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Hello, and welcome to episode number
one hundred and thirty two of the Chief

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Steaks and Controllers podcast presented by Fox
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Where you're here in this right now. My name is Jason Finelli. It

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has been a while. I understand
that I said we were coming out of

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hiatus, just to go right back
into hiatus again. We tried a live

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episode of Cheese, Steaks and Controllers
over Twitch, which worked to an extent.

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I still have to work out the
kinks and the bugs in all of

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that, but so far, I'm
feeling pretty good about the year. And

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that's what we are going to talk
about. Is why I wanted to come

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back and record this episode because the
year twenty twenty three is about half over.

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July the first is Saturday. This
is going live on June thirtieth,

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which is Friday, and that is
the halfway point of the year, if

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you would believe it. We are
already halfway through the twenty twenty three and

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there has been a lot to talk
about in video games, and not so

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much esports because esports is becoming increasingly
irrelevant if you ask me. But that's

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a whole other episode. But there's
plenty of talk about. So we'll start

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things off by going through the first
half of the year. We'll devote the

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entire second segment to June because June
has been nuts, and then we will

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end with a look forward for the
rest of the year because all of the

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sudden, the second hand of the
year is loaded with games to play.

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Yeah, we thought the first half
was loaded, and it is to an

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extent, but the second half of
the year, oh boy, they really

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want us to play every single video
game we can get our hands on and

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our wallets Ken's support. So let's
get right into it by talking about the

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first half of the year. And
honestly, there are a lot of games

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here that I forgot even launched in
this particular year. There were some indie

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gyms like Pizza Tower. If you
haven't played Pizza Tower yet, that came

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out back in h I want to
say January is when Pizza Tower hit.

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Maybe it was the beginning it was
the end of last year, but it

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started to pick up steam in the
first in the beginning of this year.

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But that it's a very very fun. Like some people are calling it warrior

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Land for essentially the warrior Land we
never got, which is really really cool.

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Also as a banging soundtrack. If
you haven't heard that, you're hearing

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it right now underneath me. A
very very cool game. Had a great

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run at Summer Games Done Quick earlier
this month, if you want to check

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out how to play it really fast, but a very interesting sort of retro

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platformer slash Metroid Vanya. It's a
lot going on there, and one that

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took a lot of people, including
myself, by a surprise. As far

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as the other side of the coin, there's four Spoken, which came out

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to huge fanfare and kind of did
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That I would say this is one
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even now, even going into July. Four Spoken has its supporters, has

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its detractors. It did not review
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sitting at about a sixty three or
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ideal but also not terrible. It's
it sounds like it's very much in the

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eye of the beholder, which you
know happens from time to time. But

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that was really cool. Also,
let's not forget the year started with an

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absolute bomb of a shadow drop at
High Fire Rush game. And I use

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bomb in the terms of not it
bombed bomb in a you know, magic

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the gathering because I play that now
sense of like it came out of nowhere

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and completely changed things and everybody loved
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no expectations and everybody now loves it. High Fire Rush definitely one of the

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best surprises of the year. That
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hacking slash, great storyline behind it, great character is great everything. A

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great surprise to start the year and
definitely a game that I would recommend if

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you haven't checked that out yet.
Dead Space Remake another big year for remakes.

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Dead Space started the year off with
some spooky fun we'll get into one

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that happened a little later on in
the year, which continues to be one

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of the the best games of the
year. And then in February we had

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another big remake in Metroid Prime Remastered. Shadow dropped out of nowhere at the

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end of a Nintendo Direct and I
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the eighteenth. Somewhere in there in
that second year, a second week of

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the month is when that dropped out
of nowhere, like it was a shadow

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dropped on digital. The physical version
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but Metroid Prime remastered, something that
people have wanted forever, is now available

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to play on your switch, which
is super cool. Not the only remake

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we'll be talking about from Nintendo on
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wait until later on. Also in
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slower of February the eighth is when
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the twentieth Sorry about that. Hogwarts
Legacy February the tenth, and all of

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the controversy do controversy of course,
um that came with it. I have

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not played it. I just don't. I just have no interest in it.

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Part half because of the controversy surrounding
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and all of the uh DO criticism
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that's putting it very very lightly.
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my thing to begin with. I've
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a big cultural thing. Just wasn't
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I wouldn't say fifty fifty. I'd
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In them, the creator sucks,
the creator sucks favor. That's a

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that's a word. That's a word, that's a sense. Can you tell.

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I've been on hiatus for a while
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Um, It's yeah, it's been
a minute, but I hope you missed

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me. I missed you, guys. Underrated gem in February would be Theorhythm

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Final bar line. I say underrated
even though it I think it scored like

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an eighty seven or an eighty eight
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you love rhythm based games, Hi
Fi Rush if you like something like that

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but not quite the hack and slashy
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guitar Hero where you have to match
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you're not dancing, you're using the
controller. But it takes you through

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the entire history essentially of Final Fantasy
through its music, which is you know,

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nothing to shake a stick at.
Final Fantasy music is incredible and always

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has been so Final bar Line seeming
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franchise until it can, you know, rebuild the stocks a little bit more,

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because I don't know that there's a
Square Enix RPG that that game doesn't

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touch. Now with all the dlc
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a kroto trigger. I believe there's
some Octopath in there as well, so

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I don't know how much more of
the rhythm can really do. But it's

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a very very cool game. I
highly recommend that you check that out.

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Another big release in February that I
keep tending to forget about just because you

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know, it hasn't really made that
much of an impact, PSVR two PlayStation

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VR two exists and I just keep
forgetting about it. I don't want to

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forget about it. I love the
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guess it came out too expensive,
the games that came out for it were

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not as groundbreaking as people as so
many would have hoped, and it's just

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kind of there. I don't know
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one. I didn't adopt it,
I think until two years after it had

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launched, and it was at a
heavily discounted rate and came with like three

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games or something like that. If
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not until something like that happens.
But Horizon Call the Mountain, the flagship

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launch title, apparently, is pretty
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but pretty good not to mention.
You know, Horizon Forbidden West was still

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pretty fresh, and then Burning Shores
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been plenty of Horizon content to go
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think about PSVR two where I sit
right now. I hope it can pick

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up. I hope I can get
more users into it, but until it

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does that, I don't see the
prognosis improving for it anytime soon. A

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couple other interesting titles that launched in
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Atomic Heart, the weird first person
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had a bit of controversy surrounding it
with a Russian developer, Wild Hearts,

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which was EA's take on EA and
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EA, and who was the other
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Force. That's it? Sorry,
I get those two mixed up all the

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time. Omega Force's take on Monster
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like a dragon Eshan Blood Bowl three, Kirby's Returned to Dreamland Deluxe, I

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feel like returned to Dreamland that was
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too, Destiny two. Fans were
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it. February it was a big
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as far as new games to play. We're concerned kind of set the tone

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for the rest of year, but
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is still to come, and that'll
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on into March, Woe Long Fallen
Dynasty came out to some a Plome did

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not review, I don't think as
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still considered to be a decent enough
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thing going on there. I think
it's more going for like a Nio than

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a Dark Souls, but still apparently
a pretty cool game after that, kind

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of had a bit of a dark
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W two K twenty three in March
seventeenth, which came out and improved on

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the already improved two K twenty two. So that's trending upward. You love

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to see it. Let's hope that
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It is March twenty fourth, we
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one of the most popular games of
all time, completely remade for the new

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consoles, and apparently I haven't finished
it yet, but from what I've played

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so far, I can't attest to
this the most what's the word I'm looking

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for, the most faithful to its
original out of the Resident EVO remakes so

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far, And what I mean by
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of tweaks to it. Resideval three
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but some. Residental four basically sticks
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game went. One of those if
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fix it sort of things. It
is updated, of course, combat is

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updated. All those things are updated. But as far as storyline is concerned,

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it is very faithful. It doesn't
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too much to the original tale,
which I thought was an interesting approach,

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especially when Village had just come out, and Village and Resideval four seemed to

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have this connected tissue, right.
They're very similar and esthetic and setting and

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stuff like that. So I was
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overlap between four and eight, But
you did not see that Them Will Be

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the Show twenty three. Baseball always
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I love this version. I love
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I thought it was a very very
good version of the only authentic simulation baseball

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game that there is. Not the
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There is one out now that is
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as far as simulation goes can't beat
it. Another underrated gym that might have

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gone underneath your radar but should not
have, and that's Dredge. So you're

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on this like little boat and you're
fishing, but there's also some psychological horror

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going on. I don't want to
get into it too much, but it

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is a very interesting game to have
on your radar. Also, Packs East

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happened around this time. Got to
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in a decade. For Packs East
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that earlier in the year. I
had a lot of fun. I gotta

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get John back on to talk about
what he's playing and where we are and

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what he's looking forward to in the
second half of the year. Maybe next

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week before all the cool interviews start. What a tease for the rest of

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the month. But yeah, Dredge, go back, go check out Dredge.

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That's definitely my underrated gem. From
March April started to slow a little

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bit. We still had ever Space
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vast Space exploration with a little bit
of you know, customization on your ships

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and stuff like that. It's a
very very cool game, dog Fighting in

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Space, full three hundred and sixty
movement, super super awesome game. EA

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Sports PGA Tours, so we have
a golf game for the first time in

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a couple of years from EA Sports. Finally coming out this year, Tron

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Identity and very underrated, I would
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by the team behind Volume Bithel Games. Bithel really seems to understand Tron.

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I really like the way that they
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we see more of that soon.
I know that it does sound like it's

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chapter based. There's going to be
more to it. They're gonna build more

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to it. I'm looking forward to
that. So whatever they decided to do

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after this, I like where this
story ended up. I think it could

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have been a little longer. I
didn't last as long as I wouldn't have

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wanted it too, but I did
enjoy playing it. I think I gave

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it a seven out of ten on
game Spot. I'll go back and check

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my score, but that's a very
cool game that I highly recommend. If

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you have like an afternoon and you're
like Tron or he's just like a good

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visual novel, that is a good
one. MegaMan fans got MegaMan Battle Work

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Battle Network Legacy Collection. I know
my friend Ron was very happy with that.

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Two one here and one later on
in the year two big time League

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of Legends stories, those side stories
that Riot Forge has been creating. The

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Major Seeker was the first one in
a role developed by the team at Digital

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Sun, which was awesome. I
love that game very much. The second

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half it takes a while to get
moving, but once it's moving, man

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game is great. Mage Seeker is
super cool, and then Convergence in May

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also very good, but that's less
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players who like games like that.
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continue to say this. I love
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I absolutely love it. You build
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give yourself hundreds of characters literally to
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on that lore with Arcane and other
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I think they're three. I would
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Ruined King, Mage Seeker, and
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it or a desire to play it, but it sounds like it was pretty

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good. Advance Wars one and two
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and Russia. Nintendo wanted to be
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the Advanced Wars games very well.
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from Nintendo coming up. Can you
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going to talk about the second segment, Can you tell Anyway? Dead Island

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two also launched Love the demo at
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with the full version yet, but
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predecessors did, which is always a
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in development hell, for it to
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me happy, So I hope that
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much happening, but I do have
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things about that I have to sit
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is Cassette Beasts role playing game.
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Studio and ral Fury. I gotta
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which is like a League of Legends
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that. Interesting start of Amalgamation played
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to check it out on iOS see
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like what I played so far.
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to Sorry Again should impact from the
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April as well. Don't want to
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the pedigree of the studio that made
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made the twelfth May the twelfth everything
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happened anymore because the legend of Zelda
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if you thought elden Ring was popular
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exploded across social media thanks to its
ability to build things. If you're not

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a builder, if you don't like
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ways to get around that. There
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where you can make templates where instead
of actually having to build everything, you

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build it once you save it,
and then you just you know, have

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it auto build whenever you want it
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on building or not. The game
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told. Gannendorff is a badass.
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and the game I'm not even at
the end yet, but my goodness,

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am I having a good time.
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piece is completely exhilarating. So I
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having a good time. So if
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a switch it's a good reason to
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Tears of the Kingdom, pick up
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it. But I don't want to
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the game releases ended in May,
because there's not Humanity, a very interesting

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puzzle game from Thha and Enhanced.
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so that's a really cool game.
Lego two K Drive a good racing

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game for children because it's you know, build your own cars and raise some

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stuff like that convergence League of Legends
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style doom first person shooter came out
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I really want to play that a
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so far is awesome Star Trek Resurgence, which is notable because it's from Dramatic

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Labs, which is a team made
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plays that sort of narrative storytelling but
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that's on my radar to play as
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perhaps the second most disappointing game of
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Gallum. Now technically this game scored
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one is more disappointing than Red Fall, but I would argue that I don't

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think many people expected Gallum to be
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but I don't think anybody expected it
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to the developers. Red Fall at
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is what makes it more disappointing in
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coming out at the end of the
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on PC, another very good stuff, and then we're into June. I'm

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not going to get into June until
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some of the releases right now that
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first week of June. You had
Street Fighter six, which was fantastic.

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You had Supermaga Baseball four, which
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which people are putting hundreds and hundreds
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we have more that we'll get into
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between the games that launched and the
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and that is where we're going to
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that was the first couple months of
the year. We'll talk about June next,

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as I said, and then we'll
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year, or the second half of
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man. There's a lot of video
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the ball on twenty twenty four.
We'll talk about that later on in the

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show. Stick around. All right, welcome back to Chief six and Controller's

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episode number one thirty two. We
are trying to get into now the month

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of June twenty twenty three, which
this go go out on June thirtieth.

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June, will be ending as of
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as far as the game industry is
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lots of things to like. In
June. It was a pretty pretty crazy

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month for the industry. It's certainly, but set out announcements all over the

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place. It started with, well, we'll get into the announcements first.

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First, let's talk about the games
that launched this month. Already talked about

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Street Fighter that first week. We'll
review that one more time for those that

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are somehow just tuning. In the
second segment, we had Street Fighter six

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and Superman Baseball four. We had
Diablo four and that was just the first

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week, and then getting into the
rest of June, we had Crash,

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Team Rumble, we had Final Fantasy
sixteen, Sonic Origins, plus aw Fight

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Forever, Story of Seasons of Wonderful
Life. Just Everybody Want to Switch is

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out today for those who like them, Ghost Trick, Phantom, Detective Master,

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Detective Archives, Raincode. It's just
an absolute loaded month. Dave the

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Diver came out of nowhere with a
bunch of nines that it's a phishing adventure

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for like a slash cooking Sabata.
That's one I got to really sink my

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teeth into. But the month was
loaded with releases. We had plenty to

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play to begin our summer. But
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us a bunch of announcements too,
most of which shaped the rest of the

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year. And again in the final
segment we'll get into why. The second

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half the year was already loaded and
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But um, let's start with Summer
Games Fest twenty twenty three Jeff Kiely

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Keiley festum went two play days this
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for the Summer Games Fest Live.
Had a blast if I could speak on

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that real quick. Summer Games Fest
play Days was basically a two day block

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party for video games. It was
in this place where they had a whole

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They had a whole block basically of
different buildings. They rented out all different

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buildings, but they're in one uh
like social area. Almost kind of reminds

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me of like the Filmore in Philadelphia, which is, you know, only

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only Philadelphia people will know that.
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these little restaurants and walking areas that
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reminded me of that, but imagine
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to play. It was a bit
of heaven not gonna lie. It was

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very very cool. Um yeah,
the main room with all the demos in

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it. You had some side rooms
with other you know, presentations and demos

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and stuff like that. Just a
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Pretty pretty happy with how that turned
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theater presentation was concerned, the big
announcements were Prince of Persia of the Lost

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Crown, which started off the thing
brand new Metroid Vanni, a Prince of

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Persia game, which sounds pretty cool. First gameplay of Mortal Kombat one,

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which I got to play at play
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over the weekend, and that game
is shaping up quite nicely. I love

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the cameos system, love how they're
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characters with classic moves into the modern, new, sort of rebooted era.

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I love how the cameos can flow
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The fatalities, of course, they're
always good. So Mortal Kombat one definitely

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one to circle on my calendar.
Sonic Superstars a brand new side scrolling Sonic

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where that brings the old format to
a new age, which looks really really

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cool. Lies of Pa is finally
coming out later this year. That's the

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Pinocchio Bloodborn, Blood Born Pinocchio,
which is two things I never thought would

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go together. Saw a full blowout
on Alan Wake two, which again coming

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out this year. Are you seeing
a theme here? Marvel spider Man two.

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Got a little more gameplay of that
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I completely forgot to mention. We'll
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coming out later this year as well. Then we got Like a Dragon Guid

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and the Man who Erased his name. Final Fantasy seven Rebirth was the big

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announcement there, and a bunch of
other things too. I'm glossing over some

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of the things that happened. I
don't want to forget them, but there's

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so much that was announced between the
end of the year, between the end

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of May and the first couple of
weeks of June. I want to make

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sure I get as much as I
can in in the small time that I've

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allotted myself. So now we'll move, we'll backtrack a little bit, and

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we'll go back to the PlayStation showcase
that I did end up forgetting, which

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is pretty bad of me, because
there was an announcement there that is probably

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going to end up being one of
my favorite announcements of the year, and

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one that I don't know if or
when it's ever coming out. I'm not

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sure that it's It definitely seemed like
it was one of those announcements where we

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just need people to come work on
this game. It's a bit of a

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recruiting tool, but you know,
if they need players consider me recruited,

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and that, of course is the
Metal Gear Solid remake. How could I

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not be absolutely out of my gourd
for that one great trailer, Love the

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trailer, love the announcement, everything
about it is very cool. I just

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need I just need more. I
just need it to come out. I

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would appreciate it if it would come
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PlayStation showcase we saw Spider Man two
again. The release date was at Summer

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Game Fest, but then we saw
Craven the Hunter for the first time.

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We saw some gameplay with Peter Parker
using the symbiote, which was awesome,

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and then switching between Miles Morales and
Peter Parker wasn't clear on whether that's at

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will, but definitely said, you
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do stuff there, which was cool. Assassin's Creed Mirage is finally getting a

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bit of a blowout. Between this
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about that comes out later this year
saw the first footage of a game from

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Haven Studios, which is being run
by Jade Raymond, who was a long

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time industry veterman. Made an impact
that UBI Soft with a splinter Seal on,

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Assassin's Creed and stuff like that.
Hell Divers two was shown, ghost

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Runners too, and then a couple
of other smaller games Alan Wake two that's

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not a smaller one, but that
was also there. Marathon is coming back

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as a team based a team based
multiplayer shooter does not have a single player

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campaign, but still pretty cool.
PlayStation showed off It's handheld where it's like

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a cloud gaming device where you can
stream from your PlayStation anywhere. Kind of

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looks like a switch with a dual
sense attached to it, which is not

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a bad call if you ask me, but there it is. And that

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was the PlayStation showcase kind of underwhelmed. Some people weren't entirely into it,

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but I thought there were some good
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it with other expansions like now that
we know the Spider Man release date,

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the PlayStation showcase stuff was cool,
right, so, and the Assassin's Creed

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Mirage stuff at you be Soft PlayStation
enhances the PlayStation Showcase a little bit in

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my opinion too, So definitely cool
stuff there, but I would say probably

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one of the most underwhelming of the
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June, the summer announcement season.
Let's call it probably one of the most

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disappointing overall looking back at all of
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Microsoft then showed up on Sunday after
Summer games Fest and immediately started with

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a new fable, which is you
know, the irreverent sort of humor that

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we expect. Not sure how much
of that was gameplay versus actual you know

405
00:30:03.400 --> 00:30:08.160
see or actual gameplay versus CGI footage, but it still looked awesome. South

406
00:30:08.200 --> 00:30:12.319
of Midnight the next game from Compulsion
who made we happy few. I just

407
00:30:12.359 --> 00:30:17.279
hope this game is better than that
one. No Offense. Star Wars Outlaws,

408
00:30:17.839 --> 00:30:21.240
which is Ubisoft's open world Star Wars
game by the team that made the

409
00:30:21.279 --> 00:30:26.200
Division following. You know, as
the name suggests, a group of outlaws.

410
00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:30.319
You can be wanted, you can
you trans you wanted by the Imperial

411
00:30:30.839 --> 00:30:33.079
Imperial Forces and then have to run
away from them. You transitioned from on

412
00:30:33.119 --> 00:30:37.839
the ground to on air U basically
you know, flawlessly, it looked like,

413
00:30:38.599 --> 00:30:44.359
but we'll see. We saw more
at Ubisoft Forward as well. Pay

414
00:30:44.440 --> 00:30:48.799
Day three got a little bit of
a trailer at this thing. Persona three

415
00:30:48.039 --> 00:30:52.400
is being remade as Persona three reload. In early twenty twenty four, a

416
00:30:52.559 --> 00:30:57.519
Valed was shown after several years in
development to see Obsidians do RPG, which

417
00:30:57.519 --> 00:31:00.839
looks like their take on sky Rim, which I am completely fine with.

418
00:31:02.680 --> 00:31:06.079
See if Thieves got a legend of
Monkey Island expansion, which makes a lot

419
00:31:06.079 --> 00:31:08.720
of sense. Hell Blade two continues
to be one of my most anticipated games

420
00:31:08.759 --> 00:31:11.880
of the year. That trailer was
awesome and all it was was her talking

421
00:31:11.880 --> 00:31:15.960
to herself and hearing all the different
voices in my headphones. That was super

422
00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:21.319
cool. Like a Dragon eight was
shown and it was our poor guy Itchy

423
00:31:21.359 --> 00:31:25.319
bon you know, naked on the
beach. Sorry buddy, hope you hope,

424
00:31:25.400 --> 00:31:29.240
hope that works out for you.
Starfield, though Starfield was the big

425
00:31:29.279 --> 00:31:33.480
anchor of their show. They gave
it like forty five minutes of what you're

426
00:31:33.519 --> 00:31:37.079
gonna do, how you can customize
yourself, thousand planets to go through,

427
00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:42.480
base building, skill trees, stuff
like that. Just a huge amount of

428
00:31:42.519 --> 00:31:47.720
information on Starfield, which made it
one of the most anticipated games of the

429
00:31:47.759 --> 00:31:51.759
year for me because that I like
Elder Scrolls, I like Fallout, but

430
00:31:51.880 --> 00:31:56.400
space I'm learning is my jam.
So if I can go out in space

431
00:31:56.440 --> 00:32:00.279
and do stuff like that that that
looks that sounds really good to me.

432
00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:04.839
Will it challenge Zelda for Game of
the Year or the favorite for Game of

433
00:32:04.839 --> 00:32:07.799
the Year. It could, It
could. I wouldn't be surprised if we

434
00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:14.160
got to December and there was a
heated argument between the two. But we'll

435
00:32:14.160 --> 00:32:17.359
see right now. It looks really
really cool. But Beth as the game

436
00:32:17.400 --> 00:32:22.680
studio Todd Howard, games do tend
to come out with some glitches and some

437
00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:24.240
issues right out of the box,
so if they can avoid those, then

438
00:32:24.839 --> 00:32:29.960
they're golden. The next up,
we had Ubi Soft Forward. We had

439
00:32:29.960 --> 00:32:34.240
Avatar Frontiers of Pandora gameplay shown for
the first time. That's coming out in

440
00:32:34.319 --> 00:32:38.519
December. X Defiant, which is
the squad based shooter with characters based on

441
00:32:39.079 --> 00:32:45.319
different Ubi Soft franchises, which is
a pretty cool idea. Prince of Persia

442
00:32:45.400 --> 00:32:50.200
Lost Crown. We saw more of
Division Resurgence, which is their mobile game,

443
00:32:51.039 --> 00:32:53.440
a new closed beta for Skull of
Bones, which was supposed to come

444
00:32:53.440 --> 00:33:00.720
out earlier this year or even last
year if you recall Assassin's Creed Nexus,

445
00:33:00.759 --> 00:33:04.799
which is a VR Assassin's Creed,
and then we saw a mirage. We

446
00:33:04.799 --> 00:33:07.359
saw Jade, which is a mobile
game, and then it ended with the

447
00:33:07.440 --> 00:33:12.839
gameplay for Star Wars Outlaw. So
a decent showing from Ubisoft, building on

448
00:33:13.079 --> 00:33:16.079
things that they had shown at other
conferences Barrage at PlayStation, Star Wars at

449
00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:21.559
Xbox, essentially what they did at
E three time, very similar in fact

450
00:33:21.799 --> 00:33:25.240
to what they used to do at
E three time, but you know,

451
00:33:25.279 --> 00:33:30.799
also having their own sort of showcase
to show everything off as they wanted to.

452
00:33:30.200 --> 00:33:35.400
Definitely liked what I saw from them. Outlaws sticks out to me.

453
00:33:35.599 --> 00:33:39.119
I was getting far criprimal vibes from
Avatar, which is a good comparison,

454
00:33:39.559 --> 00:33:45.440
and I'm very much looking forward to
what's going on there. And then we

455
00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:50.279
have the Nintendo Direct, came out
of nowhere, surprised this on the twenty

456
00:33:50.480 --> 00:33:55.759
first of June. We knew we
could expect some cool stuff Nintendo usually delivers

457
00:33:55.839 --> 00:34:00.559
in that regard, but we didn't
know exactly what to expect, and it

458
00:34:00.680 --> 00:34:05.559
started out with things we already knew, like Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. Hidden

459
00:34:05.599 --> 00:34:08.079
Treasure of Area Zero, which is
the DLC, did not have a release

460
00:34:08.159 --> 00:34:13.360
date attached to it, which I
found odd saw some more Sonic Superstars did

461
00:34:13.360 --> 00:34:16.079
get a new game in Palaea,
which is a free to play life farming

462
00:34:16.159 --> 00:34:23.320
simulator build your own village. Persona
five Tactica was announced at or It was

463
00:34:23.360 --> 00:34:28.079
announced at the Xbox Conference, so
we had already seen that a week a

464
00:34:28.119 --> 00:34:34.320
week prior. Detective Pikachu Returns was
cool. The new game with Detective Pikachu,

465
00:34:34.639 --> 00:34:37.039
a new, brand new adventure building
on the original what DS and three

466
00:34:37.119 --> 00:34:43.199
DS release. That's a good idea. I think that's its certainly fits well

467
00:34:43.280 --> 00:34:46.800
on the switch itself, but it
was sort of underwhelming in the first like

468
00:34:47.119 --> 00:34:51.760
ten fifteen minutes or so, things
we had already seen before. And then

469
00:34:51.800 --> 00:34:55.639
it got to the checkpoint right right
after Detective Cheek Detective Pikachu. It gets

470
00:34:55.679 --> 00:35:00.840
to the checkpoint with Koizumisan and the
other I want to say Takiyama, but

471
00:35:01.039 --> 00:35:06.840
I always get his name wrong.
And they're there talking about you know what's

472
00:35:06.840 --> 00:35:09.280
coming, and they do for now, please look at this, and they

473
00:35:09.360 --> 00:35:15.480
snap their fingers. Now, I
am watching this trying to write up the

474
00:35:15.480 --> 00:35:19.880
Detective Pikachu news because I'm covering it
for Game Spot. We're all working on

475
00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:22.800
it together, so I'm you know, typing furiously away Detective Pikachu. I'm

476
00:35:22.840 --> 00:35:25.719
like half listening, half and half
out. They say, take a look

477
00:35:25.760 --> 00:35:28.559
at this, and they snap their
fingers and I'm like, all right,

478
00:35:28.559 --> 00:35:39.400
here comes something else, and then
this music plays and I lost my mind.

479
00:35:40.840 --> 00:35:52.039
I absolutely lost my mind. I
cannot believe that we are going to

480
00:35:52.119 --> 00:36:00.519
be playing a remade version of Super
Mario RPG in the year twenty twenty three,

481
00:36:00.679 --> 00:36:07.119
twenty seven years after the original game
came out almost thirty years ago.

482
00:36:07.519 --> 00:36:15.280
It's still just boggles my mind that
we're finally getting this after what many perceived

483
00:36:15.400 --> 00:36:22.119
to be, you know, issues
between Square and Nintendo. It's why Geno

484
00:36:22.239 --> 00:36:25.719
was never in Smash Brothers or even
referenced in Smash Brothers. Same with Mallow

485
00:36:25.760 --> 00:36:30.760
and all the other RPG characters.
And they're coming back. They're finally coming

486
00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:37.519
back in a brand new remake that
looks beautiful. I cried, I'm not

487
00:36:37.559 --> 00:36:43.760
gonna lie. I shed a tier
or two about how excited I was about

488
00:36:43.800 --> 00:36:49.920
this game. My managing editor called
me and justifiably called me a nerd in

489
00:36:49.960 --> 00:36:54.119
the slack chat. But I can't. I play this game every year.

490
00:36:54.159 --> 00:36:58.440
I can't say enough about It's my
favorite games of all time, maybe my

491
00:36:58.480 --> 00:37:01.199
favorite game. Of all time,
considering I play it so much, and

492
00:37:01.239 --> 00:37:04.679
now I'm gonna this year. I'm
just gonna wait. I mean, I've

493
00:37:04.679 --> 00:37:09.280
already played a little bit this year
before an upcoming podcast wink. But I

494
00:37:09.360 --> 00:37:14.320
may just wait now and wait for
this remake to come out and just get

495
00:37:14.360 --> 00:37:19.360
lost in this game all over again. I'm so excited to see Blom and

496
00:37:19.480 --> 00:37:22.039
Booster and you know, Gino and
Malow, like we said, Frog,

497
00:37:22.119 --> 00:37:28.039
Feushish, Todofki, all of these
characters, Raz and Rainey and Mary Moore.

498
00:37:28.159 --> 00:37:30.840
Oh, man, I can't wait. Jonathan Joe. Oh, It's

499
00:37:30.880 --> 00:37:32.639
just it's gonna be great. I
can't wait. Anyway, let's move on

500
00:37:32.679 --> 00:37:36.280
from Super Mario RPG. That's not
what you're listening to. This is the

501
00:37:36.320 --> 00:37:38.360
Super Mario RPG podcast. It' cheeseas
and controllers. I got to move on.

502
00:37:38.840 --> 00:37:42.519
So I talked about the Techni Pikachu, Princess Peaches getting your own game

503
00:37:42.519 --> 00:37:44.960
in twenty twenty four. I can
tell you one seven year old it was

504
00:37:45.039 --> 00:37:49.840
very happy about that. Um Luigi's
Mansion Dark Moon also coming to Nintendo Switch,

505
00:37:49.880 --> 00:37:52.199
which is a good idea. The
Batman Arkham trilogy. Love that never

506
00:37:52.239 --> 00:37:55.320
did play night. Now this will
be my chance to do that. Pickman

507
00:37:55.400 --> 00:38:01.199
four on its way next or this
month or next month. Twenty first saw

508
00:38:01.239 --> 00:38:05.320
some of the Mario and Rabbit Sparks
of Hope DLC, and then it ended

509
00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:10.280
with a brand new two D platforming
Mario game called Super Mario Brothers Wonder,

510
00:38:10.599 --> 00:38:15.960
with a version of Mario where he
turns into an elephant and the Internet lost

511
00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:22.119
its mind. Besides Elephant Mario,
the game looks very cool. Looks to

512
00:38:22.119 --> 00:38:27.480
add a little weirdness to the formula
where it's like going between dark and light

513
00:38:27.559 --> 00:38:30.920
worlds and the dark world the pipes
are moving around like inchworms. It was

514
00:38:30.679 --> 00:38:37.280
an interesting presentation, but it definitely
looks cool. Super Mario Brothers Wonder definitely

515
00:38:37.280 --> 00:38:38.440
looks cool, and I'm excited to
see what they have going on there.

516
00:38:39.599 --> 00:38:44.199
October the twentieth, I want to
say again, we'll get into that in

517
00:38:44.239 --> 00:38:47.440
the second half of this show.
The third segment of this show. Excuse

518
00:38:47.480 --> 00:38:52.320
me, So there you go.
I packed June between games that came out

519
00:38:52.360 --> 00:38:55.239
and announcements that were made. Tell
me your favorites. I'm at big Man

520
00:38:55.320 --> 00:39:00.000
Finellio on Twitter. Clearly you now
know mine. There was a lot of

521
00:39:00.039 --> 00:39:05.280
good stuff to be very excited about
both new ips, new takes on old

522
00:39:05.280 --> 00:39:10.440
ips or sequels or what have you. We're eating good in twenty twenty three

523
00:39:10.519 --> 00:39:14.760
so far, and we're going to
eat even better in the second half of

524
00:39:14.760 --> 00:39:16.880
the year because following this segment,
we'll get into the last segment shortly.

525
00:39:17.760 --> 00:39:22.559
Yeah, the rest of the year
is absolutely loaded, and I am excited

526
00:39:22.800 --> 00:39:29.639
to walk you through what that means. Stick around, all right, Welcome

527
00:39:29.639 --> 00:39:32.880
back to Chief Stakes A Controllers episode
number one thirty two, rapping things up

528
00:39:32.880 --> 00:39:38.000
at our twenty twenty three year in
Review and preview, which is a year

529
00:39:38.079 --> 00:39:43.239
in review and preview. That's a
that's a podcast title, right there,

530
00:39:43.280 --> 00:39:46.960
folks. We're going to talk about
the end of the year and specifically everything

531
00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:52.039
that's coming out. I had the
opportunity to write a feature just after Summer

532
00:39:52.039 --> 00:39:55.679
Games Fest and everything that happened called
the second half of twenty twenty three is

533
00:39:55.760 --> 00:39:59.239
jam packed with games all of a
sudden. That was the name of the

534
00:39:59.239 --> 00:40:02.199
feature, and that was before the
Nintendo Direct happened, which that I had

535
00:40:02.199 --> 00:40:07.079
to update said feature with Nintendo Directs
stuff. So I want to take from

536
00:40:07.119 --> 00:40:09.760
that. In this final segment,
you can read the entire thing at GameSpot

537
00:40:09.760 --> 00:40:14.119
dot com if you want to go
find it there. But let's talk about

538
00:40:14.159 --> 00:40:17.880
the rest of the year, shall
we. It's a big one. There's

539
00:40:17.880 --> 00:40:22.280
a lot happening and a lot going
on, and a lot of that if

540
00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:31.360
you'd believe it was shaped or took
place from Summer Games Fest on. A

541
00:40:31.360 --> 00:40:37.119
lot of the things that have filled
out the rest of this year got dates

542
00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:43.000
in the month of June or in
the PlayStation showcase right before it. So

543
00:40:43.960 --> 00:40:46.639
if we if we take a second
and we go through, let's talk about

544
00:40:46.639 --> 00:40:52.159
first autumn. Let's talk about September
and October. And I'm gonna I said,

545
00:40:52.159 --> 00:40:54.639
I'm gonna go. I want to
use my article as a basis for

546
00:40:54.679 --> 00:40:59.159
this argument, so you might I
might take some lines right from it.

547
00:40:59.159 --> 00:41:02.079
You'll know when I'm eating obviously.
But let's start with autumn, which I

548
00:41:02.079 --> 00:41:07.800
call it autumn abundance in this article
and specifically, as things rolled in and

549
00:41:07.880 --> 00:41:12.480
we began to take stock of everything
being announced to us, there's a ten

550
00:41:12.559 --> 00:41:19.280
day period in October that now contains
five of the most anticipated launches of the

551
00:41:19.400 --> 00:41:23.039
year. Fours of motor Sports kick
things off on October tenth, Assassin's Creed

552
00:41:23.079 --> 00:41:30.239
Mirage is two days later on the
twelfth, Alan Wake two is five days

553
00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:35.079
later on the seventeenth, and then
two days three days after that we have

554
00:41:35.159 --> 00:41:39.760
Marvel Spider Man two and Super Mario
Brothers Wonder. All five of those games

555
00:41:40.320 --> 00:41:46.280
in a five sorry, in a
ten day window. And that's not including

556
00:41:46.880 --> 00:41:52.199
Lords of the Fall In which has
a bit of a following an endless Dungeon,

557
00:41:52.239 --> 00:41:57.719
which are October thirteenth and October nineteenth
specifically, which also fall in that

558
00:41:57.840 --> 00:42:01.320
ten days. And then if you
expand, if you go through October,

559
00:42:02.440 --> 00:42:07.239
like either way, if you make
the lists the arrange the entire month of

560
00:42:07.280 --> 00:42:10.039
October, you have the sky A
seven on October third, you have City

561
00:42:10.119 --> 00:42:15.480
Skyline Cities Skylines two on October twenty
fourth, and the Alone in the Dark

562
00:42:15.519 --> 00:42:23.480
reboot on October twenty fifth. That's
a lot right already starting. That's a

563
00:42:23.639 --> 00:42:30.280
ton, and like we're just getting
started here, and October is already looking

564
00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:37.199
like a wallet killer before you know, any before we even have a chance

565
00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:40.679
to look at the next month,
July, we're looking at October and we're

566
00:42:40.719 --> 00:42:47.840
like, oh no, what's happening? Why? Why is this month doing

567
00:42:47.880 --> 00:42:52.159
this to me? How am i
supposed to save enough money to be able

568
00:42:52.559 --> 00:43:00.480
to play these games. But definitely
cool that all these games are coming out.

569
00:43:00.559 --> 00:43:04.960
It's just that there are too many
to speak of. But then if

570
00:43:05.000 --> 00:43:14.719
we go into September, things are
not getting much better because Starfield is September

571
00:43:14.840 --> 00:43:21.360
the sixth, and then eight days
later we have another small gauntlet of games

572
00:43:21.400 --> 00:43:24.880
where within a week we get The
Crew Motorfest, we get Lies of P,

573
00:43:25.519 --> 00:43:30.639
we get Mortal Kombat one, and
we get E Turnits, which is

574
00:43:30.639 --> 00:43:32.599
like a hack and slash slash dating
Sam. It's a weird game. I

575
00:43:32.760 --> 00:43:38.239
previewed it for MMRPG. It's an
interesting one, and they all are within

576
00:43:38.280 --> 00:43:42.880
the fourteenth motor Fest and then Lies
of P Mortal Kombat are both the nineteenth,

577
00:43:42.880 --> 00:43:45.519
and then it turns the twenty first, and then there's two games in

578
00:43:45.559 --> 00:43:49.440
there that have a vague September window, and Monster Hunter now from Niantic and

579
00:43:49.599 --> 00:43:52.039
RoboCop Rogue City that could launch it
any time in the month. Now.

580
00:43:52.079 --> 00:43:55.760
RoboCop does have a closed beta coming
up, and I think Monster Hunter has

581
00:43:55.760 --> 00:44:00.480
a test coming up too, so
maybe they get pushed back after testing happens.

582
00:44:00.519 --> 00:44:06.639
But right now a lot of stuff
happening November and December not as busy,

583
00:44:06.719 --> 00:44:09.440
so the year may eventually slow down
as we get into the holiday.

584
00:44:09.880 --> 00:44:13.760
But like a Dryden Guiden, the
man who erased his name, is still

585
00:44:13.760 --> 00:44:19.880
there. PERCENTA five Tactica is there
on November seventeenth, like a Dragon Guidan

586
00:44:19.960 --> 00:44:23.599
is November ninth. Excuse me,
Avatar Frontiers of Pandora is the seventh,

587
00:44:23.760 --> 00:44:29.800
and then Super Mario RPG is also
November seventeenth, the same day as Tactica.

588
00:44:29.960 --> 00:44:34.000
So still some heavy hitters going into, like right into Black Friday.

589
00:44:34.039 --> 00:44:38.960
I believe if memory serves, November
seventeenth is the Friday before Black Friday?

590
00:44:39.039 --> 00:44:43.519
Is it not? Yes, it
is. That is exactly right this year.

591
00:44:43.559 --> 00:44:51.400
I fairly certain Thanksgiving is the twenty
third. I will check that right

592
00:44:51.440 --> 00:44:54.679
now while we are on this little
podcast, and it is so the week

593
00:44:54.760 --> 00:45:00.519
before Black Friday percent of five Tactica
and Super Mario RPG drop. That's brutal.

594
00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:06.800
Fall is brutal, friends. If
you're a video gamer, save your

595
00:45:06.800 --> 00:45:13.920
money. So now we have to
talk about the months before that. Like

596
00:45:14.119 --> 00:45:16.440
there, we have July and August
to go before we get to September,

597
00:45:16.679 --> 00:45:22.360
and they are not slowing down either. So I wrote this article originally on

598
00:45:22.440 --> 00:45:29.360
June fifteenth, right after the dust
settled from all of the Summer Games Fest

599
00:45:29.360 --> 00:45:35.480
Sanandians. I had said that between
the end of the month and when I

600
00:45:35.519 --> 00:45:38.960
was publishing the article, there were
multiple games that had come out f one

601
00:45:39.119 --> 00:45:43.960
twenty three, Park Beyond Crash,
Team Rumble, Final Fantasy sixteen, aw

602
00:45:44.039 --> 00:45:46.480
Fight Forever, Ghost Trick, and
Master Detective, things I had talked about

603
00:45:46.519 --> 00:45:52.320
in the last segment. But then
July while starts off a little slow,

604
00:45:52.360 --> 00:45:54.079
there's nothing in the first week or
so of July, but then that picks

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up with Oxen Free two, Lost
Signals Exo Primal July fourteen, Last Signals

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Action Free two is two days before
that, July twelfth, and then there's

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another eight day another multiple release in
one small bit of time situation with Immortals

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of Avum on July twentieth, although
that might have just gotten delayed a bit.

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I'll check that Pickman four July twenty
first, remnant to July twenty fifth,

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and Disney Illusion Island on July twenty
eighth. That's crazy, that's crazy.

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There's so many things coming out in
July, and then that doesn't even

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talk about August. I have ten
different names for games in August. In

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this article that I wrote Stray Gods
the role playing Musical on August third,

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Wrestle Quest on August eighth, thirty
x Acts on August ninth, Atlas Fallen

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on August tenth, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk
on August eighteenth, Blasphemous two August twenty

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fourth, Goodbye Volcane OHI August twenty
ninth, See if Stars August twenty ninth.

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That is a heape been helping of
indies in the month of August,

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but also Armor Coords six on August
twenty fifth, and Balder's Gate three on

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August third. For PC in September
sixth four ps five. It's too many

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games. There are too many games
coming and I just can't keep track of

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them all. But then the Nintendo
direct I mentioned Super Mario Brothers Wonder on

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the twentieth. I mentioned RPG on
November seventeenth, but Detective Pikachu was October

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sixth. Warrior Ware Move it is
November third, a new warrior Ware game,

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Star Ocean the second Story Are,
which is a remake of a PlayStation

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ra RPG that's November two, and
then Metal Gear Solid Master collection, which

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is Metal Gear Solids one, two, three, Metal Gear, Metal Gear

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two, Solid Snake, and perhaps
something else that's October twenty fourth. I

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don't hate the fact that we have
too many choices to play, but my

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wallet does, like I don't even
know how to map this out, like

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if I don't know what I'm reviewing
either. Obviously I don't know until the

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codes are available, but if I
had to guess what I am going to

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play between now and the end of
the year, I want to make room

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for Final Fantasy sixteen, but that's
going to be a big chunk of time.

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I want to play Oxen Free two. I want to play Disney Illusion

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Island with the family. I want
to play Wrestle Quest. I want to

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play Straight Gods. I want to
play See If Stars. I want to

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play Armored Core six. I want
to play Baders Gay, but that's going

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00:48:28.400 --> 00:48:31.440
to be a huge chunk of time. I want to play I want to

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00:48:31.440 --> 00:48:36.000
play Starfield, but that's going to
take my whole life. I'm Mortal Kombat

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one is one I'm probably going to
play at launch, Alan Wake two,

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Assassin's Creed, Spider Man, and
Super Mario. I'm not really a racing

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guy. So four of those five
in that big October ten day period don't

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really apply to me. But that
just means I have four in an eight

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day period. It doesn't end.
There's so many games to play, and

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the only way I'm going to be
able to play to all these is to

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clone myself, and technology doesn't exist. So what do I suggest that you

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do. You set priorities, and
you set a budget for yourself. You're

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not going to be able to play
all these games. There's just not enough

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time in the world. We're talking
about a Starfield, which will require probably

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one hundred hours at minimum, and
then Balder's Gate, which will probably ask

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that much of you as well.
Not to mention the other adventure games or

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RPG games that are here. It's
gonna be It's gonna be a big year.

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It's gonna be a big year for
software. All the consoles are firing

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on all cylinders. Part of me
feels like this is also the industry catching

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up with itself after a couple of
years of pandemic related delays and things like

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that. We might start getting on
more footing again and see regular releases like

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this. But man, oh man, if you say you're bored with the

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industry anytime between now and the end
of the year. You're just not looking

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hard enough, my friends, You're
just not looking hard enough. This is

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we eaten. Good as the gamers
as as as the kids say gamers are

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eaten, we are. We are
having a good time. The only challenge

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is finding the games that you want
to play more than others and budgeting your

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time in a way that makes sense
to you. But that is a problem

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for another day. Right now,
we are at the end of episode number

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one and thirty two of the Chief
Stakes Controllers podcast presented by Fox PHL The

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Gambler one or two point five FFM
fourteen eighty AM. iHeartRadio. Wherever you

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get your podcasts is where you can
hear this. As I say at the

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end of every episode, if you
are listening to this these words right now,

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it means you're at the end,
and I appreciate you forgetting here.

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There's always an honor to me that
everyone who listens to this does so,

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especially when I know, take a
month off and don't tell anybody. I

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do promise to be regular. In
July, I have couple of interviews cooking

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in the Pipeline, including one just
before San Diego Comic Con that I am

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very very excited about talking about this
for months with the people that I'll be

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interviewing. It is a return interview, so there's a hint it is people

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who have been here before, but
it's going to be a much bigger,

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more expanded version of that, and
I'm so very much looking forward to it.

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I can't wait to share it with
you, and I can't wait to

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have the conversation with them. So
I'll leave you with that little tease,

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but for now, thank you so
much for listening. I hope you have

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a fantastic weekend, a great week
right behind it, including a happy Fourth

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of July, and we will be
back next week with the latest and greatest

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in video games here on cheaf Steaks
and Controllers. Bye bye,