1 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:21,359 Hello, and welcome to side Quest. This is our weekly video game show 2 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:25,079 here at geek Erst. I'm your host, Dyll must Night with Me Kid 3 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:29,079 Xbox Taylor Field. How is it going, my friend? It's going good. 4 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:31,399 It's going good. I'm happy to be here as always, and I'm 5 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:36,799 excited to talk this week's topics with you. Yeah, we have a nice 6 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:41,039 mix bag today, you know, it's funny on Friday or Saturday or something. 7 00:00:41,039 --> 00:00:44,000 I messaged you and I was like, Taylor, got any ideas for 8 00:00:44,079 --> 00:00:47,600 side Quest Monday, Like there's nothing in the news. I haven't really been 9 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:50,000 playing a lot of games, Like what are we gonna talk about? And 10 00:00:50,039 --> 00:00:52,560 You're like, I don't know. I don't really have many ideas myself. 11 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:56,399 And so I was looking through my backlog of many many side Quest notes for 12 00:00:56,439 --> 00:00:59,399 potential topic ideas. But then all of a sudden, just random news things 13 00:00:59,399 --> 00:01:02,600 popped up that I thought could be pretty interesting to talk about. And I 14 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:04,879 played some other games over the weekend, so I'm I'm excited for this one. 15 00:01:04,879 --> 00:01:07,799 It's gonna be fun. Mix bad guys. I said, just a 16 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:11,840 few quick shot outs here join the discord. You know it's a good place 17 00:01:11,879 --> 00:01:15,920 to discuss all this good stuff. Join the Patreon to get episodes early and 18 00:01:17,079 --> 00:01:21,159 add free. You can leave a review for the podcast to help it grow. 19 00:01:21,439 --> 00:01:25,359 You can go leave a wishless on my game on Steam. It's called 20 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:29,400 Potion Problem in the in the description there, I'm gonna announce release it very 21 00:01:29,439 --> 00:01:33,079 soon, I promise, And the game's coming out soon as well, so 22 00:01:33,359 --> 00:01:37,040 you know, keep keep your eyes out for that. And then I don't 23 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:38,480 even know what do we doing this week? We have the season of X 24 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:42,920 so, we got all sorts of X Men things coming out in our newscaster 25 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:45,640 are Go and break down, the new Wolverine and Deadpool trailer, which I 26 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:48,200 haven't watched yet, So that's what we got in the news. I think 27 00:01:48,239 --> 00:01:52,359 there's a movie coming out soon. I'm seeing Challengers this week, but I 28 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:55,400 don't even know it's nothing's coming out this week. Maybe in the next couple 29 00:01:55,400 --> 00:02:00,000 of weeks. We've got some other stuff there. Okay, that's a very 30 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:04,439 video game related so yeah, is that is that a binger or is that 31 00:02:04,519 --> 00:02:07,879 a week by week? Week by week? Okay? Yeah, I'm not 32 00:02:07,879 --> 00:02:09,039 sure if Kirkland's on board with that, I don't know who else is on 33 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:12,479 board with it or who's joining. If k is all with you, are 34 00:02:12,479 --> 00:02:15,520 you doing it so long? I'm tempted to. Yeah, on a week 35 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:17,840 to week basis, that would be a lot. Maybe, Like that's how 36 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:21,719 you do your bad Batch sometimes. Yeah, maybe I might do that. 37 00:02:21,719 --> 00:02:23,039 If he's not committed to it, then I might. I might switch the 38 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:25,639 formula up a little bit. Yeah, he got someone's gonna go back to 39 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:30,360 formula and somebody's going to switch with the formula altogether. But yeah, either 40 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:32,599 way, I just stay tuned to the the fee, the fiends, the 41 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:38,560 feeds, uh to uh see all that stuff as it drops. Okay, 42 00:02:38,879 --> 00:02:43,960 let's get into it. The first thing I wanted to do is last week 43 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:49,080 myself, Travis and Kirkland talked about the latest Star Wars Outlaws trailer, and 44 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:52,240 in that we talked about this kind of controversy around this jab of the Hut 45 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:55,599 mission and whatnot, which is like apparently exclusive, But then I don't know, 46 00:02:55,639 --> 00:03:00,319 the director someone related the game has come out and said that all was 47 00:03:00,319 --> 00:03:01,719 still in the game for everyone, even if you don't have the special edition. 48 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:06,439 But I guess there's like a there is still an exclusive quest that's in 49 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:09,159 this special edition, but just a correction that we were being pretty hard on 50 00:03:09,199 --> 00:03:13,439 them for this thing last week, and it seems like maybe Job is still 51 00:03:13,439 --> 00:03:15,120 in the game to some extent, so it's maybe not quite as grimy as 52 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:19,240 we said. So I just wanted to put that correction out there. Did 53 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:22,080 you watch that trailer at all, that that newest trailer for Outlaws? Any 54 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:24,479 any thoughts on that to change your hype level a little? I mean, 55 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:28,120 to me, it gave it gave me Jedi Fallen Order vibes, except you're 56 00:03:28,159 --> 00:03:30,000 not playing as a Jedi, You're just existing in the same time period, 57 00:03:30,039 --> 00:03:35,840 which that's that's fair. I'm not hugely sold on this. Kind of the 58 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:38,879 smuggler life in Star Wars is not really kind of my avenue. I mean, 59 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:40,960 is a cool character, but I'm more of a like bounty hunter, 60 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:45,759 bubeffect kind of guy. Sure, but I think I think you guys are 61 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:50,439 rightfully positioned to call it grimy. I still think that any kind of mission 62 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:54,120 that's at least something like this that's kind of back behind like a paywall, 63 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:59,039 to some degree, I think it's still pretty grimy. It's not fair because 64 00:03:59,319 --> 00:04:00,919 I'm sure you can act with Jaba in other regards, but I just think 65 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:03,039 that you should be able to access everything, and I thought we were past 66 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:06,599 these days, like the odd like bonus mission to get an item which doesn't 67 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:10,680 have like a main impact on the story. That's fine, but if your 68 00:04:10,759 --> 00:04:14,759 bonus mission is like a huge character in a Star Wars icon, that kind 69 00:04:14,759 --> 00:04:17,600 of sucks. So it's it's it's weird that I feel like it's been happening 70 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:21,920 more. Again, maybe I'm just cherry picking here, but like Hogwarts Legacy 71 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:26,360 had that exclusive quest which was like a horror theme haunted house thing, which 72 00:04:26,399 --> 00:04:29,519 is like, that's a very I still haven't gone back and downloaded the game 73 00:04:29,519 --> 00:04:32,040 again since uh they've added that to Xbox to try it out myself. But 74 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:35,319 it's weird that that was a thing too, and it seemed like a really 75 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:39,360 interesting thing that I wasn't quite like, Oh, here's this big character that 76 00:04:39,399 --> 00:04:42,959 you know in love that they're putting up in these trailers. But yeah, 77 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:46,480 it's it's something that I hope, I hope just the backlash that they got 78 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:51,680 from this announcement is assigned to other companies, at least hopefully within Ubisophnia and 79 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:55,160 all those kind of guys that like, yeah, don't do that, you 80 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:58,439 know you can have a DLC come out later, but it's weird to have 81 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:00,439 exclusive content and then put that in your like main trailer is a big selling 82 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:04,319 point when your game doesn't have a ton of other, like huge established characters. 83 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:08,759 So anyway, I hope, hopefully, hopefully that scares people off from 84 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:13,560 doing a similar thing. Next up, let's talk about some Fallout. So 85 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:15,240 there's a few different things here with Fallout. One is, of course, 86 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:19,519 the TV show came out recently. Meo and Travis did a review on that, 87 00:05:19,759 --> 00:05:24,639 and season two has officially been confirmed, which is great if you go 88 00:05:24,759 --> 00:05:28,920 back to that review, I we all really enjoyed it, but I definitely 89 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:32,079 had a couple things holding me back, which was that mainly the ending of 90 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:36,680 it was left very open in a lot of character storylines, it felt like 91 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:40,399 not even really a cliffhanger, it was just like the middle of the story. 92 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:43,600 So it's good to see that that is going to be the case, 93 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,600 and we're all getting another season at least another season to help go deeper into 94 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:48,959 some of those stories. Very excited for that, especially with some of the 95 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:51,480 teases. I don't think we need to spoil the ending of it necessarily, 96 00:05:51,519 --> 00:05:58,360 but yeah, that's pretty cool, And I don't know, I'm sure you're 97 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:00,519 happy about that too, right, you enjoyed the show just as much as 98 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:05,079 me and Travis. But I also wanted to check this out. So the 99 00:06:05,079 --> 00:06:10,120 the the through the Followout Shelter, which when it forgets is like the mobile 100 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:14,000 game that they released around the time of Fallout four. Uh. I guess 101 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,560 puts like known characters in that along with like the random settlers and whatnot that 102 00:06:17,639 --> 00:06:21,360 I'll appear in there. And they added four characters from the show in the 103 00:06:21,399 --> 00:06:27,120 game, so that through that we can derive the stats of these characters as 104 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:30,160 they would appear in a Follout game, which is a fun thought experiment to 105 00:06:30,199 --> 00:06:33,079 look at. So we have, of course Lucy the Ghoul, and Maximus 106 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:39,759 the three protagonists, and then randomly Ma June, who's like from Philly. 107 00:06:39,879 --> 00:06:43,839 She's like the shopkeeper there. So it's like, I don't know why she 108 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:46,759 was like the fourth character in this, and maybe they'll add more over time, 109 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:47,839 but it seems weird that they have like, yeah, here's the three 110 00:06:47,879 --> 00:06:53,000 big protagonists, the people on the poster, and then Ma is like there 111 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:59,319 as well, very very strange. Before we break down these stats, I 112 00:06:59,319 --> 00:07:01,920 gotta ask you where do you think you know? Fallout is an RPG. 113 00:07:02,199 --> 00:07:04,759 When you start the game, you have stats, and as you love love 114 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:08,600 you get more stats. When we look at these stats, like where do 115 00:07:08,639 --> 00:07:11,319 you think these are in the character's journey? Like if we look at Lucy's 116 00:07:11,319 --> 00:07:14,240 stats, is that her fresh out the vault? Or is that her at 117 00:07:14,279 --> 00:07:16,120 the end of the series, or is that if there's more seasons, is 118 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:19,439 this like her in the future, Like what do you think we should look 119 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:24,120 at for that? I take it that this is literally Lucy fresh out of 120 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:27,439 the vaults. When I look at this stuff, I think that I think 121 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:30,959 it's all there, and it all kind of makes sense with just who she 122 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:34,879 is. And I mean were looking at how she survived in that vault too, 123 00:07:34,879 --> 00:07:38,439 and how she had all the information, all the training and clubs she 124 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:41,800 was in. I think it fits. Okay, so let's see how that 125 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:46,759 stands up. So Lucy, here are her stats strength four, perception seven, 126 00:07:46,279 --> 00:07:51,600 endurance six, charisma five, intelligence six, agility five, and luck 127 00:07:51,839 --> 00:07:57,240 seven. I mean, just right off the bat is very much like this 128 00:07:57,319 --> 00:08:00,040 is kind of the stats like Mario would have if he was in follow in 129 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:03,879 terms of just being like the protagonist that has very balanced stats, like most 130 00:08:03,879 --> 00:08:07,680 of these are close to five or like one off, and at most you 131 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:11,040 have two that are off and none that even dropped to like the three status. 132 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:15,800 So she's not bad at anything particularly, but she doesn't excel anything as 133 00:08:15,879 --> 00:08:20,720 kind of what these stats are telling me. Is there anything weird or off 134 00:08:20,759 --> 00:08:26,839 about these stats too? Well, not necessarily except for luck. I guess 135 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:33,440 she's considered lucky to survive the wasteland, but she definitely didn't have a lot 136 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:37,639 of luck at the start though that's for daying sure. Yeah, And luck 137 00:08:37,759 --> 00:08:41,480 is even in other scrolls or followed, is such a weird stat where you 138 00:08:41,519 --> 00:08:46,159 can never really see what it's doing, whereas like other stats are more clear 139 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:48,320 of like oh, if I upgrade my agility, maybe I'll like have higher 140 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:54,120 accuracy with a one handed weapons, or like i'll take let's fall damage like 141 00:08:54,159 --> 00:08:56,879 those kind of things you can like notice them when you're playing, But luck 142 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:01,919 is never really that obvious, like even I think in elder scrolls, it's 143 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:05,759 just like and maybe even the description and followed, it just affects everything you 144 00:09:05,799 --> 00:09:07,600 do in a small way, and it's just like kind of how they describe 145 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:11,639 it. So personally and you know, actually, maybe maybe the reason is 146 00:09:11,879 --> 00:09:13,960 I've never noticed it is because I never really put stats into luck, And 147 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:16,480 maybe if you did a luck play through, maybe you couldn't notice that kind 148 00:09:16,519 --> 00:09:18,639 of thing more. But to me, it always just seemed like kind of 149 00:09:18,639 --> 00:09:22,919 like a dumpstat, like I'm not really gonna put my my hard earned points 150 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:28,279 into that. For me, I feel like maybe agility I would give her 151 00:09:28,279 --> 00:09:31,639 some I don't want to spoil too much of the show, but I'll just 152 00:09:31,639 --> 00:09:35,960 say this. There's one point where she gets caught and maybe that's bad agilly, 153 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:37,320 but there's another point where she like fights off a robot in a way 154 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:43,679 that feels very agility like extensive to me. So I feel like maybe maybe 155 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:48,120 i'd bump her agility. I think she's smart, and I think perception like 156 00:09:48,159 --> 00:09:50,960 those are good stats. But of course she comes from like a different background, 157 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,879 so it makes sense that she doesn't have as much kind of knowledge around 158 00:09:54,879 --> 00:09:58,960 the stuff out in the wasteland. So I can understand that I'm just gonna 159 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:01,759 bring this up now that really the only weird stat for her with me is 160 00:10:01,799 --> 00:10:07,039 the charisma of being five, and it's directly because of Maximus. So let's 161 00:10:07,039 --> 00:10:11,799 get into Maximus. Maximus's stats next, He's got seven strength six, perceptions 162 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:18,960 six, endurance five, charisma four, intelligence, agility seven, and luck 163 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:22,440 five. I just I just don't see a world where Maximus and Lucy have 164 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:28,360 the same charisma stat. That just does not track for the TV show that 165 00:10:28,399 --> 00:10:31,600 I watched. Personally, I agree, I don't think the charisma was there. 166 00:10:31,759 --> 00:10:35,039 I feel like his intelligence should have been like a little bit lower because 167 00:10:35,039 --> 00:10:37,600 he was even lower than a four, even lower than a four. I 168 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:39,960 mean, he did not have many many points put into that in the show 169 00:10:41,039 --> 00:10:45,639 with how he's operating and working as a night So yeah, and there's, 170 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:48,679 you know, the tricky thing of like charisma and like perception, because I 171 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:52,840 feel like Maximus is like social perception is particularly weak. And I don't know 172 00:10:52,879 --> 00:10:56,720 if you'd consider that like a charisma stat or a perception stat, but I 173 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:58,720 would definitely drop ear. I would agree with you intelligence, I dropped that 174 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:03,919 by one. I drop his charisma by one as well. I might even 175 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:07,039 maybe maybe I'll give him an extra endurance point or something. He goes through 176 00:11:07,039 --> 00:11:09,879 a lot in that show and he kind of endures. What I agree, 177 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:13,919 I think the strength should come down just a little bit, and then the 178 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:16,759 endurance should be bumped up a little bit more. Yeah, and then luck, 179 00:11:16,799 --> 00:11:18,639 I mean I don't know, is he unlucky? Is he lucky? 180 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:24,759 I think five's fine good enough there right in the middle, right m hm. 181 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:28,759 And the agility is weird one too, because for any like Brotherhood type 182 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:31,039 characters, like they're just so big and chunky and bulky that you don't really 183 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:35,480 think of them as particularly agile. And he of course he does spend time 184 00:11:35,519 --> 00:11:39,840 outside the armor as well, but uh yeah, that's there's just some weird 185 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:43,679 stuff with the charisma stat overall, and then jumping over the ghoul, the 186 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:48,519 Great Walton Goggins has a strength of five perception six, endurance seven, charisma 187 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:54,080 seven, intelligence for agility seven and luck for to me, this is way 188 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:56,679 off. This is this is a huge miss. Like I just feel like 189 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:00,279 the Ghoule should be a way higher level character than these guys. Like if 190 00:12:00,279 --> 00:12:03,200 there's tears within follow out shelter of characters are getting, he would be like 191 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:07,600 a legendary. I mean, he's been around for so long. He's way 192 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:11,679 smarter than a four, probably a good amount stronger than a five. Perception 193 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:15,919 I'd say should be higher than a six. Endurance and charismat seven, Okay, 194 00:12:15,919 --> 00:12:18,960 that's pretty high stat I'll give him that agility. I didn't even give 195 00:12:18,039 --> 00:12:22,639 him a bonus point there and say luck. I guess it's kind of he 196 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:26,279 got unlucky, But I don't think he is generally an unlucky guy. I 197 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:28,960 think the base on him being a ghoul. I think that's why they're saying 198 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:33,200 that lack is so low. I don't know. I mean, I'll think 199 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:35,960 I'll throw you to the opposite way. We see so many times in follow 200 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:37,759 if you're walking around this is the TV show over the games. If you're 201 00:12:37,799 --> 00:12:41,639 just walking around, the amount of times you see like a skeleton, you 202 00:12:41,639 --> 00:12:45,039 know, someone who just just got killed from the bombs going off in that 203 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:48,759 moment, they're dead in their kitchen table, that kind of thing. He 204 00:12:48,879 --> 00:12:54,480 survived that and now he has like essentially eternal life. To me, that's 205 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:58,759 lucky. He got out pretty well relative to other people who just died because 206 00:12:58,759 --> 00:13:01,919 of the last and from what we see, because it's like a spoiler or 207 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:05,639 an episode one thing, right, Like, it's pretty lucky. I think 208 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:09,840 that he survived that situation at all. But does that factor in his endurance? 209 00:13:09,879 --> 00:13:13,120 That's seven points he's got there. You're right, maybe that's more of 210 00:13:13,159 --> 00:13:18,039 an endurance thing than is a luck thing. And maybe his perception should be 211 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:22,960 bad because of not seeing the bomb thing originally. His kid found at first, 212 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:24,559 and she's like a little kid, you know, she's distracted. Yeah, 213 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:28,120 I mean when I guess it's a spoiler red stuff, it's like, 214 00:13:28,159 --> 00:13:31,919 you know that's fair enough, you know. Yeah's a lot of red flags 215 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:35,080 for him. So yeah, perception maybe we a little lower. But like, 216 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:37,480 do you agree with me in general though, that his stats should he 217 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:41,799 like, he should be a really high level type of character. He should, 218 00:13:41,919 --> 00:13:45,600 absolutely, because his intelligence is lower than Lucy's. And I just I 219 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:50,559 don't buy that. Lucy that's six and he's four. That's pretty whack for 220 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:54,799 sure. But yeah, charisma, I think charisma could honestly make it higher 221 00:13:54,799 --> 00:13:58,480 because he was so charismatic. I was loving it. Yeah, it's true 222 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:01,519 he was. But I also feel like he's the kind of guy who know 223 00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:03,039 this is the thing too. Once again, like Elder scrolls, that kind 224 00:14:03,039 --> 00:14:07,759 of like they delineate in these stats more. But there's like intimidation part of 225 00:14:07,879 --> 00:14:11,240 charisma like or related to like in Elder Scrolls is the personality stat and so 226 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:13,279 if you're good, if you ever really had a personality set, you're better 227 00:14:13,399 --> 00:14:18,399 intimidating people. And that's where I feel like his strength is is with intimidation. 228 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:20,080 Now within fallout, I think that would actually usually go to more of 229 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:26,440 a strength thing, like if you had a speech check that was, like 230 00:14:26,519 --> 00:14:28,639 you intimidating someone, I think it would more often be a strength than a 231 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:33,039 charisma. But I'd have to go play the games again and see what kind 232 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:35,080 of interactions they are. But yeah, I think you're I think you're right. 233 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:37,080 But I think even his strength, like you know, he's more of 234 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:41,720 a gunslinger type guy, but like at least a six, Like come on, 235 00:14:41,879 --> 00:14:45,200 like he's a he's a pretty tough, pretty tough guy. Yeah, 236 00:14:45,799 --> 00:14:52,559 and then mo June the Great Modune strength five, perception seven, endurance five, 237 00:14:52,159 --> 00:14:58,080 charisma seven, intelligence six, agility four, and luck six. The 238 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:01,080 hardest one with this is, like, you know, she's not in the 239 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:03,519 show a whole lot. She's in one episode. I think maybe maybe it 240 00:15:03,519 --> 00:15:07,799 stretches into two episodes, but not into a lot, so it's hard to 241 00:15:07,799 --> 00:15:13,559 gain too much information. But I don't know if she's that charismatic that seems 242 00:15:13,639 --> 00:15:20,240 high. And I also, that's really the only one that speaks because maybe 243 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:22,120 she's super smart. I don't know, she seems smart enough, but charisma 244 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:26,000 seven seems like, Okay, that's a bit that's being a bit kind to 245 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:31,840 missus June. Here she's I look at her SATs and I look at Lucy's, 246 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:35,399 and I feel like they're quite similar. But again she's got higher strength, 247 00:15:35,679 --> 00:15:39,519 same perception, lord endurance, higher charisma, same intelligence, which again 248 00:15:39,559 --> 00:15:45,919 I don't feel like that is warranted because she's she's a shop owner up there, 249 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:48,080 she should be a lot more smarter than what Lucy's bringing to the table. 250 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:50,360 I would imagine. Yeah, if anything, i'd bump, I'd give 251 00:15:50,399 --> 00:15:54,840 her like an extra endurance for her ability to like survive out out there. 252 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:58,360 And maybe you drop the intelligence by by a smidge, But maybe I don't 253 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:03,039 know. If she you is being a shopkeeper as her way to survive in 254 00:16:03,039 --> 00:16:04,799 the way sound like maybe that maybe you need some You probably need some smarts 255 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:08,000 to be a good shop owner, especially in a town like this when anyone 256 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:11,879 such as the ghoul can just come through at any point and blow stuff up, 257 00:16:11,919 --> 00:16:15,759 you know, yeah, yeah, And who knows if she's lucky or 258 00:16:15,799 --> 00:16:21,840 not. I mean, that's how can any of us say any any thoughts 259 00:16:21,879 --> 00:16:25,440 on this? Is there any any characters you would like to see from the 260 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:29,080 show in particular that you'd like to see them add to Shelter. Maybe they're 261 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:32,519 already in Shelter. I don't even know. I don't know who's in there 262 00:16:32,519 --> 00:16:33,960 currently, but yeah, anyone you want to see from the show get added. 263 00:16:34,559 --> 00:16:38,039 I'd like to see maybe Lucy's brother, just for the for the fun 264 00:16:38,039 --> 00:16:41,399 of it, that'd be fun. I'd like to definitely her dad. I'd 265 00:16:41,399 --> 00:16:45,759 like to see her dad in there. Yeah, that as well. I'm 266 00:16:45,759 --> 00:16:49,519 trying to think. Who else are some fun characters in there? Maybe the 267 00:16:49,559 --> 00:16:55,799 other, maybe the other. The Squire Maximus is funny homie there. That 268 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:59,200 could be funny because he I could see him having like comically low stats. 269 00:17:00,399 --> 00:17:02,759 And there's one I want to say, but it might be a spoiler, 270 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:07,920 so I'll say, if you know, you know, there's one one guy 271 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:10,880 in particular that i'd really like to see what his stats would be. Do 272 00:17:11,279 --> 00:17:17,119 robots get our robots characters get stats. When I played Shelter back in twenty 273 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:19,079 fifteen or sixteen, when it came out, I don't remember there being a 274 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:23,200 robot in My Like as a recruitable character in the way that these characters are. 275 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:29,079 That seems like a miss if they haven't added robot characters this far in 276 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:30,480 the game's life cycle. So hopefully they add that kind of thing. I'm 277 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:33,480 not sure, but I think a couple of robots could be fun to add 278 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:37,920 in there, you know. And then lastly, on the Fallout side of 279 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:41,680 things, I wanted to shout this out. So of course the show has 280 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:44,799 been a big success. People are really enjoying it, and then on top 281 00:17:44,839 --> 00:17:49,000 of that, it's getting good reviews. Seems like the viewership's clearly there enough 282 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:55,079 for them to go ahead with a season two confirmation at this point. Because 283 00:17:55,079 --> 00:17:57,079 of that, naturally a lot of people are flocking to the games. They 284 00:17:57,079 --> 00:18:02,480 want to get more and more Fallout, and so a lot of these Follout 285 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:06,960 games have been getting really just high play counts on Steam, which is one 286 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:10,000 of the easiest places to track that kind of thing, and I think for 287 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:14,559 in particular, New Vegas I believe has hit the highest ever concurrent player account 288 00:18:14,599 --> 00:18:17,319 that it's ever had, at least through Steam. I'm guessing when the game 289 00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:21,160 first came out across all the platforms. There's more people playing than there is 290 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:25,279 today necessarily, but still that's really cool to see a bump like that for 291 00:18:25,279 --> 00:18:29,079 a game that came out in twenty ten, twenty eleven, and then Fallout 292 00:18:29,079 --> 00:18:32,160 four as well, definitely not breaking its concurrent count, but still having a 293 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:34,319 ton of new players followed. Seventy six has a bunch of players jumping in 294 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:41,000 there as well. I'm sure Fallout three is as well, So it's interesting 295 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:44,000 to see this kind of thing. And obviously we talked about last week how 296 00:18:45,759 --> 00:18:48,240 they have this next gen patch coming out for Fallout four, so that's a 297 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:51,359 lot of people are gonna jump in for that as well, coming out in 298 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:53,200 just a few to short days here. But otherwise it's like, man, 299 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:57,119 there was Season two coming out, and clearly, like you know, Bethesa's 300 00:18:57,119 --> 00:19:00,680 working on all this Rold six right now, that's gonna be another years before 301 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:03,559 that comes out, and then another few years after that would be their next 302 00:19:03,559 --> 00:19:06,480 follow game. It's like, man, it seems like a total whiff that 303 00:19:06,519 --> 00:19:11,640 they didn't have any other followout games kind of in development from other studios. 304 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:14,960 I think spinoffs would be a great opportunity for them to be doing these kind 305 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:17,000 of things right now, and maybe they are and we just haven't seen that 306 00:19:17,039 --> 00:19:19,119 announcement yet, but clearly nothing was ready to line up with season one, 307 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:22,880 and I just can't imagine that, like the next Follout game from Bethesda at 308 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:26,440 least is going to be ready in the time of season two. Is that'll 309 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:29,960 probably be what two three years from now that kind of thing, maybe a 310 00:19:30,039 --> 00:19:33,960 bit longer because it's a take, like the sets are huge and the production 311 00:19:33,079 --> 00:19:37,799 value is crazy. So maybe let's say three years out twenty twenty seven is 312 00:19:37,799 --> 00:19:41,400 when that that Season two comes out. There's no way the next mainline follow 313 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:42,920 game is going to come out, So like, I don't know, do 314 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:45,920 you do you have any ideas, like what what should Bethesda and now I 315 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:52,039 guess now Xbox as the parent company be doing to kind of capitalize on this 316 00:19:52,039 --> 00:19:56,240 this I don't know, fervor from fans wanting more follow right now? Uh. 317 00:19:57,279 --> 00:20:00,759 I mean yeah, if you were to time it with with some big 318 00:20:00,799 --> 00:20:03,160 expansion or something in game, that would have been ideal. I mean, 319 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:07,559 I with Prime games, they put Fallout seventy six excuse me on Xbox and 320 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:11,000 PC for free and so I redeem both. I don't know if we were 321 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:12,599 going to get around to them, but and I think I'll say too, 322 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:17,799 is I think Xbox, like on their claim rewards thing whatever that is, 323 00:20:17,839 --> 00:20:22,240 there's currently like a bundle for seventy six on there for oh some items, 324 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:23,200 So if you do, you should at least claim that and then when you 325 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:26,279 jump in you'll have some bonus things you can use. And I think that 326 00:20:26,319 --> 00:20:30,599 was sent that was branded around the TV show, so that was like kind 327 00:20:30,599 --> 00:20:33,920 of their their best offering, along with the follow for a next gen or 328 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:37,880 current gen version. I guess those are kind of the things they did have. 329 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:38,759 Yeah, for what it's worth, but that's a good showed out as 330 00:20:38,759 --> 00:20:41,799 well. That there's for free to get into seventy six. That's a good 331 00:20:41,799 --> 00:20:47,440 thing for a micro transaction y game like that. And I think that's just 332 00:20:47,519 --> 00:20:49,160 making it easily accessible, is what you want to do, because I think 333 00:20:49,519 --> 00:20:53,880 it's Yeah, how many Fallouts are on games Pass? Is it? Four? 334 00:20:55,319 --> 00:20:57,640 I mean all of them? I mean really all of them, although 335 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:03,160 follow one and two and tens wouldn't be on like Xbox like they were ever 336 00:21:03,279 --> 00:21:07,720 reported or anything like that, but yeah, on Xbox at least Series X 337 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:11,920 and I imagine Xbox One, you'd have followed three, four, seventy six 338 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:15,200 in New Vegas, and then on PC. I'm sure they have all those 339 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:18,720 old ones as well, like one two Tactics, and then I mean, 340 00:21:18,759 --> 00:21:21,839 yeah, Shelter wouldn't really make sense. And then I don't know if any 341 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:25,920 other followut games exist. I might be missing one or two. Yeah, 342 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:29,000 well, yeah, I just think you make them very easily accessible. Having 343 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:30,720 a big expansion would have been really really ideal, because yeah, I mean 344 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:33,960 that anything game related. I mean, seventy six is the latest one, 345 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:37,240 and I don't know when the last expansion came out for that, Yeah, 346 00:21:37,279 --> 00:21:44,400 seventy six. It did have the Atlantic City that was last year at some 347 00:21:44,599 --> 00:21:48,319 point. I believe that came out, so it's pretty recent. But I 348 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:52,640 think I think people generally want like obviously there's people flocking in seventy six right 349 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:56,359 now, but I don't know if that's I don't know if that's what people 350 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:59,680 want necessarily when they when they want to jump back into Fallout, right. 351 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:03,240 Yeah. Yeah, I mean I've mentioned this before and I'll say it again 352 00:22:03,279 --> 00:22:07,480 that like, man, they really I think the best thing they can do 353 00:22:07,799 --> 00:22:11,839 in a short period of time, Like let's say they didn't really Let's say 354 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:15,920 they couldn't really conceive of how successful this show would be and how much people 355 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:19,039 would be flocking into these games. What can they do? Let's say they 356 00:22:19,039 --> 00:22:22,480 hadn't started anything yet. What can they do before season two comes out? 357 00:22:22,599 --> 00:22:27,400 I think the best thing they should and can do is just having a full 358 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:32,000 on remaster, not a remake. I think remaster's fine, but maybe maybe 359 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:33,960 you do got to do a bit of a remake energy for it for both 360 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:37,799 Fallout three and New Vegas. And I say those two because they're on the 361 00:22:37,839 --> 00:22:41,000 same engine, and I imagine it's you know, it's quite a big project 362 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:44,519 for either of them, but I think it's a bit of a two Birds 363 00:22:44,559 --> 00:22:47,880 one or two yeah, two birds one stone situation where if you can figure 364 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:51,079 out the tech for one of them, ideally you can kind of do it 365 00:22:51,079 --> 00:22:53,200 for the other one as well. And I think a big thing for those 366 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:57,079 games is they both had a ton of DLC, like I think four DLC 367 00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:02,599 packs each, like maybe three four. And even me, I'm a huge 368 00:23:02,599 --> 00:23:04,160 Follout fan, I've played those games a lot, but it's one of those 369 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:07,039 situations where I play the games at launch, like before that DLC was there, 370 00:23:07,279 --> 00:23:10,519 and then when I go back nowadays, it's like, Okay, I'm 371 00:23:10,519 --> 00:23:12,079 just gonna go back. I want to play through the main story again or 372 00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:15,599 something, and I never get around to the DLCs. I've never played any 373 00:23:15,599 --> 00:23:18,359 of the DLC for New Vegas or Fallout three, two games that I love. 374 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:21,000 Yeah, New Vegas won and Fair Games. Ever, maybe I've dipped 375 00:23:21,039 --> 00:23:22,880 in a tiny bit. And so I think if you have that remaster where 376 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:26,279 you bundle in you Game of the Year edition, it right, have all 377 00:23:26,319 --> 00:23:30,480 the DLC in there, better frame rates, fix some more of those bugs, 378 00:23:30,599 --> 00:23:34,720 four K textures and whatnot. You could add some extra bells and whistles. 379 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:38,319 I don't really think you need to, but I think that's that's the 380 00:23:38,319 --> 00:23:41,960 move, and you have both of those come out. Of course they drop 381 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:45,799 in a game pass, but those would be also a perfect thing. Like 382 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:48,160 put that on PlayStation as well. Who cares? Like that's you know, 383 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:49,680 they've been doing that more and more. Those are things where like, okay, 384 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:53,400 those legacy titles exist on PlayStation already, fuck it, put them on 385 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:56,759 there. Try and get it on a switch to you know, by the 386 00:23:56,759 --> 00:24:00,000 time season two comes out, the Switch sequel will be out there as well 387 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,480 well, and I think that would be that would be huge people would I 388 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:04,880 would buy both those games again, I mean they're on game Pass. Actually 389 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:07,880 I wouldn't, but I would play them both again. I'd buy it an 390 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:12,440 extra aversion to get some bonus content maybe. So I think that's the easiest 391 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:15,799 thing that they should do. But I also just think, now that it's 392 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:19,240 under the Xbox umbrella, like, give that ip to other studios. Let 393 00:24:19,279 --> 00:24:22,960 the Wasteland team, I mean, they have another cool looking game, that 394 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:27,519 Clockwork game coming out, but give them Yeah, let them make a Fallout 395 00:24:27,519 --> 00:24:32,240 game. Why not they some of those people worked on the original games right 396 00:24:32,279 --> 00:24:33,559 back in the day, so it makes sense there. But yeah, just 397 00:24:33,599 --> 00:24:37,039 all sorts of other spinoffs. I don't know, Let em city and make 398 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:41,119 another Fallout game, or just some other studio. There's so many. Let 399 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:45,720 tangle game works make some like Horror Fallout shorter experience. That'd be so cool. 400 00:24:45,279 --> 00:24:48,920 So I think they should just crack open the doors. Be a little 401 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:52,680 less protective would be ideally the thing. And you know, if you have 402 00:24:52,759 --> 00:24:56,599 cannon issues with it, then make the game in like the UK or something 403 00:24:56,599 --> 00:25:00,000 where we haven't been before and cool. Yeah, let people do whatever they 404 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,359 want with it, Like that would be maybe be the route, but I 405 00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:07,960 think that's that seems like the easiest thing is just a remaster for three and 406 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:11,920 New Vegas. Those games are old enough now where I think you could get 407 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:14,759 away with that, and some better gun play in general would really do those 408 00:25:14,759 --> 00:25:18,119 games well in the modern setting. Mm hmm. Yeah, I didn't even 409 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:22,319 think about going through like another continent. That would be one of the coolest 410 00:25:22,319 --> 00:25:25,599 things actually in retrospect. Yeah, and like I couldn't tell you off the 411 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:27,880 top of my head in the lore, like what the other parts of the 412 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:33,160 world are looking like. I think Canada got like majorly fucked up and is 413 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:34,319 now like owned by the States. I think that is one thing that was 414 00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:37,759 Cannon. But those places still exist, right, they would just be not 415 00:25:37,319 --> 00:25:41,319 Canadian anymore, I guess. But yeah, I don't know in the Cannon 416 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:45,200 if they've established like what's going on with New Zealand as a place. But 417 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:48,319 I think that could be cool. But also I think it's just who cares 418 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:52,079 just say it's like a non cannon game or whatever. You can just let 419 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:56,200 other things happen within that realm and connect it later. Like I think that 420 00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:59,559 was even a thing recently where like New Vegas, I guess it's like never 421 00:25:59,599 --> 00:26:03,160 technically been Cannon according to Bethesda, but then like Todd Howard is saying like, 422 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:04,720 oh, yeah, it's like Cannon. But then it like that opens 423 00:26:04,759 --> 00:26:07,359 a can of wormstuff, like, well, New Vegas has different endings, 424 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:11,039 like drastically different endings on like Fallout three and four that you know, different 425 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:15,160 slight different change changes can happen based on your choices, but yeah, New 426 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:18,240 Vegas is like wildly different. So but they're just like, oh, yeah, 427 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:19,720 it's canon, and then it's like, well, what do you mean 428 00:26:19,759 --> 00:26:22,119 you got to pick an ending? Like then they're not going to go that 429 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:25,720 far of course. So yeah, I don't know. That's that's what I 430 00:26:25,759 --> 00:26:30,240 would like to see. Maybe that'd be a fun like full topic someday is 431 00:26:30,279 --> 00:26:33,920 to pitch like full spin offs. So maybe I'll put that in the canon. 432 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:34,559 We could do that again sometime, but I think, yeah, the 433 00:26:34,559 --> 00:26:38,160 easy answer for now is definitely a remaster. There you go, there's some 434 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:45,000 Fallout, Fallout fun stuff. Let's talk about Uh, let's talk about some 435 00:26:45,039 --> 00:26:45,680 of the games you've been playing, Taylor. Do you want to you want 436 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,279 to start any any games you've been playing you want to shout out here. 437 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:52,480 Yeah, I can't remember how long ago it was, but I think I 438 00:26:52,559 --> 00:26:56,039 mentioned in passing that I was kind of getting back into Pokemon violence a little 439 00:26:56,039 --> 00:27:00,920 bit. Yes, I remember that. Yeah, so I've I've kind of 440 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,960 been expanding upon that. I've just been kind of getting more into the Pokemon 441 00:27:03,039 --> 00:27:06,400 world a little bit again. I'm going back and playing a little bit more 442 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:12,759 of my Alpha Sapphire and a little bit of my Pokemon uh sword as well. 443 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:17,160 So there's just been a few Silkmon things. Sorry, just be couldn't 444 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:18,319 when you say Alf Sapphire, like, do you mean like you're going back 445 00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:22,440 to an old playthrough and you're just playing more in it, or are you're 446 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:26,119 starting a new thing or what's going on? Not starting a new thing, 447 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:29,799 but just going back and just trying to like like do a little shiny hunting, 448 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:33,200 collect a few more things stuff like that. So I'm just kind of 449 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:38,119 like getting back and reimmersed into Pokemon. I've been I've taken up maybe like 450 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:45,400 a little venture that I'm gonna try and build upon, uh and with regards 451 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,920 to Pokemon, but we'll see how it comes. Yeah. Interesting, So 452 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:55,680 I gotta ask. You got back into Pokemon a little bit because of Sorry, 453 00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:57,319 which one do you have Scarlet or Violet? I have just Scarlet. 454 00:27:57,599 --> 00:28:00,759 So you got into it. I said Violet. I said Violet. You 455 00:28:00,799 --> 00:28:04,279 said Violet, but you meant Scarlett. I need to look at my game 456 00:28:04,319 --> 00:28:11,319 case because you I can't read Redder Purple. Okay, so you've been playing 457 00:28:11,319 --> 00:28:14,920 Redder Purple and but now you're going back to older one. So doesn't mean 458 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,759 does that mean you're not playing Scarlet and or a Violet. You're just you. 459 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:19,640 It got it broke, it broke down the dam. But now you're 460 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:23,960 just like, actually, I want to go play. Well that's pretty much 461 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:29,119 shit. It's like every so often I see Pokemon pages I follow, they 462 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:32,839 have mystery gift codes, and so that's kind of my my segue back into 463 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:36,799 playing Pokemon Violet. So I will put the code in, I'll redeem the 464 00:28:36,799 --> 00:28:40,359 Pokemon from mystery gift to the internet and just stock pile them. Because I'm 465 00:28:40,359 --> 00:28:45,720 a Pokemon collector. I've got a very I think we joked about this a 466 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:51,079 long long time ago with pokem starting with Pokemon Sapphire, like almost two decades 467 00:28:51,119 --> 00:28:56,160 ago. I started collecting Pokemon and keeping the event Pokemon, mythical Pokemon, 468 00:28:56,279 --> 00:28:59,440 and like they're untouched forms, so they don't even have like a smidge of 469 00:28:59,559 --> 00:29:02,400 XP on them. They haven't been used in any combat. They're just there 470 00:29:02,599 --> 00:29:06,319 the raw, pure form. They're collectibles in my opinion. So and you 471 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:07,720 keep them in the case you don't battle with them or no, no, 472 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:11,240 no, don't battle. Yeah, yeah, so I keep them, keep 473 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:15,920 them mints like that, And I've been doing that since the original Pokemon Sapphire, 474 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,039 and I've just been migrating them from game to game to game. And 475 00:29:18,039 --> 00:29:19,599 now we've got Pokemon Bank, which is great because it's all just in the 476 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:26,400 cloud now. But yeah, well what what what is elf Sapphire on? 477 00:29:26,559 --> 00:29:29,759 What's the console for that? That's three D s okay, so what does 478 00:29:29,799 --> 00:29:33,079 that mean with the because they just shut off the online stuff? So can 479 00:29:33,119 --> 00:29:38,039 you still like do all that trading? And I haven't tried, but I'm 480 00:29:38,079 --> 00:29:41,519 curious, And this is that's one of the reasons why I'm curious how it's 481 00:29:41,519 --> 00:29:45,880 going to work out, because I've got everything still there, like the apps 482 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:48,240 on the on the DS, and so I'm curious. But I can still 483 00:29:48,519 --> 00:29:51,039 do the migration, not at the end of the world. If I can't, 484 00:29:51,119 --> 00:29:55,559 I'm not I'm not going back to necessarily try and like bring things over, 485 00:29:55,599 --> 00:29:57,240 but I'm going back to just try and like explore a couple of little 486 00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:00,759 things. There's a few videos I've been watching where if you have certain Pokemon 487 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:06,240 in the game doing certain things, then you can you can access certain other 488 00:30:06,279 --> 00:30:07,640 things in the game and stuff like that, And there's a few other things. 489 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:11,880 I want to just explore certain areas that were not in the original Pokemon 490 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:15,720 Sapphire, and I've just been kind of feeling that nostalgia a little bit nice. 491 00:30:15,759 --> 00:30:19,240 So, yeah, tell me what does a what does shiny hunting look 492 00:30:19,319 --> 00:30:22,920 like? For you? Because to me, when I pictured that, I 493 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:26,480 feel like, you got guides open, You're going to like a specific spot. 494 00:30:26,559 --> 00:30:29,680 You're like, you know, running around in circles in this specific part 495 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:33,200 of like piece of grass, and it's very grindy, which to me is 496 00:30:33,279 --> 00:30:36,880 not what I really associate with Taylor Field as a gamer, like doesn't seem 497 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:41,279 like really you, So what does your shiny hunting regimen look like? I 498 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:45,400 kind of got a knack for doing the fishing and I managed to get oh 499 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:51,079 what is it? It was called a dragulge, I believe, and he's 500 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:52,799 that a pokemon. I've never heard of that in my life. Yeah, 501 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:56,799 dragal he's kind of like he's a poison dragon type and he's kind of like 502 00:30:56,839 --> 00:31:00,519 a what would you call it, like a you we kind of looking dragon 503 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:04,319 like. He is a seeweed looking guy. He's cool. I've never now 504 00:31:04,519 --> 00:31:08,039 so I menaginedly got a shiny one of him, and then I've gotten, 505 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,480 uh what else did I get? I got a few others, like a 506 00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:15,640 corsola, got one of them shiny one, and there's a couple others. 507 00:31:15,799 --> 00:31:18,960 I personally find that the fishing was a lot easier, and there's certain spots 508 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:22,880 that are more yielding than others. But I remember, you gotta be you 509 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:26,799 always got to be paying attention and careful because I've accidentally killed a shiny It 510 00:31:26,839 --> 00:31:33,079 was a boodoo, which is what evolves into like the rosalie rosalia, and 511 00:31:33,319 --> 00:31:37,759 I remember I popped up and I didn't think anything of it, and I 512 00:31:37,839 --> 00:31:40,480 killed it and I continued on. But I thought, in retrospect, I'm 513 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:42,160 like, ma'am, it was green, but the one color on it was 514 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:45,720 a different color than I remember, and I googled it it was a shiny. 515 00:31:45,759 --> 00:31:48,920 I thought, man, are you idiot? You idiot? That's heartbreaking. 516 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:52,640 Yeah, I don't think I've ever encountered a shiny. I mean I've 517 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:57,759 I've played a you know, two or three folk games, really not not 518 00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:01,240 a ton. I've played more of the spinoffs than i've played like the mainline 519 00:32:01,279 --> 00:32:05,279 games. But I don't think I've ever seen a shiny in the while. 520 00:32:05,359 --> 00:32:07,920 Even my Pokemon Go days and I went pretty ham in the Go days when 521 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,160 it first came out. At least they've had a lot, yeah, a 522 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:13,799 lot more in Pokemon Go, which I mean, that's something I still I 523 00:32:13,839 --> 00:32:16,799 still do play. I think that's interesting how they've they've merged that with the 524 00:32:16,839 --> 00:32:22,079 mainline games. I haven't transferred from Pokemon Go into the main games. I 525 00:32:22,119 --> 00:32:25,200 don't know how that. How often do you play Go? Whenever I'm in 526 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:29,119 a new city, whenever I'm on vacation, I whip it out always, 527 00:32:29,119 --> 00:32:32,640 Okay, but not in Klona. The in Clona I do whenever. For 528 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:37,599 example, like whenever I am kind of like out on my own just walking 529 00:32:37,599 --> 00:32:42,640 around, or I'm downtown, I'll whip it out events too. I'm usually 530 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:49,960 that sounds in appropriate. I want to I want to clip that whenever. 531 00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:52,880 Whenever there's a kind of like events going on, I'll see what kind of 532 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,240 raids are happening nearby and that sort of stuff. So I try I keep 533 00:32:55,279 --> 00:33:00,319 my foot in the door for the most part. But uh, yeah, 534 00:33:00,519 --> 00:33:02,799 I think that it's just it's something I'm not ever going to be sure if 535 00:33:02,839 --> 00:33:07,079 I can just like give up. I mean, Pokemon is just such a 536 00:33:07,799 --> 00:33:13,640 it's such a wonderful thing. I'm just like I'm pulled up my Pokemon home 537 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:17,559 because I'm trying to see give you an example of a shiny I mean, 538 00:33:17,599 --> 00:33:22,799 I definitely I usually they're like kind of like a purple teal. I feel 539 00:33:22,839 --> 00:33:27,480 like that's that. I mean that they're probably very different depending on the Pokemon 540 00:33:28,039 --> 00:33:30,480 they Yeah, they changed. So like here's an example. I don't know 541 00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:34,400 how about you can see that, but there's like regular ray Quasa. Yeah, 542 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,240 and we got like the shiny ones. That's cool, very very nice. 543 00:33:37,319 --> 00:33:42,720 So nice. There's there's a whole there's a whole nostalgic kick for me, 544 00:33:43,079 --> 00:33:47,880 Like Pokemon Blue was was my first Pokemon game on my my nice purple 545 00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:53,400 game boy color. I remember those days and the save didn't work on it, 546 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:55,599 so I would always get as far as I could, but it was 547 00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:59,720 busted. It wouldn't save, so when I would turn it off, turn 548 00:33:59,759 --> 00:34:01,960 it bout gone and have to research from the beginning. And it was very 549 00:34:02,039 --> 00:34:07,519 unfortunate. Right, Yeah, that's too bad. I wish they would add 550 00:34:07,519 --> 00:34:10,920 more Pokemon games to Nintendo Switch Online. That seems to be like a blind 551 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,360 spot where they have the Game Boy Trading Card game on there, I think, 552 00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:16,639 which I should go check that out actually, just to see what it's 553 00:34:16,679 --> 00:34:20,559 like. But I really want them to add what does the emeralds on the 554 00:34:20,599 --> 00:34:22,880 GBA, right, which I've heard from a lot of people is like their 555 00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:25,000 favorite of the best, And I also I just love the GBA so much 556 00:34:25,039 --> 00:34:29,760 that I would go ham on that if they added such a thing. But 557 00:34:30,079 --> 00:34:31,559 I don't know if they will because I feel like they do so many of 558 00:34:31,559 --> 00:34:36,320 these remakes and they make so much money off Pokemon that's probably doesn't make sense 559 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:39,280 financially to just drop a big, expensive game like that on there. But 560 00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:43,159 then there's other ones that I say this, like, they could get a 561 00:34:43,159 --> 00:34:45,280 lot of money if they just sold those games, but they just drop them 562 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:47,280 on that service as well. So it's yeah, it's weird what they choose 563 00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:51,280 to do and not do. But I hope they do add more of that 564 00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:54,159 stuff on there. They do like the spinoffs, right, They've Coliseum and 565 00:34:54,159 --> 00:34:58,000 whatnot on there, but they don't have any of the mainline games. I 566 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,800 don't think that's a shame. I have a few couple of years ago, 567 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:04,519 I started collecting some of those old games. I got Pokemon Yellow, I 568 00:35:04,519 --> 00:35:09,519 got ruby sapphires, of course, I got Emerald uh fire red leaf green 569 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:15,719 like Pokemon black white, and then yeah, all the some of the other 570 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:17,639 later ones. I got rid of a couple a while ago, and I 571 00:35:17,679 --> 00:35:22,079 wish I didn't. They're like Pomon White two stuff like that. But yeah, 572 00:35:22,119 --> 00:35:25,079 I've just got a I've got a thing for collecting those older Pokemon games. 573 00:35:25,079 --> 00:35:28,679 And I got Heart Gold Souls Silver, which I love it. It's 574 00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:31,159 actually like it's like mint in the box. It's not I opened it up, 575 00:35:31,159 --> 00:35:34,280 of course, but I got the poke Walker with it and everything like 576 00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:37,840 that. Nice. And yeah, yeah, Pokemon kind of a weird spot 577 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,719 because I feel like the three DS was a huge era for Pokemon because you 578 00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:45,360 got like three mainline games, and by three you know it turns into like 579 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:47,400 six, and then there's like all these other versions I think right, there's 580 00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:52,280 like because Black and White was on the Pearl I think was the first one 581 00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:54,239 that first generation on there, and then yeah, black and White, then 582 00:35:54,280 --> 00:36:00,320 Black and White two, which the now whatever you were saying earlier alf of 583 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:02,840 South Fire, Yeah, just a remake one, right, So that's like, 584 00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:07,400 yeah, that's a lot of games that are now you just cannot purchase 585 00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:12,400 anymore. So I wonder if they're gonna swipe in with any like switch remakes 586 00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:16,159 or additions of any of those now that they're not acceptable or acceptable that's not 587 00:36:16,199 --> 00:36:20,840 the right word, now that you can't just go and purchase them as easily. 588 00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:22,079 I mean, the shop's been down for a while, but now the 589 00:36:22,199 --> 00:36:28,559 online's off too, obviously, So cool I was. That was a fun 590 00:36:29,559 --> 00:36:34,039 Actually one more Pokemon question for you. I as you know, we had 591 00:36:34,039 --> 00:36:36,239 it back in the day, back in the target days we had we're really 592 00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:40,039 into Yugio for a while, me and Jessica whatnot playing some Yugio. Get 593 00:36:40,039 --> 00:36:43,960 back into that. So we have cards and I've collected some other cards. 594 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:45,679 I have some the Lord of the Rings magic cards. I got like some 595 00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:50,760 inscription cards, which are really cool. I'm not I don't really care as 596 00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:52,559 much for my Pokemon cards, to be honest, Like I'm not just nostalgic 597 00:36:53,159 --> 00:36:57,480 for them, though I did collect some of them growing up. Is it 598 00:36:57,519 --> 00:36:59,920 like a prime seller's market? Should I just get rid of these things? 599 00:37:00,599 --> 00:37:05,199 So when I was alluding to this venture, I've been spending the past week 600 00:37:05,639 --> 00:37:10,840 doing research and looking Pokemon cards, and there is like, as far as 601 00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:15,599 I don't want to say, like the boat has sailed, because if you 602 00:37:15,599 --> 00:37:19,960 were to get into Pokemon in like twenty seventeen, like pre pandemic time, 603 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,280 you would have made bank. Right now, you can still make bank because 604 00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:25,639 some of these cards, if you have them, are very, very valuable. 605 00:37:25,679 --> 00:37:28,920 And this is the kind of thing I am I'm looking into. I'm 606 00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:32,039 looking at certain trainer boxes that are worthwhile to hold onto for a little bit 607 00:37:32,079 --> 00:37:37,960 because there's still a huge focus on Pokemon now. With your cards, if 608 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:42,159 they are like the base set and they're in really good condition and you get 609 00:37:42,199 --> 00:37:46,320 them graded with like a PSA rating and you get like a really high grade 610 00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:50,800 on them, you can get a serious return on those cards. Right, 611 00:37:51,039 --> 00:37:53,840 So if you have some stuff that's like base sets, I would look into 612 00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:57,719 that. Just do like a card price check. Some of that stuff is 613 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,559 exceptionally valuable. Yeah, I'll have to take a look. I imagine mine 614 00:38:01,599 --> 00:38:07,719 aren't like original run kind of thing, just because of the age I was 615 00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:12,000 and the age when they came out to see that that first edition on there. 616 00:38:12,039 --> 00:38:14,280 Maybe you traded with someone and he gave up one of them. But 617 00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:16,400 if you see that little first edition stamp on there, like, that's that's 618 00:38:16,519 --> 00:38:20,159 huge, that's money. Okay, I'll look into that. I don't I 619 00:38:20,159 --> 00:38:22,639 don't have a ton like I have way more you Goo cards of course than 620 00:38:22,679 --> 00:38:27,280 I do uh Pokemon ones. But anyway, I'll have to look into that. 621 00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:30,639 Okay, cool. How about how will we take a break here, 622 00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:35,400 we come back, We'll talk about some other games we've been playing. We'll 623 00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:39,880 right back. Okay, we are back, Taylor, was anything else you 624 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,840 wanted to show out? And you've been playing war Zone of course, but 625 00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:49,519 anything else mostly Pokemon and Rebirth Island. Nice? Yeah? For myself, 626 00:38:49,519 --> 00:38:52,400 I got two games to show out here. One first one here is called 627 00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,679 Open Roads. These are both game pass games actually, which is nice, 628 00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:59,400 easily accessible. Open Roads came out, I want to say, three weeks 629 00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:01,719 ago. I think it came out in April, early April. This is 630 00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:06,760 an interesting game. This would be a considered a walking simulator, which we've 631 00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:08,880 talked about on side Quest before or even before that, me and Kirkland did 632 00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:13,760 a whole episode on walking simulators like What Remains to Be to Finch and Gone 633 00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:16,519 Home and other Firewatch other games like that, and we talked about it again 634 00:39:16,559 --> 00:39:20,440 earlier actually in June, because I finally played through Deer Esther, which is 635 00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:23,760 another classic walking sim in the genre. There these are kind of like these 636 00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:29,239 first person narrative focus games, usually very short, like two to four hours 637 00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:32,440 maximum in terms of the game time there. So Open Roads, yeah, 638 00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:37,159 is from a development team They're called the Open Roads Team, published by Annapurna. 639 00:39:37,199 --> 00:39:40,480 And the story of this is kind of interesting. I didn't even know 640 00:39:40,559 --> 00:39:44,000 this stuff until I was done the game and I was looking it up. 641 00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:46,119 But Open Roads this is from a lot of the team that made Gone Home, 642 00:39:46,159 --> 00:39:50,320 which is one of the kind of quintessential walking sims. So they made 643 00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:52,519 Gone Home and then they made Tacoma was their next game, which I haven't 644 00:39:52,519 --> 00:39:57,159 played, and then it looks like they say were working on Open Roads with 645 00:39:57,199 --> 00:40:00,480 that studio and then there was just all sorts of contra with that studio, 646 00:40:00,679 --> 00:40:06,239 and a bunch of that team left the studio and in a weird turn of 647 00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:07,679 fate you don't really see this happen often, where all these people left the 648 00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:12,440 studio, but they got to bring the game with them of ok Roes. 649 00:40:12,599 --> 00:40:15,800 So now the studio that was like, you know, making these things, 650 00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:17,480 they're doing whatever, who knows what they're doing. Now it's kind of all 651 00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:21,440 this controversy. Maybe they're just gonna go under or something weird like that. 652 00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:23,960 But it's kind of like a nice story in a way that you know, 653 00:40:24,039 --> 00:40:28,920 the silver lining, I suppose is that these people didn't like this work environment 654 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:30,760 was pretty toxic and whatnot, and so they left, but they got to 655 00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:34,719 bring the game with them and continue it and finish it and then you know, 656 00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,239 published by Anna Perna, which is a great publisher to have too. 657 00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:40,760 So kind of an interesting story in that way and interesting to track the lineage 658 00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:43,880 of this where yeah, it's a lot of the same people that maybe it 659 00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:46,719 worked on Gone Home, but it's a different name and different code of paint, 660 00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:51,239 you could say. But yeah, I played through this once again. 661 00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:54,480 It is very short, maybe two three hours at most. This game kind 662 00:40:54,480 --> 00:41:00,800 of takes a different spin on the genre. There's this a very small niche 663 00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:04,639 genre, but even then it's still very trophy or often you're like going back 664 00:41:04,679 --> 00:41:09,280 to a family member's old decrepit abandoned house and you're discovering like this old family 665 00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:13,920 mystery that's kind of like the classic thing. It's usually like maybe a bit 666 00:41:14,079 --> 00:41:16,480 scary, but not really horror. It's like kind of right on the edge 667 00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:21,599 there, very narrative focused. Usually you're not like seeing other characters. Usually 668 00:41:21,639 --> 00:41:25,440 it's just you and your kind of introspective investigation of all this stuff going on. 669 00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:29,519 So in that way, this game is similar and that there is like 670 00:41:29,599 --> 00:41:35,559 a family mystery. It's related to very much around like the grandmother on your 671 00:41:35,599 --> 00:41:37,639 mom's side, which is like kind of the same as what Remains to Be 672 00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:42,320 to the Finch, which is a funny thing. There you're visiting grandma's old 673 00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:45,199 decrepit house, which is once again a very trophy thing within the genre. 674 00:41:45,639 --> 00:41:51,239 But I think that it takes a much different deviation by being kind of a 675 00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:55,320 road trip game actually, so you have like these different walking sim situations where 676 00:41:55,360 --> 00:42:00,880 you're walking around a house like environment, picking up different posts, cards and 677 00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:05,199 letters and reading these things on covering things about the past. But then you're 678 00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:07,039 going to like different environments, so you're in like your family's house, you're 679 00:42:07,079 --> 00:42:10,840 going to these grandma's house, you're going to the other couple other places as 680 00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:15,239 well. And then in between that, you're in the car. You play 681 00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:17,199 as like the daughter in this family and you're going on this road trip with 682 00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:21,199 your mom, and so you're having conversations. So that kind of breaks up 683 00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:23,639 the journey. It makes it feel a bit grander in its scale, which 684 00:42:23,679 --> 00:42:27,920 I really enjoyed. I like that kind of seeing these different environments. That 685 00:42:28,039 --> 00:42:30,239 was a cool thing to kind of change up the genre a little bit there 686 00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:35,199 rather than kind of just being in one environment the whole time. It's kind 687 00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:37,960 of got that same thing of like really highly detailed three D environments, really 688 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:42,679 beautiful stuff, a lot of little details, like every shelf, every corner 689 00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:46,079 has like some little bit of storytelling in it. But then another thing too 690 00:42:46,079 --> 00:42:50,360 that they kind of change up the art from the from the genre is like 691 00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:54,559 the character art is kind of like these two D hand painted sort of characters, 692 00:42:55,159 --> 00:42:59,159 which is weird, Like at first it's quite jarring if you'd like see 693 00:42:59,199 --> 00:43:00,239 a trailer for this, look it up. You'll see that, like, 694 00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:04,519 man, these characters stand out in a way, like way different than the 695 00:43:04,639 --> 00:43:07,639 environments, like the two D characters with these three D environments. And then 696 00:43:07,679 --> 00:43:13,039 the characters themselves, like when they're talking or doing stuff, it's like they're 697 00:43:13,159 --> 00:43:15,639 very low frame rate in an attentional way, and it makes everything feel very 698 00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:19,760 exaggerated, which is cool. Like every movement that they take is, you 699 00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:22,480 know, just this very standout frame that lasts. It kind of sticks with 700 00:43:22,519 --> 00:43:25,199 you, and at first it kind of weird to me O because like the 701 00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:29,840 characters it's you know, very highly detailed and stuff, but like when they're 702 00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:32,159 talking, like their mouths aren't moving, it's more just like they will express 703 00:43:32,199 --> 00:43:36,559 certain emotions and it threw me off. But then what kind of brought me 704 00:43:36,599 --> 00:43:39,039 back in is that the voice acting is really good in this. You have 705 00:43:39,039 --> 00:43:43,960 the create the great Caitlin Deaver in this, who we've been talking about a 706 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:46,760 lot recently from that No One Can Save Save You movie last year. I 707 00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:50,480 always for the name of it, but she's cast as Abby in the Last 708 00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:53,239 of Us Season two of the TV show. And then Carrie Russell, who's 709 00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:55,639 been in like a million things, is like the mom in this if you 710 00:43:55,679 --> 00:43:59,400 go on our IMDb, she's like in all these huge movies, right, 711 00:43:59,679 --> 00:44:01,719 So yeah, I have like really high level actors in this, and they 712 00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:07,239 do a really good job. Especially Kaitlyn Deever just like brings so much personality 713 00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:09,880 and like youthfulness to this character who's supposed to be like a teenage girl. 714 00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:13,280 She does like a really good job of it. And you know, the 715 00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:15,679 game, the game is kind of like melodramatic and like exaggerated in its tone, 716 00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:20,599 and she like helps bring that to life in a big way. So 717 00:44:20,679 --> 00:44:24,840 all that presentation stuff I really enjoyed as well. I think maybe where this 718 00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:30,199 game is a bit weaker than some of its contemporaries like Gone Home, like 719 00:44:30,199 --> 00:44:35,079 if Edith Finish or Firewatch, is that like the central narrative of it isn't 720 00:44:35,159 --> 00:44:37,599 quite as gripping. It's, like I mentioned, like kind of that tropy 721 00:44:37,599 --> 00:44:42,639 thing of like trying to figure out this secret life of your grandma and uncovering 722 00:44:42,639 --> 00:44:45,519 like what that means for your family, and it's like it's all right, 723 00:44:45,559 --> 00:44:47,320 and it kind of strings you along, but like the final reveals of it 724 00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:52,440 aren't all that mind blowing. But I think the better part about the story, 725 00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:55,039 the part that was more engaging to me, is kind of the stuff 726 00:44:55,079 --> 00:45:00,559 along the way, Like there's a lot of in this game about your mom 727 00:45:00,639 --> 00:45:04,000 and the divorce that she had with your father, and that's explored from a 728 00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:07,239 lot of different angles that I thought were interesting, And even like thinking about 729 00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:12,000 the studio afterwards and the story they've gone on and how like they kind of 730 00:45:12,039 --> 00:45:14,639 had this split up with their studio, right, and this kind of like 731 00:45:14,679 --> 00:45:17,360 almost like divorce between the people working on the game and like the original founder 732 00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:21,519 of the company and this company they were working for. And so I feel 733 00:45:21,559 --> 00:45:22,719 like maybe I'm getting two into the weeds on it, but I felt like 734 00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:27,880 there's maybe some meta element there where they're kind of commenting on like this separation 735 00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:30,320 they had in the game development part of it. But I thought all those 736 00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:35,000 themes are really well done. And then like the idea of like cycles within 737 00:45:35,079 --> 00:45:37,920 your within the families, and like grief, because you're doing a lot of 738 00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:40,519 this, like right after the grandmother passes away, that's kind of like the 739 00:45:40,519 --> 00:45:44,599 setup of the beginning of the story and spending time with your mom on this 740 00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:46,599 on this adventure, and so I thought those kind of like a mini those 741 00:45:46,679 --> 00:45:52,320 themes or like those side stories within this, which is pretty impressive for like 742 00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:54,079 a game that's like two to four hours long that there's like enough packed in 743 00:45:54,199 --> 00:45:59,360 like the little in the seams, you could say that is worthy of praise. 744 00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:01,119 So I thought that was really cool part of it. But yeah, 745 00:46:01,199 --> 00:46:07,679 I would definitely recommend this game, like it's short and sweet, and so 746 00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:09,000 maybe I don't know how much it is, Like I don't know if I 747 00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:13,679 could recommend buying it out right, because there's like other games i'd recommend first 748 00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:15,679 if you haven't played the ones I've mentioned previously, but you know, if 749 00:46:15,679 --> 00:46:20,159 you're a game Pass subscriber, definitely check it out. I really had a 750 00:46:20,159 --> 00:46:22,880 good time with it. Took me like two or three sittings to get through 751 00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:25,559 the whole thing, of course. And yeah, I really hope that this 752 00:46:25,599 --> 00:46:30,199 isn't a situation where this team broke off. They got to finish their game, 753 00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:32,840 and maybe that's like the the Catharsists they needed. They finished the game, 754 00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:36,519 then they can go off and go do a million other things with their 755 00:46:36,519 --> 00:46:40,000 careers. I hope that the Open Roads team, you know, sticks around, 756 00:46:40,039 --> 00:46:44,519 and even though they named their studio after this game that they're just releasing, 757 00:46:44,599 --> 00:46:47,360 hopefully they can go off and make other things, and I think they've 758 00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:52,199 maybe are set up for making just bigger and better and cooler things going forward 759 00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:57,000 to that land a bit more. But like overall, it's a really impressive 760 00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:00,480 game and really fun, and yeah, I just I of a short experience, 761 00:47:00,599 --> 00:47:05,159 like a short, powerful experience like this. So so yeah, there 762 00:47:05,199 --> 00:47:07,320 you go, there's open Roads. I had a really good time with this 763 00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:13,079 one, and I definitely recommend it nice. Yeah, maybe not necessarily tailor 764 00:47:13,079 --> 00:47:15,960 game. I don't think you've really ever played any of these kind of walking 765 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:19,159 sim games, right, I don't think so. When I didn't even realize 766 00:47:19,159 --> 00:47:22,320 walking sim was the official title for that. When you say Sam, I'm 767 00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:24,719 thinking, like, is that like a farming simulator but you're walking. Yeah, 768 00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:29,639 it's kind of like a it's kind of like a derogatory term almost, 769 00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:32,480 I feel like, because it's like there's not really a lot of gameplay aments 770 00:47:32,599 --> 00:47:37,360 usually just like you're just walking around an environment and like reading stuff and taking 771 00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:40,920 in story, and so I feel like the name started as like almost just 772 00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:44,639 like a joke, and then that just kind of became what it was called 773 00:47:44,639 --> 00:47:46,559 and I hate that. And in that out of Man episode that me and 774 00:47:46,639 --> 00:47:51,000 Kirklan did talking about the genre, we had a longer discussion on like how 775 00:47:51,039 --> 00:47:53,280 bad the genre is, and we in that we were pitching like other genre 776 00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:57,440 titles for it, but like, who am I at sidequist here to like 777 00:47:57,719 --> 00:48:00,039 start using this other genre name and people to know what I'm talking about. 778 00:48:00,079 --> 00:48:04,239 It just doesn't really make sense. So I'll just say games that are like 779 00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:07,920 what Remade to be a finished very much like Gone Home, like some bigger 780 00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:09,960 games in the genre. It's kind of the best way to say it, 781 00:48:10,039 --> 00:48:14,239 unfortunately, but yeah, they're kind of just like a modern take on like 782 00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:16,440 an adventure game is another way that I would think about it, where it's 783 00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:22,400 like low gameplay, more about the setting and the story of it and just 784 00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:28,639 clicking on things more than like fighting things, you know, right, Yeah, 785 00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:30,679 but yeah, there you go. Check that one out. And then 786 00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:34,000 the other game I wanted to shout out here is another new release. This 787 00:48:34,199 --> 00:48:37,719 just came out a few days ago. It's called Harold Hellibit, which is 788 00:48:37,719 --> 00:48:42,599 a funny name. And I've talked about this before because it's been in some 789 00:48:42,639 --> 00:48:46,039 showcase maybe a summer game fest but I feel like I've known about it for 790 00:48:46,039 --> 00:48:49,519 a few years. It's kind of just been lingering. I think it had 791 00:48:49,519 --> 00:48:52,719 a long development cycle. This is developed and published by Slow Bros. I 792 00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:57,840 think this is like their first game as a studio. If anyone forgets what 793 00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:00,519 this game is, definitely YouTube a trailer. You have to see it to 794 00:49:00,639 --> 00:49:02,880 believe it. And Taylor, you should do the same too if you forget 795 00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:06,679 this one. But maybe you've seen it because it just dropped on game Pass 796 00:49:06,719 --> 00:49:10,599 as well. But yeah, the coolest part about this game is that the 797 00:49:12,119 --> 00:49:16,960 way they made the art style of it is by like actually making claymation figures 798 00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:22,960 and doing stop motion animation for like everything in it, putting like claymation, 799 00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:29,079 putting like fabric on these characters, and then like doing the stop motion for 800 00:49:29,199 --> 00:49:32,800 all of the animations in it, and then like somehow pourting that into a 801 00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:37,760 game engine and then like putting the finishing touches on it and making it a 802 00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:42,159 playable game. But it's essentially like a stop motion like a Wes Anderson type 803 00:49:42,159 --> 00:49:45,679 of thing that you get to play, So in that way, it's like 804 00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:50,440 incredibly unique. And from I'm like two or three hours in and like, 805 00:49:50,559 --> 00:49:52,159 yeah, the aesthetic is like my favorite part of it. It's just such 806 00:49:52,159 --> 00:49:55,920 a weird, cool thing. But it all it's very much lending to the 807 00:49:55,960 --> 00:50:00,760 story and the world that they're developing too. But even like the liquid, 808 00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:04,159 like you're underwater in this game and like a rapture type city, and like 809 00:50:04,199 --> 00:50:07,840 the way the water flows in like looks really silly and interesting. And the 810 00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:12,960 characters all look very goofy and clay mationity as you as you expect is that's 811 00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:15,400 what they are. So it's just like the aesthetic is the is the thing, 812 00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:20,320 and I so far it's not just style over substance, Like it's a 813 00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:22,400 cool game too, and I'm liking the story and the characters, but yeah, 814 00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:24,679 like that's what you got to talk about first with the game for sure, 815 00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:29,159 is just like wow, it looks so weird and different and interesting. 816 00:50:29,239 --> 00:50:31,599 I've never seen a game like it before, and that's an impressive thing to 817 00:50:31,639 --> 00:50:35,320 say in the year twenty twenty four, and I've played hundreds of games that 818 00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:38,400 this game comes out and looks and feels and plays like something I haven't played 819 00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:43,639 before, So that's that's pretty cool. Any any interest from this from just 820 00:50:43,679 --> 00:50:46,119 seeing the trailer and wanting to go jump in and check it out. Looks 821 00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:53,079 like the time to invest in this game like building it, Yeah, blows 822 00:50:53,119 --> 00:50:58,360 my mind and blows mind. It looks fantastic though, really really cool. 823 00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:00,679 Yeah, when every time I'm I'm just wondering, like, okay, how 824 00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:05,039 much of this like is that stop motion versus what is things that they did 825 00:51:05,119 --> 00:51:07,079 in the game engine afterwards? And like I don't know where that line is. 826 00:51:07,119 --> 00:51:10,599 It's impossible to tell. But that's what makes it even more compelling is 827 00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:15,559 that it just feels so it's the sixty frames playing game, you know, 828 00:51:15,599 --> 00:51:19,480 like it feels good and moves well. But so it's like, how do 829 00:51:19,519 --> 00:51:22,039 they pull this off? It's really really cool. But but yeah, I 830 00:51:22,079 --> 00:51:24,320 definitely recommend checking it out. Once again, I'm not done it, like 831 00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:28,360 I said, so who knows how it's gonna keep going. I don't know 832 00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:30,599 how long this game is either, but so far you're in this rapture like 833 00:51:30,679 --> 00:51:34,599 city. The setup of the game, this is maybe minor spoilers for some 834 00:51:34,679 --> 00:51:37,960 early stuff, is that this civilization that you're in, this underground, this 835 00:51:38,079 --> 00:51:43,599 underwater city is not on Earth, but Earth was you know, climate change 836 00:51:43,599 --> 00:51:45,840 and all this Earth was going to hell, and so these people built this 837 00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:50,840 corporation, built this ship, this vessel, and just sailed off into space. 838 00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:52,920 And they didn't know where they were going exactly, but they're like, 839 00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:55,639 Okay, we'll make this sustaining ship and we'll figure out where we're going later 840 00:51:55,719 --> 00:51:59,559 on. And it's like one hundred and fifty or two hundred years whatever it 841 00:51:59,599 --> 00:52:04,119 is passed, and eventually this space faring ship, you know, different generations 842 00:52:04,119 --> 00:52:07,760 at this point have found a planet that looks good enough they're gonna go make 843 00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:12,199 this their habitable planet. And then they get there and they realize that there's 844 00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:15,320 no land on this planet whatsoever, so it's just water. And then like 845 00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:19,639 the atmosphere is like completely toxic, so they pretty much just have to go 846 00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:23,320 underwater. So now this underwater rapture is pretty much just like the ship that's 847 00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:28,400 been converted and I guess just falling. The ship has fallen in and you're 848 00:52:28,519 --> 00:52:31,360 espentially just like in this spaceship that's now underwater and that's been turned into like 849 00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:37,320 shops and towns and laboratories and all these different things that you need in these 850 00:52:37,719 --> 00:52:40,480 in this ship. So the setting of it is great, and this is 851 00:52:40,519 --> 00:52:43,480 a bit of a spoiler for something that happens a bit later on. But 852 00:52:43,519 --> 00:52:47,239 I think the tone of this game is very silly. It actually feels like 853 00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:51,880 very inspired by Wes Anderson two in terms of like the tone and the characters. 854 00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:57,000 Like there's one character in here that feels like Obi from Loki season two. 855 00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:00,440 He's kind of got that sort of energy about his character, and like 856 00:53:00,079 --> 00:53:04,119 the game's funny. It's made me laugh a few times, just in terms 857 00:53:04,159 --> 00:53:07,840 of like the subject matter, but also like the individual lines. It feels 858 00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:09,800 very much like a TV show in the way that things are going along. 859 00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:14,440 But I think one of my favorite things about it is like you're just going 860 00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:17,079 through and for the first time, like an incightening event. I guess you 861 00:53:17,079 --> 00:53:21,039 could say, is that for the first time ever, this space station or 862 00:53:21,079 --> 00:53:24,119 this new civilization is like getting a message back from Earth. They have never 863 00:53:24,119 --> 00:53:28,960 communicated with Earth since they've left, and the message they get is just like 864 00:53:29,079 --> 00:53:31,039 Earth being like, yeah, you guys left, things are looking bad, 865 00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:35,159 but like it actually worked out okay, and we're good now. And so 866 00:53:35,239 --> 00:53:39,239 now you're in just like this hell underwater, this worst place ever. Harold's 867 00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:44,039 like living this like bad life is not like and stuff and then Earth's like, 868 00:53:44,039 --> 00:53:45,280 you know what, you guys could have stayed, but now it's like, 869 00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:47,440 well, now you're fucked. You're underwater, there's no way you can 870 00:53:47,519 --> 00:53:51,679 leave. You're not getting back to Earth. Anyone on this it would take 871 00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:54,079 more than their lifetime to get back there anyway. So it's like that's just 872 00:53:54,119 --> 00:53:58,800 like the perfect kind of encapsulation of the tone of this. And then in 873 00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:01,239 that way, it feels very much like and maybe this part's a bit on 874 00:54:01,239 --> 00:54:06,079 the noses. I just like everything these days is about like corporations are bad, 875 00:54:06,199 --> 00:54:08,000 and that's like the theme of so many TV shows and games and movies 876 00:54:08,039 --> 00:54:10,679 that we've talked about in the last few years, and this is definitely that 877 00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:15,320 too, where like the company that runs this spaceship and this town the city 878 00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:21,559 now is like very corrupt and just like screwing people over constantly and not sharing 879 00:54:21,599 --> 00:54:24,119 information with people, and like they have these ulterior motives and they're evil and 880 00:54:24,159 --> 00:54:28,840 all this stuff, and so I'm curious to see how that stuff will Like 881 00:54:28,880 --> 00:54:30,159 that's what that's what the setup has been, and I'm curious to see what 882 00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:32,800 they do with that and if this is like a story of them overcoming that. 883 00:54:34,239 --> 00:54:37,679 But I don't really see how positive the message could be given everything I've 884 00:54:37,719 --> 00:54:40,679 been set up with so far. But I think the lightheartedness of it kind 885 00:54:40,679 --> 00:54:45,639 of takes away from I guess some of that what would otherwise be kind of 886 00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:50,800 traumatic stuff going on. But even in that happens and Harold's like, he's 887 00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:52,840 chill with it. He's like, yeah, whatever, this is my life, 888 00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:54,079 you know, this is where I live, this is the life I 889 00:54:54,119 --> 00:54:57,480 live. I'm just gonna go I gotta go find his rock now, because 890 00:54:57,519 --> 00:55:00,679 that's what he was doing before that announcement came on. Now he's gonna go 891 00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:04,199 back and try and find this rock again. So so yeah, I definitely 892 00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:07,639 I'll report back on this game when I've played more of it, maybe next 893 00:55:07,679 --> 00:55:09,039 week, maybe two weeks from now, when I've finished it. I don't 894 00:55:09,039 --> 00:55:13,440 know how long it is, Like I said, but yeah, really weird, 895 00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:17,800 interesting game. And yeah, the story, the characters, but then 896 00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:22,559 also like the setting or the visuals of it are just unlike a game any 897 00:55:22,599 --> 00:55:24,760 other game I've ever played before. So for that reason, I'm very intrigued 898 00:55:24,800 --> 00:55:28,760 in it and definitely going to keep playing through and hopefully see it to the 899 00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:32,320 end. There you go, there's Harold Hallibit. Like I said, I'll 900 00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:36,360 report back, but a really really cool, interesting, weird game that people 901 00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:40,800 should definitely be checking out. Yeah, there you go. Next, up, 902 00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:45,360 let's jump into some news. We have kind of three topics here. 903 00:55:45,719 --> 00:55:50,440 Let's start with this Tales of the Shire. Taylor. Have you heard of 904 00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:52,559 this game before? Did you know about this game before today? I had 905 00:55:52,639 --> 00:55:54,920 no idea this existed. Yeah. I think I talked about it with Kirkland 906 00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:59,400 a couple of times, and maybe even Travis at some point on side Quest. 907 00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:01,199 But I think whenever it's been relevant in the news, you haven't been 908 00:56:01,239 --> 00:56:05,320 on that episode, which is why that makes sense to me. But this 909 00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:09,000 is essentially like a farming sim a stardew Valley like type of game, you 910 00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:13,079 could say, animal crossing like, set within the world of Lord of the 911 00:56:13,119 --> 00:56:16,360 Rings, set within specifically the Shire in what I think is the city or 912 00:56:16,360 --> 00:56:19,760 town you're in. It's called Bywater, which I haven't heard of before. 913 00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:22,039 So I think they're, you know, trying not to go to beg In 914 00:56:22,239 --> 00:56:27,199 or like the known locations from the movies and books and such, but instead 915 00:56:27,239 --> 00:56:29,480 trying to go to some other place so they can kind of create their own 916 00:56:29,519 --> 00:56:31,599 world. But we finally we had a teaser before, but now we have 917 00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:37,920 official trailer on this. What did you think of Tales of the Shire. 918 00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:43,159 I think it looks like it's it's just gonna be a lot of fun, 919 00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:46,960 just to kind of a kickback experience. Looks to my surprise, again with 920 00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:50,239 the name, I didn't know what to expect, but it just seems like 921 00:56:50,280 --> 00:56:54,039 it's a very simple life in the Shire with doing different building, farming kind 922 00:56:54,079 --> 00:56:58,400 of stuff like that. There's a day and night cycle, looks like there's 923 00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:00,960 a season cycle, so it's It kind of took me by surprise seeing all 924 00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:06,000 that, because I feel like the track record for Lord of the Rings related 925 00:57:06,559 --> 00:57:09,079 games hasn't maybe I shouldn't say hasn't been great, but it's been kind of 926 00:57:09,159 --> 00:57:13,239 up and down. I don't know how the Moria game went. I know 927 00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:15,800 that the Golam game was absolutely a bust, but I know that then you 928 00:57:15,880 --> 00:57:22,000 have Shadows of War and Shadows of Middle Earth that are like really great titles. 929 00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:24,599 So yeah, I hit or miss, But yeah, it's been a 930 00:57:24,639 --> 00:57:28,880 it's been a weird mixed bag for Lord of the Rings games recently, especially 931 00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:35,199 under the Embracer group, which we'll talk about shortly here as well. I 932 00:57:35,199 --> 00:57:38,039 I'm glad that you were more positive on this. I I have been excited 933 00:57:38,039 --> 00:57:40,079 for this game. I've been very much looking forward to it. I think 934 00:57:40,079 --> 00:57:42,840 this is a great idea to take, like, Okay, let's go with 935 00:57:42,880 --> 00:57:45,440 a wholesome, non combat Lord of the Rings game, because why not? 936 00:57:45,679 --> 00:57:50,719 Why not have some team make this cool looking game. But I was just 937 00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:53,599 really unimpressed with the trailer itself and the footage of it, and for me 938 00:57:53,679 --> 00:57:58,320 also the variety. And you know, this is the first trailer, and 939 00:57:58,360 --> 00:58:01,039 so I'm sure we'll get more information as things go on, but you know, 940 00:58:01,119 --> 00:58:06,280 the things they're highlighting here is like they had this kind of pun where 941 00:58:06,280 --> 00:58:09,480 they said that they said forage friendships in it, which I think was like 942 00:58:09,639 --> 00:58:14,039 two things. So they're showing that you're like foraging ingredients, which makes sense 943 00:58:14,039 --> 00:58:16,519 as like this hunter gatherer type. Then there's also the friendships part of it. 944 00:58:16,920 --> 00:58:22,599 But I didn't really get much of a vibe of like personalities or characters, 945 00:58:22,599 --> 00:58:24,280 Like it doesn't seem like there's voice acting. We didn't really see what 946 00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:28,519 the dialogue is like. We don't really know what like quests are like, 947 00:58:28,679 --> 00:58:30,320 or what characters are gonna be like in general, but I guess I wasn't 948 00:58:31,079 --> 00:58:35,920 grabbed by any character in here, and we see a Gandolf looking type at 949 00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:38,480 one point, so I don't know how much they're gonna use established characters, 950 00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:43,760 but I guess I didn't really vibe with the characters and the design of them. 951 00:58:43,760 --> 00:58:50,400 I wasn't particularly into just visually speaking, So that's one thing. I 952 00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:52,519 think. The part that I'm most interested in is like the decorating your home 953 00:58:53,280 --> 00:58:55,960 part of it, because I like doing that in games, and I think 954 00:58:57,480 --> 00:59:00,039 building like a Shier home seems pretty fun. It seems like it's more centator 955 00:59:00,079 --> 00:59:04,440 on the inside rather than the outside, which makes sense because you're kind of 956 00:59:04,480 --> 00:59:08,000 just tucked in a hill there. But that part seemed alright, But I 957 00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:12,159 guess, you know, my biggest takeaway is like I didn't really get Lord 958 00:59:12,159 --> 00:59:16,519 of the Rings vibes from this trailer outside of like, okay, guy kind 959 00:59:16,519 --> 00:59:20,320 of looked like Gandalf a little bit, and like I know what a Shire 960 00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:23,239 home looks like like, I don't know. I guess the Chibby art style 961 00:59:23,280 --> 00:59:27,800 like makes it not necessarily look like Hobbits and more just like a Chibby art 962 00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:31,559 style kind of game. I'm trying to remember the name of the game that 963 00:59:31,679 --> 00:59:35,400 MUDs was playing recently, and I can't remember off the top of my head 964 00:59:36,239 --> 00:59:37,719 if Fay Farm was the one that she's been playing, which is like another 965 00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:42,039 one of these farming and sim cozy games, and this looks exactly like that, 966 00:59:42,280 --> 00:59:44,760 which like nothing wrong with that, But now I'm thinking this game looks 967 00:59:44,760 --> 00:59:46,400 more like Fay Farm than it does a Lord of the Rings thing, so 968 00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:50,360 I guess that's I don't know, maybe that's my issue, and it's like 969 00:59:50,599 --> 00:59:52,320 I'm not expecting dwarves and elves in this, like I want it to be 970 00:59:52,360 --> 00:59:57,199 a Shire specific game, but I also want there to be like some more 971 00:59:57,280 --> 01:00:00,800 Lord of the Rings iconography to it. So I don't know, maybe I'm 972 01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:04,119 asking for too much there, but I maybe got to see more. And 973 01:00:04,159 --> 01:00:07,440 then they kind of just had the ambiguous like explore bywater, so I don't 974 01:00:07,440 --> 01:00:12,159 know how much you're gonna explore beyond the town itself into like woods or the 975 01:00:12,199 --> 01:00:15,559 fields and farms and other things like that. But there just wasn't a whole 976 01:00:15,559 --> 01:00:17,960 lot in the gameplay side of things that really called to me. And even 977 01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:22,400 like the farming, some elements in terms of like mid maxine farming and planting 978 01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:24,679 different crops, Like we didn't really see a lot of that here, right, 979 01:00:25,360 --> 01:00:29,400 It's more just like hanging out. So so yeah, I don't know. 980 01:00:29,440 --> 01:00:31,599 I'm I'm there's a good chance I buy this if it's like a lower 981 01:00:31,639 --> 01:00:35,800 priced game, which I think it should be based on, like seems like 982 01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:37,800 how much there is here. But yeah, I was hoping that this first 983 01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:40,719 trail, like I I feel like I had very low expectation that it somehow 984 01:00:40,840 --> 01:00:45,239 let those down. So maybe that's not a good sign for once again the 985 01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:47,400 state of Lord of the Rings games. But I don't know, do do 986 01:00:47,440 --> 01:00:50,559 you see this as a game that you would pick up, because I don't. 987 01:00:50,559 --> 01:00:53,639 I don't think you're big into like the cozy games the genre. I 988 01:00:53,679 --> 01:00:59,320 don't think I would necessarily pick it up, but if it were to drop 989 01:00:59,320 --> 01:01:01,320 on games Pass, then maybe I could try it, because again, it 990 01:01:01,320 --> 01:01:06,760 gives me kind of the Harvest Moon vibes, not necessarily animal cross. Sure, 991 01:01:06,840 --> 01:01:09,679 yeah, to that extent, but that's enough to kind of entice me 992 01:01:09,719 --> 01:01:13,880 to my toes. And especially because it's Low of the Rings and I'm curious 993 01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:17,480 with that, I doubt we would get anything where like DLC were like ur 994 01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:22,559 Achaia attack or something like that. It's just I'm just gonna be very lighthearted. 995 01:01:23,320 --> 01:01:25,719 That would be crazy. I don't I don't think i'd want to see 996 01:01:25,760 --> 01:01:29,840 that. But yeah, I mean I hope that we get you know, 997 01:01:29,880 --> 01:01:34,079 as we have more trailers and more just interviews with the developers and stuff, 998 01:01:34,119 --> 01:01:37,480 we get more information here that's more engaging because like I said, like I 999 01:01:37,519 --> 01:01:40,400 don't want combat in it. It's not what I'm looking for. But I 1000 01:01:40,440 --> 01:01:45,000 think just more decoration, more like intriguing stuff that you're doing with these characters. 1001 01:01:45,239 --> 01:01:49,039 Maybe a little bit more with the exploration and seeing these different environments, 1002 01:01:49,039 --> 01:01:51,639 and I don't know, maybe even just like I'll get attached to some of 1003 01:01:51,679 --> 01:01:53,840 the characters. But I don't know, I feel like I need a little 1004 01:01:53,840 --> 01:01:57,599 bit more than what was given to me here in this first trailer today. 1005 01:01:58,840 --> 01:02:01,920 So yeah, there you go. And then along with that Embracer Group, 1006 01:02:04,119 --> 01:02:07,519 who we just hate because Embracery Group is just the worst. Here's here's the 1007 01:02:07,559 --> 01:02:10,119 timeline, well not an exact timeline, but Embracer Group frame forgets. This 1008 01:02:10,239 --> 01:02:14,119 company has a lot of money somehow, no one knows where this money comes 1009 01:02:14,119 --> 01:02:16,280 from, and they start buying up all these studios, They start buying up 1010 01:02:16,280 --> 01:02:22,880 all this ip and then sometime last year they I guess, we're expecting like 1011 01:02:22,920 --> 01:02:25,519 this big deal to come through with like a couple of billion dollars that would 1012 01:02:25,519 --> 01:02:29,639 help them, and I guess that deal didn't come through, and then they 1013 01:02:29,679 --> 01:02:32,000 just started laying people off like crazy, like laying off an insane amount of 1014 01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:36,119 people. I think they've had the most layoffs out of anyone in what has 1015 01:02:36,159 --> 01:02:38,239 been two years of an insane amount of layoffs. So it's just like, 1016 01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:42,239 fuck you, why did you acquire this stuff? Why are you doing all 1017 01:02:42,239 --> 01:02:45,159 this? You have no business plan clearly, like this is just such a 1018 01:02:45,199 --> 01:02:49,960 mess and I hate all this. They're just the worst. And then at 1019 01:02:49,960 --> 01:02:53,320 some point they sold Gearbox I guess to make some more capital, hopefully so 1020 01:02:53,360 --> 01:02:57,679 they don't have to layoff as many people. But now their new thing is 1021 01:02:57,679 --> 01:03:00,320 that they one thing that hopefully is gonna help them and not have to do 1022 01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:06,440 as many layoffs is by splitting off into kind of three sub companies and they're 1023 01:03:06,440 --> 01:03:08,360 going to kind of focus on their specific niche. So the first one, 1024 01:03:08,440 --> 01:03:12,039 as as Mood Group is what they're calling it, And this is more focused 1025 01:03:12,079 --> 01:03:14,719 on like board games, because I guess they have like a bunch of board 1026 01:03:14,719 --> 01:03:15,679 game IP and stuff, so we don't really talk about that. But that's 1027 01:03:15,679 --> 01:03:19,519 one of the three arms. The other two is what they're One of them 1028 01:03:19,559 --> 01:03:23,280 is called Middle Earth Enterprises and Friends, and they describe this, I'm getting 1029 01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:27,800 this information from the Verge shows to the Verge here. This company, which 1030 01:03:27,800 --> 01:03:31,280 will be renamed from Embracer Group, is described as the creative powerhouse and Triple 1031 01:03:31,280 --> 01:03:36,840 A game development and publishing, so they will retain ownership of things like Dead 1032 01:03:36,880 --> 01:03:40,119 Island, Killing Floor, Kingdom, Come Deliverance, tomb Raider, the Lord 1033 01:03:40,119 --> 01:03:44,159 of the Rings EPs. So those are some of the biggest ips that they 1034 01:03:44,800 --> 01:03:49,679 own as a as a Embracer Group, you know. And so that's one 1035 01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:51,960 helm of it. The other side of it is going to be what they're 1036 01:03:51,960 --> 01:03:55,719 calling Coffee Stain and Friends, and this is described as a diverse gaming entity 1037 01:03:55,960 --> 01:04:00,159 that will focus on indie, mid market and free to play games, So 1038 01:04:00,360 --> 01:04:04,320 that would include things that they currently have such as Deep Rockalactic, Goat Simulator, 1039 01:04:04,400 --> 01:04:10,960 Satisfactory, Reckfest, Teardown, Valheim. So yeah, there's kind of 1040 01:04:11,000 --> 01:04:13,519 like I guess what you call the indie label and then like the Triple A 1041 01:04:13,639 --> 01:04:16,079 label. I think that makes sense to a certain extent, and hopefully because 1042 01:04:16,119 --> 01:04:20,000 they can divide and conquer, they can get some better leadership for these different 1043 01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:24,320 companies and they can help focus on those things, and you know, the 1044 01:04:24,360 --> 01:04:28,440 coffee stain one, like the indie one, can hopefully kind of go in 1045 01:04:28,480 --> 01:04:33,280 that more Anapurna or Devolver Digital type of realm and just focus on that indie 1046 01:04:33,320 --> 01:04:36,039 stuff. And then you have the Middle Earth Enterprises in front, which is 1047 01:04:36,039 --> 01:04:39,320 a weird name to pick for that. Like, I guess they're just picking 1048 01:04:39,320 --> 01:04:42,840 like their biggest ip and naming it after that, but it just it's just 1049 01:04:42,920 --> 01:04:44,960 weird. I don't I don't think it makes a whole lot of sense. 1050 01:04:45,000 --> 01:04:47,400 But I guess they want to get away from the embrasor group name and get 1051 01:04:47,400 --> 01:04:49,679 people to forget about that name. That's probably a big part of this. 1052 01:04:50,480 --> 01:04:53,719 And so you have yeah, yeah, the indie side and then like the 1053 01:04:53,719 --> 01:04:57,199 more Triple A side. Does that make sense? But then the part where 1054 01:04:57,199 --> 01:05:00,679 I get worried about this is later on you're like, a quote from the 1055 01:05:00,199 --> 01:05:04,360 founder of the CEO, is this the move has been made with the intention 1056 01:05:04,440 --> 01:05:08,920 un least the full potential of each team and provide them with their own leadership 1057 01:05:08,960 --> 01:05:13,079 and state decision or direction. Okay, that sounds good, But then this, 1058 01:05:13,079 --> 01:05:15,360 this is the start of a new chapter, a chapter that I intend 1059 01:05:15,360 --> 01:05:18,079 to remain part of as an active, committed and supportive shareholder of all three 1060 01:05:18,119 --> 01:05:21,599 new entities. So it's like, okay, well, this Dufus is still 1061 01:05:23,159 --> 01:05:26,599 you know, at the hell level, he's still got at the wheel directing 1062 01:05:26,639 --> 01:05:30,599 all these things and ultimately making a lot of these big decisions. So hopefully 1063 01:05:30,639 --> 01:05:32,719 that doesn't end up being the case, and there's more power put into the 1064 01:05:32,760 --> 01:05:34,840 people who are the leaders of this. But then you got to hope that 1065 01:05:34,840 --> 01:05:38,199 they get the right leaders, and then there's all these other things that still 1066 01:05:38,199 --> 01:05:43,280 only to line up. So I don't see this being a huge change overall, 1067 01:05:43,360 --> 01:05:45,800 but I hope that this helps them by like being able to focus on 1068 01:05:45,840 --> 01:05:50,119 these different divisions within this. And maybe the last thing I'll say before you 1069 01:05:50,119 --> 01:05:56,360 can share your thoughts is that I know that they like also have some sort 1070 01:05:56,400 --> 01:06:00,360 of rights to do with some movie or TV related thing, Like I think 1071 01:06:00,360 --> 01:06:01,840 they have the movie rights for Lord of the Rings. I believe, and 1072 01:06:01,880 --> 01:06:04,239 I could be wrong. I'd love for someone to fact check me on that, 1073 01:06:04,760 --> 01:06:09,400 But like what does that mean for that? Like are they just gonna 1074 01:06:10,119 --> 01:06:12,880 sell that off and give that to someone else? I think that would be 1075 01:06:12,880 --> 01:06:14,719 a good thing for them to do. You know, you want to spread 1076 01:06:14,760 --> 01:06:16,880 your self tooth in here, and they're already trying to do that, like 1077 01:06:17,320 --> 01:06:20,920 address them that issue that they have by doing that, But like I don't 1078 01:06:20,960 --> 01:06:24,599 know what that means for like a Lord of Rings movie. Obviously there's Lord 1079 01:06:24,639 --> 01:06:28,840 of Rings TV stuff. Amazon has some ownership of that right with Rings of 1080 01:06:28,880 --> 01:06:30,880 Power. But I don't know where the movie stuff falls in. So we'll 1081 01:06:31,400 --> 01:06:34,199 keep an eye on some of that stuff too. But I know I threw 1082 01:06:34,239 --> 01:06:38,159 a lot at you here, But what do you think about this? And 1083 01:06:38,199 --> 01:06:42,320 this is this hopeful or do you think not much is gonna change? I 1084 01:06:42,360 --> 01:06:47,800 don't think much is gonna change because I feel like when you're a business owner, 1085 01:06:47,840 --> 01:06:53,519 you can benefit by being an umbrella company and kind of diversifying and splitting 1086 01:06:53,519 --> 01:06:59,599 off in the multiple smaller companies. I want to say that there are there 1087 01:06:59,639 --> 01:07:04,360 are definite probably like financial tax benefits to doing such a thing maybe, And 1088 01:07:04,440 --> 01:07:08,039 so I mean, if it's coming from the goodness of their heart to come 1089 01:07:08,079 --> 01:07:11,440 out with a different division focusing on different things, like you said, like 1090 01:07:11,480 --> 01:07:15,519 Triple A titles and E mobile gaming stable tops. I think that that's maybe, 1091 01:07:15,840 --> 01:07:17,679 hopefully in the longer room, that's good because then you're getting the dedicated 1092 01:07:17,719 --> 01:07:23,639 minds behind these certain types of games to be working on them instead of just 1093 01:07:23,760 --> 01:07:29,360 a whole mixed bag. But I don't know, I'm not sticking with the 1094 01:07:29,400 --> 01:07:33,800 optimistic approach with this one necessarily. Yeah, yeah, I mean really, 1095 01:07:33,840 --> 01:07:36,000 I guess my main hope at this point would just be that, like they 1096 01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:41,920 don't continue to close studios and lay people off, because they've done so much 1097 01:07:41,920 --> 01:07:45,440 of that already, and so hopefully like this, maybe the tax write offs 1098 01:07:45,440 --> 01:07:48,960 are good for them and that helps them be more sustainable and helps them not 1099 01:07:49,079 --> 01:07:51,599 have to do as many layoffs. But then I could also see the opposite 1100 01:07:51,599 --> 01:07:55,679 way, where they save some money on taxes there then they can still lay 1101 01:07:55,719 --> 01:07:58,239 people off, and then they can just make more money to the CEO. 1102 01:07:58,400 --> 01:08:00,440 So it's like, I don't know, I just can't look at this in 1103 01:08:00,480 --> 01:08:05,119 an optimistic lens, just because of the history of this freaking group over the 1104 01:08:05,159 --> 01:08:10,679 last like three or four years has just been like almost exclusively bad news. 1105 01:08:11,440 --> 01:08:15,639 And not good for the industry, and we haven't really seen too much of 1106 01:08:15,760 --> 01:08:20,439 value that come out from them that's been like big new releases either like if 1107 01:08:20,439 --> 01:08:24,800 anything, it's been like things that they've acquired already like Midway or that were 1108 01:08:24,840 --> 01:08:29,079 already finished development have got like new updates or something like that. So hopefully 1109 01:08:29,119 --> 01:08:31,399 they can turn it around here. But I'd be curious to see you if 1110 01:08:31,399 --> 01:08:36,079 they get anyone of note in these roles, like people that we would know 1111 01:08:36,159 --> 01:08:41,079 of, because I mean, this is like I think a Sweden based thing, 1112 01:08:41,279 --> 01:08:44,279 like the owner of this or something like that, Norway something like that. 1113 01:08:45,159 --> 01:08:46,560 So I don't know. Maybe they would just get other people that they 1114 01:08:46,600 --> 01:08:49,319 already have, but I feel like they kind of need some new people in 1115 01:08:49,359 --> 01:08:54,960 these positions, maybe based on how things have looked so far. But yeah, 1116 01:08:55,039 --> 01:08:58,119 so there you go. I think it's interesting information and I'll definitely keep 1117 01:08:58,159 --> 01:09:00,880 an eye on that. But I guess the other thing to be wary about 1118 01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:04,640 is like going forward, if you ever see the company name Middle Earth Enterprises 1119 01:09:04,640 --> 01:09:09,800 and Friends, know that as Embracer group they're trying to hide between these new 1120 01:09:09,880 --> 01:09:14,720 masks. Probably they buy some faith from the public audience and whatnot. Public 1121 01:09:14,760 --> 01:09:17,560 facing stuff, but it's still the same old Embracer. It's the same guy 1122 01:09:17,640 --> 01:09:21,960 who's gonna make the same decisions, and so hopefully things can change and hopefully 1123 01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:26,479 this is a new good path for them. But yeah, we'll see how 1124 01:09:26,520 --> 01:09:30,119 that goes. And then lastly, I wanted to save this for last, 1125 01:09:30,159 --> 01:09:32,920 and actually maybe we'll take our last ad break and then we'll come back and 1126 01:09:32,960 --> 01:09:39,640 get into our last piece of news. Will be right back. Okay, 1127 01:09:39,800 --> 01:09:41,720 we are back. So, like I said, I wanted to save this 1128 01:09:41,720 --> 01:09:44,680 to last because this is potential spoilers. People might not want to hear some 1129 01:09:44,720 --> 01:09:46,159 of these things, so if so, you can bow out. But we 1130 01:09:46,199 --> 01:09:50,119 are gonna be talking about some Xbox leaks that have happened. So this is 1131 01:09:50,119 --> 01:09:54,880 the leaks of the potential or the upcoming showcase I should say, the June 1132 01:09:54,960 --> 01:10:00,800 Classic Summer showcase that Xbox does. Here are some leaks from that from things. 1133 01:10:00,800 --> 01:10:02,640 So if you don't want to hear that, thanks for joining us thus 1134 01:10:02,680 --> 01:10:05,840 far, and we'll see you next week. But Taylor, we'll go into 1135 01:10:05,840 --> 01:10:10,840 this first time about the Call of Duty stuff. So two things here. 1136 01:10:11,199 --> 01:10:13,760 One is apparently the next Call of Duty game, So I guess coming out 1137 01:10:13,760 --> 01:10:19,000 this year is gonna be Call of Duty, Black Ops Golf War, So, 1138 01:10:19,039 --> 01:10:21,119 yeah, what do you think about that? Does that interest you just 1139 01:10:21,159 --> 01:10:24,560 in terms of like the setting there it being a Black Ops game, but 1140 01:10:24,600 --> 01:10:27,680 it also the the Golf War, I think is like a nineties thing. 1141 01:10:27,760 --> 01:10:29,760 I don't know if we have we ever had a Call of Duty game in 1142 01:10:29,800 --> 01:10:32,199 the nineties. This is a very specific question, but I feel like, 1143 01:10:32,840 --> 01:10:38,720 you know, Cold War, the World War ones and two's advanced war for 1144 01:10:38,840 --> 01:10:41,880 modern warfare, Like, I feel like we've never really had a nineties sort 1145 01:10:41,880 --> 01:10:45,960 of setting. The Black Ops two is the early nineteen nineties apparently, okay, 1146 01:10:47,279 --> 01:10:51,159 Black Ops. Cold War is yeah, eighteen or nineteen eighties, Okay, 1147 01:10:51,920 --> 01:10:56,359 the nineties. So there's there's a couple in there. But it feels 1148 01:10:56,399 --> 01:10:59,520 like maybe the Grassman straws a little bit with the Golf War, but at 1149 01:10:59,520 --> 01:11:02,279 some point we really when you release a game everywhere, game every year, 1150 01:11:02,319 --> 01:11:04,800 you are grasping at straws. So I don't know, does that interest you 1151 01:11:04,880 --> 01:11:08,439 at all that we're going back to Black Ops and or the goal for part 1152 01:11:08,479 --> 01:11:11,399 of it. I like Black Ops. I do enjoy it, and as 1153 01:11:11,439 --> 01:11:13,920 long as it's not World War two, I'm very happy with that. I 1154 01:11:13,920 --> 01:11:15,279 mean there's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven 1155 01:11:15,359 --> 01:11:18,399 titles that are all World War two based Call of Duty. So that's that's 1156 01:11:18,479 --> 01:11:23,479 one too many. If you ask me, do you think six is the 1157 01:11:23,520 --> 01:11:28,880 perfect number? You think sevens just that's where the straw the camel's back there, 1158 01:11:29,279 --> 01:11:30,800 you know. I would I would take six. I would. I 1159 01:11:30,800 --> 01:11:34,760 think Caldy w W two is too much Calledity Vanguard. I really did like 1160 01:11:34,840 --> 01:11:38,880 Vanguard and the other ones you go World of War called Call of Duty one, 1161 01:11:38,960 --> 01:11:42,239 two and three, those original ones on the xbox. So I think 1162 01:11:42,279 --> 01:11:45,640 it. I think it legit has one too many. The but Golf, 1163 01:11:45,880 --> 01:11:49,119 I think any addition to the Black Ops series I'm happy with. I hated 1164 01:11:49,199 --> 01:11:53,520 Calderty Ghosts, so we don't need anything with that. But Black Ops has 1165 01:11:53,560 --> 01:11:57,239 gone from I mean the seventies up to like the year two thousand and seventies 1166 01:11:57,239 --> 01:12:00,319 with Black Ops four. Right, they've they've was black Ops four? Or 1167 01:12:00,399 --> 01:12:04,720 is that? Which one? Is that? What? An advanced warfare? 1168 01:12:04,800 --> 01:12:08,640 Is that not advanced? There was two advanced warfares? Right? Or was 1169 01:12:08,680 --> 01:12:14,520 there just one? There's just infinite warfare and then advanced warfare. Advanced warfare 1170 01:12:14,560 --> 01:12:17,680 is twenty sixty and I think this person just put Black Ops four in there 1171 01:12:17,720 --> 01:12:23,640 twice. But anyways, I think that there is definitely a place now for 1172 01:12:23,760 --> 01:12:28,439 them to do these kind of like modern day Call Duty titles and then these 1173 01:12:28,520 --> 01:12:32,560 previous year dated Call Duty titles. I think that now that they've got this 1174 01:12:32,640 --> 01:12:35,159 kind of this platform, when you go into the Call of Duty Hub and 1175 01:12:35,199 --> 01:12:38,880 you basically just install your next Call Duty game in there, and it's just 1176 01:12:38,920 --> 01:12:42,960 one giant interface, and this is just gonna feel like a massive upgrade to 1177 01:12:43,159 --> 01:12:45,039 what we've gotten so far, because we got Modern War for two and then 1178 01:12:45,039 --> 01:12:49,880 they dropped Mono War for three after and it's just so my mind is still 1179 01:12:49,880 --> 01:12:55,760 blown away at how imprecedent this is. Where you have the game just kind 1180 01:12:55,800 --> 01:13:00,119 of like Moneral War for two is still relevant, but it's just upgrade to 1181 01:13:00,399 --> 01:13:02,920 basically to a new Call Duty title. All the old guns from those games 1182 01:13:02,920 --> 01:13:06,880 are pourted over into the new game. Your everything that you've unlocked ports over, 1183 01:13:06,960 --> 01:13:10,880 and that's same I'm imagining is going to happen here. So I don't 1184 01:13:10,880 --> 01:13:13,880 feel like I'm necessarily at any kind of a loss. I just feel like 1185 01:13:14,159 --> 01:13:17,479 my collection is just growing and I can have more more access. I don't. 1186 01:13:17,520 --> 01:13:19,760 I don't play Call of Duties necessarily for the story, even though I 1187 01:13:19,800 --> 01:13:27,880 heard Monofair the Monoalafair titles definitely have an interesting story. While I haven't beaten 1188 01:13:27,920 --> 01:13:30,199 all of them, I still have that on my list of topics one days 1189 01:13:30,199 --> 01:13:33,520 to do that retro with you of Modern Warfare. Oh, I'd love to 1190 01:13:33,560 --> 01:13:38,199 do the retro for that. Yeah, but I'm excited for this. I 1191 01:13:38,239 --> 01:13:42,199 am m hmm, yeah. I mean I I think what I'm most curious 1192 01:13:42,239 --> 01:13:45,399 about with this is outside the game itself, but it's just that this is 1193 01:13:45,399 --> 01:13:50,399 gonna be the first Call of Duty game releasing post acquisition going through right now 1194 01:13:50,439 --> 01:13:57,159 that acquisitions finally happen in Dablafore's on game Pass right, So I'm just very 1195 01:13:57,239 --> 01:14:00,920 like I I've been in the camp where I think they're gonna put the new 1196 01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:03,039 Call of Duty on Game Pass day one. And yes it's still in PlayStation 1197 01:14:03,119 --> 01:14:08,000 for many years, maybe on the switch to who knows. They've talked about 1198 01:14:08,079 --> 01:14:12,760 how they're gonna continue doing that as well, but I do think they're gonna 1199 01:14:12,760 --> 01:14:15,359 put it into game Pass day one, So I'm just very curious what that's 1200 01:14:15,359 --> 01:14:19,039 gonna mean for the numbers and the sales and if that's like like, I 1201 01:14:19,079 --> 01:14:21,720 just don't think game Pass is big enough yet for that to be a huge 1202 01:14:21,720 --> 01:14:26,720 issue for them in terms of like losing sales, and in fact, I 1203 01:14:26,720 --> 01:14:30,000 think it'll get more people, if anything, more people play in the game, 1204 01:14:30,039 --> 01:14:31,760 because you'll have people who have been on the fence like me, who 1205 01:14:31,760 --> 01:14:35,239 are The only investment I'm putting into call dues is playing war Zone, but 1206 01:14:35,239 --> 01:14:38,760 I'm not putting any dollars. I haven't put a dollar into Call of Duty 1207 01:14:38,760 --> 01:14:42,159 in like a decade like that. I will definitely play this day one on 1208 01:14:42,239 --> 01:14:44,720 game Pass, play through the story for the first time in a very long 1209 01:14:44,760 --> 01:14:46,800 time, and that will be fun and I'm excited to hopefully do that with 1210 01:14:46,840 --> 01:14:50,600 you if it is truly on game Pass. Of course that's all assuming because 1211 01:14:50,600 --> 01:14:54,600 we still haven't got that confirmation. But yeah, that's the thing I'm most 1212 01:14:54,640 --> 01:14:57,199 curious about. I think the setting. I mean, I don't know if 1213 01:14:57,239 --> 01:14:59,800 it means a lot to me because Black Ops. I love that first Black 1214 01:14:59,840 --> 01:15:02,439 Op, but that was like the last Call of Duty game I played until 1215 01:15:02,479 --> 01:15:05,039 war Zone, so I haven't played two, three, four, five, 1216 01:15:05,119 --> 01:15:08,880 six, seven eight. However, many Black Ops games there are, So 1217 01:15:08,920 --> 01:15:11,960 it's like, I'm not super invested in it, but that first one is 1218 01:15:12,079 --> 01:15:15,000 like one of my favorite Call of Duty games. It's a great game overall, 1219 01:15:15,039 --> 01:15:17,239 So I think it's it's cool that we're going back to that. I'm 1220 01:15:17,520 --> 01:15:20,079 interested in it, and I don't really know much about the goal for in 1221 01:15:20,199 --> 01:15:24,680 terms of setting or things like that, so I can't really comment too much 1222 01:15:24,720 --> 01:15:27,640 on like what that would look like in terms of the campaign side of things. 1223 01:15:29,199 --> 01:15:31,039 But yeah, I'm really curious to see what that looks like. I 1224 01:15:31,079 --> 01:15:34,880 think that makes sense, and I think that'd be a like that's pretty cool. 1225 01:15:35,319 --> 01:15:38,720 It's good for Xbox that they can have that kind of thing at their 1226 01:15:38,760 --> 01:15:42,239 showcase now, right, it's locked in. That's something they can put out 1227 01:15:42,279 --> 01:15:45,359 because that's that's a big deal. Normally Call of Duty events have kind of 1228 01:15:45,359 --> 01:15:47,760 been like more scattered into other places or they're kind of on their own because 1229 01:15:47,760 --> 01:15:51,319 they're so big. But I think it's a really good piece of the puzzle 1230 01:15:51,319 --> 01:15:54,960 that they can put that in their showcase, and something like that would be 1231 01:15:55,000 --> 01:15:58,279 a great closer or opener. Part of the rumor too, is that we're 1232 01:15:58,279 --> 01:16:00,039 gonna hear about this game prior to that event and that'll be like where you 1233 01:16:00,039 --> 01:16:03,039 get more information. So I could see that being a situation where it's like, 1234 01:16:03,399 --> 01:16:06,199 here's a two minute trailer, here's the name of the game it's coming 1235 01:16:06,239 --> 01:16:11,439 out this year, and then tune in at the Xbox event for fifteen minutes 1236 01:16:11,439 --> 01:16:15,079 of additional information. I think that would make a lot of sense. I 1237 01:16:15,119 --> 01:16:16,600 think that's a good move as well, because that's a good bit of marketing 1238 01:16:16,760 --> 01:16:21,039 leading into that as well, So looking forward to see what that looks like. 1239 01:16:23,319 --> 01:16:26,479 And then along with this is that apparently this would be the time when 1240 01:16:26,520 --> 01:16:30,479 they would bring Call of Duty games to Game Pass in a big way. 1241 01:16:30,520 --> 01:16:34,600 So still to this point, as of April twenty second, the only thing 1242 01:16:34,640 --> 01:16:39,720 we've seen is Diablo four in terms of that acquisition stuff coming to the platform 1243 01:16:39,800 --> 01:16:44,039 so far, and so I think Call of Duties are really good if you're 1244 01:16:44,079 --> 01:16:46,359 going to prioritize anything. Diablo four makes sense because I was a newer game 1245 01:16:46,359 --> 01:16:49,119 still. But then I think after that, Call of Duty makes sense of 1246 01:16:49,159 --> 01:16:53,119 get all that back catalog on there, get all those games in there, 1247 01:16:53,119 --> 01:16:57,000 because that would bring a lot of people to that subscription service, especially like 1248 01:16:57,039 --> 01:16:59,079 I said, with the new one being day one, that would bring a 1249 01:16:59,079 --> 01:17:01,399 lot of people in I think to want to subscribe and check that out. 1250 01:17:01,760 --> 01:17:04,039 So that's pretty exciting for me because that's a lot of games and I've not 1251 01:17:04,079 --> 01:17:08,279 played a lot of them, so i'd definitely jump and play some old campaigns 1252 01:17:08,399 --> 01:17:11,119 or jump and play the zombies. Is maybe a big highlight for me because 1253 01:17:11,119 --> 01:17:13,359 I've missed a lot of those newer zombie maps and I want to play those 1254 01:17:13,359 --> 01:17:16,560 with you particularly. But yeah, I think there's just so many of these 1255 01:17:16,560 --> 01:17:18,760 games that I've missed over the last few years. I'd love to just jump 1256 01:17:18,760 --> 01:17:21,399 in and just see what they feel like, see what I missed in those 1257 01:17:21,479 --> 01:17:24,720 years. And so I think this would be a huge hit if they can 1258 01:17:24,760 --> 01:17:28,479 say like that could be a huge day one or day yeah, same day 1259 01:17:28,560 --> 01:17:32,199 drop of Like during the showcase, say here's fifteen Call of Duty games in 1260 01:17:32,279 --> 01:17:36,600 game Pass right now, you can go download them in this moment. So 1261 01:17:36,680 --> 01:17:39,640 yeah, like I said, I think it'd be a good priority for them 1262 01:17:39,680 --> 01:17:43,640 if they're gonna focus on there's so much Activision Blizzard stuff, like it's gonna 1263 01:17:43,640 --> 01:17:45,279 take a long time for them to get all that into the service, But 1264 01:17:45,319 --> 01:17:48,720 I think Call of Duty makes sense as the priority there. But you've kind 1265 01:17:48,760 --> 01:17:51,479 of owned all these games, Like, does this excite you at all that 1266 01:17:51,479 --> 01:17:57,039 you're getting them in there? I've gotten Yeah, I've gotten everyone since World 1267 01:17:57,079 --> 01:18:00,960 of War probably, and I've played through them religiously and it doesn't matter to 1268 01:18:01,000 --> 01:18:04,439 me if they're on there. I hope that they do go on there if 1269 01:18:04,479 --> 01:18:09,159 I had an actual say on the matter, because yeah, like then we 1270 01:18:09,159 --> 01:18:12,520 could play zombies and whatnot. And I don't think it's any strange coincidence that 1271 01:18:12,560 --> 01:18:15,359 all the old Call Duty games got their servers back up and running. I 1272 01:18:15,399 --> 01:18:18,640 think that there is something in the world, and does happened, oh twenty 1273 01:18:18,680 --> 01:18:21,640 twenty three, because I remember when they went and booted them back to the 1274 01:18:21,760 --> 01:18:26,920 post acquisition, but prior to it being it was post acquisition yea, because 1275 01:18:26,960 --> 01:18:29,960 I went. I went back and was playing Zombies online again and it was 1276 01:18:30,039 --> 01:18:32,000 just easy as I was. I was loving it. So yeah, I'm 1277 01:18:32,119 --> 01:18:35,399 very much looking forward to doing that with you and these things dropped. This 1278 01:18:35,479 --> 01:18:40,000 is pure speculation part, but do you think that this would be a day 1279 01:18:40,000 --> 01:18:42,760 one drop as I mentioned, or do you think it'd be like still later 1280 01:18:42,840 --> 01:18:46,479 in the year kind of thing when they would actually hit the service. I 1281 01:18:46,479 --> 01:18:50,640 could see it being day one, I mean, just going hard. Yeah, 1282 01:18:50,760 --> 01:18:54,319 I think in general they want that they want to have something that you 1283 01:18:54,359 --> 01:18:57,199 can go play today, and I think that would make sense, and I 1284 01:18:57,239 --> 01:18:59,359 hope that is the case too, because then I feel like that opens up 1285 01:18:59,359 --> 01:19:03,039 the door for later this year for other drops, because I that's I'm just 1286 01:19:03,079 --> 01:19:06,600 so excited to see all the random games, games that I don't even think 1287 01:19:06,640 --> 01:19:12,279 about as Activision Blizzard hitting that service and I just love browsing that game pass 1288 01:19:12,359 --> 01:19:15,840 library and downloading new and old things that I've never played before, and dabbling 1289 01:19:15,880 --> 01:19:17,319 and all sorts of things. So I'm very just excited to do that. 1290 01:19:17,520 --> 01:19:21,439 So hopefully that does start happening soon. I mean, hopefully we even get 1291 01:19:21,439 --> 01:19:26,319 stuff before for the showcase, even if there's other non call of duty things 1292 01:19:26,319 --> 01:19:30,800 that they want to do prior to that. Next up is, uh, 1293 01:19:30,720 --> 01:19:36,560 Gears of War six is rumored to be here. Tell me about this. 1294 01:19:38,520 --> 01:19:41,319 I thought we were gonna get this a long time ago, to be honest, 1295 01:19:42,960 --> 01:19:47,720 I'm Gears five r oh, I think so before series X, So 1296 01:19:48,399 --> 01:19:51,279 yeah, it's definitely a good minute ago. And that's the first Gears game 1297 01:19:51,319 --> 01:19:56,920 I did not buy because they dropped it on Games Past Day one. I 1298 01:19:57,039 --> 01:20:01,000 enjoyed the multiplayer, though I remember I feel like at this point, I 1299 01:20:01,000 --> 01:20:04,920 remember it being kind of like a cult following. Now at this stage, 1300 01:20:04,960 --> 01:20:09,000 I think Gears four definitely brought a lot of the old fan base back. 1301 01:20:09,039 --> 01:20:14,119 And again, I'm not speaking from any statistically factual position here, but I 1302 01:20:14,199 --> 01:20:17,159 just feel like Gears five might have kind of like fuzzed out a little bit, 1303 01:20:17,680 --> 01:20:20,319 And then when you add such a delay on getting that sixth one, 1304 01:20:20,359 --> 01:20:24,399 I don't know if the hype is necessarily still there. I hope it is, 1305 01:20:24,640 --> 01:20:27,960 because I think whatever story that they've been telling so far, they need 1306 01:20:28,000 --> 01:20:30,720 to kind of wrap it up. So I think a Gear six would definitely 1307 01:20:30,760 --> 01:20:33,760 work. But if it drops on games Pass, I'll definitely get it. 1308 01:20:34,039 --> 01:20:36,560 I'll try it out, but I don't think i'd buy the game at this 1309 01:20:36,640 --> 01:20:42,720 point. I think Gears four maybe the last one that i'd buy. Yeah, 1310 01:20:42,760 --> 01:20:45,079 how into the multiplayer? Did you get a five from that come out? 1311 01:20:45,319 --> 01:20:48,079 Oh? Was that like a thing where you're playing for like a couple 1312 01:20:48,079 --> 01:20:51,399 of weekends or is it more like a few months of like really trying to 1313 01:20:51,399 --> 01:20:55,880 get into it. I was in there for a few weekends. Nothing will 1314 01:20:55,880 --> 01:20:58,399 ever compare to Gears three. When that dropped and I went hard, I 1315 01:20:58,439 --> 01:21:01,039 was skipping school just to be playing all player. I was in the zone 1316 01:21:01,079 --> 01:21:04,600 with that. Gears four, though I enjoyed it, Like Gears five, 1317 01:21:05,399 --> 01:21:10,760 I probably played more multiplayer than I actually engaged with my time in the campaign, 1318 01:21:10,840 --> 01:21:14,600 to be honest. And they had some cool dlc they terminator Sarah Connor 1319 01:21:15,239 --> 01:21:17,760 like Arnold's. That actually fits really well with that. It does, it 1320 01:21:17,840 --> 01:21:20,600 really really does. Yeah. I think they even Dave Batista was a character 1321 01:21:20,640 --> 01:21:24,319 in there too, so wow. Interesting. Yeah, Yeah, they did 1322 01:21:24,359 --> 01:21:29,119 some cool crossovers. Yeah, it's I feel like Batista to me still feels 1323 01:21:29,119 --> 01:21:32,960 like more newly a huge celebrity, you know, post wrestling into like the 1324 01:21:33,000 --> 01:21:36,319 actor stuff. It's like Man Guardians one came up so long ago now that 1325 01:21:36,399 --> 01:21:40,880 I guess he's been like in the zeitgeist for a long time at this point, 1326 01:21:40,960 --> 01:21:45,000 So I need to think about that. Yeah, Gears, I haven't 1327 01:21:45,000 --> 01:21:45,800 talked about it in a while, I guess. But I'm not really a 1328 01:21:45,840 --> 01:21:50,479 huge gearshead, as people longtime listeners will know, so I'm not particularly excited 1329 01:21:50,479 --> 01:21:53,319 about this, but I think it. I think it makes sense. The 1330 01:21:53,359 --> 01:21:55,359 timing on it makes sense. I did look it up, and yet twenty 1331 01:21:55,439 --> 01:21:58,359 nineteen was Gears five, and I don't think there was any DLC for that 1332 01:21:58,479 --> 01:22:00,560 really, Like maybe there was some like rand skins, but I do remember 1333 01:22:00,560 --> 01:22:04,199 there being like a huge role out of DLC. But yeah, now that 1334 01:22:04,279 --> 01:22:09,119 I'm in the Xbox ecosystem on one game pass, I'll definitely check this out 1335 01:22:09,159 --> 01:22:12,239 day one. I'd love to jump in there for a review with you. 1336 01:22:12,239 --> 01:22:14,000 I don't know if i'd play through the whole thing, but you know, 1337 01:22:14,079 --> 01:22:17,199 impressions of the story, and definitely play a few weekends of the multiplayer. 1338 01:22:17,239 --> 01:22:19,800 I've never loved the multiplayer, but you know, it's a new game. 1339 01:22:19,840 --> 01:22:24,319 I'd love to check it out, jump in. So yeah, I think 1340 01:22:24,319 --> 01:22:27,520 that that's huge for them as well. That's once again like that could start 1341 01:22:27,520 --> 01:22:30,840 around the show. That could be one of those big heavy hitters. And 1342 01:22:30,880 --> 01:22:35,119 I think Gears still is huge for Xbox as an exclusive, even though they 1343 01:22:35,159 --> 01:22:39,119 now technically own a ton of other exclusives. But in terms of it being 1344 01:22:39,199 --> 01:22:43,880 like an identity piece for Xbox, Halo and Gears are still that one in 1345 01:22:43,920 --> 01:22:46,560 two even if there's like other bigger things that are owned by them now as 1346 01:22:46,560 --> 01:22:49,560 a company. So I think it's important to keep that going. And like 1347 01:22:50,359 --> 01:22:55,920 I think Tactics came out Post five, right, because that came out, 1348 01:22:56,560 --> 01:23:00,439 yeah, more recently, but there hasn't been a ton of Gears stuff in 1349 01:23:00,479 --> 01:23:02,760 the meantime. It's been fairly quiet, and so I think this is a 1350 01:23:02,800 --> 01:23:05,760 good timing for it. Do you think this would be something that would be 1351 01:23:05,800 --> 01:23:13,640 potentially ready this year they've already announced, like other I'm gonna immediately answer my 1352 01:23:13,640 --> 01:23:15,840 own questions that I don't think so, because I feel like they would have 1353 01:23:15,840 --> 01:23:19,119 wanted maybe that showcase they did back in January where they talked about those games. 1354 01:23:19,199 --> 01:23:23,439 I feel like they maybe would have want to put Gears there if it 1355 01:23:23,520 --> 01:23:26,119 was going to come out this year. So I'm gonna say announcement this year, 1356 01:23:26,880 --> 01:23:30,960 releasing next year twenty twenty five. Is there a traditional time when those 1357 01:23:31,000 --> 01:23:33,199 games come out? Like are they a November drop? I feel like they 1358 01:23:33,279 --> 01:23:36,920 might be Round Gears one and two or November. Gears three is April. 1359 01:23:39,000 --> 01:23:42,359 Here's four was October again, so if I had to say, Gears five 1360 01:23:42,399 --> 01:23:46,840 was September. Fall is definitely the the high percentage here of right states. 1361 01:23:47,000 --> 01:23:51,479 I think with Xbox it's more it's less about like trying to hit those dates 1362 01:23:51,520 --> 01:23:55,399 anymore and more about just like trying to line up their release dates across the 1363 01:23:55,479 --> 01:23:58,720 calendar year and trying to have something big in every quarter. So I could 1364 01:23:58,720 --> 01:24:01,600 see them pushing it forward or back, and we don't really have any release 1365 01:24:01,680 --> 01:24:04,319 dates for them in twenty twenty five. We know of games that are probably 1366 01:24:04,319 --> 01:24:06,880 gonna come out that year, but we don't really have release dates yet. 1367 01:24:06,920 --> 01:24:11,319 So I think I could see I could see at some point twenty point to 1368 01:24:11,319 --> 01:24:14,640 five being the release date for a Gear's six. I agree. I think 1369 01:24:14,680 --> 01:24:16,680 this is for sure a twenty twenty five title. Mm hmm. Nice. 1370 01:24:17,359 --> 01:24:19,239 Yeah, so we'll keep an eye on that. I think that'd be a 1371 01:24:19,239 --> 01:24:24,880 big, fun, excitement, uh excited hype announcement to see. And then 1372 01:24:24,880 --> 01:24:29,239 the last one here we have is State of Decay three is apparently gonna be 1373 01:24:29,239 --> 01:24:31,600 at the showcase. And this was the most exciting thing for me at this 1374 01:24:32,159 --> 01:24:35,880 uh just looking through the leaks. I still have not played one or two, 1375 01:24:36,079 --> 01:24:41,239 but that's still that first trailer that we got at like two or three 1376 01:24:41,399 --> 01:24:45,920 years ago now with like that dead deer in the snow whatever, Like I 1377 01:24:45,920 --> 01:24:47,800 haven't gone back and watched it or anything recently, but that was a great 1378 01:24:48,119 --> 01:24:50,960 trailer. Like, I'm really excited. I think that like a snow weed 1379 01:24:50,960 --> 01:24:56,399 setting for the zombie like apocalypse sort of game could be really fun. And 1380 01:24:56,399 --> 01:24:59,560 I think the multiplayer element I think will be really fun. Considering me, 1381 01:24:59,640 --> 01:25:01,359 you and Travis at least wrong game pass, so we could go check that 1382 01:25:01,359 --> 01:25:04,399 out together. So I and I've been saying for a while, like, 1383 01:25:04,439 --> 01:25:08,600 man, where the frick is this game? Why have they not been showing 1384 01:25:08,640 --> 01:25:12,520 it for so long? And so hopefully it's a situation where they showed it 1385 01:25:12,760 --> 01:25:14,520 to get it out there to say, hey, this is what the studio 1386 01:25:14,560 --> 01:25:17,600 is working on, and then we're going hibernating until this game is done and 1387 01:25:17,680 --> 01:25:20,880 ready to go. And so hopefully this is a similar situation where it's stated 1388 01:25:21,319 --> 01:25:25,920 at K three here huge new trailer two three minutes long, and then twenty 1389 01:25:26,000 --> 01:25:28,680 twenty five release date. Once again, I don't think it'd be a fall 1390 01:25:28,760 --> 01:25:31,000 hitter for this year, but I think setting up that twenty twenty five year 1391 01:25:31,039 --> 01:25:34,239 between Gears and State of k could be like a really nice kind of early 1392 01:25:34,279 --> 01:25:39,159 setup because they already have a good amount of things coming out this year, 1393 01:25:39,239 --> 01:25:41,880 right, So so, yeah, what do you think about that as the 1394 01:25:41,920 --> 01:25:45,479 actual guy who's played a lot of stated d K. I hope twenty twenty 1395 01:25:45,479 --> 01:25:47,760 five is that, I hope we get this review here for it again and 1396 01:25:47,920 --> 01:25:51,600 just add some more excitement onto the fire. I love State of the K 1397 01:25:51,720 --> 01:25:56,000 two and I remember I remember back on Games Passed, me and my friend 1398 01:25:56,039 --> 01:25:57,880 we were just looking for games that we could play together, and we just 1399 01:25:57,920 --> 01:26:00,199 download a whole bunch of multiplayer titles they had there, and this is one 1400 01:26:00,239 --> 01:26:03,199 of them. He tried it and he was just having a blast, and 1401 01:26:03,239 --> 01:26:05,840 so he told me about it. It got me on there, and then 1402 01:26:05,880 --> 01:26:09,960 we were both in the same on his world, on his map, and 1403 01:26:09,960 --> 01:26:14,880 we're going around clearing nests and just the world building kind of aspect here where 1404 01:26:14,880 --> 01:26:20,439 you're just trying to recruit survivors do missions, and feeling that there's certain zombie 1405 01:26:20,479 --> 01:26:24,680 games that have really had an impact on me. Dying light when you're out 1406 01:26:24,680 --> 01:26:28,359 at nighttime is one of the scariest things alive. And then when you're playing 1407 01:26:28,399 --> 01:26:30,560 this game and you're out at nighttime and you're running low on gas in your 1408 01:26:30,600 --> 01:26:34,680 car and you got to just run around, you have no proper safety net. 1409 01:26:35,000 --> 01:26:38,920 And if you if you die, you have other characters you can jump 1410 01:26:38,920 --> 01:26:41,760 to in your world. But your characters are all unique and have certain attributes 1411 01:26:41,800 --> 01:26:45,840 and statistics, and they definitely level up as you progress, but you don't 1412 01:26:45,840 --> 01:26:48,319 want to lose your characters. A funny little thing that I appreciate it is 1413 01:26:48,319 --> 01:26:51,560 like when my friend we're trying to get like cars and escape and like I 1414 01:26:51,560 --> 01:26:56,319 remember him dying, his body reanimated to his zombie and like comes at you. 1415 01:26:56,399 --> 01:26:59,199 It's just fun, that's cool. It's cool. Yeah. So there's 1416 01:26:59,319 --> 01:27:01,720 lots of amazing little things in this franchise, and yet just to get the 1417 01:27:01,760 --> 01:27:05,039 snow element, I'm hoping we'll get like seasons changing, because there's definitely a 1418 01:27:05,079 --> 01:27:11,359 big day and night cycle and you forging for supplies is such a tricky thing, 1419 01:27:11,439 --> 01:27:15,479 but it's it's it's really a really, really nice, nice game. 1420 01:27:15,520 --> 01:27:17,720 And so I never got around to the first one, but I played the 1421 01:27:17,760 --> 01:27:21,640 heck and daylights out of the second one and it definitely had a has still 1422 01:27:21,640 --> 01:27:26,119 a strong community behind it. So this is easily one of my most anticipated 1423 01:27:26,159 --> 01:27:29,760 whenever they announced a date for it. Yeah, yeah, I mean once 1424 01:27:29,800 --> 01:27:32,560 again, like State of K two, I'm just gonna look up some release 1425 01:27:32,640 --> 01:27:36,640 dates here before we close off the day, because Stay of K two came 1426 01:27:36,680 --> 01:27:43,720 up twenty eighteen undid Labs as the developer here, and they have not had 1427 01:27:43,760 --> 01:27:45,880 a game in between that time, so you know, it sounds like a 1428 01:27:45,880 --> 01:27:49,359 game that they've been supporting, I assume if it's kind of like online multiplayer 1429 01:27:49,399 --> 01:27:54,199 focused. But yeah, five years between one and two. We're now sitting 1430 01:27:54,199 --> 01:27:59,479 in at six years between two and three with no actual lay announcement. We're 1431 01:27:59,520 --> 01:28:01,880 assuming twenty twenty five things, So I think that timeline does make sense. 1432 01:28:01,920 --> 01:28:04,640 You know, games are getting bigger and harder to make because the days go 1433 01:28:04,720 --> 01:28:08,560 on, and this is probably the most ambitious one yet. And maybe they 1434 01:28:08,560 --> 01:28:13,720 got more funding from Xbox and maybe they've just been given more development time because 1435 01:28:13,720 --> 01:28:17,840 of that safety net of having Xbox or Microsoft as their parent company now, 1436 01:28:17,880 --> 01:28:23,359 so that that's changed for sure since staved K two. But yeah, I 1437 01:28:23,560 --> 01:28:28,279 think this is a potential opportunity here for like a really really sweet game for 1438 01:28:28,319 --> 01:28:31,720 them. And yeah, I had so much fun playing Dead Island to recently 1439 01:28:31,800 --> 01:28:38,000 that I'm very very much itching for more more zombie related stuff. So yeah, 1440 01:28:38,039 --> 01:28:41,119 we'll keep an eye on that one. And uh yeah, I think 1441 01:28:41,439 --> 01:28:43,720 even if you have those four things, and obviously you have a lot more 1442 01:28:43,720 --> 01:28:46,359 out of showcase, but that's shaping up to be like a really a really 1443 01:28:46,399 --> 01:28:50,239 strong June Showcase, I think. And even if this the wind is taking 1444 01:28:50,239 --> 01:28:54,319 out of the sales a little bit because of the league here, I'm still 1445 01:28:54,399 --> 01:28:57,359 very much looking forward to uh to that one, and I hope we do 1446 01:28:57,479 --> 01:29:00,640 see all of those games plus some extra bonus stuff as well. I'm sure 1447 01:29:00,640 --> 01:29:04,359 we'll get a big new E trailer for Indie and all these other games that 1448 01:29:04,359 --> 01:29:09,359 they showed at that January direct as well. So yeah, any any final 1449 01:29:09,439 --> 01:29:14,479 thoughts on that stuff there, Taylor, No, No, I think I'm 1450 01:29:14,479 --> 01:29:16,319 good right on. Well, this is a very this is a very fun 1451 01:29:16,319 --> 01:29:19,279 episode, very impromptu topics, but I think it worked out really nicely for 1452 01:29:19,399 --> 01:29:24,399 us. Next week we'll have some more side quest for you. Thank you 1453 01:29:24,479 --> 01:29:53,199 everyone for listening, and we'll see you again next time. Bye.