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You'll be luck it, don't be
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Let's do this for August seventeenth to
twenty twenty three. For the next

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hour or so, let me help
you sort through the world of gaming on

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Game Mess Mornings Live with me Jeff
Grub. Today we have Starfield and al

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Lake two is afraid of its release
date. But first please join me and

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welcoming today's co host to Game Mess
Mornings. It's Jane Choa. Everybody,

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Jan, how are you doing.
I'm great. I managed to slam egg

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breakfast this morning. I'm thinking about
how actually messed up it is to give

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children the ability to morph into any
animal. It's messed up now like Wiser

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three did he was he like choosing
between giving it to adults or was it

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just like the first human he saw? Like your child on' care? You're

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getting these powers. It's like one
of those It's like how Jordan becoming the

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Green Lantern type of delios, you
know, like, don't I'm dying take

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my power? And it is you
know the reference I needed, Jan,

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there was. It was Santa Claus
falling off the roof in Tim Ellen's The

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Santa Claus okay, right right,
yeah, we all know that that's actually

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the best green Lantern adaptation. Absolutely, yes, yeah, totally. If

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I look a little bit fucking you
on video, I didn't. I didn't

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start my computer after it's stilling drivers, so my ill gotto key light won't

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turn on. That's just technology.
That's I had to use my other light

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that I used from my other setup, which is kind of over there.

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This is moody. I like it. It's a little moods. It's a

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it's a vibe I got. I
got Animals the Invasion book one from my

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library, and I purchased the audio
book. So, uh like something to

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do, something to do while I'm
up. Listen, Jan, I'm all

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in. Yeah. Do you think
can I just read books on twitch out

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loud? Well, that is copy
right infringement? Okay, never mind,

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Okay, does it Bailey do that
with Goosebumps. Okay, listen, if

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you don't, if you read it
live and you don't like keep a VOD

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of it, you might be in
some okay zone as long I think,

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as long as you don't read the
whole book like there needs to be a

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copy of it, like that's the
whole idea like that. So if you

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were to send someone a letter they
had like all of the words of it

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in there, that's copyright infringement.
But if you tell, if you read

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to someone on the phone, like
and they're not no one's recording it.

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I believe that that there's room in
the law for that to not be copyright

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infringement. So twitch it's a little
bit fuzzy. Yeah, I somehow Mike

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Manati has to blame for all of
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Yeah. Literally, he's the one
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Like absolutely, this is his fault. I've always had an interest in animals,

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though it's always been whenever I hear
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like, oh, it's just I
said it on the Blake Club be a

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b Light Club yesterday, which everyone
should watch a lot of fun games we

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played that people say, oh,
it's just really good war fiction. What

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the fuck are you talking about?
Really? Okay, I guess I should

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read this. So here we go. All right, you know what,

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let's explain what we do here because
it's a mess most week days. I

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Jeff Gravel hel piece your gaming life
back together. That includes breaking news and

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maybe even some of our own original
reporting. For all these topics, I'll

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get the input of a bona fide
expert who will make me look smart.

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You can also catch the show later with

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chapters and timestamps on YouTube. Hello
YouTube. Trying to get my voice out

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in front of my mouth. I
remember Alex bann Yellow mentioned that once.

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I'm like, man, that's he
knows what he's doing, right, He's

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a professional, He's won a tony. What does that mean? Like,

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instead of like keeping the voice in
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think I do a lot. Oh
yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm trying

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to put it just right out in
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Every At least it probably sounds better. I know, it sounds more

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confident. We will use your diaphragm
to push it up. Yes, that

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diaphragm is just gonna fuck up these
words. Right now, let's go.

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We have a lot to get into, so let's start the Morning Mess with

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Starfield review codes are out there.
We're playing it now, or someone on

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staff might be I just put him
in the in the slack. But it

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is possible to play it now.
It's yeah, there you go, Janet

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yours and there you said something nice
about me, so you get one review.

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Embargo is August thirty first at some
time. I can't remember. It's

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on Twitter. It's everywhere on Twitter, so if you're interested in find out

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the exact time, there it is. But we'll have plenty to say about

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this. I think we're all gonna, like, do we have a plan

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jen for how we're gonna I think
we're just gonna probably have a big conversation

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about it on the BombCast for sure. I think I'm gonna stream it like

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the whole first day it's out,
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streaming embargoes up and all that stuff. But beyond that, we I think

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we probably just do periodic check ins, right. Yeah. I think this

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is one of those games similar to
like Red Dead Redemption two or God of

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War twenty eighteen, where it's a
big enough game, a big enough release

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where it warrants spending more time with
it. Not that other games this year

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haven't warranted that. I mean Tears
of the Kingdom we bring up every other

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week. Honestly, yeah, we
really do. But you know, we

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do bounce off games to cover other
games, or our attention is pulled to

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other spaces. But you know,
this is such an expansive game, I

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feel like it'd only be right too. We'll do a big deep dive impressions

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discussion on the bomb Cast, and
you know, we may split that off

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eventually if we all wind up liking
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up liking it enough to have like
maybe weekly discussions in or even outside of

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the bomb Cast, perhaps totally.
I think this is one where we had

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planned to like spend some time with
this one. So it's like, in

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a perfect world, with enough time
and enough you know, space in our

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lives, we would have done something
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we can start cloves coming right there, so it's like, Okay, we're

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gonna stick to the original plan of
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and at least as far as you
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if we can play it and everyone
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know, we'll change gears. But
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to spend a lot of time with
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and we'll take it from there.
Starfield is, you know, it's

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it's all this stuff is happening right
now. So it's like we got a

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little bit at the news we got
they talked about the game. Uh so

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the developers, I think they ask
me anything or whatever. They did some

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sort of Q and A somewhere and
it reveals even more RPG details about its

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sci fi world. This is from
Ethangotch at Kotaku. Starfield is only a

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few weeks away, and but this
is still drip feeding new information to players

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desperate to finally get their hands on
the long awaited Xbox console exclusive. Will

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you be able to buy apartments in
the cities you travel to? Will you

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be will you get to struggle or
excuming smuggle illicit items across galactic borders?

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Will you go to jail if you
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and more is yes and jail like
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I like to hear. Yes two, especially smuggling and go into jail like

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those the things I love to do
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Dead reomption two people are I pointed
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love going to jail games Like,
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Dead Redemption two. I did like
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Yes, but that's the hell.
It's a Q and A on August

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sixteenth, with fans on Discord.
There we go, picking and choosing which

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comments to respond to as it walks
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In the lead up to the RPG
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and lead quest designer Will Shin provided
the answers, and although many of them

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are what you might expect from the
studio behind the Elder Scrolls five, Skyrim

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and fall Out four, they also
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confirmed. Dwellings can be acquired in
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others through quest. Some items will
be considered contraband and need to be hidden

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on your ship using special modules to
pass inspection, so Han solo simulator Let's

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Go. Faction quests are not mutually
exclusive, it can all be completed independently.

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There are up to twenty named characters
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you around and carry your stuff,
commit crimes, and you can go to

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jail, pay a fine, or
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ruins and not usable, and a
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when you hear that kind of stuff, Jam like, does that like move

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the meter up or down or left
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excitement for Starfield? I think it
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of not quite upping or lowering my
interests, but like, Okay, it's

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gauging how I'm going to approach playing
this game, and it's already in my

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mind is as open of a sandbox
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it's like, okay, my approach
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y'all, right, we all it's
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very wildly differing play styles when it
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especially based off of how we've handled
something like Tears of the Kingdom or our

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own feelings towards Red Dead Redemption too
right, you meet Dan, don't like

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it? Lucy One of her favorite
games of all time and completely warranted,

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none of us like Horizon. I'm
kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding,

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but it's it's with this much freedom, I feel like unfortunately some players may

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suffer from choice paralysis, that they're
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of the fun stuff to the side. I think it's viable, right,

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that's a completely fine way to play
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exactly. And for me, that
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that mood, having stuff to ignore
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it all feel even more special.
Like I've said that before, and I

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still think that's true. You want
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story, and that's only possible if
there's so much you can There's like you

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just give yourself permission to say,
there's no way I could play at all.

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So what I play is just the
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different from anyone else's and that's h
And even if I'm mainlining the stuff,

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it's like, oh, yeah,
this is a living, breathing world and

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I'm choosing to do this instead,
and that's that's powerful stuff in a game

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like this. I think really all
these possibilities, all these verbs that they

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bring up, like that's crucial to
a game like this, But I think

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this game is probably going to live
and die on a couple of things like

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is it actually fun to do the
basics? Is it fun to do combat?

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Is it fun to explore? Is
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And then when you do get into
a quest, are like does the possibility

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spacey remain open or is it always
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If it's always shoot your laser gun, I'm probably going to be okay to

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a certain extent, but I would
prefer it if they try to give you

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the option to talk your way out
of a lot of things or give you

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a bunch of other options I'm not
even thinking of. So, like,

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it's like those key things I think
we're going to be where star Fields make

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makes makes or breaks it's future.
But at the same time, this also

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feels like a game that is inevitable
in a lot of ways, where because

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it's going to be a platform,
and it's gonna be a platform for the

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community put to put mods into,
and the game that we're playing, the

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Starfield game that we're playing five ten
years from now it's like, I don't

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know. Of course you're not playing
Vanilla. Who no one plays Vanilla anymore,

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just like no one plays Vanilla Skyrim
anymore. People do, but no

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one I know does. So Yeah, at a certain point, it's like,

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it's here, let's just get on
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So I'm pretty excited about it.
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how the game will be streamlined based
off of how players are not engaging with

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certain aspects of the game, Like
I can't imagine everyone is going to get

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really really into the spaceship building,
right of how involved it seems, or

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like how crucial and not critical it
also seems to be. So can you

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just wind up downloading precreated ships eventually? Can you do that? Currently?

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I don't. I don't believe that's
an option, right, Yeah, I

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don't. I honestly don't know,
but I think I mean what you bring

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up, there's a really good point. It's like, if this is a

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game that has so many options in
here, when is it going to be

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the kind of game where it's like, well, we're going to have a

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mission on the main quest that makes
you that forces you to interact with all

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of these features at least once.
Are you going to have to build your

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own ship at least once? I
don't know if that's the right way to

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do things. I suppose they could
streamline that process as well, but I

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think to me, streamlining means if
you encounter something like that, you still

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have the choice of being like,
I never came to this game for this

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thing. I don't want to do
it. This is supposed to be my

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journey. My character would never doesn't
care about ships. He just wants to

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sit in the seat and have someone
else flam around. Is that Can I

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still do that? Like, hopefully
they've you know, this game has been

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in development a long time. This
is a Bethesda game. Those are the

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kinds of options that I want,
you know. Also, you know,

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of course, Jim, it's easy
right now to fall into the trap of

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as people who we do have the
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that we're worried about now or everything
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gonna have these conversations and they're fine. I think the ones that really do

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Nexus Mods launches Starfield Hub plus a
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there's a contest, don't worry about
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now opened up its modding section for
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yet save for some artwork, but
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the place that collects most of them
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are ready and raring to go for
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Jean. It does like a question
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way up. You want to get
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game, and they were thinking of
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so we're gonna make it work really
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a little less well with with mouse
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but a little less well. So
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that work fantastic with the mouse and
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the first through at least I want
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if let's say, people's faces are
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hey, have you installed any mods? I'll be interested to see. All

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right. Moving on from Starfield,
Alan Wake two got spooked by October games

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on Slot and it has been delayed
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at Kataku. Allan Wake two,
the highly anticipated adventure horror games sequel from

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Remedy Entertainment, has suffered a minor
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Remedy Entertainment explained that Allen Wake two
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date to the new October twenty seven
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who might feel overwhelmed by the release
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October is an amazing month for game
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shift gives more space for everyone to
enjoy their favorite games. Remedy Entertainment wrote

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on social media, we can't wait
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up to in the dark place next
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you've been paying attention to games and
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it'll be a hectic month. You've
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That actually that moved up to get
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Wake two, but October fifth now
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A Motorsport October tenth, Lords of
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sixth, River City Rival Showdown on
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Master Collection Volume one, both October
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twenty five, and Headbanger's Rhythm Royal
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it, too many blake that this
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I might be compelled to say maybe
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to January. Yeah, yeah,
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where we have to do it in
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holy smokes, this is did did
all of game development? Do they

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have like a secret harem? And
and they're going like these motherfuckers it's talking

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about twenty twenty seventeen is one of
the best games or best year in games.

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Motherfuckers. You think ninety eight was
really good? For three? Is

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gonna be the year? All right? All right? Heads in break?

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that make great excuse me, great
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you know, ninety eight, you
know you're gonna have the introduction of

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some all time important franchises, you
know, Half Life and other Star or

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like major three D updates like Metal
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year, though, the way that
this year stacks up, it is like

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it's just got everything in every tier
of game, like some of the biggest

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games ever that are also some of
the best games ever, and then just

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a million great games right below that, and then a million indie games and

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then if Hades two comes out in
early access jan before the end of the

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year. What are we gonna do? Oh, those best stards over there.

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I bet I bet that comes out
actually next year now because they haven't

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said anything about although you know,
we could get the games and they announced

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it or something, so who knows. Oh my god, oh my god.

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Yeah, what do we do is
playing Hadies? That's right? Do

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you see that? You see that
right of that Reddit post about the guy

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complaining about the strike because his wife
has been just playing nothing but Hadies.

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She's a writer. He's like,
every day it's just hades and sounds of

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sword slashing and I'm going I had
enough of it. That's like, oh

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man, that rules, deal with
it, fucking nerd. There are in

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you know, Jesse in the chat
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there's there's small titles like Gredge Broke
Legacy two Hi Fi Rushing. But

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then there's the in between or maybe
like less tear lower than Triple A,

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like the Star Wars G game that
came out, remember that everyone, Yeah,

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right, Like Jedi Survivor is insane
that that like may just get swept

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to the to the side because of
everything else coming out Dead Dead Space remake.

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Yeah, yeah, let's say sorry
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else Mike's gonna come in, yeah
for sure? Yeah, geez and Red

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Fall Everyone's favorite. Yes, everyone's
favorite Red Fall. Yes, since the

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exception that proves the rule absolutely.
Like I know that we don't have a

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lot of fighting game representation on the
staff anymore outside of timor Hey. Street

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Riders six is another game that came
out that I haven't had enough quality time,

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right, Okay, we have.
I just need to remind you all

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that you forgot the most important release
of this year. Yeah, sure,

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Crime Boss Rocket City came out on
several platforms this year. Well that's We're

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doing that for UPF for the rest
of the year. So don't worry about

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that. It's gonna get its time. Don't you make sure make sure not

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to forget it because I literally can't. Of course you've been scarred, of

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course, lex Yeah, we understand, Lexie. Why would you do this

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to me? Why? Why would
you read this? I love Michael Madsen

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so much. Chance is gonna boot
it back up. I gave I gave

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him a Starfield codey He's gonna spind
all tonight, just trying to see Keim

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Basinger's boobs again. I know I
could probably google it, but I experience.

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Yeah, there's something about making it
happen yourself. Absolutely. Uh.

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Allan Wake two moving up, I'm
sorry, moving back delayed ten days.

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Uh yeah, that's nowtely see.
That means it's now coming October twenty seventh,

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right, okay, so still coming
out in October, but it does

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get out of the way of some
some other stuff. Uh. It's coming

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to PC, PlayStation five, Xbox
Series X, and suh grub. Yeah.

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I had only ever played maybe one
or two hours of the original Alan

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Wake at a friend's house, and
I just never had the means to to

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sure play through it all, and
that was something I wanted to get to

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re experience. I wanted to finish
Allan Wake. I don't have time for

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that. Yeah, I know.
Here's the thing. It's like, I

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know that Lucy is super big on
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like, that's another one where I'm
like when when people on the staff are

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I, well, this could be
my game of the year, I'm like,

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shit, I don't want to like
get to game of the year and

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be like, well I never played
it. I don't know, and I

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tried Allan Wake. I bounced off
of it at the time. I think

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Allan Wake to be in a survival
horror game makes it more compelling, and

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I probably will try to give this
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I think it really happens, though, is if we turn it into Halloween

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content that week or something, we
just like commit to playing through that for

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Halloween week. I don't know,
that's tough, all right, maybe?

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Okay, all right, go ahead, grub, I'm pitching this now.

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We're gonna make a separate list outside
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like the best games we didn't play. Oh yeah, that should be a

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category for sure. Yeah, yes, I would appreciate that. Would help

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me like catch up in January when
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of those games. All right,
we're gonna get right back into the show

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after this. Okay. The Xbox
three sixty store is closing next year.

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This is from Chris Scullion at VGC. Microsoft has announced that it will be

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closing down the Xbox three sixty store
next year, and a new post on

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the official Xbox wire blog, it
was announced that the ability to buy new

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games DLC and other entertainment content from
the Xbox three sixty store will end on

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July twenty nine, twenty twenty four. This specifically refers to the ability to

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buy content directly through the Xbox three
sixty console and the ability to buy content

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from the Xbox three sixty Marketplace site. It does not affect the ability to

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buy backwards compatible Xbox three sixty games
and DLC on the Xbox One or Xbox

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Series X and S stores, which
will continue to be available. Jen that

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sounds fine to me. Yeah,
like a little bit of a bummer.

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You like, if you want to
get the Xbox three sixty out and you

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get because of nostalgia, and they're
like, man, well I want to

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play that game. Oh I don't
have it. Let's just buy it through

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this thing. Who Okay, you
can't. That's us think. But turns

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out the Xbox One, Xbox Series
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three sixties for a lot of these
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and that that'll be good. Now, of course, not every game's backward

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compatible, and so that's gonna that's
gonna be frustrating. But you've got some

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time to make these stores just aren't
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they are, it's going to be
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here, where it provides some solution
for backward compatibility. What does this mean

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to you? Just I think most
people write like, yeah, I haven't

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used that store in fifteen years.
Not a big surprise, right, I

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mean, as long as these games
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is the state grub if you know, or if anyone in chat knows,

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what is the state of replacement disc
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three sixty or anything that reads a
disc, say, if like that goes

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put? Because there was a lot
of hacking the consoles at that time.

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I think the community has found on
the drives that work, and I think

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they're still in relatively plentiful surprise supply. But I've been checked in a couple

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of years, so I don't know
for sure. Maybe Chat does, but

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yeah, I would imagine that like
getting those fixed is going to be fine

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for some time, and then eventually
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But yeah, yeah, like if
you have the option to download everything

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just in case, and and and
you know, good news is Xbox Xbox

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three sixty emulation have started really getting
there. Xbox three sixty emulation is far

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from perfect, but it is much
better than it has been and we've seen

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a lot of improvement there. So
hopefully then, to me, that's always

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the answer. Jan Like, we
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glad the Video Game History Foundation is
out there trying to get these companies to

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think about this stuff in a more
legal, legally a viable way. But

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for me, I'm gonna I don't
trust it. I trust that the community

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trying to get the stuff emulated and
preserve that way is going to be the

406
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actual answer for most of this.
And that's not perfect either. The original

407
00:27:07.519 --> 00:27:11.359
hardware is the way to do it. But like you said, you know,

408
00:27:11.519 --> 00:27:15.160
disk, you just those discs will
still be out there and hopefully they

409
00:27:15.200 --> 00:27:17.640
can be preserved in some some real
ways. Now, I guess there's a

410
00:27:17.640 --> 00:27:21.359
lot of Xbox Live indie games too, so yeah, there's always holes in

411
00:27:21.400 --> 00:27:26.799
this. But yeah, still all
right, time for the Jeff back of

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00:27:26.839 --> 00:27:32.000
our news. NHL twenty four's big
changes include complete complete revamp of gameplay.

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This comes from submit sakar At Polygon. EA Sports Hockey franchise hasn't been a

414
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critical darling since the early twenty tens, and the series has been stuck in

415
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something of a rut for the past
few years. That may be why developer

416
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EA Vancouver is promising that some major
changes are coming in NHL twenty four,

417
00:27:48.400 --> 00:27:52.400
which was revealed Winnsday with a trailer. First up is what EA described in

418
00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:56.240
a news release as a complete revamp
of the EA Sports NHL gameplay experience,

419
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led by a feature that seeks to
simulate the effects of offensive zone pressure build

420
00:28:02.359 --> 00:28:06.759
as the Exhaust Engine. The system
will offer twofold rewards to players who can

421
00:28:06.759 --> 00:28:11.160
maintain maintain possession in their opponent's defensive
zone. Keep cycling the puck and you'll

422
00:28:11.160 --> 00:28:15.039
eventually trigger a perk that would reduced
the defending teams attributes for a limited time

423
00:28:15.319 --> 00:28:19.480
and ramp up the fatigue level for
its goalie, whose effective effectiveness will wane

424
00:28:19.519 --> 00:28:23.839
if you can continue to pepper hit
them with shots. Jan this is the

425
00:28:23.880 --> 00:28:26.920
kind of stuff that's like really in
the weeds for a lot of people,

426
00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:33.440
but that sounds really nice to me
as a hockey fan. I hope at

427
00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:37.240
the same time we've heard of these
kinds of features before the QB Vision cone

428
00:28:37.359 --> 00:28:41.319
or whatever QB's vision from Madden and
stuff, and it's like, actually,

429
00:28:41.359 --> 00:28:44.880
that's just annoying. This isn't fun. It's just like they had truck stick

430
00:28:44.880 --> 00:28:48.400
and they needed something else and they
came up with this QB cone. So

431
00:28:48.559 --> 00:28:52.079
maybe this is like something like that. But for me, when I when

432
00:28:52.119 --> 00:28:56.000
I watch hockey, hockey is at
its best when a team is working in

433
00:28:56.119 --> 00:29:02.200
perfect harmony of keeping the puck in
the offensive zone. Something that's just if

434
00:29:02.200 --> 00:29:03.759
you watch enough hockey, you know
that's just how impossible that is. It's

435
00:29:03.799 --> 00:29:07.799
just like, it really does take
the most skilled people in the world to

436
00:29:07.839 --> 00:29:11.319
make that happen. And if if
the hockey game is trying to mimic that

437
00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:15.359
and simulate that to some degree,
I appreciate it, and I hope it

438
00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:19.000
works. Well. We'll see,
but yeah, really, all it's gonna

439
00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:22.200
matter is bad. Is Backy happy? Is Baccalar happy. We'll have to

440
00:29:22.319 --> 00:29:26.680
find out. We'll check in on
him, see what he thinks. In

441
00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:30.240
a little bit. We all start
every morning asking each other that is Backy

442
00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:33.279
happy? Yes, it's and he
says in chat. Right now, the

443
00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:37.319
more of this game rewards, real
hockey the better. Yeah, I agree,

444
00:29:37.400 --> 00:29:41.599
that's not that it does not seem
to have been their their mo for

445
00:29:41.799 --> 00:29:45.200
quite some time. They've been like, oh, let's have a lot of

446
00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:48.200
game modes, and let's put a
lot of effort into into those different game

447
00:29:48.240 --> 00:29:52.039
modes, and you know, obviously
Hockey Ultimate Team and stuff like that.

448
00:29:52.279 --> 00:29:57.359
And there's some improvements there, improvements
in quotes like the Hockey Ultimate Team or

449
00:29:57.680 --> 00:30:00.359
or I think it's a world of
shell the the big online mode is going

450
00:30:00.400 --> 00:30:07.200
to have a battle pass, so
have fun with that. But they aren't.

451
00:30:07.240 --> 00:30:08.880
They aren't announcing a ton of new
modes this year. It does seem

452
00:30:08.880 --> 00:30:12.519
to be gameplay improvements, and I'm
like, okay, that's sounds promising.

453
00:30:14.200 --> 00:30:18.920
I missed the days of NHL from
EA and NHL two K. That's when

454
00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:22.359
hockey was at its hockey games were
at their best. Master Chief is reportedly

455
00:30:22.359 --> 00:30:26.720
coming to Rainbow six Siege. This
comes from David carcass Ole, uh to

456
00:30:26.839 --> 00:30:30.839
destructor what I think Xbox is.
I didn't write it down, Sorry about

457
00:30:30.880 --> 00:30:34.039
that, David, Xbox main mascot
master Chief will be coming to PlayStation through

458
00:30:34.160 --> 00:30:37.119
another third party game, and this
time it looks like it'll be Rainbow six

459
00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:44.119
Siege. A tweet from user Clobriel
on Twitter showcases the sledge Elite skin that'll

460
00:30:44.160 --> 00:30:47.720
be coming to Rainbow six Siege,
which shows off Master Chief in his full

461
00:30:47.759 --> 00:30:52.440
military green spartan armor suit. Glory. Chief's appearance in Fortnite was the last

462
00:30:52.440 --> 00:30:56.440
time the famed character graced PlayStation consoles
on any game, though that's more fair

463
00:30:56.480 --> 00:31:00.880
ground considering big PlayStation characters like Krados, Aloy and Nathan Drake are all in

464
00:31:00.920 --> 00:31:04.160
Fortnite on Xbox. Of course,
of course, it might end up being

465
00:31:04.160 --> 00:31:08.400
that Microsoft made the deal on the
on the situation that the Chief skin would

466
00:31:08.440 --> 00:31:12.279
only be accessible through PC and Xbox
players, though since that hasn't been the

467
00:31:12.279 --> 00:31:17.839
case with Fortnite, it's it'll be
odd for that to happen here, jan

468
00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:22.119
I'm not playing Siege anymore, I'm
not playing Halo anymore. And something about

469
00:31:22.119 --> 00:31:23.960
this is like, I'm glad they're
at least trying to keep Master Chief out

470
00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:27.160
there, because what else can they
do? Right, Yeah, I don't

471
00:31:27.160 --> 00:31:30.920
know. Put him in Smash Yeah, well, of course, put him

472
00:31:30.920 --> 00:31:34.920
in Smash. Go get sack Arai
out of his coffin that he sleeps in

473
00:31:34.920 --> 00:31:38.319
as a vampire because he never ages. Get him, wake him up and

474
00:31:38.359 --> 00:31:42.559
get him working on bringing master Chief
to smash. I like Rambow six Siege

475
00:31:42.599 --> 00:31:45.759
though, I should play some more
Siege, spend some time. I'd love

476
00:31:45.799 --> 00:31:49.119
to check out Siege. Yeah,
we could just again by curious man,

477
00:31:49.319 --> 00:31:53.960
just just god about. I don't
feel about no time, there's no time.

478
00:31:55.240 --> 00:32:00.119
We have all these fantastic ideas.
Yes that's the thing. Oh boy,

479
00:32:00.279 --> 00:32:04.480
Yeah, if master Chief is uh, I think still character. You

480
00:32:04.519 --> 00:32:09.039
know, many people holding high regard, they really like him, and it's

481
00:32:09.079 --> 00:32:13.200
hard to feel good about him going
to play Infinite for a lot of people.

482
00:32:13.279 --> 00:32:15.400
I'm at this point. I'm over
it. I'll go play Halio Infinite.

483
00:32:15.400 --> 00:32:16.319
If anyone want to play Halo Infinite, let me know. I'll play

484
00:32:16.319 --> 00:32:19.480
it. Oh you know what,
we should do that for a TNT.

485
00:32:19.640 --> 00:32:22.799
We should play some TNT because yeah, that's a that's actually a really good

486
00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:23.920
game for that. It would work
really well, big team battles. We

487
00:32:23.920 --> 00:32:27.599
can get a lot of people in
there. It's on game pass, so

488
00:32:27.720 --> 00:32:30.319
yeah, we should do that,
and I bet everyone playing will have a

489
00:32:30.319 --> 00:32:32.440
really good time because you know,
no one, no one's ever said like,

490
00:32:32.480 --> 00:32:35.960
oh, I just played Halo Infinite
and had a bad time. What

491
00:32:35.960 --> 00:32:39.319
they say is I played Halo Infinity
and the rewards weren't great and there's nothing

492
00:32:39.319 --> 00:32:43.079
to buy in the store and and
the you know, the DLCs and all

493
00:32:43.079 --> 00:32:45.839
this stuff sucks. But when you
play it, it's fun. But that's

494
00:32:45.880 --> 00:32:49.279
like, Okay, that's not the
way games work these days. If you're

495
00:32:49.279 --> 00:32:52.240
a service game, the service part
needs to be good, and Halo Infinite

496
00:32:52.279 --> 00:32:54.160
mess that stuff up. Uh.
And so master Chief is in this weird

497
00:32:54.200 --> 00:32:57.480
spot where people are like, they
see it and they get bummed out.

498
00:32:57.759 --> 00:33:00.799
So if you could do small things
here and there to keep im relevant and

499
00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:02.200
keep keep players, We're like,
oh, you know what I do,

500
00:33:02.240 --> 00:33:06.559
like master Chief, I go by
the skin. I think that's a smart

501
00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:09.119
move while they figure out the future
of Halo, which I'm sure it is

502
00:33:09.160 --> 00:33:14.319
going to be a long and lengthy
and difficult process over there. And yeah,

503
00:33:14.400 --> 00:33:20.119
I agree. I do not envy
that process at all, because it

504
00:33:20.200 --> 00:33:22.920
is the study it's not even a
steep health to clib it's just a it's

505
00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:29.759
just a ladder, yep. Absolutely
all right, Toxic gamers are bad for

506
00:33:29.839 --> 00:33:34.720
business. New study shows this comes
from Darren Bonthus at game spot most games

507
00:33:34.759 --> 00:33:37.720
have a toxic have a more toxic
side to the communities than that gather around

508
00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:40.720
them, a vocal minority that,
according to a research or to research,

509
00:33:40.839 --> 00:33:45.599
does a lot of harm to the
long term success of these titles. In

510
00:33:45.640 --> 00:33:50.680
a new paper published by Take That
via Sarkana executive director Matt Piscatella, the

511
00:33:50.680 --> 00:33:53.720
main takeaway from this report is that
toxic gaming communities can negatively impact the bottom

512
00:33:53.720 --> 00:33:59.640
line of studios and publishers, and
gaming companies should step up their moderation efforts

513
00:33:59.640 --> 00:34:04.039
to weed out these harmful elements.
Using data and insights from Nielsen's video game

514
00:34:04.079 --> 00:34:07.960
tracking service, take This found a
number of interesting facts. According to the

515
00:34:07.039 --> 00:34:12.880
data glean from two three hundred and
twenty eight polled adolescence, sixty percent of

516
00:34:12.880 --> 00:34:15.360
players reported that they had decided to
not spend money in a game because of

517
00:34:15.400 --> 00:34:20.360
how other players treated them in that
community. Seventy percent of players reported that

518
00:34:20.360 --> 00:34:24.880
they have avoided playing certain games because
of a community's reputation, and sixty percent

519
00:34:24.920 --> 00:34:29.599
of players reported that they had at
least once quit a session or quit playing

520
00:34:29.599 --> 00:34:34.599
a game permanently because of harassment and
hate. And Jane's the story as old

521
00:34:34.599 --> 00:34:37.079
as time, right, Like,
it's just we've known this for forever and

522
00:34:37.199 --> 00:34:42.679
that's like pretty stark numbers to see, but it also feels true. You

523
00:34:42.719 --> 00:34:47.920
gotta imagine the sort of norm of
a woman going into an online game,

524
00:34:49.119 --> 00:34:52.679
speaking in voice chat and then immediately
either getting harassed or even just I mean

525
00:34:52.760 --> 00:34:57.679
this is still harassment, just people
showing an add amount of interest in them

526
00:34:57.719 --> 00:35:00.480
because they're a lady. But more
often than that, it's also like,

527
00:35:00.519 --> 00:35:02.199
no, we're just gonna fuck with
you because you're a woman, and it's

528
00:35:02.480 --> 00:35:07.280
okay, that's just money lost for
that game, and if that's what if,

529
00:35:07.800 --> 00:35:10.320
if we need to put it in
capitalistic terms to do something about it,

530
00:35:10.760 --> 00:35:15.039
so be it. But here,
developers, you're losing money because of

531
00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:21.320
shit heads. Do something about the
ship heads. And the shit heads probably

532
00:35:21.360 --> 00:35:23.119
actually aren't spending as much money as
you would think, so you want to

533
00:35:23.119 --> 00:35:27.800
get that wider audience, right,
Yeah, it turns out the ship heads

534
00:35:27.880 --> 00:35:32.960
are very very very deep and just
want to keep playing the game with whatever

535
00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:38.920
they have and just want to make
everyone's time with it very very bad.

536
00:35:39.159 --> 00:35:43.679
You know. I don't mean to
speak for Bailey, but she was very

537
00:35:43.760 --> 00:35:46.639
high on playing Exoprimal with a crew
on UPF because she doesn't get to do

538
00:35:46.679 --> 00:35:52.840
that often because existing as a woman
online very rough people would be very shitty.

539
00:35:53.039 --> 00:35:57.199
Yep, right, And this also
extends to folks just trying out a

540
00:35:57.199 --> 00:35:59.639
game. I can. I know
for a fact that I've had a lot

541
00:35:59.679 --> 00:36:05.960
of friends instead have tried to get
into League or Dota two. And the

542
00:36:06.159 --> 00:36:09.719
barrier to entry isn't necessarily learning how
to play the game, but dealing with

543
00:36:09.840 --> 00:36:15.159
toxic players harassing you and yelling at
you because you're not playing your role right

544
00:36:15.639 --> 00:36:21.119
despite you just downloading the game half
an hour ago. That's why I felt

545
00:36:21.119 --> 00:36:25.000
like a game like Pokemon Unite felt
better because of the short game times and

546
00:36:25.239 --> 00:36:32.440
because there's no real communication of at
least verbal voice communication with your teammates other

547
00:36:32.480 --> 00:36:38.159
than pinging and all that jazz.
Yeah, it's of course, of course,

548
00:36:38.199 --> 00:36:42.840
toxic gamers are bad, not just
bad for business, bad for everything

549
00:36:42.840 --> 00:36:47.079
else. Yeah, and it's uh, you know, we it feels necessary

550
00:36:47.119 --> 00:36:52.000
to put it in monetary terms,
but you're it. It's like just it's

551
00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:53.960
you'll feel better. It's the developer, Like I think that's the lesson that's

552
00:36:54.119 --> 00:36:59.079
like they've learned over a bungee.
Is you know they've were trying to have

553
00:36:59.159 --> 00:37:00.840
this sort of equal brim with their
audience, and like, we want to

554
00:37:00.880 --> 00:37:04.880
be communicative, and we want to
we want to be out there, we

555
00:37:05.039 --> 00:37:07.480
to be doing stuff, and we
want to like just kind of keep the

556
00:37:07.920 --> 00:37:09.719
cheaters over there and the people that
mixed and the people that are we just

557
00:37:09.760 --> 00:37:13.880
want to ignore the trolls, you
know, don't feed the trolls. And

558
00:37:13.920 --> 00:37:16.159
then Bungee's like, Nope, that
cost us a lot of money just protecting

559
00:37:16.159 --> 00:37:22.400
our employees. Fucking sue the trolls, just demolish them. And it worked

560
00:37:22.639 --> 00:37:28.280
and they succeeded, and they established
a legal precedent that will provide covers for

561
00:37:28.559 --> 00:37:32.000
other developers and studios and entities that
want to sue people who ask them because

562
00:37:32.039 --> 00:37:36.480
that now those people are are on
the on the hook for paying backed companies

563
00:37:36.639 --> 00:37:38.800
for any money they spend to protect
their employees. And it's like that happened

564
00:37:38.800 --> 00:37:44.760
in the last year. So it's
really I think we should be in a

565
00:37:44.800 --> 00:37:50.000
new era of going beyond don't feed
the trolls and fucking just ban hammer you

566
00:37:50.039 --> 00:37:54.239
fire your fans like if they are
if they're line stepping or if they are

567
00:37:54.239 --> 00:37:59.280
clearly stepping over the line. It's
like, let's do something about it,

568
00:37:59.320 --> 00:38:01.320
because you can and you have the
backing, and it's it's actually in the

569
00:38:01.400 --> 00:38:05.280
end, the math is going to
work out that your game is going to

570
00:38:05.320 --> 00:38:07.119
be more healthy, the community is
going to be more healthy, and you're

571
00:38:07.159 --> 00:38:12.159
gonna make more money. So just
there's no excuse anymore, there's zero excuse.

572
00:38:12.239 --> 00:38:15.159
Let's do something about it. We'll
see. That's gonna take time to

573
00:38:15.159 --> 00:38:20.639
figure out what that looks like,
but hopefully it comes to pass. All

574
00:38:20.760 --> 00:38:23.880
right. A Teenage Mutantinja Turtles Shredders
Revenge DLC lands on switch this month with

575
00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:28.559
yet another new fighter. This is
from Jim Norman and Nintendo Life. We

576
00:38:28.599 --> 00:38:32.280
have been eagerly anticipating more news on
the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shredders Revenge DLC

577
00:38:32.719 --> 00:38:37.119
Dimension shell Shock since we first caught
win a bit back in June. Today,

578
00:38:37.159 --> 00:38:40.639
we have learned that the bonus content
will be skating onto Switch On on

579
00:38:40.840 --> 00:38:45.039
thirty first of August. That's not
too far away, and there's yet another

580
00:38:45.239 --> 00:38:50.280
new fighter joining the roster. Yes, alongside the sword wielding Rabbit. You

581
00:38:50.400 --> 00:38:55.599
says Usagy, Do you know how
to say that? With Saggy yes Usa

582
00:38:57.400 --> 00:39:00.960
Usagi yo Jimbo. We now know
that former foot Land member Karai will also

583
00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:07.119
be joining the Turtles beat them up
in just a few weeks. Usagi Ousagi,

584
00:39:07.280 --> 00:39:09.880
Usagi okay Usagi you yo Jimbo.
That sounds right. The Whitney Fast

585
00:39:09.960 --> 00:39:14.599
Ninja has made several appearances in the
Modern Teenage Mutan Ninja Turtles, an animated

586
00:39:14.639 --> 00:39:16.639
series, moving from a straight up
villain to a friend and an ally of

587
00:39:16.639 --> 00:39:22.639
the Turtles. The Dimension Shell Shocked
DLC will be available for eight dollars when

588
00:39:22.639 --> 00:39:25.119
it launches. I have a little
bit of the look at the game here.

589
00:39:25.159 --> 00:39:28.719
I'll see if I can get that
up. I think they're doing something

590
00:39:28.760 --> 00:39:36.000
kind of fun with the coloring scheme
because I think yo Jimbo usagiy jimbo,

591
00:39:36.440 --> 00:39:38.599
see he like a black and white
comic that has like some color splashes or

592
00:39:38.599 --> 00:39:44.199
something. I have never read it, so I'm not sure the I think

593
00:39:44.199 --> 00:39:47.480
they're taking one of the more the
more modern versions of the character, because

594
00:39:47.480 --> 00:39:52.880
it does look similar, at least
from the screenshot I saw of how the

595
00:39:52.960 --> 00:40:00.639
characters portrayed in the one of the
current Quiet one of the current cartoons rules

596
00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:04.280
sorry, we're watching the trapher Karay
at the same time, and she is

597
00:40:04.320 --> 00:40:08.440
just doing some awesome dive kicks that
look great. Oh god, you know,

598
00:40:08.559 --> 00:40:13.320
it's never been a better time to
be a Turtles fans. Yeah,

599
00:40:13.320 --> 00:40:15.159
it really seems like it's this is
it? Okay, this is what I

600
00:40:15.239 --> 00:40:16.840
was thinking of. Okay, So
they're doing the black and white comics style.

601
00:40:16.880 --> 00:40:20.280
I see. I don't remember it
was that in the original game.

602
00:40:20.280 --> 00:40:22.840
I don't know. I think that
might be new. I don't think so.

603
00:40:22.920 --> 00:40:24.719
Yeah, I don't remember that.
That looks fantastic though. Yeah,

604
00:40:24.719 --> 00:40:28.679
because the Turtles are in black and
white with just their masks being colored.

605
00:40:30.559 --> 00:40:35.880
You know what seems like a crime. What's that? I watched the TMNT

606
00:40:36.480 --> 00:40:38.719
documentary that came out recently. I
think it's called Turtle Power. It's available

607
00:40:38.719 --> 00:40:45.639
on Paramount Plus. One of the
creators of TMNT, they're the Ninja Turtles,

608
00:40:45.679 --> 00:40:52.519
Peter Laird Grub. How much do
you think he sold it for to

609
00:40:52.679 --> 00:41:00.119
Viacom? When did he sell it? Oh nine. Let's also keep in

610
00:41:00.159 --> 00:41:05.639
mind how much Marvel sold for to
Disney, how much Star Wars. Okay,

611
00:41:05.679 --> 00:41:07.360
that was I got sold to Disney. Well then, okay, I

612
00:41:07.360 --> 00:41:10.199
mean for me, it's going to
be significantly less than Star Wars. It's

613
00:41:10.280 --> 00:41:15.880
just me completely in a vacuum.
Jen, I want to say two hundred

614
00:41:15.880 --> 00:41:25.719
and fifty million dollars, so grub
I agree from the estimation that uh TMNT

615
00:41:25.920 --> 00:41:30.599
is not as valuable as those previous
franchises, but valuable enough, right,

616
00:41:30.639 --> 00:41:35.239
I put it maybe close to the
Transformers maybe right? Sure? Yeah,

617
00:41:35.920 --> 00:41:42.320
sixty mil? What sixty million?
That's insane. That's because I don't like,

618
00:41:42.400 --> 00:41:49.199
there's so much merchandise and like over
decades and yes, and it's like

619
00:41:49.239 --> 00:41:52.199
it's proven to be a timeless franchise
and that it keeps coming back over and

620
00:41:52.239 --> 00:41:58.239
over again, and that is worth
way more than sixty million. That's crazy.

621
00:41:58.800 --> 00:42:02.679
Yeah, that it's it's insane.
It's insane. Uh okay, yeah,

622
00:42:02.920 --> 00:42:06.000
Marino, because it was one hund
percent owner at that point, I

623
00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:08.440
don't even still it's like if I
have sixty million, just that's so so

624
00:42:08.519 --> 00:42:13.280
low. If even if it's like
a twenty five percent, I don't know

625
00:42:13.320 --> 00:42:19.360
how the royalty split goes if he
if Peter Laird still gets additional royalties afterwards,

626
00:42:19.559 --> 00:42:24.400
or if he just sold off all
of his ownership to Viacom. Yeah

627
00:42:24.440 --> 00:42:29.159
yeah, right right, Like I
still get like a certain like point two

628
00:42:29.239 --> 00:42:34.280
five percent or something on yeah who
knows. Yeah, Kurtman two K seven

629
00:42:34.320 --> 00:42:38.079
points out that teenage Mutant inter Turtles
made overall this year one billion dollars just

630
00:42:38.119 --> 00:42:43.440
this year. Jeez, yep,
all right, well hey, uh I

631
00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:46.119
hey, good time to be a
teenage Ninja Turtles fan. Though. Lots

632
00:42:46.119 --> 00:42:52.239
of good stuff happening there. That
movie fantastic, the game fantastic, and

633
00:42:52.400 --> 00:42:55.880
uh you know what, I hope
they get movie DLC in Tredor's Revenge eventually.

634
00:42:55.960 --> 00:43:00.960
I think they could pull that off. That'd be really fun, all

635
00:43:00.039 --> 00:43:04.480
right. Moving on to the biggest
game of the year, Hyena's PC closed

636
00:43:04.519 --> 00:43:07.719
beta starts at the end of August. This is from George yangat game Spot.

637
00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:12.880
Creative Assembly and Sega have revealed a
new gameplay trailer for Hyena's, their

638
00:43:12.960 --> 00:43:16.320
hero based multiplayer extraction shooter. The
game will also have a PC closed beta

639
00:43:16.400 --> 00:43:20.920
on August thirty. First. The
trailer shows its characters facing off against one

640
00:43:20.920 --> 00:43:24.320
another using a variety of different guns
and gadgets. Each Hyena has a unique

641
00:43:24.360 --> 00:43:29.199
weapon and ability, and players can
form in groups of three to steal items.

642
00:43:29.519 --> 00:43:31.840
It even shows a team opening up
a vault and finding a small statue

643
00:43:31.840 --> 00:43:37.920
of Sonic the Hedgehog inside, because
of course it does jen this is only

644
00:43:37.960 --> 00:43:39.480
a beta. But boy, it
just feels like, who is going to

645
00:43:39.559 --> 00:43:46.079
have time for this game right now? I have no idea. I like,

646
00:43:46.199 --> 00:43:52.760
who wants to suddenly dive into the
world of Hyenas, especially a closed

647
00:43:52.760 --> 00:43:57.639
beta around this time of the year. Maybe earlier in the year he'd be

648
00:43:57.679 --> 00:44:00.639
different. Yeah, early on the
side might have made more sense. Yeah,

649
00:44:01.039 --> 00:44:07.559
but especially if it's an open beta. But August is going to September.

650
00:44:07.679 --> 00:44:12.519
Yeah, it's it's right, and
now Sega knows this. Sega's talked

651
00:44:12.559 --> 00:44:15.880
a little bit about how development on
this game and kind of figuring out what

652
00:44:15.960 --> 00:44:19.280
Hyenas is going to be has been
difficult, and they've reworked some of the

653
00:44:19.280 --> 00:44:22.400
business model behind it. They said, I think they know that this game

654
00:44:22.440 --> 00:44:25.920
doesn't really fit in naturally into any
particular part of the market, like in

655
00:44:27.199 --> 00:44:30.960
a super obvious way, so they're
gonna have to get behind it and try

656
00:44:30.960 --> 00:44:35.519
to push It's like that might not
work either. I don't know. I

657
00:44:35.519 --> 00:44:37.880
would love to be wrong. I
don't want any game to fail, but

658
00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:40.280
I just have zero excitement for hyenas, and I don't think that's my fault.

659
00:44:40.559 --> 00:44:44.920
I don't know what they do.
Yeah. I also I feel bad

660
00:44:44.960 --> 00:44:47.639
that I'm not excited, but I
can't help my own taste. Yeah right,

661
00:44:49.400 --> 00:44:54.599
I don't. There's probably an appetite
for Hyena's game out there, and

662
00:44:55.000 --> 00:45:00.280
maybe we'll find its audience, but
I just don't know how long in an

663
00:45:00.320 --> 00:45:05.519
Abata that audience can be sustained.
Now, it is an extraction shooter from

664
00:45:05.519 --> 00:45:07.559
a big company, and we're gonna
get a bunch of those here pretty soon.

665
00:45:08.320 --> 00:45:14.159
It does feel like one of those
is bound to do like the Fortnite

666
00:45:14.159 --> 00:45:17.079
thing. Now. I guess Battlefield
had an extraction mode in it. I

667
00:45:17.119 --> 00:45:21.039
think yes it did, and that
hasn't seemed. I don't know. No

668
00:45:21.079 --> 00:45:23.920
one talks about that anymore. But
I still think like one of these extraction

669
00:45:23.920 --> 00:45:28.559
shooters from a big publisher should take
off. So maybe in a year,

670
00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:31.400
well, egg on our face and
be like everyone is playing Hyena's. We

671
00:45:31.400 --> 00:45:35.199
didn't know. Of course we didn't
know, but man, we were really

672
00:45:35.280 --> 00:45:37.920
wrong. Yeah. I say this
all the time. I love to be

673
00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:45.400
wrong when it comes to games,
you know, because I unfortunately I feel

674
00:45:45.440 --> 00:45:49.119
like sometimes we can be a little
bit cynical when it comes to game releases,

675
00:45:49.239 --> 00:45:52.079
right because we just see so many
of them, and like the delusion

676
00:45:52.079 --> 00:45:55.800
of similar style of games or games
that are marketed kind of poorly, and

677
00:45:55.880 --> 00:46:00.000
I love to be wrong about them. I love to be surprised, right,

678
00:46:00.079 --> 00:46:02.519
Like Exo Primal, I think we're
all a little bit hesitant on but

679
00:46:02.559 --> 00:46:06.840
like a little bit glimmer of like
this could be fun comes out, It

680
00:46:06.920 --> 00:46:10.119
is fun now has that stuck with
us? Not necessarily, but at least

681
00:46:10.159 --> 00:46:15.559
we had that positive experience that has
changed our opinions on it. Yeah,

682
00:46:15.599 --> 00:46:19.679
and it's and you could see how
like maybe this game strikes the right tone

683
00:46:19.719 --> 00:46:22.960
with like oh yeah, we have
Sonic the Hedgehog stuff that you're steel line

684
00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:25.000
like that's it's like, okay,
that's kind of fun, and they're starting

685
00:46:25.119 --> 00:46:28.840
they're hitting the right tone right right
out of the gate, and maybe it

686
00:46:28.920 --> 00:46:31.039
does surprise h you know, I
would not have known, like Jesse pointed

687
00:46:31.039 --> 00:46:34.159
out, see if they use this
kind of an extraction game as well.

688
00:46:34.199 --> 00:46:36.239
It's like I would out have predicted
to see if these was going to be

689
00:46:36.280 --> 00:46:39.400
as popular as it turned out to
be. And maybe Hyenas has a similar

690
00:46:39.400 --> 00:46:45.079
sort of Arc there we'll see speak
of our Arc Raiders, another extraction shooter

691
00:46:45.280 --> 00:46:46.880
from a relatively big studio, although
they've never put out a game before,

692
00:46:46.920 --> 00:46:51.960
but they have a pedigree. DC
Universe Online is coming to PS five and

693
00:46:52.079 --> 00:46:55.800
Xbox Series X. This is from
Wesley in Pool at IGN. DC Universe

694
00:46:55.840 --> 00:47:00.559
Online comes out on PlayStation five and
Xbox Series X this how day season.

695
00:47:00.920 --> 00:47:07.320
Developer Dimensional inc Games has announced the
long running as and I think twelve years.

696
00:47:07.639 --> 00:47:09.559
I think twelve years. It feels
like it. Maybe I've been longer

697
00:47:09.599 --> 00:47:14.599
than that. The long running free
to download MMO launches on both consoles in

698
00:47:14.719 --> 00:47:17.239
native form, and the development team
is working on gameplay and quality of life

699
00:47:17.239 --> 00:47:22.519
improvements to go alongside the upgrade.
Expect some of these improvements to launch over

700
00:47:22.559 --> 00:47:25.760
the next few months before the release
on currentine consoles and some next year.

701
00:47:27.760 --> 00:47:30.480
I'm I'm good, but I mean, I know there's a lot of people

702
00:47:30.480 --> 00:47:35.480
who are fans of DC Universe Online
that every time it gets updated and put

703
00:47:35.519 --> 00:47:37.920
on new system they go check back
in. And yes, I'm talking about

704
00:47:37.920 --> 00:47:45.360
Greg Miller. Yeah, it's not
even the whole hating on the DCU or

705
00:47:45.360 --> 00:47:49.719
the DC Cinematic Universe or whatever.
I just that now, right, yeah,

706
00:47:49.880 --> 00:47:54.280
past that, it's hey, good
for those people, I guess get

707
00:47:54.360 --> 00:48:00.239
out on the PS three what the
fuck? Yeah? Yeah? And at

708
00:48:00.320 --> 00:48:06.039
twenty eleven, I mean saying,
Sis Dan Ryker, that's not not true

709
00:48:05.519 --> 00:48:10.199
up Final I hey, folks are
still playing Final Fantasy eleven bright Oh yeah,

710
00:48:10.239 --> 00:48:15.679
absolutely, of course that came out
in oh two. Yeah. Man,

711
00:48:15.800 --> 00:48:20.559
you're right. People are still playing
like ever Ever Quest two I think,

712
00:48:20.599 --> 00:48:22.239
and stuff and like Lord of the
Rings online. They're playing all of

713
00:48:22.280 --> 00:48:28.360
these. But jan, you know, we we were dismissing the DC Cinematic

714
00:48:28.440 --> 00:48:31.239
Universe. How can you do that? We're in the midst of blue beetle

715
00:48:31.320 --> 00:48:37.320
Mania. Welcome everybody, It's blue
beetlemania. This is this is a Mike

716
00:48:37.400 --> 00:48:38.880
macnaughty bit. So if Mike Mike, if you're I think he's probably still

717
00:48:38.920 --> 00:48:44.199
asleep because he was just up late
celebrating blue beetle manias so late, and

718
00:48:45.159 --> 00:48:47.840
I mean, who can blame them? The excitement, the fervor out there

719
00:48:49.039 --> 00:48:52.760
is real. Jin you never stopped
talking about blue beetle How many times have

720
00:48:52.840 --> 00:48:57.159
you played Homo tempts? You planned
to see it? At least? What's

721
00:48:57.239 --> 00:49:02.000
I actually really liked the lead of
of Blue Beetle. He's a good kid.

722
00:49:02.079 --> 00:49:07.119
I like Jolo Mere Duena. He's
good in Cobra Kai. He's a

723
00:49:07.159 --> 00:49:10.280
good kid. Also, you know, Blue Beetle actually pretty well revered comic,

724
00:49:10.480 --> 00:49:13.800
Like in that scene, people like
Blue Beetle a lot, I think,

725
00:49:14.039 --> 00:49:16.599
or at least like the character of
course Blue Beetles at me think it's

726
00:49:16.639 --> 00:49:22.440
he's basically a powering Jersey yes,
uh, but yeah, I don't uh

727
00:49:23.079 --> 00:49:30.079
man, Blue Beetle's This movie just
feels so strange now, uh yeah,

728
00:49:30.079 --> 00:49:32.880
when is it out? Like when
is it actually out? I don't know.

729
00:49:34.239 --> 00:49:37.239
It's so hard. The unfortunate thing
and not not to like ruin the

730
00:49:37.320 --> 00:49:40.719
joke and be like, oh no, here's good, big, super fucking

731
00:49:40.800 --> 00:49:45.400
woke. Uh. The thing that's
unfortunate with like the w g A and

732
00:49:45.679 --> 00:49:52.159
sag Strike is it's especially unfortunate because
this is one of the first, uh

733
00:49:52.360 --> 00:49:59.000
superhero movies for DC that has like
strong Latino representation, and for them not

734
00:49:59.119 --> 00:50:02.840
to be able to uh properly promote
this movie and pay homage to the actual

735
00:50:02.920 --> 00:50:08.639
character and everything kind of kind of
sucks. It's pretty unfortunate. And also

736
00:50:09.440 --> 00:50:15.199
just like the poor spot that any
person that is attached to DC. Uh

737
00:50:15.480 --> 00:50:21.239
is incredibly unfortunate because, like,
especially after the whole Flash debacle with Ezra

738
00:50:21.320 --> 00:50:28.119
Miller and their own problems, anything
out coming out of DC afterwards is unfortunate.

739
00:50:28.400 --> 00:50:32.199
But hey, I really like you're
alla marit twitna yo that that kid

740
00:50:32.199 --> 00:50:37.199
can do a spin kick? What's
he been in? Cobra Kai most notable?

741
00:50:37.559 --> 00:50:39.559
Okay, I watched the first season
of that and I liked it.

742
00:50:39.559 --> 00:50:43.800
I'm always want to go back to
it. He plays Miguel. Okay,

743
00:50:43.880 --> 00:50:46.760
all right, very very cool?
All right, I mean the mania is

744
00:50:46.800 --> 00:50:51.800
real and it's it's overtaking. The
mania is here, yes, here it

745
00:50:51.880 --> 00:50:54.480
is. All right, let's uh, let's see if I got to know.

746
00:50:54.559 --> 00:50:57.400
I think, yeah, that wraps
it up for the news. You

747
00:50:57.400 --> 00:51:00.519
know what called do is get a
central hub for the franchise go forward,

748
00:51:00.760 --> 00:51:04.400
which I guess isn't two surprising,
becau they were trying to do that with

749
00:51:04.800 --> 00:51:08.039
the Battlenet and it's like, well
they're not doing that anymore. So yeah,

750
00:51:08.239 --> 00:51:10.639
they're not doing that anymore. Why
are they doing it again? So

751
00:51:10.679 --> 00:51:15.559
it's I think they're like their idea
is we are already kind of doing it

752
00:51:15.719 --> 00:51:20.159
in the games themselves, but we
just forced you to buy the new game

753
00:51:21.000 --> 00:51:22.960
for seventy dollars and then you open
that up and it's a Call of Duty

754
00:51:23.039 --> 00:51:28.239
hub and you could play like whatever, you play the war Zone or whatever,

755
00:51:29.039 --> 00:51:30.519
or play their extraction mode, which
I think people like as well.

756
00:51:30.599 --> 00:51:36.039
Hazard Zone. It was something else
that might have been the Battlefield one and

757
00:51:36.079 --> 00:51:38.320
so it's well, they do have
all these different things going on at the

758
00:51:38.360 --> 00:51:42.039
same time, so maybe going for
it, they should just have this one

759
00:51:42.119 --> 00:51:44.840
hub. So it makes more sense
because it is a little bit confusing if

760
00:51:44.840 --> 00:51:46.119
you're someone that comes back to Call
of Duty. I was always like,

761
00:51:46.119 --> 00:51:51.119
how do I play Wars? I
gotta download the game that I don't buy

762
00:51:51.159 --> 00:51:53.880
the game, but I'm still downloading. I was confusing. So this might

763
00:51:54.000 --> 00:51:58.320
clear things up a little bit.
So this will start with Modern Warfare two

764
00:51:58.400 --> 00:52:01.679
and war Zone into three and it's
gonna encompass all that stuff. So there

765
00:52:01.679 --> 00:52:06.960
you come, all right, I
got a pull from yesterday. I'll get

766
00:52:06.960 --> 00:52:08.599
that up in a second, though, jam what do we have going on

767
00:52:08.639 --> 00:52:13.360
in Giant Bond for the rest of
the weekend, including today? For today,

768
00:52:13.400 --> 00:52:16.239
we have an episode of the Voicemail
Dump truck popping off. We are

769
00:52:16.280 --> 00:52:22.280
also going to hopefully be recording some
things after this that will get posted eventually.

770
00:52:22.679 --> 00:52:28.480
UPF starts early this week. I
believe it is ten am ten am

771
00:52:28.840 --> 00:52:34.000
specific standard time for folks wanting to
keep an eye out on that. We

772
00:52:34.079 --> 00:52:37.280
may be playing Balder's Gate three or
maybe something else pops up, who knows.

773
00:52:38.480 --> 00:52:43.920
Additionally, what else we got going
on? Another episode of game Miss

774
00:52:43.960 --> 00:52:47.480
Morning's tomorrow Tomorrow's Drags Day. Of
course, an episode of Jeff Jeff's went

775
00:52:47.559 --> 00:52:53.199
up yesterday. We also finally,
finally, finally put out the video of

776
00:52:53.239 --> 00:52:57.880
Tam and Lucy going to San Diego
Comic Con. It's good times. It's

777
00:52:57.920 --> 00:53:01.159
a very lengthy vlog because I think
long videos are the new meta grub.

778
00:53:01.280 --> 00:53:05.239
Yeah, apparently, yes, people
like the lung because people like just putting

779
00:53:05.239 --> 00:53:07.440
stuff on in the background on YouTube, I think, and so going to

780
00:53:07.519 --> 00:53:13.599
succeed, that's right. I had
a friend that just did a twelve hour

781
00:53:13.800 --> 00:53:19.480
video on old Nickelodeon cartoons on YouTube. Oh he looked dead after he finished

782
00:53:19.480 --> 00:53:22.599
that, So oh yeah, yeah, and that's I think it's doing very

783
00:53:22.599 --> 00:53:30.280
well. Yeah days, yep,
all right, the poll from yesterday,

784
00:53:30.440 --> 00:53:32.480
let's see here, have you ever
seen Yoship and Dennis Diyak in the same

785
00:53:32.559 --> 00:53:37.519
room at the same time. Ten
percent half, that's one out of ten

786
00:53:37.559 --> 00:53:40.360
people have seen that, but one
out of ten people I don't trust ninety

787
00:53:40.400 --> 00:53:47.280
percent said no, stunned Pikachu face. So so there's they're still suspicious.

788
00:53:49.199 --> 00:53:53.440
I would say that the one console
future baton being passed from Dennis diact to

789
00:53:53.519 --> 00:53:58.840
Yoship, that's all the evidence I
need. Clearly the same person it always

790
00:53:58.840 --> 00:54:04.440
has been. And we have a
new poll going up now, will you

791
00:54:04.559 --> 00:54:07.519
use mods on your first run of
Starfield? Yes, so many of them.

792
00:54:07.599 --> 00:54:12.280
Yes, but quality of life only
and no. Those are your options.

793
00:54:12.719 --> 00:54:15.119
You can vote for that. Vote
on that. We'll talk about it

794
00:54:15.159 --> 00:54:19.039
here on giant bomb dot com tomorrow. Speaking a Giant Bomb, please tune

795
00:54:19.079 --> 00:54:22.639
back in, like he says later
for the voicemail dumb Truck. I'm gonna

796
00:54:22.639 --> 00:54:25.039
be getting my TSA pre checks.
I won't be there. Oh shoot,

797
00:54:25.079 --> 00:54:30.360
I made an appointment for today.
Also what I don't know, Well,

798
00:54:30.400 --> 00:54:32.239
I'm not during the dumb Truck.
Okay, that's right, because yeah,

799
00:54:32.239 --> 00:54:36.960
you've got a different times I'm going
on over there, fantastic, All right,

800
00:54:37.280 --> 00:54:39.119
Definitely tune in for that looking forward
to I'll be listening. Everyone else

801
00:54:39.159 --> 00:54:44.079
should as well. I tried to
get I think he's not. He's definitely

802
00:54:44.079 --> 00:54:47.159
asleep, so hopefully he doesn't hear
this before I send in a voicemail to

803
00:54:46.480 --> 00:54:51.960
get Mike to sing with My Baby
Tonight by Jeff Jarrett Slash Road Doug.

804
00:54:52.920 --> 00:54:54.639
I don't think he knows the song. Jan, that's not a reason not

805
00:54:54.679 --> 00:54:58.079
to play it. Though, that's
not a reason not to play He definitely

806
00:54:58.079 --> 00:55:01.400
still play it. Okay, Hey
everybody, Jan, thank you so much

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for spending today talking with me about
video games. I really appreciate it.

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Man, It's the best way to
start a Thursday. Thank you all for

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watching. You're the best audience in
gaming. Had a lot of fun today.

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I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go
play Start a Field. I'm sorry

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about everybody. Until next time,
I have a good one. Take care

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of yourself and goodbye.