WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.639 --> 00:00:16.320 He'll be bad. It's the Internet. You're busy. Let's do this for 2 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:19.920 November six, twenty twenty three. For the next hour or so, let 3 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:23.359 me help you sort through the world of gaming on Game Mess Mornings Live with 4 00:00:23.399 --> 00:00:27.920 me Jeff Grubb. Today, Call of Duty's campaigns seems real bad. But 5 00:00:28.039 --> 00:00:31.320 how about that? Like a dragon? Guidan? What first? Please join 6 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:34.759 me and welcoming today's co host the Game Mess Mornings. It's Lex Luddy. 7 00:00:34.840 --> 00:00:38.840 Everybody, Lexi, how are you doing well? I'm not doing too bad. 8 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:42.479 My two teams at top of the league in the European Rugby, so 9 00:00:42.679 --> 00:00:47.560 I'm not going to complain despite neither of them playing particularly well top of the 10 00:00:47.640 --> 00:00:51.679 league. I love leagues. Yeah, it's Red Wings. We're doing pretty 11 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:56.240 okay coming out of the season. They had like a five game win streak 12 00:00:56.280 --> 00:00:59.880 there and they're actually much better than I was expecting. But I'm getting my 13 00:00:59.880 --> 00:01:02.240 hopes up in a bad way and I don't think it's gonna last. We'll 14 00:01:02.280 --> 00:01:07.840 see. Oh yeah, the team I support most monster who I like the 15 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:12.599 team for Cork and the surrounding areas, and they won the league last year 16 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:18.920 with no light to win the league that that are good? Was like. 17 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:21.200 It was like, Oh, they're gonna do it again, They're gonna use 18 00:01:21.239 --> 00:01:26.000 the double. I was like, fucking no, no chance in fucking hell. 19 00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:29.879 Can you do You want to upset a sports fan base with me? 20 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:34.599 Yeah, sure, I love doing that. Uh so rugby rugby, uh 21 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:38.959 and look and uh hockey and and all in soccer. Like I get these 22 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:45.079 sports. I don't know if I get lacrosse because it seems like you could 23 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:49.599 put the ball in the stick and just walk. They can just walk hurts 24 00:01:49.640 --> 00:01:52.439 the goal and who's gonna I mean, they can try to stop you, 25 00:01:52.519 --> 00:01:55.599 but it looks like they mostly don't try to stop you. I don't get 26 00:01:55.599 --> 00:01:59.439 it. It's just it's a sport for rich people. They don't like challenges 27 00:01:59.439 --> 00:02:06.280 being put in the away. Come explain this to me. Yeah, take 28 00:02:06.319 --> 00:02:08.319 time off your honeymoon, mic, We have some important questions ask you. 29 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:14.319 We should call him right now. We got my party, Okay. My 30 00:02:14.360 --> 00:02:17.479 other thing is Octo in Chad says that he hates daylight savings. Well, 31 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:22.280 I got great news for you. It's over. And that's Jeff Grubb's pedantic 32 00:02:22.360 --> 00:02:27.560 moment of the day. I'm sorry, it's I don't know why it's a 33 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:29.879 pet peeve. I'm a terrible person. It is probably why it's my pet 34 00:02:29.879 --> 00:02:32.280 peeve. It's over Daylight Savings is over so Happy. It really fucked me 35 00:02:32.360 --> 00:02:37.400 up last week. This show was on an hour earlier. For me. 36 00:02:37.879 --> 00:02:43.800 That was fucking That was not okay. I ruined my schedule massively. And 37 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:47.039 I will also say before we go any further into the news and I just 38 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:52.879 want to shout out SAP menu my website. We're doing our annual Winter Spectacular. 39 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:55.599 Just announced this on Twitter two hours ago and it's kind of a thing 40 00:02:55.599 --> 00:03:01.919 that was inspired by a lot of giant bombs winter festivities. It's a writing 41 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:07.719 jam designed to get a bunch of people in the community into writing things for 42 00:03:07.719 --> 00:03:09.400 the end of the Year, Game of the Year, list, retrospectives, 43 00:03:09.439 --> 00:03:13.000 basically anything you want, but we try to get as many people tried it 44 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:16.240 stuff as possible. And to do that, we get guests involved and we 45 00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:21.120 try to you know, put people's work up next to people who have been 46 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:24.280 in the industry for a long time and everyone gets to have their work on 47 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:29.240 the front page of the site and shown off. So I'll definitely be hidden 48 00:03:29.319 --> 00:03:32.479 up some people around the gb community over the next few days about if they'd 49 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:38.080 be interested and interested in giving some advice or anything, because we have stuff 50 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:40.919 like advice pieces, game of the Year list, loads of stuff. But 51 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:46.319 yeah, go check that out on the Twitter at the start menu, not 52 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:52.080 start menu. That is a random woman from Middle America who I was linking 53 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:58.560 to as my employer for several months. Well, that's fine, know it's 54 00:03:58.560 --> 00:04:00.319 going to check. You're all right, Yeah, it's a website. Okay, 55 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:04.520 cool, then we're good. Uh startmanu dot co dot UK. That's 56 00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:10.280 where people go. Yes, yes, excellent. 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All right, we have a lot to 65 00:04:39.480 --> 00:04:43.639 get into, so let's start the morning mess with Call of Duty Modern Warfare 66 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:48.879 three campaign review roundup. Leah Jay Williams over at game Hub did the rounding 67 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:54.000 up for us. I appreciate that this is another ten bang. Yeah, 68 00:04:54.040 --> 00:04:56.279 let's I mean, let's find out. I don't know. Let's let's find 69 00:04:56.319 --> 00:04:59.959 out together. The single player campaign for Call of Duty Modern Warfare three has 70 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:06.399 seemingly failed to live up to player expectations, with early reviews for the adventure 71 00:05:06.439 --> 00:05:12.360 notably trending negative. It appears much of the criticism stems from its short length. 72 00:05:12.439 --> 00:05:15.600 Well, that sounds like a bonus to me. It reportedly takes around 73 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:18.399 three to six hours to complete, but the conversation also includes talk of doll 74 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:23.319 missions and thin storytelling. I've heard people be like, yeah, short, 75 00:05:23.879 --> 00:05:28.360 but it's also a soog how still, so it's like okay. Ign gave 76 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:31.959 it a four out of ten. Simon Cardy over there wrote that it's shallow, 77 00:05:32.079 --> 00:05:35.560 dull in place, less like the greatest hits and more like underbaked cover 78 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:40.839 versions of missions past. It's too busy looking back at former glories rather than 79 00:05:40.839 --> 00:05:45.680 focusing on making any new moments worth remembering, Wrapped up in a borderline incoherent 80 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:49.000 story with nothing to say, the only part we haven't seen in a campaign 81 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:54.959 before fall flat, bizarrely cobbling together pieces of the Warzone mode into actively bad 82 00:05:55.079 --> 00:05:59.040 sandbox missions, abandoning all of what made Call of Duty so great at its 83 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:01.720 peak, and instead delivery a dull string adull string emissions that amount to a 84 00:06:01.720 --> 00:06:08.360 thoroughly disappointing handful of hours. I haven't been paying too close attention to this 85 00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:10.680 campaign. I've mostly just been like, oh, well, they've got a 86 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:13.480 campaign again. I thought they were gonna have anything this year. So that's 87 00:06:13.560 --> 00:06:17.560 interesting, Like this explains it. They're doing open zone gameplay. They're stealing 88 00:06:17.600 --> 00:06:23.279 Sonic Frontiers thing, and they're taking the war Zone map and using those as 89 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:27.959 these like sandbox open thing. Really just like what can we make happen in 90 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:30.759 this space so we don't have to make a whole new level. One side 91 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:33.759 of me says it's pretty clever. The other side says me, this is 92 00:06:33.800 --> 00:06:38.399 the biggest media property in the fucking world. What are you doing? We 93 00:06:38.519 --> 00:06:40.759 got more reviews here, but let's just real quick, LEXI, what's your 94 00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:46.000 initial reaction here? So I think that happens sometimes when a game is being 95 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:47.959 reviewed, is you'll get like messages from people who are trying to hash out 96 00:06:47.959 --> 00:06:54.319 their thoughts processes before they get them into like actual order, and they put 97 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:58.240 them eloquently. I won't say who it is, but someone who is reviewing 98 00:06:58.240 --> 00:07:01.720 the game sent me a message just saying, MW three campaign complete dog shish, 99 00:07:01.879 --> 00:07:06.519 like unbelievably bad. What on earth were they cooking? So I'm sure 100 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:10.879 that will be nicer by time they actually figure out. But yeah, this 101 00:07:10.879 --> 00:07:15.839 this seems like something that was scrapped together in a cave with a box of 102 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:21.040 scraps. Yes it was, And I like it's one of those times where 103 00:07:21.079 --> 00:07:25.319 like, yes, like reusing assets is fucking great. That's amazing if you 104 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:27.759 can do it. Yeah, yeah, it's very clever. It saves a 105 00:07:27.800 --> 00:07:30.959 lot of money. We'll talk about a game that does it fantastically in a 106 00:07:30.079 --> 00:07:33.240 little dish, yes, and maybe the best ever. Yeah. Yeah, 107 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:39.079 But like if it's if you're just sending people into these open areas that are 108 00:07:39.079 --> 00:07:46.079 designed for multiplayer matches to fight AI bots and putting some story wrappings around it, 109 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:49.319 and those story wrappings aren't particularly interesting, and it's very clear that this 110 00:07:49.439 --> 00:07:54.800 is just here to tread water until the next actual mainline game. Because This 111 00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:58.399 wasn't meant to be Moundern Warfare three. This was meant to be DLC for 112 00:07:58.439 --> 00:08:03.879 two likes of video games, and people who play video games even casually can 113 00:08:03.959 --> 00:08:07.639 sniff that bullshit out, like people know when they're being had. And it 114 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:13.399 doesn't even seem particularly convincing that this was ever meant to be anything other than 115 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:18.120 a map pack that was all of the old maps. Like that's all this 116 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:20.959 seems like Modern Warfare three was originally planned to be. Was Hey, what 117 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:24.319 if we took a year off and instead took it easy and did all the 118 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:28.680 old maps that you are like which probably would have been a great fucking hit 119 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:31.560 for them, because people love that old shit and they're putting that old ship 120 00:08:31.720 --> 00:08:35.440 up. But like now there's this narrative around this game of it being a 121 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:39.600 lazy like cashing. Doesn't matter how much they've changed the movement, doesn't matter 122 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:46.000 how much they've like improved things on the multiplayer end, Lexi, we might 123 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:50.200 have lost year, Lexie. If you need to restart, go ahead. 124 00:08:50.360 --> 00:08:54.000 I will handle it from here as an independent company just trying to last you 125 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:58.559 for a second. There is much money out of college. See, oh, 126 00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:01.399 looks like we got a pretty big lag right now, are you how's 127 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:05.519 your connection? I can hear you? Fine? Oh no, no, 128 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:07.279 we're back. We're backing good now, okay, fantastic. Yeah you just 129 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:11.639 dropped out there for about five seconds. But I think I think we're back 130 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:16.600 in business real quick. Let's let's get to a kotakuho, said Claire Jackson 131 00:09:16.600 --> 00:09:20.399 said. Call of Duty's Modern Warfare three campaign is a skeletal frame framework of 132 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:24.639 a game that could have and should have been much better than what it presently 133 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:28.799 is. Its attempts to divorce itself from the more linear traditions of Call Duty 134 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:33.559 campaigns, while interesting in concept, mostly fail in execution. The game flirts 135 00:09:33.559 --> 00:09:35.919 with interesting, even promising concepts, but it fails to stick with the landing 136 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:41.159 with its narrative or gameplay, leading to a hollow feeling conclusion. Kodoku doesn't 137 00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:43.960 have a score. Fair Games Radar also doesn't have a score yet, but 138 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:48.039 Leon Hurley over there says, I'm not entirely sure what the makeup Modern Warfare 139 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:50.559 threes campaign. It's not terrible, but it's also far from great, like 140 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:54.480 in any real big set pieces, and at times feeling like it's been assembled 141 00:09:54.480 --> 00:09:58.200 from a war zone construction kit of pre made pieces. I think we can 142 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:03.000 assume that's exactly what did happen. Scraps, Yes, a box of scraps, 143 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:07.360 and then game spots five five out of ten from writer Si Doster says 144 00:10:07.399 --> 00:10:11.720 Modern War for three sparks a hot opening with an early reveal of Makarov macarof 145 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:16.000 excuse me, but the introduction of the new open combat missions disrupts the story's 146 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:20.200 pace for a fizzled out ending. However, after this hyped opening mission, 147 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:24.039 Mordn War for three immediately stumbles as you're forced to play two of the game's 148 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:28.039 new open combat missions back to back. Yeah, so it just it just 149 00:10:28.120 --> 00:10:33.279 sounds exactly what everyone said. It seems like there's not gonna be enough time. 150 00:10:33.320 --> 00:10:35.519 And then what you said, you diagnosed it properly. I think they 151 00:10:35.679 --> 00:10:39.360 just did the bare minim they could to sell a seventy dollars game, and 152 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:43.840 here we are, this game's probably not going to pay the price for this 153 00:10:43.879 --> 00:10:46.000 too much, right, That's not usually how this works for a big massive 154 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:48.679 game. It would be the will sell, Yeah, it will sell grace, 155 00:10:48.840 --> 00:10:52.159 it will sell just as well. And like they've done all their preorders 156 00:10:52.279 --> 00:10:56.360 and this game has been pushing fucking hard on the preorders with the Maruction campaign. 157 00:10:56.399 --> 00:11:01.480 They've been going like they're probably they've all probably already sold the amount of 158 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:07.639 copies they were going to sell, no matter wash, And you wonder what 159 00:11:07.240 --> 00:11:11.919 next year's College Duty looks like. Does Microsoft come in and say, hey, 160 00:11:11.960 --> 00:11:16.000 listen, we can't have a situation like this again, where your community 161 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:22.000 is this unhappy with the biggest media property we now own, and like you 162 00:11:22.120 --> 00:11:26.039 have to take a year off. Do we see Microsoft like literally just put 163 00:11:26.039 --> 00:11:28.879 the brakes on the whole thing. I also think it's super fucking unfair for 164 00:11:28.919 --> 00:11:33.320 a team like Sledgehammer, who have been given the shorthand of the six several 165 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:37.159 times on the College dug train after making a really good couple of really good 166 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:41.360 Call of Duty games on their own. Yeah yeah, and now they're like, 167 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:43.080 we all know that these College Duty games are made by committee. They 168 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:48.960 may buy several development teams, but it's Sledgehammer's name on the splash screen here, 169 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:54.279 it's their reputation, and like that must feel fucking terrible. Yep, 170 00:11:54.440 --> 00:11:58.639 it's for these studios. I mean, at this point they do they really 171 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:01.879 must just feel like a cog in the machine. There was a time when 172 00:12:01.879 --> 00:12:07.200 there was like a huge amount of the studio's identity put into these games. 173 00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:11.840 That's obviously over with, and I don't know, I wouldn't be surprised if 174 00:12:11.919 --> 00:12:15.840 next year they they probably will have a game ready to go next year, 175 00:12:15.879 --> 00:12:18.279 because just the way the scheduling's worked out and the way that they are have 176 00:12:18.360 --> 00:12:22.159 these things going in parallel, they'll probably have the one next year ready to 177 00:12:22.200 --> 00:12:26.360 go, and maybe even the year after that, I think a different franchise. 178 00:12:28.080 --> 00:12:30.559 Yeah, I mean it's not going to be Modern Warfare again. They 179 00:12:30.559 --> 00:12:31.919 won't do that again. But I mean I wouldn't be surprised if it's a 180 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:35.159 Black Ops, if they go back to that. I mean, I know, 181 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:39.399 Black Ops four or whatever whatever the last Black Ops one was was really 182 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:43.080 not liked by the community either, but said that name still has a lot 183 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:46.399 of sway and people still really like it and they're like, well, we're 184 00:12:46.440 --> 00:12:48.679 doing Black Ops right. This time could really work. I don't know which 185 00:12:48.679 --> 00:12:54.879 studios up next. So if this is so twenty, this is Modern Warfare 186 00:12:54.919 --> 00:12:58.960 three, So two years ago would have been Infinity Ward and then was model 187 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:03.159 for two Infinity Ward again. I don't know. It feels like Treyarch. 188 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:05.159 I don't know where Treyarch is at in all this, so I bet I 189 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:09.840 bet the next one is Treyarch and that's that could easily be It's Toys Toys 190 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:13.639 for Bob's next Call of Duty game. So yeah, I think they'll probably 191 00:13:13.679 --> 00:13:16.679 have it a Call of Duty for the next couple of years. But I 192 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:20.159 wouldn't be surprised if within the next three four years they do finally start taking 193 00:13:20.159 --> 00:13:24.240 a year off here and there. I don't think it'll be in every other 194 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:28.120 year series for quite some time, but I think it could be, well, 195 00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:30.080 we're gonna do two in a row, and then we'll take a break 196 00:13:30.120 --> 00:13:33.840 and then we'll come back. That could happen, especially with war Zone continuing 197 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:35.559 continue to be so popular, and if they lean on that, that could 198 00:13:35.639 --> 00:13:41.440 fill in the gap in a really strong way. Yeah, we'll see. 199 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:43.759 This is gonna be the best selling game of the year though, so five 200 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:46.559 out of ten from Game Spot, four out of ten from IgM Best Selling 201 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:50.399 Game of the Year like a Dragon guid In. Meanwhile, the Man who 202 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:52.120 Erased his Name We got a review round up here right now. It has 203 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:58.320 a seventy nine on on PS five on Metacritic, Josh Brot Broadwell at VG 204 00:13:58.440 --> 00:14:00.559 twenty four to seven gave it a five out of five. I've said my 205 00:14:00.600 --> 00:14:03.759 big takeaway from Like a Dragon Guiden is that I really hope RGG does more 206 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:07.960 side stories to the future, or at least takes a similar approach to new 207 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:11.759 mainline games. The chance to slow down an experiment with a character with character 208 00:14:11.799 --> 00:14:16.080 growth, different storytelling styles, and a more focused approach to narrative building paid 209 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:22.399 off brilliantly with joy Us. Is that how I say that Joyu's tight tale. 210 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:24.600 Meanwhile, Willow rowe at inverse gave it a seven out of ten and 211 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:28.480 said, Like a Dragon Guidan, the Man who erased his name, goes 212 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:33.519 back on much of this forward momentum and seeks to latch onto what fans loved 213 00:14:33.559 --> 00:14:37.519 about the previous era of the franchise. While it retains the wonderfully designed mini 214 00:14:37.559 --> 00:14:41.279 games and impressively realized city streets of its fictionalized locales, the need to live 215 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:46.279 in the past holds it back. Kazuma Kuru's presence and the most is the 216 00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:50.840 most concerning, as the story fails to justify why it needs to keep bringing 217 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:54.440 Cure You out every time. Kurio gets out, will he get pulled back 218 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:58.360 in? Maybe they'll finally stuff him out for real in like a dragon infinite 219 00:14:58.440 --> 00:15:05.240 wealth. Okay, you are the most yako'sa pill person I know. And 220 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:09.159 you played this game. You reviewed it, right? Did you finish it 221 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:11.799 and review it? Okay? Sam, Yeah, tell people about that what 222 00:15:11.799 --> 00:15:13.480 you're thinking. I reviewed it for Shack News. I gave it nine hour 223 00:15:13.639 --> 00:15:20.480 ten. I went into this game actually with pretty tempered expectations. I previewed 224 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:24.399 Ith and the word that I was hearing from other people who had interviewed them 225 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:28.360 was that a lot of it was like repeatable content in a colosseum area. 226 00:15:30.440 --> 00:15:33.360 I think this game super fucking works for what it is. It's a slightly 227 00:15:33.440 --> 00:15:39.159 cheaper thing. It's about fifty dollars, and it tells a really tight, 228 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:45.399 cohesive story and it delves into Cure You in a way that we haven't seen 229 00:15:45.480 --> 00:15:48.759 in these games in a long time. The franchise has had a really bad 230 00:15:48.799 --> 00:15:52.919 habitsh ever since the very first game of basically like turning Cure You into the 231 00:15:52.919 --> 00:15:56.879 Messiah, like she's untouchable, like nothing he can do is wrong, and 232 00:15:58.440 --> 00:16:02.519 you know he's just stoic and is the hero is he a baby girl? 233 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:06.080 He is also a baby girl, okay, okay, to make sure, 234 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:10.360 and that's part of what makes a baby girl. But like a big part 235 00:16:10.399 --> 00:16:15.120 of this game is looking at the consequences for Qu's actions and how they have 236 00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:22.039 broken him in quite a fundamental way and just actually like sitting with his consequences 237 00:16:22.039 --> 00:16:25.120 for a bit, because usually it's just like, oh, I sacrifice this 238 00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:30.279 anyway, moving on, and it's never really delved on. And this is 239 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:33.559 one of the best performances from cus actor. I forget his name now off 240 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:41.320 the top of my head. There's some scene on where yeah, not the 241 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:45.519 English job is in there for the Infinite Wealth demo which I haven't played yet, 242 00:16:45.559 --> 00:16:56.559 but yeah, yeah, no comment, get paid. But yeah, 243 00:16:56.639 --> 00:17:00.559 I think the Japanese performances in this are are really fucking good. They're some 244 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:06.240 of the best in a game this year. And I also think that the 245 00:17:06.359 --> 00:17:08.920 game does a great job at balancing its combat in a way that ORGG have 246 00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:14.000 struggled for a long time. A lot of the time when they try to 247 00:17:14.039 --> 00:17:18.400 do these faster combat styles, you just don't do enough damage and it never 248 00:17:18.440 --> 00:17:23.000 feels great when you're fighting big swats enemies or enemies with big health bars. 249 00:17:23.240 --> 00:17:27.880 In this game, they have a new style that really allows you to control 250 00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:32.160 a crowd in a way that you can't in previous games, and it focuses 251 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:36.799 on these bigger encounters and the encounters where it will be like ten versus twenty 252 00:17:36.799 --> 00:17:40.359 people and you're just fucking all slamming at each other, and it actually feels 253 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:47.480 really good. I also think that, like the is the side content that 254 00:17:47.640 --> 00:17:49.839 is there is all really good. It's a shorter game, It's only about 255 00:17:49.839 --> 00:17:53.359 ten hours if you be lining about. I did everything at about twenty five 256 00:17:53.400 --> 00:17:59.960 hours, and like literally everything, like every side mission. If I play 257 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:04.880 this game, do you think it would be like I've played some Yakuza and 258 00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:08.079 I played I don't know, five of Showers of Zero. I like what 259 00:18:08.119 --> 00:18:11.119 I played. I wish I could get back to it and play more. 260 00:18:11.240 --> 00:18:14.799 Do you think this would wet my appetite or do you think this would be 261 00:18:14.839 --> 00:18:21.000 a misrepresentation of what is really good about the franchise. I think it's a 262 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:25.079 lot of the things that the franchise done in at its very best. Okay, 263 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:30.119 I think that there is a bit too much, and probably the main 264 00:18:30.759 --> 00:18:33.400 thing that I have against it is there's a bit too much fan service. 265 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:36.680 There's a bit too much reliance on knowing what happened in games like five, 266 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:40.039 which not that many people in the West played, even though they've been remastered. 267 00:18:40.079 --> 00:18:44.759 Here, the are characters who reappear who you're like, oh, shit, 268 00:18:44.839 --> 00:18:47.519 that character if you've played those games, But if you haven't played those 269 00:18:47.559 --> 00:18:48.920 games, you're like, oh, that's a big, tough looking guy, 270 00:18:49.039 --> 00:18:55.519 okay, And those moments will be a bit lost on you if you haven't 271 00:18:55.519 --> 00:18:59.319 played them. But then there's also some really good bits that sets up the 272 00:18:59.359 --> 00:19:03.200 franchise in a way that it can move on from cureu Right. There's stuff 273 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:07.079 that focuses on the characters from the Judgment series, which is the detective spin 274 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:11.240 off, and there's a whole side quest with them, and that's a really 275 00:19:11.319 --> 00:19:15.160 nice, like look into the future of the franchise. There's a lot of 276 00:19:15.160 --> 00:19:21.680 times where you see where they hint at things of where the universe is going 277 00:19:21.720 --> 00:19:23.680 with new factions and things like that. It does a good job about like 278 00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:27.960 it's not necessarily a great introduction, but it's a great place to start for 279 00:19:29.039 --> 00:19:33.119 the games going forward. It would have been really nice if there was a 280 00:19:33.160 --> 00:19:36.440 recap on it. Sure that was something that even I was like, I 281 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:38.920 would have liked to recap because I haven't played six yet. Six is the 282 00:19:40.119 --> 00:19:41.640 one one that I haven't played. Yeesh, So I was like, oh, 283 00:19:41.720 --> 00:19:47.519 how did he wind up working with this political faction? And that's basically 284 00:19:47.559 --> 00:19:51.680 all the ending of six And they do explain those, but it could do 285 00:19:51.799 --> 00:19:56.119 with more in detail recaps. Let's read some of these other reviews here. 286 00:19:56.160 --> 00:20:00.079 Michael Hyam says it's an eight out of ten, and so there were so 287 00:20:00.119 --> 00:20:03.599 there. I was sitting in front of my TV watching Guidance ending, crying 288 00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:07.440 like a damn baby over the hardships of a fictional man again. And I 289 00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:11.200 know those who've also been on this ride over the years will feel me on 290 00:20:11.319 --> 00:20:15.759 this Guided maybe a brief excursion that occasionally leaves the full potential of its supporting 291 00:20:15.799 --> 00:20:19.000 cast on the table and often relies on remixing ideas from the series' past, 292 00:20:19.400 --> 00:20:23.799 but with enough new features to make a combat exciting and a buffet of high 293 00:20:23.880 --> 00:20:27.079 quality side content, it's still some of the most fun I've had with an 294 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:32.000 RGG game. Most importantly, I was just happy to be in Kuru's shoes 295 00:20:32.160 --> 00:20:36.519 again for another emotional story and to brace myself for what lies ahead for the 296 00:20:36.559 --> 00:20:38.680 beloved series. And then lex Ludi gives it a nine out of ten, 297 00:20:40.079 --> 00:20:42.440 having now completed every side mission, substory, and an objective in a little 298 00:20:42.480 --> 00:20:48.839 over twenty four hours. I can only hope that Rio Gagotoku learns from this 299 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:52.160 game and works on more bite sized spinoffs, flushing out the rest of the 300 00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:59.119 universe roster of lovable weirdos, gallant heroes, and snarling villains. Lexi, 301 00:20:59.200 --> 00:21:02.440 this is where I'm att Yeah, there's some really good characters in this game. 302 00:21:02.599 --> 00:21:04.480 Yeah, and I like the characters that I've always encountered in these games. 303 00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:08.680 A bite sized version to like again what my appetite sounds very appealing to 304 00:21:08.759 --> 00:21:12.519 me right now, and I think, I mean clearly they have their path 305 00:21:12.839 --> 00:21:18.440 forward right where the like a dragons Core series now is going to have this 306 00:21:18.720 --> 00:21:21.839 cool turn based combat, a new a new hero they're probably gonna stick with 307 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:26.400 for several more games. And then you know, these are my assumptions as 308 00:21:26.440 --> 00:21:30.039 someone who's not played a lot of these, And then they have the Judgment 309 00:21:30.079 --> 00:21:32.559 games. Maybe they'll do some more stuff with Judgment. I have no idea. 310 00:21:33.480 --> 00:21:36.440 And then they have these side stories, right, and then there's occasionally 311 00:21:36.559 --> 00:21:40.440 some other stuff thrown in there, like the Eahan games where they're going back 312 00:21:40.480 --> 00:21:41.920 and bringing stuff that never came out here. So they have a lot of 313 00:21:42.039 --> 00:21:45.799 chances to do different things with these games. So if like one of them 314 00:21:45.960 --> 00:21:51.200 is this smaller side story that does revel in the in the franchisees past, 315 00:21:51.640 --> 00:21:53.599 to me, that seems not just acceptable, but like a really good way 316 00:21:55.119 --> 00:21:59.720 to fill out this sphere of what of what Yakuza could be. Yeah, 317 00:21:59.720 --> 00:22:04.000 I think in the context of there has there's going to be three Yakuza games 318 00:22:04.039 --> 00:22:08.160 in the next or within the span of about eighteen months, with Dashing This 319 00:22:08.640 --> 00:22:14.599 and Infinite Wealth, and like each of those offering very different things and feeling 320 00:22:14.720 --> 00:22:18.240 like very different experiences. It feels like the series is quite varied in a 321 00:22:18.279 --> 00:22:22.440 way that it wasn't in the past, where you would be waiting a year 322 00:22:22.599 --> 00:22:26.519 or two years for a game that was very inferative, and they've done a 323 00:22:26.559 --> 00:22:32.880 really good job at creating new niches. First, I think something that like 324 00:22:33.039 --> 00:22:38.359 you will probably appreciate is some of the side content the Sega Arcade games that 325 00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:41.279 are in there are very well emulated, which they're all done by M two. 326 00:22:42.039 --> 00:22:45.319 It's just the one that has Yeah, that has the games that haven't 327 00:22:45.359 --> 00:22:48.319 been emulated by Sega before, some of the like yes, okay, it 328 00:22:48.440 --> 00:22:53.240 has what they call arcade racing classics. Yeah, basically, yeah, it's 329 00:22:53.279 --> 00:22:59.559 Staytona two and that's really fun. It had another Motorbike Combat one which name 330 00:23:00.519 --> 00:23:06.480 has lost I've lost now, and it has Fighting Vipers and Sonic the Fighters, 331 00:23:06.519 --> 00:23:08.559 which I can now tell you as a fact is a bad game. 332 00:23:10.319 --> 00:23:15.279 Yeah, yes, I mean to Sonic. Yeah. There's also a bunch 333 00:23:15.319 --> 00:23:19.200 of Master System games, which I mean the Master System games. But it's 334 00:23:19.279 --> 00:23:22.799 cool that they're there. Yeah, I mean, it just fills out, 335 00:23:22.839 --> 00:23:26.200 It gives them game more character. I still that's like I'm not going to 336 00:23:26.279 --> 00:23:29.480 sit down and play Flicky for any longer than I already have. But but 337 00:23:29.680 --> 00:23:33.440 but but respect the Flicky. I mean, come on, yeah, yeah, 338 00:23:33.519 --> 00:23:37.079 Model these are Model two games, and I don't think Sega has done 339 00:23:37.119 --> 00:23:41.119 a lot with Model two so far. Boy, that is exciting. I 340 00:23:41.279 --> 00:23:45.720 love Sega arcade games. That's just where they're at their best. And Daytona 341 00:23:45.759 --> 00:23:48.720 two is fantastic. All right, you know what, we got a we 342 00:23:48.799 --> 00:23:52.000 got a lot more to get to, so real, real quick. Just 343 00:23:52.079 --> 00:23:56.160 to wrap up the facts here, Win is this out? This is out 344 00:23:56.279 --> 00:24:00.079 tomorrow. I'm pretty sure game pass. It is on game Pass right SA 345 00:24:00.200 --> 00:24:03.079 on game Pass, I think it is. Yes, Yes, if you 346 00:24:03.160 --> 00:24:07.200 have game Pass, it's worth at least trying out. See if you enjoy 347 00:24:07.559 --> 00:24:14.720 the combats fun and even just from pure like brainless, just get through the 348 00:24:14.799 --> 00:24:18.039 main story, enjoy those combat set pieces that they have. It's it's a 349 00:24:18.079 --> 00:24:21.559 good time. Yeah, I'm gonna this is what I'm throwing on the the 350 00:24:21.680 --> 00:24:23.799 ally right, because that's easy to play game Pass games on there. And 351 00:24:25.759 --> 00:24:29.720 of those games, yeah, most of those recent games have been steam Deck 352 00:24:29.839 --> 00:24:33.359 verified, so yes, it should run well. I mean, those those 353 00:24:33.400 --> 00:24:36.240 handhelds are always more powerful than I give them credit for, you even and 354 00:24:36.400 --> 00:24:37.440 they even not use them a bunch. I'm like, man, this is 355 00:24:37.440 --> 00:24:38.880 going to be fine on there. It's like, oh, this is better 356 00:24:38.920 --> 00:24:42.240 than fine. This sometimes runs like well over thirty frames per second. So 357 00:24:42.839 --> 00:24:47.400 yeah, I'll be checking this out on there. Excellent. Okay, We're 358 00:24:47.400 --> 00:24:49.240 going to take a break. When we get back, there's some some news 359 00:24:49.279 --> 00:24:52.799 about the Last of Us multiplayer that PS five Slim got broken down. We'll 360 00:24:52.799 --> 00:25:06.079 talk about all of that right after this and we're back. We're talking the 361 00:25:06.200 --> 00:25:10.240 Last of US multiplayer director confirms Yes, I'm still working on that game. 362 00:25:10.319 --> 00:25:15.440 This comes from Vicky Blake at Eurogamer. Naughty Dog game director Venette Argawall has 363 00:25:15.559 --> 00:25:21.039 confirmed that they are still working on that game, and that's a quote Ourgawall 364 00:25:21.440 --> 00:25:23.920 has yet to follow up their message or respond to any of the dozens of 365 00:25:23.960 --> 00:25:26.519 comments left on the posts, but it should be good news, nonetheless, 366 00:25:26.559 --> 00:25:30.880 for any player worried that, as some purport, the multiplayer game has been 367 00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:33.599 quietly canned. Earlier this year, naughty Dog shared an update on its Last 368 00:25:33.640 --> 00:25:37.680 of US multiplayer titles, saying it has realized what was best for the game 369 00:25:38.000 --> 00:25:41.359 is to give it more time. It also teased a new, brand new 370 00:25:41.440 --> 00:25:47.319 single player experience currently in the works. This is just a tweet he talked 371 00:25:47.319 --> 00:25:49.880 about. Hey, I beat I beat Mario. I got one hundred percent 372 00:25:49.920 --> 00:25:53.359 of it, Mario, wonder that was awesome. I died three hundred times 373 00:25:53.400 --> 00:25:56.240 and this is what a good game. And then somehow I think, because 374 00:25:56.599 --> 00:25:59.720 you know, I don't know, he must not tweet very often. The 375 00:25:59.799 --> 00:26:00.880 fact he popped his head up, you knw is gonna get asked about this 376 00:26:02.039 --> 00:26:07.519 said, Uh, and I guess I'm still working on that game. I 377 00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:12.559 would probably hesitate to get people people's hopes up too high with this Alexi right 378 00:26:12.599 --> 00:26:17.279 where it's like, Hey, a director still being on a project, even 379 00:26:17.319 --> 00:26:22.119 if that project is on the shelf or or on hold or paused in some 380 00:26:22.279 --> 00:26:26.559 way, that still seems perfectly reasonable to me that that's how that would work. 381 00:26:26.599 --> 00:26:29.960 Like, the director is not going to be like unless it is fully 382 00:26:30.039 --> 00:26:32.759 fully canceled, which I know some people are saying it seems like it might 383 00:26:32.839 --> 00:26:36.319 be, but we never got that confirmed or anything like that. It being 384 00:26:36.559 --> 00:26:41.359 on hold and the director needing to still be like overseeing some elements of that 385 00:26:41.559 --> 00:26:45.079 because if things pick up again, there needs to be someone in charge to 386 00:26:45.160 --> 00:26:48.200 pick up, like to give direction. I don't know, I think that 387 00:26:48.279 --> 00:26:52.359 this is likely the case. And at the same time, I'm not expecting 388 00:26:52.440 --> 00:26:56.000 this game to be in full development at the moment either. How do you 389 00:26:56.079 --> 00:27:00.160 read this? Yeah, I mean this is a thing that goes on a 390 00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:06.680 lot with development. If you go and watch there's a good digital gaming video 391 00:27:06.720 --> 00:27:08.839 that just went up about rares cancel games over the years, Yes, and 392 00:27:08.960 --> 00:27:11.480 a lot of them. It's like, oh, we took them to Nintendo. 393 00:27:11.799 --> 00:27:15.720 Nintendo looked at them and said no thanks, And then the person who 394 00:27:15.799 --> 00:27:18.880 was leading that project was told, hey, you can still work on this 395 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:22.000 in the background. Like one of them was told, hey, you can 396 00:27:22.039 --> 00:27:23.200 work on this on the background and if you can get it running on a 397 00:27:23.279 --> 00:27:26.440 DS, we'll publish it ourselves. He couldn't, and that's why it never 398 00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:30.119 came out. And like there's a lot of things in that in the games 399 00:27:30.160 --> 00:27:36.599 industry where like it is hard to you know, kill your darlings. It's 400 00:27:36.880 --> 00:27:38.839 yeah, you've put a lot of time and effort into a game like this 401 00:27:40.480 --> 00:27:45.519 unless it is straight up canceled, Like why would you step away from all 402 00:27:45.559 --> 00:27:48.000 that work that you have put into it. Also, it sounds like, 403 00:27:48.079 --> 00:27:52.599 you know, that game was in a pretty not terrible space. It just 404 00:27:52.880 --> 00:27:56.359 isn't coming together in the way that a live service needs, right exactly. 405 00:27:56.839 --> 00:28:02.480 The word always was, you know, hey, this just doesn't have enough 406 00:28:02.559 --> 00:28:04.079 content in it, and Bunge, you don't think that you'll be able to 407 00:28:04.119 --> 00:28:07.799 support it in the way that you have to support a game like this if 408 00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:11.640 you've basically made a full game, or you've made however much of a game, 409 00:28:11.920 --> 00:28:18.240 and that's your only problem, Like even the most skeptical of CEOs would 410 00:28:18.240 --> 00:28:21.480 be like, that's a big thing to cancel. That's a lot of work 411 00:28:21.519 --> 00:28:23.319 to cancel. That's a lot of money down the drain, right, And 412 00:28:23.440 --> 00:28:27.200 it's I think it's we always get hung up on things, oh, things 413 00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:33.119 being canceled, and to us that sounds very diffinite. That sounds very much 414 00:28:33.200 --> 00:28:34.799 like, Okay, well that's it. So now they've scrapped everything and they're 415 00:28:34.799 --> 00:28:38.519 starting over working on something else, and that's just never how it works. 416 00:28:38.640 --> 00:28:42.160 I mean, the thing to point to is, hey, yeah, Blizzard 417 00:28:42.240 --> 00:28:47.400 canceled Titan, and all of that work got turned into Overwatch or most of 418 00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:49.599 that work that transitioned over to a new project. So it's like, in 419 00:28:49.640 --> 00:28:52.759 a way, no, it wasn't canceled. It just had a normal development 420 00:28:52.839 --> 00:28:56.240 hiccup, and it was a pretty big one. But it's like a normal 421 00:28:56.319 --> 00:28:57.839 thing to be like, hey, we're making this thing. It's not working. 422 00:28:59.480 --> 00:29:03.400 Let's just carry forward our momentum, you know, be like water and 423 00:29:03.480 --> 00:29:06.960 move around this stone in our way, and now we're going to be shaped 424 00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:08.759 into this different thing. But we're still carrying forward all that work we did. 425 00:29:10.200 --> 00:29:12.400 That's almost certainly what's happening here. I agree with you when he's like, 426 00:29:14.279 --> 00:29:18.839 yeah, they're not going to abandon this work, and the game sounds 427 00:29:18.880 --> 00:29:21.880 like it probably played very well. There's been a history of Naughty Dug making 428 00:29:22.119 --> 00:29:25.960 very fun multiplayer modes that people really like. There is going to be a 429 00:29:26.079 --> 00:29:30.759 spot for that work to turn into either a dedicated multiplayer mode for the next 430 00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:33.519 you know, Last of Us, or turn into something else. And I 431 00:29:33.519 --> 00:29:38.160 also like, I don't think Sony particularly like the idea of Nahee Dog being 432 00:29:38.160 --> 00:29:41.599 a one game studio, of canceling a game and then just being like, 433 00:29:41.640 --> 00:29:45.119 Okay, you're only allowed work on the Last of Us Part three or whatever. 434 00:29:45.240 --> 00:29:48.200 You have to get this one game out. So I can totally see 435 00:29:48.240 --> 00:29:52.039 them saying like, hey, listen, if this isn't working, this team 436 00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:55.920 still has to figure something else out and they still have to remain as a 437 00:29:55.960 --> 00:29:59.759 separate team because if not, why are we employing all these people for this 438 00:30:00.119 --> 00:30:03.640 one project? Yes, and it's I think this It is definitely the kind 439 00:30:03.640 --> 00:30:10.279 of thing where you can fall into a bunch of pits of like, hey, 440 00:30:10.359 --> 00:30:11.400 we can't give up on this because we put all this work in there. 441 00:30:11.400 --> 00:30:15.480 I mean, the sunk cost fallacy but but the reality is it's like, 442 00:30:15.759 --> 00:30:18.400 well, I mean, you just you can abandon all this work if 443 00:30:18.440 --> 00:30:22.519 it was good money after bad. But it's software and it's art, and 444 00:30:22.720 --> 00:30:29.319 you can keep being creative and finding new solutions to these old problems, and 445 00:30:29.519 --> 00:30:32.480 they it doesn't have to look like the solutions you set out with. You 446 00:30:32.559 --> 00:30:36.480 could be more flexible, and that's been to a lot of games benefits. 447 00:30:36.519 --> 00:30:40.599 I mean, the little things we've heard about, like how Yoshi's Island got 448 00:30:40.640 --> 00:30:42.599 made, Like Yoshi's Island was a completely different game when they started making it, 449 00:30:42.640 --> 00:30:45.720 with a completely different character, and you know, they just keep plugging 450 00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:48.799 away at it and plugging away and coming up with these new things, and 451 00:30:48.839 --> 00:30:49.960 they're like suddenly like, hey, this would be good as a Yoshi game, 452 00:30:51.400 --> 00:30:53.079 And that's it was still when it came out, and it was still 453 00:30:53.519 --> 00:30:56.200 and one of the best games ever made when it came out, exactly LEXI, 454 00:30:56.279 --> 00:31:02.200 I think I heard you great, and then yeah, so we'll see. 455 00:31:02.799 --> 00:31:06.279 I don't think we're gonna hear about this game anytime soon necessarily, though, 456 00:31:06.400 --> 00:31:08.200 So even if it is good, I think they'll probably they'll probably take 457 00:31:08.240 --> 00:31:12.480 their time spooling something up slowly as they figure out what it will turn into. 458 00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:18.279 And I think that's probably this person's job our Gowall, yeah, Agwall. 459 00:31:19.720 --> 00:31:22.640 They probably are the main person still working on this. They probably have 460 00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:26.920 a small team, but you need a huge team to make this stuff happen. 461 00:31:26.240 --> 00:31:32.519 And that like part of getting this done will be like having a project, 462 00:31:33.079 --> 00:31:34.839 a vision that makes sense to put a bunch of people on. And 463 00:31:34.960 --> 00:31:41.400 that's probably where that that project is at right now, all right. The 464 00:31:41.480 --> 00:31:45.119 PS five five Slim is not that much smaller, according to first teardown videos. 465 00:31:45.160 --> 00:31:48.680 This is from Jordan Miller at VGC. The first teardown videos of the 466 00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:52.960 new PS five Slim model have been posted online. One video features content creator 467 00:31:53.079 --> 00:31:56.240 Dave two d taking the system apart and comparing it to the base model. 468 00:31:56.640 --> 00:32:00.000 Among the comparisons, perhaps the most surprising the pricing is his claim that the 469 00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:05.079 Slim machine is not that much smaller than the original. Dave two D also 470 00:32:05.160 --> 00:32:09.039 commented that the top panels feature a glossy finish in contrast to a disdrive portion 471 00:32:09.160 --> 00:32:13.240 of the machine is a matt finish similar but not identical to that of the 472 00:32:13.319 --> 00:32:20.119 original PS five. There's some specifications here about weight and stuff. Things that 473 00:32:20.160 --> 00:32:22.519 we've heard before, and it's a kilogram, so who can even make sense 474 00:32:22.559 --> 00:32:28.759 of that? But I missed it. This is the kind of thing where 475 00:32:28.759 --> 00:32:31.519 I'm like, it still looks small enough to me that it will make a 476 00:32:31.599 --> 00:32:35.640 difference if some if you're really bothered by the size of the PS five, 477 00:32:37.160 --> 00:32:38.839 and so to the point where it's like, it looks normal now. I 478 00:32:38.839 --> 00:32:43.640 don't think it doesn't look like some actual, real quote unquote slim console. 479 00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:45.960 But the PS five SLIM looks like, oh yeah, you put that out. 480 00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:50.079 That's just a normal system in terms of size and scale, where the 481 00:32:50.119 --> 00:32:52.880 PS five was like, holy, that's a honk and motherfucker right there. 482 00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:55.599 So I love the idea of you just looking at your PS five just going 483 00:32:55.680 --> 00:33:00.440 like, why can't you be normal? And then it's doing that screeching thing 484 00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:05.119 from the meme. It's like a, yes, my PS five will not 485 00:33:05.200 --> 00:33:08.759 be normal. This doesn't I'm still not hung up on this. Again. 486 00:33:08.799 --> 00:33:13.480 I like the PS five enough and I have no intention of getting a slim 487 00:33:13.559 --> 00:33:15.400 to replace the one I have. But how do you feel about this? 488 00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:21.359 Does this dampen any enthusiasm for this? I mean, as someone that likes 489 00:33:21.440 --> 00:33:25.160 how ugly the current PS five is. The same. I don't give a 490 00:33:25.200 --> 00:33:30.839 shit, Like, Okay, it's the exact same console, just like slightly 491 00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:34.720 cheaper for them to manufacture. I'm sure that's all that this console actually is. 492 00:33:34.799 --> 00:33:37.920 There's no real difference to the consumer, apart from the disk drive stuff, 493 00:33:37.920 --> 00:33:42.599 which has been documented very well as why that's not a great thing for 494 00:33:43.200 --> 00:33:47.359 certain bits of preservation. But even then that like the cill original PS five's 495 00:33:47.400 --> 00:33:52.799 where you don't have the problem of it having to connect to the internet for 496 00:33:52.920 --> 00:33:58.279 the disk drive verification. So like every time I hear about the PS five 497 00:33:58.319 --> 00:34:02.119 slim, I'm like, oh, okay, why are we reporting on this 498 00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:07.639 Like this is this is the most nothing news ever that it's not as small 499 00:34:07.719 --> 00:34:12.440 as people want it to be, but like it's only it only exists because 500 00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:15.679 Sony wanted to make a cheaper model anyway, the model that was cheaper for 501 00:34:15.760 --> 00:34:20.079 them, And I think if people were actually going to get angry about anything, 502 00:34:20.119 --> 00:34:22.719 it's the fact that they like up the price of the cheaper one by 503 00:34:22.760 --> 00:34:27.440 fifty bucks and no one seemed to notice they're saving money and they're charging more. 504 00:34:27.719 --> 00:34:30.920 It's kind of becoming a classic move recently, not just for Sony, 505 00:34:30.960 --> 00:34:36.920 but like you know, Nintendo definitely saved money on the O LEDs in the 506 00:34:36.960 --> 00:34:38.880 long term compared to what they were probably paying when they first launched the switch 507 00:34:39.880 --> 00:34:44.280 in charge fifty dollars more for that than So Nintendo's doing it, Sony's doing 508 00:34:44.320 --> 00:34:45.320 it. I know. The OLED screens are more expensive, but not that 509 00:34:45.519 --> 00:34:50.599 much more expensive. So and it just that it speaks to the idea that, 510 00:34:50.679 --> 00:34:52.880 hey, consoles are not going to go down in price all that much 511 00:34:52.480 --> 00:34:58.719 going forward for these throughout these generations. So yeah, hey, I'll so 512 00:34:58.719 --> 00:35:00.880 we'll see if we get our hands on a ps i've slim at some point 513 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.960 and talk about it and see what we think. But beyond that, it's 514 00:35:02.960 --> 00:35:05.960 like, okay, fair enough, not that small. I think we could 515 00:35:05.960 --> 00:35:10.000 tell early on it wasn't going to be some huge earth shaking revision in the 516 00:35:10.039 --> 00:35:16.440 first place. Fortnite had its biggest day ever with forty four million players following 517 00:35:16.519 --> 00:35:22.159 original Maps return. This is from Chris scullyon at VGC. Fortnite enjoyed its 518 00:35:22.199 --> 00:35:27.199 biggest twenty four hour period history for twenty four hour period in history over the 519 00:35:27.239 --> 00:35:30.239 weekend thanks to its Fortnite OG event. According to a tweet posted on the 520 00:35:30.280 --> 00:35:35.880 game's official Twitter account. The game saw record player counts on Saturday, November 521 00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:38.079 fourth, way to start things off with a big bang. Reads the tweet, 522 00:35:38.119 --> 00:35:43.000 which was posted on Sunday, were blown away by the response to Fortnite 523 00:35:43.039 --> 00:35:46.119 OG. Yesterday was the biggest day in Fortnite's history, with over forty four 524 00:35:46.159 --> 00:35:51.599 point seven million players jumping in and one hundred and two million hours of play 525 00:35:52.039 --> 00:35:58.280 to all Fortnite players OG and new Thank you. That's a lot. Apparently, 526 00:35:58.320 --> 00:36:01.599 I peaked at six point one or nearly six point two million concurrent players. 527 00:36:02.440 --> 00:36:07.360 That's a very big number. Boy, it's twenty eighteen again, all 528 00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:10.280 of a sudden, and it's bigger than it was even back then. I 529 00:36:10.400 --> 00:36:14.920 was gonna say that's roughly the population of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland 530 00:36:14.960 --> 00:36:20.480 combined, exactly everyone in the country playing the game at once. But like 531 00:36:21.840 --> 00:36:23.519 this, this is presented as like, oh, we're doing so good. 532 00:36:23.960 --> 00:36:28.280 But whenever I see this, I'm like, oh, they're so fucking cooked. 533 00:36:28.519 --> 00:36:31.199 The only way they can get like their numbers back up is by doing 534 00:36:31.280 --> 00:36:35.760 the old thing that people still like, and like what happens when this season 535 00:36:35.880 --> 00:36:38.360 ends and they go back to modern stuff. It's like the wold classic thing 536 00:36:38.719 --> 00:36:43.159 of like, hey, wow, isn't doing the numbers it was doing anymore? 537 00:36:43.199 --> 00:36:45.239 What if we just gave you the old shit you liked and you got 538 00:36:45.320 --> 00:36:50.039 nostalgic about it, and like that's how they get people in, and then 539 00:36:50.079 --> 00:36:52.360 they don't stay around because why would you stay around for something that you had 540 00:36:52.840 --> 00:36:57.159 plenty of before? Like you're gonna go back in to get that hit a 541 00:36:57.719 --> 00:37:00.599 nostalgia, but once that wears off, you're like, Okay, I've seen 542 00:37:00.639 --> 00:37:02.360 all this now, and they are going to end every season I guess at 543 00:37:02.400 --> 00:37:05.320 least this is what someone mentioned this to me. They're going to end every 544 00:37:05.360 --> 00:37:08.159 season going forward with this og event and where they're going to go back to 545 00:37:08.199 --> 00:37:12.360 the old map and that's not going to have the same effect the second, 546 00:37:12.400 --> 00:37:15.119 third, fourth time, I don't think. I mean, I'm sure it 547 00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:17.000 will still be a very popular thing every time they do it, but this 548 00:37:17.280 --> 00:37:21.280 is this feels like, oh, you shot your shot here, this was 549 00:37:21.360 --> 00:37:23.599 something you can kind of do, you know, once and have this effect. 550 00:37:23.719 --> 00:37:27.679 I think we'll see, but it feels like this is like the one 551 00:37:27.719 --> 00:37:30.760 time you could really pull this card, and now you've done it, and 552 00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:34.480 what do you do with this momentum. It's fortunatee. It's going to be 553 00:37:34.559 --> 00:37:37.599 fine, but we'll see the question is how do they retain people that have 554 00:37:37.719 --> 00:37:39.840 come back to USh? Yeah, because that's the thing all these live services 555 00:37:39.920 --> 00:37:44.920 have struggled with is people slowly dripping away. And it's something that like Destiny 556 00:37:44.960 --> 00:37:47.639 has struggled with, is people slowly fall off and then getting them back into 557 00:37:47.679 --> 00:37:54.079 the game is notion impossible because it's just so dense. So scaling things back 558 00:37:54.119 --> 00:37:58.039 and making it easy to get back into it by saying like, oh, 559 00:37:58.119 --> 00:38:00.039 this is just the bare bones version of it again, like that's a smart 560 00:38:00.119 --> 00:38:04.280 move. But then the question is how do you get them to stay there 561 00:38:04.320 --> 00:38:09.199 once you make everything super fucking complicated again and add web swinging and add attack 562 00:38:09.239 --> 00:38:14.519 on Titan bullshit? Like how do you get those people that were there because 563 00:38:14.559 --> 00:38:19.360 it was simpler again to stick around for the more complicated shit. Meanwhile, 564 00:38:19.440 --> 00:38:23.679 the Embracer's COO confirms departure following rough year for the Games Giant. This is 565 00:38:23.719 --> 00:38:27.760 from Andy Robinson at VGC and shout out to VGC today. I was running 566 00:38:27.800 --> 00:38:30.760 behind and got most of my stories from there. They continue to do great 567 00:38:30.800 --> 00:38:35.119 work. Embracer Group's chief operating officer has confirmed his departure from the company. 568 00:38:35.760 --> 00:38:40.199 Iijil Strunk shared the news on Monday and claimed he'd left the holding company, 569 00:38:40.199 --> 00:38:45.000 which owns a mini game developers such as Gearbox and Crystal Dynamics. Last week. 570 00:38:45.559 --> 00:38:50.199 In June, Embracer announced the appointment of an interim COO, which would 571 00:38:50.199 --> 00:38:53.159 be filled by Saber Interactive boss Matthew Karch. I don't know if that means 572 00:38:53.199 --> 00:38:57.960 in June. You know, let's keep reading. The CEO is typically the 573 00:38:58.000 --> 00:39:01.639 second command reporting to the CEO and handles the daily business of operations at of 574 00:39:01.960 --> 00:39:06.519 a company. Last week I left Embracer Group as COO, and it's with 575 00:39:06.679 --> 00:39:12.639 mixed feelings. I am partying ways with this global company phenomenon rooted in Carlstad, 576 00:39:12.719 --> 00:39:15.400 Sweden, string K wrote on Monday. On one hand, I'm grateful 577 00:39:15.440 --> 00:39:19.920 for having had the chance to work with the one of a kind CEO, 578 00:39:20.079 --> 00:39:23.000 Lars Wingefirst and all the other amazing colleagues which are too many to mention, 579 00:39:23.360 --> 00:39:25.960 which I will be sad to leave. On the other hand, I'm excited 580 00:39:25.960 --> 00:39:30.920 about the opportunities that lie ahead starting and building my own company, Shrink Games. 581 00:39:32.559 --> 00:39:37.360 Strength's history with Embracer spans two four year stints twenty eleven to twenty fourteen 582 00:39:37.400 --> 00:39:39.639 and twenty nineteen to twenty twenty three. In a statement, the former COO 583 00:39:39.800 --> 00:39:44.559 acknowledged his challenging final years at the firm. Yeah exactly. Oh yeah, 584 00:39:44.559 --> 00:39:49.440 another four year stinting here in a couple of years. Hey, congratulations, 585 00:39:49.480 --> 00:39:52.320 are starting your own thing, boy, that's wild. Then you're going to 586 00:39:52.360 --> 00:39:57.960 start in it now, especially I guess getting while the getting's good, I 587 00:39:58.119 --> 00:40:00.800 suppose, But are you going to be able to then be like, well, 588 00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:04.280 you know, I did such a good job for Embracer, Come make 589 00:40:04.360 --> 00:40:07.440 games with me. That seems challenging. But someone's giving him money to do 590 00:40:07.559 --> 00:40:10.480 this. That's pretty wide. She has a knock for getting money out of 591 00:40:10.559 --> 00:40:14.800 people. I suppose that's a good thing. Yeah. Maybe he doesn't even 592 00:40:14.880 --> 00:40:17.159 need to like make any games from that studio. He just needs to get 593 00:40:17.199 --> 00:40:22.400 the investment, like that's all. Yeah, And the story doesn't saything about 594 00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:25.360 like where the investment came from. I don't think strew K's confirmed that, 595 00:40:27.599 --> 00:40:30.559 you know, maybe investing some of his own money. But also I think 596 00:40:30.599 --> 00:40:35.480 it's likely that getting investment from somewhere that money still is out there to some 597 00:40:35.679 --> 00:40:38.360 effect, but it's just not like it was. So the idea that it's 598 00:40:38.400 --> 00:40:44.519 going to string k here ip is he gonna is he gonna buy for for 599 00:40:44.639 --> 00:40:47.920 his new company. He's gonna go back to Embracer and buy back the SpongeBob 600 00:40:49.039 --> 00:40:51.880 and just make it a SpongeBob factory. There you go, that's the real 601 00:40:52.079 --> 00:40:55.599 SpongeBob on Gex. Just a cross over there. Yes, that's the SpongeBob 602 00:40:55.679 --> 00:41:01.079 Gex universe. Uh A, Embracer's still mess. How do you feel about 603 00:41:01.159 --> 00:41:04.440 Like, do you think we're over the hump with Embras or do you think 604 00:41:04.440 --> 00:41:07.159 there's more bad news to come? Oh, there's way more fucking bad that's 605 00:41:07.239 --> 00:41:13.199 right. Yeah, that's always the vibe of always found from a Embraser and 606 00:41:13.280 --> 00:41:15.599 it's pretty limited, but it mainly comes from games Calm, where they have 607 00:41:15.639 --> 00:41:22.840 a big showing every year, and in twenty twenty two they basically took up 608 00:41:22.920 --> 00:41:27.599 an entire floor of Games Calm in the business area, which like their big 609 00:41:27.679 --> 00:41:32.440 fucking flaws in the halls, except each and every one of their publishing labels 610 00:41:32.519 --> 00:41:37.400 were separate booths like you know what these press boods look like, you know, 611 00:41:37.559 --> 00:41:42.079 like Activision will have one or Sega will have one and they're all set 612 00:41:42.159 --> 00:41:45.760 up independently. But usually if for companies owned by another company, they'll put 613 00:41:45.800 --> 00:41:50.199 them in the same place Embracer owned. You know, they had Deep Silver 614 00:41:50.320 --> 00:41:54.559 separate, they had what's their other publishing labels, but they have them all 615 00:41:54.679 --> 00:41:58.800 separately laid out, and you'd be going to them and you realize like, 616 00:41:59.039 --> 00:42:02.960 oh, these are all are perising as separate enterities, and like it's it's 617 00:42:04.039 --> 00:42:07.559 like looking at European medieval Europe and it being like, oh, these are 618 00:42:07.599 --> 00:42:14.039 like fief thumbtains and everyone's operating independently and taking resources from each other, and 619 00:42:14.159 --> 00:42:19.039 it's kind of a fucking mess, Like there's no actual stability around this whole 620 00:42:19.119 --> 00:42:24.039 thing. And I think that like as soon as you the thing that tells 621 00:42:24.039 --> 00:42:28.480 you everything you need to know about Embraser is they own a pure company that 622 00:42:28.639 --> 00:42:32.800 doesn't do pre for all of their games. Yep, So why do they 623 00:42:32.840 --> 00:42:38.159 own a pr company? It's wild. I've had situations where I've gone to 624 00:42:38.239 --> 00:42:42.840 Embrace the meetings and it's like, oh, here's a person from one Pere 625 00:42:42.920 --> 00:42:45.320 company, here's a person from another Pere company who is also there, and 626 00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:50.679 I'm like, why do you have two Pere companies working on one booth, 627 00:42:51.039 --> 00:42:54.159 Like, why would you hire out to this person is just here making coffee 628 00:42:54.199 --> 00:42:57.840 when people come in. You know that sometimes happening when it's like oh, 629 00:42:57.920 --> 00:43:00.639 this is for the your zone and this is for North America. But that's 630 00:43:00.679 --> 00:43:04.239 not what was happening there, right, that was just no, it was 631 00:43:04.440 --> 00:43:07.719 it was like the same the same European projects, the same games Calm event, 632 00:43:07.880 --> 00:43:14.760 and it's like you have multiple people running these events, Like it's very 633 00:43:14.920 --> 00:43:17.800 rare that you will have a situation where one company doesn't do all of it's 634 00:43:17.920 --> 00:43:23.960 pure through the same pure outlish and the idea that like hey, Deep Silver 635 00:43:24.199 --> 00:43:30.519 are going to a different team than Gearbox are to it. It makes it 636 00:43:30.519 --> 00:43:35.639 a fucking mess, suppress because it makes getting in contact with people an absolute 637 00:43:35.760 --> 00:43:38.239 nightmare. And sometimes you'll have a situation where you're like, oh, can 638 00:43:38.320 --> 00:43:42.320 I see like the other embrasive group games and they're like, no, you 639 00:43:42.519 --> 00:43:47.920 can't because we're not working on them. And it just creates this whole disorganization 640 00:43:49.920 --> 00:43:53.440 at like a massive scale that like you can't like that's just a very simple 641 00:43:53.480 --> 00:43:59.719 thing, but it scales up to the entire company And I have no idea. 642 00:43:59.760 --> 00:44:01.719 How the fuck they're still operation in the way that they are. I've 643 00:44:01.760 --> 00:44:06.880 always been baffled by Embraces the same way you have, And every time I 644 00:44:06.960 --> 00:44:09.199 learned something new about them, I'm like, oh, it's like you know 645 00:44:09.280 --> 00:44:15.239 that scene in a Succession where he's like, you're not serious people. It's 646 00:44:15.280 --> 00:44:17.440 like that, but with the company, it's like, you're not a serious 647 00:44:17.480 --> 00:44:22.559 company. Yes. Instead, it feels like there was a publisher in the 648 00:44:22.639 --> 00:44:27.719 industry Ijeel stream k I got nothing. I was trying to do a SpongeBob 649 00:44:27.800 --> 00:44:30.440 joke, but it's nothing. It's nothing. Uh, this is going to 650 00:44:30.599 --> 00:44:36.639 end up being a real big mess. It feels like it's going to be 651 00:44:36.760 --> 00:44:38.760 and it's going to well, not just the mess, but like a fire 652 00:44:39.199 --> 00:44:44.639 where people are going to get a lot of strays because they just ended up 653 00:44:44.719 --> 00:44:47.679 getting acquired by a publisher that does does not have a vision. And it 654 00:44:49.000 --> 00:44:51.719 doesn't feel like they're bracing for it. It doesn't feel like they're trying to 655 00:44:51.840 --> 00:44:57.639 enact any changes that would add some more organization to the organization itself. It 656 00:44:57.719 --> 00:45:01.280 doesn't seem like there's any The cuts that they are making are baffling when you 657 00:45:01.360 --> 00:45:06.000 look at stuff like Gearbox Publishing, which was putting out a bunch of really 658 00:45:06.079 --> 00:45:08.360 solid India games that we're doing quite well on Steam charts, and then they 659 00:45:08.440 --> 00:45:14.159 laid off almost the entire Gearbox Publishing team. Like that is a section that 660 00:45:14.280 --> 00:45:16.639 is clearly growing. Why are those the people you are cushing? It just 661 00:45:16.679 --> 00:45:23.280 seems like a bunch of people who run hedge funds but don't run video game 662 00:45:23.360 --> 00:45:27.840 companies running a video game company, and they've managed to get away with it 663 00:45:28.039 --> 00:45:30.559 for long enough, for this long because they've had all this money coming in. 664 00:45:31.119 --> 00:45:34.320 But like now that the money stopped, they're like, oh shit, 665 00:45:34.360 --> 00:45:36.480 we actually have to run this company. Now, what the fuck do we 666 00:45:36.559 --> 00:45:42.159 do? Meanwhile, over at Blizzard, they say that they've been talking about 667 00:45:42.199 --> 00:45:45.800 bringing World of Warcraft to consoles all the time. This is from Jordan miller 668 00:45:45.840 --> 00:45:51.559 I f EGC. Blizzard has said that it considers bringing its seminal MMO World 669 00:45:51.599 --> 00:45:54.360 of Warcraft to consoles all the time. Speaking to games Radar at Blizcon twenty 670 00:45:54.400 --> 00:45:59.800 twenty three, Hollywongdale, the vice president and executive producer of World of Warcraft, 671 00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:02.760 said that it talks about the prospect all the time. It's a complicated 672 00:46:02.840 --> 00:46:07.679 question Longdale said for a console audience, the approachability is likely going to be 673 00:46:07.760 --> 00:46:09.559 different. While in the past and this is no longer a quote. While 674 00:46:09.599 --> 00:46:13.559 in the past momos of World of Warcraft size, we're more at home on 675 00:46:13.679 --> 00:46:17.079 PC due to computing power. Some of the largest momo tommos today are extremely 676 00:46:17.199 --> 00:46:21.760 popular on consoles, such as Final Fantasy four Team. Right now, we're 677 00:46:21.800 --> 00:46:24.199 focused on the World on World Soul Saga, but if that comes up, 678 00:46:24.320 --> 00:46:29.239 then we'll re examine things. But man, we've got enough to deal with 679 00:46:29.400 --> 00:46:31.599 right now. We've got these three expansions, and we are so excited about 680 00:46:31.599 --> 00:46:38.199 the whole that could be what you could label everything with activision a lot. 681 00:46:39.000 --> 00:46:43.639 So I'm going to be busy that day. Uh yeah, but yeah, 682 00:46:43.679 --> 00:46:45.199 of course, it would be very insincere to say that we're not like, 683 00:46:45.360 --> 00:46:51.360 of course we're talking about that. She also mentioned that like, it's not 684 00:46:51.440 --> 00:46:54.199 going to be a problem for controller. They say that they probably have a 685 00:46:54.239 --> 00:46:58.519 good solution for that, so that they feel comfortable about making that jump, 686 00:46:58.840 --> 00:47:00.639 and it's not about any of these other issues they might bring up. They're 687 00:47:00.639 --> 00:47:02.639 like, no, we feel good about bringing to the console. It's just 688 00:47:02.719 --> 00:47:06.960 a matter of like is now the right time and we haven't needed to do 689 00:47:07.119 --> 00:47:10.320 that. Just real quick on this. If they do that, do you 690 00:47:10.400 --> 00:47:15.280 think that there's any sort of link between a World of Warcraft subscription and game 691 00:47:15.360 --> 00:47:20.440 pass subscriptions? Maybe, but like this just feels like the long time, 692 00:47:20.760 --> 00:47:23.159 Like it feels like ten years too late. It feels like who is going 693 00:47:23.239 --> 00:47:28.519 to get in to this game all these years later? Well? I think 694 00:47:28.559 --> 00:47:30.320 that's why it makes some sense to me, because I here's I think the 695 00:47:30.360 --> 00:47:36.119 reason not to make an Xbox game Pass subscription a World of Warcraft subscription is 696 00:47:36.159 --> 00:47:37.760 you think, well, then you know you're getting all this money for World 697 00:47:37.800 --> 00:47:42.360 of Warcraft subscriptions, There's still probably a million people subscribe to that game, 698 00:47:42.440 --> 00:47:45.599 like even at it's lowest, like it's around that level, so it's say, 699 00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:47.320 oh, you don't want to give up all that money. I just 700 00:47:47.360 --> 00:47:52.800 don't think the Venn diagram of World of warcrafts subscribers overlaps too much with game 701 00:47:52.800 --> 00:47:54.920 Pass subscribers. So the idea would be like, you're not actually, you're 702 00:47:55.159 --> 00:48:00.239 just getting a bigger number overall. And now every game Pass subscriber can go 703 00:48:00.320 --> 00:48:02.599 and try World of Warcraft without and feel like, oh I have a subscrip 704 00:48:02.679 --> 00:48:07.039 subscription to this, I should use that. So oh, hello, turkey 705 00:48:07.159 --> 00:48:09.880 gobble gobble gobble. There you go, bring it into the camera. So 706 00:48:10.119 --> 00:48:13.880 yeah, But at the same time, I think you're right, then it's 707 00:48:13.920 --> 00:48:16.440 not the it's not the right time. It's not the It probably wouldn't make 708 00:48:16.480 --> 00:48:20.360 that much of a you know, a move on the needle. But I 709 00:48:20.360 --> 00:48:22.880 don't know, what do you think? Yeah, I think this brings up 710 00:48:22.920 --> 00:48:25.079 a larger thing with Blizzard. I kept an eye on a lot of blizz 711 00:48:25.119 --> 00:48:32.440 colm this weekend and everything I saw out of that company seems like a fucking 712 00:48:32.599 --> 00:48:37.159 mess. And to put it very politely, And you have the Overwatch League 713 00:48:37.400 --> 00:48:44.119 or Overwatch itself doing a big like them being the first game they talk about 714 00:48:44.159 --> 00:48:50.280 after the opening presentation and Mike Youbaua being up on stage talking about you know, 715 00:48:50.440 --> 00:48:53.760 inclusion, diversity and how the game is for everyone, how they're working 716 00:48:54.199 --> 00:48:58.159 on getting more people involved in the game, how much they love esports. 717 00:48:58.599 --> 00:49:00.559 All the while they killed the over Watch League, and now apparently they're looking 718 00:49:00.599 --> 00:49:06.400 at selling like the contract to the Saudi Arabian government and it's like, okay, 719 00:49:07.079 --> 00:49:09.400 you're clearly just full of shith And there's no other way to put it. 720 00:49:09.800 --> 00:49:14.639 And the team that won the overwatched League World Cup, which was Team 721 00:49:14.679 --> 00:49:20.599 Saudi Arabia, had been shit talking a trans shoutcaster during their qualifiers and they 722 00:49:20.639 --> 00:49:24.559 weren't particularly punished first and they were just allowed to continue in the brackets. 723 00:49:24.960 --> 00:49:30.840 And then you look at stuff like how Diablo four's season is being received that 724 00:49:31.039 --> 00:49:35.679 just seems like a game for no one other than the people who were really 725 00:49:35.760 --> 00:49:39.119 mad about Diablo three having too much color in it, Like that's the only 726 00:49:39.280 --> 00:49:43.960 type of person that that game seems designed around, and it seems like a 727 00:49:44.000 --> 00:49:49.039 live service game that like just doesn't have any that game. When i played 728 00:49:49.079 --> 00:49:52.840 it for more than any other game, and I've played like everything from Destiny 729 00:49:52.920 --> 00:49:55.519 to a lot of other live service games, it was the quickest I've gotten 730 00:49:55.719 --> 00:49:59.960 from like okay, this is interesting to like why the fuck am I bothering 731 00:50:00.239 --> 00:50:02.400 making this number go up? Like what to watch? End? To? 732 00:50:02.559 --> 00:50:07.039 What end am I doing anything here? And you look at World of Warcraft 733 00:50:07.159 --> 00:50:09.079 and that's been dwindling for years. It's doing good expansions at the moment, 734 00:50:09.119 --> 00:50:12.800 and people are in a good mood with it, but it's not growing like 735 00:50:12.880 --> 00:50:19.400 the whole vibe that you get from Blizzard is that each and every one of 736 00:50:19.440 --> 00:50:23.000 their games has stopped growing, and they currently don't have any other games on 737 00:50:23.119 --> 00:50:29.079 the books, and they are trying desperately to find ways to monetize the games 738 00:50:29.079 --> 00:50:31.440 that are left there. You see it in like the thirty five dollars Overwatch 739 00:50:31.519 --> 00:50:36.719 skins. You see it in the way that they make everything a grind and 740 00:50:36.800 --> 00:50:39.519 Diablo for so that you have to keep putting time and money into ash like 741 00:50:39.719 --> 00:50:45.519 it. Those games don't seem sustainable or healthy because those franchises don't seem sustainable 742 00:50:45.599 --> 00:50:50.400 or healthy. Yep. I mean, I think that we are going to 743 00:50:50.440 --> 00:50:55.920 see a Wizard have to go through some I don't know, being treated well 744 00:50:57.159 --> 00:51:00.000 by Microsoft for a few years before it can be go get some of its 745 00:51:00.039 --> 00:51:04.719 confidence back a little bit. I think it's been. It feels a little 746 00:51:04.719 --> 00:51:07.360 bit like, hey, under Activision, we couldn't just be Blizzard, and 747 00:51:07.559 --> 00:51:09.760 in some ways you don't want to just be Blizzard because that was a toxic 748 00:51:09.800 --> 00:51:13.519 workplace, so that had to change as well. And that's you know, 749 00:51:13.719 --> 00:51:16.679 Microsoft has a reputation that's very strongly trying to maintain so that stuff won't be 750 00:51:16.760 --> 00:51:21.280 tolerated but then when it comes to the making games side of stuff, do 751 00:51:21.360 --> 00:51:22.719 you hope that Blizzard can regain some of that mode, Joe, And you 752 00:51:22.920 --> 00:51:25.519 see them trying to do that in fits and starts. I think Diablo for 753 00:51:27.119 --> 00:51:29.920 turned out better than it could have, and I still think I agree with 754 00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:34.400 you that it seems like it hasn't fully reclaimed its place as like, well, 755 00:51:34.480 --> 00:51:36.800 this is a this is one of the best games, and the people 756 00:51:36.800 --> 00:51:39.480 who a gallow is totally a game when you look at it and you're like, 757 00:51:39.639 --> 00:51:43.360 Oh, the team that came in here and finished it and made this 758 00:51:43.599 --> 00:51:46.480 like quite technically sound, weren't the team that started finished, weren't the team 759 00:51:46.480 --> 00:51:49.679 with the vision, but you're like, oh, this is the team. 760 00:51:49.760 --> 00:51:52.400 This is the game that was fixed by a different team. Yep. Janser 761 00:51:52.440 --> 00:51:57.960 said his partner told him about ninth Grader's talking about Wow. I do think 762 00:51:58.039 --> 00:52:02.599 Wow seems like it might have like a Ruinscape Classics sort of pop here in 763 00:52:02.639 --> 00:52:07.039 a little bit where it's like the new generation is going to discover Wow. 764 00:52:07.360 --> 00:52:09.320 I think that could happen. We'll see, well, and we'll see a 765 00:52:09.320 --> 00:52:14.079 Blizzard's able to capitalize on that. But I think a lot of like younger 766 00:52:14.159 --> 00:52:15.480 streamers are playing it, and I think that's really helping the game. But 767 00:52:15.719 --> 00:52:20.480 I will know that the kids on a holidays anyway. Oh no, definitely 768 00:52:20.679 --> 00:52:23.880 not. I mean she like Sonic well, of course, Io Interactive wants 769 00:52:23.960 --> 00:52:28.119 to make more than one Bond game. This is from Nicholas Wallin at Game 770 00:52:28.199 --> 00:52:31.320 Reactor. Danish Hitman developer Io Interactive is working on a new James Bond game, 771 00:52:31.639 --> 00:52:35.800 and it will not be based on any of the Ian Fleming books because 772 00:52:35.920 --> 00:52:38.519 who can read, but will be a completely new story about the legendary agent's 773 00:52:38.599 --> 00:52:42.599 background. It now also seems that they have plans to make more than one 774 00:52:42.679 --> 00:52:45.599 game, and that it will be something of a sequel. In an interview 775 00:52:45.639 --> 00:52:50.599 with Edge magazine, io Interactive ceocan A Brac suggests that they hope to do 776 00:52:50.840 --> 00:52:52.599 just that. Hacana Brac said, I would love players to look back on 777 00:52:52.719 --> 00:52:57.719 multiple Bond games by Io and go, wow, that was quite a journey. 778 00:52:59.719 --> 00:53:04.079 I hope they can get to this point. I want the world for 779 00:53:04.159 --> 00:53:07.039 Io Interactive. I think that'd be a good name for a Bond game, 780 00:53:07.039 --> 00:53:08.679 by the way, but I want the world for them. I want them 781 00:53:08.880 --> 00:53:12.239 just everything to work out, and I think they're the kind of studio that 782 00:53:12.400 --> 00:53:15.639 can tell a story with a character over multiple games, because by the time, 783 00:53:15.760 --> 00:53:19.960 like with hit Man two, after hit Man twenty sixteen, I was 784 00:53:20.000 --> 00:53:22.480 like, man, they're actually doing some emotional stuff with Age A forty seven, 785 00:53:22.719 --> 00:53:25.280 and I was mostly happy with where that went. In hit Man three, 786 00:53:25.320 --> 00:53:28.239 it wasn't great, but it was like, this is pretty good. 787 00:53:28.480 --> 00:53:31.280 They set out with that in mind and still have all the great gameplay on 788 00:53:31.400 --> 00:53:36.239 top of that. That could be a real fun series. How do you 789 00:53:36.320 --> 00:53:42.440 feel about multiple Bond games from Io Interactive? I was fucking awesome. I'll 790 00:53:43.280 --> 00:53:46.079 play anything that they try, even if, like I don't stick with the 791 00:53:46.159 --> 00:53:51.199 hit Man games as long as some people, I respect them and love them 792 00:53:51.280 --> 00:53:53.280 so much from a technical point of view of just like, oh, these 793 00:53:53.360 --> 00:53:59.480 are incredibly well designed video games, and I'm super excited to see them try 794 00:53:59.519 --> 00:54:02.280 to do different things and if it makes some money and it lets them keep 795 00:54:02.360 --> 00:54:07.360 doing weird shit, like, more power to him. Real quick. I 796 00:54:07.400 --> 00:54:10.880 didn't put it down here, but there was that story that Insomniac Is confirmed 797 00:54:10.960 --> 00:54:15.039 that going forward, Miles Morales is their main Spider Man, and of course 798 00:54:15.119 --> 00:54:19.960 there was like a Spider Man weirdos who are like, I don't like the 799 00:54:20.039 --> 00:54:22.440 sound of that, give me back my Peter Parker. I don't think that 800 00:54:22.519 --> 00:54:27.079 means they're taking away You're Peter Parker. Let's be clear, Peter Parker is 801 00:54:27.079 --> 00:54:29.559 going to be in the game. But the way that story wraps up, 802 00:54:29.639 --> 00:54:35.079 it's like Miles Morales taking his place as the number one defender of New York 803 00:54:35.239 --> 00:54:39.880 and sort of and someone who can like help Peter Parker when Peter Parker can't 804 00:54:40.079 --> 00:54:44.039 handle all his shit either, And it's like, well, that's I think 805 00:54:44.039 --> 00:54:45.920 it's an idea of like Past the Torch, and that doesn't mean that Peter 806 00:54:45.960 --> 00:54:50.440 Parker has to go retire and we never see him again. I also think 807 00:54:50.440 --> 00:54:53.599 it's unlikely a video game sequel does less than the game before it. Now, 808 00:54:53.639 --> 00:54:55.920 maybe they do it Donkey Kong Country too thing where it's like, Okay, 809 00:54:55.960 --> 00:55:00.000 this one had Peter Parker and Miles Morales, the next one will be 810 00:55:00.039 --> 00:55:04.960 Miles Morales and someone else. But I think it's very likely that you'll still 811 00:55:05.000 --> 00:55:08.320 play us both in the next games. It's just that Miles Morales will be 812 00:55:08.480 --> 00:55:13.880 the main focus and then Peter Parker's story will be the b story as opposed 813 00:55:13.880 --> 00:55:15.199 to the way it worked this last one, where it's like Miles Morouse was 814 00:55:15.360 --> 00:55:17.719 kind of started as the B story and maybe by the end he had worked 815 00:55:17.719 --> 00:55:20.880 his way up to the A story. But I don't know, how do 816 00:55:20.920 --> 00:55:23.400 you to be fair? To be fair, it's totally unlike comic book fans 817 00:55:23.519 --> 00:55:28.480 to use like something like this as a scapegoat to be shitty and racist about 818 00:55:28.480 --> 00:55:30.679 something. And that's why I wouldn't give them benefit of the doubt. Of 819 00:55:30.760 --> 00:55:34.960 course, yeah, and they'd never do that. And no, like fucking 820 00:55:35.079 --> 00:55:42.199 Peter Parker is extremely well recognized as the face and name of Spider Man. 821 00:55:42.719 --> 00:55:46.559 They will keep that character around. What the fuck you are about? It 822 00:55:46.639 --> 00:55:51.719 doesn't matter how even if he fucking died, Peter Parker would be all over 823 00:55:51.800 --> 00:55:54.320 the fucking next game, Like, I don't know what the fuck you're on 824 00:55:54.519 --> 00:55:59.440 about. Yep, there's a lot of fucking Spider Man. You'll be fine. 825 00:56:00.920 --> 00:56:02.639 This comment here says that Miles more and that Brian So I'm gonna make 826 00:56:02.639 --> 00:56:05.880 a bad joke and I'm not gonna do it. I abandoned ship, abandoned 827 00:56:05.880 --> 00:56:08.159 ship, all right, let's uh, let's go here, Let's get to 828 00:56:08.199 --> 00:56:14.079 the poll. It's got johnsoled again, almost got janceled again. All right, 829 00:56:14.199 --> 00:56:17.400 let's go which giant Bob staffer is most likely to earn a knighthood. 830 00:56:17.800 --> 00:56:22.599 Let's see. Five percent said Jeff Jeff Backlar And that's my vote actually, 831 00:56:22.599 --> 00:56:25.800 even though I vote for Dan Record, said Janachoa. Thirty three percent said 832 00:56:25.840 --> 00:56:30.400 Lucy James. I think that's the British Lucy. Lucy is the smart money, 833 00:56:30.599 --> 00:56:34.000 Like, yes, I think I think Lucy's actually the most likely. 834 00:56:34.079 --> 00:56:37.239 But forty eight percent said Dan Record. I would be confident that Lucy would 835 00:56:37.280 --> 00:56:42.159 turn it down. Yes, no, thanks, I'm good. Dan Riker 836 00:56:42.199 --> 00:56:45.000 would absolutely take it down. Done would jump out, Yeah, I don't 837 00:56:45.000 --> 00:56:50.000 care. Yeah, it does not care. Uh So sit in the tweet 838 00:56:50.000 --> 00:56:52.559 about it and you're like, yeah, let's let's yeah, let let's find 839 00:56:52.599 --> 00:56:58.840 out my free metal and that helps you on it of course. All right, 840 00:56:59.239 --> 00:57:01.079 we got a new poll coming up here that we'll talk about on Wednesday's 841 00:57:01.119 --> 00:57:05.119 Game Best Mornings. But first, Lexie, why you tell people where they 842 00:57:05.119 --> 00:57:07.239 can find you what you have going on all that good stuff. Yeah, 843 00:57:07.320 --> 00:57:12.039 you can find me on Twitter at basically Lexi, both words spelled with an 844 00:57:12.119 --> 00:57:15.760 I. You can check out the website. And run sart Menu, which 845 00:57:15.760 --> 00:57:19.880 is a website for young people or people trying to break into the games industry. 846 00:57:20.400 --> 00:57:22.320 We're doing a winter spectacular, as I mentioned at the top of the 847 00:57:22.360 --> 00:57:24.880 show. We're going to get some guests on. We'll have some fun, 848 00:57:24.960 --> 00:57:30.039 we'll do some fun shot we'll do some advice pieces, we'll do some serious 849 00:57:30.119 --> 00:57:35.440 things. It's always a good fun time of the year. You can read 850 00:57:35.519 --> 00:57:39.639 some of my work at check News, most recently where I did my like 851 00:57:39.679 --> 00:57:43.440 a Dragon Guide end review and I interviewed Sam Lake, which was a lot 852 00:57:43.440 --> 00:57:49.119 of fun. I also reviewed Alan Wake two on start Menu itself. And 853 00:57:49.880 --> 00:57:52.559 I'll be around a bit more every now and again. Yeah, excellent. 854 00:57:53.920 --> 00:57:58.119 Let's see a couple of house clean things. Like I said, we'll have 855 00:57:58.400 --> 00:58:01.079 the poll results on Wednesday. Owned Giant Bomb. Speaking a Giant Bomb, 856 00:58:01.280 --> 00:58:07.000 I will probably try to wrap up Mortal Kombat one this week, maybe today. 857 00:58:07.440 --> 00:58:09.159 Timing will get depend on what I have going on in my personal life 858 00:58:09.159 --> 00:58:12.599 and I have to run kids around and stuff like that. We'll see, 859 00:58:13.360 --> 00:58:16.639 but ideally that would happen today and maybe even finished it. We'll see, 860 00:58:17.599 --> 00:58:22.079 and then for the rest of the week we should have a b Light club. 861 00:58:22.559 --> 00:58:24.360 But we might mix something else in there. Depending it's a shorter week 862 00:58:24.719 --> 00:58:28.840 on the back end. We're not working Friday because a Veterans Day, so 863 00:58:29.079 --> 00:58:32.280 things will move around a little bit. But hey, BombCast tomorrow and then 864 00:58:32.519 --> 00:58:37.679 BombCast Revengeance, which is on the same fee. The first episode went out 865 00:58:37.719 --> 00:58:43.559 on Friday. That'll happen this week, might just happen on a on Friday. 866 00:58:43.639 --> 00:58:45.000 Yeah, it was. It was a fun, good proof of concepts 867 00:58:45.000 --> 00:58:47.000 and I feel really happy with it. It's one that it was like, 868 00:58:47.320 --> 00:58:50.480 Okay, it's awesome to be able to get Lucy and tam on here. 869 00:58:50.559 --> 00:58:53.480 It's uh, it's great to be able to have just a more freewheeling conversation 870 00:58:53.800 --> 00:58:57.480 just kind of talk about games a little bit more, especially if everyone's like, 871 00:58:57.559 --> 00:59:00.559 man, I wish I would have said that about Alan Wake when I 872 00:59:00.719 --> 00:59:01.840 was on the BombCast. I just forgot and so well, now I have 873 00:59:01.920 --> 00:59:05.719 another chance to do that. So just all around, we're really happy with 874 00:59:05.800 --> 00:59:09.719 it. Definitely give that a listen and then vote. I think you can 875 00:59:09.800 --> 00:59:13.920 vote tomorrow in the United States, so get out there do that. There's 876 00:59:13.920 --> 00:59:17.159 a lot of issues that are worth voting on, especially in Ohio. Go 877 00:59:19.119 --> 00:59:22.800 see vote yes on issue one, I think, and yes on issue too, 878 00:59:22.239 --> 00:59:30.000 so we can get legal weed. Yay. So go check out Chris 879 00:59:30.119 --> 00:59:32.920 Bot's new video way. He interviews Tom and that looks really good. I 880 00:59:32.920 --> 00:59:37.440 haven't watched it yet. We're the best out the least. People make games 881 00:59:37.599 --> 00:59:44.239 excellent. They interviewed to More and I think that is a really cool thing 882 00:59:44.320 --> 00:59:46.960 to do. I do too. More is very rad so as people make 883 00:59:47.039 --> 00:59:50.760 games. So check that out. All right, Lexie, thank you so 884 00:59:50.880 --> 00:59:52.400 much for spending today talking with me, talking with me about video games, 885 00:59:52.440 --> 00:59:54.480 and for helping me put the run down together. I really appreciate that. 886 00:59:55.559 --> 00:59:59.480 Thank you all for watching. You're the best audience in gaming. Until next 887 00:59:59.519 --> 01:00:01.840 time, have a good one, take care of yourself, and goodbye.