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You can have portable Monster Hunter but it’s going to look like it came out in 2013!

• 0:18 – Ubisoft, a company that for years has knowingly harbored and protected abusers and sexual predators, changes Gods & Monsters’ name due to a trademark dispute with Monster Energy
• 8:42 – Microsoft’s selling points for its new Xbox are weird
• 27:11 – Sony had another PS5 games presentation. There was even some gameplay!
• 1:08:12 – Two new Monster Hunter games are on their way to the Switch but I only care about one so that’s the one I’m gonna talk about

If you missed Saturday’s live broadcast of Molehill Mountain, you can watch the video replay on YouTube.  Alternatively, you can catch audio versions of the show on iTunes. Molehill Mountain streams live at 7p PST every Saturday night on RandomTower!

Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by Andrew Eisen.  Music in the show includes “Albino” by Brian Boyko. It is in the public domain and free to use. Molehill Mountain logo by Scott Hepting.

Chat Transcript:

7:08 PMKageNekoSamax​i just came in :v

7:08 PMS.O. BEAST​whats up andrew,what did you think about monster hunter rise?

7:09 PMKageNekoSamax​i have two accounts, this one was created by youtube automatically 😆

7:09 PMLynndy Lee​just woke up so feeling kinda dazed and dunno what to say

7:10 PMLynndy Lee​sleepy

7:12 PMScrungle himmingworth​demons souls remastered

7:14 PMmatthew wilson​its the equvlent of moving a game from a hdd to sdd, its going to load faster, but its not built to take advantage of ssd

7:15 PMKageNekoSamax​well pc gamers get SSD usually for a around that cost if it is a good one

7:15 PMScrungle himmingworth​I just stated why i would drop $500 turn a new console

7:16 PMScrungle himmingworth​but I’m hyped to hear your opinion on both xbone and sony

7:16 PMmatthew wilson​there are no games built for those new systems yet, even spiderman is coming out on ps4

7:17 PMKageNekoSamax​what about games like dayz

7:17 PMmatthew wilson​its useful if you have a freind that asked you to jump in to mp

7:18 PMSusanne Christ​lol Eisen doing it the “proper” way

7:18 PMtwistedideas​i wouldn’t do it for 4 games at once but it’s a feature that I would like a lot

7:18 PMmatthew wilson​if you want to see a true nextgen game check out flight sim

7:20 PMmatthew wilson​its just dumping ram to ssd, the only restyrictions are storage space

7:20 PMSnowy​I think most of the new xbox games are coming to pc too right? I don’t really have a reason to get it

7:20 PMmatthew wilson​restriction

7:21 PMScrungle himmingworth​a new crysis game is coming out

7:21 PMScrungle himmingworth​they’re bragging that no computer right now can run it at max

7:22 PMtwistedideas​i hope people aren’t using skype

7:22 PMScrungle himmingworth​I’m your friend Andrew, or I atleast think I am

7:22 PMKageNekoSamax​that feature on a handheld would be nuts

7:23 PMSusanne Christ​it’s almost been a year. other dude doing ok? lol kids didnt eat him did they?

7:24 PMmatthew wilson​the quick resume is simply a ram dump to ssd, the only restriction is storage space

7:25 PMaddictedtochaos​Just found this podcast is now available on Amazon music. Listening to Andrew at half speed makes him sound very drunk, lol.

7:25 PMScrungle himmingworth​Oh and Anthony Burch is working on the newest god of war

7:25 PMScrungle himmingworth​and people are losing their minds

7:26 PMtwistedideas​hahaha

7:26 PMScrungle himmingworth​Anthony has terrible writing

7:26 PMSusanne Christ​lmao who?! xD

7:26 PMScrungle himmingworth​Anthony Burch is a guy from gearbox who worked on borderlands 2.

7:27 PMScrungle himmingworth​he promptly grew a massive ego ans shat on alot of people in the gaming industry and then you know, lost his job

7:27 PMScrungle himmingworth​the whole running joke about him is that they say “it could be worse, atleast you arent Anthony Burch”

7:28 PMSusanne Christ​lol like the Philip guy

7:30 PMaddictedtochaos​Visually FF 16 looked boring.

7:30 PMScrungle himmingworth​THEY LIED TO US, GIVE ME DEMONS SOULS ON PC DAMN YOU

7:32 PMSusanne Christ​looked like the freaking witcher

7:32 PMSusanne Christ​the witcher sucks

7:32 PMScrungle himmingworth​the witcher is good

7:32 PMScrungle himmingworth​amazing story

7:32 PMSusanne Christ​worst…game…ever

7:33 PMScrungle himmingworth​no

7:33 PMScrungle himmingworth​u

7:33 PMScrungle himmingworth​but it’s not for everyone, I understand that

7:33 PMSusanne Christ​it’s so boring

7:33 PMKageNekoSamax​for a presentation is kinda good but if you should be able to skip

7:35 PMaddictedtochaos​Have you played Spider-Man for PS4?

7:35 PMKageNekoSamax​good old meme of PS fans just watching the TV with popcorn comes back

7:36 PMScrungle himmingworth​JK Rowling went too woke, I’m honestly surprised she didn’t go crazy sooner

7:37 PMScrungle himmingworth​but back on topic, the ps4 Spider-Man game really does look like the old ps2 Spider-Man game, and I absolutely love it

7:38 PMaddictedtochaos​Oh yeah, next gen I’m taking your approach to game prices.

7:38 PMScrungle himmingworth​yohoho

7:39 PMKageNekoSamax​scripted sequences are great, but if we get an open script sequence with many choices that would be better i guess

7:39 PMScrungle himmingworth​scripted sequences are good for showing off the games mechanics well, but too many of them can get tired

7:40 PMScrungle himmingworth​a game that does scripted events pretty well is the half life series

7:40 PMSnowy​I’m sad they got the dragon’s dogma guy for the new final fantasy, I was hoping for a sequel.

7:41 PMScrungle himmingworth​its special edition because you can play as vergil

7:41 PMScrungle himmingworth​and all my friends are going crazy, and honestly so did I

7:41 PMaddictedtochaos​I think they just added ray tracing to DMC 5

7:42 PMPassTheGrenadePlease​What do you think of the price increase for games going 60 to 70, is buying a game at 70 a tough pill to swallow for you

7:43 PMScrungle himmingworth​$70 for a video game now? no thanks

7:45 PMScrungle himmingworth​haha yeah you gotta play the games, and yes hes Dante’s brother

7:45 PMKageNekoSamax​yeah i don’t know why inflation didn’t caught up intil now

7:45 PMtwistedideas​yes, it’s his brother

7:46 PMaddictedtochaos​I will pay $60 but I’m not paying $70. I will simply wait for a sale or price drop.

7:47 PMLynndy Lee​you’d think during a global pandemic, companies would be nicer and charge less

7:47 PMSnowy​$70 is too much, triple A devs aren’t exactly going broke either with all the dlc nowadays.

7:47 PMScrungle himmingworth​maybe back then when companies cared about quality, I would say buy at launch

7:47 PMKageNekoSamax​Dark souls II had some good glitches that helped early buyers 😆

7:47 PMScrungle himmingworth​but with how garbo games have been as of late, yeah don’t buy at launch

7:48 PMaddictedtochaos​I would be willing to pay $70 if it guaranteed a complete game at launch with no loot boxes or micro transactions.

7:49 PMSnowy​It costs that much and my left joycon still has massive drift.

7:50 PMKageNekoSamax​Good old non existent inflation 😆

7:50 PMtwistedideas​what’s nice with the ps4 is that the remote for my Sony TV can control the menus on the PS4

7:51 PMScrungle himmingworth​I despise THAT mentality, just release a game that isnt riddled with bugs.

7:52 PMaddictedtochaos​The ability to patch is nice but too many use it as a crutch.

7:53 PMSnowy​It all started with horse armor…

7:53 PMKageNekoSamax​depends on the features. right now the only games where you could see your money orth is those with constant updates

7:56 PMScrungle himmingworth​we don’t talk about the horse armor

7:56 PMScrungle himmingworth​AWWWWWW YEAH DEMONS SOULS

7:56 PMScrungle himmingworth​but I feel like they’re gonna change too much that made the game fun

7:57 PMScrungle himmingworth​please, just add quality of life changes and leave most of the game untouched, PLEASE

7:58 PMtwistedideas​there were only one or two that i haven’t played or bought from the PS+ collection

8:00 PMSnowy​I’m worried about the move to digital and games as a service. I don’t think a disc drive costs as much as they’re asking, but they want to move to digital for higher profits and have more control.

8:00 PMaddictedtochaos​Physical forever

8:00 PMKageNekoSamax​with i had that much space to store my games

8:01 PMKageNekoSamax​but also like a lot the fact that i can access my game from almost anywhere in the world

8:02 PMaddictedtochaos​I can’t independently verify this, but from what I heard the early preorders was Walmart’s fault. They jumped the gun and everyone else had to follow.

8:04 PMtwistedideas​is LittleBigPlanet ps5 exclusive?

8:05 PMKageNekoSamax​Disgaea 6 demn… i need to get a switch now

8:07 PMKageNekoSamax​oh yeah that excessive DRM sucks

8:07 PMAndrew Eisen​Walmart Ruins E3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhOT3…

8:08 PMPassTheGrenadePlease​Gravity Rush is so damn good

8:09 PMSnowy​🤢

8:09 PMaddictedtochaos​Well MH Stories is intended for kids.

8:11 PMtwistedideas​Capcom has a fighting game tournament series called Capcom Ultimate Match

8:12 PMtwistedideas​or something called that

8:14 PMSnowy​It could be better but I’m looking forward to cooping it.

8:15 PMKageNekoSamax​I mean i love classic MH games and they always looked bad but i loved the amount of features

8:21 PMtwistedideas​I had a friend buy the same game twice just to get on the switch then proceed to play it for an hour

8:23 PMSnowy​I’m just sad the palamute plush is a Japan only thing.

8:27 PMKageNekoSamax​probably the pandemic

8:27 PMtwistedideas​was it the bad guy from Jem and the Holograms

8:28 PMLynndy Lee​unlikely, Zipper is still rotting in jail

8:28 PMSnowy​Gnight!

8:28 PMKageNekoSamax​see ya around good night

8:28 PMPassTheGrenadePlease​Good night