Episode 415: Galactic Racer/Zero Company thoughts

Jason Roskam (0:30)

Cantina, the podcast where we talk about Star Wars, What happened? Pop culture, a very special birthday, or whatever the fuck we feel like talking about. I'm Mr. Jason Roskam, here with me each and every single week, the birthday boy to my Palpatine, Dave Martin. Hello, Dave.

Dave Martin (0:45)

Hello, Jason.

Jason Roskam (0:46)

Happy birthday.

Dave Martin (0:47)

Cheers. Thank you.

Jason Roskam (0:49)

And how are you this fine October evening?

Dave Martin (0:53)

I am a year older.

Jason Roskam (0:55)

Yes.

Dave Martin (0:56)

That's where I am. I'm a year older, and I feel every fucking second of it.

Yeah, that's about where I'm at.

Jason Roskam (1:07)

That's what I had to look forward to.

Dave Martin (1:08)

Yeah.

Jason Roskam (1:09)

I'm joining you in the 50s here in two months.

Dave Martin (1:11)

So yeah, it's, you know, they say age is just a number, but something in your body, like when the odometer rolls over to that, it's like the warranty's expired and now like it's going to start breaking more frequently. Like, you know, that happened going into your 40s. Now going into your 50s, it's like worse.

Jason Roskam (1:33)

Right.

Dave Martin (1:34)

So you have that to look forward to.

Jason Roskam (1:36)

Hooray.

Dave Martin (1:36)

Yay. But yeah, I'm, no, I'm good. It's, it, you know, look, a celebration for another year around, around the sun. It's weird. It was, it was, it was, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, stop.

So the ghost of the studio is, is now trying to shove the Oktoberfest into Jason's lap right now. Yeah.

Jason Roskam (2:10)

It was kind of moving. It's cause it's a little icy on the bottom.

Dave Martin (2:12)

It was being sneaky about it for a second. And then we saw it. We caught it. And I, we see you and unfortunately can't see it on a camera because Darth Roskam's in the way.

Jason Roskam (2:22)

Yeah.

Dave Martin (2:24)

Anyway. Yeah. I'll talk more about birthday shit during my week. Okay.

But yeah, it's, you know, beats the alternative.

Jason Roskam (2:32)

Yes, indeed it does. So what are we talking about this week?

Dave Martin (2:38)

This week, we are talking about a couple of video games.

Jason Roskam (2:43)

Yeah.

Good time to be a Star Wars fan, especially if you're a gamer. Yeah.

Dave Martin (2:47)

Yeah. I just wish we'll get into it more when we talk about the games. I wish I had more hands.

I wish I had more time to play video games.

Jason Roskam (3:03)

Right.

Dave Martin (3:05)

But the allure of the new Call of Duty came out also.

The Modern Warfare came out on the 23rd. So I know that a lot of whatever hype was being generated was getting thrown over there in the centrifuge that is the fucking gamer world. And a lot of people are saying a lot of good things about that game, especially multiplayer, which makes me kind of like, I want to get it so bad because I haven't had it. I haven't had a good first person shooter and it feels like forever.

Jason Roskam (3:42)

Yeah.

Dave Martin (3:44)

And I'm, you know, I'm Joseph Ford. You get to a point where it's like, I just want to shoot people in the face. Come on, just give me that.

Jason Roskam (3:52)

Yeah, there's nice about just being able to run into a battlefield and just start blowing people.

Dave Martin (3:57)

Yeah.

Jason Roskam (3:57)

The smithereens. Yeah, it's very cathartic.

Dave Martin (4:00)

Yeah, I've had enough time to, you know, in between those games where I think I'm ready. But we'll talk more about that.

Yeah. I'll get there. But we have the two games in particular we're going to talk about. Jason has played all the way through the Star Wars Roblox game or whatever RPG game.

Jason Roskam (4:20)

Zero Company.

Dave Martin (4:21)

Zero Company.

And I played a whole bunch of, I don't know why Roblox game. I had some, aren't they like, isn't Roblox like known for now having like a bunch of child predators?

Jason Roskam (4:38)

I would imagine.

Because I know my kids all played it when they were younger. I know I've got some friends who have kids who are also playing it.

Dave Martin (4:48)

Do you remember Club Penguin back in the day? Did your kids ever play Club Penguin?

So Club Penguin was kind of like how this Roblox thing is now. The difference was in Club Penguin, you couldn't talk like there was no chat function.

Jason Roskam (5:04)

Sure.

Dave Martin (5:04)