They fly Jeremy out to Cali to record 10 episodes one after the other because actually having to edit if they're not all physically in the same room is too much work. So much money and time wasted. That's the main reason why they can't play the games they talk about, there's too many of them at a time.
It's good enough, I guess. The majority of fans are surface level abd either don't know better or don't care. Once you're in deep it's easy to see the cracks, but then you're jealous or a hater.
The best part is that Parish is 100x better than Mackey. He's only ever played 2 games, Yoshi's Island and Dark Souls. That's what I get from his contributions, anyway. There are stages to fandom, and he's never made it past the point of replaying his childhood favorites to actively seeking out games you didn't have. It's infuriating when the most he has to say in the majority of episodes are bad jokes and Talking Simpsons plugs. There was a recent episode on food brand games that was unlistenable thanks to his goons. Video games were barely mentioned and no one had played any of them.
It doesn't even matter, they're doing well enough not to have to be better. I really like Parish's Works videos, though! He's actually playing games for that project.
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