Summon Sign, Episode 9 | Digging In
Added 2024-02-27 17:06:09 +0000 UTC
This episode Ben and Lock join Brad and talk Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor, Penny's Big Breakaway, Enshourded, and more!
Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:11:55 - Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor
0:31:44 - Penny’s Big Breakaway
0:41:52 - Suicide Squad
0:49:09 - Suicide Squad spoiler
1:17:16 - Sort It Out
1:36:22 - Keep It Up
1:48:04 - Enshrouded
2:08:24 - Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
2:22:32 - Final Fantasy VII Remake
2:52:51 - Crisis Core Reunion
3:00:47 - Helldivers 2
3:11:24 - Ending Questions
A Ben and Lock episode? I want to listen to this forever 😂😂😂😂
Marco Maluf
2024-04-09 03:37:17 +0000 UTC
Final Fantasy 16 is Awesome. Extremely fun to play. Lock is Wrong.
Matthew Weinhagen
2024-03-05 19:07:24 +0000 UTC
episode was worth it alone for the part where they do marry, f$$$, kill, and Lockmort's answers cracked me da fug up holy cow
Guybrush Threepwood
2024-03-01 23:13:56 +0000 UTC
It’s sweet that Brad actually thinks Colin is going to play Kingdom Hearts
Glen Yelenovic
2024-03-01 16:33:00 +0000 UTC
Banishers isn't 30-40. Main story and all the haunting cases take around 25 hours. If you're going for the 100% I imagine it takes longer.
Do agree that the game was amazing, hope more people check it out
TheMuff1nMon
2024-03-01 15:53:05 +0000 UTC
To each their own but no one was lied to about Suicide Squad, it’s not the game that Lock is presenting it as and the critiques are beyond accurate.
The Rose Experience
2024-03-01 15:08:01 +0000 UTC
Wait, did that guy not realize Tekken would have a micro transaction store?! Of course they will
Glen Yelenovic
2024-03-01 15:07:32 +0000 UTC
Lock's down syndrome comment 😂😂
Your Boi Nicky V
2024-03-01 13:25:20 +0000 UTC
It takes and entire pack of lions to take out a giraffe… you are not punching out one
Glen Yelenovic
2024-03-01 13:23:59 +0000 UTC
IGN and PC Gamer did not ‘kill’ suicide squad. Suicide squad was, well… a suicide.
Ryan
2024-03-01 12:55:54 +0000 UTC
Lock defending SS as hard as he did was brutal to listen to lol
Ryan
2024-03-01 05:34:45 +0000 UTC
Yeah that sounded like an exaggeration. Hell that traversal doesn't even look better than Sunset Overdrive. I'll let it slide since he's pretty funny. Good show.
Russell Robinson
2024-02-29 10:51:30 +0000 UTC
Fun episode! Though I did have to chuckle at Lock complaining about misinformation being spread about Suicide Squad. I’ve played it, and the critics and general audience reaction are spot on. But I’m happy he found joy in the game I couldn’t.
Zackery Parkerson
2024-02-29 00:02:09 +0000 UTC
I think Lock should have his own podcast :)
Tefo
2024-02-28 21:48:40 +0000 UTC
I love Lock, the guy is hilarious 🤣
Josh Lee
2024-02-28 21:40:21 +0000 UTC
My brain is exploding from you guys thinking you can knock out a bear or giraffe. Thank you Brad for having a reasonable response of a sloth
Chuck Rude
2024-02-28 21:30:49 +0000 UTC
I like Suicide Squad, but Lock saying it has better traversal than Spider-Man 2 has to be some sort of crime.
Andreas Lennartsson
2024-02-28 20:54:52 +0000 UTC
The intro segment about punching animals had me crackin tf up 🤣
Beans Has A Granny Fart Fetish
2024-02-28 18:15:42 +0000 UTC
“Uppercutting an ostrich would be awesome.” - Brad
“I made a wrong deal again.” - Lock
NeO JD
2024-02-28 17:10:24 +0000 UTC
Amazing chemistry with this group. 🤝
The Yetti Den
2024-02-28 16:59:05 +0000 UTC
I think Ben and Lock have the best chemistry in the LSM family following this episode. So many mean, but playful jabs
Mangustinho
2024-02-28 14:50:21 +0000 UTC
I had no idea Lockmort was a fellow rust player . I knew there was something special about him
Sir Poops McGuffin
2024-02-28 14:01:04 +0000 UTC
Brad knocking out a sloth sounds like the opening of a Slotherhouse sequel. The sloth will have its revenge. 🦥
Michael Mashpotato
2024-02-28 12:33:50 +0000 UTC
Ok, but if Suicide Squad is so fun, why is no one playing it anymore?
I played the game for 15 hours. I wanted to love it. I found it very disappointing, specifically the loot progression and janky co-op. Also, the endgame is just not compelling or addictive.
You think it’s fun, that’s cool. I wish I did. It may be a solid 7 to you but it’s a flat 5 for me, and apparently most others.
I don’t believe the journalists are solely what killed the game. They didn’t help, but it’s also fair to point out that many of us think the game iust isn’t good.
Zeke the Plumber
2024-02-27 22:52:31 +0000 UTC
Lock draws some poignant parallels between media coverage of Suicide Squad and what we saw in September. I think it’s an important conversation to be had. Whenever you bring it up, you’re often met with dismissal - folks throw out the idea that people are just intolerant of hearing “criticism” about a game. I think this is true at times, but a dubious deflection away from clear engagement-driven drivel more often. Lock I would add GameSpot’s behavior back in September as another pertinent example. They awarded a good score and still continued an obnoxious hate game campaign. Frankly, it’s just more in line with the type of behavior befitting of a “TimDog” or “JayDub” type figure… not a legacy outlet trying to court itself to the masses as a reputable source of industry analysis. A studio with less financial security than a Rocksteady could be irreparably harmed by such practice, even if they produced a technically sound and widely enjoyable video game. That’s troublesome to me and I’m glad Lock took a moment to outline that. Suicide Squad has perfectly enjoyable, soundly made gameplay mechanics and it doesn’t take a genius to see how it might appeal to others. Suicide Squad is no (launch) Fallout 76 or No Man’s Sky. It’s not broken nor a product of deception. It is also not predatory like a Silent Hill: Ascension or your loot box game of choice. It looks just as evil as any of those in light of recent coverage, however. Subjectivity is critical to any game discussion, and we never will nor should be able to remove it from analysis, but I’m not sure devoting 99.9% of your coverage towards putting a game on blast for not being the genre that best serves your tastes is particularly useful discourse.
NotSkyWalker
2024-02-27 22:31:18 +0000 UTC
Who knew the European would be part of the problem lmao
NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE
2024-02-27 21:30:02 +0000 UTC
Hey Brad! I’m hopping in here to suggest you guys bring in Maximillian Dood for some FF7 rebirth talk. I think your last video with him is one of my favorite Spoilercasts of all time. Loving the new pod
Max Davis
2024-02-27 21:22:33 +0000 UTC
Lock is spot on with Suicide Squad. It's not GOTY, but it's not this evil and awful game it's been made out to be
As for some of the questions they had about it...
There will be an offline mode patched in this year
New characters with the start of every season, and each season is divided into 2 episodes
A new episode every 6 weeks that comes with new story content, new endgame missions, and new gear sets
Billyb
2024-02-27 21:15:12 +0000 UTC
Never met you before but wow what a great comment. Amazing.
Addiholic
2024-02-27 20:47:15 +0000 UTC
That's a really good point, which I completely forgot to bring up. Thanks for reminding me.
What was most staggering about it, was how most people seemed to be perfectly fine with spoiling the hell out of it, since it was already deemed "bad", even though it probably ruined the game for a lot of others. It also definitely didn't help that the PC version didn't run very well, which is why I personally moved over to the PS5.
Hopefully Rocksteady makes an offline mode, so that it might get a second chance in a couple of years, but I'm afraid the ship has kind of already sailed.
Lockmort
2024-02-27 20:44:42 +0000 UTC
DRG Survivor is only 10 bucks on Steam, so I checked it out
It’s very fun. Thanks Ben for the recommendation
Zeke the Plumber
2024-02-27 20:42:56 +0000 UTC
Suicide Squad traversal is fun. I bought it full price and eventually plan to play it, maybe even in co-op. People who haven’t played it shouldn’t comment. There WILL be a reckoning.
I’d let Wonder Woman step on me too.
Poot
2024-02-27 20:34:13 +0000 UTC
It runs amazing on Steam Deck too, if that’s an option for you
Zeke the Plumber
2024-02-27 20:32:43 +0000 UTC
Penny's big breakaway looks incredible im sold
Jose Horrach
2024-02-27 20:32:17 +0000 UTC
Lock, if you see this, what is your take on how media outlets spoiled the shit out of Suicide Squad immediately on release?
I haven’t seen a game get spoiled this egregiously since TLOU2. I’m not talking about the “killing the justice league” part, that’s obvious, but literally everything in this game was openly spoiled by major outlets, and I just don’t think that’s cool.
I wrote this into DD and Sacred back when the game came but didn’t make the cut either time, I’m just curious to hear someone else’s take on the rampant spoilers
Zeke the Plumber
2024-02-27 20:30:02 +0000 UTC
Matty?!?!?!?
Joseph Gedgaudas
2024-02-27 20:30:01 +0000 UTC
“Harley (Quinn) is the least fun, she’s like Spider-Man with Down syndrome” -Lockmort lmfao
Brandon Tyler
2024-02-27 20:18:40 +0000 UTC
Based lock as always. Suicide Squad was a good game that was systematically dismantled by the angry journo cabal since they didn't get their precious review codes. If you actually try the game, it's so fun.
Addiholic
2024-02-27 20:15:40 +0000 UTC
I think it depends on the species of bear. He may have a shot against a Sun bear.
Birds Aren't Real
2024-02-27 19:42:24 +0000 UTC
I love looters, I Platinum’d Outriders and Godfall. I just did not have fun in KTJL. To me, it’s just a mess. Traversal would be fun if not for the constant traversal stutter on PC. The combat got super samey very quickly. The skill tree and loot aren’t exciting
Zeke the Plumber
2024-02-27 19:37:27 +0000 UTC
I was using the incendiary breaker for so long before I tried the regular breaker and immediately was like “yeah this is way better”
Zeke the Plumber
2024-02-27 19:32:49 +0000 UTC
Ben I promise you the weapons in the paid battle pass are complete trash. You’re not missing out on anything. Best weapon is by far the Breaker shotgun
Bogey
2024-02-27 19:30:49 +0000 UTC
I mean if Suicide Squad is a 7-7.5/10 then I don't see how you can think all these people tried to murder it? That's exactly why I don't want to play it. Even though you tried to say we need more games like this, I completely disagree with that. There are more than enough mediocre games out there and I don't have time for the exceptional ones so why would I waste my time with the ones that are mediocre at best?
Zac
2024-02-27 19:05:21 +0000 UTC
I’m always on the hunt for a good VN game!
Meatball
2024-02-27 19:02:41 +0000 UTC
“Not Barrett…not because he’s black”
Okay well now I think it’s because he’s black lmao
Bogey
2024-02-27 18:55:57 +0000 UTC
They really left Brad on an island for this episode
BadHairDayCaveman
2024-02-27 18:52:43 +0000 UTC
Ben, if you try to sucker punch a bear, that bear is going to go medieval on your ass
Also, Lockmort hates giraffes *CONFIRMED*
Edit:
Also Lock wants to murder Colin AND Micah *CONFIRMED*
Zeke the Plumber
2024-02-27 18:44:16 +0000 UTC
That Summonussy comes through drippin’
Zeke the Plumber
2024-02-27 18:27:51 +0000 UTC
BEANZZZ
Frederico Garbino
2024-02-27 18:07:48 +0000 UTC
Thanks for reading my question! Just had to ask about VNs because I remember Ben saying he likes reading. Got back into reading last year after like 15 years and a good VN is like a good book that I get trophies for, which I also love.
Colin Moriarty
2024-02-27 17:18:03 +0000 UTC
I got a taste of Brad and now I want more 😏
Meatball
2024-02-27 17:12:05 +0000 UTC