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June fifth, twenty twenty four. For the next hour or so, let
me help you sort through the world of gaming on Game Mess Mornings Live with
me Jeff Grub Today. I hope no one is planning to announce any new
video games soon because Elden Ring is back. But first please join me and
welcoming today's co host the Game Mess Mornings. It's Amron Khan. Everybody,
Amron. How are you doing? Oh? Hi? Hello? Well I'm
doing great. How about you? I'm doing good. I was sticker and
I'm getting better. Took some antibiotics for some sinus affection. Good timing.
I'm on the upswing. Jeff Backlar not doing as well. He's getting sicker
as we're speaking, So hoping he's a bad time to get sick exactly.
Hope he's able to rebound. And maybe he's probably not gonna be able to
be there on day one, but I hope he's able to get out to
LA and hang out with this. I know he was sad about missing it
last year, but you know, I'm feeling like I have a pretty good
grasp on what's happening. I have been thinking a lot about our show and
our live show, and I've kind of put everything else like that we're going
to be doing there off to the side. Now it's like, oh,
yeah, I did make all those appointments. I'm gonna be seeing some fun
games. We're gonna be doing talkovers and I love that stuff. So I'm
like, Okay, just get excited. We're gonna be out in LA and
having a good time here pretty soon. So feeling pretty good about it.
How about you same? Like, So, my wife left this morning because
they have the whole IgM Live early rounday for that. They got a lot
of stuff there. I'm I'm actually very much looking forward to this, but
Phil Spencer interview because I'm really curious because that's the only interview who's taken this
entire huh yep. So like I will say, we did, we did
have him and they backed out. So yeah, that's like if people are
expecting that at at the live show, it was in the works, and
then of course it's like when everything happened, it sort of just fell apart.
Over time, we're gonna have him and Matt Booty and Sarah Bond and
all that stuff. But I have a sert. I get it, like
like we're not owed that interview, but oh well maybe next year. Yeah.
I if I were them, I would back out too, which is
all the more curious they're not backing out of this one. Yeah, so
it does. I'm like, I need to see what this is gonna look
like. It's definitely been on the top of my mind. So you're right,
yeah, that's happening. There's a whole bunch of stuff happening over there.
Yeah, and like for me, you last year, I gave a
start agains pest. This year, I also don't really have a reason to
go to Summer Games Fest, but it's like there's so much fomo of not
going. Sure, yeah, I just want to go, and I'm gonta
hang out with people. I'm gonna go to the Giant Bomb like exactly,
like honestly, just having you like hanging out with this at Like I'm like,
oh, yeah, that's awesome. Imron could be there like schmoozing with
people. I just love the idea of like that that's the way you people
can come and enjoy this stuff. So yeah, I know exactly what you
mean. Are you like taking appointments or anything like that. Yeah, I'm
working some freelance for like a couple people. I was looking at my list
today and there's like a couple of games. I'm like down for that.
I'm like this seem is really cool, Like yeah, very much going to
a joy trying this thing out. Yeah, and you know, just the
way you know, people say that Summer Game Fest is a replacement for E
three, and what it really is, it's it's Judges Week mutated into something
bigger, and Judges Week was always a cool thing as far as I understood,
actually never ended up going to any Judges Week because Dean would always go
for us. But uh, it's like, yeah, it's kind of taking
that making it a little bit bigger. It's a cool place to hang out
and see people and all that kind of makes it worth it. And then
on top of that, seems a lot of these companies are getting value out
of bringing bringing their games here and showing it off. So it's yeah,
I still get excited about all this. Yeah. And plus, like you
there, there are definitely any developers at Stomer Games Fest that are like clearly
not in over their head, but they realize they have a big stage to
get people to preview games, and they're immediately like they're they're changing things last
second and away the I'm like, maybe that's not great, but also they
know that this is their their big chance, and I'm like, I'm happy
to be a part of that in some way. Yep, exactly, Yes,
I'm looking forward to it. I kind of I'm interesting to see how
this the Summer Game announcement season, the Summer Game mess, how it keeps
changing and reacting to what it needs to be. It is now more malleable.
It is something that can be different as opposed to what E three was.
We're like, we gotta make E three make sense, And there was
just at a certain point in time, no world where that was making sense
for a lot of people anymore. Especially we can't make E three make sense
anymore. So it was never on the table for them, especially with the
people that were running it. Complete and competence at a certain point. Yeah,
I mean other than that, like, how are you feeling about,
like, you know, got any games in your life right now that they're
really popping off. I keep seeing everyone talk about one thousand ex resist,
and I'm just like positive that game's not for me, but I think I'm
still going to try it anyhow. That's that's where I'm at. And Laura
Lyne the Laser is the other one. That's like burning a hole in my
pocket. You got anything like that? So my my wife got a thousand
next Resist and that's why we emerge Stee Libraries so I can finally play.
Yeah, did you do their new family sharing thing they got that? Yeah,
that worked really well for me. Yeah, it surprisingly easy that we
had to do it like both ways, which is all I think is a
little strange, but that game was a way to for me. I'm reviewing
currently The Rogue Prince of Persia, right, Yeah, I have that review
in progress. I'm working on the actual final review. It's a really great
game mechanically. I think it just needs a little bit more content at the
moment. And also by my find we've played through Loreli and Laser Eyes.
Yeah, that's the one I gotta be. I gotta try it, I
know, I do. I think it's a fantastic, really striking, really
interesting game. So they built it in a way that you have one hand
on the controler and the other hand like scribbling things as a notebook, and
I don't think that works super well sure, because like that means you can't
back out of a puzzle and you're like you accidentally go into one, or
like you can't back out of a menu. You have to go to like
a designated like back button kind of thing, right, which there should have
just been an option for that, Like, hey, I don't want to
do this, I just hold the control and use a notebook like a normal
person. But it is what it is. The game is, I think,
very interesting from a storyteller perspective, from a visual perspective, from a
puzzle perspective. Towards the end, it gets the puzzle a little abstract for
me. But like if you just like being a puzzle sicko, this game
is Yeah that's me. Yep, I'm realizing more and more than I'm I
am that puzzle sicko. So uh yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna hop in.
I'm gonna finish up thousand year Door and that's my next one is Laura
Li and the Laser Eye, and I'll try one thousand ext resists. I
know a lot of people are suggesting that for me, I'd say based on
what I know and based on the like who I've seen like review it because
I could. I know Michael Hyam reviewed it and loved it. I bet
that thing's anime as all hell. So if you have, like, if
you have like love for Neon, Joseph Evangeli On, then I could find
there's probably something there. Uh. And finally before we get the Atari sent
me this jacket that I really like. It's a member's only jacket. You
know what, you ever see the movie The Founder about McDonald's In that movie,
they're like, why why do you have to like take over this?
Why why was it so important in the in the movies? Just like it's
the name, like McDonald's. There's just something about the name McDonald's. It's
way But like my name is like ray Krock or whatever it was. He's
like that sounds arable. McDonald's. Now that's a name you could build something
on. I feel the same way about the Atari logo. Something about this
Atari logo just nails it. It's one of my favorite logos. I don't
have that much affinity for Atari games, but this logo just really nails it.
So, what's the youngest person you think recognizes that logo? Yeah.
I mean it's tough, right because it did seep its way into popular culture,
you know, in a strong way in the eighties and nineties, sort
of like you know, it's the logo in god, what's the Harrison Ford
movie. I can't remember the name of it, the one where he hunts
down androids blade Runner thank you? Yes, it's like, you know,
it's Blade Runners, Like oh, covered in Atari logos that sort of thing.
So I would imagine a lot there's a lot of young people are like,
yeah, the Atari the logo is the old games for sure, And
I bet they would not necessarily know an Atari game if you showed it to
them, other than they guess it like that looks old as shit. Is
that an Atari game? I feel like that's probably true. I feel like
you can show I'm sure there is probably like some TikTok trend redslafe they use
the Atari logo for something. Yeah, probably almost certainly they will mind all
that stuff. All right, that's too ot. I gotta take the jacket
off. All right, let's explain what we do here most weekdays, I
Jeff Greb will help peace your gaming life back together. That includes breaking news
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in a however way. Whatever we can be nice to support us in that
way if you can. All right, let's start here with Elder Rings shadowed
the Urge Tree previews. Now, we did talk about this a little bit
on the podcast yesterday. Mike talked about playing it, but Shanobi on Twitter
collated a lot of the details, so let's go through that. Stepping out
into the new realm of Shadow area feels like the first time you entered limb
Grave, feels expansive and dense with content. This is going to be sort
of like a bullet point of what people were saying in previews. The ulterior
goal is following Mickella's Crosses as the main critical story path. There are over
ten full bosses plus additional side bosses, over one hundred new weapons to fine,
and eight new weapon types. For example, the heavy Smith Script Acts
is a new weapon that you can be thrown with any cost or resource attached,
making it in an effective choice. The backhand blade can be split into
dual wielded swords to stab enemies in their sides. Sounds like not star a
hundred weapons. Yeah, there's a martial arts like class or weapon type that
you can equip and then basically now you can kick and punch and all that
stuff. There's you know, flurries of combos. Boulerat is a large fortress.
Boola Rate a large fortress undrip between the size of storm Vale Castle and
Castle Morn. It has lots of optional paths. There are new bed at
batties like small and large scorpions, gravebirds, hatchet wielding ghosts, heavily armored
knights, et cetera. One of the bosses is the Divine Beast, a
dancing lion from the trailers and the Shadow Realm Blessing. There's new optional system
that uses consumable scoun tree fragments and applies a stack of a buff that negates
some incoming damage and increases the damage you cause two opponents. Basically a lot
of new stuff here. The more I talk to people who have played it,
Amron, it sounds like it's you know, it is the improvement or
it is the a ton of new features, a ton of new things to
do, this new space to explore, and it also does feel like ay
and they are making improvements to the fundamental ways that Elder Ring works. I'm
very excited about this. Where are you at now? The previews are out
there. So I was thinking about the other day. Software has never really
made a bad delC, right, Yeah, there's like some questionable choices and
dark souls too, but like all of their DLC, I feel like has
been better than the main game in a lot of ways, so like it
seemed like unless for some reason, they just went crazy with own ring,
like they're going to follow that same pattern this time. I Platinum that original
game, and I have not played it since release, basically, so I'm
really afraid I'm not gonna be good enough for this. I was gonna say,
isn't that that's intimidating right where it's like, oh man, you got
to get your sea legs back underneath you. Yeah. I loaded the game
up just to make sure my save file was all right, and I went
into the round table room and it was all on fire, and I was
like, I don't remember why this was the case. I don't remember how
to really do anything, so like it was a I feel like some part
of me wants to just start a new save file and go back to my
old one once the DLCA comes out, but just like familiarize myself with the
games again. But I feel like the build I ended up at the I
ended up in a build that I think has been nerf to hell since then.
But I think, really that build is also very specific, so I'm
gonna it's not gonna work out well. But I am very excited for this
I think it's only a few weeks away. It's like end of twenty first,
right June and twenty first. I just looked this up because it's like,
I updated my drivers, my Nvidia drivers yesterday, and they had the
thing where it's like, hey, here are the games we're updating the drivers
for, and one of them was Shadow of the Ur Tree. I'm like,
what the hell already is this came out in a couple of days,
because usually the drivers get updated like a day or two before the game is
coming out. But it's like, no, three weeks. But I've bet
a big part of this. You know, teams are busy. They are
also probably traveling to an ounce stuff. And I've heard that from software wants
to make sure I peop up plenty of time to review this, this Ur
Tree expansion. There was a criticism when the first or an elden Ring based
game came out where they gave it to us. I think a week and
a half before embargo. I thought a thinking like, this is not enough
time. I barely I doubt I was even really fully at a limb grave
by that point, right like it was. I think there trying their best
now to make sure people get it at a good enough time to actually play
through it, feel through it. I love the thing about the shadow round
Blessing because one of the concerns I had when they first started talk talking about
Elden Ring DLC was well, my character is really strong, and if I
get to a point where I can't beat something, there is no grinding around
that. So like it's it sounds like there is a way to get around
that by making yourself stronger, just not through traditional levels. Yes, it
seems like they have had the time to think of all of those issues,
including like you know, the review process, but also like how are people
going to be coming into this, Like they're gonna be coming in very cold,
They're going to be coming in completely fresh. There's a variety of ways
to come into the DLC, and it sounds like they've accounted for all of
that. Yeah. I mean, for me, it's I said to some
bombcasts yesterday, the rest of this year, I'm it's Astrobot in this that
I'm most looking forward to. And you know, we're gonna get through this
summer game mess here in a couple of days, and I might be like
getting on the other side of that and I'm sure there'll be stuff I'm excited
about. I imagine I'm still going to be most excited to get back into
Elder Ring. And to mention you were talking about, you know, going
back maybe starting a new character. A fun way to do that is through
that Seamost multiplayer mod. We've been doing that and it's like, oh yeah,
I'm getting used to this game very quickly again in this like silly uh
setting where like we could just kind of do what we want and run around
and be a bunch of goofballs. I really enjoyed. I was watching.
I was watching you guys do that, and like halfway through that video I
metage Nikki. I said, NICKI, between four people, you almost reach
someone who knows what they're doing. Yeah, and he's like, yeah,
I got a engine. Yep, exactly. Honestly, we're gonna do that
again. We'll maybe you come hang out be Saince. Apparently get Sport like
it's stable up to like seventeen players I've heard, so it's like I kind
of want to see what that looks like. Maybe just pile a bunch of
people in. Yeah. Shadow the ear Tree looking looking very good, looking,
very promising. Uh, yeah, what's that. I just it looks
great, and I I am sure that I'm going to have one of those
moments where I go in very confident and just end up getting my ass beat.
Mm hmm. Yep, that's some I wasn't thinking. I'm also like,
I don't think there would be any reason that this update, this DLC
wouldn't run well on the Steam deck, which is where I played basically the
entirety of Elder Mring when it launched. So I'm hoping that's also the case
because that makes it very easy for me to get through a big game like
this is. I just have it on the Steam deck. This was this
is the game that convinced me. I don't understand anymore when people are talking
about performance, U huh, because like I played it on PS five and
the prefailing discussion on PS five was just play the PS four version the PS
five like it's stutter original that I'm like, I never noticed any of this.
It has not affected me. This is not to say that like I
am in some way like superior for not noticing it or whatever. It it
just happens that I noticed frame rates. I don't notice stutter that much.
And always been fine to me. Right, framepay scene is is like a
different thing than just straight up frame rate, and it's some people are very
sensitive to it, some people aren't at all. And yeah, I remember
I did notice some stuttering when I played it on my PC at the time,
and then I played it on the Steam Deck. I'm like, why
is this stuttering gone? And we found out it's like, oh, they
were like compiling the shaders in Proton on Steam, so when they were translating
it from Windows to Linux through that Proton layer, they were actually improving the
game. And I'm like, well, that's fun, that's magic. Okay,
fair enough, I can't believe that that's where we're at. But yes,
in general, very excited. I'll say the very least. Valve will
do a lot of work to make sure this game runs great on the Steam
Deck because it was such a huge hit for them on when that they launched.
Basically I've talked about g Yeah, they when something sells it well,
it's good for them, so they will do a lot of effort sure it
continues selling well. Yeah. I always think about that with like the Switch
and Hades, where when Nintendo's like, yeah, okay, this game seems
to be doing really well. We will, We'll give it a little bit
extra attention and how whatever that ends up looking like, I'm like, oh,
Nintendo, really you do that too, just every once in a blue
moon, they actually will. All right up next here there is this is
a rumor, and I would like, I'm like, really going to emphasize
rumor because I don't want people get their hopes up and this doesn't happen and
it kind of ruins the whole show for them. But there is rumor that
the Xbox Showcase will feature a first party shadow drop and details on that portable
console. This is from Ben Carey at Pure Xbox. It's that time of
year. Showcase season is upon us, and in the run up to Microsoft's
big Xbox Games Showcase this coming weekend, a bunch of leaks and rumors are
starting to crop up, as is the norm with these sorts of things.
On the back of the rumor, on the back of the rumor that Octabat
Travel two is coming to Xbox Game Pass eminently, that very same source is
reporting some pretty major things to come from Team Xbox. Apparently, Microsoft will
use its upcoming showcase to not only shadow Drop a first party game, but
to also unveil its long rumored portable console. Now we must stress that this
information comes from a well known leaker who is extasists on YouTube with a bunch
of like numbers in there and stuff. Report that is entirely in Spanish,
so there's a chance that bits could have been mistranslated. Even so, a
Reddit user has given it a go, and here's their summary of the video.
So it looks like we won't find out exactly what this shadow Drop game
turns out to be until the showcase happens, which is fine by us as
that keeps it more of a surprise. Information about an Xbox handheld would certainly
be interesting, but we'll believe that woman when we see it. Yeah,
okay, the shadow Drop one, but we'll start there. And Ron,
I'm a little surprised they would do this again after High Fi Rush where they
shadow dropped that and it was even they agreed that was successful, it said,
I'd say it was. Yes, It's like I would I would be
worried if I was the studio who was shadow dropping a game an XBOS conference,
But as far as their concerned, that worked. Yeah, I mean
that's I wonder. I'm sure. I'm sure they don't think that was necessarily
the entirety of the problem with whatever ended up happening with all that. I
like shadow drops. I'm hopeful about this. I do wonder what this could
possibly be. I suppose maybe that that Beat Them Up game, that that
like stylized Beat Them Up game from the team that did the banner saga.
Maybe that's ready to go or something like that, or maybe it's something we
haven't heard about at all. I always think about, like hearing that Xbox
was working with a team on a Diablo like Wu Tang game, and I'm
like, okay, that's I hope that gets announced at this show we finally
see that. I don't know if it's still real, but at one point
it was. It could be something along those lines. I don't think this
is gonna be one of their major games, right. Is there like a
limit a ceiling to what can be shadow dropped? In your opinion, I
think when you shouted to drop a game, you're either so confident that it
doesn't need feedback that you were just like all right, like a Hi Fi
rush, you are just put it out there, or you chowered about something
that like is effectively in early access, which why my mind goes through the
idea of Killer Instinct, that there have been rumors of that. That seems
like a thing you would just put out there and say like, hey,
it's feed up, play try it out. We'll balance around what you say.
Yeah, I'm like wondering, like, uh, it's for the longest
time with Killer Instinct. What what we would hear is they want to do
it, but there's no studio available to do it. And then you know,
Iron Galaxy's did stop Rumble Verse a little bit ago? Uh has it?
Had they during that time where they also working on this? I think
it's possible. Yeah, I would love to Galaxy they they were like I
think they were too busy with that Giant game when they were differently like they
were definitely too busy for quite some time. Yeah, So like they're not
that busy anymore, and we've not heard anything else they're doing. I I
don't like know anything, but like, to me, the Killer Instinct rumor
seems more legit because it seems like an easy thing to get back to,
especially with that anniversary update. It's a good fit too, It's and I
think it's about the Uh it's the right kind of game for that, and
it's uh like the again at that like ceiling of like it's much bigger than
something like that. It'd be tough to pull off a h a shadow draft.
I think. Okay, then the handheld. Uh, we we know
that they are hot and heavy for this, right, we know that they
want to do one of these devices. I think for a long time it
was like, okay, let's done on what we expect Microsoft to do with
this this desire to have a handheld. Do they wait until they can make
an Xbox Series S equivalent handheld that is sort of proprietary and they control the
whole thing. If so, that's going to take some time for the processors
to get that powerful and still be portable. Or do they just make a
portable PC and put an Xbox layer on top of it. Seems like that's
where they're headed, especially if they have details right now. And if they
have details, well, what are your expectations for this thing? I think
there's no there's no sense of competing with Nintendo with a dedicated handeld at the
moment, Yes, unless you can do like and that's not even dedicated handheld.
Nintendo got out of it because they were competing with themselves. Like it
is, it would be an absolutely insane idea for like a Vita two or
an Ex Boy or whatever to exist at this point in time. So it
does seem like a windows capable handheld is probably the way to go. It's
still not a smart idea. I don't think that like they're going to capture
some percentage of the market that they're not used to capturing. Handhelds are traditionally
known as like they do skew towards the mid twenties, but also like they're
traditionally known as children's things, like you have to you have to market them
and price them in a low enough they low enough price that you can get
a lot of that market. And that's why the switch light exists. That's
kind of why the pace portal exists, because it's not one of those it's
if they tried to do what make essentially a rog ally for a modern day
or a steam Deck equivalent, I think it would be one of those things
that we look back on six years and be like, Wow, I can't
believe they actually tried to do that. Yeah, I think I'm a little
bit more optimistic, but I under you're deeply right that they need to know
what they're targeting with this device. It can't just be some sort of generic
thrown out there and be like, hey, new Xbox handheld and they don't
think about much beyond like the ramifications that beyond that announouncement. I think a
big help would be if they treat this as sort of a guiding device or
a you know, when Nvidio makes their reference hardware and then people build their
GPUs on top of that reference hardware themselves, and I think that would start
with Okay, put on an Xbox handheld, and really, what you're putting
out here is a version of Windows that is built for a handheld that just
launches as an Xbox experience, and that you can give to Asis, you
can give to Lenovo, you can give to everyone else. People could sidload
it onto their Steam decks if they want to, and if they can get
that working, that is sort of like a preparing for a future where if
this dedicated handheld gaming PC segment continues to grow the way it has been and
becomes sort of another sort of tier, another pillar in how people play games.
You are there, basically at the foundation with a an inner people that
these companies will be willing to use so that you can once again have an
ecosystem to capture micro transaction sales and whatever. They You know, that's all
well and good. That's easy to say. They've had Windows on PC a
place where they could capture a lot of game sales by just making that a
better place to buy games through their services, and they've not been able to
figure that out for thirty years. So why would I expect them to be
able to do something different with a handheld gaming PC. I don't really.
I don't have a lot of faith in that. I do appreciate though,
that I've heard Phil Spencer out there saying he understands that Windows on these devices
is a problem and he wants to address that. And I just think,
Okay, if they're going to have a details about a handheld gaming PC,
that can't happen without fixing all of these other issues. So at least they're
aware. I would be very curious to see what it looks like. I
think about a decade ago, Spencer convinced Adela on a vision of cloud as
the next big thing. Oh yeah, and I don't see them backing away
from that with a dedicated handheld that plays games off hardware right now. I
think I could see like a was that that Logitech cloud streaming device something similar
to that, because that seems right in line with Microsoft's weird decision making and
also they're current like heading, but it's a a a dedicated thing that like
a Steam Deck that has the hardware inside to play Windows games, is I
think just it's a leap too far unless they're really really not making gaming the
main focus, but it's going to be the main focus of marketing, you
know what I mean? Like that is a thing that Nadella thinks us for
everyone, and Spencer thinks it's for Xbox, and the office team thinks us
for productivity. Like if they make a Microsoft all general thing that is like
a tablet with buttons, then I can kind of maybe see that. Yeah,
And it like there's always all these other factors like and when you look
over at PlayStation, like how does the PSVR two happen? How does the
PlayStation portal happen? Well, they just have hardware teams that they need to
keep busy, and so so many goes to PlayStation says, hey, we're
going to make these things, and we're gonna have them make the like the
end Zone earbuds, and we're going to brand those alongside PlayStation and Sony Interactive
Entertainment just goes okay, whatever, Yeah, ride the coattails, we get
it. Uh. And you know Microsoft's gonna have that to a certain extent
as well. They have hardware teams, they have the surface teams, and
those engineers could be you know, used to make something that make a device,
and I think there is more interest in doing that now than ever at
Xbox. For for a handheld. What that looks like in this first device
device is is completely up for debate whether or not they do a dedicated handheld
that plays the games locally or a cloud streaming device. You're right that cloud
has been their focus for a very long time. I do wonder if that
was like, you know, when when Phil goes to Nedela and says,
hey, yeah, we're embracing the cloud. If he says that because he
knows that's what Nadella wants to hear, because that they're, you know,
cloud services based company, and so if you couch your strategy in that,
it makes it sound better to them and makes it easier to get a lot
of money so you can make your acquisitions. I do think that the way
I've heard these executives talk recently, they do seem convinced that there is something
happening with steam Deck and the Asis rog and things like that that they don't
want to be left out on. I don't know if that's always the best
place for Microsoft to be, not wanting to be left out, because then
they you know, that's where we get the zoons and things like that.
I'm hopeful that this thing comes out and is more successful than the zoon.
I think that's possible, but it's also entirely likely that you're right. In
six years we look back and be like, huh, all right, well,
I'm still playing my steam Deck. But that thing is that was an
oddity, and a lot of it will just come down to execution. If
they have a device that is very easy to use and is even less scary
for people who are adverse to PC gaming than the Steam Deck, which I
think it does a very good job of presenting the PC experience as a consolized
experience. If Xbox could pull that off and like win Over some of those
people, Well, there is an audience there. Whether or not that's going
to be like changing their fortunes size of an audience, That's probably not the
case at the very least, though personally I'm excited. You just made me
consider a like probably terrible possibility that they're going to at least a co pilot
focused handheld. Yeah right, I know exactly what you're saying, Like,
what is the thing you could say right now that would get your ideas approved?
Well, you know it's powered by AI. Yeah, this is the
AI console, this is the AI handheld. Mron. You are one hundred
percent right that we could be in that future very soon, which is depressing,
but that's that's where things are with these companies. Everything you do through
the camera. I would like that for a game, I could just like,
hey, okay, a co pilot. Where was that thing I saw
a little bit ago? And it just shows me it would never work because
this shit doesn't really work like that. But uh, I would love that.
All right, let's let's hit this next one. Palmer Lucky wants to
sell you the world's best tribute a game Boy for two hundred dollars. This
is from Ethan Gotchikotaku. The mod retro Chromatic is the latest attempt to cash
in on retro nostalgia. It's a slick looking game Boy color knockoff that competes
with the Bespoke and perennially out of stock Analog Pocket by playing all of your
original game Boy cartridges. The main difference is that the Mod retro Chromatic is
being sold and marketed by Oculus Rift co founder and diehard Donald Trump's booster Palmer.
Lucky Palmer's holding a one hundred thousand dollars a play fundraiser for the felon
this weekend, actually, so just keep that in mind, everybody. The
Mod retro Chromatic comes in a variety of colors and launches later this year for
two hundred dollars. While it plays old game Boy and game Boy colored cartridges
via an FPGA circuit, it also comes with a new version of Tetris pre
installed. It has a port for an original Link cable to play multiplayer,
as well as a USB port and headphone jack. Blah blah blah. The
Verge basically asked, Okay, hey, this is two hundred dollars. The
Analog Pocket is two hundred and twenty. The analog Pocket could play Game Boy
Advanced cartridges also can add a bunch of other cores and stuff like that.
Now this this should also be able to get other cores, but I don't
it doesn't. I don't. Game Bay Advance might be too powerful for it.
Well, that is what we have to wait and see. But yes,
the verge reached out to him, says, Okay, hey, what
what are the benefits of the chromatic And he said, the color tempts are
actually right. The clock rate isn't slightly off, and I thin, he's
saying, in comparison to the analog pocket, the pixel structure isn't totally wrong
in a way that ruins subpixel aware sprites, et cetera. And he's like,
the reason this is is because this uses a custom one one six one
four pixel two point five to six inch pixel perfect IPS display that is the
resolution of the original Game Boy, and the anal Pocket, for people wondering,
has a one six hundred pixel by one one four hundred and forty pixel
basically ten times resolution of the game Boy, to the point where those subpixels
don't matter. No one's going to see that. The resolution so high but
whatever, Uh, let's set Palmer aside just first second, here, Amron,
what do you think of this device? It's hard for me to set
Palmer aside because that won't be long. Yeah, but this doesn't seem like
a We were talking about how the Xbox they define an audience, or the
Xbox HANDTOWND would need to find an audience first. This thing doesn't have an
audience. If you're a retro game collector or player or whatever, you have
so many other options let me grab Yeah, like it is a simple The
retro market is more or less decided what they want from this thing anyway.
Yeah, Like, yeah, it's a if you want to play a game
Boy, a Game by Color game, you're doing it on original hardware or
you're doing it on a pocket. Yeah. And I mean, for me,
it's really hard not to compare this to to the funny plane FPGA one
I literally just built, and I as far like when I like read what
this thing is capable of, it sounds a lot like this, which I
got for eighty dollars. Now I had to assemble it myself, but that
is a ten minute process. And to me, this feels like, you
know, soldier boy in it. He is putting his name on something and
it's got a magnesium shell, so it's gonna feel more premium, sure,
whatever, But it's Game Boy and game Boy Color games with a one sixty
four display for two hundred dollars. I'm just I'm not really sold on that.
That's just not where the market's at, especially when you like look over
what Taki Udon who's doing is doing techy Udan is a you know, YouTuber
covers these things. He's like working on, uh several devices, including a
handheld that are are going to use much cheaper versions of these processors that are
like in the mister and things like that they're doing. He's doing a mister
a handheld, and that is going to if it's like equivalent to a mister
and is able to do all of those cores and has support for all of
those cores that are already already available, and is in this price range,
it's gonna blow this thing away. So I'm like very curious if like these
things that he's touting actually matter. I bet they don't. Yeah, Like
there's two kinds of retro handilet. There's two markets. Essentially, there's the
people who buy like whatever Ambernik comes out, whenever like Retroid comes out,
They're just like, oh, this is a hundred bucks to play GBA games
that I liked as a kid. And they do that and they put it
up the testy card and they you know, enjoyed their rom set or whatever.
And then there's the collector's market, which this thing is targeting, which
already has a better option, will likely go with the thing with the higher
resolution that is roughly the same price, and like nobody likes Palmer Lucky.
Yeah, Like that's one of the other other things. Is like they maybe
there is some America first retro market that really wants to support conservatives. But
like I think people, the people who would like him already don't like him
beause he's told out the Facebook. The people who would like him for his
politics don't like him because they don't care about this. Like I don't understand
where this thing is coming from or what he took to put on his Twitter
or something. A picture of this thing next to an analog pocket and the
analog had every screen thing filter turned off. It was like, look,
how much better of mine is? Like no, you, It's like those
resonable for h D pictures that the hell out of them. What they showed
up like this is if you have to lie in the first place to get
to market your thing, then no one's gonna want it. Yep, exactly.
And I mean I think the reality is we're gonna get the comparisons,
and I imagine some people are like, look, this device is fine.
It had maybe it has its place. Maybe there are people who will will
enjoy it. Maybe there are a couple of games where that subpixel arrangement does
matter. I find that very unlikely, but maybe maybe. So you know,
there are experts in this field, people who cover these devices constantly.
Uh you know, Retro game Core and Retro Dodo. I'll be following their
coverage curiously. I at this moment, though, it feels like a a
money grab situation. I know, he said, like, I don't expect
to make money off this. I mean maybe if it's not, it's at
least like, oh, I should be in that space I know better than
everyone. And then we kind of get this device. It's like, okay,
yeah, magnesium shell, that's interesting. But if I'm coming to this
because I'm nostalgic, there is a reason I got the funny plane one,
even though I also have an analog pocket because it's just a game Boy color
It's literally a game Boy color shell. That's what I want. I don't
want it to be like, well, we're getting it pretty close to that.
It's like, no, I pretty close. Just is that uncanny valley.
I want it to be either exactly that or do your own thing,
you know, or you know, anaec pocket's good enough that sort of situation.
It looks like when a TV show doesn't have the rights to a controller.
Yeah, and like they just paint a game Boy green or something like
this is if you're going to make it a nostaloger to play, make it
a nostalgia play. Just like, I don't understand it's weird color scheme he's
got going with it. Yep, it's it's odd, and you know,
at the end of the day, got it. I personally really hate Palmer
Lucky. I just knew. The best thing that's happened since I started working
at Giant Bomb is when you know, in the terrible wake of Waypoint closing,
when Palmer Lucky was going on his victory lap that they closed and he
did so. On the Giant Bomb reddit everyone on the giant Bomb Reddit just
destroyed him, completely dunking on him. It was a beautiful moment of like,
this is what humanity is capable of. I am very proud of everyone
who participated in that. The dude could just eat shit. I'm sick of
the money can buy you people who agree with you, but they don't care
buy you friends. Yes, no, exactly. And boy, and he's
also like turning like if he's the pictures, I'm turning more of a douchebag
every day. I just yeah that he has more room to do that,
exactly. It's powerful stuff. All Right, We're gonna take a quick break
when we get back. A lot more headlines, including the Last of Us
two less those two PC remaster done. Seems like all right, we are
back and ask promise let's get back into the news with the Last of Us
two Part two Remastered on PC has been ready for at least seven months.
It's claimed this is from Chris Scully and PGC. The PC version of the
Last of Us too, Least of Us Part two Remastered has been sitting fully
developed for more than half a year, it's claimed Deal Labs user Bill bill
Koon, who has a long track record of reliably leaking game announcements and other
information, says they believe the game has been finished for some time. According
to the Insider sources, development development on the PC version started at least as
far back as twenty twenty one. What's more, and this is the most
important piece of information in this article, we believe that the game's development is
well and truly complete and dating back to at least November twenty twenty three.
Yeah, there's like a million reasons why this happens. This isn't too surprising,
especially when I think maybe they want to like spread these out for a
number of reasons, including well, they want to be a little bit slow
with how they have take things from PS five to pieces. But also this
is the right one to be like, well, you know, we already
waited this long. Let's wait until we have some either some news with the
last of US TV show or maybe till season two. I see I've seen
a lot of people speculating that, And while that might not be the entire
reason, it's definitely it makes sense with the way we've seen people's behaviors really
just amplify game sales when the TV shows are doing very well, and they've
already had evidence that this show does very well and leads to that, So
having a PC version ready to go in that moment would make some sense.
What do you think? Yeah, I agree. I think the Last of
Us Part one ended up seeing a sales surge when the shows came around it
did it makes sense to hold this for that. It also makes sense for
just a general pacing perspective. They just announced Ragnarok, like they have a
pacing of the games they want to release on BC. Nintendo sits on games
all the time because they can just go, Okay, now he's releasing let's
release a game that we already have a development kind of thing. And I
think that's actually kind of wise. We don't do it in triple A development
because you need to release the game as soon as possible to recoup the costs
from making the game. Yeah, but if you already have, like it's
a part of what's well known as one of the best game in Sony's portfolio,
like coming to PC. PC players have been asking for a long time.
It's coming after the first season of a very popular show, Like,
it makes sense to just hold on to it until it will do the most
good. I don't know for a fact that they're correct that they are just
sitting on a completed version, but if they are, I get it.
Yeah, it's you know, we've seen Nintendo do this more and more frequently.
We saw with the Metroid Prime remaster and more recently with it was at
the thousand year Door where they're like, hey, in Germany, these things
were submitted for like approval and you know in registration a year a year and
a half before it came out, and it's like, yeah, Nintendo's been
doing that a lot. They are like very likely sitting on a half dozen
if not more, very very completed games and games that have been completed for
quite some time. That the rumor always goes around about when Wakers Twilight Princess
and for a reason. So I think Sony might be looking at that be
like hey man, maybe we should do that more often. I don't know
if it makes as much sense for PlayStation to do that with a lot of
games the way that Nintendo does, but it's it's definitely something where it's like,
be more strategic with your releases. There's something to that, right,
Yeah, movies can sit on the shelf for it, Like there are movies
that have come out in theaters recently that were done long time prior. Furiosa
just came out, and that's because they'd spent like a year and a half
editing, like they it makes sense to like pace your media out in a
way that best serves your audience and best serves your business interests with it.
Yep. And I mean at a certain point, I think for Nintendo it
comes down to, you know, we got we got these games in development
all side by side, and that's because we have multiple teams. Then when
it comes to putting them out, do we want to have multiple teams doing
QA and multiple teams doing marketing or do we want to have like just the
teams that we're comfortable working with, working literally in a linear line on these
one after another. And it seems like they favor that. And then it
has the benefit of and now we have this backlog of stuff where we when
we have a rainy day, when we move the switch to from late twenty
twenty four to sometime in twenty twenty five, we could fill in those gaps
with plenty of stuff that we were holding off. And you know, I
wonder what that world looks like and run where it's like, Okay, well,
what if the Switch Too did launch this fall, would a lot of
these games just have moved a switch to. I suppose that's what would have
happened, or do they kind of fall into that no man's land of Now
the Switch two is out and these games are on the switch and obviously has
backward compatibility, and maybe that's what they're looking at to solve this. But
yeah, I wonder what that would have looked like. I think, just
like the aggression here, I think they learned from the mistake of the three
DS, where they kept it alive too long, I think, and then
people stop buying games on the three DS. But what they're probably going to
do here is not like they're not going to clean cut one hundred million people,
Like it's just not going to happen. That's not Nintendo. But I
do think they will, Like we'll see, hypothetically a Mario game comes out
on switch to. I think we'll probably see a Switch one version of that
game as well. Like I also think that's why they recently made that what
was the name of that acquisition they just made for Embracer, Uh Yeah,
like shiver, Shiver, I was gonna get shiver, yes, okay,
yeah, so I personally, I think that's why they bought them, is
to make switch one versions of games for the switch to. Yep, but
who knows. We'll see, but I think they're not gonna they are going
to There are games I know that we're supposed to come out last year that
I would be shocked poove to switch to. Yes, yeah right, And
you know, like in chat someone mentioned like if they would have just like
to put Bowser's Inside story on switch instead of like keeping it on the three
DS, like that studio would still be around things like that. It's like,
yeah, I think they learned a lot of lessons then, and they
will see how that all gets applied now. And I think you're right about
shiver. I do. That's the most like, that's like the biggest get
they get out of that. So yeah, all right, let's keep moving
along here. Behavior Interactive announces structural changes and lays off ninety five employees.
This comes with Rachel Caser at Game Speed. Behavior Interactive announced today that it's
making several changes to its structure to focus on its historical strengths in the face
of increasing competition in the games market. According to the company a company,
this restructuring includes changes on the corporate and operations level. As a result,
Behavior Plan is the way off in ninety five employees. Seventy of those employees
work and Behavior's Montreal office. According to the company, its employees headcount grew
from five hundred and seventy five to one thy three hundred in the last five
years. It's new changes will allow the company to provide to focus on its
strengths in the hord gaming space and as a service provider to developers. It's
the same story over and over, Emron hiring up a ton of people,
having to scale back due to people in charge not being able to accurately sort
of forecast the reality of the situation. And you know, I think it's
Dell Walker on Twitter, the developer who had a list of every studio that's
had layoffs or closures this year, and it's just that list is so massive.
We do these stories almost every every week. At a certain point,
it all blurs together and you forget it is literally dozens and dozens of studios
long that have been affected. Do you do you get any sense that we're
getting to the other side of this, What do you feel about behavior interactive?
What are your thoughts I Behavior and interactive expanded too fast. They made
the reacquisition from the last like year and a half, and then they clearly
didn't think about for there's a certain segment of game developers that don't think they're
infect are affected by the pandemic boom and bust, and they think like,
oh, well, we can acquire this and like we'll figure out how to
pay it later. Who was the the one the other day Avalanche Avalanches,
They made an acquisition of a company that, otherwise, to their credit,
would have died without them. But also they made that acquisition because of bad
turnover at Avalanche, and suddenly they're like, oh, it turns out we
can't really support this. We don't have the money to buy a whole of
the developer and keep everyone running and all that. I think we're going to
keep falling in then cycle over and over as we see these like what would
you describe behavior as double A development? Yeah? Right, they're definitely like
strategically targeting hyper fan spaces with games that are like pretty decent in size but
not triple A. Yeah, double A sounds right. I think we'll start
seeing more and more double A developers realize that they don't have the liquid capital
to act likes y. Yeah, like they might right now, but three
years from now, when they're having to pay let's say, ninety new people
one hundred thousand dollars a year salaries, they're not going to have that money.
So they will just like act, just lay off a bunch of people,
which, not to defend them in any way, this is entirely their
fault, but that's the status quo for a very long time in gaming.
Yes, yeah, but you don't have the money. You don't have the
money, and the fact that they don't the money is entirely because they are
short sighted. Right. I think there was, you know, the way
gaming was for such a long time, as you ride the high tide and
then when you expect low tide, you gotta lay a bunch of people off.
That was just that was the way it worked. And I think in
recent years there was this belief that everyone could switch to some sort of model
that had live service and continuous micro transaction purchases, so it would smooth out
that that curve, that waveform would be a little bit flatter, and so
your expectations could be like month to month, we are going to make about
this much money and that's our cash flow, and that is how we're going
to be able to support everybody. And obviously that just didn't happen. The
reality is gaming is much more like the way it always was, where there's
high tide and there's low tide, and these companies just aren't going to be
able to like like brute force their way to flattening that out like Sony was,
Yeah, Nintendo is, Xbox is sure with their services. A lot
of other companies are just not going to be able to do that, especially
in that double A space. Yeah, you don't convince investors to give you
money with the idea of we can weather whatever's coming because we expect there to
be a low tide. You tell them we're going to be constantly growing,
yeah, forever and ever. Yeah, they're like, cool, I want
to be a part of that, and I'll give you some money. And
I think that's where all this stuff is falling apart, because no one is
actually think about what happens if we can't do that. Yep, exactly,
You're right. They have to tell that story. And they have to believe
it to a certain extent, and that means they have to behave that way.
And then we get a lot of these investments where we look back like
what were you thinking? And obviously Embracer is the poster child for this to
the point where a point of excess, in the point of neglect, in
the point of just absolute buffoonery. But there is a reason that these things
keep happening everywhere. I'm going to ask you a really absurd question. Please,
did you hear Taco Bell's latest investor call? Did? I didn't hear
it in person. I was not on that call, but I did hear
someone relay that they're like, we are an AI first business now or something.
Is that what they said that I fell on the floor when I heard
that ron That is beyond absurdity. I don't know what we're doing, But
you're right, that's you have to tell the story that investors want to hear,
even though investors are just dumb across the board, just emotionally driven buffoons
themselves. So again, that's like it all feeds into itself where it's like
why does this happen? It's, well, you gotta look at the circus.
This is the circus, and all these companies are playing to that circus
audience. It's nuts, Yeah it is. I don't think even they believe
that to an extent, but like you have to, you have to market
like you do, and it's it does have ripple effects and it will cause
people to lose their jobs at some point. I mean. And the reality
is like lots of people are getting paid to be AI shills or AI consultants
and stuff, And if someone wants to give me money to be an AI
consultant, I'll go in there and tell you it sucks. I have no
problem with that absolutely, Yeah, sure whatever. But I've gets holded on
some games and I've seen like them use some AI stuff and I'm like,
no, you can't do like AI is in pre production. You can't extract
it from the are From this point, I was working on a game where
it did, in fact, like use it for pre concept art designs,
like submitting what I want this character to look like, versus like to the
concept artists. We try it, but like the people in charge don't think
of it as a thing that makes things easier. They think of it as
a thing that will make things cheaper, right, which is not the way
to think of it, because in order to get cheaper, you start cutting
away at salaries. In order to come away at salaries, you have to
start firing people. Yeah, and I think that's all the way the whole
like AI thing falls apart because it's like I am fine using it to remove
tedious things from game development. I am not fine with it becoming a tedious
thing and of itself. Yeah, it is there are You're still going to
be competing in a space as a development studio where there are going to be
a lot of major studios that aren't going to cut those jobs and are going
to have artists in charge of that. And if you try to replace that
work with AI, you are going to look terrible in comparison. And it's
it's gonna be real rough for a lot of games that try to pull that
off. So I'm still waiting for because you revealed that NBC dialogue AI thing
and it was just dog shit, It was absolutely terrible. Yeah, and
like they're eventually gonna part of the game because it's you be soft. But
I'm curious, like if they even try to market on it, Like if
they try to they tell game developers are not game journalists, like, oh,
this is the first game we're using our AI NBC dialogue or if it's
going to be like every first review says yeah the dialogue, and this really
sucks. There's really no explanation why. Mm hmmm. I'm spry, like
surprised out, Like every time I try to use AI, it's basically just
disappointing me now these days, every time I try, it's uh yeah,
uh. I also love there's a tweet this morning where it's uh so,
it's like, okay, in a couple of years, you know, artificial
general intelligence, which is like the real goal of a lot of these people.
I remember John Carmack like left Meta to go work on that, which
is like, you know, an AI that is equivalent to humans and can
then grow beyond us. We're gonna have that in a couple of years.
Because look at this line. It keeps going up. And then someone's like,
yeah, well my child has doubled in weight over the last couple of
months, so they're going to be seven point five tons by the time that
they're ten. It's like, yeah, that's exactly what we're talking about here.
People looking at us a short little segment of time where there was some
improvement, not really knowing how to measure that in the first place, and
then just assuming line is always going to go up. So yeah, I
had aim chatbots in nineteen ninety eight, Like we're not plateaued much far beyond
that. Yep, exactly, all right. A couple last stories here.
Metaphor refen Tasio showcase is announced for this Friday. This is from Tom Ivan
at VGC Just Real Quick. Atlas has announced in upcoming Metaphor refend Tasio live
stream. The showcase will air on YouTube on June seventh at six pm Pacific
time nine pm Eastern earlier that day. Director Katsura Hisshino and artists Shiginori Sojima
will be presenting the game during Summer Gamefest Lives showcase, So I expect that
to happen pretty frequently throughout that showcase, in where there'll be like a small
little teas or some trailer, and then there'll be more details very soon afterwards.
That's a I guess it makes sense, like you don't want to just
have that one beat at Summer Game Fest. You want to have like multiple
opportunities to get people attention. Yeah, Like the other day is on twitch
Q and A someone asked Jeff Keeley, like, is Beyond Good and Evil
too going to be there? Which one? No, it's dead or not
dead dead the way we do it, the way we knew. Beyond Good
and Evil two is dead. Sure, it might have mutated into something else,
but come on, and two there's a UBI soft forward. If they
had a Beyond Good at Evil thing, they would put it there. Yep,
yeah, yeah for real. Although I did hear that there was one
PlayStation game that might be at Summer Game Fest that wasn't in the showcase.
Not anything huge anybody, it's yeah, yeah, it's yeah, it's the
yeah a thing people have already heard about it exactly, yes, right,
and it's so we'll see. I'm like, well, why did they make
that choice? But whatever, they make the choices because they make their choices.
I I assume their partner wanted it there. But yeah, there are
things that might appear on our games that don't have bigger shows later. Basically
is the point, and metaphor is one of them. If hypothetically Beyond Good
and Evil to existed, it would have been one of them. Yep.
How are you feeling about showcases overall? You gotta anything you're really looking forward
to or hoping shows up? Honestly, not really like this one. Last
year I was excited for Rebirth and they had rebirth, and this year it's
just like I don't know what the next. The next big thing I really
hear about that has not been announced is like the switch to and switch to
and those won't be there, so we'll we'll figure out. Like I'm interested
to see what their their final curtain call for the switch is on the when
they eventually do it direct. But like, I can't think of anything that
Summer Games Fest that's gonna like make my socks roll up and down, you
know, Yeah, I know, I know what you mean. You know.
I hope we get the other side and the Nintendo Direct gets announced in
Metro Prime four actually does show up there, But that is me just coping
and yeah I'm fine with that show. Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely
all right. Yeah, last thing here, Remedy looks set to reveal Alan
Wick two's Night Springs DLC at Summer Game Fest. This is from Chris Scully
and FVGC. Remedy has strongly suggested that it will reveal alan Wick two's first
paid DLC expansion at the Summer Game Infest showcase. A new message posted on
the game's official Twitter account makes reference to Night Springs, which last year Remedy
confirmed would be in the name of the first expansion. The message tells fans
they can join the percolation on June seventh. Man, they love their coffee
references over there. Yeah, hey, sure, that sounds about right about
about the right time. And this is also I think the level of announcement
that like Keeley keeps referencing is like what to expect from a show like this,
where a lot of games could have DLC stuff you already know about updates,
things along those lines. And I'm like, yeah, all right,
I'm down for that. I'm just like you said, socks up and down
probably not happening. Yeah, My only like this sounds interesting. I wonder
if they tie it to Control in some way, because like by this point
they're done with they're still working or finishing up pre production on Control too,
so they know it's experience, right, Yeah, I mean they know where
they can have the connective tissue. I wouldn't be surprised if they like,
really play that stuff up more than they ever had before, we'll see.
All right, Hey, Summer game Fest is in minutes. It's Wednesday.
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worth checking out. Link is in chat. We'll put link in the description
as well as all that stuff. All right, pull question, Well I
get that set up, emorn, Why don't you tell people where they can
find you what you have going on all that good stuff. You can find
me on Twitter at Imron's EUMG. You can find me on Blue Sky at
Imran Khan dot blue skyst Social and you can find the Prince of Persure review
I'm working on on IGN dot com. What else am I doing? You
could probably find the things I'm doing at Summer Games Fest somewhere. I probably
I'm doing some for IGN. I'm gonna be working for doing some work for
VGBS, which is John Warren's new site, which is launching I think this
Friday, and I'm going to be hanging out behind the Giant bombs like livestream,
so you at least see me on that backscreen. I'm gonna try to
slide Emorn under the couch too, if we can make it happen. He's
my first alternate on every segment the he's around for, so we'll see.
I'm coming straight from the airport to the giant bomb things so perfect. Yes,
yeah again, just come hang out. I kind of get's my favorite
part, so can't wait to make it happen. All right. We have
the pull question, and they bring that up. This is from earlier this
week. How will Sony price concord Let's go here. Seven percent say it'll
be around twenty to thirty dollars. Twenty three percent say it will be free,
but maybe with a paid early access that you could pre order. Twenty
six percent say it'll be around forty to fifty dollars. That's where I'm at.
And then forty three percent, the best majority of people compared to the
other options, say it'll be around sixty to seventy dollars and round what do
you think? I think sixty is the budget price now, and that's what
they're gonna hit. Okay, yes, it would not shock me for sure,
other than the whole idea that this thing has price in the first place
shocked me a little. But now that they said there's pre orders, yeah,
I wouldn't be like just completely floored if we find out it's that expensive.
I mean, what do you think the fate is of Concord is?
Is it really all doom and gloom at this Pointer is like, yeah,
people are overreacting. What do you think? They clearly put enough money into
it that I think it would be insane for them to pull the plug early.
But I also don't like they're trying to compete with Fortnite and Overwatch in
terms of like the games style and like the audience they are looking for.
There's clearly a game so in search of an audience for their like teens or
or like twenty year olds that like Guardians the Galaxy, right, and I
think those people are busy, they are busy playing the other games. This
game is expired. Yeah, all right, let's see here a new poll
question. We'll get that here loaded up in a second. It is what
are you more excited about? And this is going to be kind of like
an elder Ring versus the field? Are you more excited about all the announcements
Summer Game Fest or Elder Ring, Shadow of the or Tree. Of course,
you'll be able to answer that throughout the weekend because this is the last
game Bess Mornings until next week. Let's see what we won't be doing it
on Monday. Tuesday will have a BombCast of some sort and then Wednesday.
Yeah, so it'll be Wednesday of next week, so a whole week before
we're but again, you're gonna get plenty of stuff from us from Giant Bomb.
Keep tuning in. We'll have plenty to talk about on GB at night
and the talkovers and all that stuff. All right, and Ron, thank
you so much for spending today talk with me about video games. Man.
I really appreciate it. Thank you, for having me. It's always a
blast, always is one hundred percent of the time. Thank you all for
listening to You're the best audience in gaming. Until next time, have a
good one, take care of yourself and goodbye.