The Last of Us Part II Hands-On Impressions - What's Good Games (Ep. 124)

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**Access to The Last of Us Part II Preview event was provided by Sony Interactive Entertainment. 

It’s a meaty episode this week with a LOT to talk about! The ladies break down Sony’s State of Play, Project xCloud’s public preview test, those Batman rumors, Respawn’s new Medal of Honor, Oculus Link and more! Andrea gives her hands-on impressions of The Last of Us Part II in hands-on, Britt grunts over Link’s Awakening and Untitled Goose Game and Steimer tells the story of when her and Britt actually played a game together! The third segment is brought to you by our amazing patrons and is all about TED talks we would like to give. 

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1:00 - Welcome!
1:45 - Patreon’s: don’t forget the monthly stream archives are up! We played Man of Medan.
2:45 - We’re doing an Extra Life event in Fargo, ND on 10/26!
9:45 - Playstation’s State of Play recap begins
10:08 - Humanity game announced
11:10 - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare PS4 exclusive mode “Special Ops: Survival” announced
14:30 - Wattam finally gets a release window of December 2019! But what is this game??
17:47 - L.A. Noire “Case Files” VR exclusive is now on PSVR
18:08 - Civilization VI is coming to PS4 (and Xbox One)
18:25 - New Death Stranding PS4 Pro unveiled with weird urine colored controller
19:00 - King cake baby! STORY TIME: What is a king cake?
22:15 - New The Last of Us Part II story trailer and release date announced: Feb. 21, 2020
26:15 - Xbox One’s Project xCloud is going public in October
29:45 - Is a new Batman game in the works at WB Montreal? All signs point to yes!
34:35 - Twitter typos suck.
35:30 - Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond new VR game from Respawn
40:30 - Facebook has unveiled the Oculus Link, allowing Quest players to player on PC
44:30 - Rest of the news rundown: Google launched Google Play Pass in response to Apple Arcade, Mario Kart’s spendy subscription, Sony is selling hardware on their digital store, and Borderlands 3 sold 5M copies in the first 5 days.
51:12 - BREAK
55:16 - The Last of Us Part II Preview
1:06:00 - Combat against dogs in TLOU2
1:10:00 - Pacing & storytelling versus combat
1:22:40 - Britt played Untitled Goose Game!
1:27:57 - Why Britt isn’t interested in Nintendo Switch Lite
1:30:00 - Link’s Awakening is finally here
1:38:11 - Steimer and Britt actually played a video game together! (Hint: it was Gears 5)
1:47:30 - BREAK
1:48:00 - Thank you Mythic Patreon Members!! Let’s shout you out!
1:52:30 - Patreon question of the month: If you could do a TED Talk on any subject unrelated to video games what would it be?
1:55:15 - examples of TED talks, what are they anyway?
1:57:05 - Andrea’s talk: Why working hard is more important than being the smartest person in the room.
2:00:13 - Steimer’s talk: How learning to fail could lead to success.
2:01:40 - Britt’s talk: Simmer down: how to skim the fat from your life.
2:13:18 - Britt got into yoga!

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