GameStop is bad - WULFF DEN Podcast Ep 188 

Can we get Will a new job as a QA tester at these PC handheld places please? I would feel much better about buying these things knowing he has tried his best to break them 😂

I had the same issue on my deck. Solution I found was: 1. Completely turn off the Deck and disconnect the charger 2. Hold Volume + and the power button to boot 3. Go to “Setup Utility” 4. Go to the power options menu 5. Enable battery storage mode Power LED should flash a couple times. After it’s done flashing, power on the Deck. If it worked, it should not power on since it’s in battery storage mode. Plug in the charger and press the power button and it should boot and work normally.

Everytime i hear about “Braid” i always think about that video of soulja boy getting his mind blown by the rewind feature

Fun fact it’s no longer 10% off preowned it’s $5 coupon you get each month that you can use on certain items

Started playing original Assassins Creed this week on the deck and then you guys get to talk about it on backlog that's so funny Keep up the good work guys

I remember being tricked into the magazine subscription when I was a kid, maybe 12? I really didn’t care about magazines and I didn’t have enough money to take advantage of the discounts the subscription offers. I stopped going to GameStop because I was tired of being pressured every time I went. One good memory I have with GameStop though, I was buying MGS5 ground zero and the cashier said “hey you know this isn’t the full game right? It’s like a demo that lasts a couple hours. Come back in a couple months for the full game to release” he saved me a few bucks. I liked that.

Wow ! This video is trending faster then Game Stop stock did ! Hope it doesn’t crash the same way ! #wulffdendad

Always love this podcast, listen from start to finish!

The Batman Steam Deck skin is absolute fire, sir. 🔥🔥🔥

Mystery Dungeon is absolutely fantastic! There’s a reason why there are so many games in the series and so many fans. Try the Shiren Mystery Dungeon games if you want to see the best use of Mystery Dungeon formula.

I remember always playing the java Assassin's Creed games on my Nokia. It was only until Assassin's Creed 3 that I realised it was actually a bigger series on PC and console.

I started work again last week. It took me until today to finish this episode. Thank God I did not watch the Tweet of the Week segment at work 😅. Hope to catch rhe next episode as I wait for Tropical Storm Ernesto.

I just started watching the video, and I don't know if you actually solve the problem with the steam deck during it. I actually experienced the same bug. If I remember correctly all you have to do is: 1.turn it off 2.Access the bios (hold volume + and press power button). 3.Browse to "Power" section, there should be an option named "Battery Storage Mode", 4.Don't panic, Now the console will turn off and not react to any button. All you have to do is plug it in to the charger an press the power button. It will take a few extra seconds to turn on. 5.The problem should be solved. If I remember correctly it's a simple bug that happens while updating

i love when will breaks his toys lol

Will, have you ever been to Silver Age Comics in Astoria up in the N train station on Ditmars Blvd? I used to live over there and it was pretty cool. I just moved to North Carolina and now I can afford to buy myself fun things and wish we had as cool of a local comic shop I can spend money at. Also Bob, it’s a bit of a travesty you’ve never played hat in time. It’s actually very good, no odyssey but very good

GameStop was simultaneously the best and the worst job I’ve ever had

Wont the internet archive have the old game informer articles preserved at least? (Not that it justifies deleting it all).

If GS would change their mentality from a “coffee is for closers” to a customer/employee friendly one, the world would be a better place with them in it. They are the only one of those kind left. Tons of non-gamers still think about them first and still trade their old games to them. I’ve picked up SNES, N64, Gameboy, GameCube, and other retro games from there recently.

I also loved Speed Racer. It made me think a crazy fast battle arcade racer is needed. It made me want to find a good Mario Kart game.

Violence is more psychologically damaging than full frontal male nudity. We are strange here in the States.

This reminds me of when GameStop would sell new games as used to make their numbers look better to shareholders. They definitely did this with the OG Xenoblade Chronicles on Wii. They got a new shipment of them in, after it being very hard to find for a long time. They then marked them as used so they could hike the price from $50 to $80. I know this personally because I was more than willing to pay the price at the time to get a copy. Long story short I somehow ended up with 2 “used” copies. Both of which were in pristine condition. No fingerprints or scratches on the discs at all. With all the included inserts. Also all in pristine condition. I was very weirded out by this and got suspicious. Then it was revealed later that was exactly what they were doing. I also found out through someone who worked there at the time. After that I hardly bought anything from them ever again.

Hey guys, I’ve been following Bob for a while and have been keeping up with the podcast weekly for about three years now. Honestly, look forward to hearing it every week. Like Bob, I really like my coffee. I’m originally from Queens, but I’ve been living in Nassau County. Bob, do you have any good local coffee shops that you would recommend? Thanks guys!

saying “there weren’t alot of games to play” in 2007 is a CRAZY take

What is your guy’s favorite n64 variation?

I no longer read magazines for news related stuff. By the time the thing is printed and arrives either at a retailer or my house, the news is old. What I do like magazines for is reading opinion pieces and longform content. I'd read a gaming magazine that has interviews with important people that isn't just an add for their upcoming game. Articles about gaming history. Well thought out lists with good information, not just buzzfeed listicles. It also doesn't need to come out super often. I would pay decent money for a quarterly publication that looks and feels nice in my hands.

I know how bad GameStop is, but I’ve never had a bad experience at one. I’m not opposed to dropping it, but where else do I go for games? Everywhere else is a large retailer. I don’t want to compete with other people for physical releases-that got really boring really quickly after 2020. I want to be able to walk into my local GameStop, preorder so I know I’ll get the physical release, and leave with a clear mind.

I played HLA without having a VR Headset... used the github mod to play it on KB and mouse. Great experience

That diet is just a clear liquids fast. It includes broth, water, and sports drinks and it good if your stomach is messed up. Gaterade/most sports drinks have electrolytes in them and help hydration in the body

The GameStop by me actually sells us gpg’s and then when a new game comes out if we bring back the game with the gpg they take it as a return and gives me my money back. I’ve been getting new games of the same 65$ and it’s great

I loved the magazine, but I stopped getting it when I stopped shopping at gamestop. I would still like the GI Magazine. This reeks of a tax write off to kill GI like studios do with movies. They should have sold GI to someone who would keep it going.

I've started to lean back towards a physical curated magazine for gaming news specifically (promise I'm not lying lmao) because of how low quality clickbaity and ai slop infested gaming journalism has become even more so over journalism covering other topics. I can still get important breaking news online direct from companies and enjoy discussions like this podcast where you curate the news and cut most the clickbait and baseless speculation/rumours. Then I can pick up a physical copy of a magazine and know the articles inside will be high quality, interesting and well written unlike basically any gaming news website overall. So I'm super bummed at the game informer news, I wouldn't blame them stopping future publication but erasing the back catalogue was such a shitty move and I hope they reverse it.

Do you think they will ever release any mainline pokemon games on NSO?

Finally catch yall VoD but im a bit disappointed you guys don’t do a little wiggle/ dance while the backlog music is going on.

Some of the driver s update through the discover store. (Specifically mesa) So it might be worth will going to the desktop and updating that stuff? Otherwise, yeah battery storage mode sounds about right. I think I've even heard about this before and that was the fix.

are these Aaron and Calvin from BlindWave?? (jk, but can't handle to get same feeling from them than I do from those guys)

I just had a game stop employee mess up me bad he did this with out me know ask for my info to update it he said my account was offline and had to make a new one i was trying to get a pro account i had a game stop account before hand then my game that was clamed new as u said was opened up like u said and i didnt have my game that was new but open so a grand total of 45.00 lost i hate gsme stop now never go back

Hate to go with a "Um...actually" but seems like someone needs to say something. About the first Assassin's Creed... I agree with the general consensus. As a first installment in a new franchise it showed incredible promise. A lot of interesting concepts, research material, mechanics. What held it down and made it worse was the constant repeating of the same missions over and over. That was the worst part. However...a few notes: 1.In the Desmond parts in the present...You could actually do a lot more than go to sleep. I can understand why you don't remember, as that is completely missable and very subtle...if you stick around Lucy or Vidic you could overhear more dialogue about what was going on outside of the animus room. Also if you found the code left by someone (probably Lucy) you could exit your room, read emails and get a deeper idea of what was actually going on. You could even be clued in about some plot points that would emerge a bit later (like Lucy being an undercover agent). And funnily enough those errands are completely canon, since they are referenced in AC2. 2.I understand why many people feel Altair was a dull protagonist, especially if you compare him to the complete story we got from Ezio. However if you actually analyze his character journey in this single game, a very interesting and nuanced story is hidden between all those dull repetitive missions. Linked to that, there is some interest in the slow realization by Altair, after each target, that what he is somehow doing something wrong. I'm not saying that this first installment is better than the others, I just wanted to point out that we should give it much more credit than we do as of now.

Love you guys but you definitely have bad takes for the Deadpool movie

0:36 At this point I'm starting to think Will is cursed

theres sugar free gatorade. thats kinda diet gatorade

Greetings from Argentina, what is a gamestop?

i'm pro physical magazine and bob is just a tech nerd which is the demographic that thinks everything should be 'efficient' and lacking life :)

Bob is so hot when he starts speaking in socialism

Never been this early to anything in my life

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I love Wulff Den but him shitting on a classic game like Mystery Dungeon was a bad take. Definitely not for everyone but saying the game is just not good at all and people only like it for nostalgia was so weird to see him say.

I had an interview and the manager handed me a bricked offline game and said to sell it to a customer, I said “If you want to have the case for some reason we sell it, but it’s not a playable game and just a paperweight after the servers shut down.” He said they are there to get as much money as possible, not to help the customers and I was not hired. He said I would be the type of person to tell them Fortnite BR is free instead of selling them the physical.

Such a shame what they did with destiny 2. Removing rollable perks, 6v6 multiplayer, and shotguns as primaries were all terrible fucking decisions. Played 1000 hours of destiny in a year. Absolutely enthralled with it. Barely played d2

Wulff Bros mention 2 farts in the first 12 minutes of the stream lol: Five Nights at Freddys creator farting out 5 titles in the series in quick succession, Nintendo farting (porting) over Pokemon Mystery Dungeon onto the Switch.