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Hello, everybody.

Welcome to episode 947 of the Video Game Outsiders podcast.

I'm one of your host, Michelle Madison.

And I, of course, am your John Jacobson.

And I am Ryan Silvestri. What is up, everybody? All right, here we are. How are we doing? This is a big show because, Ryan, you were not here last night. No, I was not. Or last week. Sorry. For Crimson. A lot's happened since. Yeah, we did an hour-long roundtable of Crimson Desert. A lot of good feedback from that. people in and going... Marathon better, apparently. Well, people are happy we talked about the game because they're loving it and they liked our review. IDN is rating Crimson Desert of 6 and giving Marathon a 9. A month later, mind you. Right. Incredible. Because it takes, what, a full month to review an online PVP extraction game? And not even IGN but you can play the same guy did this. You can play a 3,000 like our RPG like and released a video that day. I mean a lot of people have been asking do we need the old media guard anymore? Do we need IGN? What purpose? What's that noise? Did they serve? Ah. My arms disappearing. Oh, God. I'm becoming an insider. I just grew a nose ring. Wait, who are we? Hello, everybody. Welcome to virtuous gamers online. VGO. I am one of your virtuous gamers. And I of course

Madison. Don't over, don't talk over me. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm

sorry. I'm Marsha Madison. I, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Take my wallet. Okay. I'm Alex.

That's rude. I don't want you to open a door for me. I'm Brian. I'm Brian. You're your local games journalist. So, of course, we are going to be talking about the problematic game, Crimson Desert. I don't think we should be naming a game after an area with so much bloodshed. And Crim is also red yeah we are listen i played 20 minutes of

that game and it was absolutely atrocious i think it's bad i'm concerned about korea and uh the fact

that i can't control them and i think they should look into it they don't use forks no why wasn't

my character?

Why didn't they have blue hair and a nose brink? Wait. I was offended. I couldn't play as a female. I thought Cliff was a little too stoic. I wanted him to cry. I wanted him soy nipples. What the fuck just happened? John, it was horrible. I had blue hair. What? My hair turned blue.

I had a leather watch on.

What's going on? John, it was horrible. I had blue hair. I just, it's, my hair turned blue.

I had a mother watch on. What, what's going on? Oh my god. I'm glad to be back. I feel like I was just a little fatter as well, but I'm feeling good. So we have a good show tonight. We are going to bring up Crimson Desert again. I've been playing nonstop.

Ryan, I know you have your review.

You didn't get a chance to talk about it yet.

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