WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:10.279 You know me, Beer, it's the Internet. You're busy. Let's do 2 00:00:10.320 --> 00:00:12.800 this. And of course my camera is already messed up, But who cares 3 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:16.239 about that that that doesn't matter. I don't care about that anymore. I 4 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:20.519 don't care about anything anymore. For the next hour or so, let me 5 00:00:20.559 --> 00:00:23.719 help you sort through the world gaming. On Gay Mess Mornings Live with Me 6 00:00:23.800 --> 00:00:28.600 Jeff Grub today, Chris Pratt threatens to sing the Forbidden Tones that Shall awaken 7 00:00:28.679 --> 00:00:32.640 the Old Gods and the Mario movie and from Softest Hiring. But first, 8 00:00:32.679 --> 00:00:36.960 please join me and welcoming today's co host for Gay Mess Mornings. It's Tomorrow's 9 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:41.640 saying, everybody, it's me. I'm here. I'm ready to talk about 10 00:00:41.679 --> 00:00:45.280 the news. Fam. You know I love the news. Sam. We 11 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:48.759 needed you today, we needed you today, and I'm glad and I am 12 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:51.520 here. I'm glad that you're here to help. So I'll tell you so, 13 00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:55.880 you know, I want to keep a light tone on these shows, 14 00:00:55.920 --> 00:00:59.200 but today the world is on fire, and I don't know what do I 15 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:00.000 do? What do I do here? I just kind of feel like, 16 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:03.719 hey, it's awful, and I'll tell you what I've been doing in my 17 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:08.599 life. I have begun turtling. I think it's it's the concept where I 18 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:14.879 look outside the world and I see no help coming for any of the problems 19 00:01:14.959 --> 00:01:19.400 in the world, and so I begun only looking toward areas of my life 20 00:01:19.400 --> 00:01:22.159 where I do get help. So, you know, my immediate family, 21 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:23.920 we bought this house. We're trying to like say, like, let's just 22 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:29.359 build a little conclay for us to be happy in. And then I've been 23 00:01:29.359 --> 00:01:33.120 building up communities and you know what, this audience here like, that's my 24 00:01:33.159 --> 00:01:34.400 big problem. It feels like no one wants to take care of each other 25 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:38.439 except for when I do stuff like this, and like I found people here 26 00:01:38.439 --> 00:01:41.000 that like want to take care of each other, and that's what's important for 27 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:42.599 me. I don't know how do you deal with it? You know, 28 00:01:42.719 --> 00:01:46.480 I have a rule where I whenever I'm on Twitter, I try not to 29 00:01:46.519 --> 00:01:49.519 fight with people. But today is one of those days that really tests that 30 00:01:49.719 --> 00:01:56.200 rule. My rule is I have a little a little a new money or 31 00:01:56.319 --> 00:02:00.280 Ryan. I guess I tell everybody tell them to live their life by it 32 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:02.000 because it helps, and it is see the drama, don't be the drama, 33 00:02:02.239 --> 00:02:05.840 right, And I'm great, I'm great at seeing the drama and not 34 00:02:05.920 --> 00:02:08.120 being the drama. But today's one of those days where I'm like, oh, 35 00:02:08.159 --> 00:02:13.120 these these motherfuckers are testing me. I might be I might be the 36 00:02:13.199 --> 00:02:16.199 drama. And you know, sometimes I've I've voiced my opinion on what's going 37 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:23.960 on, which is that it's disgusting and I can't believe it. And motherfuckers 38 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:30.039 with American flags in their bios talk about laid off due to COVID in my 39 00:02:30.280 --> 00:02:32.840 ass, talking about maybe you should leave and here's the thing, maybe you 40 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:38.360 should leave forever. Maybe you should leave. And you know, I'm trying 41 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:42.280 to. I'm trying to. I'm trying to find a better, more positive 42 00:02:42.280 --> 00:02:47.840 way to channel my energy instead of fighting anyone on Twitter. And I do 43 00:02:47.919 --> 00:02:53.439 that by, you know what, taking care of my people and so, 44 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:57.759 you know, I'm just keeping an eye on everyone at Game Spot everyone I 45 00:02:57.879 --> 00:03:01.199 dram vrama as best as I can and let them know that today's a today 46 00:03:01.240 --> 00:03:05.199 is a day that where they can forget about work and go and do something 47 00:03:05.199 --> 00:03:09.080 else instead. So the way I get through it is by just making sure 48 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:15.159 that my people are okay. Yeah, It's a kind of thing where I'm 49 00:03:15.400 --> 00:03:20.960 I'm looking around and I'm like it's there is no solution here that we can 50 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:23.560 turn to. So yeah, what can you do other than just try to 51 00:03:23.560 --> 00:03:27.080 be there for each other? I'll just say, yeah, obviously, women's 52 00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:31.879 healthcare is just healthcare. And it is a shame and completely baffling to me 53 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:36.120 that we are back here. But it also feels like sort of what we 54 00:03:36.199 --> 00:03:38.960 deserve for not being more vigilant about what could have happened. But you know, 55 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:42.120 yeah, by not taking care of of what we need to take care 56 00:03:42.120 --> 00:03:46.280 of in the past. Every with every passing day, the phrase land of 57 00:03:46.360 --> 00:03:49.879 the free, home of the brave, becomes less of a certainty. And 58 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:53.439 you should think about that, yeah, And people should think about that closely 59 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:59.479 because patriotism is massive in this country. And I would say, do you 60 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:03.439 think that matriotism is earned? Like, really think about it, because you 61 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:09.599 have women and people of color and people who are discriminating against, constantly just 62 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:14.719 being shot on by by everyone in this country. And it's just like, 63 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:18.680 I don't know, man, I wouldn't I wouldn't be calling that this heason 64 00:04:18.759 --> 00:04:23.079 that for at that phrase to describe this country anymore, it makes me very 65 00:04:23.120 --> 00:04:27.360 angry. And I just want to say, people don't give in to that 66 00:04:27.439 --> 00:04:30.399 the hatred you're probably feeling, which is what I feel. Let's try to 67 00:04:30.519 --> 00:04:32.680 just put another foot in front of the other for now. I know that's 68 00:04:32.959 --> 00:04:36.839 very difficult, but let's do what we can and just saying hopefully we get 69 00:04:36.879 --> 00:04:41.560 a better day in the future again, people and look at it. That's 70 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:43.920 honestly, it's really is the best thing you could do because it makes you 71 00:04:43.959 --> 00:04:46.959 feel like you're accomplishing something and look after your others. Yeah, absolutely, 72 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:49.600 all right, before we get into the news and the mess, let's explain 73 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:53.800 ourselves. Each day, I Jeff Grub will help peace your gaming life back 74 00:04:53.839 --> 00:04:58.000 together. 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So I put this new story at the top 84 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:36.959 ten for you because I wanted your inputs. A new interview with From Software 85 00:05:38.199 --> 00:05:43.519 Hita Taka Miyazaki is live. I got these tidbits from Nybel on Twitter, 86 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:46.720 and then I'll see what you have to say. An unannounced project is in 87 00:05:46.759 --> 00:05:50.639 the final stages of development. Miyazaki intends to continue to focus on directing games 88 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:55.759 and is already working on his next game, Eldering. Will receive more updates. 89 00:05:56.120 --> 00:06:00.240 Another interesting tidbit is that Miyazaki is apparently interested in working on something he 90 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:04.360 describes as more abstract fantasy than the projects we've seen from from so far, 91 00:06:04.519 --> 00:06:08.759 and how he has come up with a lot of ideas and images that don't 92 00:06:08.759 --> 00:06:13.600 fit with their current games. Miyazaki also notes that from Software is working on 93 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:16.639 improving the compensation and treatment of its employees, and that they plan to increase 94 00:06:16.680 --> 00:06:20.279 the salaries of young to mid career employees as well. He claims that the 95 00:06:20.319 --> 00:06:26.800 working environment has improved greatly in recent years. So I'll say, as someone 96 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:31.160 who has who adores SECO and adores elden Ring and is trying to find other 97 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:35.319 ways to get into the other from soft games. A lot of what I'm 98 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:40.439 reading here is very exciting to me. How are you feeling, Yeah, 99 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:44.920 massively exciting. Obviously, the big thing that people are going to focus in 100 00:06:44.959 --> 00:06:48.959 on is the unannounced project in the final stages of development. We know they're 101 00:06:48.959 --> 00:06:54.160 working on Ahmed Core, but obviously that's been announced that that's something that we 102 00:06:54.199 --> 00:06:59.480 all know about is coming. So don't think that counts as the unannounced project 103 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:03.720 in the stages of development. So what could that game be? I don't 104 00:07:03.759 --> 00:07:11.439 know, it's interesting. I want to go towards something secular related. I 105 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:15.759 don't. I wouldn't say with any sort of certainty that it is something secular 106 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:21.759 related. I just remember how Secular kind of came out of nowhere, if 107 00:07:21.800 --> 00:07:26.360 you remember correctly, Like there was a little bit of hubbub around it where 108 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:30.759 they like, there were some whispers around them making something new, but then 109 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:34.759 it just appeared and it was at game wards I think it was, and 110 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:41.360 then vanished and then returned and was basically out. And I do wonder sometimes 111 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:46.199 if they're they like they could take a similar approach to something new or even 112 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:48.360 something more in that in that world. I mean, they are coming up 113 00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:51.759 as it was the elder Ring like approach right where it was announced way ahead 114 00:07:51.759 --> 00:07:57.839 of time and it was literally years of people just dying for any new information. 115 00:07:58.600 --> 00:08:01.160 And you know, I don't know what kind of effect they can have 116 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:03.160 on any particular development studio, but I wonder if they didn't, if they 117 00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:09.199 didn't love that pressure. Yeah, I mean I would one think that they 118 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:11.399 don't like that pressure. And then on top of that, they have to 119 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:15.279 contend with leaks and things like that once it's available, like I know the 120 00:08:15.319 --> 00:08:18.600 elden Ring leak that happened where that was like a major thing for them. 121 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:22.800 It was devastating for them, and they really like tightened up ship and we're 122 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:30.240 not pleased about that at all. Obviously Secuo is the is or something big 123 00:08:30.360 --> 00:08:33.440 is something is what we want. But they have done smaller drops before. 124 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:39.799 Remember they made de Racene, which was the VR game for I think it 125 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:46.840 was PlayStation VR anyway, So they have the capacity to make smaller unexpected experiences, 126 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:50.159 and you know they would I don't think they would describe that as a 127 00:08:50.159 --> 00:08:54.000 a VR tech demo or anything like that. They would just describe it as 128 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:58.960 a new project. So it could be that, you know, they are 129 00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:01.799 in the final stages of development on something that is like a VR project or 130 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:07.559 a smaller title, almost like a you know, a smaller budget, smaller 131 00:09:07.879 --> 00:09:11.720 experienced for it could even be like something I'm not saying it would be like 132 00:09:11.960 --> 00:09:16.759 equivalent of like a mobile game. You know, I'm excited to see what 133 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:20.360 it is. Obviously I hope it's something big and grand that not not on 134 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:24.320 elden Ring size, But like, I feel like we now have to rescale 135 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:31.039 the kind of projects that we think they're capable of because they made a certain 136 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:35.039 type of game and it was the the you know, the Dark Souls Bloodborne 137 00:09:35.080 --> 00:09:37.799 style games, and then they made elden Ring, which was like, oh, 138 00:09:37.799 --> 00:09:41.200 these guys can make massive open worlds. So now we have to think 139 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:46.320 about, like what does a unannounced project what they when they say an announced 140 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:50.120 project, What kind of experience are we talking about? And it could be 141 00:09:50.279 --> 00:09:52.159 very well be something closer to like a Dark Souls, but then also it 142 00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:56.279 could also be something way way smaller, like a the resume. Yeah, 143 00:09:56.799 --> 00:10:00.320 like that makes me think, is there a possibility that this is and maybe 144 00:10:00.320 --> 00:10:05.080 the terminology prohibits is from being a possibility. But you tell me, could 145 00:10:05.080 --> 00:10:11.399 this be a Bloodborn sort of ultimate edition that they would consider to be an 146 00:10:11.480 --> 00:10:15.519 unannounced new project, But it's also something that they could do relatively quickly, 147 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:16.840 and that they were probably waiting for elden Ring to sort of be out of 148 00:10:16.840 --> 00:10:20.159 the way so they could focus some of their attention on this, maybe bringing 149 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:22.399 in another studio that could do some of the work while they are still working 150 00:10:22.399 --> 00:10:26.399 on elder Ring alongside that. There's any of that register, Yeah, I 151 00:10:26.399 --> 00:10:30.200 mean, like I think that, God, I think that would be the 152 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:33.840 thing that most people would want out of them right now. I hope it 153 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:39.000 is because and it also does like it is is theory crafting, and it 154 00:10:39.080 --> 00:10:41.639 is a little bit of like my own hopes and dreams. Sure, it 155 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:48.799 doesn't make sense like developing a brand new game like a Secural or something like 156 00:10:48.840 --> 00:10:52.440 it on the scale of the Souls feels quite rough to do it at the 157 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:58.600 same time as making an armored core game and elden Ring team wise from software 158 00:10:58.679 --> 00:11:03.799 isn't isn't massive still like on the scale of a Western developer like a I 159 00:11:03.799 --> 00:11:07.960 don't know, an Active Vision studio Call of Duty outfit, Like they're not 160 00:11:07.399 --> 00:11:11.679 They're not capable of churning out multiple games in the same way that an EA, 161 00:11:11.720 --> 00:11:15.799 a bunch of EA studios or a bunch of Activision studios could. They're 162 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:18.080 still quite limited. So I feel like if they have a team working on 163 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:22.120 Elder Ring for a while, and then they have a team working on Armored 164 00:11:22.159 --> 00:11:26.519 Core for a while, a smaller group of people working on they would be 165 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:33.360 available to work on something like an update or blood Borne or you know who 166 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:37.320 knows a DLC for Securo or something like that. I would love for it 167 00:11:37.360 --> 00:11:43.440 to be, and I hope it is the Bloodborne stuff, And I hope 168 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:46.600 that they if they feel like a studio where they would want to if they 169 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:50.039 did it, they would want to go back and really like tighten the screws 170 00:11:50.039 --> 00:11:52.799 and fix some things on stuff that they know that isn't the best. Like 171 00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:58.360 I would love to see them kind of update blood Borne in the way that 172 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:03.799 we want, you know, their performance stuff, maybe take another pass Challice 173 00:12:03.879 --> 00:12:07.720 dungeons and like figure out something about around that that could be interesting. Like 174 00:12:07.799 --> 00:12:11.840 they Charlie dungeons are interesting, but like they're also kind of weird in a 175 00:12:11.879 --> 00:12:15.960 lot of ways, and it feels like that's the one part of it that 176 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:18.720 they kind of rushed out, and I would love to see them go back 177 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:22.480 and be like, hey, this is what we originally intended for it. 178 00:12:22.799 --> 00:12:24.480 Yeah, I could see making a lot of sense where it's like, this 179 00:12:24.519 --> 00:12:30.639 is a chance to sort of edit Blood Born in some key ways still make 180 00:12:30.679 --> 00:12:33.519 it feel like a brand new thing for a lot of people and give people 181 00:12:33.600 --> 00:12:39.720 reason to upgrade to the game on PS five And so yeah, it makes 182 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:43.240 sense. And I the thing I always my understanding was always like they always 183 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:48.480 wanted to do more with Blood Born, but like they own the keys to 184 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:50.799 those doors, to the development code, and they couldn't just hand it off 185 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:54.240 to someone else in the middle of the Elden Ring, and because they needed 186 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:56.960 to be present to make sure that people could understand like what was going to 187 00:12:56.039 --> 00:13:00.399 do what, and or at least they were, you know, hesitant letting 188 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:01.679 someone else go in there and mess around with code when they weren't there. 189 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:07.639 And so now that they've had more time to me the timing works out where 190 00:13:07.639 --> 00:13:09.440 it's like, yeah, they could be in the later stages now that they've 191 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:13.360 been able to focus on that. So I'm hopeful, Uh, this this 192 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:18.720 other tidbit about upcoming stuff. Mimazaki in tents continue to focus on directing games, 193 00:13:18.919 --> 00:13:20.639 and it's already working on his next game. What are you feeling about 194 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:26.759 that? Obviously over the moon, Okay, as long as if if, 195 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:30.600 if the if, the Miyazaki is working on stuff like that, giving me 196 00:13:30.679 --> 00:13:33.399 something that I definitely enough thought to be excited about, you know, and 197 00:13:33.399 --> 00:13:37.679 and and that's that's he hasn't made a bad game yet, So why would 198 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:41.720 I would I have anything but pure like elation and the idea of him working 199 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:48.679 on something new. Yeah, I'm really excited for what he means by abstract 200 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:54.000 fantasy. I don't know if that his next project is that, or if 201 00:13:54.039 --> 00:14:01.159 the abstract fantasy thing is something separate. It feels like it is something separate 202 00:14:01.159 --> 00:14:03.159 because he says I'm interested in working it. He wouldn't say that if he 203 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:09.000 was actively working on that, if you know what I mean. So I 204 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:16.000 imagine we'll get something quite similar to what we have up until now. I 205 00:14:16.519 --> 00:14:20.519 am really excited to see. And I think the thing that I've been doing 206 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:24.480 is like, if you're a from software fan, you know that the seeds 207 00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:28.679 of Muzuki's next game are always planted in the game that he last released, 208 00:14:30.159 --> 00:14:33.840 Like you know, Blood Born was planting the seed for that was planted in 209 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:39.480 in Dark Souls and Securos in blood Born and the same goals that is it 210 00:14:39.559 --> 00:14:45.120 like explicit or you just like are you seeing the connecting tissue but it's more 211 00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:48.039 abstract or is there's something like literally it's a little bit of everything, Like 212 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:52.519 I mean, the one that everyone knows is Dark Souls had DLC where there 213 00:14:52.600 --> 00:14:56.919 was a character called Marvelous Chester who looked unlike anyone else in the Dark Souls 214 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:03.360 universe. He was wearing Victorian guard, he had very strange vibes to him. 215 00:15:03.399 --> 00:15:05.960 He came from a far off land and and like the people are like, 216 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:09.080 this guy seems very out of place here. And that was because he 217 00:15:09.159 --> 00:15:13.679 was the prototype for blood Borne character. And then and then like the fight 218 00:15:13.720 --> 00:15:18.559 between the DLC fight between the player character and Lady Muria of the Astral Clock 219 00:15:18.679 --> 00:15:22.639 clock Tower, is it is the prototype for a securo one of the one 220 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:28.320 battle and and you could when you play that battle in hindsight, you can 221 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:33.000 feel, oh, this is they are figuring out secual here in this fight 222 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:37.039 because it's a lot of the similar like pacing similar requirements of you, and 223 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:39.840 it's really really cool to see that happen. And I've just been digging around 224 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:43.480 in Elder Ring trying to figure out what it is where they're going next, 225 00:15:43.519 --> 00:15:48.559 and there's a few things. I think there's a boss fight at the very 226 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:54.600 end of the game against the character that plays out unlike anything else they've done 227 00:15:54.720 --> 00:15:58.159 in in the other games, and I feel like it could be I don't 228 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:02.000 know if we're in it, were in there, if we're allowed to talk 229 00:16:02.039 --> 00:16:07.559 spoilers yet, but maybe block a way of doing it that seems like fair 230 00:16:07.559 --> 00:16:11.159 about block your ears if you haven't finished it, but for like, let's 231 00:16:11.159 --> 00:16:15.720 say a minute or so and I'll explain that and then you can come back. 232 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:21.000 So the one of the climactic, the second to last fight is Godfrey, 233 00:16:21.039 --> 00:16:26.000 the first Eldin Lord aka Horror Lou, and it's he behaves in a 234 00:16:26.039 --> 00:16:32.000 way that no other from software boss does. He's very melee focused. He 235 00:16:32.039 --> 00:16:36.480 plays like Zangief. The first thing he does is like he grabs you and 236 00:16:36.559 --> 00:16:38.279 like he launches you into the air, and he jumps into the air and 237 00:16:38.360 --> 00:16:44.159 he fights like he's a fighting in character, which is like very strange like 238 00:16:44.200 --> 00:16:48.120 obviously from software are always like sword and board based stuff, Like they have 239 00:16:48.159 --> 00:16:55.159 a very specific time type of interaction between character model, player and boss character, 240 00:16:55.240 --> 00:16:57.360 and there's kind of like a the way the hip boxes collide. This 241 00:16:57.440 --> 00:17:02.600 feels very very strange me in a way that it feels very melee focused, 242 00:17:02.600 --> 00:17:07.440 and I would be I'm like, I'm very, very very convinced that their 243 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:11.920 next game is going to have some sort of like up close melee focused style 244 00:17:12.119 --> 00:17:17.920 thing where like I've never seen them like launch up the player character into the 245 00:17:17.960 --> 00:17:21.319 air like that and have someone follow you up and then bring you back down 246 00:17:21.400 --> 00:17:25.119 and kind of like move into the sky in that in that kind of fashion. 247 00:17:26.519 --> 00:17:30.240 So it's it's it's interesting, So I would love to see that. 248 00:17:30.400 --> 00:17:33.079 I wouldn't be surprised if the next game they have like a brawler class and 249 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:37.440 like you're you're grabbing enemies and like launching them and like using malea attacks and 250 00:17:37.480 --> 00:17:41.880 that kind of stuff. I love that. That's uh that yeah, that 251 00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:45.240 sounds fantastic, But I also just love the the theory crafting that you are 252 00:17:45.319 --> 00:17:48.319 doing there where it's like you're seeing the string and that's insightful. Uh yeah, 253 00:17:48.839 --> 00:17:52.039 when it comes to frum Stoft like it's it's a team that has had, 254 00:17:52.160 --> 00:17:56.759 you know, a string of hits. They are building up their talent. 255 00:17:56.519 --> 00:18:00.079 So this idea that they are very aware that they need to make sure 256 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:04.000 they are increasing compensation and make their place more to work, a better place 257 00:18:04.039 --> 00:18:07.240 to work. I mean, no one likes it when all the old people 258 00:18:07.319 --> 00:18:11.440 leave and gets replaced by a whole group of new people, so they're trying 259 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:17.039 to avoid that, right, So it's a good thing that they're recognizing recognizing 260 00:18:17.039 --> 00:18:19.680 this and does this give you confidence that from Sotoft is here to stay and 261 00:18:19.839 --> 00:18:22.720 you're going to be making these games us for a long time. I think 262 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:30.480 they're like, I think that the stuff around them figuring out like workplace environment, 263 00:18:30.680 --> 00:18:37.599 quality, compensation is a sign that they now know that they are a 264 00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:41.279 big deal and that they are here to stay. And it's kind of them 265 00:18:41.279 --> 00:18:45.839 going, oh, we're not just a bunch of weirdos making games anymore. 266 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:49.680 We are a career option. We are life option for people. It's that 267 00:18:49.839 --> 00:18:56.160 moment where they're becoming without sounding in the worst way apostable, but like they 268 00:18:56.200 --> 00:18:59.720 needed to have a moment where they realize that they are a corporate corporation. 269 00:19:00.039 --> 00:19:03.799 Sure, not for the worst parts of it, but the parts of it 270 00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:07.200 like they are, they are aspirational. Now people will likely be out there 271 00:19:07.240 --> 00:19:11.200 being like, I want to make games for from software. And they can't 272 00:19:11.240 --> 00:19:15.599 be just a group of homies being all like group of lands just being like, 273 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:18.119 hey, let's just you know, let's just make some video games just 274 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:22.480 you know, get good, get good, let's do this. They have 275 00:19:22.559 --> 00:19:25.519 to be like, we got to look after these people because we are clearly 276 00:19:25.920 --> 00:19:29.559 we're operating on a different scale now. So this is one a good sign 277 00:19:29.680 --> 00:19:34.880 that they are now kind of figuring out how they exist long term, and 278 00:19:36.079 --> 00:19:38.680 two they are figuring out how to make sure that the people that are making 279 00:19:38.680 --> 00:19:45.640 their games, the real talent of the studio is being preserved and being looked 280 00:19:45.680 --> 00:19:49.079 after. So it's exciting. Yeah, it's like that they're establishing that the 281 00:19:49.119 --> 00:19:52.319 next gen, like it is young mid career employees, like they are going 282 00:19:52.319 --> 00:19:56.599 to be building up talent themselves and like investing all that stuff and people. 283 00:19:56.640 --> 00:19:59.880 And then what's going to happen after that? Are those people going to want 284 00:19:59.880 --> 00:20:02.799 to leave to start their own things, or are you're going to create environment 285 00:20:02.839 --> 00:20:06.079 that makes them want to make the from staff games. I mean the way 286 00:20:06.079 --> 00:20:10.440 you put it like that is what makes like Nintendo continue to operate for so 287 00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:14.000 long, is that people grow up wanting to make Nintendo games in Japan, 288 00:20:14.079 --> 00:20:17.680 all around the world, but especially in Japan, and so they want to 289 00:20:17.720 --> 00:20:19.759 go work for Nintendo, and Nintendo hires the best of them and they're able 290 00:20:19.799 --> 00:20:23.799 to keep that that train moving from stuff has the potential to do the same 291 00:20:23.839 --> 00:20:26.720 thing. I think you're right, yeah, And also like especially with it's 292 00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:30.960 that small towns to a small town situation right where like sometimes you're you live 293 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:36.880 in a small town and the biggest the only life option is that big factory 294 00:20:36.920 --> 00:20:41.079 that makes cause you know, and like most people who grow up there unless 295 00:20:41.079 --> 00:20:44.839 they leave, they grow up knowing that I'm going to end up working there, 296 00:20:45.480 --> 00:20:48.079 right, excuse me. And it's the similar thing like in Japan where 297 00:20:48.119 --> 00:20:52.440 development studios, like once you get big enough and you become popular enough, 298 00:20:52.519 --> 00:20:56.960 that becomes the kind of like again like the North Staff for people to be 299 00:20:57.079 --> 00:21:02.240 like I want to work there Nintendo when it comes to like developing in Japan, 300 00:21:02.759 --> 00:21:07.480 like it's hard to look away from Nintendo and Sony and and be like 301 00:21:07.519 --> 00:21:10.440 I want to work for one of those studios and them cool Bandai. There's 302 00:21:10.519 --> 00:21:14.359 big monolith studios that you're kind of always moving towards, and I think like 303 00:21:15.200 --> 00:21:18.519 From Software is now one of them where it's like it can stand toe shoulder 304 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:23.880 shoulder with Nintendo to be like, I will make my life decisions in a 305 00:21:23.920 --> 00:21:27.759 way that will take me closer to being able to work there, And I 306 00:21:27.799 --> 00:21:32.200 think it's it shows a level of responsibility, hopefully from the people who are 307 00:21:32.200 --> 00:21:36.400 in charge to recognize that and be like, we can't we can't be as 308 00:21:36.400 --> 00:21:38.279 big as we are and make games that are acclaimed as we as much as 309 00:21:38.319 --> 00:21:44.000 they are, and continue to make the money that we do while while and 310 00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:48.559 become this place where people want to work without doing these things to make sure 311 00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:52.759 that we're not like screwing them over. And I'm glad that they are doing 312 00:21:52.799 --> 00:21:57.039 that, And he says, like it's improved greatly in recent years. It's 313 00:21:57.079 --> 00:22:00.960 worth like pointing into context what's happened in recent years around From Software. They 314 00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:06.400 were acquired, like and they now operate, you know, as part of 315 00:22:06.440 --> 00:22:11.279 kind of car games. And also like Mirzaki became CEO or is it CFO 316 00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:15.880 one of those two he took a senior executive position as opposed to having someone 317 00:22:15.880 --> 00:22:21.279 else. So now a creator is in charge of the studio, and these 318 00:22:21.359 --> 00:22:25.519 kind of things where take they take time to kind of roll over, and 319 00:22:25.559 --> 00:22:27.799 also the impact of having someone in that position like that take time, takes 320 00:22:27.799 --> 00:22:32.559 time. So when he says it's just it's starting to get better, it's 321 00:22:32.599 --> 00:22:37.480 improved greatly. That is hopefully just the beginning of it, and hopefully we 322 00:22:37.559 --> 00:22:41.720 continue to get to move towards a situation where from is better about compensation, 323 00:22:41.799 --> 00:22:47.000 it's better about treating their employees well. The other tricky thing is like there's 324 00:22:47.119 --> 00:22:52.720 especially in Japan, like start, you're you're also fighting against company working culture 325 00:22:52.839 --> 00:22:57.799 or like culture around working that is ingrained in Japan itself. You know, 326 00:22:57.880 --> 00:23:03.480 we all deal with the idea of crunch and that's something that the Western world 327 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:07.640 is taking head on. It's it crunches it that kind of stuff, and 328 00:23:07.720 --> 00:23:12.359 like the weird work life balance is that in the fabric of working in Japan. 329 00:23:14.240 --> 00:23:17.359 And it's interesting. We're actually on Game Spot doing a kind of investigation 330 00:23:17.440 --> 00:23:22.880 into this a little bit currently and and it's it's fascinating, but it's also 331 00:23:22.039 --> 00:23:29.640 like that's that's that's as a hard pill to swallow and it's a hard thing 332 00:23:29.720 --> 00:23:36.839 to push back against. But hopefully slowly but surely we'll get there in Japan 333 00:23:36.920 --> 00:23:40.599 as well. Yeah, and it's like it seems clear that from Stuff, 334 00:23:40.640 --> 00:23:42.680 like just saw from Stuff has been around for a very long time now, 335 00:23:42.720 --> 00:23:47.480 but it's like at a certain point they become this like hit band, right, 336 00:23:47.519 --> 00:23:48.240 and they have they can look at their future, but like, are 337 00:23:48.319 --> 00:23:52.480 we going to continue to be this hit band where there is a superstar front 338 00:23:52.559 --> 00:23:56.640 like frontman that's out there on stage singing, or are we going to be 339 00:23:56.640 --> 00:24:02.079 a sports franchise that is capable of eventually like building up over time. And 340 00:24:02.119 --> 00:24:03.039 it's like those are the two paths that you could take if you're like an 341 00:24:03.039 --> 00:24:06.799 outfit like that, and I think they are slowing the process of being like 342 00:24:06.839 --> 00:24:10.680 we want to be a long term, like winning sports franchise, and yeah, 343 00:24:10.720 --> 00:24:14.920 we want to have this superstar player in Miyazaki out front for a very 344 00:24:14.920 --> 00:24:17.559 long time, but eventually, but eventually, we have to be looking at 345 00:24:17.599 --> 00:24:19.759 a future where maybe that doesn't happen. What can we do to maximize his 346 00:24:19.839 --> 00:24:23.680 talent and being able to invest in a new talent that can learn from him 347 00:24:23.680 --> 00:24:26.920 and the people that are inspired by him in the next generation, we want 348 00:24:26.960 --> 00:24:30.000 them to come work for us as well. And and that comes down to 349 00:24:30.119 --> 00:24:36.279 us creating a place that is maybe growing, and how we treat workers and 350 00:24:36.319 --> 00:24:38.839 employees in a way that has not been the way it traditionally works, you 351 00:24:38.880 --> 00:24:42.799 know, and many many cultures, but yeah, especially JAPAM. Yeah for 352 00:24:42.880 --> 00:24:48.480 sure. All right, let's let's move on. Subset games announced Into the 353 00:24:48.519 --> 00:24:52.640 Breach Advanced Edition. Here are the details from the Twitter account. The new 354 00:24:52.680 --> 00:24:56.240 Advanced Edition free content update will be coming to all platforms and a mobile version 355 00:24:56.279 --> 00:25:00.920 will be coming. It will be available through Netflix with an Netflix subscription. 356 00:25:00.480 --> 00:25:04.720 Both will be available on July nineteenth. The Advanced Edition features new squads, 357 00:25:04.720 --> 00:25:08.519 weapons, and pilots, as well as new enemies, bosses, and challenges. 358 00:25:08.880 --> 00:25:12.680 You can also get a physical edition from fan Gamer for the Nintendo Switch 359 00:25:14.079 --> 00:25:17.960 and that includes all the Advanced Edition content as well. Into the Breach is 360 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:21.359 one of my favorite games. Dam I'm very excited about this. I love 361 00:25:21.400 --> 00:25:25.119 any excuse to go back to this game. I suppose maybe the most you 362 00:25:25.160 --> 00:25:30.039 know, the more interesting thing here is like Netflix putting out the mobile version 363 00:25:30.519 --> 00:25:34.039 kind of seems like they're trying to do a Apple arcade like for all platforms. 364 00:25:34.119 --> 00:25:37.519 Is that what it seems like to you? Oh yeah, it feels 365 00:25:37.759 --> 00:25:41.119 obviously this is weird. Like when Netflix first were like, we're getting into 366 00:25:41.119 --> 00:25:45.880 games, but were like all right, cool, yeah, and they starting 367 00:25:47.039 --> 00:25:52.799 to make smarter and smart decisions around the entry points into games as well as 368 00:25:52.799 --> 00:25:57.119 putting out their own games. I feel like they are. They released a 369 00:25:57.160 --> 00:26:02.400 point Peel point Peve, but we talked about point one of the bomb casts, 370 00:26:02.400 --> 00:26:04.480 so I'm like, okay, check that out. So that looks like 371 00:26:04.559 --> 00:26:11.480 that's their own thing, and that came from the down well kind of creative, 372 00:26:11.839 --> 00:26:15.400 which is very clever, like that's a good good like and it's and 373 00:26:15.440 --> 00:26:19.440 it's very it's got that same kind of like cannot put it down kind of 374 00:26:19.640 --> 00:26:25.119 feel to it. And now they are looking at other this is like a 375 00:26:25.200 --> 00:26:30.279 Shure Fire win right like Into the Breach is an incredible game. And and 376 00:26:30.359 --> 00:26:33.839 like now if they if they can like if they move is how do we 377 00:26:33.960 --> 00:26:37.039 move into gaming? Or We'll take this game that we know is a dead 378 00:26:37.119 --> 00:26:41.200 certain amazing game and we can bring it to new people a new platform with 379 00:26:41.319 --> 00:26:48.000 Netflix's they'll go next to it. That's massive mind share. I think there's 380 00:26:48.119 --> 00:26:52.240 a really really smart thing that they're doing. I'm surprised to see subset bringing 381 00:26:52.759 --> 00:26:56.799 more content to into the Breach all this time later they were very quiet on 382 00:26:56.839 --> 00:27:00.599 it, but like I'm elated that game is just incredib Like it's it's the 383 00:27:00.880 --> 00:27:06.119 I haven't got that obsessed with that kind of game since Advanced Wars, and 384 00:27:06.359 --> 00:27:11.640 like it's been a while. So I'm one very very excited that they're bringing 385 00:27:11.960 --> 00:27:15.440 it a new content to it as an advanced edition. Two very excited that 386 00:27:15.440 --> 00:27:22.799 it's free, free content update. And then I'm excited that it's out extremely 387 00:27:23.960 --> 00:27:27.839 July. And the fact that it's going to be available on mobile mobile is 388 00:27:27.920 --> 00:27:32.240 just like a massive cherry on top of this, right It's and it's one 389 00:27:32.240 --> 00:27:34.319 of those games where I was like I played it on Steam and then I 390 00:27:34.319 --> 00:27:38.799 played it again on Switch and got obsessed with it both times. And and 391 00:27:38.960 --> 00:27:42.640 I will absolutely hit that tab on the Netflix app to open up the games 392 00:27:42.759 --> 00:27:45.680 and get it there as well. And you know, I don't know how 393 00:27:45.759 --> 00:27:48.720 much I ended up playing it on my phone, because I always get the 394 00:27:48.799 --> 00:27:51.599 anxiety about phones or games on my phone where it's like, oh, let's 395 00:27:51.599 --> 00:27:55.000 just use my battery, but I still like having the option and even still 396 00:27:55.160 --> 00:27:56.799 just this content going to be everywhere for free. I'm going to be checking 397 00:27:56.799 --> 00:27:59.799 out on this. Oh, Jeff, you need to do what I done. 398 00:27:59.880 --> 00:28:03.400 I have a separate game phone. Listen, I've could phones game phone, 399 00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:07.400 yes, because I can just tether the game phone to the real phone, 400 00:28:07.480 --> 00:28:10.920 right, and that souks like it's all good. Yeah, I keep 401 00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:14.279 this. This is my like entertainment phone. Okay. When I got a 402 00:28:14.279 --> 00:28:17.359 new phone, I kept my old mainly because it's got like a really busted 403 00:28:17.480 --> 00:28:19.279 like but I dropped it once and it like really fucked up. So I 404 00:28:19.319 --> 00:28:22.200 was like, I'm not trading this and I'm just gonna keep it. And 405 00:28:22.319 --> 00:28:25.799 people are people are going to be like, oh, he's got two phones. 406 00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:29.400 That's actually incorrect. I've got three phones. I've got an Android phone 407 00:28:29.440 --> 00:28:33.039 as well to get the entertainment phone and the porno phone, right, yeah, 408 00:28:33.079 --> 00:28:36.440 exactly exactly. I just I just like keep this in my bag at 409 00:28:36.440 --> 00:28:38.720 all times, and I use a bluetooth pair of headphones, so like I 410 00:28:38.720 --> 00:28:41.799 would play music off this, I listen to podcasts off this, I play 411 00:28:41.839 --> 00:28:45.680 games on this. That way, my battery life is completely unaffected. On 412 00:28:45.720 --> 00:28:51.960 this like I most most days end end my day with like eight percent battery 413 00:28:51.960 --> 00:28:56.720 on my phone. Now I associate having multiple phones with nefarious drug related stuff. 414 00:28:57.359 --> 00:29:00.920 You already have trouble going through airports when they see the multiple phones. 415 00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:04.880 Are they like, well, definitely there's something going on here. Uh. 416 00:29:06.200 --> 00:29:08.319 You know what I say is those days are behind me. Okay, those 417 00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:15.839 days, those days are behind me in your entire life. Understanding, you 418 00:29:15.880 --> 00:29:18.839 can you can make any assumptions as you as you want about having three phones, 419 00:29:18.880 --> 00:29:22.799 but I can say right now, I'm clean. Egg on my face, 420 00:29:22.880 --> 00:29:26.279 Egg on my face, all right. Chris Pratt declares his voice is 421 00:29:26.319 --> 00:29:32.599 Mario voice is unlike anything you've ever heard. By David Olenski at Game Spot. 422 00:29:32.680 --> 00:29:36.039 Just a fantastic headline, all right. This is from David, echoing 423 00:29:36.119 --> 00:29:38.880 similar remarks from a producer of the upcoming Super Mario movie made last fall. 424 00:29:40.119 --> 00:29:42.559 Actor Chris Pratt, who will voice the titular plumber, said in a recent 425 00:29:42.599 --> 00:29:48.079 interview that his portrayal will be unlike anything you've ever heard. Speaking with Variety 426 00:29:48.079 --> 00:29:52.240 to promote his latest upcoming Amazon Prime video series, The Terminal List, Pratt 427 00:29:52.279 --> 00:29:56.720 also touched briefly on the Nintendo film. I worked really closely with the directors 428 00:29:56.759 --> 00:30:00.039 on trying out a few things and landed on something that I'm really proud of 429 00:30:00.119 --> 00:30:03.480 and can't wait for people to see and hear. Pratt said, it's an 430 00:30:03.559 --> 00:30:07.079 animated voiceover narrative. It's not a live action movie. I'm not going to 431 00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:11.000 be wearing a plumber suit running all over I'm providing a voice for an animated 432 00:30:11.079 --> 00:30:15.119 character, and it is updated and unlike anything you've heard in the Mario world 433 00:30:15.240 --> 00:30:18.240 before. Why does he say this, Tam, Tam, Why is he 434 00:30:18.279 --> 00:30:25.759 saying that this particular thing, I here's a thing. There's a big mismatch 435 00:30:26.359 --> 00:30:30.319 in or a misunderstanding. This is one of the things that people are going 436 00:30:30.359 --> 00:30:37.200 to have to figure out in PR and marketing when it's facing the movie world 437 00:30:37.319 --> 00:30:42.359 and the gaming world that when you apply the standard PR marketing bullshit from the 438 00:30:42.400 --> 00:30:47.559 movie world to the video game world, it's really bad. It's like, 439 00:30:47.599 --> 00:30:52.119 if he has said this about literally anything non gaming related, it would have 440 00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:56.519 been absolutely fine. If this was like, oh, I'm gonna Chris Pratt 441 00:30:56.599 --> 00:30:59.440 is doing a new take on the Iron Giant, like it would have been 442 00:30:59.480 --> 00:31:02.119 like most fine people have been like, oh, We're not sure about this. 443 00:31:02.119 --> 00:31:04.160 This is gonna be weird. He's doing it, He's applied. They're 444 00:31:04.160 --> 00:31:10.920 applying the same strategy to a video game thing and video What they don't realize 445 00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:18.240 is video game fans are unhinged, like just completely lets They haven't thought about 446 00:31:18.279 --> 00:31:22.720 grass in ages. I think about Mario's voice all the time. That's not 447 00:31:23.160 --> 00:31:26.720 all I should not be doing. No, this is the thing. Then 448 00:31:26.759 --> 00:31:29.279 you're gonna say this sittence to me, I'm gonna be like, what could 449 00:31:29.279 --> 00:31:32.079 that part? I think I've thought about all the possible Mario voices. How 450 00:31:32.160 --> 00:31:36.000 dare you that? Like? What they don't understand is there's some movie pure 451 00:31:36.039 --> 00:31:37.240 people being like, yeah, I just tell them that it's gonna be awesome 452 00:31:37.240 --> 00:31:40.920 and it's gonna be great. And they were like and He's like, yes, 453 00:31:41.240 --> 00:31:42.319 we're getting awesome. It's gonna be great. And they're like, you 454 00:31:42.400 --> 00:31:48.359 have no idea because we've been doing the Mario voice all our lives. Ask 455 00:31:48.440 --> 00:31:52.480 any gamer and they can do a one for one perfect Mario voice. To 456 00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:57.000 me, name the character. I can do Worrio, I can do Wallauisi, 457 00:31:57.160 --> 00:32:00.319 I can do Toad, I can do bows like And that's the thing 458 00:32:00.599 --> 00:32:04.279 He's rolled it up, thinking I'm just gonna say this and then I will 459 00:32:04.319 --> 00:32:07.720 do a bog standard voice, just like I did in the Lego movie, 460 00:32:07.720 --> 00:32:13.519 and it would be absolutely fine. But it's it's not. People in chat 461 00:32:13.559 --> 00:32:16.640 are now asking me to do voices. Can do Marcus Phoenix down in front? 462 00:32:17.880 --> 00:32:22.640 There you go, who wants toast? I like it crispy? Remember 463 00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:29.720 that scene? I could do any video game voice. Oh no, I 464 00:32:29.759 --> 00:32:31.680 can't do. I can do Ben now, but it's a bit creepy. 465 00:32:32.119 --> 00:32:37.640 Fair enough, We'll save that for the premium subscribers. Don't worry every yeah, 466 00:32:37.640 --> 00:32:42.720 exactly. People are like, I want toast. People don't remember there's 467 00:32:42.759 --> 00:32:46.319 a there's an Easter egg in Gears too. I think it is where there's 468 00:32:46.359 --> 00:32:50.839 just this like toaster in the middle of nowhere, and if you shoot it 469 00:32:50.880 --> 00:32:54.440 for a really long time, it like toasts some bread and it burns and 470 00:32:54.480 --> 00:32:59.119 then it pops out, and then Marcus goes, who wants toast? And 471 00:32:59.160 --> 00:33:01.519 then what's his name? Don goes, I like it crispy, and then 472 00:33:01.559 --> 00:33:06.160 Marcus goes, I like it crispy on the outside, and then they just 473 00:33:06.240 --> 00:33:12.799 carry on with I'm like, this is so weird. That's my favorite Gears 474 00:33:12.839 --> 00:33:15.480 of War moment, but that you probably think about that moment very frequently. 475 00:33:15.480 --> 00:33:17.559 And then if someone were like, we're going to turn that toast scene into 476 00:33:17.559 --> 00:33:23.920 a movie, I have opinions on this. So yeah, it's I think 477 00:33:24.240 --> 00:33:29.200 the voice is going to be just absolutely normal. It's just gonna be he's 478 00:33:29.200 --> 00:33:31.799 gonna be slightly gruffer, and he'll just be like, Hey, my name's 479 00:33:31.839 --> 00:33:37.599 Mario, I'm walking here, watch out from my Yeah, that kind of 480 00:33:37.599 --> 00:33:40.880 stuff, and and like people will be like, all right, fair enough. 481 00:33:40.920 --> 00:33:45.359 I think what's happened here is like a just a a misunderstanding of how 482 00:33:45.400 --> 00:33:52.160 to how to pr and market to video game fans, and that's what has 483 00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:54.640 happened here, and people are losing their mind because of it. And my 484 00:33:54.720 --> 00:34:00.000 hope is I'm in the Dan rache at school. I hope it's a catastrophe 485 00:34:00.400 --> 00:34:05.519 movie in every conceivable way, is a nightmare healthscape, sure, but I 486 00:34:05.279 --> 00:34:07.240 think I don't think so. I think it's just going to be fine. 487 00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:08.639 It will be It's going to be super fine. It's where I'm at. 488 00:34:08.840 --> 00:34:12.960 That's that's the reality of like where did this movie? Just like there's too 489 00:34:13.039 --> 00:34:15.599 much involvement from Nintendo there's too much. Like there's a huge partnership on the 490 00:34:15.639 --> 00:34:20.840 line between Illumination and Nintendo, where like, if this goes well, Illumination 491 00:34:20.920 --> 00:34:23.559 has huge ip to draw on for years to come. They're not gonna mess 492 00:34:23.559 --> 00:34:28.320 that up, and they would rather put out something sort of mediocre than put 493 00:34:28.360 --> 00:34:31.960 out something as a disaster and takes. We did a live game spot Off 494 00:34:31.960 --> 00:34:35.719 the Dark for the first time yesterday, and we discussed the same story, 495 00:34:35.840 --> 00:34:39.920 and I came up with the idea of them doing the Mario Cinematic Universe, 496 00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:45.119 and they treat Warrior in the same way that they treated Thanos, where he 497 00:34:45.159 --> 00:34:50.360 appears at the end of every movie just kind of like sitting there and then 498 00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:53.119 eventually he's like, fine, I will do it myself. And then he 499 00:34:53.239 --> 00:34:57.519 like gets up out of it and it gets up and he's like that, 500 00:34:57.639 --> 00:35:00.480 and then it cuts to later on and he's like sitting there and he goes, 501 00:35:00.800 --> 00:35:05.559 you should have aimed for the hand. He clicks, He clicks, 502 00:35:05.599 --> 00:35:08.679 and everyone's money disappears. Oh my god. And then that's it. That's 503 00:35:08.719 --> 00:35:14.119 perfect. Yes, I always thought like they'll do the Smash Brother Invite thing. 504 00:35:14.159 --> 00:35:19.119 That's way better. Tam Tam. That's the way about it. That's 505 00:35:19.119 --> 00:35:22.599 what I want from the Mario movie. That's what I want now as well. 506 00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:25.079 Perfect. All right, let's move on. We've done Mario news. 507 00:35:25.079 --> 00:35:30.039 Now it's time for the Sonic news of the day. Sonic remaster developer says 508 00:35:30.039 --> 00:35:34.719 he's very unhappy about the state of Sonic Origins. This is by Chris Scullion 509 00:35:34.800 --> 00:35:38.519 at VGC. The Sonic CD remaster was originally developed by Christian Whitehead using his 510 00:35:38.599 --> 00:35:43.840 Retro engine, while Sonic one and two were developed by Whitehead and Headcannon Games. 511 00:35:44.159 --> 00:35:46.559 Headcannon then confirmed in April that it had remasters Sonic three and Knuckles for 512 00:35:46.599 --> 00:35:52.159 the upcoming Sonic Origins. However, Sonic Origins itself was developed and compiled in 513 00:35:52.239 --> 00:35:57.559 house at Sega using the Remasters and Headcannon developers. Simon Thomley aka Stealth is 514 00:35:57.599 --> 00:36:01.400 not happy with the finished product. Project or this is frustratingly said in a 515 00:36:01.400 --> 00:36:05.079 Twitter thread. I won't lie and say that there weren't issues and what we 516 00:36:05.119 --> 00:36:07.079 gave to Sega, but what is in Origins is also now. What we 517 00:36:07.159 --> 00:36:12.960 turned in integration introduced some wild bugs that conventional logic would have one would have 518 00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:17.519 one belief where our responsibility a lot of them aren't, I'll say to him, 519 00:36:17.639 --> 00:36:21.599 mostly, I haven't heard too many concerns about bugs. I think, 520 00:36:22.079 --> 00:36:27.360 to me, this sounds like a developer who sees all of the problems and 521 00:36:27.480 --> 00:36:30.119 like they stand out to them so much that they can't help but notice them. 522 00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:34.440 But but even even still, I'm sure this is frustrating. If you 523 00:36:34.519 --> 00:36:37.280 turned in one thing and then you like give it the Sega and they, 524 00:36:37.480 --> 00:36:40.440 you know whatever, they don't treat it with the responsibility that you think it 525 00:36:40.480 --> 00:36:43.960 deserves, that's got to be a little bit frustrated. But I haven't heard 526 00:36:44.000 --> 00:36:46.199 too many people being too concerned about like the performance in these games, at 527 00:36:46.239 --> 00:36:49.960 least as far as I'm aware. Yeah, I mean I think it is. 528 00:36:51.000 --> 00:36:53.159 I think it is. I can understand the impulse to do this from 529 00:36:53.199 --> 00:36:59.000 this team, especially Christian Whitehead and the team that I've worked on it, 530 00:36:59.039 --> 00:37:05.519 because let's be honest, Sega is not good at making sonic games. Like 531 00:37:05.760 --> 00:37:09.119 I'm gonna I'm gonna just gonna be plain and forth right, here's my create 532 00:37:09.159 --> 00:37:13.239 credentials. I grew up a Sega kid. I love Sonic. I was 533 00:37:13.280 --> 00:37:16.159 Sonic over Mario every single time, or Mario, as I used to call 534 00:37:16.239 --> 00:37:21.119 him, I would call him. I love that character. I love those 535 00:37:21.159 --> 00:37:23.840 games. I do not think Sega is capable of making a good Sonic game 536 00:37:25.159 --> 00:37:30.880 wrong and the thing is whatever, But yes, I think I agree. 537 00:37:30.480 --> 00:37:36.559 In that world, Christian Whitehead came and the team came along and made the 538 00:37:36.559 --> 00:37:42.280 best Sonic games in literally years like Sonic many favorite credible. Yeah, it's 539 00:37:42.320 --> 00:37:46.719 it's incredible. And what happened there is now you have basically the fan base. 540 00:37:47.079 --> 00:37:50.920 You've you've asserted yourself as the Sonic team, like you are better than 541 00:37:51.000 --> 00:37:54.320 the Sonic team, and that's gives you credibility, and it gives you credentials, 542 00:37:54.760 --> 00:37:59.320 and you, I imagine Christian white is like, I'm going to protect 543 00:37:59.320 --> 00:38:01.800 this because I've just shown the world that and he's a Sonic fan and they're 544 00:38:01.840 --> 00:38:06.760 a Sonic fan. So it's like I've just shown the world that I'm capable 545 00:38:06.800 --> 00:38:09.760 of doing this and I've been and the world has like replied by saying, 546 00:38:09.920 --> 00:38:13.639 you are. You've made the best Sonic game in a little really long time. 547 00:38:14.039 --> 00:38:16.679 And now they're working on this new Sonic Origins thing. They go back 548 00:38:16.719 --> 00:38:21.239 to the roots and they do all this work to make the game, make 549 00:38:21.280 --> 00:38:24.440 the games awesome again and playable. They give it to Sega. Sega does 550 00:38:24.760 --> 00:38:30.639 their boondoggle shit and it goes out there with Christian Whitehead and team's name on 551 00:38:30.679 --> 00:38:35.280 it. And now that that's their reputation tarnished because from their perspective, they 552 00:38:35.320 --> 00:38:38.599 probably did. What they gave over was like this is this is in line 553 00:38:38.639 --> 00:38:44.679 with what people expect from us as the people who made the Sonic Mania game. 554 00:38:45.440 --> 00:38:49.159 And then Sega comes along and just like Freddy Krueger Glove hands it and 555 00:38:50.119 --> 00:38:52.239 puts it out there, and there's no context around that, right, people 556 00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:54.320 are just going to be like, oh, I guess, I guess that 557 00:38:54.360 --> 00:39:00.599 team isn't as good as making Sonic games as we thought, which isn't the 558 00:39:00.599 --> 00:39:02.079 case, Like it was the Segast part. So the fact that they came 559 00:39:02.079 --> 00:39:05.800 out and were like, hey, we did some good ship here. We 560 00:39:06.039 --> 00:39:09.400 put in the work to try and make this awesome and and and like this 561 00:39:09.480 --> 00:39:15.519 was an our fault. It makes perfect perfect sense and the frustration is warranted, 562 00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:19.920 and it's interesting. I feel like like the fact that they have had 563 00:39:19.960 --> 00:39:23.320 to come out there and say this kind of jeopardize is their future as in 564 00:39:23.400 --> 00:39:28.400 making Sonic Tea and Sonic games, But I don't know, man, Like 565 00:39:28.519 --> 00:39:31.639 it's it's I'm like, I've reached I passed the point of being sad about 566 00:39:31.719 --> 00:39:36.880 Sonic, and I'm just ambivalent about it now where I'm like I saw Frontiers 567 00:39:36.960 --> 00:39:42.920 and I was like, I was just like that, it's just absolutely pathetic 568 00:39:43.039 --> 00:39:46.119 and and like maybe that game will be will be good, Like there's parts 569 00:39:46.159 --> 00:39:50.199 of the game that looked good. There's elements of it that looked good. 570 00:39:50.400 --> 00:39:53.760 But the thing I was laughing at was just the utter disrespect that Sega and 571 00:39:53.840 --> 00:39:59.480 contempt that Sega has for Sonic. You don't. It's like it is fumbling 572 00:39:59.519 --> 00:40:01.920 in the dark for trying to figure out what Sonic could be. And it's 573 00:40:02.360 --> 00:40:06.719 like throwing the dart and it lands on open world game and they're like, 574 00:40:06.760 --> 00:40:08.039 well, I guess that's what we're doing. It doesn't come from it where 575 00:40:08.840 --> 00:40:13.559 from some deep seated need to make a Sonic game. It's just no ethnic 576 00:40:13.639 --> 00:40:15.760 one. Yeah, here's my thinking, okay, And this is what I 577 00:40:15.760 --> 00:40:22.519 would ask Sonic fans Sonic right now, since the since the early days of 578 00:40:22.719 --> 00:40:27.719 Mega Drive Genesis, where let's say that those days where he was block processing 579 00:40:27.719 --> 00:40:32.320 and doing what Ninten don't like that was the peak of Sonic. Since that 580 00:40:32.440 --> 00:40:37.599 time, never has been has Sonic been as popular as he is right now 581 00:40:38.039 --> 00:40:45.519 with two hit movies literally like Hollywood, like blockbuster movies. If Sega can't 582 00:40:45.639 --> 00:40:51.199 get its act together enough to put out a half decent Sonic to get New 583 00:40:51.239 --> 00:40:54.320 Sonic game of its own right now in the height of its popularity and his 584 00:40:54.400 --> 00:40:58.679 popularity, he will They will never be able to do it. It's not 585 00:40:58.719 --> 00:41:01.639 happening. It's not possible. Like they do not give a shit right now. 586 00:41:02.039 --> 00:41:07.519 When let's look at it from a commercial and corporate perspective now is when 587 00:41:07.559 --> 00:41:10.440 you make the money. Baby, every every every kid in the world is 588 00:41:10.440 --> 00:41:17.039 like Sonic is awesome. Like they have to just just squat out something okay, 589 00:41:17.360 --> 00:41:21.400 just okay, and you'll be fine. They can't do it. It's 590 00:41:21.400 --> 00:41:24.039 not possible. They can do it in like in terms of like comics, 591 00:41:24.440 --> 00:41:28.440 the comics are doing good, they can do it. In terms of animated 592 00:41:28.480 --> 00:41:31.440 shows like the Animated show. They know how to make the character appealing and 593 00:41:31.480 --> 00:41:37.400 cool, and they have the right the people they partner with. But like 594 00:41:37.519 --> 00:41:39.599 they have the Pokemon Company side of things where it's like, hey, we 595 00:41:39.639 --> 00:41:44.320 know how to license this thing out and put it in on products and stuff 596 00:41:44.360 --> 00:41:46.519 like that. And we have the older fans who are still obsessed, and 597 00:41:46.519 --> 00:41:50.519 then there's new generations like all that stuff is working for them. It's really 598 00:41:50.559 --> 00:41:52.519 just the games that continue, the games the games that like and like I 599 00:41:52.559 --> 00:41:57.800 said, Frontier could be good, Like if they delay it and and and 600 00:41:57.840 --> 00:42:00.519 they and they work on it a bit more, it could be good. 601 00:42:00.559 --> 00:42:07.079 The problem is they are still out there showing dogshit to people and be like 602 00:42:07.400 --> 00:42:10.559 ah, and it's like, if you cared about this character, you wouldn't 603 00:42:10.559 --> 00:42:15.000 be showing this. Why are you doing this? Like you've just shot yourself 604 00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:19.360 in the foot and made the process of making this game and marketing this game 605 00:42:19.880 --> 00:42:22.559 harder for yourself. Why did you do that? Like, there's elements of 606 00:42:22.599 --> 00:42:27.159 Sonic Frontiers that I genuinely think could be something. It feels like if they 607 00:42:27.159 --> 00:42:29.519 sit down and put it in the oven and really think about it could be 608 00:42:29.559 --> 00:42:34.000 something. But now they have to convince people. They have to undo what 609 00:42:34.039 --> 00:42:37.440 they've shown people before they can pitch them on, hey, this is actually 610 00:42:37.440 --> 00:42:42.800 a good game. Like they're perpetuating, perpetuating the Sonic cycle themselves. It's 611 00:42:42.800 --> 00:42:45.159 just like, why why you like this? Man, like people really care 612 00:42:45.199 --> 00:42:49.159 about this character. I mean, like I've reached the point where I can't 613 00:42:49.159 --> 00:42:53.119 care about the character anymore because for my own mental health. But like, 614 00:42:53.320 --> 00:42:59.960 damn stop. Square Enix wants to develop story focused NFTs is by Jordan Miller 615 00:43:00.199 --> 00:43:04.760 VGC, according to the company twenty to the company's twenty twenty two shareholders meeting 616 00:43:04.840 --> 00:43:09.119 report, as reported by Michuzuki, it plans to continue to integrate blockchain technology 617 00:43:09.159 --> 00:43:14.119 into game development. As revealed in the report, the company's medium term goals 618 00:43:14.159 --> 00:43:19.679 include the development of blockchain games and entertainment products. However, when discussing how 619 00:43:19.679 --> 00:43:23.679 the blockchain would impact the company's biggest franchise, Square Nix president Yozuki Matsuda said, 620 00:43:23.719 --> 00:43:27.800 and apparently it was smart enough to say this, it's still too early 621 00:43:27.840 --> 00:43:31.519 to consider making dragon quests and final Fantasy blockchain games, which to that I 622 00:43:31.599 --> 00:43:35.599 say, no, no shit, no shit, Like, why are you 623 00:43:35.920 --> 00:43:38.239 to me it's worth than that that even needs to be said, that you 624 00:43:38.280 --> 00:43:42.599 even need to say, like it's just too early to do a final fantasy 625 00:43:42.599 --> 00:43:46.920 blockchain game. Well, they're saying. What this Square is saying is, 626 00:43:46.960 --> 00:43:52.679 hey, we're not sure that NFTs are dead yet. We're just going when 627 00:43:53.159 --> 00:43:58.719 we're gonna say when we're interested in making it so that the shareholders look at 628 00:43:58.760 --> 00:44:00.239 this and go, Okay, they are on top of this NFT thing. 629 00:44:00.800 --> 00:44:05.119 And then when they say when it's too early for us to make any final 630 00:44:05.199 --> 00:44:08.960 fantasy or dragon quest things, that's saying them saying we're not gonna drop. 631 00:44:09.360 --> 00:44:15.039 We're not going to start shoving this ship into our own our real money makers. 632 00:44:15.199 --> 00:44:17.760 I'm hopeful let's get But this is the company that, for the basically 633 00:44:17.840 --> 00:44:22.960 their Christmas card wrote out to investors into everybody to the world, we are 634 00:44:22.079 --> 00:44:24.880 like, we believe in NFTs, and like the CEO like wrote that and 635 00:44:24.920 --> 00:44:30.360 like dude was pushing in himself. The thing about NFTs is everyone fucking believes 636 00:44:30.360 --> 00:44:32.519 in them. If you you have to believe in if you like, that's 637 00:44:32.559 --> 00:44:36.760 the it's it's fucking snake oil. The only way you sell snake oil is 638 00:44:36.760 --> 00:44:39.199 by saying you believe in the snake oil. And that's that's how it works. 639 00:44:39.239 --> 00:44:43.880 And every company is currently do this unless you're a douchebro on Twitter who's 640 00:44:43.920 --> 00:44:51.119 actively engaged in this kind of like blockchain shit and or like I dislike NFTs 641 00:44:51.159 --> 00:44:53.679 in a way that I cannot, But I also recognize that they are good 642 00:44:53.960 --> 00:44:58.079 like for certain people like artists have made a living off for them, and 643 00:44:58.079 --> 00:45:01.320 I respect that. I love that small businesses making like NFT is good, 644 00:45:01.360 --> 00:45:05.360 good on you whatever. I don't care when you get corporations coming along. 645 00:45:05.440 --> 00:45:08.800 Every corporation is saying. What they're saying is they're basically towing the lying, 646 00:45:08.880 --> 00:45:14.079 hedging their bits. They say, hey, we're gonna do this because that 647 00:45:14.199 --> 00:45:19.119 helps you know, the shareholders and it makes it look like, you know, 648 00:45:19.159 --> 00:45:22.599 they're on top of this ship. But they never commit. They just 649 00:45:22.639 --> 00:45:23.920 say like, oh, we're not gonna, We're not gonna. They're just 650 00:45:23.960 --> 00:45:25.960 like they're just like yeah, yeah, yeah, I care about this up 651 00:45:27.039 --> 00:45:30.039 until up until they then it's clear whether it's going to happen or not. 652 00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:34.239 Like right now, they're sitting on a fence with this. That's what every 653 00:45:34.239 --> 00:45:37.199 company is doing. Every company was doing that. Now they've all shut the 654 00:45:37.239 --> 00:45:40.960 fuck up. They've all mentioned it. Yes, this is the one company 655 00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:44.400 that keeps bringing it up. That's why I'm worried. And then I mean, 656 00:45:44.440 --> 00:45:47.679 on top of that, this is a company like they have a successful 657 00:45:47.719 --> 00:45:51.039 game that they could be like hey, Final Fantasy four team, we're doubling 658 00:45:51.079 --> 00:45:52.599 down on that. Here's some other stuff. And every time, like they 659 00:45:52.599 --> 00:45:55.440 get there's an opportunity to bring out a NFTs, they still bring out, 660 00:45:55.519 --> 00:45:59.800 you know, and the way they speak about it is they sound like, 661 00:46:00.039 --> 00:46:02.079 I think this is what investors want to hear, And I don't even know 662 00:46:02.079 --> 00:46:05.960 if investors want to hear this anymore because investors are more tuned in the effect 663 00:46:05.960 --> 00:46:08.480 that like cryptos crashing at the moment, and so the fact that Squen still 664 00:46:08.559 --> 00:46:13.559 keeps coming out and talking about this is very confusing to me. It's like 665 00:46:13.679 --> 00:46:19.639 the news about crypto crashing is taking very long to like actually spread to the 666 00:46:19.639 --> 00:46:22.000 people that yes, that's probably not all communicating to us. Like you still 667 00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:25.159 get celebrities coming out and being like, hey, I've got an NFT, 668 00:46:25.639 --> 00:46:30.480 and meanwhile the NFT bros are like someone stolen my monkeys and I can't get 669 00:46:30.519 --> 00:46:34.360 them back. Like there's still a disconnect between that where it will take a 670 00:46:34.360 --> 00:46:37.760 little while for it to go down the various pipelines marketing and that kind of 671 00:46:37.800 --> 00:46:40.719 stuff. But like, here's the thing. If Squareness gave a ship and 672 00:46:40.840 --> 00:46:45.239 was actually intended intended to do it, they would they would put that ship 673 00:46:45.320 --> 00:46:47.119 in a Final Fantasy or fourteen right now, like it would be in there 674 00:46:47.159 --> 00:46:52.079 already, because this their most successful game is the most like it's their most 675 00:46:52.400 --> 00:46:55.119 their biggest money maker. If they gave a shit, if they actually wanted 676 00:46:55.159 --> 00:46:58.880 to make money off of this, there would be at least one NFT in 677 00:46:59.079 --> 00:47:01.880 Final Fantasy the memo right now, there isn't. They're just sitting around until 678 00:47:01.880 --> 00:47:06.719 they're one hundred percent sure that they can stop saying that we care about NFTs 679 00:47:07.639 --> 00:47:13.559 without facing any kind of like stock repercussions or shareholder repercussions, because right now, 680 00:47:13.599 --> 00:47:15.960 no one is willing to say, actually, this ship is dead, 681 00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:19.079 We're fucking done with it. Everyone's just kind of being like, yeah, 682 00:47:19.119 --> 00:47:22.360 well, we're investigating, we're looking at it. And also I think Screennix 683 00:47:22.480 --> 00:47:27.480 is probably looking at others doing it and just seeing like Ubusoft were like, 684 00:47:27.480 --> 00:47:30.800 we're doing NFTs and everyone went what you're doing what? And then Ubusoft not 685 00:47:30.840 --> 00:47:36.360 only like got media backlash, they just like absolutely fled flubbed it, and 686 00:47:36.400 --> 00:47:39.920 it's like no one wants this. Okay, You've been very insightful on this 687 00:47:39.960 --> 00:47:44.000 topic. The only thing some people are going to hear is that one those 688 00:47:44.039 --> 00:47:47.199 three words we said, for some people, NFTs are good. I'll just 689 00:47:47.760 --> 00:47:52.239 I'll say like for that, like even when some people have made money, 690 00:47:52.639 --> 00:47:54.400 you could tell that, like they know that the stuff is going to crumble 691 00:47:54.440 --> 00:47:58.719 and it's going to be like this pyramid scheme. And I know you understand 692 00:47:58.760 --> 00:48:00.840 that, but people are here that you know that. No, no, 693 00:48:00.840 --> 00:48:05.039 no, no. I know artists that were struggling and they were like, 694 00:48:05.239 --> 00:48:08.320 I'm gonna make a couple of these fucking NFTs and then I'm good. Maybe 695 00:48:08.719 --> 00:48:13.880 people made some money, honestly if you're doing that, And like I know 696 00:48:14.199 --> 00:48:16.119 artists that did that, and the important thing is they're not peddling it. 697 00:48:16.400 --> 00:48:21.000 They did the thing. They sold. They sold that art to some dickhead 698 00:48:21.079 --> 00:48:22.239 who paid a lot of money, and they were like, I'm done. 699 00:48:22.400 --> 00:48:27.440 I I'm not hitting anyone. I'm not touching anyone else. I'm out of 700 00:48:27.480 --> 00:48:31.239 this. And like fair play if you if you use someone's stupidity to like 701 00:48:31.480 --> 00:48:36.079 make money, if you use an NFT post to make money, yeah, 702 00:48:36.599 --> 00:48:38.800 get the bag, exactly. Get And it's like these are people whose art 703 00:48:38.840 --> 00:48:44.760 has probably been repurposed and reused for free on the internet for literally decades. 704 00:48:45.079 --> 00:48:47.000 Finally finding someone that will give them a pay day. I get what you're 705 00:48:47.000 --> 00:48:52.800 saying. Uh yeah, all right. Halo Master Chief Collection cosmetic micro transactions 706 00:48:52.840 --> 00:48:55.599 being explored by three four three. This comes from Darren bomb Fused. How 707 00:48:55.599 --> 00:48:59.320 do I say bomb? Thus? Is that right? I think it's BUNTHEUS 708 00:49:00.519 --> 00:49:04.119 okay. At game spot, three four three Industries is confirmed that is exploring 709 00:49:04.199 --> 00:49:08.239 the idea of adding micro transactions to Halo the Master Chief Collection, and an 710 00:49:08.320 --> 00:49:13.519 update on the Waypoint site, community writer Alex Wakeford explain that three four three 711 00:49:13.519 --> 00:49:16.719 will be renaming season points as Spartan Points and is looking into adding a new 712 00:49:16.719 --> 00:49:21.320 form of micro transactions. Now there's some more details here, but like the 713 00:49:21.360 --> 00:49:25.559 real quick points are they are exploring this. They are going to keep all 714 00:49:25.639 --> 00:49:29.199 of the play to earn stuff, not not that kind of play to earn, 715 00:49:29.239 --> 00:49:31.559 but like play to like actually unlock stuff in the game. They're just 716 00:49:31.599 --> 00:49:37.360 going to introduce stuff that might be able to shorten that time for people who 717 00:49:37.480 --> 00:49:39.920 just want to pay for things. To me, this is strange because this 718 00:49:39.960 --> 00:49:45.000 is the Master Chief Collection, a much older game. I don't know what's 719 00:49:45.039 --> 00:49:47.480 your knee jerk reaction to this. Dam well, my knee Jack reaction is 720 00:49:47.679 --> 00:49:52.480 like why yeah, Like what again, it's like taking it's a it's a 721 00:49:52.920 --> 00:49:57.480 it's a it's taking an l for no reason, Like why are you doing 722 00:49:57.519 --> 00:50:00.119 this? Like if this had been there from the outset, you would have 723 00:50:00.119 --> 00:50:07.360 got backlash, right and like master Chief Collection it start. Let's not forget 724 00:50:07.400 --> 00:50:10.480 the journey of that game. It was. It was busted for a really 725 00:50:10.519 --> 00:50:14.639 long time, like and and now it's got to a position where it kind 726 00:50:14.639 --> 00:50:19.239 of works, is fine? If that had if they had micro transactions from 727 00:50:19.239 --> 00:50:21.880 the outset, it would have been part of the story and people would have 728 00:50:21.920 --> 00:50:25.519 been okay with it. Retroactively going back and shoving in more micro transactions and 729 00:50:25.559 --> 00:50:30.239 extracurrency into a game that didn't have it. What what what do you think 730 00:50:30.320 --> 00:50:32.440 is going to happen there? I can tell you what's going to happen. 731 00:50:32.480 --> 00:50:37.519 You've just created a lightning rod for people to moan about. And like you've 732 00:50:37.559 --> 00:50:40.079 just created a lightning rod for bad pry. It makes no sense too, 733 00:50:40.159 --> 00:50:43.800 right, Like where people are like worry about the Halo Inth and it's future 734 00:50:43.960 --> 00:50:46.159 is this, Like are you doing this because that's now that doesn't have a 735 00:50:46.199 --> 00:50:50.199 future and you're already going back to master Chief collection, and is this going 736 00:50:50.239 --> 00:50:52.039 to be your solution for all your problems? Is, well, we have 737 00:50:52.039 --> 00:50:57.000 to figure out our future, so we're adding micro transactions. Congratulations everybody. 738 00:50:57.039 --> 00:51:00.280 Now, yeah, the thing is too bad, but it's it's very easy 739 00:51:00.320 --> 00:51:04.360 to read into it all your anxieties that you might have as a Halo fan. 740 00:51:05.079 --> 00:51:07.079 Yeah, it's like it looks like it's gonna have nothing. It's not 741 00:51:07.119 --> 00:51:09.800 going to really have any major impact on the game. Like it's there as 742 00:51:09.840 --> 00:51:14.440 an option for people. Anyone who doesn't want it doesn't You can just ignore 743 00:51:14.480 --> 00:51:16.840 it and continue to play the game. But like, again, we live 744 00:51:16.880 --> 00:51:22.280 in a world where you've given people a bad talking point, and like, 745 00:51:22.119 --> 00:51:29.400 and is that worth it considering that your other mainline Halo game isn't doing great, 746 00:51:29.480 --> 00:51:32.639 Like it's not. It had a moment, but like you drop the 747 00:51:32.679 --> 00:51:36.360 ball on that, and like it's not. You're not winning the hearts and 748 00:51:36.440 --> 00:51:39.079 minds of that of the of the fan base or even gamers at large. 749 00:51:39.480 --> 00:51:44.920 So the fact that you're adding to that kind of adding another drop of poison 750 00:51:45.000 --> 00:51:47.400 to the well, Like, why are you doing that voluntarily? It makes 751 00:51:47.480 --> 00:51:53.760 no sense. It's like an unforced error, and like it's just it okay, 752 00:51:53.920 --> 00:51:57.400 Like, hopefully you make some money out of it, but I hope 753 00:51:57.440 --> 00:52:00.800 that that risk is calculated and enough to to offset the fact that people are 754 00:52:00.840 --> 00:52:05.079 going to have a big old moan about this, that you're going to be 755 00:52:05.679 --> 00:52:09.199 maybe trending on Twitter for a while and people are probably going to think lesser 756 00:52:09.320 --> 00:52:14.559 of the Halo property as a whole. Yeah, I don't I don't understand. 757 00:52:14.639 --> 00:52:17.199 Also, like it does it make sense for that kind of game, 758 00:52:17.480 --> 00:52:22.159 like as master Chief collection changed in a way that I just didn't understand. 759 00:52:22.239 --> 00:52:24.760 I thought it was just a collection of all the Halo games like work of 760 00:52:24.760 --> 00:52:28.960 like unlockable cosmetics and stuff like that, for sure, And I think they 761 00:52:28.960 --> 00:52:31.320 have they have seasons. Clearly they have seasons, so like there must be 762 00:52:31.360 --> 00:52:34.960 stuff that you can unlock in there. I just I don't understand either. 763 00:52:35.079 --> 00:52:37.079 Really. Maybe maybe like I'm being like, oh, well back in my 764 00:52:37.239 --> 00:52:40.320 day, but like remember when it got like two, there was a point 765 00:52:40.360 --> 00:52:44.400 where a game would come out and people would like release content for it, 766 00:52:44.719 --> 00:52:47.559 and then after a few years when the game was like kind of not like 767 00:52:47.760 --> 00:52:52.039 actively in discussion and was like out of the spotlight, people would be like, 768 00:52:52.559 --> 00:52:54.559 hey, we're just gonna unlock all the content right, like you can 769 00:52:54.599 --> 00:52:58.400 just you can just play everything now, like we're done with it. We're 770 00:52:58.400 --> 00:53:00.119 gonna move on sure, and to kind of like give it a good send 771 00:53:00.119 --> 00:53:04.760 off. Everyone can have everything all the time now if you if you paid 772 00:53:04.760 --> 00:53:07.639 for stuff, has a couple of extra things that will remain exclusive to you, 773 00:53:07.960 --> 00:53:09.519 but like we're done with it, and has all the good ship they 774 00:53:09.559 --> 00:53:12.480 used to be. There were a few games where they did that stuff and 775 00:53:12.480 --> 00:53:14.840 it was like, oh, that's nice, that's cool. Yeah, and 776 00:53:14.920 --> 00:53:15.840 that was a nice thing to do. Now it's like, no, how 777 00:53:15.880 --> 00:53:19.800 can we I can really get some blood out of the stone. Let's just 778 00:53:19.840 --> 00:53:23.360 say, come on, I got some retro scene drama to report. Community 779 00:53:23.400 --> 00:53:29.280 developers are upset that God has replaced their version of Blade Runner. This is 780 00:53:29.320 --> 00:53:34.360 Thomas fah Patterson, who tweeted the following. Over a number of years, 781 00:53:34.440 --> 00:53:38.559 I along with friends lovingly reverse engineered Westwood's Blade Runner for Scum VM, which 782 00:53:38.599 --> 00:53:42.960 is love the emulator of playing old scum games, reviving the game, and 783 00:53:43.000 --> 00:53:45.760 helping God to release the game for sale once again. For this, we 784 00:53:45.800 --> 00:53:51.159 have asked for and received nothing but the honor of the work. Now at 785 00:53:51.280 --> 00:53:54.519 Nightdive Studios has released their enhanced version. It is by all accounts, and 786 00:53:54.480 --> 00:53:58.360 there's a link to a Rock Paper Shotgun article that you tell some of these 787 00:53:58.360 --> 00:54:02.280 bugs. It is ugly and bug and offers no tangible benefits over SCUMVM aside 788 00:54:02.320 --> 00:54:07.400 from very poor console support. They even forgot to credit me for the subtitles 789 00:54:07.400 --> 00:54:10.559 that we let them use. That's disappointing, but hardly surprising. This would 790 00:54:10.559 --> 00:54:15.920 all be fine in quotes if Gog hadn't decided to replace our version of Blade 791 00:54:16.000 --> 00:54:22.000 Runner with this so called enhanced edition, now offering the scum VM only original 792 00:54:22.320 --> 00:54:25.079 only as an add on for this new enhanced edition. So sadly, it 793 00:54:25.159 --> 00:54:29.360 is now no longer possible to purchase and play a digital copy of Blade Runner 794 00:54:29.360 --> 00:54:34.039 and scum VM without sending money to Nightdive Studio. I'm sad to see gog 795 00:54:34.119 --> 00:54:38.159 dot com relate relegate our free work to a mere attachment on somebody else's mediocre, 796 00:54:38.199 --> 00:54:43.880 paid product. Again, this is to me. This feels like a 797 00:54:43.920 --> 00:54:46.840 developer taking ownership of something that they saw being abandoned for a very long time 798 00:54:47.239 --> 00:54:52.760 and feeling that when people now have to go when they ask them about this 799 00:54:52.800 --> 00:54:54.159 game, Hey didn't you do all this, where can I get that to 800 00:54:54.280 --> 00:54:58.320 the point to this thing that is inferior and then explain while you could still 801 00:54:58.320 --> 00:55:00.239 get it, but you have to give this other company money. Yeah, 802 00:55:00.320 --> 00:55:02.920 it's the kind of thing that can happen when like you are working on someone 803 00:55:02.920 --> 00:55:07.760 else's IP. But it also just feels bad. It feels bad to me. 804 00:55:07.199 --> 00:55:10.199 Yeah. Again, it's the same situation as Sonic origins in a Christian 805 00:55:10.199 --> 00:55:14.280 whitehead, Like a developer put their heart and soul into something and prove that 806 00:55:14.320 --> 00:55:17.880 they love it and and and like did it for the passion of the work, 807 00:55:17.960 --> 00:55:22.400 and then a company came along and screwed it up and left them to 808 00:55:22.480 --> 00:55:25.880 kind of deal with the aftermath of it, which sucks. But yeah, 809 00:55:25.920 --> 00:55:30.000 I mean, like it's just such a shame. And it's kind of surprising 810 00:55:30.039 --> 00:55:32.280 from Night Dive. Like I don't know too much about Night Dive, but 811 00:55:32.320 --> 00:55:36.880 they seem to be not being weird about most things. They seem to be 812 00:55:37.119 --> 00:55:38.840 good. Yeah, they seem to be like they have their heart in the 813 00:55:38.920 --> 00:55:42.960 right place. They want to bring back old games and and and like you 814 00:55:43.000 --> 00:55:45.679 know try and you know, put them in front of new people in a 815 00:55:45.719 --> 00:55:52.159 way that's convenient and maybe create some new games in love franchises along the way. 816 00:55:52.360 --> 00:55:54.239 So this feels like a fuck up where it's like, why you've just 817 00:55:54.519 --> 00:56:00.400 you've done the opposite of what you're trying to be known for doing. This 818 00:56:00.599 --> 00:56:04.239 hurts your cause and you're kind of like you're credo in a big way. 819 00:56:05.239 --> 00:56:07.920 With any luck, they're like self aware enough to see it and be like, 820 00:56:07.960 --> 00:56:12.280 oh, we should fix this, we should we should like sort this 821 00:56:12.320 --> 00:56:14.920 out, and we've done that in the past with stuff like this, So 822 00:56:15.039 --> 00:56:17.840 I'm hopeful. I guess full disclosure. I consider at least one person who 823 00:56:17.840 --> 00:56:22.000 works at night to have to be a friend, but still they have a 824 00:56:22.000 --> 00:56:23.760 history. I don't think people can look this, look into this themselves of 825 00:56:24.239 --> 00:56:28.719 when games come out and have had issues, especially like even like console versions 826 00:56:28.760 --> 00:56:30.719 that don't run as great, they stick with it and make it better and 827 00:56:30.760 --> 00:56:35.199 better. So I would at least have some hope that that's gonna happen. 828 00:56:35.199 --> 00:56:37.960 That doesn't change the fact that this, uh, the original version should also 829 00:56:38.000 --> 00:56:40.639 still be on sale from this other team that put it out already. It 830 00:56:40.679 --> 00:56:45.239 should just be two separate things. I get that God's worried about probably store 831 00:56:45.239 --> 00:56:49.880 confusion and and things like that. But the people did this work. It 832 00:56:49.880 --> 00:56:52.480 has been it has stood up to you know, the fandom, and they've 833 00:56:52.519 --> 00:56:57.360 been happy with it. They should just leave it up for sale. Yeah, 834 00:56:57.440 --> 00:56:59.760 let's see, oh, go go ahead. Anything else damp. It 835 00:56:59.800 --> 00:57:02.719 was just stop screwing things up on a lot of unforced errors in the industry 836 00:57:02.800 --> 00:57:07.960 right now, just wild, yes, exactly. Let's get to the catch 837 00:57:07.039 --> 00:57:10.440 up. So I had a couple of topics here, let's just we're gonna 838 00:57:10.519 --> 00:57:15.280 let's do this one. The snitch is teasing a God of War Ragnarok news 839 00:57:15.760 --> 00:57:19.440 and coming next week. The snitch has been a leaker who's been putting stuff 840 00:57:19.440 --> 00:57:21.880 out, like about a week before something's going to happen. He'll drop a 841 00:57:21.920 --> 00:57:28.199 tease on Twitter and then and this time it is it is Craate Toes holding 842 00:57:28.199 --> 00:57:31.039 an axe and then numbers one one, one, one zero flash on the 843 00:57:31.079 --> 00:57:36.159 screen. People have taken that to be binary for the number thirty, uh, 844 00:57:36.280 --> 00:57:39.000 implying very likely. And this is in line with the rumblings I've heard, 845 00:57:39.079 --> 00:57:42.239 not being able to hear, I don't hear this firsthand, but the 846 00:57:42.239 --> 00:57:45.800 things I've heard secondhand. For people who seem to know that June thirtieth, 847 00:57:45.880 --> 00:57:50.760 we will probably get a release state for this game, so uh, I 848 00:57:50.760 --> 00:57:52.039 guess you know, Okay, that's cool. What do you do you expect 849 00:57:52.079 --> 00:57:54.679 that to be like a full first party state to play with a bunch of 850 00:57:54.679 --> 00:58:00.960 other announcements. I think that if Sony was smont that would I think if 851 00:58:00.960 --> 00:58:04.079 someone were smart, they would do a big, like a blowout state of 852 00:58:04.079 --> 00:58:08.199 play just focused on God of All Ragnarok. People are excited for it. 853 00:58:08.360 --> 00:58:12.719 People want to know more about it. They've been very quiet about it. 854 00:58:12.960 --> 00:58:15.159 They've been quiet to the point where they've allowed others to kind of take over 855 00:58:15.159 --> 00:58:20.320 the narrative around it, which is pry is something that you never want to 856 00:58:20.320 --> 00:58:22.599 happen. Like people are like, oh, it's delayed. Other people are 857 00:58:22.639 --> 00:58:24.320 like, oh, it's it's being changed, and people are just I've seen 858 00:58:24.320 --> 00:58:29.719 people just making things up, like the dev team like has pivoted and it's 859 00:58:29.840 --> 00:58:32.400 it's a completely different type of games. I've seen people be like I've heard 860 00:58:32.440 --> 00:58:36.039 it's in the final stages of Polish and I'm like, how do you what 861 00:58:36.079 --> 00:58:38.079 are you talking about? Like I work in the industry, and like, 862 00:58:38.119 --> 00:58:42.000 I've never not any of this ship were you were you getting this from? 863 00:58:42.039 --> 00:58:44.760 It's just like random to it, people being like making stuff up. You're 864 00:58:45.159 --> 00:58:47.480 making stuff up time of this game recently, Yeah, and people are so 865 00:58:47.559 --> 00:58:52.239 desperate for any news that that carries, like I mean, it's the puddle, 866 00:58:52.239 --> 00:58:54.320 it's the puddle news thing, It's the yeah, yeah spider Man puddle 867 00:58:54.360 --> 00:58:58.800 news. Were so anxious about this. The puddles are different. I'm going 868 00:58:58.880 --> 00:59:01.320 to freak out. And we never talked about these things ever. Again, 869 00:59:01.480 --> 00:59:04.440 it's going to be the same thing for a lot of stuff with goad a 870 00:59:04.440 --> 00:59:07.559 war here exactly. And I think the way you do that is by coming 871 00:59:07.559 --> 00:59:09.719 out and being like, hey, we've got a ten minute video here where 872 00:59:09.719 --> 00:59:14.920 we're just gonna say everything that needs to be said until later, where it's 873 00:59:14.960 --> 00:59:17.639 like here's a release date, here's what the game is, here's a couple 874 00:59:17.639 --> 00:59:22.639 of new things, here's a story, here's all our special editions. We 875 00:59:22.639 --> 00:59:24.880 will see you on this date later. That's it. And then that is 876 00:59:24.960 --> 00:59:30.360 like anytime someone goes I've heard that Kratos has been taking Rogain and has a 877 00:59:30.400 --> 00:59:32.800 fall ahead of hair now and be like, no, they if you look 878 00:59:32.840 --> 00:59:37.360 back here at this state of play, it's still he's still border as fuck, 879 00:59:37.880 --> 00:59:40.840 and it's like, Okay, cool. He also followed the snitch followed 880 00:59:40.880 --> 00:59:45.360 up that tweet with a gift that said order order, so pre orders also 881 00:59:45.480 --> 00:59:51.000 likely coming. Yeah, I mean like also, like you know, Corey 882 00:59:51.039 --> 00:59:55.559 Barlog has reappeared on Twitter after a lengthy stay away, which is one I'm 883 00:59:55.599 --> 01:00:00.039 grateful for because I'm hope he's doing okay. He's a good fellow, he's 884 01:00:00.079 --> 01:00:02.159 great, like, and I was just like, I hope he's doing it 885 01:00:02.280 --> 01:00:07.000 right wherever he is, and he popped up and he's doing his TS thing 886 01:00:07.039 --> 01:00:10.719 again. I'm like, great, seems like he's doing well, and so 887 01:00:10.760 --> 01:00:15.639 that obviously means his activity around the Golden Wold franchise again. Yeah. That 888 01:00:15.719 --> 01:00:21.360 was similar to h Josh Sawyer, who's the developer of Pentiment, when I 889 01:00:21.440 --> 01:00:22.400 was like, I was like, oh, I heard that games coming later 890 01:00:22.440 --> 01:00:25.039 this year, but I'm like, I don't know. Then I saw Josh 891 01:00:25.079 --> 01:00:29.840 Sawyer pointing posting stuff like oh, I'm like at a bike swap thing, 892 01:00:29.920 --> 01:00:31.079 just drinking a beer on the weekend. I'm like, oh, he's chill. 893 01:00:31.440 --> 01:00:34.800 That game must be actually in a good state right now. And then 894 01:00:34.800 --> 01:00:37.119 of course we saw at eighty three, so I think you're like, you're 895 01:00:37.119 --> 01:00:39.920 onto somethingwhere like Corey Barologue appears, he shows himself like basically playing the game 896 01:00:40.159 --> 01:00:43.559 on Twitter, and then he's just seems to be in a good mood. 897 01:00:43.639 --> 01:00:45.920 So it's like, obviously his executive producer role is like calmed down a little 898 01:00:45.920 --> 01:00:50.800 bit that he can relax on on social media. Yeah, all right, 899 01:00:51.320 --> 01:00:52.679 we had a question for the day yesterday. Let me see him to get 900 01:00:52.679 --> 01:00:59.239 this over here, should Sonic Games be sad? And this is this had 901 01:00:59.239 --> 01:01:01.519 to do with the fact Sonic Frontiers is going to be a sad world that's 902 01:01:01.559 --> 01:01:06.920 going to force him front whether or not he could still be happy. The 903 01:01:07.039 --> 01:01:09.960 results are forty eight point nine percent said yes, fifty one point one percent 904 01:01:10.039 --> 01:01:14.719 said no, and most people said they should be sad, but not on 905 01:01:14.800 --> 01:01:17.039 purpose. That was a lot of that was a bigger students. So, 906 01:01:17.639 --> 01:01:23.159 uh, you know what I would do with Sonic? Uh, let me 907 01:01:23.199 --> 01:01:27.880 find Yeah, So I would. I would if I had, if I 908 01:01:27.920 --> 01:01:30.800 was in charge at Sega, I would just be like, we're gonna find 909 01:01:30.840 --> 01:01:37.000 the perfect person to take Sonic and make like a self aware kind of like 910 01:01:38.119 --> 01:01:43.960 game that really takes into account the journey that Sonic has been through. I 911 01:01:44.000 --> 01:01:47.079 would find Yoko Taro and I would say, can you make Sonic sad? 912 01:01:47.719 --> 01:01:52.679 And Yoko Taro? So I did this tweet Sonic up absolutely. So I 913 01:01:53.480 --> 01:01:57.719 did this tweet a little while ago where I was like, oh, Sonic 914 01:01:57.760 --> 01:02:04.239 Sonic Frontiers, it looks like a game that like is designed to be give 915 01:02:04.280 --> 01:02:10.320 you the same kind of existential crisis as as you get when you see Automata 916 01:02:10.400 --> 01:02:13.480 and people are like, oh, are you saying this is like good like 917 01:02:13.599 --> 01:02:16.519 Neo Automata. I'm saying no. I was like, people, people misinterpret 918 01:02:16.599 --> 01:02:22.159 it. What I was saying is the way I felt profoundly sad while playing 919 01:02:22.480 --> 01:02:27.480 the Automata is how I felt while looking at Sonic Frontiers. And I know 920 01:02:27.559 --> 01:02:30.000 I'm just the more I think about it, I'm like, if we just 921 01:02:30.119 --> 01:02:32.599 let Yoko Taro make a Sonic game where he's like, what the fuck is 922 01:02:32.639 --> 01:02:37.519 my life? Man is spinning out of control? Just let Yoko Taro turn 923 01:02:37.559 --> 01:02:40.400 into the spin like let's just do yeah, Like, let's that would be 924 01:02:40.840 --> 01:02:45.880 so good and like it makes perfect sense because like you have like he'd have 925 01:02:45.920 --> 01:02:50.079 to like talk to like he'd have there would be a chapter where he has 926 01:02:50.119 --> 01:02:53.960 to reckon with the fact that he is into a human girl or like he 927 01:02:54.000 --> 01:02:58.440 wants to shag a human, he would have to like really look at the 928 01:02:58.559 --> 01:03:01.360 darker side of himself with adult Like, all the pieces are in place in 929 01:03:01.400 --> 01:03:07.360 the Sonic universe to make an amazing Yoko Taro game, And if Saga had 930 01:03:07.559 --> 01:03:12.880 any fucking sense in the even an atom of sense in the in the existence, 931 01:03:13.199 --> 01:03:16.079 they wouldn't give that franchise to Yoko Taro and just be like, just 932 01:03:16.119 --> 01:03:21.320 do your weird thing. We want to make people depressed with Sonic, we 933 01:03:21.360 --> 01:03:23.719 want to make them sad, we want to make them upset. Make your 934 01:03:23.760 --> 01:03:27.519 game, and then we would get a Sonic game that is like it would 935 01:03:27.519 --> 01:03:30.920 probably end up looking a lot like Frontier, but it would be like very 936 01:03:30.079 --> 01:03:37.280 very interesting narratively and thematically. Absolutely, let's do another question for Monday, 937 01:03:37.360 --> 01:03:39.719 because it's Friday, we can wrap up the week here. I was trying 938 01:03:39.719 --> 01:03:43.000 to come up with a question for the show and I failed, and I 939 01:03:43.039 --> 01:03:46.760 just I came up with this one. Have you played or do you intend 940 01:03:46.760 --> 01:03:51.559 to play any games through the Netflix app? And I imagine this is gonna 941 01:03:51.559 --> 01:03:53.199 have a pretty small response, so people saying yes, But I kind of 942 01:03:53.199 --> 01:03:57.000 just want to see if that's like a single digit number or like a double 943 01:03:57.039 --> 01:04:00.920 digit number and let's see. Yeah, what do you think I'm I would 944 01:04:00.960 --> 01:04:03.599 love to play. I'm gonna into the breach on there. I'm gonna I'm 945 01:04:03.639 --> 01:04:06.280 gonna try. I honestly like I go where the games are, Like I've 946 01:04:06.280 --> 01:04:10.719 played Stadio games, I've played games. I'll play games anywhere. Like if 947 01:04:10.760 --> 01:04:14.599 you put a game on my microwave, I'll give it a go. I 948 01:04:14.719 --> 01:04:23.320 played the sky Rim game on Alexa stop. But yeah, I would love 949 01:04:23.400 --> 01:04:28.239 to check. I think like Netflix is interesting because they're making some you know, 950 01:04:28.400 --> 01:04:30.480 making plays, like we said, like I want to try into the 951 01:04:30.480 --> 01:04:33.559 breach on there, and if they come up with original games that are cool, 952 01:04:33.599 --> 01:04:36.840 like they bought a bunch of studios that are known for making good games. 953 01:04:38.840 --> 01:04:41.760 And what was it the name of the team at Night Night. It's 954 01:04:41.800 --> 01:04:44.719 not night Dive. I keep on to saying night Night School School. Yes, 955 01:04:44.800 --> 01:04:47.840 that's right, Yes, I think they bought them, and like we 956 01:04:47.880 --> 01:04:50.400 we are chances are, like you know, Night School, They've made a 957 01:04:50.480 --> 01:04:54.679 bunch of good games. Into the Into the Woods? Is it axon free 958 01:04:55.000 --> 01:04:59.320 ox and free oxon free? Yeah, so oxon free like that we know 959 01:04:59.320 --> 01:05:02.039 they have pedigree, so once they put out then new game on Netflix. 960 01:05:02.079 --> 01:05:05.320 I'm definitely gonna play that. Yeah, there's like Moonlighters. To someone that's 961 01:05:05.320 --> 01:05:10.199 a big evil, say moonlighters in Netflix, Moonlighters are a pretty good game. 962 01:05:10.679 --> 01:05:14.199 Uh, that's yeah, that's I think it's at least cool and it's 963 01:05:14.239 --> 01:05:16.480 a smart move for Netflix in terms of like there's a potential for growth there 964 01:05:16.639 --> 01:05:20.920 where there's not for their other stuff. But really, Okay, that's gonna 965 01:05:20.920 --> 01:05:25.840 do it for us to see the results of that poll. Return on Monday 966 01:05:25.880 --> 01:05:29.800 for another morning mass here on Giant Bomb. For now, though, Tim, 967 01:05:30.079 --> 01:05:31.079 what's you know? What's happened on Giant Bomb? We got today, 968 01:05:31.119 --> 01:05:34.199 we got the un professional Fridays, we got anything coming up on the site 969 01:05:34.199 --> 01:05:40.920 next week or anything next week we will have We're going to be recording another 970 01:05:41.000 --> 01:05:45.360 episode of Jeff just as Our Adventure, the One Punchman Guide In as we 971 01:05:45.440 --> 01:05:50.960 call it. We're also going to be recording a very online show next week. 972 01:05:51.000 --> 01:05:54.679 So we're making a lot of things. And then I think there's a 973 01:05:54.679 --> 01:05:59.480 couple of quick looks in production currently, but it remains he was gonna asked 974 01:05:59.480 --> 01:06:03.480 for today. Obviously, given the what's happening in the news, there's been 975 01:06:03.559 --> 01:06:08.039 some changes. Just tweeted about this earlier, but run for the hills. 976 01:06:08.039 --> 01:06:12.800 It isn't happening. That game obviously is Obama and now it's not the right 977 01:06:12.840 --> 01:06:16.400 time to be playing. Yeah, a game that's a major Obama Yes, 978 01:06:16.800 --> 01:06:20.519 yes, maybe needs an explanation, people understand. Yeah, just bear with 979 01:06:20.639 --> 01:06:26.079 us as we make some adjustments to give people some time, to give people 980 01:06:26.079 --> 01:06:30.239 some grace to figure things out. It is impactful news, and we'll do 981 01:06:30.320 --> 01:06:32.000 We'll do our best with what we can. Right now, as far as 982 01:06:32.000 --> 01:06:35.679 I know, UPF is still happening, but you know, we'll see how 983 01:06:35.679 --> 01:06:39.400 it goes. Just keep an eye on keep an eye on the Bob and 984 01:06:39.679 --> 01:06:41.719 Twitter and stuff. We'll let you us know there for sure, and keep 985 01:06:41.719 --> 01:06:45.519 an eye on the site. We'll remove it from upcoming if something changes there. 986 01:06:45.559 --> 01:06:47.440 But sure, yeah, if if we do do that, we will 987 01:06:47.480 --> 01:06:51.280 be I think fall guys. Customs got fixed. So at the end of 988 01:06:51.280 --> 01:06:54.599 that stream, if you go, if you want to play along, make 989 01:06:54.639 --> 01:06:57.760 sure you haven't installed, make sure that you have your Epic account tied to 990 01:06:57.840 --> 01:07:00.760 it. I think that's a big part of cross play, So tune in 991 01:07:00.800 --> 01:07:02.599 for that. We'll be looking forward to that. And then yeah, I 992 01:07:03.039 --> 01:07:05.039 always think these shows by saying have a good one, to take care of 993 01:07:05.039 --> 01:07:08.880 yourself, but I really mean that. And the thing, uh, you 994 01:07:08.880 --> 01:07:11.880 know, I said the show's only as good as the audience watching. I 995 01:07:12.000 --> 01:07:15.760 really mean that. You people have been very very kind and very gracious, 996 01:07:15.880 --> 01:07:19.679 and I just want to let you know I'll repay that in any way I 997 01:07:19.679 --> 01:07:21.639 can. When you come to this show, We're gonna do your do our 998 01:07:21.679 --> 01:07:26.639 best to let you know that we are trying to create something that cares about 999 01:07:26.639 --> 01:07:29.719 you the viewer, but also you the community member, someone who shows up 1000 01:07:29.719 --> 01:07:33.000 the giant bomb dot com a lot. You go are very good at being 1001 01:07:33.039 --> 01:07:36.519 a community and that means so much to me, so I always want to 1002 01:07:36.519 --> 01:07:39.719 repay it in any way way I can. But yeah, thank you so 1003 01:07:39.800 --> 01:07:42.400 much. We'll be back with another show on Monday. Until then, have 1004 01:07:42.480 --> 01:07:45.119 a good one, take care of yourself, and goodbye.