WEBVTT

1
00:00:13.560 --> 00:00:19.039
You are listening to Video Games to
the Max. Hello, and welcome to

2
00:00:19.160 --> 00:00:22.679
another edition of Video Games to the
Max. I'm your host Sean Garner,

3
00:00:22.679 --> 00:00:29.000
who with me today not Mark Morrison
is chapter selects, Randy Isabel. How

4
00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:31.640
are you doing? I'm doing okay. I got, you know, the

5
00:00:32.039 --> 00:00:35.880
deep sexy voice going on because I
went to an MMA fight and yelled a

6
00:00:35.880 --> 00:00:41.399
lot, and my voice is not
happy with me today. But I'm excited.

7
00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:44.880
How long has this been since I
have been on Video Games to the

8
00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:49.320
Max episode? Oh? I don't
think. I was on the Game of

9
00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:55.000
the Year stuff this year and I
felt, yeah, wow that loan,

10
00:00:55.679 --> 00:01:00.200
that's insane to think about. But
I mean, to be fair, you've

11
00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:07.840
started your journey with all the sports
stuff, calling the your local basketball and

12
00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:12.480
you do baseballs to I will have
zero time in May, so I'm glad

13
00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:18.640
you asked me. Now. Yeah, all the tournaments and championship stuff going

14
00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:22.120
on in May, it's it's a
busy time. Yeah, I'm glad.

15
00:01:22.159 --> 00:01:26.480
I could gotta could kiss you before
you and you know you've you try to

16
00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:30.560
stay up to playing games, but
I know you know, it's you got

17
00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:34.799
other things going on so many I
always fall into the I think I've talked

18
00:01:34.840 --> 00:01:38.040
about this on the show before.
I'm a big baseball person and I love

19
00:01:38.040 --> 00:01:42.760
them. Will be the show and
I buy it every year and then around

20
00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:45.640
this time of year, like good
stuff will come out and I'll just sit

21
00:01:45.640 --> 00:01:48.159
down and like I'm gonna play it, or I'll just play another basement.

22
00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:53.120
So I've dabbled in things, um, but that will be the show has

23
00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:57.840
definitely It's where most of the hours
go right now. That's well for sure.

24
00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:01.120
We will talk about that NIS in
place of Residue before a remake as

25
00:02:01.159 --> 00:02:06.079
well, and some of those Pixel
remasters. I've gotten to check out that

26
00:02:06.239 --> 00:02:13.039
Geno Bade Chronicle study Future Redeemed DLC
and an indie game called The Last Case

27
00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:16.520
of Benetic Fox as well, which
is something I had some stuff I wouldn't

28
00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:21.719
expect him. And then of course
we got to talk about the CMA blocking

29
00:02:21.879 --> 00:02:27.960
Microsoft's big merger of Activision Blizzard and
where are they going to go from here

30
00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:32.000
with that, and some other things
like the Jedi Survivor Star Wars Jedi Survivor

31
00:02:32.039 --> 00:02:38.560
should mention PC and PS five issues
and some other things. The mark would

32
00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:44.120
be finally made, the one billion
dollars that we've been slowly inching towards all

33
00:02:44.159 --> 00:02:47.400
these all these times, so we'll
get into Oh yeah, for sure,

34
00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:53.080
I'm glad that they did as well, because that movie is definitely worth that

35
00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:57.199
all right. So just to get
this stuff out of the way, because

36
00:02:57.280 --> 00:03:00.039
you know, we've got to sell
things a little bit here. So just

37
00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:05.000
in case it's your first time watching
Listening or it's your hundred time watching Listening,

38
00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:07.520
we always appreciate you think you regardless
of how you consume the show.

39
00:03:08.479 --> 00:03:14.599
It's always great to hear from anyone
and everyone and know that you guys are

40
00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:19.599
tuning in. So we do do
the show alive. Usually it's on Mondays,

41
00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:22.719
but today I have to work around
rainy schedule. We're doing on Sundays,

42
00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:25.479
so and I appreciate you being on
because I don't know if I could

43
00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:30.919
do this on myself, so we
have. Of course, you can watch

44
00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:35.159
on YouTube w T Nework on YouTube, on Facebook, on Twitter, wherever

45
00:03:35.199 --> 00:03:38.280
it is that you can find to
Nework. We're there live and you can

46
00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:42.120
also watch on demand later on the
YouTube channel as well. You go like

47
00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:46.120
subscribe ring the bill whenever we do
something, it'll be there. And of

48
00:03:46.159 --> 00:03:50.280
course we don't just do this.
You have Rainy's Chapter Select show, which

49
00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:53.680
they did their review of the Super
Mario Brothers movie. And then you have

50
00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:58.280
the Rales for broadcasting people if they
stay stay up with all the movie stuff,

51
00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:00.800
so y, anytime there's any movie
coming out, they have a review

52
00:04:00.919 --> 00:04:05.159
up pretty much that next Tuesday,
so you can make sure you check them

53
00:04:05.159 --> 00:04:08.919
out. You got Taught to Kiki
for anime, you got mme for Mark

54
00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:12.639
to rme, and you got some
other stuff there too, so thank you

55
00:04:12.680 --> 00:04:15.879
again for checking out. And of
course on the podcast side, you can

56
00:04:15.919 --> 00:04:18.759
always just search Video Games to the
Max and you'll find us there. Search

57
00:04:18.879 --> 00:04:24.759
Randy Chapter Select, search wherever and
you'll find that show and you can subscribe

58
00:04:24.759 --> 00:04:29.279
and listeners. So let's get into
it here, Randy. I'm gonna leave

59
00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:32.120
some of the that that CMA stuff
for a little bit later because I feel

60
00:04:32.120 --> 00:04:36.399
like, unless you just don't consume
gaming news at all, you've probably heard

61
00:04:36.879 --> 00:04:41.560
your favorite people talk about that.
At this point, it is it has

62
00:04:41.560 --> 00:04:46.480
been exhausted. So we will talk
about that in a little bit. Let's

63
00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:48.519
let's talk about some some games that
we're playing here, Randy. Like,

64
00:04:48.959 --> 00:04:54.240
so you're the big resident evil for
fan marks, talked about it as well.

65
00:04:54.240 --> 00:04:58.399
He's he reviewed it. So what
do you think about Sorry for me,

66
00:04:58.839 --> 00:05:00.360
Well, I will say this.
I I'm a big Residue Evil fan.

67
00:05:01.439 --> 00:05:04.759
While I think Resume Evil four was
fantastic, I still blame it for

68
00:05:04.839 --> 00:05:09.519
the downfall of that series for a
while because of four, we got five

69
00:05:09.519 --> 00:05:13.920
and six because they went more action
oriented. Yes, the remake very much

70
00:05:14.040 --> 00:05:18.279
action oriented as well. They hit
all the big marks for this game.

71
00:05:18.759 --> 00:05:23.439
They just continue to do this with
the remakes. The original Residue Evil remake

72
00:05:23.519 --> 00:05:27.800
way back on the GameCube, they
iterated on the whole system and made it

73
00:05:27.839 --> 00:05:31.639
even better. Are two remake was
absolutely phenomenal. Are three remake I think

74
00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:36.120
I like more than most people.
Yes, it is a shorter experience and

75
00:05:36.199 --> 00:05:41.560
they do cut out some sections that
are interesting, but I thought overall it

76
00:05:41.639 --> 00:05:46.079
was fine. But this has been
absolutely fantastic. I've already beat it two

77
00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:51.079
or three times, trying to slowly
work my way through the Platinum, trying

78
00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:56.040
to right now the last time or
this last play through I'm going through.

79
00:05:56.079 --> 00:06:00.439
I'm trying to do the no heal
and no talk to the merchant at the

80
00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:04.120
same time, which is a lot
more slow paced than the other playthroughs,

81
00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:10.319
but it's unbelievably phenomenal and just I
think a lot of people were worried,

82
00:06:10.439 --> 00:06:13.439
and I'm sure it has been said
by Mark two when this game came out

83
00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:16.360
that it would be too serious and
they wouldn't go with all the campy stuff

84
00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:21.199
that was going on with the original
Residueva for and Nope, it is just

85
00:06:21.279 --> 00:06:26.279
this campy sometimes even more campy,
and some of the little East Rays that

86
00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:30.600
they throw into this game is phenomenal. It's with remakes and remasters and stuff.

87
00:06:30.600 --> 00:06:32.120
As far as your guys, this
game of the year, it always

88
00:06:32.120 --> 00:06:35.160
gets confusing, but this is by
far the best game I've played this year.

89
00:06:35.240 --> 00:06:40.360
Not that I played a ton,
but I've also dabbled in Dead Space

90
00:06:40.439 --> 00:06:45.000
remake and it doesn't touch this at
all. Yeah, I mean the spacingmake

91
00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:48.199
was really good for what it is
as well, but yeah, Mark had

92
00:06:48.480 --> 00:06:57.519
all kinds of glowing praise too about
it. And yeah, I'm wanting to

93
00:06:57.560 --> 00:07:01.199
second out whenever there's another because there
was a little bit of a low,

94
00:07:01.319 --> 00:07:04.319
but during that low, I had
to catch up on some other games,

95
00:07:04.399 --> 00:07:09.079
So I'm hoping if there's another low
in this year, which right now we're

96
00:07:09.079 --> 00:07:12.360
starting to get into the we're gonna
have a big game release every week.

97
00:07:12.639 --> 00:07:15.680
Yes, so we'll see how that
goes. But yeah, that's when I

98
00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:20.800
want to check out for sure.
I loved resid Eable two three kind of

99
00:07:20.839 --> 00:07:26.199
not so much, but like four
is much more like a Village, which

100
00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:30.600
I liked a lot. So well, we'll see, and I think you

101
00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:32.720
dell perfectly with it with the Village
comparison. And I think we talked about

102
00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:36.399
it here because I was on that
Game of the Year when we gave Village

103
00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:40.360
Game of the Year right for Big
Games to the match, it was at

104
00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:42.959
least really close, and it was
because I think it was. Yeah,

105
00:07:43.240 --> 00:07:46.839
they touched on different horror aspects and
a lot of it was based around RI

106
00:07:47.000 --> 00:07:50.680
four and just kind of knew that
they were trying things out to then be

107
00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:54.439
able to do this remake and they've
just nailed it. It's so good.

108
00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:58.439
Yeah, that's I mean, I
don't think i've seen anybody like a yeah

109
00:07:58.519 --> 00:08:01.800
tens everywhere when that's coming out,
So it's definitely been one of those that's

110
00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:05.879
gonna be up for the Game of
the Year talk for sure. I mean,

111
00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:11.160
have you been playing anything else you
mentioned I've been touching on those foul

112
00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:16.959
Fantasy Pixel remasters. I didn't buy
the whole bundle. I'm just gonna buy

113
00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:20.680
them one at a time as I
get through them, instead of spending the

114
00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:24.639
seventy eighty bucks or whatever the bundle
was. It's like, all right,

115
00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:26.399
I'm gonna get through the first one. All right, I've now beat the

116
00:08:26.399 --> 00:08:30.240
first one. I'm like thirty minutes
into the second one, and we'll see

117
00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:35.279
how long I can continue on.
I've now already hit this point where two

118
00:08:35.279 --> 00:08:39.200
and three, where I believe the
only numbered ones that weren't online that I've

119
00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:43.480
never played. Obviously, three kind
of had its own release issues, and

120
00:08:43.639 --> 00:08:48.759
what we only got on like then
you got the three D version on the

121
00:08:48.840 --> 00:08:52.240
DS. Yeah, so I just
never got into that. And two is

122
00:08:52.279 --> 00:08:58.159
not good. So we'll see how
far I get into two before I stay

123
00:08:58.200 --> 00:09:01.039
screwed. I'm just gonna move on. But I'm trying to follow a guide

124
00:09:01.320 --> 00:09:05.960
because I want to platinum these games, so it's it's helping me go,

125
00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:09.039
Okay, this is what I'm supposed
to do. This is how you kind

126
00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:13.279
of go against the systems that they've
built. I didn't want to like overpower

127
00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:20.120
myself too much. But PA Fantasy
too is very innovative and ambitious with what

128
00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:24.480
they wanted to do, which was
kind of what Nintendo did or the games

129
00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:28.799
in Nintendo did. It was like
their sequels were always way different than the

130
00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:31.919
originals. And yeah, so I
love them, some don't and we'll see

131
00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:35.320
if I can get through too.
But they're beautiful. And I know I've

132
00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:39.840
talked about it with or at some
point on the show, with them putting

133
00:09:39.879 --> 00:09:45.000
like FA Fantasy seven and eight and
nine newer p or PlayStation versions on there,

134
00:09:45.399 --> 00:09:50.519
which is kind of all original rpg
should be re released with fast forward

135
00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:56.600
buttons and or auto battle buttons.
It changes. It's so much like being

136
00:09:56.639 --> 00:10:01.399
able to just play the original Final
Fantasy and know that I am under leveled

137
00:10:01.480 --> 00:10:05.000
for a boss, so I need
to grind a little bit and to just

138
00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:07.480
go, you know what, I'm
gonna watch the show off to the side,

139
00:10:07.799 --> 00:10:11.639
and I'm just gonna auto battle and
kind of play it in the background.

140
00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:13.679
Works really really well, and then
when it's time to focus it,

141
00:10:13.960 --> 00:10:18.320
the game is good enough to focus
on man auto battles and like the three

142
00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:20.200
times speed stuff that you got from
that, the seven, eight and nine

143
00:10:20.440 --> 00:10:26.720
games just changes the game for those
old school rpg Yeah. Man, it's

144
00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:31.480
absolutely like incredible that they've been able
to add that and how much it adds

145
00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:35.720
to the fact that, hey,
now I can get through this and I

146
00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:41.759
don't have to necessarily that grind forever
in a day. And even in um

147
00:10:41.799 --> 00:10:45.440
you know, like octopresur Dribbler too
that I've been playing, it has.

148
00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:50.039
It doesn't have the fast forward for
the actual battles, but it does it

149
00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:54.039
has fast forward in battle so like
the attacks or and that kind of thing.

150
00:10:54.080 --> 00:10:58.519
So that helps some You're not sitting
they feeling like, oh my god,

151
00:10:58.519 --> 00:11:01.639
I wait, do this know?
Like I mean, it would be

152
00:11:01.720 --> 00:11:03.759
nice to have it where you could
and yeah, they do have things where

153
00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:07.200
you can cut off the battles that
happen and stuff because it does have like

154
00:11:07.320 --> 00:11:11.320
random encounters. Yeah, you can
do that in these two or you just

155
00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:16.120
turn them off. And I think
it's it's brilliant that you know it lets

156
00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:20.720
you play it however you want.
These games are forty years old now,

157
00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:24.440
so if you want to play it
the way it was intended, you absolutely

158
00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:28.879
can. But am I going to
get on somebody for going into the options

159
00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:33.639
and messing with the systems that they
allow you to mess with, which with

160
00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:37.399
at least the first though Fantasy Remaster, I was messing around through the options

161
00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:43.759
and you could get five times Gill
or or no. You can just get

162
00:11:43.799 --> 00:11:46.320
no Gill if you want to make
it even more challenging. So there's just

163
00:11:46.399 --> 00:11:48.720
different ways you can play these games. I think it's just great, and

164
00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:54.360
let's people that are slightly younger than
us experience the games that we played on

165
00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:58.759
and either break them or have fun
with them exactly. And you don't have

166
00:11:58.799 --> 00:12:01.080
to spend sixty hours on the game. If you don't want to spend you

167
00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:05.879
know, ten, you can still
have the same experience, you know,

168
00:12:05.320 --> 00:12:09.080
So I appreciate that they added that
those are things that should be when you

169
00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:13.879
bring in collections like that, have
that in there for sure. Anything else

170
00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:16.879
you want to know, The rest
is all. I'm just having a lot

171
00:12:16.919 --> 00:12:22.480
of fun on the PlayStation plus stuff
yea, not just the monthly stuff,

172
00:12:22.519 --> 00:12:24.639
but the things that are just been
thrown in there. I go through there

173
00:12:24.679 --> 00:12:28.759
sometimes and mess around. Also bought
a couple of games on the Spring sale

174
00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:33.960
that was there that games that just
passed me by. I'm absolutely loving Monster

175
00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:37.759
Boy in the Cursed Kingdom, which
came out a few years ago. I

176
00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:41.000
don't know why I've never heard of
this game, but as a cute little

177
00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:46.240
platformer where you can change into different
animals. Though I've now gotten to the

178
00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:48.879
point where I have too many animals
and instead of just being able to switch

179
00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:52.879
over with L two and R two, you always have to go in this

180
00:12:52.440 --> 00:12:58.240
circle and change things out in your
dial, and a lot of puzzles make

181
00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:01.519
you change animals multiple times, and
some of the animals don't have magic,

182
00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:05.200
then you have to go through their
little dial as well, and that gets

183
00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:09.080
a little annoying, but it's really
fun. I'm also just started on a

184
00:13:09.120 --> 00:13:13.080
game called Typo Man, which is
Limbo with words, and it's just as

185
00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:18.039
hard as Limbo was the first time
through. It's it's kind of a fun

186
00:13:18.039 --> 00:13:20.759
little game. So that's kind of
me right now. I am just in

187
00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:26.120
a holding pattern until Final Fantasy sixteen
comes out. I'm trying not to overspend

188
00:13:26.200 --> 00:13:30.720
on other games when especially I knew
May was going to be extremely busy,

189
00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:33.639
so I'm just kind of throwing in
little side games for now. But fal

190
00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:37.960
Fantasy sixteen is the next one that's
an absolute must buy for me. That's

191
00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:43.320
where I think I'm at too,
after they look at the calendar. But

192
00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:46.519
as far as like must must,
I know I'm getting that day one for

193
00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:52.720
sure because the other stuff, like
you know, like what you're playing remasters

194
00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:56.360
or like advanced for us is something
that it's older. I can just you

195
00:13:56.399 --> 00:14:01.600
know, play it when it it
has its moment. I'm still going whether

196
00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:05.720
or not Diablo four yea once or
not. I think I'm really gonna I

197
00:14:05.759 --> 00:14:09.840
would I didn't get to play the
beta the first couple of times. I'm

198
00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:13.679
gonna make sure when they do this
last one, I hop in And I

199
00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:18.039
think Diablo four for me is going
to be a lot like the new Star

200
00:14:18.039 --> 00:14:22.960
Wars game, which we will talk
about its issues later on in this show.

201
00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:26.600
It's I know the history of these
two companies, and I know how

202
00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:31.679
bad the first Star Wars game was
when it first released, and I know

203
00:14:31.720 --> 00:14:35.360
how bad Diablo games can be for
the first few months until they work on,

204
00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:37.159
not to mention how much and long
you have to wait in a queue

205
00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:41.480
to get to play. So those
are games that I will absolutely play,

206
00:14:41.919 --> 00:14:46.440
but I will not be a Day
one or by any means, I'll wait

207
00:14:46.480 --> 00:14:50.440
for it to to kind of go
through it. It's cycle a little bit

208
00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:52.480
and calm down and work through the
bugs, and in like six months or

209
00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:56.080
so, I'll give it a shot. Yeah, that's always the best one.

210
00:14:56.120 --> 00:14:58.000
You can wait and you know you're
gonna get the best version later.

211
00:14:58.519 --> 00:15:03.480
That's the definitely better than sitting here
and getting at day one and having to

212
00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:11.480
deal with what folks are dealing with
now. So as far as it goes

213
00:15:11.559 --> 00:15:16.720
for me, I have off game
Pass, which it came out on the

214
00:15:16.759 --> 00:15:20.679
twenty seventh, a few days ago, the last case of Benedict Fox.

215
00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:24.320
I was kind of intrigued by it
when it's been showing in trailers a few

216
00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:30.080
times, whether it was an intent
of direct or on a Microsoft's showcase thing,

217
00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:33.039
because it was kind of like a
dark investigative story. I like those

218
00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:37.159
kind of things, you know,
kind of Shrowlock holmesy sort of, and

219
00:15:37.320 --> 00:15:41.679
it does have that has your investigation
things that has like puzzles you have to

220
00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:45.960
solve. But I didn't know it
was a Metroidvania until until I download it

221
00:15:45.960 --> 00:15:48.200
and put it in, and yeah, it's definitely in metro Vania. As

222
00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:52.919
you go back and find things,
you find the key try to get in

223
00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:56.759
go back there figure out what's there. It has the map that's very much

224
00:15:56.759 --> 00:16:00.480
you know metroidy, that tells you
exactly where the things are and where you

225
00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:03.600
have to it's just getting to the
certain area that I need to get to.

226
00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:06.879
You to get past those points that
it is not always easy because there's

227
00:16:06.919 --> 00:16:11.519
platforming as well, so some of
the jumps are not not easy to do,

228
00:16:11.639 --> 00:16:18.200
and then some of them you can't
get there. And the battle mechanics

229
00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:22.279
were not so simple because there's part
of it. You have a gun that

230
00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:26.559
you build up by doing melee attacks, and apparently I did. It took

231
00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:29.320
me a while to realize that I
had to use the gun to blow up

232
00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:30.759
a wall, so then it was
like, wait a minute, now I

233
00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:36.399
ran out of enemies, so I
can't use the gun, so like I

234
00:16:36.440 --> 00:16:38.720
had to go back and reset it
to be able to do it, which

235
00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:42.159
that was kind of annoying. But
I like the aesthetic. I like the

236
00:16:42.200 --> 00:16:48.200
world. It's um it's really cool
looking. I didn't expect that so far,

237
00:16:48.399 --> 00:16:52.960
so I'm usually not one for much
urbanias Mark is someone that loves those

238
00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:56.840
and jumps into him. I know
you like him a little bit, Yeah,

239
00:16:56.879 --> 00:17:00.360
I bet if I showed it to
him. He might actually like it,

240
00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:02.840
but you know he's opposed to game
pass, so I have no idea

241
00:17:02.840 --> 00:17:07.079
when he would you know, somebody
doesn't want to pay for a service.

242
00:17:07.119 --> 00:17:12.720
He would rather own everything. You
know. I guess he never somebody that

243
00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:17.839
owns a lot of stuff, the
newer stuff I don't care about. And

244
00:17:17.960 --> 00:17:19.839
that he loves to do that too. Man, he's on here every week

245
00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:25.680
telling me about how which thing he
bought. Uh. He's had a PS

246
00:17:25.759 --> 00:17:29.960
three dev kit for a while now. He's been tinkering around with that from

247
00:17:29.960 --> 00:17:33.400
all so and I should have noticed
at the thought that Mark is not here

248
00:17:33.680 --> 00:17:38.160
because he had started around his ankle. He's gonna be out anywhere from like

249
00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:42.759
two weeks to a month recuperating.
Hopefully he gets better and you know,

250
00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:48.359
can be back soon. But um, the big game that I've been playing,

251
00:17:48.400 --> 00:17:52.000
I guess it's not big. It's
a DLC, but it's a DALC

252
00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:55.319
to one of Unteno's biggest releases from
last year, uh Zon, a big

253
00:17:55.400 --> 00:18:00.759
Chronicles Three's story DALC, which is
actually a prequel to the entire series,

254
00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:04.240
which is kind of cool to have
in your final game. A prequel to

255
00:18:04.279 --> 00:18:10.240
the entire series pretty much where you
play as all the Founders, which includes

256
00:18:10.759 --> 00:18:15.759
the protagonists of the first two games, Choke and Rex. So um,

257
00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:18.519
it's actually just I haven't got I've
got think I'm like about six or seven

258
00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:23.079
hours in or that I played,
because I'm also kind of exploring and doing

259
00:18:23.279 --> 00:18:26.240
you know, these are big games
that they want you to explore a lot

260
00:18:26.279 --> 00:18:30.440
of stuff. So and then meeting
the new characters are like, I love

261
00:18:30.519 --> 00:18:34.240
Matthew and a I think they're really
great, like additions to the hole Zontlebay

262
00:18:34.319 --> 00:18:40.880
Chronicles universe. And then of course
getting to meet Choke and Rex and you

263
00:18:40.920 --> 00:18:45.440
know, more adult forms. It's
pretty cool too because that's you know,

264
00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:48.160
I didn't think that we were going
to get that until they showed us this

265
00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:52.480
trailer. Surprisingly, like two weeks
before this game, this was gonna come

266
00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:56.000
out. This was supposed to be
out in the fall, and then all

267
00:18:56.000 --> 00:18:56.960
of a sudden, Randley, they
go, oh, hey, it's coming

268
00:18:56.960 --> 00:19:02.680
out April twenty fifth. By the
way, Nintendo with their usual thing,

269
00:19:03.519 --> 00:19:07.519
But I mean the gameplay is is
pretty much the same. They've added some

270
00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:12.359
tweaks here and there to kind of
make it special, like the new kind

271
00:19:12.359 --> 00:19:17.640
of tag team mechanic that they have
with certain characters. So that's been fun

272
00:19:17.680 --> 00:19:19.799
to play around with. And uh
yeah, I just love being in that

273
00:19:19.839 --> 00:19:22.640
world. I'm kind of sad to
like get to the end because I know

274
00:19:22.720 --> 00:19:26.519
that my that's gonna be the end
with these characters. If they have another

275
00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:29.680
Zenimblade game, it's gonna be like
what keenom Harts was supposed to be.

276
00:19:29.680 --> 00:19:33.319
It is supposed to be like a
restart kind of thing. So yeah,

277
00:19:33.359 --> 00:19:38.079
but I'm glad that he's got to
make his whole magnum opus that he wanted

278
00:19:38.119 --> 00:19:41.240
to make sense Zino Gears, he
finally got to do it on the Nintendo

279
00:19:41.279 --> 00:19:45.599
Switch, and it looks like by
all accounts, this is another great addition

280
00:19:45.640 --> 00:19:49.519
to that franchise. So I think
I got to finish the story. I

281
00:19:49.559 --> 00:19:52.960
remember Zino Saga on their PS two
and I think it was supposed to be

282
00:19:53.000 --> 00:19:56.200
like seven games. Yeah, and
they threw it all together in three E

283
00:19:56.359 --> 00:20:00.880
and it was a mess. Yeah, unfortunately, well sales wise, and

284
00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:06.359
I think not too long ago,
people wanted the remasters on Switch and supposedly

285
00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:11.039
Ben and Emco did some kind of
research and like they through that research,

286
00:20:11.039 --> 00:20:12.519
they found a lot of people would
buy it. So now, like,

287
00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:17.319
I can't remember if I finished the
third one for Zenosaga, but I beat

288
00:20:17.319 --> 00:20:19.240
the first two and I've played some
of three. But I just remember a

289
00:20:19.279 --> 00:20:23.200
lot of there were sections in that
entire trilogy that we're just like, what

290
00:20:23.279 --> 00:20:26.680
are they doing? Like, yeah, there's a metager a solid fan.

291
00:20:27.160 --> 00:20:32.400
I am being a complete hypocrite here
because Hitdealo Kajima did like to do the

292
00:20:32.440 --> 00:20:36.119
same thing. But I remember a
point where I watched a forty five minute

293
00:20:36.160 --> 00:20:40.400
scene. Yes, it gave me
control of the character. I walked out

294
00:20:40.400 --> 00:20:44.359
of one door, turned the corner, and walked into another door to another

295
00:20:44.440 --> 00:20:48.240
thirty minute scene. Yep. So
again Betagher solid loves to do that as

296
00:20:48.240 --> 00:20:52.119
well. But I got into that
story a lot more than a disagas.

297
00:20:52.119 --> 00:20:56.039
So I'm glad the Xeno Blade hedly
worked out. While yes, it's always

298
00:20:56.079 --> 00:20:57.599
sad when you have a big franchise
like that coming to an end, at

299
00:20:57.680 --> 00:21:02.240
least you know it hit the end
that he wanted to this exactly. Yeah,

300
00:21:02.359 --> 00:21:04.279
you with all of the different things
that you can play with, there's

301
00:21:04.279 --> 00:21:07.960
a three games and then three dalcs. You have a complete story there,

302
00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:14.200
and that's pretty awesome to be able
to do that because I thought when Zeno

303
00:21:14.200 --> 00:21:17.559
Blaye three ended, I was like, oh crap, they're not gonna actually

304
00:21:17.599 --> 00:21:22.000
do the ending part. They're gonna
just kind of give us a little bit

305
00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:23.880
of the Founding Fathers and that's gonna
be it, and then we're gonna kind

306
00:21:23.880 --> 00:21:26.200
of just gonna be up in the
air as to oh, I guess this

307
00:21:26.319 --> 00:21:32.240
was the ending. So thankfully,
it's good that we are getting that and

308
00:21:32.640 --> 00:21:36.319
you can get you know, they've
had other little expansion pieces, little story

309
00:21:36.359 --> 00:21:42.000
pieces, story story other DLC like
a like a battle arena and all that

310
00:21:42.039 --> 00:21:45.160
kind of stuff that they added in
the other dalcs and other characters as well,

311
00:21:45.200 --> 00:21:48.079
so you didn't pick up the expansion
past yet. Thirty bucks for all

312
00:21:48.079 --> 00:21:52.039
of that stuff is well worth it. Definitely go check it out if you've

313
00:21:52.039 --> 00:21:57.920
played Zeno three. So that's pretty
much it for games who've been playing here.

314
00:21:59.759 --> 00:22:03.400
Just because we both reviewed this and
then Rather's reviewed as well, you

315
00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:07.279
guys loved it a lot. Uh
you know, I listened to your review

316
00:22:07.119 --> 00:22:11.960
EU and YenS, and it's obviously
a universally loved thing because the Marine movie

317
00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:18.960
has now made a billion dollars globally. Randy I mean, and I've I've

318
00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:21.599
looked at this, like look at
the numbers, and it's you know,

319
00:22:21.720 --> 00:22:25.480
normally for all these Marvel movies and
stuff like that, like the difference between

320
00:22:25.480 --> 00:22:30.200
like domestic and foreign box office,
it's normally like a huge, right,

321
00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:33.680
it's a it's like big discrepancy,
the like the way that they've been able

322
00:22:33.720 --> 00:22:37.519
to It just released to Japan obviously
this weekend, which helps a lot,

323
00:22:38.200 --> 00:22:42.559
uh and South Korea, and they
actually made a different Japan script for it's

324
00:22:42.599 --> 00:22:48.079
it has a completely different script that
was made by dumb buying Nintendo as well.

325
00:22:48.039 --> 00:22:52.599
So I thought that was interesting that
me and models a completely different movie.

326
00:22:52.160 --> 00:22:56.640
No, no, it's the same
movie. They just very they made

327
00:22:56.640 --> 00:23:03.559
sure that it's not like just translated
okay loosely, it's they made sure that

328
00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:07.240
for Japan that they can understand this, and it has some local stuff in

329
00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:11.440
it as well. So I had
to ask. Because Jens likes to throw

330
00:23:11.480 --> 00:23:15.079
in random versions of these video game
movies on Japanese flag, I was worried

331
00:23:15.400 --> 00:23:18.680
that all a sudden, I was
gonna have to watch the Japanese version of

332
00:23:18.680 --> 00:23:22.400
it. Yes, um, but
it's still it's like it's crazy to me

333
00:23:22.519 --> 00:23:26.119
that it definitely deserves it, right, it's the first video game movie to

334
00:23:26.200 --> 00:23:30.440
hit that billion mark. Now gonna
set the standard for all the other video

335
00:23:30.440 --> 00:23:34.599
game movies. That obviously helps that
it's Mario too, Yeah, and it

336
00:23:34.599 --> 00:23:37.680
helps that they went at it in
a smart way. I mean to get

337
00:23:37.680 --> 00:23:42.720
illumination out there that does minions and
it does putting it as a cartoon and

338
00:23:42.839 --> 00:23:48.880
not trying to go this Super Mario
and not to rag on the old Super

339
00:23:48.920 --> 00:23:52.279
Mario movie from the early nineties too
much, but just Mario is one of

340
00:23:52.279 --> 00:23:56.000
those franchises that should be a cartoon
and it works out extremely well that way.

341
00:23:56.000 --> 00:24:00.960
And that's why this works on the
one back in the early nineties did

342
00:24:00.039 --> 00:24:03.799
not. Yes, that has a
cult following now, but it's not a

343
00:24:03.799 --> 00:24:08.160
good movie. It's absolutely not good. It's fun to sit back and laugh

344
00:24:08.160 --> 00:24:12.000
at, but it is. It's
not good. And now to be you

345
00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:15.720
can be over the top, you
can be colorful, you can be goofy

346
00:24:15.480 --> 00:24:19.240
and this kind of stuff, and
it just fits really well with the story.

347
00:24:19.359 --> 00:24:22.039
Now. Am I saying all video
game movies need to go in this

348
00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:26.160
direction? Of course not. Because
the Last of Us TV show was amazing

349
00:24:26.279 --> 00:24:30.599
and with live action and that would
not have worked with animation. And I

350
00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:37.880
think what has me more excited is
we are nearly four months through this this

351
00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:41.960
year and we've already got the Last
of US TV show and the Super Mario

352
00:24:41.039 --> 00:24:47.000
Brothers movie, which you know what, absolutely we're bangers. They nailed it.

353
00:24:47.039 --> 00:24:52.200
They were so good, not on
the ends, and Randy's of movie

354
00:24:52.400 --> 00:24:56.440
scale, which we have to bump
up because all video game movies back in

355
00:24:56.480 --> 00:25:00.680
the day were so bad that if
we don't hate did, we have to

356
00:25:00.720 --> 00:25:04.359
give it an eight just or everything
would be at a one. Um.

357
00:25:06.160 --> 00:25:10.920
So it's it's really nice that we
have now had back to back hits that

358
00:25:10.920 --> 00:25:15.319
that represent video games. Hopefully that
means things you're turning in the corner.

359
00:25:15.519 --> 00:25:19.519
But there's another story that you have
on here that has me worried that same

360
00:25:19.559 --> 00:25:22.960
thing. Well, definitely, I
mean, and then to be fair,

361
00:25:23.039 --> 00:25:26.279
you know, The Witcher has also
been pulling its own weight, and it's

362
00:25:26.319 --> 00:25:30.720
gonna have a season three in July. Obviously gonna be a little bit different

363
00:25:30.839 --> 00:25:37.599
not having having a different actor playing
the main character this time, but we'll

364
00:25:37.640 --> 00:25:41.839
see, we'll see how that goes. But um, for sure, it's

365
00:25:41.880 --> 00:25:45.200
great that this is happening. And
you know, as as Mark and I

366
00:25:45.200 --> 00:25:48.039
talked about last week, you know, Miyamoto is hinted that there is other

367
00:25:48.160 --> 00:25:52.400
Nintendo movies to come. Yeah,
so, and again, they can go

368
00:25:52.440 --> 00:25:56.400
in completely different ways. They make
a Kurby movie hash to absolutely be animated,

369
00:25:56.720 --> 00:26:00.960
could go either way, like action
that could be interesting. But if

370
00:26:00.960 --> 00:26:03.960
they do it in a cartoony way, I think it could. I don't

371
00:26:03.960 --> 00:26:07.279
think they could do it in a
cartoony illumination way. No, that's like,

372
00:26:07.960 --> 00:26:11.039
that's what I worry about. It's
like, if we're gonna try to

373
00:26:11.079 --> 00:26:15.079
make illumination make all of these,
they're really gonna have to illuminate. Could

374
00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:18.160
do Kirby. I think Kirby would
be great. Any kind of a Yoshi

375
00:26:18.200 --> 00:26:25.519
thing, Yeah, k even star
Fox something they could do because it doesn't

376
00:26:25.559 --> 00:26:29.279
have Nobody cares about that guy.
Yeah, people care about Star Foxes much

377
00:26:29.440 --> 00:26:32.720
to care about Kid at Chris anymore. Just yeah. I mean people will

378
00:26:32.759 --> 00:26:34.400
sit there and we want them to
come back, and then they come back

379
00:26:34.400 --> 00:26:37.599
and they're like, well no,
no really. I am glad that somebody

380
00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:42.000
has brought some sense to the table, because Mark, for about like ten

381
00:26:42.000 --> 00:26:47.200
minutes last week try to convince me
that if they made a Star Fox movie,

382
00:26:47.200 --> 00:26:52.119
it's gonna do amazing numbers because oh
it's it's a movie. Depends yeah,

383
00:26:52.200 --> 00:26:53.400
it depends on what they do with
it. If it's a very good

384
00:26:53.440 --> 00:26:56.119
movie, it could be great.
It's not going to be Mario levels of

385
00:26:56.200 --> 00:27:00.799
success just because it doesn't have that
fan base like Mario is. As video

386
00:27:00.839 --> 00:27:03.960
games, you ask people that have
never heard of a video game before,

387
00:27:03.960 --> 00:27:07.880
and they show them a picture of
Mario, they know who that is exactly.

388
00:27:07.960 --> 00:27:10.759
They're not going to do that with
Star Fox. It's not. But

389
00:27:10.880 --> 00:27:15.240
let's let's say they wanted to make
a Nintendo cinematic universe, right, Yeah,

390
00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:21.319
I really hope that this is not
a Marble thing and we're trying to

391
00:27:21.599 --> 00:27:26.759
I don't think Nintendo is, even
though you know, everybody see everything seems

392
00:27:26.759 --> 00:27:30.559
to have to have a universe at
this point, Like what are what are

393
00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:33.839
the movies that like, let's say
you got to have six six movies?

394
00:27:33.839 --> 00:27:41.359
Are we say? So we're saying
Nintendo universe so that we can last movie

395
00:27:41.440 --> 00:27:44.440
or something. I guess it doesn't
have to all be made by elimination,

396
00:27:44.559 --> 00:27:48.119
but I think if you're putting them
in as a universe, you have to

397
00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:51.680
have them in the same style,
So then when you combine them, you

398
00:27:51.680 --> 00:27:57.839
can't have a live action Zelda movie. No of the the old in cu

399
00:27:59.160 --> 00:28:03.960
is what Yeah, then Nintendo Cinematic
Yeah, thanks, um, but I

400
00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:07.480
think it'd have to be at least
similar. But I think you could just

401
00:28:07.519 --> 00:28:14.920
throw in there Mario Kirby Yoshi,
Donkey Kong is your four and then again

402
00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:18.519
I think Zelda is better live action, so you'd be a little different there.

403
00:28:18.559 --> 00:28:22.279
So it's it's tough to then try
to figure out which direction you want

404
00:28:22.319 --> 00:28:25.200
to go if you have a state. I don't think they'll do them live

405
00:28:25.240 --> 00:28:29.559
action. I think they will keep
them animated. I just worry about illumination,

406
00:28:29.839 --> 00:28:32.960
understanding that they got to be serious
with the not that they have to

407
00:28:32.960 --> 00:28:36.079
be totally serious. You can obviously
have gags, but it's got to be

408
00:28:36.200 --> 00:28:38.799
a little bit more serious when you
talking about Zelda, and obviously with Metroid

409
00:28:38.839 --> 00:28:41.559
as well. If you're gonna you're
gonna use both of those, which I

410
00:28:41.559 --> 00:28:45.559
think you can't Metroid. Yeah,
have a Nintendo Cinematic universe if you're not

411
00:28:45.559 --> 00:28:51.319
going to include Zelda and Metroid.
Those are your two biggest franchises outside of

412
00:28:51.519 --> 00:28:53.319
Yeah, everything that has to do
with Mario, but I think Zelda and

413
00:28:53.400 --> 00:28:59.759
Metroid both would be better fitted with
a live action feel, yeah, which

414
00:28:59.759 --> 00:29:03.279
would take them away from this whole
universe idea, but again they could work

415
00:29:03.799 --> 00:29:08.039
animated in some way. And then
I like your Smash Brothers idea to bring

416
00:29:08.039 --> 00:29:11.839
out all these movies and then just
throw them in the pit and just have

417
00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:14.839
them go nuts, because I mean
you already had that with the docy Kongen

418
00:29:14.920 --> 00:29:19.000
and how you could throw a Sonic
in there, because Sonics and I just

419
00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:23.720
combined in. Can we get a
MegaMan movie? Please? That's not horrible,

420
00:29:25.240 --> 00:29:27.279
That'd be great. That's what I
want. Uh Well, I mean

421
00:29:27.359 --> 00:29:33.480
Aaron says that's a live action don't
work at all for Mario. Absolutely agree

422
00:29:33.519 --> 00:29:37.160
that the live action for Mario does
not work. However, some live action

423
00:29:37.240 --> 00:29:41.039
stuff works. Most of it is
in Japan. Is again YenS and I

424
00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:45.279
have been going through a lot of
these. I mean, you watch the

425
00:29:45.319 --> 00:29:49.079
review, so you know this Super
Mario Brothers movie is not our favorite video

426
00:29:49.119 --> 00:29:52.759
game adaptation that we have reviewed on
that show. The other one just nobody

427
00:29:52.799 --> 00:29:59.839
knows about because it's in Japan only. Ace Attorney live action is so bonkers

428
00:29:59.839 --> 00:30:02.720
and over the top, it hits, it hits all of the fields.

429
00:30:02.720 --> 00:30:06.039
It's hey, I mean that's good. Like see, that's the thing is,

430
00:30:06.480 --> 00:30:08.559
let's see if they go that route. I just want to see what

431
00:30:08.640 --> 00:30:12.079
other or not if they do eventually
get to it, because first of all,

432
00:30:12.119 --> 00:30:15.920
you have the DK movie that we
know it's probably coming. We know

433
00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:19.720
we're getting whether it's Super Mario Brothers
to Yoshi's Island or whatever it is.

434
00:30:21.240 --> 00:30:25.559
And uh, sorry, it's almost
a month after the movie, so I'm

435
00:30:25.559 --> 00:30:30.400
sorry if I just you know,
spoil made a billion dollars people. Yeah,

436
00:30:30.480 --> 00:30:33.559
and maybe there's a Luigi's Mansion to
be in there, who knows,

437
00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:37.519
But that all has to do with
Mario. So if you're gonna throw other

438
00:30:37.599 --> 00:30:41.119
Nintendo movies, and he mentions that
we have a cast, we have a

439
00:30:41.119 --> 00:30:44.440
cast of characters that we could bring
out. Uh, you know, you

440
00:30:44.599 --> 00:30:48.759
definitely got to be doing Zelda,
especially with the two big tech pole games

441
00:30:48.799 --> 00:30:52.319
that you have to feed off of
and the other lower that you have of

442
00:30:52.400 --> 00:30:55.599
Zelda to feed off of. So
speaking to Zod, I'll just throw this

443
00:30:55.680 --> 00:30:59.279
in here because I won't be here
when it releases. The Breath of the

444
00:30:59.319 --> 00:31:02.119
Wild game and this new one do
not look like I mean, I did

445
00:31:02.160 --> 00:31:06.839
not get in the Breath of the
Wild as other people, and I will

446
00:31:06.880 --> 00:31:10.359
not be playing Tears of the Kingdom. However, I just wanted to throw

447
00:31:10.440 --> 00:31:14.119
it out there, and I've said
this many times to our mutual friend Robert

448
00:31:14.160 --> 00:31:18.680
Taylor. I hope it's a killer. I hope it's fantastic. I hope

449
00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:21.599
it's game of the year, because
everyone is so hyped for this game.

450
00:31:22.079 --> 00:31:23.799
Yeah that while it's not for me, I'm not one of those people that

451
00:31:23.799 --> 00:31:26.440
goes, well it sucks, No, it just wasn't for me. So

452
00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:30.920
I am sitting here as somebody who
will not play this game that hopes that

453
00:31:30.960 --> 00:31:36.319
when that releases ten out of tens
everywhere, because I know so many people

454
00:31:36.359 --> 00:31:41.519
are just waiting impatiently for it finally
to Yeah, we'll get more into it

455
00:31:41.880 --> 00:31:45.000
a little later, but for sure, I'm also on that same vein as

456
00:31:45.079 --> 00:31:48.400
you. I wasn't a big fan
of the first one, just because it

457
00:31:48.519 --> 00:31:55.319
was way too like there's open world
and there was like way too open world

458
00:31:55.359 --> 00:31:59.799
for me, where it was like
I don't want to feel like I gotta

459
00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:02.920
I've got to figure out everything that
I'm gonna be doing here. I want

460
00:32:02.960 --> 00:32:07.920
a little bit of direction, you
know, yes, and I'm too stupid

461
00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:12.920
to leave me alone with my own
inhibitions. Give me an arrow, give

462
00:32:12.920 --> 00:32:15.680
me a list of quests, or
I'm lost. Yeah, you don't have

463
00:32:15.759 --> 00:32:20.480
to point me in every direction.
Yeah, but you gotta like let me

464
00:32:20.519 --> 00:32:22.400
know. Okay, this is like
the main story thing. Go over here

465
00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:25.319
if you want that, or we'll
see. We'll talk about it a little

466
00:32:25.359 --> 00:32:30.839
bit. But I guess to move. Just to answer Aaron's question, here

467
00:32:30.839 --> 00:32:35.160
they put it. Do you think
that if they did Zelda, they'd let

468
00:32:35.240 --> 00:32:37.200
him talk or he'd still be a
song protagonist and everybody else would talk.

469
00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:40.279
For the last time they let Link
talk, it was horrible. Well,

470
00:32:40.279 --> 00:32:44.640
that's a that's a was the nineties. I mean, it was a CDI

471
00:32:44.799 --> 00:32:50.559
thing, and it was terrible.
So they could make a joke on it

472
00:32:50.640 --> 00:32:54.480
and have him just sounding hilarious.
Hello, sir, he we bring up

473
00:32:54.559 --> 00:32:59.880
Zelda and he shows up right exactly. Yeah. Um, they could make

474
00:33:00.039 --> 00:33:04.400
a big joke out of it where
he sounds funny and then clears his throat.

475
00:33:04.480 --> 00:33:08.039
They make that joke in the Mario
movie about certain ways of characters talk

476
00:33:08.559 --> 00:33:12.319
in the games and how they're going
to talk in the movie. There could

477
00:33:12.319 --> 00:33:14.720
be a lot of times where,
at least at the beginning of the movie,

478
00:33:14.720 --> 00:33:16.279
somebody asked him a question and he
goes to answer, and then somebody

479
00:33:16.319 --> 00:33:20.880
just butts in and he's a silent
protagonist for a little Yeah. Yeah,

480
00:33:21.039 --> 00:33:22.440
yeah, there's different ways you could
go about it. That'd be great.

481
00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:25.880
I definitely think they'll try at the
beginning to make him silent, and then

482
00:33:25.960 --> 00:33:30.279
eventually they will build up to a
point where he has to talk, whether

483
00:33:30.319 --> 00:33:36.160
it's a joke or something that will
then open the box to where, oh

484
00:33:36.319 --> 00:33:39.599
you talk, okay there, you
know. So um, Like you said,

485
00:33:39.640 --> 00:33:44.839
they made the joke very at the
beginning of the Mario movie that oh,

486
00:33:44.640 --> 00:33:49.640
we don't have to be so so
crazy and exaggerated with our voices.

487
00:33:49.720 --> 00:33:53.839
We can just be you know mar
and Louisi's uh, you know, Aaron

488
00:33:53.880 --> 00:33:57.880
brings up. You could just continue
to make grunts and yells from the arc

489
00:33:57.920 --> 00:34:01.640
are in Time's Love. He could
do that to so. But yes,

490
00:34:01.839 --> 00:34:07.440
moving on from movie talk here,
I'm gonna we eventually gotta get we gotta

491
00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:12.320
get to it here. So let's
preface this by saying there is some good

492
00:34:12.320 --> 00:34:20.360
news for Microsoft Ukraine did pass the
Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard, which they

493
00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:23.960
joined Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Serbia, Chiley, Japan and South Africa.

494
00:34:24.039 --> 00:34:29.440
And doing so, they also made
another deal with one of these cloud gaming

495
00:34:30.119 --> 00:34:36.000
providers that are in the European region, this one called Nwhere that's a Spanish

496
00:34:36.079 --> 00:34:39.360
cloud gaming provider. That's a ten
year deal. You know whatever. I

497
00:34:39.400 --> 00:34:44.119
don't really want to get into what
those deals mean. They also had their

498
00:34:44.199 --> 00:34:52.960
like second best quarter ever for Xbox
revenue and all of that heading into what

499
00:34:53.039 --> 00:34:57.519
they thought was going to be good
news, it turns out that there is

500
00:34:57.559 --> 00:35:00.840
bad news for Xbox when it comes
to this. The Vision Blizzard deal's been

501
00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:07.679
blocked by the CMA, and it's
been blocked due to not consoles, not

502
00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:09.400
Sony, even though Sonny probably has
a little bit to do with it,

503
00:35:10.360 --> 00:35:17.280
not Nintendo. It's blocked over cloud
gaming, of all things, this highly

504
00:35:17.320 --> 00:35:24.239
amazing version of video games that everybody
plays, cloud gaming. That that's what

505
00:35:24.400 --> 00:35:29.559
blocked it all. Yeah, we
can all blame Google Stadia for this not

506
00:35:29.639 --> 00:35:32.880
happening, because it pushed this cloud
gaming thing to a whole new level and

507
00:35:32.920 --> 00:35:38.519
it worked so well. Now it's
it's interesting I'm in the mind that I

508
00:35:38.519 --> 00:35:43.559
don't care about all these acquisitions.
It got over the top there for a

509
00:35:43.559 --> 00:35:46.400
bit where Microsoft and Sony just we're
trying to buy up everything. This Active

510
00:35:46.440 --> 00:35:52.719
Vision Blizzard thing obviously is a huge
deal if it goes through, which now

511
00:35:52.719 --> 00:35:54.800
it's not looking like it will be
in the UK, and we'll see if

512
00:35:54.840 --> 00:35:59.800
what other countries do with it.
But in the end, I honestly just

513
00:36:00.440 --> 00:36:02.599
don't care about the back end stuff. Just as long as the games come

514
00:36:02.599 --> 00:36:07.800
out and they're not full of micro
transactions high school that I'm happy And that's

515
00:36:07.840 --> 00:36:13.440
fair. That's fair. I think
from the you know, the casual perspective

516
00:36:13.519 --> 00:36:16.320
or the person that doesn't pay attention
to this every single day, that is

517
00:36:16.320 --> 00:36:20.400
pretty much what people's probably take is
that, Okay, I don't really care.

518
00:36:21.159 --> 00:36:23.119
Am I still getting my call of
duty every year? Whether Microsoft has

519
00:36:23.119 --> 00:36:25.639
it or not? Yeah, okay, then who care? Am I still

520
00:36:25.679 --> 00:36:30.159
getting you know, Diablo and whatever? On the buzzards side? Can I

521
00:36:30.199 --> 00:36:34.159
still play Candy Crush? All right? Whatever? That's that's probably what your

522
00:36:34.239 --> 00:36:37.039
GQU person, if you talk to
them about that, would say, right.

523
00:36:37.199 --> 00:36:40.159
But I think from the perspective of
let's let's look at this from the

524
00:36:40.320 --> 00:36:45.199
Xbox side of things. Who have
not had a good year, I mean

525
00:36:45.320 --> 00:36:50.559
good few, however many they haven't
had a good generation of video games.

526
00:36:51.039 --> 00:36:55.440
Uh, you know, everything's when
the Series X came out, the Series

527
00:36:55.480 --> 00:36:58.960
AS came out, It's like,
Okay, it's a whole new ballgame from

528
00:36:58.960 --> 00:37:01.480
Microsoft. We're gonna they got the
best acquisition, they got all this stuff

529
00:37:01.519 --> 00:37:06.199
going on, and then you get
these small little wins, right like Hi

530
00:37:06.239 --> 00:37:09.400
Fi Rush this year, and then
a lot of it's just really really negative.

531
00:37:09.920 --> 00:37:14.079
Yeah, it's it's so it's so
weird to me because game Pass is

532
00:37:14.119 --> 00:37:16.440
such a positive. As I'm a
I'm a Sony guy, but I think

533
00:37:16.480 --> 00:37:21.960
game Pass is absolutely phenomenal and everything
that Sony attempts to do will never reach

534
00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:27.000
what Microsoft is, okay doing with
game Pass. I think it's brilliant.

535
00:37:27.440 --> 00:37:30.599
But you know, I remember all
those E threes, you know, Rush

536
00:37:30.679 --> 00:37:35.320
and Peace to E three, But
I remember all those E threes where Microsoft

537
00:37:35.360 --> 00:37:37.960
will come out. It's like,
look at the twenty seven first party studios

538
00:37:38.000 --> 00:37:42.199
we have now, and all these
games that we're going to make, and

539
00:37:42.239 --> 00:37:45.159
they're all going to be on game
Pass. I think like four have come

540
00:37:45.159 --> 00:37:47.679
out in the last twelve months.
I mean, Sony is not much better

541
00:37:47.719 --> 00:37:52.199
as far as first party stuff goes. But but I know Sony's first party

542
00:37:52.280 --> 00:37:55.599
is going to be amazing, So
you know, yeah, but I will

543
00:37:55.639 --> 00:38:00.840
give a little excuse as far as
you know. Yes, COVID was a

544
00:38:00.880 --> 00:38:05.679
couple of years ago now, but
obviously it really wrecked havoc on a lot

545
00:38:05.719 --> 00:38:08.840
of gaming studios and slowed things down
a little bit. And it also kind

546
00:38:08.840 --> 00:38:15.280
of backlogged a lot of these games
where we are getting Residue before Remake and

547
00:38:15.679 --> 00:38:19.599
Legend of Zelda, Tiers of the
Kingdom and Final Fantasy sixteen and Streets a

548
00:38:19.639 --> 00:38:22.719
Fight or Street Fighter six and Diablo
four within like a four month period,

549
00:38:23.119 --> 00:38:28.159
so you would expect one of these
games to come out every four months.

550
00:38:28.320 --> 00:38:31.719
Is like just Game of the Year
contender, just banger games, and we're

551
00:38:31.719 --> 00:38:37.920
getting all of those on top of
Dead Island two was getting good reviews and

552
00:38:37.960 --> 00:38:40.519
it topped a million dollars in sales
and it's become a pretty good thing,

553
00:38:40.920 --> 00:38:45.599
and the rise in DZ is completely
ignored. But I guess it was pretty

554
00:38:45.599 --> 00:38:50.000
good. So we have all this
stuff in it like a four month period.

555
00:38:50.039 --> 00:38:52.559
It's just it's crazy, how backlogged
these releases are, and I think

556
00:38:52.840 --> 00:38:54.800
I think a lot of these companies
are going, well, we need to

557
00:38:54.840 --> 00:39:00.280
find a window where things are not
as crazy so our game doesn't get completely

558
00:39:00.760 --> 00:39:05.440
forgotten about it. Yeah. Um, that's the thing is that you know,

559
00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:07.760
Microsoft that they were gonna started hitting
a period where it was going to

560
00:39:07.840 --> 00:39:10.320
be all good news, right,
you get the old CMA is gonna pass

561
00:39:10.360 --> 00:39:15.239
it because right now they're having to
deal with the FTC suit them to block

562
00:39:15.280 --> 00:39:19.280
this. So they were hoping the
CMA would pass. Then the EU passes

563
00:39:19.320 --> 00:39:23.199
next month and they put pressure on
the FTC too. Hey you're the only

564
00:39:23.199 --> 00:39:28.039
one I want to think about it. And then it actually turns out that

565
00:39:28.039 --> 00:39:31.440
the FTC met with the CMA and
there's possible you know, they may have

566
00:39:31.480 --> 00:39:35.840
talked about this. They said,
there's no litigation talk, but who knows,

567
00:39:36.199 --> 00:39:39.320
and the CMA decided to block it. Uh, And it just feels

568
00:39:39.480 --> 00:39:46.480
very arbitrary, like over cloud gaming
right, like so you know cloud gaming

569
00:39:46.519 --> 00:39:51.639
is part of xpots Game Pass Ultimate. How much have you used ever the

570
00:39:51.639 --> 00:39:57.599
cloud gaming thing that Microsoft has?
No, I don't. I live in

571
00:39:58.320 --> 00:40:02.840
northern Idaho. Do you think we
have the internet capability to run cloud gaming

572
00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:08.239
in a suitable fashion. Yet no, absolutely, we are pretty good internet

573
00:40:08.280 --> 00:40:14.320
here in Miami, but still,
you know, there's even parts of Miami

574
00:40:14.320 --> 00:40:19.280
where the internet sucks, and even
then in the UK, the internet it's

575
00:40:19.360 --> 00:40:24.639
even worse there. So I get
it that they're saying that by default because

576
00:40:24.679 --> 00:40:31.800
Google failed and Sony jammed it in
the middle of like million other things that's

577
00:40:31.800 --> 00:40:36.599
on PS plus. That's like a
thing that's part of PS plus that they

578
00:40:36.880 --> 00:40:39.400
don't really care whether you use or
not. But you do have to use

579
00:40:39.440 --> 00:40:43.400
it to play PS three games.
But that's that's either here nor there.

580
00:40:43.440 --> 00:40:46.440
I'm just saying, like, it's
not Microsoft's fault that everybody else is involved

581
00:40:46.440 --> 00:40:51.039
in cloud gaming either failed, they
don't care about it, even though supposedly

582
00:40:51.079 --> 00:40:53.239
Mark sto and he said that he
figured out some kind of revolution with cloud

583
00:40:53.239 --> 00:40:55.440
gaming, like right or for they
were going to make the decision, which

584
00:40:55.440 --> 00:40:59.960
I don't think it makes a difference. And you know, Amazon's there,

585
00:41:00.119 --> 00:41:02.239
they're the biggest player and all of
this, and they're fine with whatever Luna's

586
00:41:02.320 --> 00:41:07.239
doing. But you don't hear anybody
ever talking about Luna. It's just there,

587
00:41:07.960 --> 00:41:10.639
and it's there because Amazon has the
money to just keep supporting it,

588
00:41:10.719 --> 00:41:15.719
and you know whatever. It's so
it's not Microsoft's fault that they're the sixty

589
00:41:15.719 --> 00:41:22.239
to seven percent dominance of cloud gaming. They're making all these deals with these

590
00:41:22.239 --> 00:41:24.159
other providers, which all the providers
will come out and gone, wait a

591
00:41:24.199 --> 00:41:27.960
minute, we want this to go
through because we want those games on our

592
00:41:28.000 --> 00:41:31.920
platform. Now we don't get them
at all. So it seems like the

593
00:41:31.960 --> 00:41:38.280
CMA is just doing this because they
can, because they want to prove that

594
00:41:38.400 --> 00:41:43.400
you're not going to come in here
because you're Microsoft and be able to tell

595
00:41:43.519 --> 00:41:45.719
us that we need to approve this
deal. Now you got to figure it

596
00:41:45.760 --> 00:41:50.840
out. And it's like, first
of all, most of y'all's issue at

597
00:41:50.880 --> 00:41:53.440
first was consoles, right, it
was about so many It was about oh,

598
00:41:53.519 --> 00:42:00.079
we couldn't let Microsoft gain a foothold
because it would ruin possessions dominance in

599
00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:05.559
the arena. And then they realize
how quickly that makes no sense, and

600
00:42:05.679 --> 00:42:10.760
how much PlayStation is actually doing to
prevent Microsoft already from rising any higher.

601
00:42:12.239 --> 00:42:15.119
Now of a lot of that's also
Microsoft's fault with you know, all these

602
00:42:15.159 --> 00:42:21.800
other problems with their games coming out
and Halo kind of failing and other things.

603
00:42:21.840 --> 00:42:23.760
It's not just Sony, right,
it's also Microsoft has not been able

604
00:42:23.800 --> 00:42:27.519
to get footnick ground that they thought
they were going to. But this is

605
00:42:27.519 --> 00:42:30.119
supposed to be like an accelerant,
right, It's supposed to be like the

606
00:42:30.119 --> 00:42:34.960
thing that went all right, we're
going full speed ahead, and now it's

607
00:42:34.960 --> 00:42:37.280
like, oh man, what do
we do? And so you know,

608
00:42:37.800 --> 00:42:42.599
Brad Smith came out and called it
like one of the darkest days for Microsoft

609
00:42:42.599 --> 00:42:47.039
in Britain ever and that you know, oh my god, Joe. Yeah,

610
00:42:47.119 --> 00:42:51.760
and this is really bad. Well, to be fair, maybe it

611
00:42:51.840 --> 00:42:53.559
is bad for the UK citizens because
you don't get all these games on game

612
00:42:53.559 --> 00:42:58.199
Pass. Now you have to go
and pay your however much money which number

613
00:42:58.199 --> 00:43:02.440
it's more in the U K And
Europe to buy games. So I think

614
00:43:02.480 --> 00:43:07.719
in a way, yes, it
is bad. Um, I think of

615
00:43:07.760 --> 00:43:09.760
all the things you could have criticized
it for a cloud gaming just seems very

616
00:43:09.840 --> 00:43:15.719
like, really, we're doing this
based on future possibilities instead of what's here

617
00:43:15.800 --> 00:43:20.000
right now. Yeah, I could
have hurt understood that, well, this

618
00:43:20.119 --> 00:43:22.679
is just too much of a monopoly
at this point, with buying such a

619
00:43:22.800 --> 00:43:28.960
huge company as Activision Blizzard and putting
all this on your system. Yeah,

620
00:43:29.079 --> 00:43:31.400
I could hear that argument. I
don't agree with it, like, put

621
00:43:31.400 --> 00:43:37.159
whatever you want on your system.
I like console wars right because I like

622
00:43:37.320 --> 00:43:42.079
it for the two companies to really
battle it out. Yeah, if if

623
00:43:42.519 --> 00:43:46.000
console exclusive gaming completely disappeared, which
I know a lot of people for whatever

624
00:43:46.039 --> 00:43:51.039
reason, wanted to do, then
you would not have game pass because yeah

625
00:43:51.079 --> 00:43:53.440
you wouldn't. You wouldn't would have
had no reason to do that. They

626
00:43:53.440 --> 00:43:57.559
would have zero interest in just play
your game wherever you want to play.

627
00:43:57.599 --> 00:44:00.400
I mean, I guess maybe they
have game Pass because they're trying to They

628
00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:04.199
would try to get you to bite
their system overplaystation, but you could just

629
00:44:04.239 --> 00:44:08.920
play it either way. But I
don't know. I like it's we're bold

630
00:44:08.960 --> 00:44:14.199
old old school wrestling fans. When
wrestling has competition, the wrestling is better.

631
00:44:15.840 --> 00:44:19.239
Video game companies have competition. It
makes the companies better. Yeah.

632
00:44:19.480 --> 00:44:22.280
I think about Nintendo's saga, how
great that was to watch that unfold and

633
00:44:22.360 --> 00:44:28.480
how they each made each other better. And just to show to prove your

634
00:44:28.559 --> 00:44:32.360
fact, Nintendo is off on its
own island right now, doing its own

635
00:44:32.400 --> 00:44:37.079
stuff. Zero competition. The one
thing that listening to game scoop trying to

636
00:44:37.079 --> 00:44:40.280
get myself ready for the show and
just kind of hearing different stuff. I

637
00:44:40.320 --> 00:44:45.079
didn't realize the Switch has never dropped
in price. Nope, never had a

638
00:44:45.119 --> 00:44:47.760
sale. But if they were,
if they had a competitor, yeah,

639
00:44:47.800 --> 00:44:51.920
then it would be dropping in price. We would have another iteration of the

640
00:44:51.960 --> 00:44:54.519
Switch, which is what we got
last iteration with Xbox and PlayStation, where

641
00:44:54.519 --> 00:44:58.760
they just kept throwing out different stuff, trying to compete with each other,

642
00:44:58.840 --> 00:45:04.280
bringing it better stuff, bringing up
bet or games. Now. I admittedly

643
00:45:04.320 --> 00:45:08.679
believe Sony has won the exclusive games
battle over the last several years, but

644
00:45:09.360 --> 00:45:13.280
that's why Microsoft went, well,
we're not winning that battle, so let's

645
00:45:13.320 --> 00:45:17.239
win it this direction and we get
game like Nintendo. I would absolutely love

646
00:45:17.280 --> 00:45:22.119
to get into some of these other
games that come out, but I can't

647
00:45:22.159 --> 00:45:24.400
use the same strategy I do with
PlayStation and Xbox or My god is wait

648
00:45:24.440 --> 00:45:29.079
for a sale, because that never
happens. I mean, it is a

649
00:45:29.119 --> 00:45:31.719
sale, it's for two days,
and it's down ten percent, but it's

650
00:45:31.760 --> 00:45:39.039
full price from what it was released
forever whatever. Maybe I bet if I

651
00:45:39.119 --> 00:45:45.920
looked up the Mario game Mario Odyssey, I bet it's still sixty bucks.

652
00:45:45.199 --> 00:45:50.280
Oh yeah, unless you caught it
on the sale. Ye, that ridiculous.

653
00:45:50.719 --> 00:45:52.920
Yeah, and that's because there's no
competition. So all right, they

654
00:45:52.920 --> 00:45:57.840
didn't even do their like Nintendo Selects
thing that they've done with the other years

655
00:45:57.960 --> 00:46:01.719
because they were competing, right the
we you sucked out loud. They had

656
00:46:01.760 --> 00:46:07.360
to do the Selects thing to get
people to possibly buy those right. I

657
00:46:07.400 --> 00:46:10.760
love that the way you sucked because
I have now forty percent away through owning

658
00:46:10.800 --> 00:46:16.400
that entire library because a lot right, yeah, there's not um and yeah,

659
00:46:16.440 --> 00:46:20.119
and most of it's on the switch
anyway. Yeah, most of it

660
00:46:20.159 --> 00:46:22.480
got parties to the switch, which
means that the prices are not skyrocketing on

661
00:46:22.519 --> 00:46:27.440
those games yet, right exactly.
So I mean that's that's the thing,

662
00:46:27.519 --> 00:46:31.039
is that composition is good. And
I get with the UK just going in

663
00:46:31.199 --> 00:46:37.960
and then doing it about a sector
of gaming that may never take off because

664
00:46:37.039 --> 00:46:42.519
you have to have the infrastructure for
it to take off. And as Barbara

665
00:46:42.559 --> 00:46:45.719
as our friend Barbert Taylor saw,
he lives in southern California and he still

666
00:46:45.719 --> 00:46:50.119
doesn't use it. Um and And
that's the thing is that it's an option.

667
00:46:50.440 --> 00:46:54.039
Right now, Microsoft hasn't bundled as
part of another thing that you buy

668
00:46:54.360 --> 00:46:59.000
and I get I get it from
a perspective of Okay, well they can

669
00:46:59.079 --> 00:47:05.800
raise game pressis after they they passed
this, Well Microsoft really doesn't you know,

670
00:47:05.840 --> 00:47:07.360
they've already said that they weren't going
to do that. Yeah, and

671
00:47:07.400 --> 00:47:14.320
if the right yeah, they could
you know, release tiers of Okay,

672
00:47:14.360 --> 00:47:17.440
well whatever the twenty dollars tier is
you get this and this and this,

673
00:47:17.519 --> 00:47:21.480
but there's still the fifteen and the
ten. They give you the same stuff,

674
00:47:21.920 --> 00:47:23.840
just you get more withever, whatever
they're gonna put on twenty, whether

675
00:47:23.880 --> 00:47:28.400
they they tell you okay, we'll
make sure that the I don't know.

676
00:47:28.559 --> 00:47:30.679
I really don't know what they could
do there other than extra perks and and

677
00:47:30.920 --> 00:47:37.159
maybe some like extra rewards like getting
you know, some kind of percentage off

678
00:47:37.199 --> 00:47:40.840
your games or whatever you wanted to
buy them or uh because you know you

679
00:47:40.880 --> 00:47:45.559
can't lock out, which that's the
thing is, they don't want you putting

680
00:47:45.559 --> 00:47:52.280
the Activision Blizzard stuff behind another paywall
to tire right. So that's the thing

681
00:47:52.440 --> 00:47:54.960
is, yes, do they they
don't. If you let this pass.

682
00:47:55.639 --> 00:48:00.000
If another if say somebody has a
cloud gaming competitor, does it behoove them

683
00:48:00.079 --> 00:48:05.159
to put that on there no,
But like you also don't seem to understand

684
00:48:05.159 --> 00:48:08.159
how those cloud gamy things work.
The cloud gaming things are not like Sony

685
00:48:08.280 --> 00:48:13.000
Store, Nintendo's store where they get
a cut, right, You're they're just

686
00:48:13.199 --> 00:48:19.119
renting the cloud gaming thing and you're
playing your game that you already bought somewhere

687
00:48:19.159 --> 00:48:22.519
else on there. So it's not
the same thing, and it's it's just

688
00:48:23.239 --> 00:48:28.559
a lot of it just seems so
silly what they're doing just to be able

689
00:48:28.599 --> 00:48:31.679
to block it. And then the
thing is also Microsoft may not have much

690
00:48:31.679 --> 00:48:37.039
recourse because number when it's very hard
to get something fast and appeal through the

691
00:48:37.039 --> 00:48:39.559
CMA, it takes anywhere from nine
months to a year. So I means

692
00:48:39.559 --> 00:48:43.400
we're gonna be talking about this again
for another freaking year. I'm so tired

693
00:48:43.440 --> 00:48:46.199
of it. And this is from
somebody, like I said on the last

694
00:48:46.239 --> 00:48:50.480
show, and i've you know you
said it just now. I do not

695
00:48:50.719 --> 00:48:55.559
care about Activision Blizzards games, by
and large, I don't. I'll just

696
00:48:55.679 --> 00:49:02.400
buy Diablo whenever it comes out.
I don't care about ain't hardly anything Activision

697
00:49:02.840 --> 00:49:07.920
except for like Crash if they make
another one and if I have to play

698
00:49:07.920 --> 00:49:10.639
that on Xbox and I have to
play it on Xbox. Yeah, I

699
00:49:12.039 --> 00:49:15.679
think you and I are both in
a decent situation where we can play them

700
00:49:15.679 --> 00:49:17.599
on all these systems. And yes, there are people out there that can't.

701
00:49:17.599 --> 00:49:23.760
However, that is part of the
battle between Microsoft. They're part of

702
00:49:23.800 --> 00:49:27.519
the game. Hey, if do
you want to play the Last Epist,

703
00:49:27.559 --> 00:49:29.800
then you have to buy a PlayStation. Do you want to play Call of

704
00:49:29.880 --> 00:49:32.039
Duty, then you're gonna have to
buy an Xbox. I don't know.

705
00:49:32.199 --> 00:49:36.559
I mean, I think Call of
Duty is too big to be putting on

706
00:49:36.880 --> 00:49:39.360
as an exclusive. And I'm fine
if you don't put any avtivists games as

707
00:49:39.360 --> 00:49:43.599
exclusive. No, I'm just saying
if they did, it would not bother

708
00:49:43.679 --> 00:49:47.480
me one bit. Their problem is
they don't want Microsoft to get any bigger

709
00:49:47.920 --> 00:49:52.199
in the gaming market by doing this. They they even told them, oh,

710
00:49:52.360 --> 00:49:53.639
well, why don't you just make
smaller person, you know, why

711
00:49:53.639 --> 00:49:59.800
don't you go after another gaming company
that doesn't have the biggest game in all

712
00:49:59.840 --> 00:50:01.519
of gaming in it. And it's
like, I kind of get it in

713
00:50:01.519 --> 00:50:07.079
a way, but they're shooting big
because they know they need this to compete

714
00:50:07.119 --> 00:50:10.400
with Sony's dominance. And then to
those dominants, Microsoft to go, bitch,

715
00:50:10.400 --> 00:50:13.840
we already have Minecraft. Do we
have the best game? Yeah?

716
00:50:13.920 --> 00:50:19.119
Right, exactly. So that's the
thing is I'm just sitting here. It's

717
00:50:19.199 --> 00:50:22.119
if flabbergass to me when that finally
came out, and who knows, maybe

718
00:50:22.119 --> 00:50:25.920
Microsoft, maybe this deal is completely
dead. Maybe it is. I firstly,

719
00:50:27.360 --> 00:50:30.039
it does not bother me, but
I know there's a lot of people

720
00:50:30.039 --> 00:50:32.599
that were wanting this to be a
thing, and I kind of wanted to

721
00:50:32.599 --> 00:50:37.559
be a thing because I wanted to
see Microsoft grow in the gaming space.

722
00:50:37.639 --> 00:50:42.719
I wanted to see Xbox become a
more level player with PlayStation because why because,

723
00:50:42.719 --> 00:50:45.639
like you just said, it makes
PlayStation have to fight more. What

724
00:50:45.679 --> 00:50:50.280
are they doing right now? They're
buying studios like crazy. They're not doing

725
00:50:50.360 --> 00:50:52.159
much either, like we have Spider
Man this year. Well, I mean

726
00:50:52.159 --> 00:50:55.480
they're gonna be great, but that's
about it. I think Sony is a

727
00:50:55.519 --> 00:51:01.000
different kind of thing because they want
to release the the quadruple A quality like

728
00:51:01.239 --> 00:51:06.960
movie tier games when they release,
and now they're focusing on, oh,

729
00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:10.159
we want to have like a million
multiplayer things. Almost all these studios that

730
00:51:10.159 --> 00:51:14.519
they're buying are for multiplayer stuff,
which personally, I don't care about.

731
00:51:14.559 --> 00:51:16.840
But again there's that's what makes the
money, so they gotta go where the

732
00:51:16.880 --> 00:51:21.639
money's getting made at the end of
the day. But I don't think this

733
00:51:21.719 --> 00:51:24.639
is a good good thing for the
CMA. Maybe the E will pass it

734
00:51:25.239 --> 00:51:29.719
and then that will put pressure on
the other two and then Microsoft notes they

735
00:51:29.719 --> 00:51:31.719
can probably win in court against the
FTC, and then the CMA is the

736
00:51:31.760 --> 00:51:36.719
one that gets put the pressure on. And then also if the UK,

737
00:51:37.039 --> 00:51:38.360
which this is what they want,
right, they want the UK to get

738
00:51:38.440 --> 00:51:43.679
some kind of advantage. Maybe the
UK gets isolated and they don't get anything

739
00:51:43.800 --> 00:51:50.880
Xbox because you did this, So
they may be coming back to rue this

740
00:51:50.920 --> 00:51:57.119
situation. And also Sony is not
without fail here because Sony pushed hard against

741
00:51:57.159 --> 00:52:00.400
this, So anybode the CMA aware
of a lot of stuff. And if

742
00:52:00.400 --> 00:52:04.639
this doesn't go through, somebody may
may wish that they would have let it

743
00:52:04.679 --> 00:52:07.239
go through, because I think Microsoft
is gonna come down with the hammer,

744
00:52:07.559 --> 00:52:09.440
and they're gonna come down with the
hammer hard. Uh. You know,

745
00:52:09.480 --> 00:52:14.280
they they're probably not gonna get you
know, they're not gonna go after score

746
00:52:14.440 --> 00:52:17.639
Enix or whatever. You know,
Sega's doing stuff to make it look like

747
00:52:17.760 --> 00:52:22.360
they want somebody to buy them.
I mean Microsoft comes around and goes,

748
00:52:22.760 --> 00:52:25.000
let's see, let's see if we
can convince Sega to come over here.

749
00:52:25.159 --> 00:52:29.480
You know, let's let's let's go
try to grab some other I mean,

750
00:52:29.599 --> 00:52:32.400
I don't know. Take two has
been rumored around, you know that somebody's

751
00:52:32.440 --> 00:52:36.559
been been sniffing around to see if
they'll buy them so they can have you

752
00:52:36.559 --> 00:52:39.000
know, Grand Theft auto. Uh, yeah, there's Honestly, Grand Theft

753
00:52:39.000 --> 00:52:44.360
thought it would work great with Microsoft
because they don't release games either. Yeah,

754
00:52:44.639 --> 00:52:50.000
still waiting, still waiting for six
yeah, eighty seven years. Well,

755
00:52:50.039 --> 00:52:52.599
they are working on it. They
are working on us supposedly so,

756
00:52:52.400 --> 00:52:55.280
but that being said, you know, they do have a game coming out

757
00:52:55.280 --> 00:52:59.679
in a couple of days, Red
Fall, So we'll talk about that when

758
00:52:59.679 --> 00:53:02.119
we talk about a high level thing. But yeah, I mean, look,

759
00:53:02.119 --> 00:53:06.239
there's a lot to go into.
There's people you can I don't want

760
00:53:06.280 --> 00:53:09.079
to sit here and spend this thing. There's there's a lot of people you

761
00:53:09.119 --> 00:53:13.000
can listen to. I'm sure there's
lawyers you can listen to that will break

762
00:53:13.000 --> 00:53:15.039
down this whole thing for you.
If you want to deep dive into what

763
00:53:15.559 --> 00:53:20.360
what Microsoft could do with the CMA
and I'm sure we'll get more news in

764
00:53:20.400 --> 00:53:23.400
this entire year now that we're gonna
have to talk about this again. So

765
00:53:23.800 --> 00:53:28.559
you know, if you want more
of that, there are there's a million

766
00:53:28.599 --> 00:53:30.920
places you can go listen to it. I just don't want to spend an

767
00:53:30.920 --> 00:53:37.519
hour talking about this and it's not
necessary. That being said, we did

768
00:53:37.599 --> 00:53:44.679
have which has been another trend,
this Randy that bad PC ports and then

769
00:53:44.760 --> 00:53:51.559
just bad running big games coming out. Started with afore spoken and now it's

770
00:53:51.559 --> 00:53:53.840
in it's blood throughout the year with
other games. And now we got Star

771
00:53:53.880 --> 00:53:59.559
Wars Jedi Survivor, a game that
made the folks that make De Island have

772
00:53:59.599 --> 00:54:02.400
to move up their game another week
to make sure they didn't run into a

773
00:54:02.480 --> 00:54:07.159
game that people have been waiting for
for a while, and it comes out

774
00:54:07.199 --> 00:54:09.639
with some really bad PC port issues
and it has issues on the PS five

775
00:54:09.679 --> 00:54:14.480
as well. Yeah, it's one
of those games where you know, we

776
00:54:14.559 --> 00:54:17.639
make fun of Dead Island too for
being ten years in development or after being

777
00:54:17.639 --> 00:54:22.440
announced and finally coming out, but
at least they knew that whatever they were

778
00:54:22.440 --> 00:54:28.119
fixing needed to be fixed, and
Star Wars just refuses again. This happened

779
00:54:28.119 --> 00:54:31.840
with Fallen Order I'm a big fan
of girlfriend reviews on YouTube. Go watch

780
00:54:31.960 --> 00:54:37.440
their first review of this game and
how buggy Fallen Order was and then YenS

781
00:54:37.480 --> 00:54:40.480
and I for Chapter Select like a
year later, played it and it was

782
00:54:40.559 --> 00:54:45.000
fantastic, And I think that'll be
the same with Jedi A Survivor. It

783
00:54:45.039 --> 00:54:47.960
came out in a buggy mess,
which you and I, I know,

784
00:54:49.000 --> 00:54:52.159
have had many conversations over the years
of needing to put a stop to these

785
00:54:52.199 --> 00:54:55.920
developers going ash, you know,
we'll we'll just patch it later. We

786
00:54:57.199 --> 00:55:00.480
need our money now so we can
patch these these broken games so they're playable

787
00:55:00.519 --> 00:55:05.119
in a few months. But that's
what Star Wars does, and I wasn't

788
00:55:05.199 --> 00:55:08.239
too surprised that Jedi Fallen or Jedi
Survivor is doing that same thing, and

789
00:55:08.360 --> 00:55:12.559
even less surprised that the PC port
is broken. Guess what, the PC

790
00:55:12.760 --> 00:55:16.320
port is always broken. I'm not
going to go full Greg Miller, but

791
00:55:16.960 --> 00:55:21.880
by the way, he has been
absolutely hilarious. Oh yeah, has gone

792
00:55:21.880 --> 00:55:28.239
total like WWE Wrestler on the full. However, you know what, this

793
00:55:28.360 --> 00:55:32.760
is also why I have zero problems
with Microsoft buying Activision and then making a

794
00:55:32.800 --> 00:55:37.440
lot of those games exclusive, because
it's a lot easier to make one game

795
00:55:37.599 --> 00:55:40.480
for one system then it is to
try to report it to the eight billion

796
00:55:40.519 --> 00:55:46.039
different setups that people have. Yeah, yeah, which is why the PC

797
00:55:46.239 --> 00:55:51.320
ports always struggle because you know,
they work on it on a couple of

798
00:55:51.320 --> 00:55:52.960
different machines, I'm sure, just
to test it out, but they don't

799
00:55:53.000 --> 00:55:58.480
have every configuration that's not possibly out
there. And then people will get their

800
00:55:58.480 --> 00:56:01.079
stuff and it's all messed up,
so really get fixed. Of course it'll

801
00:56:01.119 --> 00:56:06.880
be fine, everyone will calm down. But this is just a typical PC

802
00:56:07.000 --> 00:56:08.679
part. It just doesn't work,
it, I mean, but I do

803
00:56:08.800 --> 00:56:15.159
understand people's being upset. Right,
You're paying seventy dollars for this game and

804
00:56:15.280 --> 00:56:17.840
it doesn't work on day one when
you buy it. That is a very

805
00:56:17.960 --> 00:56:22.119
reason to be frustrated, a reason
to go get your refund if you want

806
00:56:22.159 --> 00:56:24.760
to whatever. Um, you know, Digital founder we called it the worst

807
00:56:24.800 --> 00:56:29.119
triple APC point of twenty twenty thirty
too far, and that's something saying something

808
00:56:29.119 --> 00:56:32.639
because we have some really bad ones
already. I mean, that's the thing

809
00:56:32.679 --> 00:56:36.800
is, I don't play this on
PC. Mark's PC is not good enough

810
00:56:36.840 --> 00:56:39.199
probably anymore to play something like this. But um, you know, even

811
00:56:39.199 --> 00:56:43.079
on PS five it has some issues, and I think that says a lot

812
00:56:43.119 --> 00:56:49.159
that you guys did a delay earlier
in the year to supposedly give this polish

813
00:56:49.159 --> 00:56:52.679
and fix it, and then it
wasn't long enough. And I get it.

814
00:56:52.920 --> 00:56:57.960
There's uh, you know some devs
that that we're talking and they said,

815
00:56:58.039 --> 00:57:00.320
look, if you want it to
be a perfect your game will never

816
00:57:00.360 --> 00:57:04.360
come out because no game ever comes
out perfect. There's always an issue,

817
00:57:04.599 --> 00:57:08.480
but a lot of games come out
where they're workable right where you don't really

818
00:57:08.519 --> 00:57:13.159
have most issues. You might have
some freak ones here and there, and

819
00:57:13.239 --> 00:57:16.119
you get to fix those of the
patch, but that's not excessive and this

820
00:57:16.280 --> 00:57:20.320
is not the EA way. The
EA way is get it out, get

821
00:57:20.320 --> 00:57:23.639
the money, yeah, and then
possibly fix it later. There's a reason

822
00:57:23.679 --> 00:57:28.159
why as a football fan, I
don't remember the last time I bought them

823
00:57:28.199 --> 00:57:32.960
Adden, and I will every year
download Madden on game Pass eight months after

824
00:57:32.960 --> 00:57:36.599
it comes out or whatever, just
to try it out. And it's still

825
00:57:36.639 --> 00:57:40.000
a mess. It's one of those
things where at what point with EA do

826
00:57:40.280 --> 00:57:45.000
gamers go, you know what your
game comes out, I'm going to wait

827
00:57:45.039 --> 00:57:50.280
a week and see these reviews because
EA Dave completely lost my trust. Like

828
00:57:50.599 --> 00:57:52.199
I was super excited for the new
nc double A game to come out,

829
00:57:52.559 --> 00:57:58.719
I am terrified of NCABA Football still
being an EA product and it being a

830
00:57:58.719 --> 00:58:00.920
complete mess when it comes. Oh
but I mean to be fair, I

831
00:58:00.920 --> 00:58:05.639
mean Dead Space Freemake works just so, it's not everything. It's just it

832
00:58:05.719 --> 00:58:10.760
seems like these big ones that they're
really hoping. So we need to make

833
00:58:10.880 --> 00:58:15.400
Madden O six. Yeah, and
it'll work out well. Add in the

834
00:58:15.400 --> 00:58:19.920
season Madden No. Six that it'll
be perfect there that wasn't in there.

835
00:58:20.960 --> 00:58:24.199
But yeah, I mean hopefully they're
promising a lot of fixes. Hopefully it

836
00:58:24.239 --> 00:58:29.440
gets fixed it or later. But
this is again why I don't go crazy

837
00:58:29.599 --> 00:58:35.440
pre ordering games. Uh day one. I wait until there's reviews. I

838
00:58:35.559 --> 00:58:39.119
wait until um I mean obviously,
if I had to review the game myself,

839
00:58:39.159 --> 00:58:43.320
then obviously I don't have a I
can't make the decision that might my

840
00:58:43.960 --> 00:58:46.599
issues to be one of the journalists
reviewing and telling you whether it's good or

841
00:58:46.679 --> 00:58:52.199
bad. I also have a problem
with journalists not pointing out the issues and

842
00:58:52.280 --> 00:58:54.880
then giving in an a to the
ten anyway, but that's been an issue

843
00:58:55.199 --> 00:59:00.079
for a long time with gaming press
that we tend to do that. We

844
00:59:00.119 --> 00:59:05.280
tend to kind of push aside issues
and say, well, I could still

845
00:59:05.360 --> 00:59:09.480
kind of mostly play the game so
it didn't affect it. And I understand

846
00:59:09.519 --> 00:59:13.599
that you don't want to give a
game a six because it looks bad when

847
00:59:13.639 --> 00:59:16.079
it's something that they can fix later, but it's still bad for the consumers

848
00:59:16.119 --> 00:59:19.599
when it first comes out, and
it's not good because they're the ones spending

849
00:59:19.599 --> 00:59:22.480
the money. So yeah, just
wish sometimes there could be a little bit

850
00:59:22.519 --> 00:59:25.480
more honestly on that side of things. But again, U as gamers need

851
00:59:25.519 --> 00:59:30.039
to do your research sometimes not get
all in the hype cycle and wait,

852
00:59:30.559 --> 00:59:35.280
just wait, Robert, wait on
Jelda, sir. Yeah, I mean

853
00:59:35.320 --> 00:59:37.679
it's gonna be hilarious when everybody is
sitting here complaining about, you know,

854
00:59:37.880 --> 00:59:44.079
thirty fps this and Jetta Survivor issues, and then Zelda's gonna come out.

855
00:59:44.760 --> 00:59:47.920
It's gonna have some issues running.
It's not gonna be thirty fps all the

856
00:59:47.920 --> 00:59:52.119
time or nowhere, gonna not gonna
be sixty at all. People are gonna

857
00:59:52.119 --> 00:59:54.280
be playing the crap out of this, So it's it's hilarious to me.

858
00:59:54.360 --> 00:59:59.039
We have all each fights about graphics, graphics, graphics, and this game

859
00:59:59.079 --> 01:00:01.400
is gonna come out. It's do
crazy. Let's talk about graphics in a

860
01:00:01.440 --> 01:00:07.400
different way, Randy. Both of
us own the PSBR one at one time

861
01:00:07.480 --> 01:00:13.480
or another. How do you do
you have any interest PSVR to know?

862
01:00:14.239 --> 01:00:19.280
Because PlayStation doesn't care about the PlayStation
VR two, so I'm not going to

863
01:00:19.360 --> 01:00:24.159
care about the PlayStation VR two.
It came out in February. I don't

864
01:00:24.159 --> 01:00:30.960
know, I've seen a single ad
or commercial or anything from Sony. It

865
01:00:30.079 --> 01:00:32.800
just was like, here you go. It's the same thing if they ever

866
01:00:32.840 --> 01:00:37.639
came out with another handheld. It's
like, I absolutely love the day.

867
01:00:37.880 --> 01:00:40.440
I don't play a ton of handheld
gaming anymore, but when I do,

868
01:00:40.480 --> 01:00:43.599
I like playing on the Vita.
I thought it felt good. The game

869
01:00:43.679 --> 01:00:46.199
just looked really good on there.
But PlayStation just did not support it,

870
01:00:46.559 --> 01:00:52.480
and they supported the Vita way more
than what they are supporting the PlayStation VR

871
01:00:52.559 --> 01:00:54.719
two. You put in the notes
that this might be coming the stores.

872
01:00:54.760 --> 01:00:59.039
I didn't realize it wasn't, just
because I have zero interest in it,

873
01:00:59.079 --> 01:01:04.320
and I just right no, thank
Yeah. So essentially the two hundred and

874
01:01:04.320 --> 01:01:08.280
seventy thousand units that sold so far
as only through the PS direct, so

875
01:01:08.360 --> 01:01:13.440
the hardest of the hardcore people are
the only ones that have seen or touched

876
01:01:13.440 --> 01:01:16.639
this. Now it's gonna finally come
to stores. I don't know how much.

877
01:01:17.000 --> 01:01:20.400
I do think there's gonna be an
increase. I do think there's gonna

878
01:01:20.400 --> 01:01:22.480
be a bump and people seeing it
and saying, oh, there's And now

879
01:01:22.480 --> 01:01:25.519
it puts the VR two in.
It has its own controllers, which was

880
01:01:27.000 --> 01:01:29.199
my hang up with the first one
because I didn't want to buy the move

881
01:01:29.280 --> 01:01:34.440
controllers. Uh you know, so
like I'm sort of interested. If I

882
01:01:34.480 --> 01:01:37.360
had the space, would I consider
it. But for me, the price

883
01:01:37.480 --> 01:01:43.760
is just five hundred and fifty dollars
is a lot, you know for seven

884
01:01:43.800 --> 01:01:49.280
games? Yeah, exactly, for
you know, when you can I could

885
01:01:49.400 --> 01:01:52.960
just buy the was It the Quest
two and get a lot of these same

886
01:01:53.000 --> 01:01:58.599
games. Is there gonna be this
one killer game that's gonna come to PSBR

887
01:01:58.639 --> 01:02:00.679
two and I'm gonna like, oh
my god, I don't think so.

888
01:02:01.320 --> 01:02:07.480
I just don't think that. Look, there's a lot of VR defenders,

889
01:02:07.719 --> 01:02:12.880
and I get that VR is cool
technology. We may one day get to

890
01:02:13.039 --> 01:02:16.079
be Ready Player one. We may
get to that point, but it's not

891
01:02:16.199 --> 01:02:20.320
right now, and it doesn't seem
to be the thing that a lot of

892
01:02:20.400 --> 01:02:22.280
consumers want. Well, if we
ever get you Ready Player one, it

893
01:02:22.280 --> 01:02:27.559
won't be Sony hardware that we put
on our heads because they just don't care.

894
01:02:27.840 --> 01:02:30.159
They don't care about this thing.
Yeah, there's somebody in the Sony

895
01:02:30.199 --> 01:02:35.960
studios that just bags and bags and
they absolutely love VR and they get it

896
01:02:36.159 --> 01:02:38.400
to work. And for somebody's like, all right, fine, just release

897
01:02:38.440 --> 01:02:42.639
a stupid thing, but we're not
going to talk about it ever. It's

898
01:02:42.679 --> 01:02:47.639
like some son of a higher up
just loves vrs, like all right,

899
01:02:47.800 --> 01:02:51.719
I mean with our own stuff.
But they company to themselves, they don't

900
01:02:51.760 --> 01:02:58.039
care the same. Sony CFO Hirooki
Tooki says that he believes that VR can

901
01:02:58.079 --> 01:03:00.800
be one of the largest growth markets
in the media entertainment seven for the next

902
01:03:00.880 --> 01:03:05.000
you know, five years. What
are they've been selling that for like twenty

903
01:03:05.079 --> 01:03:09.000
years before that because they have no
market there's no and yeah, just of

904
01:03:09.039 --> 01:03:12.480
course there's a lot of growth because
you have none there, but they just

905
01:03:12.480 --> 01:03:15.840
don't put the effort in. I
agree. It's just the thing is like

906
01:03:15.320 --> 01:03:22.000
you can't have that same gaming experience
in VR because like eventually you want to

907
01:03:22.039 --> 01:03:24.199
get that thing off your head,
Like I don't want to spend an hour

908
01:03:24.480 --> 01:03:28.440
with that thing on my head.
I don't. I don't know where Meta

909
01:03:28.519 --> 01:03:30.880
thinks that anybody wants to sit in
the office with that thing on their head

910
01:03:31.360 --> 01:03:37.039
for eight hours. So like that's
the thing. It's just this is cool

911
01:03:37.320 --> 01:03:39.760
for something to show people to,
Like, maybe you have it at a

912
01:03:39.800 --> 01:03:45.719
party. They could play Beat Saver
or some kind of family game or whatever

913
01:03:45.760 --> 01:03:46.960
that you could put on the TV
and then you have the one person wearing

914
01:03:47.000 --> 01:03:51.400
the headset or like, but man
as a single player, like, let

915
01:03:51.400 --> 01:03:53.119
me sit in here and play this
for hours and hours. It's not that

916
01:03:54.079 --> 01:03:59.000
I just don't think you get enough
sales for the be worth it. They

917
01:03:59.039 --> 01:04:02.599
are selling. They are stilling a
lot of PS five though six million.

918
01:04:02.599 --> 01:04:06.280
In the last quarter, they've shipped
thirty eight million in total, which is

919
01:04:06.400 --> 01:04:11.559
ridiculous, breaking all the records for
all their other consoles. I mean,

920
01:04:11.599 --> 01:04:15.679
you know, we both had our
PS fives at launched like y where so

921
01:04:15.880 --> 01:04:18.400
you know you mentioned Sony with their
they're only going to release what seems like

922
01:04:18.440 --> 01:04:21.239
the only release in Spider Man this
year. They do have a place in

923
01:04:21.280 --> 01:04:27.440
Showcase coming true in a few weeks. I mean what do you think they

924
01:04:27.480 --> 01:04:31.880
could surprise us with anything. I
think some smaller stuff and I guess that

925
01:04:31.960 --> 01:04:35.760
last of us a multiplayer thing now
at some point this year too. They

926
01:04:35.800 --> 01:04:39.760
could definitely surprise us with some stuff. But I really think that they are

927
01:04:39.800 --> 01:04:44.199
building up for next year and as
far as a showcase goes, and I'm

928
01:04:44.239 --> 01:04:48.440
hoping these numbers prove it to be
true. I'm just hoping that this next

929
01:04:48.480 --> 01:04:51.800
showcase is basically going. All right, the PS four is finally done.

930
01:04:53.280 --> 01:04:58.679
Every game from here on out that
we make is PS five only, right.

931
01:04:58.880 --> 01:05:01.920
We suppressed some of the quality of
these games so we could put it

932
01:05:01.960 --> 01:05:05.679
on the PS four because we knew
with all the COVID stuff that it was

933
01:05:05.840 --> 01:05:10.599
difficult to get our PS five.
But now the numbers show that is not

934
01:05:10.760 --> 01:05:15.599
as difficult as it was before.
So from here on out, we're PS

935
01:05:15.679 --> 01:05:18.079
five. That's what I'm Yeah,
I'm hoping for that too, that we're

936
01:05:18.079 --> 01:05:23.039
officially done with PS four, because
hey, we bought PS five's for a

937
01:05:23.079 --> 01:05:27.119
reason, right, and Fall Fantasy
sixteen is showing that that, you know,

938
01:05:27.159 --> 01:05:30.440
what could you do with a PS
five if you only release it on

939
01:05:30.480 --> 01:05:35.360
there, it'll it'll certainly look pretty
like I just want to see some games

940
01:05:35.360 --> 01:05:41.760
that are that are not only known
IP, but new IP as well.

941
01:05:41.760 --> 01:05:46.199
What is Sony guy cooking that we
that's not some big known franchise. Hopefully

942
01:05:46.199 --> 01:05:49.880
it's not all multiplayers stuff. Hopefully
you're still getting some the single players stuff

943
01:05:49.920 --> 01:05:55.679
as well. So I'm excited for
this showcase that they're coming up, you

944
01:05:55.719 --> 01:05:59.360
know, gonna have pretty soon.
And that's good that Sony is selling ridiculous

945
01:05:59.400 --> 01:06:02.920
numbers fives. It shows people still
want the console. Um. Although I

946
01:06:02.920 --> 01:06:06.559
don't know if you've seen so,
you know, you both of us have

947
01:06:06.920 --> 01:06:11.400
kids relatively around the same ages,
and you have your you know, younger

948
01:06:11.480 --> 01:06:15.400
daughter as well. Like Minus in
a big gamer. She plays roadblocks and

949
01:06:15.119 --> 01:06:20.199
things like that. You know,
I know Chase plays more stuff like um,

950
01:06:20.280 --> 01:06:25.559
I guess that that would be known
to us console gamers. But where

951
01:06:25.559 --> 01:06:29.599
where is he at with Because I
was reading stuff that you know, our

952
01:06:29.760 --> 01:06:33.519
generation under us and then our kids
they're not big gamers. They're not big

953
01:06:33.960 --> 01:06:40.280
Let me play on my consoles like
we are. Chases in a weird mix

954
01:06:40.639 --> 01:06:45.159
where a lot of the games he'll
play are very multiplayer based and it's just

955
01:06:45.280 --> 01:06:48.480
so he can chat with his friends
and and play and and and that's fine,

956
01:06:48.559 --> 01:06:53.960
but he is recently really gotten into
some of the older stuff. I

957
01:06:54.039 --> 01:06:57.239
wish I would have recorded this because
it was hilarious to me afterwards. But

958
01:06:57.320 --> 01:07:01.000
he came into my office and I
I'd finally gotten a bunch of older systems

959
01:07:01.000 --> 01:07:04.800
hooked up behind me again and and
got things going, and he's like,

960
01:07:04.840 --> 01:07:08.159
I really want to learn about these
old systems. He's like, well,

961
01:07:08.199 --> 01:07:10.840
you know, some people are really
into cars, and some people are really

962
01:07:10.880 --> 01:07:13.480
into this or that. It's like, I want to get into like video

963
01:07:13.519 --> 01:07:15.440
games and know the history of video
games. I'm like, absolutely, son,

964
01:07:15.679 --> 01:07:19.679
let's go. And I went all
right, well, you've been watching

965
01:07:19.719 --> 01:07:24.360
me play the RI four remake and
you absolutely like that game. It's like,

966
01:07:24.440 --> 01:07:27.960
yeah, well here, And I
sat him down with the original Resident

967
01:07:28.039 --> 01:07:34.679
Evil for the PlayStation with PlayStation on
the PlayStation system and set him up with

968
01:07:34.679 --> 01:07:38.840
it and made fun of him because
he took Chris, which is the hard

969
01:07:38.880 --> 01:07:41.800
mode of that game. He had
to pick the guy and we all fall

970
01:07:41.840 --> 01:07:45.280
for that back of the time.
But I left the room for a little

971
01:07:45.280 --> 01:07:48.679
bit and all of a sudden,
I hear, oh, all these controls,

972
01:07:48.760 --> 01:07:51.000
Oh, I can't figure this out. Oh, I'm out of m

973
01:07:51.000 --> 01:07:55.679
O. I'm out of m alright, just started looting. So he's starting

974
01:07:55.679 --> 01:07:59.519
to get into the old classics stuff
and we'll see where we go from there.

975
01:07:59.559 --> 01:08:03.199
However, Um, some of the
accommodations that newer video games have made

976
01:08:03.280 --> 01:08:09.599
him a soft gamer. No,
I mean that's it's it's the thing.

977
01:08:09.800 --> 01:08:14.679
It's it's the accessibility thing that push
for hat making things easier for people to

978
01:08:14.760 --> 01:08:16.960
just enjoy, uh, their game. It's not bad, but yeah,

979
01:08:17.039 --> 01:08:20.880
it's like you know, when you're
used to playing the fortnighte and and all

980
01:08:20.880 --> 01:08:25.600
those all those things that are like
make AMO available to you like everywhere.

981
01:08:25.720 --> 01:08:30.399
Right, Uh, it's it's it's
a different experience. Um. You know

982
01:08:30.560 --> 01:08:32.439
she's the same way. She sits
there on discord, talks to her friends.

983
01:08:32.880 --> 01:08:36.359
Uh, they'll play roadblocks together,
They'll do it's something they can all

984
01:08:36.359 --> 01:08:42.479
play together. She's not really about
doing it by herself. Um, even

985
01:08:42.479 --> 01:08:45.000
if they have to watch a show, she has to have her friend there

986
01:08:45.359 --> 01:08:48.960
video watching it with her, which
is funny. Um, you know,

987
01:08:49.000 --> 01:08:51.560
I'm on the mindset of like I'm
gonna sit down, I'm gonna watch this

988
01:08:51.640 --> 01:08:56.600
thing. Don't bother me, you
know, like or or I might put

989
01:08:56.600 --> 01:08:59.920
a podcast on and play or something, but it's, um, it's just

990
01:09:00.079 --> 01:09:02.640
an interesting thing that I'm like,
maybe Microsoft is actually going in the right

991
01:09:02.680 --> 01:09:10.520
direction with letting your games be everywhere, because that is what the what generations

992
01:09:10.600 --> 01:09:12.840
after us are gonna do. They're
not going to sit in front of their

993
01:09:12.840 --> 01:09:15.800
TV and play games. They're gonna
want to play on their phone. They're

994
01:09:15.800 --> 01:09:18.600
gonna want to go to their friend's
house. And that's why the switch.

995
01:09:24.800 --> 01:09:31.520
Yeah, you have that Asis roge
Ally thing that's about to come out.

996
01:09:31.560 --> 01:09:34.199
That's a Steam dec competitor. See, that's the thing that you were talking

997
01:09:34.199 --> 01:09:38.479
about. Competition. We need more
of that. We need The problem with

998
01:09:38.520 --> 01:09:42.760
the seam Deck is it's only being
sold by Valve in Valve Store. People

999
01:09:42.800 --> 01:09:48.000
are not seeing it. I think
if you saw other computer based especially every

1000
01:09:48.039 --> 01:09:51.399
runs Windows like things that the switch, I think you would get people to

1001
01:09:51.479 --> 01:09:55.319
say, oh, I can play
games on this thing. And maybe I

1002
01:09:55.319 --> 01:09:59.039
can't play Mario on it, but
I can go on the Steam Store and

1003
01:09:59.079 --> 01:10:01.600
I can play all these kinds of
games Like I think that's that would be

1004
01:10:01.640 --> 01:10:05.159
amazing if we can get that and
get more competition for Nintendo to do.

1005
01:10:05.880 --> 01:10:11.600
And then also like Nintendo has that
of you know, there's that quote by

1006
01:10:11.680 --> 01:10:15.479
Yamoto of he doesn't know if the
switch one games are gonna work with whatever

1007
01:10:15.640 --> 01:10:20.119
next switch thing that they make,
and it's like the PC just has that

1008
01:10:20.239 --> 01:10:24.319
library. If those games all work, don't matter, you know. And

1009
01:10:25.000 --> 01:10:27.720
I mean obviously it seemed decks different
because they have to make it work with

1010
01:10:27.760 --> 01:10:30.880
that. But like I wonder if
it would push the Nintendo would be like,

1011
01:10:30.920 --> 01:10:32.680
oh man, we got to make
sure the switch one games work because

1012
01:10:32.720 --> 01:10:35.960
you're gonna go all people that may
not buy the switch too because they can't

1013
01:10:35.960 --> 01:10:41.600
play the other games. You know. Yeah, I love seeing that.

1014
01:10:41.640 --> 01:10:45.279
I hope we get more of these
things, whether they're cloud gaming based or

1015
01:10:45.319 --> 01:10:49.960
they're more used on operating system those, more of those little switch like devices

1016
01:10:50.640 --> 01:10:55.000
push them to know a bit more
because as long as it's PS five and

1017
01:10:55.439 --> 01:11:00.760
Xbox Stories, that's not bothering them
at all. Um. And then just

1018
01:11:00.800 --> 01:11:03.840
to throw this out there, because
we both do things with the PS five

1019
01:11:04.840 --> 01:11:11.359
this month, Um, we do
know we're getting Humanity Day one on May

1020
01:11:11.479 --> 01:11:15.159
sixteenth if you have extra premium,
so if you want, yeah, that's

1021
01:11:15.319 --> 01:11:17.880
weird, weird peddle game. Okay, exactly. The one with where You're

1022
01:11:17.960 --> 01:11:23.760
the dog, following the made by
the Tetris Connect people. So but for

1023
01:11:23.880 --> 01:11:26.239
the essential games, you know,
the free games you get every month,

1024
01:11:26.239 --> 01:11:30.399
you're gonna get Grid Legends, which
is a decent racing game that it's made

1025
01:11:30.479 --> 01:11:33.600
under code Master's banner that he bought, Shivalry two, which was another you

1026
01:11:33.640 --> 01:11:38.399
know, decent game, and then
Descenders, which is like a game where

1027
01:11:38.399 --> 01:11:42.960
you're on a bike doing stuff.
So yeah, some decent stuff. It's

1028
01:11:43.000 --> 01:11:46.439
not the big games or whatever crazy
stuff. So sometimes they don't put the

1029
01:11:46.479 --> 01:11:50.359
crazy stuff here, and then they
put it in a mid month catalog deal,

1030
01:11:50.640 --> 01:11:55.039
so which they've been gotten really good
with that lately, like the last

1031
01:11:55.039 --> 01:11:58.720
couple of months, they've been thrown
in some heavy hitters. So there's been

1032
01:11:58.760 --> 01:12:00.720
a lot of times where I'm like, all the so good. I already

1033
01:12:00.760 --> 01:12:02.680
played it, but that's so good, Yeah, right, might play it

1034
01:12:02.680 --> 01:12:05.439
again, Like, oh, there's
that game that I kind of wanted to

1035
01:12:05.439 --> 01:12:08.960
play before. Oh, now it's
on here, I might play it actually.

1036
01:12:09.000 --> 01:12:14.279
So it's interesting. But all of
the Doom, Yeah, even the

1037
01:12:14.319 --> 01:12:15.920
fact they put Doom sixty four in
there, it made me like, yeah,

1038
01:12:16.479 --> 01:12:20.720
exactly everything Doom. And then almost
that whole thing was but Doza,

1039
01:12:21.079 --> 01:12:25.680
I was like, well, Microsoft
is really playing trying to play nice right

1040
01:12:25.720 --> 01:12:29.119
now right putting that on there,
So I wonder if it gets pulled next

1041
01:12:29.159 --> 01:12:33.079
month, right, like, oh
yeah, I screwed us, forget it.

1042
01:12:34.000 --> 01:12:40.399
So that being said, let's we've
talked about some of these things already.

1043
01:12:40.359 --> 01:12:43.520
Yeah, but you know, just
to kind of have this this segment

1044
01:12:43.600 --> 01:12:45.800
here, what are your hype levels
for some of the things that are coming

1045
01:12:45.840 --> 01:12:51.840
out relatively assume whether it's gaming adjacent
or an actual game, most of these

1046
01:12:51.840 --> 01:12:58.399
are game related because unfortunately, aside
from this one thing that we're gonna talk

1047
01:12:58.439 --> 01:13:01.239
about, most of the gaming stuff
is kind of like nebulous. We don't

1048
01:13:01.239 --> 01:13:04.439
really know when it's coming out.
It's just there right, other than like

1049
01:13:04.560 --> 01:13:10.279
Witcher three season three, and we
know Sonic three's coming out at the end

1050
01:13:10.319 --> 01:13:13.479
of the year, but that's way
down the line. The first thing that

1051
01:13:13.479 --> 01:13:16.119
we got to see like this week
was they showed the first teaser trailer for

1052
01:13:16.640 --> 01:13:21.960
the Peacock Twisted Metal Show, which
has h Anthony Mackee. Uh you know,

1053
01:13:23.760 --> 01:13:27.399
we're talking about like some known names
here, yeah, or Thomas Hayden

1054
01:13:27.520 --> 01:13:32.399
Church, Nev Campbell. Uh So
Samoa Joe's in it, so what?

1055
01:13:32.560 --> 01:13:38.199
And they the trailer showed Anthony mackee
uh in a in one of the vehicles.

1056
01:13:38.239 --> 01:13:43.640
He puts on like a that You're
My Sunshine song and and starts going

1057
01:13:43.680 --> 01:13:45.600
down the road shooting stuff. And
then they showed Sweet Teeth. I mean,

1058
01:13:45.720 --> 01:13:49.800
not much to go on there,
but like, I'm not the biggest

1059
01:13:49.800 --> 01:13:53.439
supposed to metal guy, but I
did play the game back in the day.

1060
01:13:53.880 --> 01:13:56.960
July twenty seventh is coming out.
What what is your hype level for

1061
01:13:57.000 --> 01:14:01.079
this? Like one to ten kind
of start. Yeah, I'd say six,

1062
01:14:01.760 --> 01:14:05.319
which was more than I was expecting. I think, honestly, it

1063
01:14:05.439 --> 01:14:11.239
being a series and not just a
movie works well with Twisted Metal, just

1064
01:14:11.279 --> 01:14:14.159
for the fact that if you ever
played any of those original games, that

1065
01:14:14.199 --> 01:14:17.039
whoever you beat the game with,
you kind of got their backstory and what

1066
01:14:17.119 --> 01:14:21.159
happened when they won the tournament.
So I really think you could set it

1067
01:14:21.239 --> 01:14:25.800
up where each episode, at least
for the first few, is focused on

1068
01:14:25.800 --> 01:14:30.800
one character and they will interact with
others, but we get their backstory and

1069
01:14:30.840 --> 01:14:33.800
we get what they would do if
they win this Twisted Metal tournament. The

1070
01:14:33.840 --> 01:14:39.840
fact that Samoa Joe is the body
of Sweet Tooth and will Arnette of all

1071
01:14:39.880 --> 01:14:45.119
people. Is it's the voice of
the weirdest combination to me. Like you

1072
01:14:45.119 --> 01:14:49.279
said, the trailer was not much. There was very much a teaser thing.

1073
01:14:49.359 --> 01:14:54.159
So I want to see what the
show itself is about. But I

1074
01:14:54.199 --> 01:14:57.359
think again, the fact that it's
a series and not a move has me

1075
01:14:57.439 --> 01:15:01.399
a little bit more interested just because
of the they could do it. Yeah,

1076
01:15:01.399 --> 01:15:03.640
for sure, I'm the same way. I kind of want to see

1077
01:15:03.680 --> 01:15:09.079
what they can do with it.
We have seen some bad video game series

1078
01:15:09.159 --> 01:15:15.000
here recently. Yeah, and I
hope you know the Wisher has been the

1079
01:15:15.000 --> 01:15:18.399
one standout or the cyberpunk thing which
is an anime. This this looks interesting

1080
01:15:18.439 --> 01:15:23.840
at least like they definitely nailed a
little bit of okay, this is this

1081
01:15:23.880 --> 01:15:28.239
is supposed to metal right, um, at least the look and getting some

1082
01:15:28.279 --> 01:15:30.920
of the vibe down. We'll see
when the actual show comes out if they

1083
01:15:30.960 --> 01:15:34.359
actually it or not. But like
you said, that's that's a good preface

1084
01:15:34.399 --> 01:15:38.640
for it. You could get the
backstories of these characters, you get some

1085
01:15:38.840 --> 01:15:43.279
known actors in there that it will
get people to to pay attention and you

1086
01:15:43.319 --> 01:15:46.239
know, give it a look on
Peacocks. So if they can they can

1087
01:15:46.399 --> 01:15:50.560
nail it, then uh, you
know it could be good, right,

1088
01:15:50.800 --> 01:15:55.680
Um. You know. One I'm
also kind of worried about is the Grant

1089
01:15:55.760 --> 01:15:59.159
Reason movie, which I think is
the only one of the movies that may

1090
01:15:59.239 --> 01:16:01.239
come out this year. I don't
think it's a video game movie. I

1091
01:16:01.279 --> 01:16:05.920
think it's a it's based on Yeah, it's based on like the guy that

1092
01:16:06.039 --> 01:16:10.079
you usually played the games and then
got put on the team and stuff.

1093
01:16:10.159 --> 01:16:12.520
Yeah, I look at it more
and I shall haven't seen it yet.

1094
01:16:13.439 --> 01:16:17.640
But that Tetris movie that came out
recently on an Apple TV plus or I

1095
01:16:17.640 --> 01:16:23.239
thought it was good, but I
think it doesn't appeal to non gamers.

1096
01:16:23.439 --> 01:16:28.359
I think it appeals to people that
really, but I don't just from the

1097
01:16:28.359 --> 01:16:30.159
trailers that I've seen from Tetris,
I don't really. I don't think that's

1098
01:16:30.159 --> 01:16:33.359
a movie that Yans and I will
cover because don't think it's more of a

1099
01:16:33.439 --> 01:16:38.600
documentary kind of a thing. And
yeah, a document movie or whatever you

1100
01:16:38.680 --> 01:16:43.600
want to call it, it's not
a a movie or show that's put in

1101
01:16:43.840 --> 01:16:48.479
that gaming universe. Grant Tres might
looked interesting, but it's like I said,

1102
01:16:48.479 --> 01:16:51.920
I don't really look at that one
as in the same vein as some

1103
01:16:51.960 --> 01:16:56.960
of these other video game adaptation.
Yeah, that'll be interesting to see what

1104
01:16:56.960 --> 01:16:58.800
they do it, but I agree
with you. It's more of like,

1105
01:16:58.960 --> 01:17:02.119
oh, the game or it turned
into a racer, right, not oh,

1106
01:17:02.239 --> 01:17:05.199
it's something to do with the video
game itself. And also, Grant

1107
01:17:05.239 --> 01:17:10.239
Thrids was so realistic, like how
much of it is really it's really just

1108
01:17:10.319 --> 01:17:13.880
trying to simulate driving is now it'd
be hilarious if they were showing all these

1109
01:17:13.920 --> 01:17:18.640
scenes and in the bottom you said
taken from Grand Trismo six gameplay. This

1110
01:17:18.760 --> 01:17:23.640
was real. I thought, oh
my god, we really stepped it up

1111
01:17:23.680 --> 01:17:26.720
here. And if they if they
use this as a way to sell that

1112
01:17:26.920 --> 01:17:30.039
game, with how beautiful that thing
is, then you know what I'm down

1113
01:17:30.119 --> 01:17:31.800
for. I'm sure it will give
people to be like, oh, yeah,

1114
01:17:31.840 --> 01:17:35.039
there's a new Grand Trismo on the
BS five, I'm gonna buy it.

1115
01:17:35.119 --> 01:17:38.560
You know, it would not surprise
me if they threw it on a

1116
01:17:38.600 --> 01:17:43.680
PlayStation plus like the month they came, Oh for sure would be would be

1117
01:17:43.680 --> 01:17:45.039
good if they could actually do that. They good people into it, for

1118
01:17:45.119 --> 01:17:49.479
sure. It's actually pretty decent in
VR as well from whatever too, So

1119
01:17:49.880 --> 01:17:54.239
getting into actual games. We talked
about this one, but I guess,

1120
01:17:54.640 --> 01:17:58.479
um, well, no, what, we didn't really give it a grade.

1121
01:17:58.840 --> 01:18:01.479
Red Fall has literally come out in
days. But I know both of

1122
01:18:01.560 --> 01:18:04.439
us don't care about that. Whether
it's thirty fps or sixty or whatever.

1123
01:18:05.920 --> 01:18:09.720
You do you care about it at
all? Have you seen anything for it?

1124
01:18:09.760 --> 01:18:13.520
No? When they first revealed this
game, I had zero interest in

1125
01:18:13.560 --> 01:18:15.680
it. The more they showed it
this game, I had even less interest

1126
01:18:15.720 --> 01:18:20.720
in it. Yeah. Again,
just because I'm not interested in something doesn't

1127
01:18:20.720 --> 01:18:24.199
mean it's going to be bad.
I hope it turns out to be better

1128
01:18:24.239 --> 01:18:28.279
than some of these previews have shown. I hope that the fact that it's

1129
01:18:28.319 --> 01:18:31.239
like thirty fps or whatever people are
crying about ends up not being a big

1130
01:18:31.279 --> 01:18:34.399
factor and it works out well.
But it's not a game for me.

1131
01:18:35.079 --> 01:18:39.720
I'm one of those that I know
I'm gonna try it because I like the

1132
01:18:39.760 --> 01:18:43.600
aesthetic, I like the world.
I like you know, vampire stuff.

1133
01:18:44.039 --> 01:18:46.760
Um, but my thing is usually
arcade games don't five with me. Like

1134
01:18:47.479 --> 01:18:54.279
I couldn't get it with Definite Loop
I tried, and like Dishonored, I

1135
01:18:54.359 --> 01:18:58.600
tried. I just couldn't. It
didn't work for me. Like so I

1136
01:18:58.680 --> 01:19:00.279
probably I know I'm gonna run into
the only thing that helps is a red

1137
01:19:00.279 --> 01:19:03.640
pole as a shooter, so I
you know, I'm better with shooters,

1138
01:19:03.720 --> 01:19:08.319
but especially probably not. I'm not
gonna have friends to play it with.

1139
01:19:08.359 --> 01:19:11.880
Even though I know you can play
the solo, I probably will wind up

1140
01:19:12.000 --> 01:19:14.840
dropping it. I'm sure, but
I'm gonna give it a shot. But

1141
01:19:14.880 --> 01:19:19.840
I'm not like I would say and
maybe posing on that level Zelda Tears of

1142
01:19:19.880 --> 01:19:25.760
the Kingdom, which is the game
that everybody is waiting on. Both of

1143
01:19:25.880 --> 01:19:29.079
us are in that same kind of
rom of Okay, the first one just

1144
01:19:29.239 --> 01:19:33.279
wasn't for us. Yeah, and
this one is even less for me.

1145
01:19:34.199 --> 01:19:40.039
When they came out with that presentation
what two three weeks ago now, that

1146
01:19:40.159 --> 01:19:43.640
really broke down the gameplay of I
went, you know what, the people

1147
01:19:43.640 --> 01:19:45.600
that absolutely love Breath of the Wild, like my son. My son really

1148
01:19:45.600 --> 01:19:50.840
liked Breath of the Wild, They're
gonna absolutely love this game. But to

1149
01:19:50.880 --> 01:19:55.119
me, some of the stuff that
really hurts me was, like you said,

1150
01:19:55.399 --> 01:19:59.439
I felt like that the world was
a little empty. I do am

1151
01:19:59.479 --> 01:20:03.000
disappointed that we didn't have dungeons,
but we have these weird little puzzle things

1152
01:20:03.079 --> 01:20:08.760
that were spread throughout the world.
Um I hated that my weapons just disintegrated,

1153
01:20:09.159 --> 01:20:12.560
and they're doing that again. But
so that's what they've done. It's

1154
01:20:12.600 --> 01:20:15.399
like, all right, here's everything
that the people that really love Breath of

1155
01:20:15.399 --> 01:20:18.840
the Wild loved, but now we've
made it more, even more intricate,

1156
01:20:18.920 --> 01:20:23.680
so now you can combine things to
make different weapons that will break on you

1157
01:20:23.800 --> 01:20:28.119
later. And the world now has
an upper level and possibly a lower level

1158
01:20:28.520 --> 01:20:31.119
with caves and stuff, and we'll
see about that stuff. So now the

1159
01:20:31.159 --> 01:20:36.079
world's even bigger. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah. The

1160
01:20:36.119 --> 01:20:41.239
Banjo Kazooi Nuts and Bolts version stuff
going on there with the Zelda stuff,

1161
01:20:41.239 --> 01:20:44.720
I get. I think people are
actually going to love it. It's one

1162
01:20:44.720 --> 01:20:49.840
of those games like, um,
I almost have Blood Born elden Ring thank

1163
01:20:49.880 --> 01:20:54.439
You from last year. Where would
I argue with somebody that says that was

1164
01:20:54.479 --> 01:20:57.039
game of the year. Absolutely not. But it's just not my kind of

1165
01:20:57.039 --> 01:21:00.439
game, And that's totally fine.
That wasn't going to happen here. I

1166
01:21:00.520 --> 01:21:03.680
like Tears of the Kingdom. If
somebody plays it and I pray that it's

1167
01:21:03.680 --> 01:21:06.680
a ten for ten game for these
people and then they go, that's my

1168
01:21:06.720 --> 01:21:11.239
game in the year and was like, that's great, but not I probably

1169
01:21:11.279 --> 01:21:15.479
want to so so how about how
much is Chase hype He's interested, it'd

1170
01:21:15.520 --> 01:21:18.520
be and that's the one issue is
being in the same household as him.

1171
01:21:18.560 --> 01:21:23.159
Now that game possibly could be in
my house. I have decided if I'm

1172
01:21:23.159 --> 01:21:28.880
gonna make that kid use his allowance
to buy it though, that's the way

1173
01:21:28.359 --> 01:21:30.640
that way, But if it ends
up in the house, I might give

1174
01:21:30.640 --> 01:21:33.359
it a try. At that points, like two or three, it's more

1175
01:21:33.399 --> 01:21:38.159
so just four people like Robert Taylor
that loved that first one. I'm more

1176
01:21:38.239 --> 01:21:43.119
hyped for them. I'm more of
a I definitely do enjoy some of the

1177
01:21:43.119 --> 01:21:47.000
older Zelda's I'm not yeah, Birth
of the Wall I was just like two

1178
01:21:47.079 --> 01:21:50.159
d's eld is better than three D's
Elda. To me, that's fair enough

1179
01:21:50.720 --> 01:22:00.359
us moving on from there to the
next game, Street Fighter six Crazy.

1180
01:22:00.880 --> 01:22:04.359
It looks so fun being a fan
of Maximilian dude and watching some of his

1181
01:22:04.399 --> 01:22:10.880
stuff and watching some of his content
on this I cannot do fighting games like.

1182
01:22:10.960 --> 01:22:14.439
The closest to a fighting fighting game
that I can get into is either

1183
01:22:14.479 --> 01:22:17.560
Smash Brothers or the w W two
K games, and I don't really consider

1184
01:22:17.600 --> 01:22:21.760
either of those this kind of classic
fighting game with all the crazy combos,

1185
01:22:23.159 --> 01:22:25.680
and even with those, for the
most part, I just smash buttons.

1186
01:22:25.720 --> 01:22:29.399
So will I play Street Fight or
six Maybe at some point if it goes

1187
01:22:29.439 --> 01:22:32.680
on sale or gets on PlayStation Plus
at some point. But it's the same

1188
01:22:32.720 --> 01:22:35.800
as legend is Zelda Tears of the
Kingdom. I think the hype is so

1189
01:22:35.880 --> 01:22:41.119
high on it because it looks so
damn good. Yeah that I really hope

1190
01:22:41.119 --> 01:22:44.640
it hits, and I am a
little worried without that hub thing that they've

1191
01:22:44.640 --> 01:22:47.880
created in the little city. But
again, watching the beta or whatever with

1192
01:22:48.000 --> 01:22:51.479
Maximilian dude going around just punching people
and it instantly put some you in a

1193
01:22:51.520 --> 01:22:55.840
fight with them and you create your
own characters for it. It's like,

1194
01:22:55.880 --> 01:22:59.119
you know what, they might have
nailed something here, and I really hope

1195
01:22:59.119 --> 01:23:01.359
it hits. I'm the same way. I'm not. I can't really do

1196
01:23:01.560 --> 01:23:08.680
finding games. I did like that
or Alive was a big finding game that

1197
01:23:08.760 --> 01:23:11.960
I liked, and so Caliber as
well, where two finding games that I

1198
01:23:12.800 --> 01:23:15.760
back in the day would always buy
or play. But when it comes to

1199
01:23:15.840 --> 01:23:18.720
Street Fighter, you know, played
the two D version as a kid,

1200
01:23:18.760 --> 01:23:24.319
a lot, obviously, but when
it became more intricate and it all of

1201
01:23:24.319 --> 01:23:27.479
that stuff, when it went to
three D, I was kind of like,

1202
01:23:27.880 --> 01:23:32.840
yeah, I think I'm kind of
out there. But the actual story

1203
01:23:32.880 --> 01:23:35.960
mode thing, the world mode thing, like you, it looks interesting.

1204
01:23:35.960 --> 01:23:40.760
I played some of the demo.
That stuff is fun. Just going there

1205
01:23:40.800 --> 01:23:45.279
getting a fight with the people,
It's just I don't wanna. I know,

1206
01:23:45.359 --> 01:23:46.760
I'm gonna probably like I will go
and play the story mode and stuff,

1207
01:23:46.760 --> 01:23:50.800
but I'm not gonna go and and
play that and go fight people online

1208
01:23:50.840 --> 01:23:55.079
where I'm gonna die and instantly.
You know, for all these people that

1209
01:23:55.359 --> 01:24:00.359
that trained forever to be in tournaments
for this thing there, that's to the

1210
01:24:00.359 --> 01:24:02.479
community. I'm sure it's super hyped
for that. This is gonna be a

1211
01:24:02.520 --> 01:24:05.680
big game. I'm sure that Capcom's
gonna be making a lot of money off

1212
01:24:05.680 --> 01:24:10.840
that and have another win on their
hands. Absolutely, kudos to them.

1213
01:24:11.520 --> 01:24:15.920
Diablo four you talked about you know, you sure you're probably gonna play it,

1214
01:24:15.960 --> 01:24:18.720
not at launch, but yeah in
six months. I always say my

1215
01:24:18.760 --> 01:24:23.279
hype is seven or eight. I'll
let everyone else be the beta testers.

1216
01:24:23.880 --> 01:24:27.640
Yeah, yes, there's been a
beta and they've done all this stuff that's

1217
01:24:27.680 --> 01:24:32.199
not really a beta yet until you
fully put it out there. So I

1218
01:24:32.199 --> 01:24:35.640
will let everyone else beta test this
thing for me, and in six months

1219
01:24:35.760 --> 01:24:40.439
or so, when a couple of
my friends who were way into this Diablo

1220
01:24:40.520 --> 01:24:45.079
series have found every knook and cranny
and or replaying it for the fifth time,

1221
01:24:45.560 --> 01:24:50.880
I will I'll give it a shot. I know Mark will definitely be

1222
01:24:50.960 --> 01:24:54.840
playing the Sunday one, whether it's
a review code or he buys it.

1223
01:24:54.880 --> 01:25:00.520
He's already leveled out the beta and
everything he loves Diablo, so I know

1224
01:25:00.600 --> 01:25:01.920
we're gonna be talking about on the
podcast. I don't know. I'll have

1225
01:25:01.960 --> 01:25:08.760
to play that beta that ironically is
comes out the same weekend as Tears of

1226
01:25:08.840 --> 01:25:12.079
the Kingdom. Once I play that, I'll see how it goes. I

1227
01:25:12.159 --> 01:25:15.279
like Diabblo a lot, It's just
the Alblo is one that I've always like

1228
01:25:15.319 --> 01:25:19.680
associated with having a friend to play
it with or whatever. So if I

1229
01:25:19.680 --> 01:25:24.159
can get Mark to play with me, maybe i'll I'll put it down on

1230
01:25:24.199 --> 01:25:29.039
the first day or not first day, but like within the early release month.

1231
01:25:29.239 --> 01:25:31.319
But like you, it might be
something that you know, in three

1232
01:25:31.399 --> 01:25:33.600
or four months I might look at
and go Oh, you know what,

1233
01:25:33.720 --> 01:25:38.439
maybe it's the Ablow time, but
that's another game that it looks like it's

1234
01:25:38.439 --> 01:25:41.760
gonna be great. And kudos the
Blizzard. They need to win right now

1235
01:25:42.279 --> 01:25:45.439
with all of the other stuff that's
been going on with them and all the

1236
01:25:45.520 --> 01:25:47.239
kind of stuff that is kind of
like the rest of the stuff that they

1237
01:25:47.279 --> 01:25:51.079
make because it's exists, but it
just exists, right They need something that's

1238
01:25:51.079 --> 01:25:55.960
like, oh, people are playing
this right now and enjoying it. I

1239
01:25:56.000 --> 01:26:00.079
think this is the first test of
people's morale systems. Like we've seen so

1240
01:26:00.199 --> 01:26:03.439
many people go, I'm never going
to buy an Activision Blizzard game again.

1241
01:26:03.960 --> 01:26:08.119
Yeah, well, let's see what
happens when Diablo comes out and how many

1242
01:26:08.119 --> 01:26:11.000
of those will be streaming it.
Oh, yeah, they're gonna buy it

1243
01:26:11.039 --> 01:26:15.119
because you know the thing is like
Devil two Resurrection. That's fine, but

1244
01:26:15.119 --> 01:26:17.880
that's for the people that like have
nostalgia for that. I overwatched two was

1245
01:26:17.960 --> 01:26:21.920
not what they wanted it to be. You know, Mark was very disappointed

1246
01:26:21.920 --> 01:26:26.439
in it. So this is the
first game that's like, this is brand

1247
01:26:26.439 --> 01:26:30.800
new, like this is what you've
been waiting for when it comes to Blizzard,

1248
01:26:30.479 --> 01:26:34.520
and hopefully it it nails it for
those people, and then of course

1249
01:26:34.560 --> 01:26:38.199
the one that's gonna appeal to both
of us here for sure, probably our

1250
01:26:38.239 --> 01:26:42.760
most hyped yes game of the year, unless they end up releasing Rebirth this

1251
01:26:42.840 --> 01:26:46.680
year. Uh Fallow Fantasy sixteen.
UM. Me and Mark had a big

1252
01:26:46.720 --> 01:26:50.960
debate about He wasn't a big fan
of what they've done with it, Um,

1253
01:26:51.000 --> 01:26:57.479
as far as it's over the top. So I mean, how how

1254
01:26:57.520 --> 01:27:00.680
do you feel about that? Like, it's it's more that make crime more

1255
01:27:00.720 --> 01:27:05.920
acually, it's not to me,
especially watching that that longer video that they

1256
01:27:05.960 --> 01:27:10.439
came out with with all the different
systems and hunts and all that stuff.

1257
01:27:10.760 --> 01:27:14.159
To me, you're right, it's
Devil May Cry meets Final Fantasy twelve,

1258
01:27:14.399 --> 01:27:16.479
right, and not only just the
aesthetic of it, but with it with

1259
01:27:16.680 --> 01:27:19.199
the different jobs you can go out
to, different hunts that you can go

1260
01:27:19.239 --> 01:27:25.199
out into. From everything I've seen, it's like the main mission if you

1261
01:27:25.399 --> 01:27:29.199
go straight through it as a decent
leath, But there's so much stuff to

1262
01:27:29.239 --> 01:27:35.079
do sidewise that will completely derail me. Because while I have said that,

1263
01:27:35.159 --> 01:27:40.239
I wasn't into Breadth of the Wild
because it didn't lead me in any direction

1264
01:27:40.840 --> 01:27:44.239
when there's ninety seven question marks on
a map, say which or three?

1265
01:27:45.319 --> 01:27:46.960
I never leave the main area because
I have to get rid of all the

1266
01:27:47.000 --> 01:27:53.359
team question marks. So this is
a game that I feel like most people

1267
01:27:53.359 --> 01:27:55.960
will be talking about the end game, and I'm sitting there, like thirty

1268
01:27:55.960 --> 01:28:03.479
hours in just still early on just
chapter two yet because I haven't completed chapter

1269
01:28:03.560 --> 01:28:08.239
two. But boy, have I
completed seventeen hunts and done all this extra

1270
01:28:08.319 --> 01:28:13.199
side stuff. I'm very hyped on
it. I do think that out of

1271
01:28:13.239 --> 01:28:15.079
the games that I was hyped for
that I knew were coming out this year,

1272
01:28:15.640 --> 01:28:23.279
this has the greatest chance of disappointing
because it is so overhyped, and

1273
01:28:23.520 --> 01:28:26.720
it is one of those games that
was supposed to come out years ago and

1274
01:28:26.840 --> 01:28:30.119
has been around forever, and I
think that they've put maybe too much into

1275
01:28:30.199 --> 01:28:33.319
it, So we will see how
it ends up going in plus with the

1276
01:28:33.319 --> 01:28:36.199
different battle system and stuff, maybe
it'll just end up being one where I'm

1277
01:28:36.239 --> 01:28:40.920
not into it as much as I
had hoped. But no, I'm absolutely

1278
01:28:40.920 --> 01:28:45.079
psyched, and I will go against
my better judgment and probably get this Day

1279
01:28:45.119 --> 01:28:47.439
one. Is Yeah, definitely gonna
get this Day one, just because it's

1280
01:28:47.479 --> 01:28:50.960
final fancy. You know, the
only other game I've bought this year that

1281
01:28:51.159 --> 01:28:57.039
thankfully that I haven't gotten to review
is The Rhythm or theat Rhythm. You

1282
01:28:57.079 --> 01:29:01.640
know you love that you I'm moose. I've done all the quests, I've

1283
01:29:01.680 --> 01:29:04.119
done all of the crazy crap that
they want me to do. I've done

1284
01:29:04.159 --> 01:29:09.880
the Endless World. I just have
to go through and kill more enemies because

1285
01:29:09.880 --> 01:29:13.680
you have to kill like five thousand
enemies. I'm at like, oh wow.

1286
01:29:13.680 --> 01:29:18.279
And instead of you could play the
what a Price of Freedom song from

1287
01:29:18.319 --> 01:29:21.720
Crisis Core. Yeah, because you
can kill like thirty people in that song.

1288
01:29:21.800 --> 01:29:25.399
But instead of playing that over and
over, I'm just kind of waiting

1289
01:29:25.399 --> 01:29:28.479
for deals. So the new DLC
will hit and I'll play those four or

1290
01:29:28.479 --> 01:29:32.279
five songs they hit, and then
if I still have not reached said trophy

1291
01:29:32.319 --> 01:29:35.560
by the time all the DLC comes
out later this year, then I'll cheeze

1292
01:29:35.560 --> 01:29:40.279
a little bit. You think that
they'll I think that there's gonna be sixteen

1293
01:29:40.920 --> 01:29:44.000
DLC that comes. That'd be really
cool. I mean, it wasn't part

1294
01:29:44.039 --> 01:29:46.039
of the roadmap, but it would
be really cool if they add I'm hoping

1295
01:29:46.039 --> 01:29:50.319
that there's some to add content and
stuff like that. Like, you know,

1296
01:29:50.520 --> 01:29:57.159
I like the little you know,
the the last three DS one had

1297
01:29:57.239 --> 01:30:02.000
like this elongated quest thing where it
went through these It's kind of similar to

1298
01:30:02.039 --> 01:30:05.079
the ones that are there now,
but it kind of felt more like you're

1299
01:30:05.119 --> 01:30:09.479
going through this like labyrinth of Oh, here's just all these different ones that

1300
01:30:09.479 --> 01:30:12.640
you can pick from, and that
here's just not pick one of three.

1301
01:30:13.199 --> 01:30:15.640
Yeah, right now now you have
to do this song now, all right,

1302
01:30:15.680 --> 01:30:19.359
now you get one of two.
Yeah. So I mean, yeah,

1303
01:30:19.439 --> 01:30:26.279
I'm fama has sixteen is the one
that just look, I'm not the

1304
01:30:26.319 --> 01:30:28.840
biggest I want to say, the
Olmacraft fan, but I do like the

1305
01:30:28.880 --> 01:30:31.880
action combat, you know, like
that was in seven. Um. The

1306
01:30:32.039 --> 01:30:39.479
my thing is I worry with the
enemies that they showed in that longer version.

1307
01:30:40.119 --> 01:30:43.399
If it takes me five minutes to
kill every single enemy that shows up,

1308
01:30:43.800 --> 01:30:49.199
I'm gonna get pissed. Yea,
yeah, like I don't want to

1309
01:30:50.199 --> 01:30:54.239
like. Stranger's Paradise is actually really
good as well. It has some of

1310
01:30:54.279 --> 01:30:57.520
that Dark Souls kind of combat or
whatever, but it doesn't take forever to

1311
01:30:57.600 --> 01:31:00.199
kill something. You know, you
can get overpowered and and kill stuff like

1312
01:31:00.720 --> 01:31:03.840
I'm just hoping that it's something that
you were just fighting some of the like

1313
01:31:03.960 --> 01:31:08.359
mini boss enemies, you know,
tougher enemies, and there is some of

1314
01:31:08.359 --> 01:31:12.560
the enemies you're just gonna go whack
bam, goodbye and go move on to

1315
01:31:12.560 --> 01:31:15.199
the next thing. And it's not
like everything has to be this elongated battle

1316
01:31:15.199 --> 01:31:24.199
because that's gonna wear on you.
Honestly hope the story hits I like fifteen

1317
01:31:24.239 --> 01:31:27.399
more than a lot of people,
though, I really do need to go

1318
01:31:27.439 --> 01:31:31.079
back and play it now that they
have the the one version out where they

1319
01:31:31.199 --> 01:31:34.199
fixed a lot of the issues that
we all had with it, But I

1320
01:31:34.199 --> 01:31:36.560
wish they would have been able to
complete that though. It sucks that.

1321
01:31:36.720 --> 01:31:40.600
Yeah. So I mean that story
obviously did not hit very well. Thirteen

1322
01:31:40.720 --> 01:31:43.279
I thought was very very bad,
right. I know a lot of people

1323
01:31:43.319 --> 01:31:46.039
thought, oh it was linear as
all hell. It's like most of those

1324
01:31:46.079 --> 01:31:49.600
file fantasies at the time, like
go back and play Fall Fascy ten is

1325
01:31:49.680 --> 01:31:54.439
just as linear. Yeah, the
story in ten was so much better.

1326
01:31:54.439 --> 01:31:57.600
I just couldn't get it to any
of the characters in thirteen. Twelve I

1327
01:31:57.640 --> 01:32:00.760
thought had a very interesting, old
schoolly kind of a story to it,

1328
01:32:01.159 --> 01:32:05.000
and of course from ten on they
were really they were hitting their their peak,

1329
01:32:05.119 --> 01:32:09.359
you know, that's that six seven, eight, nine ten range.

1330
01:32:09.439 --> 01:32:14.279
The stories were there. So I'm
hoping that this is not what we've gotten

1331
01:32:14.279 --> 01:32:18.680
from Final Fantasy over the last few
iterations, whereas way over the top graphics

1332
01:32:18.720 --> 01:32:25.840
and beautiful scenes and we completely forgot
about an actual story because it's one of

1333
01:32:25.840 --> 01:32:29.239
those we We've said it before.
How many times was Final Fantasy like the

1334
01:32:29.279 --> 01:32:33.039
top notch as far as graphics go, and or the cut scenes ridiculous?

1335
01:32:33.479 --> 01:32:38.000
And I think Square Enix went,
oh, that's what they want from us.

1336
01:32:38.000 --> 01:32:40.560
They don't care about the story part. They just want these over the

1337
01:32:40.600 --> 01:32:45.520
top yeah action things and yeah,
so I'm opening the story nails, I

1338
01:32:45.600 --> 01:32:47.239
really really do. And then,
like you said, and then we wait

1339
01:32:47.279 --> 01:32:53.359
for Rebirth. Yeah, I do
about the icon fights too, Like are

1340
01:32:53.399 --> 01:32:56.600
they stuff you're just gonna walk in? And you know, quick time event

1341
01:32:56.640 --> 01:33:00.399
and it seems like each one's like
a different type of gameplay, which I

1342
01:33:00.399 --> 01:33:03.640
think will keep it fast. But
I do have to say, I think

1343
01:33:03.640 --> 01:33:08.039
we see Rebirth at the PlayStation choke. I really hope so as well.

1344
01:33:08.079 --> 01:33:10.359
I hope that that's why we haven't
heard anything about it. I don't think

1345
01:33:10.359 --> 01:33:13.399
we see a lot of it.
I don't think we get a date by

1346
01:33:13.399 --> 01:33:17.119
any Yes, but I mean we've
seen I've seen that will happen very at

1347
01:33:17.159 --> 01:33:21.439
the very beginning of that. But
I would like to start now seeing a

1348
01:33:21.479 --> 01:33:25.479
little bit more. Yeah, I
hope we uh we get a little about

1349
01:33:25.479 --> 01:33:28.399
the Ever crisis as well. I'm
still kind of I know it's on your

1350
01:33:28.399 --> 01:33:32.760
phone or whatever, but it still
looks awesome and so sure, all right,

1351
01:33:33.239 --> 01:33:40.439
Well that's it for that, and
I think that's it for the show

1352
01:33:40.520 --> 01:33:44.560
this week, just to kind of
because we always do this here, what

1353
01:33:44.560 --> 01:33:47.560
what games are coming out in this
week ahead, And of course we talked

1354
01:33:47.560 --> 01:33:51.319
about Redfall already. That's the big
game that's coming. You can go get

1355
01:33:51.319 --> 01:33:55.840
it on game Pass, PC,
game Pass or just you can go buy

1356
01:33:55.880 --> 01:34:01.600
it as well. And then there's
also another game coming called raven Lock that's

1357
01:34:01.600 --> 01:34:05.640
coming to game Pass. That's maybe
the City was made Echo Generation, which

1358
01:34:06.199 --> 01:34:11.920
that was a really fun indie game
that kind of felt very eighties. So

1359
01:34:12.880 --> 01:34:17.039
yeah, definitely go check that out
as well. That's coming on on the

1360
01:34:17.079 --> 01:34:23.000
fourth. So yeah, there's not
a whole lot coming at the beginning of

1361
01:34:23.039 --> 01:34:27.319
the month. Really, that's that's
worth noting. But those two games are

1362
01:34:27.560 --> 01:34:31.760
pretty good, and I mean hopefully
Redfall is a hit for some people,

1363
01:34:31.800 --> 01:34:34.920
regardless of what you care about,
what fps it plays, that or uh.

1364
01:34:35.560 --> 01:34:40.000
But yeah, you know, whether
you're playing those games, you're playing

1365
01:34:40.000 --> 01:34:43.159
something else. Enjoy your gaming.
Thank you Rainy so much for being on

1366
01:34:43.359 --> 01:34:47.159
this week mark. Hope you feel
better man and they recuperate soon, and

1367
01:34:47.199 --> 01:34:48.640
we'll see y'all later.