'd see were Mario, Pokemon, Donkey Kong, Zelda, Metroid (sometimes). And as an adult, I see those same franchises. And they're all nintendo exclusives Playstation seems to only make a few games for each of their own IPs and then move on from them forever. Growing up it was Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Ape Escape. Then it became Ratchet and Clank and Jack and Daxter, then it was Uncharted and God of War and so on. Xbox had Halo and............Halo. The IPs constantly changed and thus they'd grab different audiences. Nintendo has had a core group from the beginning and continue to rely on that core to push most of their products.

"Do something." Bruh, Kirby literally can do just about anything BECAUSE he eats things. He's killed Gods, raced on airboards, went to a different Yarn Dimension. My guy ignoring the fax, if it ain't your cup of tea then you do you, but that little puff ball certainly do things.

11:10 nah bro, there are plenty of those people, just gotta look out for them.😂

Growing up I cycled through consoles i had or was near from Nintendo, to Xbox to Playstation, and now im on PC, but Ive eye ballin a Game Cube, craving to play Rogue squadron or some Zoids.

THe PSP guys I know went to 3ds because of monster hunter and since phones then were the movie and music devices during the wiiU era at least sony fumbled on the Vita so Nintendo 3DS had almost no competition aside from psp homebrews and translations of japanese games.

Just tell Garnt he can play to get a waifu in Elden Ring as a reason for him to play

nah man that vomit themed bochii was a reference when makima from chainsaw man squished her. Thats bochii on there lmao

You know you're a Nintendo fan when you thought Cloud's reveal in Smash Wii U/3DS was a Metroid/Star Fox character.

Does anyone know the place for Joey’s absolutely dripped jacket??

Oh god I forgot of Connor’s objectively wrong take on the Kirby franchise as a whole. He calls himself a gamer, but what he really is is someone who grew up with CoD and nowadays only really plays the flavor of the month streamer games. All I’m sayin’ is Mario has nothing on Kirby lore and its actual unique bosses.

Pokemon scarlet is the only mainline game I could not bring myself to finish, the world just feels too empty.

Kirby is an adorable elder god, a pink chubby eldritch abomination.

Connor how dare you insult Kirby and F-Zero?! Dude are you ok?!

I miss buying ps2 for 20 pesos

Kirby fans stand by Joey ✊️

ID on Joey's jacket?

I side with the homie CHAD WARDEN and the PS Triple. Iykyk

Pssst. Garnt... Tony Hawk came out on N64

whenever I go somewhere full of people who are in to what I like, it makes me re-evaluate my life. I went to one meeting of the anime club at university, and haven't watched any anime since then.

Garnt isn't in dark fantasy fan?? ... bruh, he's the isekai guy, he watches almost every isekai in each season. like what?

I will not forgive this Kirby slander

hoyo games? Brain: off mode

PC + Nintendo gang unite

All my PS1 and PS2 games were pirated.

CONNKR LIKES MOUSE SO HE WOULD LIKE LOLIS

i like the ouya

Berserk boys love. Duh.

1:05 💀💀💀 that wasn't a stray, that was a calculated headshot

To Connor: Every nintendo game can be played on the Steam Deck :3

I'm not really a Nintendo fan, it took me a loooooong time to find a Zelda game I could enjoy (Wind Waker HD), & outside of Yoshi's Island & Super Mario World pretty much every Mario game ends up boring me & becoming highly repetitive. I've had some fun with F-Zero & Star Fox. But honestly most of their IPs I couldn't care less about. Pokémon however, I have had that shit running through my veins for most of my life. The funny thing is I can sit there listening to people shit all over these games & I'll agree with pretty much all of their points. But then I'll play the game & still really enjoy myself. Could be worse, I could be playing Genshin :P

I grew up playing NES, and then I kinda lost interest and only played PS and PC games instead. Never was a fan of flagship series like Mario or Sonic. Battle City or Contra were much more fun to me on NES.

YOURE TELLING GAARNT THE LOLI MAN DIDNT REALIZE JAPAN MAKES LOLI ANIME FOR PERVY MEN DUUUH

I’ve always found it weird how being a Sony fan is seen as a sign of derision compared to Nintendo. I mean I get it, being a fan of any soulless company is a bad move but why do you get channels like Scott The Woz or that Blue Muppet one? That’s all about Nintendo? Why are they fine and not corporate shills? Yet if someone is like this for Sony it’s being a shill? Both companies have made dumb moves or periods of absolute low quality but why is being a fan one soulless company so much more acceptable than the other? I’m projecting a lil as someone who is a Sony fan (but more than willing to call them on their bull, I feel like I’m the only fan who didn’t like the new GOW games for example) but I defo see a difference as described by the boys. I didn’t own a Nintendo console till the Wii and my first console was a PS1.

PlayStation: The Better Console Xbox: The Better Service Nintendo: The Better Exclusives Let’s be Real, the only reason why I bought Series X first was because PS5 wasn’t available and now I’m waiting because knowing my luck they’ll announce The Pro. Xbox does win when it comes to service tho. Gamepass is far better then PlayStation Plus (that could change overtime but we shall see…the PS Price Hike doesn’t help) we get Day 1 games at times which they won’t do, and tho the exclusives aren’t that high, it’s not a bad console. I give Exclusives to Nintendo because 99% of games on Xbox and PlayStation will eventually make it to PC (yes that means you Ragnorak and Spider-Man 2) but some games like Mario, Pokémon,Zelda, Metroid, Kirby, etc from Nintendo will never be on anything else except Nintendo Consoles….unless you emulate but that’s another story altogether.

In my country, Argentina, it was way easier to get a Family, a fake famicom and then a Sega Genesis as a kid. Play Station 1 and 2 reign supreme here. Piracy was probably a big factor in that. And then we entered the Ps3 and Ps4 eras, which were terrible for Nintendo, until the Switch came out. (Wii wasn't bad for Nintendo. It just wasn't the type of console I wanted at the time). So I haven't had that much of an experience with Nintendo. Still, I like Nintendo fine enough. It is just I am already accustomed to Sony's consoles.

if you watch this podcast on the regular you know who it is

Being a berserk fan pays off I guess

yes berserk I need to go

trash kirby takes by 2/3 of the crew

I had a hacked 360 and my barber at the time had a guy that got the games so when I set my appointment for my haircut I would tell him hey I need a hair cut Friday I also want the new forza and halo 😂😂😂 it was a fun time

As a biggest PlayStation fan of all time , I just play Japanese games like final fantasy and kingdom hearts and digimon. The stream deck is just too dam big.

11:53 that’s because the games aren’t made by Nintendo themselves. They’re just the publishers.

Ima be honest, if it wasn’t for the fact that every Xbox game is available on pc, I feel like it’s be a really good console that could actually rival the play station.

I hate ketchup too

Connor has the balls to say mario when all the spinoffs have sucked recently and new super mario bros is just mid.

Also, gatekeeping who is a “real gamer” is one of the suckiest things for anyone to do. Anyone that plays games is a gamer. Just don’t lie about how big of a fan you are ya know? I worked with a guy who said he’s a huge Nintendo fan. And when asked what his favorite game or franchise was, he couldn’t say. He just said the typical “there’s so many choices”. C’mon, it’s not that hard to name even one game like Mario Kart. Also people buying games even when they’re subpar is why we keep getting broken games like those Pokémon games.

STEAMDECK CREW RISE UP!!!!

Mongolian chop squad is farrrr better rock/punk music band Anime. That anime's first few episodes were like the kids I grew up with.

Connor is so based

Well, all I can say is, as a mobile gamer, mobile gaming is the biggest gaming industry. Like it or not.

Im brand loyal to Playstation..

Hardcore Sega fan here lmao Grew up on the Sega Genesis. Moved on to the Saturn then Dreamcast. Gamecube afterwards was my first non Sega console Sega games always felt more fast and arcadey. Something like Gunstar Heros or Afterburner would never be on the Snes. Strider?And they often took incredibly wild risks. Mr Bones, Nights into dreams, Shenmue, Space Channel 5. Ecco the Dolphin People say Nintendo had better games but its because Sega's catalog was a weird grab bag of creativitly strange ideas. You could guarantee if you buy a Nintendo console you'll probably get a Zelda, Mario, Smash Bros. With Sega it was always a surprise.

Everyone is wrong. The best Nintendo franchise is splatoon.

The last Pokemon game I got was that sun moon thingy on 3ds, srsly. vasted money. So why are they saying stuff like there are still good pokemon games "50%/50%"?! When i listen to fans and real critics its like the last good pokemon game was like first editions that came out on the old ds....

as a huge fzero fan i feel attacked

About the Berserk thing, maybe that's why female stereotypes in terms of demographics meansa lmost nothing. Did you know Redo of a Healer is also popular in Japan with female viewers?

Honestly I dislike pc gaming. I have a switch, a ps5, and a $2500 pc and I almost never game on the pc. I just find pc gaming to be really inconvenient these days.

Man I’ll just be real, adults who can still enjoy Pokémon after a lifetime of playing it, are simple minded.

We can tell that Garnt has not paid attention to anything with the Microsoft fanboys making an annoying riot everywhere.

5:54 KIRBY IS A BASED GIGA CHAD IN COMPARISON TO BOCHI BECAUSE I FUCKING HATE BOCHI THE ROCK SO FUCKING MUCH

I'mma be honest I feel like there was actually more women than men at the Final Fantasy 14 Cafe I just want to point that out

PC MASTER RACE

11:00 Disagree. Which tells more about you as a gamer Garnt lol. There are DEFINITELY SONY fanboys, Xbots, and PC Masterbait race. Nintendo "fans" are the kids, grownup kids and moms.

Man, as I have gotten older, I have started to gravitate toward mobile gaming. I am always traveling or working, and games like genshin/honkai star rail, arknights have been the only games I care about. As a lifetime pokemon fan, I just wished nintendo would branch out and bring games like that diamond and pearl remake to mobile. I think they would make a killing!

I think the thing with all the brands is that Nintendo is essentially the Apple of the gaming space at this point, Sony is the Android and Microsoft is the Microsoft. A lot of stuff Nintendo does is anti-consumer and pushes costs onto gamers. They have 0 interest in making the best hardware, just the best Nintendo hardware. But the flip side is, they make game *consoles* not just lobotimised PCs. The Switch is great because of how you can play it, but also that it has local multiplayer built straight into it. All Nintendo games are mechanics first, then the story graphics etc afterwards, so you have a fun time with their first party titles & that sticks with you, as opposed to a CG fest string of cutscenes around generic 3d action. There are so many Nintendo games that have changed the industry, even well after the heyday of the NES/SNES/N64; BOTW's influence on stuff like Elden Ring is huge. And I think that's why I'll always play N stuff, just because I know there's usually the ridiculous level of QC they bring to their first party stuff (Pokemon aside).

Geez, older than Garnt? Bocchi the Rock fans must be absolutely senile (just joking btw, you're very cool Garnt)

I am greatfull that I have a incredibly hot lesbian girl at my job that loves berserk and read all the manga! Love her!!

Sorry man, Sony and PS dominance man... What? Can Nintendo play... DMC? Hmmm...?

The themed pop up cafes and restaurants in California have been weak to decent. From Saved by the Bell to Golden Girls, the food just wasn’t good and the atmosphere just felt like a Crypto Bro investing in something with a checklist without understanding the actual franchise. Same with the themed escape rooms, like the Zelda one from Scrap. It was just lazy.

The fact that more females go to a BERSERK cafe than boys is both demoralizing for the brotherhood and B A S E D... 😂 If only Kentaro Miura could see that...

6:05 This coming from the Gacha shill.

Pc is gaming is shit… games not optimised for pc

Also I want to add to Connor's point Yes there is an element of you know you're supporting the business practice, but that is not what the business is going to take away from it. They're going to take away that people don't like the features. Frankly the best thing you can do is if there are new features that you want to support in a game by the first version and then see if the second version fixes it. If they don't fix it by the second version then stop buying it because then they can't use the excuse that it was the feature set that caused the problem it was their crappy practices.